The Trojans

THE TROJANS….REGENTS….KNUTTS The Trojans In the fall of 1959 or 1960, Mike Christian, Dave Kissinger and Larry Chamberlain met at Dave’s house on Vancouver St and started learning songs like Tall Cool One, Mule Skinner Blues & Walk Don’t Run. Soon Mike Hortie joined the group. We played for the first time at the Club Soho--- all instrumentals. We were all 12 or 13 years old. We wore sport jackets and ties!! In 1961 Vince Cownden replaced Mike Christian on keyboard and the Trojans continued to play dances for schools, youth groups etc. We had drums, 2 electric guitars and piano. All the halls had pianos, so we would hang a mic inside and run it to one of the amps. Later in 1961, the name of the band was changed to the Regents, since Trojans was found to have an unwelcome association with it. Regent or Regents came about one noon hour as Mike, Dave and Larry were walking back to school from Wellburn’s Market, throwing out some possible band names. Larry noticed a Dodge parked at the curb and noted that it was the model “Regent”. Thus the name of the b... more...