It was our way of doing spaced-out nursery rhymes with an arrangement based on "Strawberry Fields" where it states: "Nothing is real. We didn't do anything as far as production goes. They had a minor hit with "Respect." Nothing ever really happened for them, but they were an amazing band on stage and attained a cult following in the New York area at a club called Action House.ĪV: How did you come up with the first LP's concept of putting the songs together with the "Illusions of My Childhood" which are played to the tunes of "Three Blind Mice" and "Ring Around the Rosie" which connect the songs "You Keep Me Hanging On," "Take Me For a Little While," and "Eleanor Rigby" as well as for "Bang Bang"?CA: Shadow Morton did all of that. I think that is where some of the heaviness came from because we were loud.MS: The Rascals' Felix Cavaliere was my strongest influence as far as organ playing, but the Vagrants really shocked me when I first saw them at a club called The Eye.
We played the bigger amplifiers and because of that it made me play louder. We were basically doing material like the Vagrants and Rascals, but we made it psychedelic.We probably took a lot of what the Rascals were doing, but we took it to the extreme! We made the music more psychedelic and thus a little more heavy. Production numbers meant slowing down songs to see what kind of emotion could be put into it. AV: How did you develop the group's sound which has been described as one of the "first heavy rock bands" as well as the "dozens of punk mysterioso" and "psychedelic-symphonic rock"?CA: We were doing what went on in New York which was production numbers.
0 kommentar(er)
