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Serge Spira IV

Rockaphrenia

About Me

It all started to change when Miki moved back to Pori in the end of 2005. We had this band name "Kallio", but since all our bassist candidates were quite busy, we started jamming with me in the bass. We notice that Miki's idea in guitar playing worked better in this line-up. With a considerably long firendship and musical understanding, I also found it easier to catch Olli's beat better than our earlier bassists.

We had searched for a harder sound with Olli for more than two years, but Miki's raging Gibson LP finally turned this into reality. Since the aim and sound was completely different, we also found it necessary to change the band name (year 2006). At that moment, we wanted to tribute our earlier Serge Spira -pre-grunge rock project and take the same name with a new cardinal number.

A gig and a studio visit seem to have clarified our style as a punk and garage influenced rock.

-Jaan 26.6.2007

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/17/2007
Band Website: sergespira.net
Band Members: Jaan Kallio (bass, vocals)
Olli Nuorsaari (drums)
Mika Raekivi (guitar)

Influences: New York Dolls, Nirvana, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Ramones, Hüsker Du, Bad Religion, Therapy?, MC 5, Neil Young, Guns 'n' Roses, Maynard James Keenan, Eddie Cochran, Love, Veli Nuorsaari, Kinks, Serge Spira II, Talking Heads, Undertones, Members
Sounds Like: What does it sound like? Nirvana meets The Members?
Record Label: -
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Rockaphrenia!

Giovanni di Rondo writes: After all this hesitating we have finally agreed(?) to publish our material on web site. The album name is Epäsymmetriaa (Asymmetry) and Olli promised to finalize and pack th...
Posted by Serge Spira IV on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:10:00 PST

Enjoying friday...

good evening,it's been a BIG while since last update here. Don't really know why but anyways, here I am back writing some stream from my brains (because of quite a few beers!) :)Serge Spira IV is stil...
Posted by Serge Spira IV on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:52:00 PST

10 songs mastered!

Righty right me droogas and only friends! I worked 3 hrs at Aki's studio last night and the script for cd seem to work. The balance between live and studio tracks is not optimal one, but some kinda co...
Posted by Serge Spira IV on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:00:00 PST

Motor cycle melodies at Massi Schack

One of the great things in making music in Filnland is a priviledge to play in venues like this one: a winter sports schack just on the edge to the wilderness of West Coast Finland ...
Posted by Serge Spira IV on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:11:00 PST

Art of mastering

GDR writes: Due to summer holidays the cd project proceeds a little bit slower than expected. We have accepted the marvelous mixes of studio demo tracks, chosen the songs and there order in compilatio...
Posted by Serge Spira IV on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:47:00 PST

Back to the beat!

Evening!What's up with you all? Summers been here for awhile and we've been having a little break. Our mixer came back from Germany few days ago. EXCELLENT! Tomorrow's the first rehearsal with our fix...
Posted by Serge Spira IV on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:31:00 PST

CD on its way

GDR writes: Olli told me to pack the mixer for sending it back to DDR or wherever it came from. But I have spent my evening trying to decide which songs to take to a cd which will be releases very soo...
Posted by Serge Spira IV on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:48:00 PST

From Germany with love...

 Current mood: angry Category: Somehow irritated on everything.... Life evening,have you ppl noticed that everytime, when you buy something new from ANY store, you realize after a while (or jus...
Posted by Serge Spira IV on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:25:00 PST

Rehearsal went well

I tried that effect box, but it made me go into panic. I'll return this to shop. We had good discipline with the tempos, agreed to let the couple of most conformist songs to rest for a while, and star...
Posted by Serge Spira IV on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:13:00 PST

Effects and effectivity

GDR writes: I was in Sound City bargaining  a bass effect pedal (sorry my bad English, I hope yours is as bad). Since Miki is all natural, it would a great idea to use en effect in bass for examp...
Posted by Serge Spira IV on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:25:00 PST