{"id":75,"date":"2012-07-08T09:14:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T09:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarhamaa.wordpress.com\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2012-07-08T09:14:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T09:14:50","slug":"chapter-one","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sarhamaa.com\/wp\/?page_id=75","title":{"rendered":"Chapter One"},"content":{"rendered":"

1982-1985. The band that had potential. Samsara Recordings #1 “One” available from Running Moose webshop, well stocked records shops and iTunes et al.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Members<\/em>:<\/p>\n

MkI:
\nHannu Leid\u00e9n<\/strong>: Vocals, piano, bass
\nSami Sarhamaa<\/strong>: Keyboards, guitar, backing vocals
\nJukka Tikander<\/strong>: Lead guitar
\nJouni Ullakko<\/strong>: Bass, backing vocals, synths
\nPekka Viherlaakso<\/strong>: Drums, backing vocals.<\/p>\n

MkII:
\nHannu Leid\u00e9n<\/strong>: Vocals, piano
\nJyrki Rahkonen<\/strong>: Bass, backing vocals
\nSami Sarhamaa<\/strong>: Keyboards, backing vocals
\nMikko Terhi\u00e4<\/strong>: Drums
\nJukka Tikander<\/strong>: Lead guitar<\/p>\n

with:<\/p>\n

Ismo Piipponen<\/strong>: Drums, percussion
\nSasu Moilanen<\/strong>: Drums
\nTomi Laaksonen<\/strong>: Drums
\nHannu Tornivuori<\/strong>: Guitar
\nMarkku Palm<\/strong>: Piano, guitar, bvoc<\/p>\n

While still in Leroy, me and Hannu had discussions of our aspirations and dreams. We both seemed to want more than what we had at the moment. After some time we decided to quit Leroy (July -82) and ask if Jouni and Jukka would like to join us. They did.<\/p>\n

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I was able to secure a rehearsal space in the same basement that Caramba used to practice in, underneath the school I used to go to. We needed to find a drummer and while we were looking Jukka asked his friend Tomi to help us out. Tomi had just begun playing so he was not suited to join the band at that time. We tried quite a few drummers and the first one even remotely suitable was Ismo Piipponen. He didn’t last long, the next one was my band pupil, Sasu Moilanen. After a while Sasu decided to quit, so we continued looking. Finally we found Pekka Viherlaakso, who fit right in. Peku had a groove and a light touch that served our sometimes quite bombastic music as a nice counter balance.<\/p>\n

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We played all the gigs we could get and got quite good. Hannu found a producer, Tommi Liuhala, who had his own studio. We parked ourselves at Birdland, later Subway Studio with engineers Make T\u00f6rr\u00f6nen and Sepi Myllyrinne. During 1983 we managed to basically make an album, which unfortunately didn’t get released (but it will, it will…).<\/p>\n

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