EASY ACTION

IT ALL STARTED OUT with a fair amount of pre gig whiskey in a tour bus outside a venue in a small town somewhere in Sweden. KEE MARCELLO and ALEX TYRONE were on tour with the hugely successful punkpop/teeny act NOICE, but scheming the future of glam rock in the back of the bands transportation. ”-It’s gonna be the biggest fucking glam act ever!” they squealed as they were slamming down the cheap scotch from plastic cups. ….. ”-That’s the guy!” Alex said, pointing at a bloke with long pitch black hair and a tattoo of indian feathers, walking down the stairs into the bar with an almost royal posture. They were hanging at the RITZ, the main hangout for rockers in Stockholm in the early 80’s, in pursue of a lead singer and other members to their new band project. ….. The guy with the feather tattoo was ZINNY ZAN, former drummer of the NYMPHOMANIACS (with MIKE MONROE and ANDY McCOY, whom later went on to form HANOI ROCKS), and he was also looking for people to start a band with.
….. As they were looking for a drummer, an audition was set for GYP CASINO, but he got stuck with some Finnish chicks smoking PCP on a roof top somewhere in the projects and stood them up. NOICE drummer FREDDIE VON GERBER was recording a solo album when the three went to the studio to ask him to join the band. When they finally were able to cut their way through the massive wall of hashish fog in the studio and located him in the haze, he happily accepted their offer.….. Zinny’s friend DANNY WILDE completed the lineup. The audition took place in a park in central Stockholm with a couple of guitars, and couple of more beers. He was later replaced by Chris Lynn, who had quite a reputation as the great guitar player in the band B-FILMS. ….. The bands manager, SANJI TANDAN, presented them to Legendary founder and president of Warner label SIRE, SEYMOUR STEIN, (who had signed Internationally acclaimed acts like the Ramones, Talking Heads, Pretenders and Madonna) and he offered them a for the time historical record deal that made Easy Action the first hard rock act from Sweden to join the roster of a major US label. ….. EASY ACTION left a historical imprint in the Scandinavian rock scene and achieved worldwide cult status.
The rest is Swedish music history. After Easy Action split up, Alex went on to form Sha-boom and earned big success in Scandinavia. Zinny went on to join Shotgun Messiah and moved to America, where they sold 500.000 copies of their first album. Kee made one more album with Easy Action before joining the by then world famous band Europe, where he earned world wide success and a reputation as one of the best guitar players in the world!
Now, in 2008 Easy Action is re-united, and with a few surprises up their sleeve. Stick around..
.. SWEDEN ROCK 2006 Photos by Helena Larsson ..