While he wasn’t on the recording of “Marquette County Line” due to health issues, Berryman will be playing the trumpet on their upcoming song, “Irlene,” and is currently taking history and philosophy classes at NMU. Or the time they played at the Old Menominee Hotel for three nights in a row, only for it to completely burn down the day after they left. Like the time they played at the Kincheloe Air Force Base (now known as the Chippewa County International Airport) and ran out of gas driving back to Marquette during a snowstorm. Thomas Berryman, an NMU alumnus who graduated in 1977 with a bachelor’s in music, recalls some other stories from their travels as a band. “Then, the crowd dispersed and our girlfriends came up to us and asked us why we looked so subdued and we were like, ‘What do you mean?’ and they said ‘You won!’ We were like, ‘What? We won? What?'” “So, they announced the winners and they brought us up there first and announced us and the crowd cheered, then they brought out the next few acts and we were like ‘oh that’s nice we came in fourth,'” he said.
Seymour recounted seeing a women’s barbershop quartet, as well as a shock-rock band whose routine involved throwing bananas at the judges and singing a song called “King Kong Loves You.” State Fair in Escanaba, which is what ‘Marquette County Line’ is about, you know? ‘Headed down 41 Escanaba way.’ We were playing down there and we had gotten into the finals, so we called home and our girlfriends all came down and we played later that night.” Then, in August of that year, we entered a talent contest at the U.P. “We would usually rehearse in our parents’ basement, but there was a time in the summer of ’72 when we stayed at the drummer’s parents’ cabin in Big Bay for the weekend and we just played the whole time. “We just rehearsed and rehearsed,” Seymour said. However, Seymour still has fond memories of their first performance together as a band. They were also able to get some gigs in Wisconsin, as well as a music festival at the Cliffs Ridge Ski Resort (now Marquette Mountain).
The actual lyrics are about Sunstone traveling around the Upper Peninsula from 1972-1975, when they would perform at school dances in Marquette, Ishpeming and Negaunee. Seymour then layered the audio files into the recording to create the final version of the song. They recorded their parts and sent the audio files back. When recording each of the parts, Seymour sent audio files of him singing all the parts to trumpeter Steve Klenke, who transcribed the singing into sheet music and sent it to the other horn players. I laid down the drum track and did some programming.” “It was very low-quality, low-budget, and we didn’t even bother keeping the recordings.
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