The Underground Sunshine - Page 2

Psychedelic Syd · 01-26-2004, 09:37 PM

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Originally posted by ccndd
Hi all! I was the guitar player in Underground Sunshine from shortly after they recorded "Birthday" until the end of the group. I am on all the songs on "Let There Be Light" except for "Birthday". I and the writer-singer of "Take Me , Break Me" have gotten a kick out of these posts. By the way, we never recorded "Hey Jude". I guess that copy of "Mr. Soul", which I supplied, leaked out from a fella who got it from me to put on a web page of psychedelia from that era. Glad some people enjoyed it. I have more mp3 files of the group if anyone would care to hear them. Chris

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Cool, you are Chris Connors? That is awesome.. I would love to ask you some questions about "Take Me, Break Me" (I featured the song on my online radio station for a long time and received several emails from people from around the world wanting to know about it... I have turned a whole bunch of people onto that tune)... Let me know if that would be cool to ask you some questions about it...

I must have confused the fact that you did "Birthday" with "Hey Jude",,, sorry....

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Myndrocker · 01-26-2004, 09:56 PM

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Originally posted by ccndd
Hi all! I was the guitar player in Underground Sunshine from shortly after they recorded "Birthday" until the end of the group. I am on all the songs on "Let There Be Light" except for "Birthday". I and the writer-singer of "Take Me , Break Me" have gotten a kick out of these posts. By the way, we never recorded "Hey Jude". I guess that copy of "Mr. Soul", which I supplied, leaked out from a fella who got it from me to put on a web page of psychedelia from that era. Glad some people enjoyed it. I have more mp3 files of the group if anyone would care to hear them. Chris

Welcome to Radiomute Chris! I would like to hear more mp3 files from Underground Sunshine!

Psychedelic Syd · 01-28-2004, 12:33 AM

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Originally posted by ccndd
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Are you still having a problem posting???

I would still love to ask you some questions about "Take Me, Break Me"...

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ccndd · 01-28-2004, 01:27 AM

Looks to me like it's a go! Fire away on those questions. Chris

Psychedelic Syd · 01-28-2004, 02:27 PM

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Originally posted by ccndd
Looks to me like it's a go! Fire away on those questions. Chris

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O.K., great... I first wanted to know how you came up with that very cool main riff in "Take Me, Break Me",,, was it inspired from something or someone else in rock music?? Was the song fully written before you recorded it or was there a lot of last minute stuff added when you recorded it....

More questions to come...

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ccndd · 01-28-2004, 03:02 PM

Okay. First: are you referring to the guitar riff or the chord changes or piano work? Most of the guitar stuff came off the top of my head at the studio. I believe we had one rehearsal in central Wisconsin in a school gym where we kind of learned the song. We never played it live. The song was finished in the studio, to the best of my recollection. The female piano player had no idea what to play so I invented a part for her that she was able to play. She had limited ability that way. I could check with the writer-lead singer to see if his recall is better. He had to remind me of that rehearsal. I no longer have a turntable and haven't heard the full length song in 20 years. I still have the album. Chris

Psychedelic Syd · 01-28-2004, 03:39 PM

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Originally posted by ccndd
Okay. First: are you referring to the guitar riff or the chord changes or piano work? Most of the guitar stuff came off the top of my head at the studio. I believe we had one rehearsal in central Wisconsin in a school gym where we kind of learned the song. We never played it live. The song was finished in the studio, to the best of my recollection. The female piano player had no idea what to play so I invented a part for her that she was able to play. She had limited ability that way. I could check with the writer-lead singer to see if his recall is better. He had to remind me of that rehearsal. I no longer have a turntable and haven't heard the full length song in 20 years. I still have the album. Chris

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Well, I meant the piano (actually I thought it was an organ or electric piano)...

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Psychedelic Syd · 01-28-2004, 03:44 PM

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Originally posted by ccndd
I could check with the writer-lead singer to see if his recall is better.

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I'm sorry, I missread your first post,, I thought you wrote and sung on the tune.. O.K.,, well could you ask the writer what "inspired" him to do the spoken word middle section... I love it, but some I have played the song for start laughing at that part as it is a reminder of what some say was the goofy hippy-dippy nature of 60's psychedelia....

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Psychedelic Syd · 01-28-2004, 03:52 PM

This may seem trivial,, but it's really interesting to me... In a book I wrote about The Beatles I often pointed out small tidbit parts of songs that really add to a songs feel, signature and enjoyment (like the small recorder/flute part near the end of the Beatles "Glass Onion",,, or the spoken beginning part "turn it up" at the start of Lynyrd Skynard's "Sweet Home Alabama")...

On another website, several of us listed many of these unique tidbit parts of rock songs... "Take Me, Break Me" has a great tidbit... In the second portion of the song, before the chorus is repeated it can be heard in the background someone saying in a very cool "groovy" voice the word "wo",, it comes in right before the chorus of the words "take me"... I know this may sound like a Star Trek geek asking William Shatner what color his shoes were in episode 36 of the original Star Trek TV show,, but that short background "wo" has always blown me away.. It is sung so perfectly and on beat...

Any comments on this Chris.. I realize you haven't heard the tune in many years, but maybe that jogs your memory...

You are probably laughing out loud and saying what a psychedelic music dweeb I am,, but I just love that little vocal tidbit (as do others I have pointed it out to over the years)...

Ha, you didn't know what you were getting into by facing your fans here did ya?

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Psychedelic Syd · 01-28-2004, 03:55 PM

Not to bum you out Chris,, but how old are you now and how often in your life does it come up that people remember your band???

Have any authors contacted you about your history?? I may be working on another psychedelic music book in the future and I would love to pick your brain about The Underground Sunshine or any other interesting stories you have about the late 60's rock scene...

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