YEAR-END LISTS typically hew to the comfy round number 10. And although Top 10 has a ring to it, Silicon Valley’s melting pot of musical talent fused genres, collaborated, innovated and turned out so many great LPs and EPs this year that it became a nearly impossible task to narrow it down…
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Few people in the South Bay know more about classic soul, psychedelic rock and other traditional genres than the Bang’s Derek See. His blog, Derek’s Daily 45, has uncovered countless obscure singles from the 60s and 70s and his band the Bang, accesses the look, feel and sound of the classic girl-fronted…
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The Bang’s Derek See recently took a momentary break from classic 1960s soul and recorded a solo EP, She Came This Way, an exploration into the psychedelic rock sounds of the mid to late 60s.
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Aaron Carnes on April 3, 2013
When Derek See and Angeline King started the South Bay R&B girl group the Bang in late 2008, it wasn’t because they had some fleeting interest in 1960s music; the project was the byproduct of a lifetime’s obsession with the golden decade.
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Fans of craft brew and the retro sounds of the Bang gathered at San Jose’s Landmark Ballroom over the weekend for the KraftBrew Winter Ball. Metro photographer Geoffrey Smith II was on hand to catch the action.
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After a summer schedule full of interesting bookings, Naglee Park Garage will host two more concerts before ending its live music season for the year. Doctor Nurse brings atmospheric indie rock on October 17 and the Golden State Ramblers close the season October 24 with folk, Irish and novelty tunes from the…
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A lot has happened to Derek See in the last year. It’s been about that long that since The Bang, the girl-group band he started with his partner Angeline King, broke up.
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