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Pekka

pekkaranta

About Me

Bassist, almost passable guitarist, frustrated/annoying drummer and wannabe synth knob twiddler. No singing, thankfully.

Bands include Blue Trash , Crust and some other projects.

My record collection

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anas Clypeata a.k.a. Lapasorsa

Music:

Cheap Trick, Todd Rundgren, King Crimson, Free, Wigwam, Pekka Pohjola, Jellyfish, Jason Falkner, David Sancious, John Martyn, The Who, John Sloman, Doug Rauch, American Music Club, The Posies, Warren Zevon, Roy Harper, David Crosby, The Tubes, Talk Talk, Genesis, Patto, The Police, Jukka Gustavson, SBB, Max Webster, Wire, Frank Zappa, Terry Reid, Judee Sill, 10CC, The Replacements, Hüsker Dü, Rush, Crack The Sky, Rickie Lee Jones, Led Zeppelin, Glenn Hughes, Neil Young, Univers Zero, Magma, Queen, Armageddon, Roxy Music, Big Star, Blue Öyster Cult, Tommy Bolin, Santana, Bill Bruford, The Raspberries, Upi Sorvali, The Pursuit Of Happiness, Joni Mitchell, Quatermass, Shawn Phillips, Motorpsycho, Joe Walsh, Kevin Gilbert, It Bites, Kauko Röyhkä, Pearl Jam, Peter Gabriel, National Health, Siberia, Anssi Tikanmäki, The Long Ryders, Saga, The Byrds, FM (Canada), Nash The Slash, Ben Mink, Prince, John McLaughlin, Lenny White, Michael Shrieve, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tori Amos, Slade, Status Quo, Passport, Killing Joke, Peter Hammill, Van Der Graaf Generator, Stevie Wonder, Yes, Emitt Rhodes, Eric Matthews, Devo, The dB's, Let's Active, Stewart Copeland, Klark Kent, Golden Earring, Gentle Giant, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The Smiths, The Church, XTC, Wilco, Neu!, Procol Harum, The Move, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Aerosmith, Montrose, Camel, Absoluuttinen Nollapiste, The Band, Betty Davis, Ben Folds Five, Bluesounds, Buzzcocks, Brian Eno, Cactus, Cardiacs, NoMeansNo, Hatfield & The North, Chic, Neil Finn, Split Enz, Family, Godley & Creme, Supertramp, John Greaves, Guided By Voices, Robyn Hitchcock, Nick Lowe, Jethro Tull, Manfred Mann Chapter III, Motörhead, Van Morrison, Nazareth, The Muffins, Jim O'Rourke, Rufus Wainwright, Television, Van Halen, Robin Trower, UK, Thin Lizzy, The Stranglers, David Sylvian, Samla Mammas Manna, R.E.M., Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, AC/DC, The Black Crowes, Little Feat, Caravan, The Clash, ELO, Greenslade, Ian Hunter, Phil Manzanera, John Gustafson, Parliament, Sonic Youth, Spirit, Sparks, Squeeze, Ralph Towner, Steely Dan, Robin Trower, ZZ Top, Mont Campbell, Mark Nauseef etc.

My Blog

New song

Clever little pun there 'cause The Who also had a song called New Song on Who Are You (1978) which strangely enough included a song called Had Enough which has nothing to do with my new profile song w...
Posted by Pekka on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:44:00 PST

The Replacements revisited

This "revisited" theme might get a bit tiresome but I can't come up with anything else at the moment and who cares anyway? There's a reason (or reasons) why I chose Alex Chilton by The Replacements . ...
Posted by Pekka on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:34:00 PST

AWATS revisited

Revisited because if I'm not terribly mistaken I once featured another song from this trippy album. A Wizard, A True Star is a classic 1973 Todd Rundgren prog-soul-hard rock trip which this trippy son...
Posted by Pekka on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:09:00 PST

Starship troopin’

I had played a bass for a year or so and had became quite obsessed with a Rickenbacker bass guitar, particulary the model 4001 or 4003. I didn’t know anything about those compared to what I know...
Posted by Pekka on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:14:00 PST

Kevin Gilbert revisited

It's almost a year ago when I finally decided to give Kevin Gilbert's music a go. "Instantly hooked" is a cliche but I was. I was also whipping myself 'cause I had read about Gilbert's greatness since...
Posted by Pekka on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:32:00 PST

Jeff Buckley

It was late spring '98 when I bought Jeff Buckley's Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk. I had read some articles and heard some songs off Grace but never really digged deeper. Next thing I learned h...
Posted by Pekka on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:33:00 PST

Recent finds and revelations

OK, the profile song changed as I promised and it is yet another song by Wire. As I was searching for the promised (and I’m sure very keenly anticipated) Outdoor Miner and bumbed into Map Ref......
Posted by Pekka on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:06:00 PST

Wired

After many days of listening to Nucleus and post-Wyatt Soft Machine (which was better than I remembered, especially Bundles featuring Allan Holdsworth) I needed a change and decided to listen to one o...
Posted by Pekka on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:07:00 PST

All Downhill From Here

Do not draw any conclusions from the title (New Year coming etc.). I first heard this song on an UNCUT sampler cd and immediately bought Jim O'Rourke's Insignificance a.k.a one of the best releases fr...
Posted by Pekka on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:55:00 PST

The Soft Boys revisited!

No, I don't wanna destroy anybody, not even you. It's just a great song from the classic Underwater Moonlight (1980) and 'cause today I finally  got Robyn Hitchcock's first solo album Black Snake...
Posted by Pekka on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:05:00 PST