Channel 3 (band)
Channel 3, also known as CH3, is an American punk rock band from Cerritos, California.
History
Channel 3 was formed in 1980 by Mike Magrann, Kimm Gardner, Larry Kelly, and Mike Burton, in the suburban community of Cerritos, California. Their first release was a self-titled EP on California label Posh Boy Records in 1981. "Manzanar", a track from that EP, was played heavily by UK disc jockey John Peel.In 1982, Jack DeBaun become their new drummer and their release Fear of Life was retitled I’ve Got A Gun in the UK with some differences in the track-listing.
Their next release, After The Lights Go Out, failed to recapture the interest that accompanied their first UK single. Jay Lansford, a former member of The Simpletones, Stepmothers, and The Wigglers who produced CH3's two Posh Boy albums, joined the band in 1984. Their 1985 album for Enigma Records, Last Time I Drank... revealed that the band had navigated the transition to a more straightforward rock format. Lansford and Magrann co-wrote all the original songs on the album.
Members
- Mike Magrann
- Kimm Gardener
- Larry Kelly
- Mike Burton
- Jack Debaun
- Jay Lansford
- Mike Dimkich
- Mat Young
- Jeff Kaminsky
- Dusty Watson
- Ron Wood
- Larry Lerma
- Anthony Thompson
- Mitch McNally
- Alf Silva
- Matthew Woodruff
- Nick Manning
Discography
LPs
- Fear of Life
- After the Lights Go Out
- Last Time I Drank...
- Rejected
- CH3
- One More For All My True Friends
- ''Put 'Em Up''
Singles & EP
- CH 3
- I've Got A Gun
- I'll Take My Chances / How Come?
- Airborne
- Indian Summer / Separate Peace
- One More For All My True Friends
- Land of the Free
- ''History''
Compilations
- I've Got a Gun
- The Skinhead Years
- To Whom It May Concern: The 1981 Demos
- ''A Home for the Homeless''