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Note: The reason for this article is that John Cowsill was a member of the Bel Air Bandits.
SAN BERNARDINO – Surf rockers Jan and Dean, who sold more than 20 million records about the good times, have come to a bitter end. Again.
Jan Berry and Dean Torrence have angrily abandoned a three-year revival fo their act, which was cut short the first time in 1966 after Berry was in a car crash.
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Torrence announced the breakup of Jan and Dean during an interview with The Sun last weekend in San Bernardino. He appeared Friday night at a National Orange Show concert with his new band, the Bel Air Bandits, the same band that toured with Jan and Dean last year. Citing musical disagreements as well as personal conflicts with Berry, Torrence said he has not only bid goodbye, but good riddance, to his former partner
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A major conflict between jan and Dean was over their band, Papa Doo Run Run, the same band that is now appearing with Dean as the Bel Air Bandits. Berry fired the group when the tour ended in October, but now Dean has split with Jan and joined the deposed musicians – guitarists Jim Armstrong, Mark Ward and Chris Farmer, keyboardist Gary Griffin and drummer Danny deHart.
“In my mind we were the Bel Air Bandits last year,” Dean said. “It was always seven people, not two in front and five in back. Jan disagreed, and he disagreed more and more stringently, so now it’s a six-man band. We make a hell of a lot less money, but we have a hell of a lot more fun.”
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