So, back in Sweden after two eventful weeks in the big apple! The home trip was quite eventful, too, I should add...
Shooooopping!
With the current state of the US currency, we did a lot of great shopping. Manage to do some great deals at Manny's where I bought a Keehley Compressor, a Boss Octaver and a Edirol US25 interface, plus lots od strings! Also found some great CDs and vinyls at Bleecker Street Records. I can also recommend B&H Electronics where we got some cameras, iPods and a good deal on a Shure SM57. Needless to say we also found a great pile of nice clothes!
Friends
Besides meeting up and jamming with John Garner and also bass player Rick Mullen, which was great, we also spent some time with our friends Dino Dave and Amy, plus met up with Dinosuar Guitar mate Jeb. Also a great dude! We jammed and recorded some stuff that will probably end up on YouTube - "I Am The Killjoy" - a classic to be :-)
The journey home
The flight home was supposed to leave at 6.15 PM, but was delayed until 7.30...
and we boarded at 8... but didn't get clearance to take off until 9.45 because of technical matters! Fortunately we had a 5,5 hour wait in Brussels, which was now only 1,5 hours. This flight was also delayed 20 min for technical reasons... We finally arrived in Copenhagen and just made it on the train home! (I should mention that we had to buy two suitcases and one bag extra for all the stuff we bought!) We were 5 people with two suitcases and one hand luggage EACH!
When we arrived in Malmö, they told us we had to switch train because of...
tadaaa... technical problems! So, this time without any carriage, we had to run back and forth with all our luggage and switch trains!
We finally arrived home yesterday evening 5.30 PM, with our entire luggage intact!
Take heed New York, we will definitely be back!
måndag 31 mars 2008
onsdag 19 mars 2008
Second week in New York
So, this is how fast a week goes in New York. Man... So, what have we done? Well, I've rehearsed with John Garner for the upcoming Sir Lord Baltimore shows. Tomorrow we'll rehearse with a bass player, Rick Mullen, which will be great.
With the current dollar rate shopping is great! Bought a nice Keehler Compressor, a Edirol UA25 sound interface, tried the awesome Orange Tiny Terror amp which totally blew me away!! I want I want I want!!! Met up with our friends Amy and Dino Dave for some serious... eating (great Indian restaurant yesterday), plus I've found a shitload of good CDs on Bleecker Street. The weather has been really good (although it's raining today). Will go see and interview Robin Trower this evening, which will be great.
What more to say but... New York rulez!!!
With the current dollar rate shopping is great! Bought a nice Keehler Compressor, a Edirol UA25 sound interface, tried the awesome Orange Tiny Terror amp which totally blew me away!! I want I want I want!!! Met up with our friends Amy and Dino Dave for some serious... eating (great Indian restaurant yesterday), plus I've found a shitload of good CDs on Bleecker Street. The weather has been really good (although it's raining today). Will go see and interview Robin Trower this evening, which will be great.
What more to say but... New York rulez!!!
måndag 25 februari 2008
Soloing
First of all, last week we decided to change our name. There was a Swedish pop band in the 80s called Salt. They have now decided to re-unite, so to avoid confusion we have now changed our name to BALLS. It's actually the initials of the members' surnames - Björk - Andersson - Lodin - Lundkvist - Stark.
I started working on the solos for the Balls-album this weekend. Have to finish it all before we go to New York in two weeks. Shouldn't be any problem.
Tomorrow I'll be on Swedish televison as a representative for Sweden Rock and hard rockers in general. The show is recorded in the afternoon and broadcast 11.25 PM on TV2. I can't wear any t-shirt with a logo on!! I mean what is hard rock without a big phat band logo?! Hmm... Need a plan to sneak it in somehow ;-)
I started working on the solos for the Balls-album this weekend. Have to finish it all before we go to New York in two weeks. Shouldn't be any problem.
Tomorrow I'll be on Swedish televison as a representative for Sweden Rock and hard rockers in general. The show is recorded in the afternoon and broadcast 11.25 PM on TV2. I can't wear any t-shirt with a logo on!! I mean what is hard rock without a big phat band logo?! Hmm... Need a plan to sneak it in somehow ;-)
torsdag 21 februari 2008
Recording again!
The last two days I spent in the studio with Mikael "Nord" Andersson. We're currently recording the guitars for the forthcoming album by SALT (we may change the name, though).
I used my Hughes & Kettner Trilogy head, through a 4x10" Marshall cab (the same one that was used on the latest album by The Rasmus)¨and a TS9 Tube Screamer. The guitars were my two True Temperament neck guitars (Gibson Les Paul and an Epiphone Strat) and my Fender Strat HW1.
I'll start recording the solos next week.
Today we also received Beau Hill's final mix of the CONSTANCIA track "Save Me", which sounds really good! We've sent out four tracks to four different engineers/producers to try and decide what sound we would like on the album. They are as follows:
"Save Me" - Beau Hill (Ratt, Streets, Winger, Warrant, Alice Cooper etc)
"Wish I Could Fly" - Pontus Lindmark (Planet Alliance, Cloudscape etc)
"Blind" - Pontus Norgren (The Poodles, Talisman, House Of Shakira etc)
"I Never Said Goodbye" - Pelle Saether (Node, Locomotive Breath, Zello, Zeelion etc)
When we've received all four tracks we'll put them up on our MySpace (www.myspace.com/constanciamusic) for people to vote on which mix they like the most.
Over & Out
I used my Hughes & Kettner Trilogy head, through a 4x10" Marshall cab (the same one that was used on the latest album by The Rasmus)¨and a TS9 Tube Screamer. The guitars were my two True Temperament neck guitars (Gibson Les Paul and an Epiphone Strat) and my Fender Strat HW1.
