I started playing piano at age 5. But soon I changed to guitar. First band – Little Angelo & his Hula Rockers, a week later named Sonny Boy Horton & Lonesome Drifters - formed 1978. The band performed at school parties. Soon the band was named again – Boppin' Pete & his Lonesome Drifters. The band get double bass 1979. In the early years the band was playing pure and fast rock-a-billy.1981 Johnny Flight (founder of Rebel label) saw the band playing in a qualifying round of rock-king games and offer them a recording contract – which Pete and the boys agreed. The name of the band was in first Ep Boppin' Pete & Texas Rangers but was soon changed again, this time to Boppin' Pete Trio. Under that name the band recorded 1981another EP and LP Raining and Storming.
The band was wellknown of furious live acts and example in Sweden at Skara 1981, in the local American Car Show, they get 13 encores in one go!
The music of the band was directed in those times more to rock and roll and rhythm and blues. The band get the pianist Mitja Tuurala and it was named again Boppin' Pete & his Trio and again to Big Pete’s Bolt which name the band used when they recorded the second album 1983.I made later one single – Visions in the dark/Dying love 1985 – and the song won the record jury, one very favourite tv-program in Finnish television. In late eighties till the end of century I did quite many gigs with different combinations.I formed a new band with old drummer – the combo was now called Boppin' Pete & Holy Big Bang. The band recorded first 2001 a 4 song ep called Symphony no 451 in F-flat as a test of own living room studio. The EP’s opening track Phoenix was written as a tribute to famous author Ray Bradbury and his book Farenheit 451! Next the band recorded (spring 2002) hole long play named Thunder Moon and little later (autumn 2002) there we released also another EP Thunder Moon a little bit of history repeating.
Now the band works with new material with no hurry ……….. and the story continues ……..
