Solid Ground

SOLID GROUND was formed in 1974. The members came from other band projects. Anders Berge and Gösta Hjelmqvist was earlier playing in a band called 4-ever, who played more proggresiv rock with lyrics written in Swedish. However they wanted to start something new and heavier, so they started looking for a bass and sologuitarist. After they had tried some bassguitarists, they came in contact with Peter Eklund who had finished job in another band. They realised immediately that this was the bassplayer they wanted. Two months later they came in contact with Björn Uhr, who they had known for a while. They asked him if he wanted to join the band, and so they become the SOLID GROUND. The band become Sweden’s heaviest band during the mid Seventies. Solid Ground signed up to SCAM records. A label owned by the former Violents and Hepstars member Hazze Östlund.In 1975 the band played a lot of gigs around the Stockhholm area, and also some places outside Stockholm. They also recorded their first single record, with the two tracks: “Tell me” and “My song”.In January 1976 they recorded their album:”Made in rock”. The tracks on the record were recorded in only one day. Two days later they came back to the studio for the final mixing. For many reasons, the record didn’t sell quite well, and finally when the guys was called for their dutys in the army, they decided to quit the band.In 1991 the Mellotronen label asked the band, if they could release the album on cd. Suddenly after the CD release, the band got questions from rockers all ower the world. In 1996 as Anders became 40 they played together And in June 2004 the original members decided to start the band again.In September 2005 Kristian Andrén was added to the lineup to take the band to the next level, Kristian is best known for his time in different bands as. Tad Morose, Memento Mori, Street Talk, Fifith Reason and Wuthering Heights.The band was beginning to write and rehearse som new material to see where they could take it, suddenly they had ended up with four new songs as bonus tracks on the long awaited remastered version of "Made In Rock" that was released in time to record company "Mellotronen" had it..s 20:th anniversary. The band also did their first live gig as a whole band in 31 years, the band were big time surprised of the response they achieved. In june 2007 Solid Ground was attending at the mighty Sweden Rock Festival, the biggest rock festival in sweden and the band did a great show for the crowd. Drummer Anders Berge was replaced in early ..08 by drummer ace Martin "Maggan" Larsson, and the band achieved even a bigger response as they attended at Mellotronens 21:th anneversary and Martin is one of the finest rock drummers in sweden. The guys was really showing what it..s all about!!!!