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Bjorn Hellman

Bjorn Hellman - How many lives more to do, until you remember?

About Me

Almost 40 years (living in Sweden) - have been playing guitars for 20 years, now I'm focusing on pedalsteel - mostly C6. I also play some contrabass also. I train Banjo for fun...
Right now sliding some strings with the Toneheroes. But do stand-in gigs if you wish, just ask. Played alot of gigs 2007 with blazing sevens (neo-rockabilly).
I've been playin mostly rockabilly/hillbilly-guitar over the years. Even on steelguitar I'm doing mostly oldstyle stuff - therefore the C6 stuff, bouncy n fearless skidding over the strings are my game!
Gigs booked:
No gigs booked, just pick up you e-mail!
Over the years I have been playin with:
Saturn Girl n the Toneheroes
Mainstreet Stompers
Blazing sevens
High Jacks
Richard Swanström
Orville Nash
Go Getters
Unkool Hillbillys
J'Jivers
Spinout Quartet
Terry n the Spinout Trio
Fat Cats
Raw Hide
My common mailadress is [email protected]
Videoclip from my 40 anniv party - part 1
40s birthday party jam part 2!
C6 boogie woogie licks below
Testing a fender Bassman 250 W below!
Varta 1.5V battery vs Nashville Sound steel bar
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Cry cry cry clip
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Love me to pieces - clip
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Bassman 59 pedal on a real bassman!!!

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Tests a boss '59 bassman pedal

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GFI steel clips

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foggy banjo

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lets elope

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Scalextric skiddin'
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My Interests

vintage card games, vintage aircrafts like WWI crafts, New Age theories, Spirit world, Healing, Brittish motorbikes, AMC cars, Computing, Darts, snooker...

My drunken houserules of Poker:
1. all pays an ante in the beginning (a tenth of the max bid)
2. There is a maximum bid. The other players can only call or fold if someone reaches that amount...
3. If someone raises all old bids are forgotten!!!!!! This keeps it simple to remember when drunk. All players can have different amount of money in the pot :)
Example: player1 bids 1 dollars in a max 10 dollar game. Player2 calls. Player 3 raises n put 3 dollars in the pot. To call player1 also puts 3 dollars in the pot. Player2 raises n puts 10 dollars in the pot (max). player3 folds and Player1 calls n puts 10 dollars in the pot. - player 1 have put a total 14 dollars in the pot, Player 2 only 11!!!

I'd like to meet:

Some friends, the time is mostly in the family area...

Music:

Plays Pedalsteel, guitar, learns banjo and contrabass. I compose songs. Mainly I started listen to surf about the age of 3 - got some records and a portable vinylplayer in '71. Later in life I listened to rockabilly/rocknroll, country and speed heavy metal.

Movies:

American grafitti... The Hidden... Jean D'arc (US version, havn't seen the french one)... Killer Clowns from outer space...

Television:

Space 1999 - my mom let me see this at age 5 in the early 70's when it came to Sweden- since then this serie has always been my cult serie.Right now my favorite is TORCHWOOD from BBC. If you skip the gay part about captain Jack, there are similarities to my personality with that character. I just don't show 'em as much today - who am I becoming?

Books:

Michael Moorecook and Michael Moore (similar names... funny...)

Heroes:

In several aspects (not all) Michael Moore Morgan Spurlock also...Mike Grell... the best cartoonist in my taste!

My Blog

Relativity - be a young blade if you can

Most people seemed to fear the competition when going to the steel guitar convention... People didn't want to let the sharpest knives in the drawer to show themselfes - 'It's no competition' the opini...
Posted by Bjorn Hellman on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:51:00 PST

2 latest movies

The 2 lastest movies was filmed at china station, handen, Stockholm. I was playing E9 in the band called Toneheroes (Saturn Girl in front) - I'm no E9 player but survived I think. We had a nice e...
Posted by Bjorn Hellman on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:06:00 PST

first consert

On saturday it's Saturn Girl n the Toneheroes first consert! In sthlm , handen, china station Also laura lee n the covercruisers
Posted by Bjorn Hellman on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:59:00 PST

New compilation

The Band; Nina n the Mainstreet Stompers, will be addending 5 songs on a compilation cd for a car cruising this summer... I have recorded 4 of the songs in a retrostyle sound.
Posted by Bjorn Hellman on Sat, 27 May 2006 10:59:00 PST