SVT (band)

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SVT
Origin San Francisco, California
Genre(s) Punk Rock
Years active 1978 – 83
Former members
Brian Marnell
Bill Gibson
Jack Casady
Paul Zahl
Nick Buck

SVT was a San Francisco punk rock band from the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are notable for having the famous bassist Jack Casady (formerly of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna) as a member. Others included singer Brian Marnell, drummer Bill Gibson (later of Huey Lewis & the News, replaced by Paul Zahl), and later Nick Buck, also a Hot Tuna veteran, on keyboards.

The group is said to have taken its name from the medical condition known as supraventricular tachycardia. A more plausible explanation is that the name was taken from a model of bass guitar amplifier, the Ampeg SVT.

The group disbanded after Zahl and Casady left to form Yanks with Jack Johnson and Owen Masterson. Casady quit Yanks and was replaced by bassist Steve Aliment. Brian Marnell died in 1983. SVT recorded only the one album, "No Regrets", in 1981.

[edit] Discography

  • 1979 Single: "New Year"/"Wanna See You Cry"
  • 1979 Single: "Heart Of Stone"/"The Last Word"
  • 1980 EP: Extended Play (415 Records)
    1. "Price of Sex"
    2. "I Can See"
    3. "Red Blue Jeans"
    4. "Always Come Back for Me"
    5. "I Walk the Line"
    6. "Modern Living"
    7. "Down at the Beach"
  • 1981 LP: No Regrets (MSI Records)
    1. "Bleeding Hearts"
    2. "Waiting for You"
    3. "Heart of Stone"
    4. "No Regrets"
    5. "Money Street"
    6. "Love Blind"
    7. "North Beach"
    8. "What I Don't Like"
    9. "Secret"
    10. "Too Late"
    11. "You Don't Rock"
  • 2005 CD: No Regrets - Expanded Version (Rykodisc)

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