Beardfish

Some sweet photos 🤩, shot by Johanna Dahlin for Sweden Rock from our gig at Musikhuset Gävle last friday

Rikard here

No, it’s not the whole band’s backline - it’s just MY backline for the gig tomorrow night in the back of my ol’ Mazda 🚘😅 no sleeping in traffic 🙈

We’re looking forward to it and YES: we’re starting a live stream shortly before the gig. Should be around 8:00 pm CET (GMT+2)

OK! OK! We hear ya 🙌 By popular demand we’re doing a live stream of the gig next Friday (June 5th) 🤘 We’ll be back with more info on when, but it’s around 7:00pm Swedish time and it will be here on our page. And yeah, my trusty old pal ARP Pro Soloist is coming to the gig too, cause we’re playing some old classics that she really likes 😉 See ya!

RIP Georg Jojje Wadenius

It’s hard to believe that Jojje is gone. He seemed like one of those guys that would just live on forever, for some reason.. He will of course live on through the music. Thanks to his contributions to rock, pop, jazz and prog, children’s music etcetera, as a composer, guitarist, bass player or singer - he always touched a nerve and he’s on so many of my favourite Swedish albums from the 60’s and 70’s. Pugh Rogefeldt, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Merit Hemmingson (för Guds skull!!)…

There’s a legacy of so much wonderful music and so many wonderful collaborations and contributions to the music scene, both in Sweden and internationally. My fiancée and I went to see him play in Gävle this January and it’s really hard to think that he’s gone now. We both love his music. So much so that when we had a name giving ceremony for our daughter, we asked our friends to sing ”Mitt Lilla Barn” from ”Goda’ Goda’”

I sat at the same table as him once, at a Hansson & Karlsson concert in Sandviken and he was really nice to talk to. I expressed my admiration for his work and especially how much I loved the Made in Sweden albums. I had just found a copy of their ”Live at the Golden Circle” album at that time, so I was raving on about it. But I was also 18 years old then and probably a bit starstruck.

It could be a long, long list of great albums but for me I always come back to ”Where do we begin”, the album he made with the second incarnation of Made in Sweden. It was my first encounter with them and I couldn’t believe how good it was! Jojje noodling away with his famous s**t singing together with Pekka Pohjola on bass and the mighty Tommy Körberg on vocals! Wow!

So when Beardfish were asked once to do a cover of a Swedish prog classic for a compilation album, we chose the song ”Pop Poem” from that particular album and we had a great time trying to make a cool version of what was already one of the coolest tracks to come out of Sweden in the mid 70’s!!

Here’s to you, Mr Wadenius. Well played!

Check this out and focus on the 4th place!
He’s in good company. Peter Gabriel Jethro Tull Van der Graaf Generator Kansas Greg Lake - King Crimson and more.

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