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Psychedelic pop band Chamaeleon Church is best remembered as the launching pad for a pre-Saturday Night Live Chevy Chase. The group formed in Boston in 1967 after singer/guitarist Ted Myers, an alumnus of the Lost, met multi-instrumentalist Tony Schueren through mutual friends in another Bosstown Sound band, the Ultimate Spinach. After recruiting another Lost alum, Kyle Garrahan, to play bass, Chamaeleon Church (named after the astrological constellation The Chamaeleon) completed its lineup with Chase, whom Myers met while recording in New York. At the time Myers was under contract as a songwriter to N.Y.C. producer Alan Lorber, who agreed to...

There is more than one band with this name, which is not spelled incorrectly, as it is derived from the name of the minor southern constellation Chamaeleon, not the color-changing lizard. (1) Chamaeleon is an alternative/indie rock band originally from Roswell, Georgia. The band was formed in 2003, releasing one EP, Rushmore EP, and one full-length album, Dangerous Tree Removal. Chamaeleon's music is inspired from artists such as Radiohead, Pixies, Placebo, and Sigur Rós. Chamaeleon is on an indefinite hiatus as of Fall 2006, cited for a number of reasons, primarily because their drummer, Matt Hardy, attended the University of...