Long time friend gone.....

 A person that I will miss more then I maybe can handle.......

A man that was a very important person in my life....Brasse, friend, drummer, a nice soul!

The Benty Booster ads from the 70´s....

A tribute to Benty that passed away after a long time fighting cancer , rest in peace my friend! 

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. 

They are now at the Guitar Museum in Umeå Sweden, 

Benty himself at his shop, Strängar & Sånt in Umeå in the 70´s

Again a friend left this world...

 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

Another friend has left us

 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.

Hope we meet again, wherever we will be after our time here, hopefully a great place...........

Another important person has left us, Pelle Piano ,a genius in my mind

 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.

Pelle, I am sure that where you are now, you will do magic again......

Missed and never forgotten.....

A friend, a special person that been a big part of my time here in life, has left us to early.

His amazing mind of ideas made us friends, in good times and in bad times.

I will miss you very much, I hope that you know that.........

 

poster tremolo brothers

 

the Peppe & the Popping Peanuts

 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

My best friend is gone

 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......

To choose one......

Posing with guitar

 Kee Marcello with Gibson Art-O-Matic guitar

Vernissage 2014 Stockholm April

Gallery Draken 12-24 April Gamla Stan Stockholm Welcome for a visit at Österlånggatan 25 for a view of the artworks, will be there myself some moments and will be happy to tell you and show you the guitars and artwork. Also it will be 23-24 a Avecíssage until 21.00

A custom artwork for a good friend and very skilled guitarplayer

A guitar work, Kee Marcellos beloved Gibson Les Paul designed to fit him also in a artistic look. I think the shattered white pattern and his star that is used in his covers and art was fitting well, also a customized perloid inlays design was added to make it complete.

also seem is when Kee used another of my Gibson Art Guitars at Atelier, and one of the Tele´s at Fuzz

TrueTemperament extra

My beloved mother is not around any more....

I had a mother that was one of a kind, I really do miss her and her great spirit...Always a smile and I always continue to be her little boy! A was happy that she was able to be "old granny" and had time to see her great- grandchild getting one year old.

Chris and a guitar

A perfect match, a good looking guy with a good looking guitar.... Great Country Rock guy that just released his debut album, Chris Lindberg. Check him out!!

A absolut lounge evening....

Backa Hans, a legend a a very nice man, more solid ground is hard to find....

Kee, as a Gibson man he needs to play Gibson...

Some deeper looks into the exposed guitars and paintings....
 photos by Hasse Linden

photos by Anders Gerdlind

Fuzz gGuitar show 5-6 May Gothenburg

Hope to see you there.........

Great first day, people seems interested in this on a guitar show, I´m very suprised since I expected a more mellow flow in my corner, my old and dear friends Anders and Kee is playing a little for getting people in the right mode!

Yes,.....as it should be, the show ended up in a purchase of a wish....

Me, Anders Glantz and Jesper on the fuzz show

The Jesper / Peppe project

Will at the same time invite Jesper Eriksson to show some of his guitars, I have myself let him make a body and where I will
together with Anders fulfill this piece of art, some discussions was up regarding the bindings and colors, but we solved this as gentlemens.
This is the result of this very nice guitar, jumbo frets (TT), my own steel pickguard, my own relic parts and a wave of love!
As this one is a very special project, it is not for sale.
To see more of Jesper´s art, check out: www.jerspereriksson.nu



Here are some previews of it´s birth:

Mr NiceGuy, Kee and a telecaster

Old time friend and great guitarist,Kee Marcello at my studio, here with the modified Telecaster / Bigsby and of course TT frets,even since he is
a Gibson guy, a smile seems come out anyway here.......