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The Rising Storm is an American rock group that was active at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, United States, between 1965 and 1967. Their music is considered to belong in the folk rock and garage rock genres. The original members of the group were Bob Cohan (guitar), Todd Cohen (bass), Charlie Rockwell (keyboards), Tom Scheft (drums ...
The Rising Storm is a rock band that has been keeping the beat for nearly six decades. Calm Before, the album its six members recorded in 1967 as high-school seniors, is one of the most prized garage-band albums ever.
The Rising Storm is a rock band whose six members started playing music together in 1965 as sophomores at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. The original members of the band, all still active, are lead singer and rhythm guitarist Tony Thompson, lead guitarists Bob Cohan and Richard Weinberg, bassist Todd Cohen, keyboardist Charlie Rockwell, and ...
Jul 13, 2017 · The Rising Storm has been a band for half a century, but its path to cult stardom has less to do with ambition than with odd luck — and the murky economic world of record collecting.
- Formation, Name, Influence, Repertoire
- Calm Before, Disbanding
- Reunions, Alive Again at Andover, Second Wind, NYT Profile
- Calm Before Remaster, Documentary, 55th Class Reunion
- “More Than The Sum of Its Parts”
The band was formed in 1965 at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, by six first-year preppies living in the campus’ Bishop House South who’d played in the Bishop Buddies Association Jug Band: lead singer and rhythm guitarist Tony Thompson, lead guitarist Bob Cohan, multi-instrumentalist Richard Weinberg, bassist Todd Cohen, keyboardist Char...
In 1967, with graduation approaching and every band member seeing that as the end of The Rising Storm, they pooled their cash to record the 12-song LP Calm Beforefor posterity – not popularity or profit – and pressed 500 copies. It includes originals and inventive covers, the first track being their rendition of the Billy Vera-penned “Don’t Look Ba...
Five months after hearing the news, in August 1981, they reunited for a gig (with Andy Paley sitting in for bassist Cohen) at the Rathskeller in Boston, where The Remains had been a regular act in the ‘60s when it was a bar/restaurant called TJ’s. Several weeks later, they played another show at Faneuil Hall Marketplace and in 1982, with Cohen back...
In 2016, according to the band’s website, an original pressing of Calm Before – which Record Collectormagazine described as “enigmatic, pleasingly wonky, and romantic in a flushed, teenage sort of way” – sold for $6,500. In 2018, 52 years after the album was recorded, Sundazed Records issued a re-mastered edition on vinyl and CD. In August that yea...
Speaking in 2018 to The Phillipian, Andover’s student newspaper, guitarist Cohan said he’s been amazed at how important the band’s Calm BeforeLP is for some people on a profoundly personal level. “I didn’t really take it seriously when I found out how successful the record was,” he said. “Then, we were playing at a club called Maxwell’s in Hoboken,...
The Rising Storm is most notable for their 1967 album, Calm Before..., which is cited by rock and roll historian Richie Unterberger in Allmusic as being "one of the rarest and most respected garage band albums".
Rising Storm timeline 1965-67 We got our musical start as students at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. We first played together in a jug band that enlisted every student in our sophomore dorm. The six of us soon formed The Remnants, later rechristened The Rising Storm. 1967 We released…
