Crazy Swedish guitarist, that has been playing since 1975,
and still can’t seem to stop...
I was born in November 1968, in Sweden. I started to play the guitar at the age of seven, when I got my first acoustic guitar, and my older stepbrother taught me some rock’n’roll riffs. Since then I have been playing guitar almost every day of my life, but I didn’t really start to practice before I was all grown up. When I was around twelve or thirteen I got my first electric guitar, a Duke, and a old amp that was probably manufactured in the fifties, at least it looked that old. I don’t remember the name, or even if it had one, of the amp. I only played chords, goofed around trying to make strange sounds, and I played the rock’n’roll riffs I was taught earlier (driving my family nuts) up until I was around sixteen. At that age I started to explore the soloing world, and I was extremely bad at it, but I had fun. I didn’t learn any form of scale or music theory (besides new chords) before I was at least twenty years old. Oh, if you haven’t figured it out already, I’m self taught, and I did it all the wrong way...
I have been active in bands since the early eighties. Mostly power metal, heavy metal, trash, speed and hardrock bands. But also pop, folk and experimental music. The guitar isn’t my only instrument, I have also been a bass player in a few bands, and I really like the bass as an instrument. You can’t play a more thankful instrument. I have also been trying the life as a drummer some, but I’m not very good at it. I think you need to be a special kind of person to become a good drummer…
Besides this solo project I also play guitar in Gallows End, a Swedish Metal band with a bunch of great musicians. If you want to have a listen head over to the band profile here on Myspace, it’s the first one listed in my top friends below.
