TIM KING
Nick Freund began working with four of his students to form a band that took the name the Search Party: Peter Apps (lead guitar and vocals), Joanie Goff (vocals and guitar), Jim Carvalho (bass, guitar and vocals), and Tim King (drums). Freund himself was evidently on organ and composed most of the music; he also produced the album. The music was recorded in 1968 at the Montgomery Chapel at San Francisco Theological Seminary, so Montgomery Chapel became the name of the album. Just 600 copies were pressed on the tiny Century Records label, and the band performed together live only once, at a sort of “thank you” party. Nick Freund left California and joined the faculty at Mount Saint Paul College in Waukesha, Wisconsin later that year.
The Search Party had its origins in the Rejects, a garage rock band that originally formed in about 1963. Later Tim King was recruited as the new drummer, and Jacques Fourie was added as a rhythm guitarist. The musicians were also in various other bands as well as the school band and glee club. Nick Freund discovered Joanie Goff (now Joan Goff Nelson) when he put together a high school choir in Sacramento. He asked her to be the female lead in their production of Oliver!.
(September 2014)
