A old friend and a important person for the guitarist in the north of Sweden made in the 70´s a booster that everyone wanted and needed. But it was by mouth to mouth branded then, no ads or such things then. So I decided to make a series of " ads for Benty Booster", that was never done...just for fun and also give Benty some credits for being that guitar guy when we grow up.
This person is one of the most intelligent and strange human I have have the pleasure to meet here in life.
I was invited to a Eurovision project in the early days of 2000, and was to early, and one guy was sitting there alone with a laptop, it took around 3 minutes before we found each other big time. After a while the meeting was to start, a bunch of people showed up, and the meeting opened up with: -" Hello, we are here to set the first contact the Catalyst expert Richard Bleasdale to meet Peppe, that will do the graphic parts"
And Richard just smiled and said: -" Yes, we know each other well already!!", and I just said that we do.....the meeting then closed and the manager just don't understand why it was a meeting as we then seems to already be up to everything needed. That was the beginning of wonderful person to work with.
I know from meetings with people around the Catalyst things, and also worked with him, it could be a struggle, big time. I noticed that R had a special opinion on people that thinks they was above us operators, designers etc. But for me, it was just fun and I learned a lot from him.
He did magic with programming the software, we fiddle around ideas and long talks about archaeology , rising up kids, space and theory about time, and in meantime I did graphics. As long the Catalyst system was used, we met at different countries where the Eurovision was happening.
But we stayed in contact long after that, all Plasa shows in UK, LDI shows in US, we met and could continue our discussions on everything, except just mediaservers or software. He was out with Coldplay on tour for some reason, and one day he just knock on my office door here in Stockholm, that evening ended up with Richard on the floor with his new camera, doing macro shots on my feet....and a dinner later when he fall asleep right down the plate at the restaurant , after have filled the table with toothpick covers in a pile..the waiter did give me a very strange eye when we left.....but that dinner talk did cover everything you ever can think of...we just did click , very giving to have discussions with him.
I understand that he been suffer after a stroke for 7 month until he passed away......R, I miss you
My first meet with Thomas was long time ago, around 1978-79, when they was on tour in Norrland and did rent some audio gear from me, and we spend some time together later on in Stockholm when I moved down. At that time I did not know that many people there, and with Rolf Scherrer, a great guitar player that I become friend with, Thomas invited me to play and jam in the studio and just made me feel very welcome in the big city. And we did kept the contact, some years sometime between, but when it happened it was like yesterday, Thomas was such a nice person, one of a kind. And we shared the petrol heads things, old cars and he was very good at weld and fix with that. He was as his instrument, the bass, rock solid person.
It is very sad that Pelle Piano, a person that was a good friend and a magic genius whatever he digged into in the life and the world we both happens to be on in our lives , at the same time!
I am happy and proud to had know him, and it will leave a scar in my heart that he is gone now forever.
Pelle, the musician, the photo genius, the artist, the owner of a strange mind that worked well with my.
The old band, and great and strange memories around that period in the 70´s, fun part in my life.....
some other pics collected on that, but in Swedish Peppe & the Popping Peanuts
Bertil " BB " Grip, my best friend here on my visit here in life, the longtime friend in arms has after long time fighting with illness lost that fight to our big sadness.....
Our time together here was long and great and I not regret a second of that, and hope that he have his Telecaster tuned up there. Our dreams on building the best Telecaster ever, made us start our project blues caster.com and I will carry that rest of my time.
Always remembered, always in our hearts, BB, I miss you very much as I think you know......
