Bright Lightning

Music:

Member Since: 28/12/2005
Band Website: recordcompanyguy.blogg.se
Band Members:

Bright Lightning's New album here on Myspace:

New album featured on my Myspace site!

The Tracklisting! 1. All I Wanna Do Is Stay Away 2. Lifetown 3. Taking A Vacation From Me 4 Woman Inside I Love 5. Walking The Streets (for Maria) 6. What’s Goin’ On? 7. The Morning After 8. Time Time 9. The Way She Wears Her Dress 10. We Read The Lefsetz Letters (Back Slappin’ Buddies) 11. Louder Than Love 12. Hangover Sunrise (Whiskey Downed) 13. What?

Feel free to e-mail me at: [email protected]

THE BAND MEMBERS:

Bright Lightning - vox, acoustic guitar, feedback guitars & other stuff

Sami Kuoppamäki - drums & percussion

Petri Peevo - electric guitar, acoustic 6 &12 string guitar, pedal steel appears courtesy of The Flaming Sideburns

Lauri Murtomaa - electric guitar courtesy of Clifters

Joakim Jähnke - bass

except tracks 2 & 5 the band is: Bright Lightning vox; Gunnar Danielsson - guitars, backing vox, Lars Tengroth - electric guitars, Thomas Hedqvist - progamming & backing vox, Joakim Jähnke - bass, Sammi Kuoppamäki - drums
tracks 7 & 10 The Band is: Bright Lightning - vox, L. Tengroth - acoustic/electric guitars, J. Jähnke - bass, F. Söderström - drums, J. Green - backing vox, mandolin, dobro

The Production team:

Recorded and produced by Virpi Immonen at Seawolf Studios, Suomenlinna, Finland. Production coordination by Sami Kuoppamäki

Except: Track 2 & 5 originally produced by Thomas Hedqvist, in Uppsala, Sweden with new drum tracks done at Seawolf Studios; Tracks 7 & 10 recorded, engineered, mixed & mastered at The Farm, Bälinge, Sweden by Johan Prüts. Track 7 produced Johan Prüts & J. Green; Track 10 produced by Bright Lightning and J.Green.

All songs mixed by Antto Tuomainen at Rush Hair Studios, Tampere, Finland; Except Tracks 7 & 10 mixed by Johan Prüts at The Farm Bällinge, Sweden; new mixes of tracks 4 & 12 mixed by Alecs Redes at ISV Studios in Bucharest - www.myspace.com/alecsredes. Album tracks mastered and sequenced by Christoffer Stannow at Cosmos, Stockholm; premastering on tracks 4, 12 Alec Redes at ISV Studio, Bucharest, Romania www.isv.ro

Photography by Ville Juurikkala www.villejuurikkala.com Photo assistant: Jarkko Tiitinen

Styling/make up by Tarja Saikkonen www.gupla.com All fotos taken at Lake Bodom, Espoo, Finland on a cold windy autumn day September 9, 2006

Cover design by Jani Rämö www.perfectsound.fi

Credits:

All songs published by Cloud Machine Music & Entertainment except: “Morning After” - Black Heart Music; “Taking A Vacation From Me”, “Hangover Sunrise (Whiskey Downed)” - Cloud Machine Music & Ent/Marsongs Publishing and “We Read The Leftsetz Letters” - Cloud Machine Music/Black Heart Music.

Special Guest:

Maria Hänninen - backing vocals & harmonies on Tracks 6, 8, 9, 12, 13 Appears courtesy of Extra Virgin

Marko Saaresto - Vocals and harmonies on Taking A Vacation From Me appears courtesy of Poets Of the Fall and Sam Agency

Sammy Aaltonnen - Duet vocals on Track 6 & backing vocals and screams on Track 12 Appears courtesy of Private Line and Bad Habits Records/King Foo Entertainment

Elias Logren - backing vocals on Tracks 6 and 12. Appears courtesy of Private Line and Bad Habits Records/King Foo Entertainment

Matthau Mikonoja - backing vox on Tracks 1, 12, 13, 14 Appears courtesy of Bloodpit and Merceedees Records

Conny Bloom - guitar solos on Hangover Sunrise (Whiskey Downed) Appears courtesy of Wolfgang Records

Milla Palovaara - Backing vox on Tracks 4 & 8 Appears Courtesy of Shake/Thee Ultra Bimboos

