Music #16: Mustasch live at liseberg, gothenburg

went to the concert with my expextations rather low since I haven´t been that pleased with mustasch live the last couple of times I´ve seen ´em. this was my ninth or tenth time i saw them, lost count, some bands just become a blur of how many times you´ve seen ´em ´cause it´s quite often you do.

this gig they had a temp behind the drums, jejo perkovic (from the band the bear quartet) looked alot like jesus from the big lebowski and did a damn fine job banging the skin. They were on a good mood and the general Ralf Gyllenhammar howled in the mic and was his jolly good old self. they played their latest album from A to Z and then after that they went on to their hits.

and the audience loved the hit cavalcade eventhou they were receptive to the new album, but as always, you love what you´ve heard the most. songs like I hunt alone, Down in black and black city got the crowd wild! I had a good time with my girl by my side!

a song from the new album

Mustasch - Morning star

Music #15: tomorrow I´m off to gothenburg and Mustasch live

Tomorrow I´m heading for gothenburg and a liveshow with mustasch, looking forward to see how the temp behind the drums will handle himself. other than that i think it will be a kick ass show with my girlfriend by my side! so ofcourse we will take a song by the band

Mustasch - black city

Music #14: Electric Boys were kick ass!

Bonafide who opened the show were pretty much ok, no more no less. they had a heavy influence of AC/DC in the bagage and nice to drink beer to and hear in the background.

Electric Boys opened hard and just kept speeding down the track, they played the classics like lips n hips but lots of the new material like angel in an armoured suit. Conny Bloom was his usual self, a little arrogant like a rockstar should be, not a tad to much like some can become. He just hammered that guitar like hell. I enjoyed the show.

Music #13: off to malmoe and liveshow

I´m of down to malmoe and my mate to enjoy a liveshow with Electric boys and Bonafide at the club KB. I´m looking forward to see Electric Boys again, think it´s my ninth time or so, lost count as I have with many bands I´ve seen more than thrice atleast.

Bonafide I´m not familiar with, so might be a nice experience, who knows. Eletric Boys play a mix of Funk & Metal and I just love it, It has a nice groove to it, and the frontman, Conny Bloom is one if not the best rockstar sweden has had. and ofcourse I´m bious since it´s one of my favourite bands.

so enjoy a song from their latest album

Electric boys - angel in armoured suit

Music #12: Göteborg rock fest

Just stumbled over this little event in the end of april at parken in gothenburg. a small 3 day festival with rocknroll for 250 swedish crowns, quite a good price to discover new music and maybe new favourites.
I´m seriously considering on going to this, probably gonna be a good party with live music and beer.

 a spotify playlist with some of the acts playing at gothenburg rock fest  (the site is in swedish)
göteborg rock fest 2012

Music #11: some thoughts around music

Music or rythmic sound has been with us since we humans first discovered that we could make sounds. since thousands and thousands of years it´s evolved and weaved itself into the very fabric of our exicstance. It emotes our feelings nomather what they are, negative or positive. Music feeds us with energy and creates a sort of synergy with our emotions.

Music is under continous evolution troughout our existance.  the only way to get music before the 20th century were livemusic, and then there weren´t that much exchange between countries, or should i say exchange between the music the masses listend to. the royalties and nobilty (atleast in europe) had an extensive exchange of culture of all sorts under the last halfpart of the last millenia.
so under that time the only way for the masses to listen to music was from folk musicians, and thus there were a distinction from country to country, althou some countries had a similiar culture, so in scandinavia the folk music is quite similar to eachother.

when steamships were introduced under the last part of the 19th century, the exhcange between countries escalated, and music were affected too. the travelling time increase alot from the sailing days. so music influences flowed faster over the borders. from the steamers the next big impact on music was the invention of appliances that could record and replay music. that, with the invention of radio started the globalism in the music world.