I'll start recording the solos next week.
Today we also received Beau Hill's final mix of the CONSTANCIA track "Save Me", which sounds really good! We've sent out four tracks to four different engineers/producers to try and decide what sound we would like on the album. They are as follows:
"Save Me" - Beau Hill (Ratt, Streets, Winger, Warrant, Alice Cooper etc)
"Wish I Could Fly" - Pontus Lindmark (Planet Alliance, Cloudscape etc)
"Blind" - Pontus Norgren (The Poodles, Talisman, House Of Shakira etc)
"I Never Said Goodbye" - Pelle Saether (Node, Locomotive Breath, Zello, Zeelion etc)
When we've received all four tracks we'll put them up on our MySpace (www.myspace.com/constanciamusic) for people to vote on which mix they like the most.
Over & Out
måndag 28 januari 2008
OVERDRIVE release today!
Saturday we had a release party for the new OVERDRIVE album "Let The Metal Do The Talking", the first full length album since 1984! A great bunch of people showed up. We played the album, showed some old and new videos, gave away some stuff, got slightly drunk and had fun!
Today we also put up a new track on MySpace (www.myspace.com/overdrivesweden) - "Bring Me To Submission".
So what now? Promotion work, of course! Possibly try to get some gigs.
Otherwise it's CONSTANCIA that has part of my musical focus at the moment. David recorded the vocals for the track "Blind" yesterday. We've just sent off a bunch of files to Beau Hill (Ratt, Warrant, Winger, Europe etc.) who will re-mix the track "Save Me". We received the test mix of "Wish I Could Fly" from Pontus Lindmark at RoastigHouse last week. It sounded great!
February 18-19 I'm off to Stockholm to start recording guitars for the SALT album. Really looking forward to getting this wagon on the road, too!
Currently listening to: RTZ - "Lost" - Great AOR album featuring former Boston boys Barry Godreau and Brad Delp (RIP). Hadn't listened to this in years, but suddenly got into a Boston-vibe and brought out Boston, Barry's solo album, Orion, RTZ and the Godreau/Delp stuff.
Today we also put up a new track on MySpace (www.myspace.com/overdrivesweden) - "Bring Me To Submission".
So what now? Promotion work, of course! Possibly try to get some gigs.
Otherwise it's CONSTANCIA that has part of my musical focus at the moment. David recorded the vocals for the track "Blind" yesterday. We've just sent off a bunch of files to Beau Hill (Ratt, Warrant, Winger, Europe etc.) who will re-mix the track "Save Me". We received the test mix of "Wish I Could Fly" from Pontus Lindmark at RoastigHouse last week. It sounded great!
February 18-19 I'm off to Stockholm to start recording guitars for the SALT album. Really looking forward to getting this wagon on the road, too!
Currently listening to: RTZ - "Lost" - Great AOR album featuring former Boston boys Barry Godreau and Brad Delp (RIP). Hadn't listened to this in years, but suddenly got into a Boston-vibe and brought out Boston, Barry's solo album, Orion, RTZ and the Godreau/Delp stuff.
onsdag 16 januari 2008
Grand opening
Hi all!
Welcome to my blog. We'll see what stuff comes up here. This will probably be some kind of journal of all my musical activities.
I'm currently recording the guitars and preparing files for my curreny "melogressive" project CONSTANCIA. The day after we opened our MySpace page we were contacted by American top producer Beau Hill (Warrant, Europe, Ratt, Alice Cooper) who said he liked our stuff very much and asked if we wanted him to re-mix some tracks. So, we will, why I'm working on re-recording some guitar parts for the song, at the same time as I'm finishing up demoing the remaining tracks (15 all in all).
I'm also writing new songs and rehearsing old ones for the resurrection of 70s classic band SIR LORD BALTIMORE which I'm proud to be part of today. Imagine being asked to join one of your old favourite bands! KEWL, huh?! We're off to New York in March to write and rehearse.
SALT is my current band, featuring among others Björn Lodin (Baltimoore, Six Feet Under) and Micke "Nord" Andersson (Nord, Private Eyes, Roxette etc). Robban has laid down the drums fro the forthcoming album and me and Micke will start recording guitars in February.
"The Encyclopedia of Swedish Punk 1976-1986" is a book written by Peter Jandreus, which I'm doing layout and additional writing, research for. It's in the final proof reading stage now, so hopefully this "never ending story" will be finished soon!
Welcome to my blog. We'll see what stuff comes up here. This will probably be some kind of journal of all my musical activities.
I'm currently recording the guitars and preparing files for my curreny "melogressive" project CONSTANCIA. The day after we opened our MySpace page we were contacted by American top producer Beau Hill (Warrant, Europe, Ratt, Alice Cooper) who said he liked our stuff very much and asked if we wanted him to re-mix some tracks. So, we will, why I'm working on re-recording some guitar parts for the song, at the same time as I'm finishing up demoing the remaining tracks (15 all in all).
I'm also writing new songs and rehearsing old ones for the resurrection of 70s classic band SIR LORD BALTIMORE which I'm proud to be part of today. Imagine being asked to join one of your old favourite bands! KEWL, huh?! We're off to New York in March to write and rehearse.
SALT is my current band, featuring among others Björn Lodin (Baltimoore, Six Feet Under) and Micke "Nord" Andersson (Nord, Private Eyes, Roxette etc). Robban has laid down the drums fro the forthcoming album and me and Micke will start recording guitars in February.
"The Encyclopedia of Swedish Punk 1976-1986" is a book written by Peter Jandreus, which I'm doing layout and additional writing, research for. It's in the final proof reading stage now, so hopefully this "never ending story" will be finished soon!
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