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About Me

Update 4:th Dec 2007: ************************************************************ ***** Mats FrÃ¥nlund, plays mostly guitars, bass and sings. Began playing electric guitar in mid 70Â´s, experimenting with sound-on-sound on an old reel-to-reel tape player, then -78-80 in a trio, Mare Con Gelatum, playing improvised hangover-instrumentals, in early 80Â´s joined a local band, Knighterrant, and later formed Natural Force, playing Heavy Metal or Hard Rock, also some improvised stuff with Olga's Bakdel and Uka Mallon & FÃ¥lla FÃ¶llÃ¶, began extensive recording at home, as Foppenwulf, and later with friends as The Fella's In The Cellar and later The Rolling Beforeskins, occasional recording and gigs throughout the 80Â´s and early 90Â´s with M.T. Bottle Band and Nathan Force Band, began recording on my own and with friends again, sold my electric guitars and amp in Â´96 (cash problems!!) and focused on acoustic steel-string for a while. In 2001 I had electric guitar & amp again, I was living near Malmoe and began playing in a blues band for a year or so. Then I met a beautiful woman and followed her to Gothenburg. A couple of moves later we now rent a house in Axvall, in the wild west of SkÃ¶vde. ************************************************************ ******

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/25/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/matsfranlund
Band Members: Mats FrÃ¥nlund: Guitars, slide guitar, vocals, bass. I also arrange, record and produce my own stuff. Guitars: Washburn Falcon 1981 (w. awsome Tonerider PU's and series/parallell/single-coil switches), Line6 Variax 300, Tradition G10 "Strat" (under modding). Amps: ORANGE TINY TERROR (experimenting with various preamp valves) plus Orange PPC112 1X12 box (now with Celestion G12S 50). LANEY TF200 1X12 combo (Celestion V30) modded by Tommy Folkesson, sounds very good!
Since March 2007 I'm doin' guitar/vocals with BLUE ROCKS, a blues/rock band based in Stenstorp.
Pictures from our gig at GrÃ¶na Lund in Lerdala!
Put the pointer at a picture to stop the slider and read the caption!
Influences: Everything, I think. Filtered through my humble self...
Sounds Like: ...an ugly bag of water.
Record Label: "The Liquid Man" No, unsigned at last :-D
Type of Label: None

My Blog

BLUE ROCKS BEST GIG!!!

Last nights gig was the most fun and rewarding gig we've had to this date! A fantastic crowd of "raggare" (people who loves american cars preferably from the 50's and 60's, and of course they lo...
Posted by Mats Frånlund on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:38:00 PST

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Just watch this movie on the site or download it!
Posted by Mats Frånlund on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:23:00 PST

New confirmed gig!

BLUE ROCKS got another gig coming up, this time Saturday July 12:th at Gröna Lund in Lerdala! It's gonna be an open air gig supporting three or four other bands.We're currently rehearsing new songs fo...
Posted by Mats Frånlund on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:00:00 PST

Upcoming unconfirmed gig dates

Blue Rocks got some more unconfirmed gig dates in July at Gröna Lund, Lerdala and in Uddevalla later this summer. Maybe also in Falköping at some pubs during a festival. I'll be back on this when I kn...
Posted by Mats Frånlund on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:03:00 PST

New bassplayer, first rehearsal!

Yesterday we rehearsed with 26 year old Dennis on bass, a pretty laidback and cool guy. He impressed us with his playing and sound, also his ability to learn the songs. Dennis is raised on hard ...
Posted by Mats Frånlund on Sun, 25 May 2008 06:59:00 PST

Outta bass player!

Sadly, Daniel (bass) will leave Blue Rocks prior to our gig in Stenstorp. It has been difficult for him to find time to rehearse with the band lately, and we just couldn't have it that way. So now we'...
Posted by Mats Frånlund on Tue, 20 May 2008 02:02:00 PST

http://etc.se/

Vi har ingen morgontidning längre, de vi prövat tyckte vi var mest yta, saknade fömåga att ifrågasätta och strök medhårs. Vi har i stället ETC, som utkommer med två tidningar på fredagar och har bl.a....
Posted by Mats Frånlund on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:16:00 PST

Special THANK YOU!...

...goes to Björn Mathson at Mathsons Musik in Skövde who did a great job running the sound in Stenstorp. And went back and forth to Skövde a couple of times to get the mikes and cables we needed. And ...
Posted by Mats Frånlund on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:19:00 PST

Blue Rocks 1:st gig!

Live in Stenstorp 1:st Dec 2007!Arranged by ourselves (well, I think Jimmy, Camilla and Urban did most of the work) and attended by a modest crowd of c:a 30 friends, relatives and neighbours, we playe...
Posted by Mats Frånlund on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:39:00 PST

Tradition G10

As the interested electronic tech(hmm...) I am I took it apart and modified some parts to my liking. And did some humm canceling job. I also replaced the original white microphone covers and knobs wit...
Posted by Mats Frånlund on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:42:00 PST