I'm just a guitar playing dude from the darkest "rectum" of Finland. It's just me and my crappy home recording gear..: a Strat with no tremolo arm (all string bendings done using fingers only), Fame Forum IV (my new guitar, handmade in Europe, no tremolo arm here), Ibanez SZ520FM-TKS (no tremolo arm here either), Hamer XT Sunburst Archtop Quilt (no trem. arm), Behringer V-Amp2, Fender Precision copy bassguitar and my computer with some audio recording software
Special thanks goes to my good friend, ex bandmate Heto for borrowing me his Kick-Ass '68 Fender Precision bass earlier... now I got a bass of my own, ha!
Recording my own "beer -influenced" stuff since 1985..I think..... so don't take my recordings too seriously as they were originally recorded just for my own fun. I know there's some lousy playing in some parts of the songs but I don't give a f**k! Not too much retakes as this is pure "fun in mind" -kinda stuff ;)
By the way, I don't use that much beer anymore for my new upcoming recordings, so there's no more excuses if they suck...hahahaa..
I try to take my songwriting and playing more seriously in the future, so no more sloppy, crappy and who cares -playing style next time I do something new..... or at least that's what I say now, hahaha.. u never know though if I crack a beer and hit the recording button, D'OH! ;) ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- I had my guitar hanging on the wall for about 9 years for family reasons (yea, I just counted the years right) , but all my good friends encouraged me to pick it up again and now I'm catching up all the wasted years. So, here I am, back in business again and it feels soooo damn good to play again ;) Now I wish I had never stopped playing back then but what's done is done. I'm doin' pretty good on catching up, so it won't be long until I'm playing the way I played at my best back in the day, hell yeah!!! ------------------------------------------------------------ -----
I'm also a member (leadguitarist) of a Finnish AC/DC -coverband VV/TV. Yeah, I know playing in a coverband sucks but at least it's a lot of fun sometimes...yep, honestly it really is! Check our band out here with total 4 AC/DC -coversongs to listen to --- http://www.myspace.com/vvtv
I've been playing in many different hard rock bands other than VV/TV and I like playing a LOT heavier stuff than VV/TV too. I've got another page made here as well (http://www.myspace.com/lodez) but this is my "official" page for my own music from now-on ;-)
I remember starting to play at the age of 11...with a piece of shit cheap acoustic guitar with strings set up so high it made my hand hurt! It was no fun playing it, believe me, so I got my first electric guitar, a Les Paul copy a couple of years later. I used to play my guitar through old 50's made tuberadios when I was a kid before I could afford an amp, hahaha.. The sound was pure Dynamite ;-) I got some pretty nasty electric shocks too from the tuberadios back then.. My first "real" guitar-amp was Fender Vibrolux Reverb, a 45W tube combo. It didn't take long for me to realize that I needed more balls and watts so a couple of other guitar and bass combos later I bought an old 100W Laney Clipp tube-head made in the 70's with a Marshall 4X12" cabinet, hehehe. After that things got rocking 'n rolling a lot better for me and of course I've had a bunch of different guitars (good and bad) and amps since that. I miss most my old 50W Marshall tubehead and ADA MP-1 tube preamp...
I had some cool experience of teaching some guitar playing about 12-13 years ago to a bunch of teen rockers, haha! That was really cool! I would like to do that again some day. As it comes to my guitarplaying, I'm selftaught, so it helped me a lot to teach the others cuz I knew what was important to learn first without spending a long time figuring out what to do with a guitar, hehe
I'm planning to form a new band some day in the near future and no coversongs allowed this time, hell yeah!
This is The Red Peters Show 2007 Song of the Year!!! For real!!! Sons Of Butcher! Yes, they won!!! Congrats guys!!! HAHAHAHAHA... I still call this The Best and Most Artistic song EVER!
I have this song as a ringtone in my cellphone, haha.. had some embarrassing moments in public places with it a few times, LOL
