Wigwam - guestbook

Name :	Yrmei Känninen, Latteenrampa
Current favourite song :	GrOb : Ubil sibja gasudarstva
Message :	Soundikki, poikien JytäSanomat ei paljon tommosista artisteista perusta. Eihän ne ole edes huomanneet, että Pispalaan on jo ajat sitten muuttanut nerokas wanhempi laulaja-lauluntekijä-muusikko Teippi Tuomanen....
	04/03/08 12:46

Name :	Jore
Message :	Matteus, mistä olet saanut tiedon noista esittelykeikoista? Ainakin netti on näistä tietämätön. Outoa, kuinka niille osaa mennä paitsi sattumalta? Ja mihin kellonaikaan?
	04/03/08 11:58

Name :	the Tanskalainen
Message :	I ved mit finsk er håbløst, men der optræder et par interessante navne her, som drager mig ind. Jeg har hørt noget om, at Jukka Gustavson og Eero Raittinen har et band sammen, en super spændende kombination. Har nogen hørt dem live, og kan fortælle, hvordan det lyder, og ved man, om der er en CD på vej? Ystævællesin terveisin, the Tanskalainen
	04/03/08 11:56

Name :	Matteus
Message :	Joo. Gustavson ja bändi soittavat seuraavat Nord Electro-urun esittelykeikat: 4.3. F-Turku 5.3. TV-Sävel Hämeenlinna 8.3. F-Helsinki
	04/03/08 00:49

Name :	tommi
Message :	onkos sitä kukaan noteerannu kun soundissa ainakin mainostettiin että Gustavson nähtävissä muutamilla paikkakunnilla livenä esittelemässä uutta keyboardia/syntikkaa?
	02/03/08 20:18

Name :	Matteus
Message :	23.4. Juttutupa Säästöpankinranta 6 ,Helsinki Raoul Björkenheim-Jukka Gustavson Quartet Raoul Björkenheim-kitara Jukka Gustavson-urut Uffe Krokfors-basso Mika Kallio-rummut
	02/03/08 01:48

Name :	kala
Message :	kuka vielä muistaa marillionin? täyttä paskaa. fish yritti gabriel- hommia ja epäonnistui surkeasti.
	01/03/08 21:50

Name :	sapkoi
Message :	mun mielestäni oli tosi hienoa kuulla kun jonkun "tutkimuksen" mukaan suomalainen rock-yleisö on todella analyyttistä eikä höyryä ennen kuin koko setti on ohi ja sitten vasta annetaan ns. arvio konsertista. Vuoden kusettajan tittelin sen sijaan ansaitsee tätä youtube-kitaristi. vaittää,että Zappan basissi olisi ollut yhteydessä...ei satavarmasti pidä paikkaansa. tämä kaveri "valehtelee" tässä kitarhommassa suosiota saadakseen ja sitten nämä muka-yhteenotot vielä tähän päälle. Kuinka tällainen juttu pääsee uutisiin ylipäätään ? Suomi juoksee yhä syvemmällä suossa -- meinaan, että menkää etelä-Ranskaan meren äärelle ja katsokaa, paljonko eläminen (ja varsinkin ruoka) siellä maksaa.
	01/03/08 20:55

Name :	EsaJii
Message :	There was a Rock Seminar by Andy Gray at the university. I was one of two audience members that asked him a question at the end of the talk. It was about the roots of rock and roll. I seem to remember most of those groups. Forgotten a couple of the Finns. Argent and Family were highlights for me. Metro etc I have forgotten, but Niemen played, not listed.
	01/03/08 02:06

Name :	Mikko
Home page :	New Musical Express on Ruisrock 1970
Message :	Obviously one of the more well-hidden Wigwam related links.
	01/03/08 00:37

Name :	Tootai
Message :	I agree about Jim's ingeniousity. Since we're on the subject of lyrics, i'm missing most of the stuff he's saying in Banging On The Ceiling. A bit of a lightweight album but there's still some great stuff on it. Cloudy Dream, Tokyo Joe, Cacobe Bar, Squaw-Valley etc.
	29/02/08 21:41

Name :	k.p.tikka-ri, saimaan kaupunki
Current favourite song :	Piirpauke : Konevitsan kirkonkellot, Bullerby Sep.19th,76
Message :	All you FinnProgFans! Clap yer hands & jump for joy! Hasse Walli has rereleased ultra-rare Historia of Piirpauke Vol 1. as cd!!! It´s bands earliest live recordings from 74 to 76, originally released as about 200 vinyl albums private print. Fine bootleg quality. Wild stuff!!!
	27/02/08 18:36

Name :	the Tanskalainen
Message :	The previous statement was mine despite the somewhat abbreviated pseudonym. The Tanskalainen alias Claes Johansen
	27/02/08 14:06

Name :	the
Current favourite song :	Katryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman: "Rosie Anderson"
Message :	I just remembered something. Some years ago I was chatting on the phone to David Wells from the famous British re-issue label Tenth Planet. He seemed to know a bit about Finnish rock so I asked him what he thought of Jim Pembroke. He replied: "Jim Pembroke is a genious." I hadn't spoken to anyone about Finnish rock for some time and it just felt enormously good to hear someone state this simple and obvious but all too often overlooked fact.
	27/02/08 14:00

Name :	the Tanskalainen
Message :	Jusu, great bit of info there though it's still a lousy cover. But then that seems to be the idea. I always thought it was inspired by some Captain Beefheart LP. Perhaps it's a bit of both. The music's great, though. White suspenders, fantastic, though I have to add that if it's suppose to be an American Civil War drama the cavalry didn't wear white suspenders then, it only came later. I will now fetch my thermos of weak lemon drink, put it in a grey canvas shoulder bag and go to spot some trains.
	27/02/08 01:15

