John "Chris" Christensen

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, Laser Pace, 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, 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 Mehilich, 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, and Michael and Spider.“Chris” collects old Comic Books, vintage Rock and Roll/R&B records, plays Pork Pie Drums and Zildjian Cymbals, likes his family, Single Malt Scotch and a really good Tequila now and then.
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SELECTED RECORDING CREDITSYou 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) Eccentric Records 1982, Fries by Hot Food To Go! EP Erika 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 1986, Bop/Willie and The Hand Jive by The Utensils 45 rpm Beat Brothers 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 1994SELECTED 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.