and with the aeroplanes and the aviation industry the musicians could travel between countries in notime atall and the music had no borders, for good and bad. the music started to sound similar, but still it was divided into cultural borders, for example the western world, the eastblock and so forth.

today music is just a click away, and the big recordindustry giants missed the train and now they´re trying to cut their losses by getting into the action again. they lost time and money by ¨tackling downloading from the wrong ends instead of making better and easier alternatives than downloading for free on the internet.

the downside of downloading MP3`s is that physical recordstores are on the incline, I miss going through a recordstore and sorting throu the records and looking for something new and interesting that way and not just throu the internet. now i have to go 80 km to get to a recordstore at all.
but on the other hand i found loads and loads of music i would have missed throu programs like spotify, but i still miss the stores.
So i wonder whats the next step for music is, since the money rules it completly.

We´ll take a song by probably the biggest swedish group ever

ABBA - Money, Money, Money

Music documentary #12: Lemmy, a legend!

Lemmy=God? pretty fucking close anyways. Lemmy´s one of "the" big icons in the metal world. Here´s one documentary about motörhead and if you like this one i can recommend the lemmy documentary from 2010 i think it was. the classic setting of motörhead is the current one and been around for about 20 years or so.

Lemmy, Phil Cambell och Micky Dee tour frequently, releases albums on a regular basis, eventhou it always almost sound alike, it´s like them as it is with AC/DC, you know what you get before you buy the record. so enjoy Lemmy and his boys!

it´s been with us before but its a fucking good cover of ac/dc by

Lemmy - It´s a long way to the top








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Music documentary #11: The anthropologist continues his journe through metal

Sam Dunn continues his journe through the world of meta, this time in the follow up to a headbangers ball, Global Metal. this time he sees how metal´s evolved outside of Europe and USA.

Music documentary #10: an anthropologists journey through metal

Back in ´03 when i started my to study cultural anthropology at Uppsala University my plan was to go into music and the culture it builds. I wanted to explore Metal and rock in detail and music in general, the examing bit wasn´t for me even though i thoroughly enjoyed studying the subject. Guess i hadn´t the discipline when it comes to studying when there were so much distraction around like concerts, women and alcohol, even world of warcraft squeezed in on my attention a bit.

But here we have a Canadian anthropologist and metal head who does what i wanted to do, so enjoy his trinp inside the rock and metal world. I might object to some of his classification of the music but that's only a bracket, he´s done a major job at it and deserves much credit!

the song will be

the darkness - I believe in a thing called love 

Music #10: Graveyard last friday, what a show

this friday i went to Mortens, a local joint here in Uddevalla to enjoy Graveyard. A gothenburgband with the roots in the 70´s rock´n´roll era. I antisipated a good show, but man were i wrong, It was a fucking great show!

They started it by blowing up the steam like a steamtrain and then just kept on speeding ahead. the crowd went wild and just followed on the ride. the drummer kept hitting the drums like a whirlwind, looking like the Animal from the muppets behind the drumset.

the singer went on like he had no lungs at all, he just poured his heart out. they went all out for the audience, and the audience went all out for the band. at the last songs the crowd were in extasy! It was one of the better shows i went to in recent years. If they come to a town near you, go see them!

tonights song will be one with graveyard

Graveyard - the siren

Music #9: a rock legend died today

Ronnie Montrose, one of the founding members to the rock band Montrose, wich he started with Sammy Hagar in ´73. Hagar went on to a solocareer after 2 albums and ended up in Van Halen lateron. Montrose went on with their career a couple of more albums, and has played on and off since the 80´s.

Music #8: Tonight I´m off to enjoy Graveyard

Myspace Graveyard

Tonight I´m heading of to the local joint Mortens to enjoy some rock´n´roll and a couple of beers. Entertainers for the evening is Graveyard, a band from gothenburg where a 70´s rock´n´roll wave has popped up with other bands like Horison and Marulk.

so the song this evening will ofcourse be by the band

Graveyard - ain´t fit to live here