I was very sad this evening to learn that Curt Petersen, of Curt & Roland fame, left this world yesterday. I have very fond memories of listening to his music when I was young. Quite a few times Curt & Roland would come to our local church and sing. There’s something about their music that rocks me till this day.
It is very strange, it was just one week ago that I ordered seven CDs from their website. I hadn’t listened to Curt & Roland for many, many years – and it’s only recently that some of their albums have been made available on CD. I got the albums a few days ago and while traveling to Gothenburg this weekend, Elin and I have been listening to the songs in the car.
(In picture, from left: Curt, Anders and Roland – ten years ago or close to that…)
Curt & Roland “Kristen, Ja!”
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Curt Petersen was one of the great singers of our time. Now he is out of time, and I for one will forever miss him. God Bless you Curt – and thank you for this amazing heritage.
This summer my good friend Martin Prahl is getting married. These days he only writes music by himself I think and the stuff I have heard is very good I think, but a few years ago he had a project called The Niro and before I left for the US in 2005 they asked me to try out on vocals so I wrote a song about Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS). The song was called “Pantone Matching System”. Eventually I think Martin wrote some lyrics of his own and recorded vocals for the song.
But today I thought I would share version with you. From their part this was just some random recording from the rehearsal room I think, with Martin playing the bass. The other two guys I never met but as you can hear they were pretty talented.
The Niro “Pantone Matching System” (demo)
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While being on subject of the Music Police (I’m sure Martin himself would agree he is just that) I have to say that I was taken by a storm tonight. VH1 have a Top 50 Guitar Riff countdown, playing full videos, and so far they’ve played:
Whitesnake “Here I Go Again” (the original 1982 version) Van Halen “Why Can’t This Be Love?” The Cult “Rise” (has this ever been shown on tv?) Soundgarden “Rusty Cage” Iron Maiden “Can I Play With Madness”
It takes guts. VH1 obviously has what it takes to broadcast that which does not suck.
The Social Services played in Stockholm this saturday, I covered the show for a paper which did not end up using one particular picture that I myself liked a lot so I though I might as well post it.
They’re a good indie pop band, recently played live on BBC, from Sweden and Scotland and they put out a praised album a few months ago called “It’s nothing personal, it’s national security”. It’s not really my cup of tea. At least not usually, it’s a bit to merry but I actually enjoy their album a bit. The lyrics are great fun.
Today west coast “sister” newspapers Hallands Nyheter and Hallandsposten published my article about Meshuggah and Dick Lövgren along with some three or four pictures. Between the two of them I think they have an average circulation of 62.000 copies/day so this could very well be my biggest newspaper feature so far.
I just realised that I never posted any pictures from the King’s X show in Belgium in january. It so happened to be one of the best (if not the best) shows I ever saw.
When they played the Sweden Rock Festival back in 2000, or whatever year it was, they were crap. I think their bass technician got electricuted the day before the gig and destroyed two bass guitars so they were all out of them; bass guitars and bass technicians. This time around it was simply amazing and the set list was incredibly sharp.
Just saw this awesome clip from last weekend. It hits home with any heavy metal duderino, and we’re all heavy metal duderinos, right? (Or duderinas…)
James Hetfield of Metallica hands a guitar over to the members of Acrassicauda – the band from the documentary “Heavy Metal In Baghdad”. The guys have been granted refugee status and are about to apply for green cards in a year.
When we both lived in Halmstad on the west coast, me and Martin Prahl founded a band called Pride of Mine that eventually became Sleepwalk. That was in 2001. As I remember he wrote two songs and I wrote two, but probably he did a bit more. Also, without him the recordings would never have been completed at all. I then destroyed the band by moving home to Veddige which I really shouldn’t have done.
So today we remember Sleepwalk as me and Elin get ready to create gingerbread bodyparts and gingerbread metal band logos and gingerbread non-correct political symbols.
Sleepwalk “In My Heart” (demo)
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Sleepwalk “Capture Life” (demo)
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I was very sad this evening to learn that Curt Petersen, of Curt & Roland fame, left this world yesterday. I have very fond memories of listening to his music when I was young. Quite a few times Curt & Roland would come to our local church and sing. There’s something about their music that rocks me till this day.
This summer my good friend Martin Prahl is getting married. These days he only writes music by himself I think and the stuff I have heard is very good I think, but a few years ago he had a project called The Niro and before I left for the US in 2005 they asked me to try out on vocals so I wrote a song about Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS). The song was called “Pantone Matching System”. Eventually I think Martin wrote some lyrics of his own and recorded vocals for the song.
I just realised that I never posted any pictures from the King’s X show in Belgium in january. It so happened to be one of the best (if not the best) shows I ever saw.
When we both lived in Halmstad on the west coast, me and