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Pics from now and then


Charming! One of the first promo pictures	On stage with Lars Jansson-piano


Key board legend "Tollarpar´n" and Ronny	Concert with Ulf Wakenius

FestivalDax

During a couple of years in the early nineties we had "our own" stage at FestivalDax in the town Hässleholm, southern Sweden where we invited a lot of guests to play with us. At one occation Mr Sky High himself - Clas Yngström guested us.

Peps and Totta 1994

The two happy boys in front are Peps Persson(left) and Torsten "Totta" Näslund(right). The two are considered the two most respected artists on the Swedish blues scene. We are very proud and happy for have doing a lot of concerts with both of them. (June 2005 Totta sadly left us due to cancer. We´ll meet again up there Torsten...)

Schmölzer Blues Tage 1999

Early September we played at the beautiful located Schmölzer Blues Tage. We stayed in a old castle which was really exciting. To the right Ralph is having coffe in the morning at the old "bierstube".

Denmark 1997

During the years we have been doing a lot of gigs in Denmark, it almost become our second home. It´s a great country to tour in with short travelling distances, superb beer and some very nice audience. Here Ralph and Ronny are posing outside the club Ricks Café in Randers. Our poster to the left was made from a wooden carving by Lena Mansén, Finland and finished by the world famous artists Beck & Jung, Sweden.


Max and Ralph on a windy Danish beach	Same happy boys in Helsinkki, Finland

KIKK in Pfungstadt, Germany 1999

Peter and his wife Marie promote a private institution in their home presenting live music, theatre and others. We were fortunate to play there at one occation. After the concert we were invited to a superb dinner. We will never forget the superb bouillabaisse! From left: Max, Ralph and Peter.

Polar Cirkel 2004

We took a flight to the end(almost)of Sweden to play at Flakasand Rock & Blues festival in June. The midnight sun was impressive! All night long it was day light. We played on the beach along the great Kalix river, people where sitting by camp fires enjoying the music.

More Flakasand Festival

Just have to show you this, Max is hangin´ in the bar. Yes, there where a lot of mosquitos...The people there also claimed that bears are common visitors in the forrest!

Greece 2003

Ralph and Max in Volos, Greece. It was very hot, I´ll tell you! We played at the European Breeze Festival together with several European bands. Very nice, indeed!

The Malmoe festival, Sweden 2004

Pierre Swärd some times joins the trio which is so great! He is one of the greatest Hammond B3 players around. The instrument is from way back when with a fantastic sound. Analog sound, by the way. Halleluja!

Bluesfestival in Eslöv, Sweden 2004

Max had a lot to do during the festival playing with the trio and guest artist Pelle Lindström but also as a member in the back up band supposed to play with Artur Duncan. Unfortenuatly Duncan cancelled the show beacuse of illness, but the band did a great show anyway. Great work, Max!

Ralph behind the drum kit

Dont remember when the photo is taken but probably in the late 1990:s. Ralph has just finished mounting the drum kit when someone took this picture. There´s a mike attached to the snare drum. Did we play that loud back in those days?

The Netherlands 2003

Lasse bought a digital camera and shot pictures all the time. Ralph droved the bus, Max was a sleep so Lasse must have taken this picture himself...

Shots by Lasse with his new camera. Both motives made him laugh so he almost cracked...

Walking banana	Tiny car playing very loud music

Steve and Dennis

During the years we have been doing some gigs with our good friends Steve Grahn (guit/vocals) and Dennis Westerberg (harp/vocals). We really have great fun together. It´s not so much rehersal, more like wide open ears and an open mind. The picture was shot August 28-2004 by Dennis father Lars Westerberg. From left: Lasse, Max, Ralph, Steve and Dennis.

Christmas blues in Eslöv

Every Christmas Day we promote our own show in the city of Eslöv. At this occation we got a gift from a "fan" - a bottle of very fine whiskey. Not bad!

March 2005 During the spring we stayed indoors rehearsing new material. But we went outside to take some pictures with the strong sun light teasing our eyes.
	April 2005 Springblues at Gya is a happening in my own little country village that we annually do together with our dear friends Steve Grahn(left)and Dennis Westerberg(right). 2005 also Mattias Bogefors(not in the picture)guested us with his harmonica.
One more time: the Malmoe festival, Sweden 2005 We had a great evening together with the crowd in Malmoe August 21. This gig is one of the best!
	Blues Festival in Eslöv 2005 The band in action on stage at Blues Festival in Eslöv 2005. We had the pleasure to play with the great trombone/piano player Ulf Johansson Werre. Always a great pleasure to be on stage with Ulf!
Blue Heart 2005 During a December weekend we did a couple of nice gigs, one of them at Blue Heart Blues Association in Halmstad at the Swedish west coast.
	Christmas Day 2005 At last we concentrated and made our first live recording. Everything went fine, the audience were just great and we had a really nice evening. We did the recording process as simple as possible and(by our opinon)it sounds relly good. In August 2006 the cd entitled "Live!" was released.
Blues at Gya 2006 As always a lot of fun on stage. Together with some of our best friends on stage and in the audience we did this concert for the forth year in a row April 1st.
	Musikhuzet, Rönne, Bornholm, Denmark 2006 Friday August 18 we visited the fantastic place called Muzikhuset in the small city of Rönne situated on Bornholm, a Danish island. Great support from both the staff and the audience!
Sightseeing The day after the gig in Rönne we killed some time waiting for the ferry by driving round the small island. The pic: Max and Lasse at the market place in the village of Nexö.
	Jaunsgyde, Denmark 2006 A friend to the band, Henrik is a bass player who lives in Denmark. He invited us to play at his birthday party in September. It was a great party with a lot of music and great feeling. We´ll be back when you celebrate 50, Henrik!
Freakin´out! Just had to find out, I can stand up and play the drums! The dark area on the skirt is...sweat!


Max at Blues festival in Eslöv October 28-2006	Lasse at the same occation

	Twenty years anniversery October 26:th 2007 we celebrated our 20:th birthday on stage together with some really nice friends: Roland Gottlow-piano/voc, Filip Jers-harp and Steve Grahn-guit/voc. A really nice celebration! Let´s do it again...25:th birthday?
On stage with the gang
A weekend in Denmark April 2008, part 1 The picture is taken Saturday 26:th of April in the Danish city Kalundborg. Spring time and some shopping (wine, beer, whisky, tobacco-all very expensive in Sweden) made the day terrific. In the evening we had a superb gig with some really nice fans in the audience...
	Ralph & Lasse
	A weekend in Denmark April 2008, part 2 We did some tourist activities in Kalundborg and visited the church which by the way was built around 1170 by Esben Snare, brother to the famous bishop Absalon. A very interesting construction, a so called "octagon".
Happy Max outside the church