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John "Chris" Christensen

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General Info

  • Genre: Garage / Psychedelic / Rock

    Location Los Angeles, Un

    Profile Views: 25342

    Last Login: 5/22/2012

    Member Since 2/17/2007

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmJlYXRicm90aGVyc3JlY29yZHMuY29t

    Record Label Graphitti Designs and Beat Brothers Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    AWARD WINNING COMPOSER John "Chris" Christensen (Aka: Chris Christensen, W.G. Christensen, John W. Christensen, John W.G. Christensen, or just plain old JC) plays a number of instruments, some of them actually pretty well. He played his first professional gig (as a drummer) in December of '62 and hasn't stopped since, even continuing to do gigs while in the US Army in places like New Jersey and New York, various parts of Vietnam, Arizona, and Germany. He has been discovered and forgotten so many times he's lost count. He has performed and/or recorded with: The Sunsets, The Surf Riders, The Intruders, The Reveres, The Pages, The Town Criers, Time Of Your Life, Opus 1, A New Delhi Abstract Three Pyce Band, River Om, The Few, Burning Desire, Mirkwood, Steepfleet, Danny Flores AKA: Chuck "Tequila" Rio, Future Shock, Improved Muskrat, The Long Beach Municipal Band, Night Tide, Brother Bones, Charo, Urbie Green, Sky King, Midnight Flyer, Hot Food To Go!, Delong and Wagonner, Hey Taxi, The Utensils, The Downloaders, The Beat Brothers, Blackbyrd McKnight, Skip Towne & Friends, The Rounders, Seduction of the Innocent, The Jenerators, Frank Stallone, Artie Barnes, Steve Lukather, Shaun Cassidy, The Over The Hill Gang, Al Latour, The Little Big Band, Christensen/Schultz, Big Band Command, Abe Most, Spike Jones, Graham Young, Ed Mihelich, Carmen De Oro, The Drifters, Lionel Hampton, The Seaport Seven, The John Hendersen Big Band, On The Edge, The Hollywood Flames, Soul Frat, Lost Time, The Lauras, Mark Spoelstra, Ele*Mental, Lucille's Night Out, Bill Morse and JC Christensen, and Michael and Spider. "Chris" collects gold and silver age Comic Books, vintage Rock and Roll/R&B records, plays Pork Pie Drums and Zildjian Cymbals, uses Pigtronix guitar processors, he likes his family, Single Malt Scotch, and a really good Tequila now and then. ......This profile was edited with ..qnun.com Editor.............. SELECTED RECORDING CREDITS You Make Me Feel So Good/Ode To A Bad Dream by Time Of Your Life 45 rpm Ionic Records 1965 -- Back Seat '38 Dodge/In My Mind by Opus 1 45 rpm Mustang Records 1966 -- Granfalloon by Laser Pace LP Takoma Records 1974 -- Demento's Memento's LP (one song, I Get Weird) Eccentric Records 1982 -- Fries by Hot Food To Go! EP Erika Records 1983 -- The Sound of Hollywood Girls (one cut) Mystic Records 1983 -- Maxi Single (AKA: Dave's Burgers) by Hot Food To Go! Charmed Life Records 1986 -- The Spirit Picture Disc by John Christensen LP Ordinairy Records 1987 -- Bop/Willie and The Hand Jive by The Utensils 45 rpm Beat Brothers Records 1988 -- Christmas EP by Skip Towne & Friends. Charmed Life Records, 1988 -- Worse Than Slime 1 (various psuedonyms) LP/CD Beat Brothers Records 1989 -- Fade To Black/The Beat by Blackbird McKnight and The Beat Bros. EP Beat Bros. Records 1989 -- The Jenerators by The Jenerators CD Asil Records 1994 -- Songs From The Xenozoic Age by Christensen/Schultz CD Graphitti Designs 1994 -- Iridescent Garden by Michael and Spider CD (one song, Temple of the Moon) Lavender Records 2008 -- Granfalloon by Laser Pace CD Decker Productions 2008 -- Adrenaline Drum by Hot Food To Go! CD Beat Brothers Records 2008 -- Where The Action Is Los Angeles Nuggets 1965 to 1968 (features Opus 1's "Back Seat '38 Dodge") Rhino Records/Ace UK 2009 -- "I Get Weird" (2010 remaster) Worse Than Slime - The Singles - No. 1 Beat Brothers Records BBRDD 8001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SELECTED SCORING CREDITS: The Chase -- Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane -- Real Time: Siege At Lucas Street Market -- A Matter Of Principal -- Cave Man: VT Hamlin and Alley Oop -- Shades Of Noir.

  • Members

    Mostly myself and ANYONE ELSE WHO GETS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE ABUSED! .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

  • Influences

    I'M A GEMINI, SO TODAY IT'S: Dick Dale, Gene Krupa, The Rillera Brothers, Don and Dewey, Kay Bell, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Bernard Herrman, The Coasters, Eddie Cochran, Martin Denny, Bebe & Louis Barron, Fred Neil, Barret Strong, Buddy Holly, The Flamingos, Elmer Bernstein, Martin Denny, Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps, Louie Armstrong, Cozy Cole, John Barry, Chuck Berry, Elvis, Percy Mayfield, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Drifters, Little Richard, Hank Ballard, Fats Domino, Earl Palmer, Hal Blaine, The Clovers, CGT, Sandy Nelson, Link Wray, Alvin Stoller, Johnny Otis, The Ventures, Buddy Rich, Adrian Belew, Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, Bill Bruford, The Beatles, Professor Longhair, The Yardbirds, Robert Fripp, Jessie Belvin, The Olympics, The Zombies, The Who, Cream, Moby Grape, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson, Freddy King, Elvis Costello, Herbie Hancock, Ian Wallace, Harry Partch, Devo, Stravinski, Michael Giles, Debussy, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Elvin Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Earl Hatch, Richard Wilson, Ed Mihelich, Graham Young, and all my students, past, present, and future.

  • Sounds Like

    I hope the compositions reflect my personality filtering the music that I love through my own personal mixmaster vortex, using the instruments that I play with various amounts of proficiency: Drums, Guitars, Voice, Bass, Harmonica, Keys, Sax, Flute, Tuned and Untuned Percussion, and just about anything else I can get an (in)appropriate sound out of.

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  1. John "Chris" Christensen

    commented on SAm COVey's profile

    " Have a great Birthday!"

  2. John "Chris" Christensen

    commented on Ronald Gelber's profile

    " Happy Birthday Mr. Prog-Rocker!"

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  5. John "Chris" Christensen

    Another Opus 1 flash via Gene Dorney: the new book, "The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years" by Greil Marcus contains a mention and footnote about Long Beach, Ca band Opus 1 and "Back Seat '38 Dodge." Nice to be recognized - royalties would be even nicer. :)

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