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Article: Band born in the 1960s is riding new wave of interest.(Entertainment)(A Eugene man's effort to contact old bandmates reignites old excitement)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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Byline: Serena Markstrom The Register-Guard
Forty-some years ago, as young men in their late teens, four friends started a band. Before long, people wanted to hear that band, and venues started paying them to play.
They were the Challengers, a San Francisco Bay Area group that never took itself too seriously, even when the record labels came knocking.
After the state made them change their name because another band already was known as the Challengers, they made the kids dance and the girls scream as the de-Fenders. They cut a record for Diplomacy, which, along with a talent agency, urged them to changed their name to the Brymers and to shave ...