…is simply excellent! Now you know. Read more »

I always thought Rage Against the Machine was the best workout music in the world, but Mr Morello & Co just got some fierce competition: Porcupine Tree. For yesterday’s <short> jogging trip I had simply popped a random playlist in my iPod without much thought other than it needed to be somewhat more aggressive than, [...] Read more »

I am REALLY looking forward to seeing Transatlantic in London on May 21st. It’s been 8 1/2 years since I saw them – also in London – on their Bridge Across Forever tour, and that was one of the best concerts I have ever seen. And The Whirlwind is one exquisite piece of music. Read more »

I remember it as if it were yesterday. It was late spring/early summer in 1983 and I was holding Dio’s debut album Holy Diver in my hands for the first time. I had been a huge fan of both Rainbow and Sabbath for several years, but that album really set a new standard for hard [...] Read more »

A couple of videos from a recent gig att Jazzclub Stampen in Stockholm. Magnus Brandell on drums, Claes Andberg on bass and me on guitar. Read more »

On the 9th of November, OddGrooves played a show at Engelen in Stockholm.  Jazz rock band Reform also played there and they were smokin’! The gig went really well and we had a lot of fun. All keyboards were pre-recorded (except for 2 solos that I stumbled through live) and we had my MacBook Pro running [...] Read more »

One of them is fish. And the other two… reside in my new compressor pedal, the Celmo Sardine Can. It sounds wonderful. Read more »

Yesterday evening Nostalgia came to town. Nostalgia in the shape of Steve Lukather, an artist whose guitar playing I have a love/hate relationship to. Why love/hate, you ask? Well, Luke was a major influence when I was in my teens and early 20′s. I learned nearly all of his licks and solos, and as a [...] Read more »

Nostalgia time again! This time it was Tower of Power at the Stockholm Jazz Festival. I have seen them in concert five or six times before, but yesterday it was over ten years since the last time. Smokin’ Hammond player, boring guitarist, Garibaldi completely off beat the first tune and the rest was pretty much [...] Read more »

Yesterday I went back 25 years in time. I was holding the LP cover of Iron Maiden’s Piece of Mind in my hand for the very first time and the sound of Revelations was coming out of the speakers. Pure euphoria. That’s how I felt anyway when Maiden entered the stage at Ullevi, Gothenburg. And [...] Read more »