Linda Malmström - backing vox on The Morning After

Teijo Tikkanen - Piano on Track 1 and Organ & String programming on Track 3

Masterstroke (Niko Rauhala, Markus Kekoni, Jussi Kulomaa, Janne Juutinen, Marko Kolehmainen) - backing stadium yeah-yeah-yeah vocals on Track 6 Appears courtesy of Dynamic Arts Records

Maria Paattiniemi & Tommi Muhli - backing stadium yeah-yeah-yeah vocals on Track 6 Appears courtesy of Playground Music Scandinavia

Jussi Kulomaa - keyboards on What? Appears courtesy of Dynamic Arts Records

THANK YOU's!

THANK YOU’s to Virpi Immonen (Pomo!) for a really fun summer at Seawolf Studios for being a part of the new album. A Thousand thanks to all the musicians and special guest for taking part in helping me rrrrrrrROCK!: Marko of Poets Of The Fall, Maria of Extra Virgin, Milla of Shake/Thee Ultra Bimboos, Sammy and Elias of Private Line, Matthau formerly of Bloodpit, Conny Bloom of Hanoi Rocks (Your generosity is overwhelming!)

Ice-cold thanks to Ville, Tarja and Jarkko for keeping me in the cold water of Lake Bodom for a wonderfully invigorating photo-shoot. Long time thank you to: Peter Lemarc for supportive brutal truth, RESPECT! Further thanks to: Jonas Sjöström, Lars Tengroth, Tomas Sunmo, Thomas Hedqvist, Ben Laski, Karin Cloud, Peter Lindholm, Joakim Jähnke, Perry Persoff, Andy Zipfel, Stefan Malmquist for the “Rubbad Utter” title and Liselotte Bohlin (my biggest fan!).

Thanks to all my friends and colleagues at Playground Music Scandinavia especially Tom Pannula and the great Finnish office staff for connecting me to a vast amount of talent swelling within Finland’s borders; Paulina the Queen of the Finnish Music Industry! Tommi and Kari at Hype Records for the tip! Antto Tuomainen for the mix! The J, Gregor James, J. Green and Johan Pruts for stepping up! Thank you my dear friends: Andrei, Olga, Alexander and Oksana at Soyuz/Dance Paradise/Soyuz in Russia for releasing my music; Vadim, Sergey and Odyssey officie staff; Antonis in Greece; Ovidiu at Nova Music in Rumania; Matamura in Japan!

To all friends on myspace and facebook and warm thanks to my family in Sweden and in the USA.

And last but not least big hugs and thanks to my lovely wife Maria and all my children: Kristina, Zeph, James, Angelica, Ezra and Horatio-Tiger for your sweet love, inspiration, patience and for lovin’ your crazy daddy...

Bright Lightning uses Epiphone Sheraton electric guitar, Gibson acoustic guitar and 501 jeans. Seawolfstudios uses Premier drums and Paiste Symbals.

“Dare To Fail to Succeed!” This is my life’s motto.. I have worked in the music industry for many years. It is a rare event in ones life to achieve a dream that one thought had past them by. Tack så mycket! Kittos!

Bright Lightning, Suomenlinna, Finland September 9, 2006

Influences: Hear me out! I love music. All kinds although I do lean towards alt-country, country folk and heavy rock. But I can listen to Byron Kingsley when i want to dance and even death metal or punk if the urge arises... All music has its place and I enjoy it all but some of my heros are: Chris Knight, Steve Earle, Shelby Lynn, Hank Williams I-II-III, Sonic Youth, Jesus & Mary Chain, Jon Spencer, Nick Cave, Patsy Cline, Chip Taylor, Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Jason & The Scorchers, Uncle Tupelo, Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Marie McKee, Green On Red, Gun Club, Michael Smotherman. Springsteen, The Boxmasters, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Johnny Horton, Buddy Miller, Dean Miller, Roger Miller, Slobberbone, Reckless Kelly, Moby, Fatboy Slim, Nick Lowe, The Long Ryders, Chris Bailey, REM, Husker Du, Willie Nelson and so many others newley found here on myspace. It is the motherload of music and I am enjoying the goldmine strike!!!!
Sounds Like: Rock-Pop-Country
Record Label: Stormstreet Records/Playground Music Scandinavia
Type of Label: Indie