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The Other Side
12+ albums
Garage RockrockProgressiveelectronicUSA
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There are at least two bands named The Other Side. 1. The Other Side was a 1960s garage band from San Jose, CA., United States, fronted by Alan Graham (lead vocals, lead guitar) and Marty Battey (rhythm guitar, backing vocals). They released just one single (1966), 'Streetcar' b/w 'Walking Down The Road', with 'Streetcar' appearing on the 2007 Rhino compilation 'Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970'. The band name on this compilation is miss-spelled as The Otherside. The correct spelling is The Other Side. Further biographical information: Inextricably linked with the Chocolate Watchband -- by virtue of a dizzying personnel swap in November 1965 -- the Otherside are today far less known than their sister group, but were no less talented. the Otherside evolved from the Topsiders, a surf combo formed at Fremont, CA's Washington High School in 1964. The quartet included Jim Sawyers (lead guitar), Ken "Toad" Matthew (drums, vocals), Tom Antone (bass), and David Tolby (born David Phelps; second lead guitar). This lineup's high-water mark was a mid-1965 appearance at a KLIV Battle of the Bands at San Jose's Civic Auditorium. Joined briefly by rhythm guitarist Skip Spence, the Topsiders -- upon Spence's departure -- adopted a new handle. Spence, drafted to drum for the Jefferson Airplane, gave Sawyers and company the alternate moniker that the Airplane had rejected. Thus was the Otherside born, and the band began a whirlwind series of personnel shifts. Cit
