Talk:Psychotic Reaction

message: The song Psychotic Reaction was written by the five members of the Count Five, Craig "Butch" Atkinson, John Byrne, Roy Chaney, Kenn Ellner and John "Mouse" Michalski. The song started off as an instrumental jam between Ellner, Chaney and Michalski and was composed in the living room of Craig Atkinson's at the beginning of a rehearsal. Kenn Ellner was breaking in a new harmonica for the first time and Chaney and Michalski were jamming and composing. The harmonica was a C harmonica, so the jam was in G. Atkinson and Byrne joined the rehearsal and added to the jam and composition. Many weeks prior to this monumental rehearsal Byrne had a psychology class at San Jose City College. The lecturer was discussing psychotic reactions and a friend and classmate Ron Lamb thought it would be a good name for a band. John Byrne had mentioned to the band about that event and it evolved from the name of the band to a good name for a song.  At the rehearsal Ellner and Byrne looked at each other and said this is  "Psychotic Reaction". The song was played by the band for a long time at their live performances as an instrumental and was well received by the Count Five fans in attendance. Fans were wildly ecstatic about the instrumental version. However, after much prodding from the band's manager  Sol Ellner at a rehearsal at Ellner's house, Byrne was told by Sol to "Go across the street and don’t return without  lyrics to the song" (Byrne lived across the street from Ellner with Byrne's uncle Leo). Byrne complied. The song went through months of modifications by the band modifying beats, rhythm and the like.  As the band auditioned for various labels and producers all had constructive criticism about the song and its structure.  Taking into account some of the criticisms and discarding others the band members worked many hours and many months modifying and rearranging the composition with assistance from multiple sources, a  DJ from KLIV Radio Brian Lord, various producers of audition sessions, management, agents, friends and fans . In the studio at Nashville West on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, Double Shot Record’s producer even modified the lyrical content by suggesting and adding the famous tag line "And it feels like this".  Psychotic Reaction was  truly a collaborative composition. This is the true story of how the song was composed. Psychotic Reaction was not written by any one individual any such report is entirely false. 
Respectfully Submitted-Kenn Ellner, Roy Chaney and John Michalski the original and remaining existing members of the Count FiveKenn of Count Five (talk) 03:04, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
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message: The song Psychotic Reaction was written by the five members of the Count Five, Craig "Butch" Atkinson, John Byrne, Roy Chaney, Kenn Ellner and John "Mouse" Michalski. The song started off as an instrumental jam between Ellner, Chaney and Michalski and was composed in the living room of Craig Atkinson's at the beginning of a rehearsal. Kenn Ellner was breaking in a new harmonica for the first time and Chaney and Michalski were jamming and composing. The harmonica was a C harmonica, so the jam was in G. Atkinson and Byrne joined the rehearsal and added to the jam and composition. Many weeks prior to this monumental rehearsal Byrne had a psychology class at San Jose City College. The lecturer was discussing psychotic reactions and a friend and classmate Ron Lamb thought it would be a good name for a band. John Byrne had mentioned to the band about that event and it evolved from the name of the band to a good name for a song. At the rehearsal Ellner and Byrne looked at each other and said this is "Psychotic Reaction". The song was played by the band for a long time at their live performances as an instrumental and was well received by the Count Five fans in attendance. Fans were wildly ecstatic about the instrumental version. However, after much prodding from the band's manager Sol Ellner at a rehearsal at Ellner's house, Byrne was told by Sol to "Go across the street and don’t return without lyrics to the song" (Byrne lived across the street from Ellner with Byrne's uncle Leo). Byrne complied. The song went through months of modifications by the band modifying beats, rhythm and the like. As the band auditioned for various labels and producers all had constructive criticism about the song and its structure. Taking into account some of the criticisms and discarding others the band members worked many hours and many months modifying and rearranging the composition with assistance from multiple sources., a DJ from KLIV Radio Brian Lord, various producers of audition sessions, management, agents, friends and fans . In the studio at Nashville West on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, Double Shot Record’s producer even modified the lyrical content by suggesting and adding the famous tag line "And it feels like this". Psychotic Reaction was truly a collaborative composition. This is the true story of how the song was composed. Psychotic Reaction was not written by any one individual any such report is entirely false.
Respectfully Submitted-Kenn Ellner, Roy Chaney and John Michalski the original and remaining existing members of the Count FiveKenn of Count Five (talk) 02:57, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Psychotic Reaction written by collaborative effort by Atkinson, Byrne, Chaney, Ellner and Michalski