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Finn Schatvet-Riisager

About Me

I started playing guitar when I was 15, and played with different local bands near Oslo: Echo, Saturday, Shuffle, Craft (with Øystein Sevåg), Villblomst, Astralia (which never hit the road, but was quite avant garde). In 1980 I became professional, and worked with "Love"(norwegian band) and "Klima" for some years. Formed "Glass Onion" in -88, moved to Germany in -90, and played with "Second Run" and later "Jazz Krebse". Now I live in Norway again, and play in the bluesband "The Feinschmeckers", with whom I recorded the songs which contains the "5 solos" -mp3........................................................ ........................................................... Please check out my blogs:"Guitar and Bass: Tip of the Week"!

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Member Since: 4/18/2007
Band Members: 5 is a Magic Number: Is still under construction, I play all instruments myself (exept the drums, which come partly from software, partly I hammered them in on my old DX7)

Novemberwine: I played the lead-guitar, Finn Schatvet played the chords.

"5 Solos" was cut out from 5 different songs, recorded in the rehearsal-room in winter 2007 by "the Feinschmeckers"; an Oslo-based bluesband where I play the guitar. Members: Lars Birkelund: Drums. - Eirik Lie: Bass. - Bjørn Lund: Vokals, Guitar and Harmonica. - and me om Guitar. On these excerpts I play the leads and Bjørn plays the rythm-guitar...............

I composed and recorded the song "Weather Support" (inspired by Weather Report) around 20 years ago on a Tascam 8-track reel-to-reel-recorder. Musicians: Me.
Influences: Chick Corea, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Pat Metheny, Al Di Meola, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Joe Beck, Frank Zappa, The Beatles, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Børge Olsen, Emmerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, early Genesis, early Jethro Tull, and and...
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

How sites get hacked---

How sites get hacked---Current mood:  optimistic .. Here's a bulletin I found that sums it up. (see below: "HAVE YOU BENHACKED") Also, many ...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:15:00 GMT

The Musitrone

New Elementary-particle: The Musitrone.                          We have just discovere...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:23:00 GMT

New song

After a tasty dinner with a glass of red wine my beloved Tove sent me up to my studio to write her a song  :-). I wrote and recorded "Novemberwine". Please listen to a short and beautiful gift to...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:47:00 GMT

Guitartip 3: Breathing and music.

Hello Friends.When I listen to other guitarplayers at myspace (and there are lots of great players), I often hear a tendency to play very long sololines. Energetically, a sololine is an outgoing strea...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:00:00 GMT

Guitartip 2: Hammer On in slow motion

1    The finger moves down towards the string. 2    The fingertip touches the string. 3     The fingertip starts pressing the string down (and the st...
Posted by on Wed, 02 May 2007 07:45:00 GMT

Guitar and Bass: Tips for playing

Through many years of playing electric guitar, I have now and then had aha-experiences, which have led to significant improvements in my way of playing the instrument. Normally I have thought some...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:01:00 GMT