hesa’s blog

Bonnie Billy / Will Oldham in Kungälv (Sweden)

Magical night.

Seeing the band live was amazing.

I can’t find words for Will’s music. Will Oldham belongs among these: Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Jeff Tweedy.

Esjbjörn Svensson dead ….

I was shocked to read that the great Swedish Jazz musician/composer Esbjörn Svensson was found dead yesterday (Saturday 14 June 2008). I am not a big Jazz fan, but EST’s  and especially Esbjörn way of hitting the piano keys is truly magic. One of Sweden’s greatest musicians is not with us anymore.

This is indeed a tragedy.

New playlist ‘generator’

I can’t say I am tired of listening to Les Claypool (Primus, Sausage …). But 3 hours in a row made want something else. But how to prevent the same story all over again, bit with another artist. Random mode. Hmmm…. too easy solution.

In amarok I used
the search field and entered whatever poped in to my mind. I don’t know why shaking cam up, but it did. So now I am listening to music with the letters ’shakin’ (no ‘g’) in it. Came up with:

• Shaking the tree - Peter Gabriel
• Shaking and trembling - Steve Reich
• A final shaking - Steve Reich
• Shaking hell - Sonic youth
• Shaking all over - The who

Perhaps a random word generator plugin to amarok…. or getting back to work

Henry Rollins, 21 years later

I went to see Henry Rollins show at Lorensbergsteatern (Gothenburg, Sweden) yesterday.
During the show, which was really great (not everyone thought so* though) I started to think about the last time I saw him live. It was here in Gothenburg as well. 22 years ago. I was 15 years old (old?) and he was 25.

Henry told some great stories about Van Halen, Ozzy and the The Ruts (check ‘em out!) and also some stories from his travels. I miss the rawer energy from the show in 1986, where he talked about the conflict he was in when seeing Bono while walking with his (Henry’s) girlfriend. The fact that he liked his girlfriend and the promise he’d made to his band about what to do when seeing Bono put him in a conflict I wish I could hear him speak about again. During yesterday’s show Henry ranted about Bush, which is always funny. Especially the story about the Mandelas.
*) GP (se), DN (se)

Bush and Mandelas: Bush trodde Mandela var död: “Pinsamt” (se)