Name :	Jusu, Vaasa
Current favourite song :	Jimi Hendrix and Steve Stills: White Nigger
Message :	I've heard from friends who knew Ronnie Ö. that the Flat Broke cover photo was deliberately chosen for being the worst, out-of-focus one in a series of shots intended for Dark Album, when it was still known to the band as Daemon Duncetan's Request. That's Mats Huldén in the picture, wearing an "angel" suit. He was working at the Svenska Teatern as a stage-hand and got the band in there to use the props and costumes for the play currently running - some kind of musical.
	27/02/08 00:08

Name :	the Tanskalainen
Message :	Suonna, I'm creeping along chronologically, so I suppose we're talking 2019 or something! Party Upstairs certainly came with lyrics. It's strange, though, that Pigworm didn't. Generally Jim - like Randy Newman and Warren Zevon - is one of those singer-songwriters where you simply HAVE to have to lyrics before you to get the whole thing. Flat Broke must be a candidate for "worst album sleeve ever". Actually, that award was once given til Mickey Jupp's Legend and the "Flamin' Boot" LP. Funny thing about Finns: I remember making interviews in Helsinki and when I listened back to the tape you could hardly hear anything. People were SO shy. (Mosse: "I-a really don't-a produce on all dose regords, I just ... (long break) ... sid dere"). Then I went to this Punk label who gave me some of their records. I have never heard anyone growl and scream so much. It was like Slipknot twenty years before their time. Tärve Kädät or something. Holy shit! A fine band around that time was Clear Picture, though they only did one single. Joukko Lappalainen, if you're you there, make a noise! Played your record the other day and it's still good. Seriously: Finland is incredibly fascinating to someone like me. It's partly exactly like the other Nordic countries, partly like another planet. Like we used to say in my childhood: it's exactly the same, it's just the colour that has a different smell.
	26/02/08 23:25

Name :	Suonna
Message :	Never seen Flat Broke with lyrics, be it original Ponsi or later EMI pressing or EMI cd. Fine to read these lyrical ramblings. Wonder how long I have to wait until you are at Jim's Party Upstairs, Tanskalainen. A Grim Affair is IMHO among the very best Jim's ever written. A Madame Tussaud figure sitting in a silent slo-mo pub... Has to talk about himself stuck in this Kaurismäkiland.
	26/02/08 21:55

Name :	the Tanskalainen
Message :	EsaJii, you probably know this but the lyric sheet for Rumours on the Rebound says: "The Italian children fighting over an ice-cream cone" The lyrics that came with the original Love version of Dark Album omits "the Italian". I actually always thought it was "Returning children fighting" etc. But we'll get back to that much later. Meanwhile I have wondered if the Ponsi first pressing of "Flat Broke" came with lyrics.
	26/02/08 18:08

Name :	EsaJii
Message :	Claes, there is minimal interpretation of lyrics in the book. Almost none by Mikko, some are from other people or the songwriters, but very little. Cheap Evening Return is pretty well transcribed by Suonna, he got some lines I never got. But a few errors remain. I do not know if mine are any better, but it at least points out the lines: the tiny children fighting over an ice cream cone running down to...along the shore cries of joy[no s] overgrown garden house glass daunted leaves while outside by a wheel barrow I have spoken to Mikko about these lyrics in particular, and neither of us came to any conclusions. An experienced man reflecting on life but no clue to his past.
	24/02/08 17:52

Name :	the Tanskalainen
Message :	Jusu, sorry I misread you. I thought you were basing this on Mikko's book. However, what you say sounds likely. I just found that the song made me recall a big cemetary in Helsinki and references on tombstones to military conflicts I am unaware of. "Yes in 1934 somebody had lost a war" etc. But JP is generally pretty open to private interpretations, which I think is a great quality.
	24/02/08 17:19

Name :	Jusu, Vaasa
Message :	Claes, that was not exactly info, it's just how I interpret that song. I do know that "Cheap Evening Return" refers to a past policy of the London public transport system, where you could buy a reduced-rate ticket to get from A to B and back to A before midnight. Great line: "... and outside by the steam-shovel was a child playing with a toy...". Hope springs eternal.
	24/02/08 15:44

Name :	the Tanskalainen
Message :	Jusu, thanks for the info. It makes sense and it's a great song. I love that whole album, in fact.
	24/02/08 11:53

Name :	Jusu
Message :	Claes (if I may call you by your first name), Cheap Evening Return is to me the greatest Rechardt/Pembroke collaboration, even if they didn't know it. Jim's lyrics recall the bombed-out London where he grew up in the shade of WWII. He became a natural pacifist, and that's what the song is about.
	24/02/08 00:16

Name :	the Tanskalainen
Message :	I can't remember the Fifties but I wouldn't really blame anyone for needing a bit of a rest at that time, particularly in places like Finland. The first 6-7 years of the Sixties were generally a nice time in Denmark. You didn't need any drugs to enjoy it and in fact I don't think there were many around. Great music coming out of England and the US, good feeling all around, at least I perceived it that way. I think it was a real privilege to grow up in that time. It's the following period I have a bit of a problem with, but some of the music was still great. Funnily enough, I feel that stale Finnish feeling left over from the 50s inspired Pembroke lyrics such as "Cheap Evening Return", but who knows?
	23/02/08 23:21