Sunny Day Roses
April, 1997 Newsletter
(under construction)


"as you travel along life's way, don't forget to stop and hear the Roses!"

Sunny Day Roses news

This newsletter is currently being built into hard-copy form. We just thought it would be cool to throw some excerpts up here, in case someone like you came around looking for something new.

Here's what Jeff submitted for the newsletter. More to follow from the rest of the band...

We're in the "development stage" with material for our next recording. Sunny Day Roses has a solid EP's worth of material, and those of you who have heard the songs live keep saying very nice things to us about them. Thanks.

The band is trying to go somewhere just a little bit different, in order to carve out a niche amongst all the other fine bands in our area. We've started assembling loops and samples, some of which have made their way into the live show. The backing loop track for Sentimental Noise is a rough idea of what we've got in mind.

Once we've decided which other new songs would be suited to this treatment, we'll try them out live a time or two, and take them into the studio. For those of you keeping score, the songs we plan to include for now are:

  • Silver
  • High Tide
  • Birdman/Jane's
  • Tender&True
  • Sentimental Noise
  • Chaos
    Our original singer, Suki Chaney, and her husband Jim are expecting their first child this year! Their happy news was also sad news for SDR, as Suki decided it would be best to leave the band.

    Janet Lund came along very shortly thereafter, bringing with her a new sense of energy and enthusiasm for the future of the group. We miss Suki, but we couldn't imagine SDR without Janet. It's just right.

    In between rehearsals, shows, and other typical SDR brouhaha, everyone's got other things happening.

    Jeff has been quite busy sitting in with other groups; he recorded all the bass tracks for Light Music's new LSU album, "Dogfish Jones," and also played guitar on several songs for Metro One's new Blackball album, entitled "Hope." The Blackball guys even managed to talk him into hauling the instrument from his high school band days, a euphonium, out of mothballs.

    He also went back to his hometown of Champaign, Illinois over Christmas and made a Farewell to Juliet record with his old band friends from school. All the studio experience should provide an audible benefit to the forthcoming Sunny Day Roses project.

    Jonathan and Lewis have been traveling and playing with Frank ***...

    The First Album I Ever Bought - Jeff Elbel

    The first record I ever bought with my own money was Electric Light Orchestra's "Out of the Blue." This album came out twenty years ago! "Out of the Blue" was a double vinyl release featuring the giant ELO combination spaceship/jukebox on the cover. The interior art detailed the ship's flight control center/recording studio. I have no idea why NASA has never developed these concepts.

    The album even came with a poster and a punch-out 3-D spaceship model, which stood on a cardboard radio tower! Now, that's cool. You can fully expect SDR to release an album with a punch-out spaceship, too, as soon as we can afford it.

    The fact that I've said more about the "Out of the Blue" packaging than the actual music probably tells you something, but the record contained the bubble-gum pop hits "Sweet Talkin' Woman," "Turn to Stone," and "Mr. Blue Sky."

    Last Good Show Jeff Saw

    Presidents of the United States of America
    El Rey Theatre, Hollywood
    Stood next to Weird Al Yankovic for the entire set.
    To contact Sunny Day Roses, e-mail SunnyRoses@aol.com
    bLOOMsHINe! is available directly from the band at the address listed below.

    Sunny Day Roses
    c/o Marathon Records
    PO Box 1222
    El Segundo, CA 90245-6222
    USA
    Last updated: 12 April 1997
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