C&L's Late Nite Music Club with The Hellacopters
By MaxMarginal Friday Oct 16, 2009 7:00pmI'm in Stockholm, Sweden for a couple of days on a guitar gig, and am having a blast. I had no idea of the fact that Sweden exports the third-most amount of music (behind the U.S. and the U.K.) until today, but it's not surprising when you consider the amount of talent that has come from this country of merely nine million: ABBA, Refused, Ace of Base, Fireside, Entombed, The Cardigans, pop guru Max Martin, the list goes on and on.
My personal favorite: the recently defunct Hellacopters. The band started as an Entombed/Backyard Babies side project and turned into one of the best and most-loved garage revival acts, though that pigeonholing does a disservice to their complex Blue Cheer meets Cheap Trick romp. The Hellacopters weren't doing anything new, but I can't think of anyone in the past decade-and-a-half that did frill-free hard rock as consistently well as these guys.
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sweded rock
acid house kings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01o1_N5MvOE&fe...
dungen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lazcRyy1jN8
and if you want to hear the most amazing 10 minute jam from a hella band of the 60's that only hit the usa this millennium
parson sound: tio minuter
http://www.myspace.com/parsonsound
come out of sweden. and of course, the vines, gotta love the vines.
"I hate to say I told you so!"
The Vines are Australian, and I consider them contrived, boring, and uninteresting.
love the hives not the vines
I didn't like how they were all cynically lumped by music media into a category of "The" bands.
they came out at the same time, or at least when i remember them appearing on the west coast. i am a little slow, but when you say "the" bands, is that the same as saying an "it" band? bands from new zealand, japan, and sweden always surprised me, and i am always on the prowl. post some rec's and i'll check them out!
Kolmeda, Cinnamon, Cloudberry Jam, always and forever Big in Japan.
i love bands from other countries, and for some reason focus on sweden, new zealand, and japan. i am always on the look-out, so if you have rec's, please post!
one of my favorites is a crazy japanese 60's gs psych compilation, gs: i love you, one band is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEQvQym32bg&fe...
oh,sorry for that
here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FkDBIh2XDs&fe...
and of course, the coolest album ever, cambodian rocks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQY48QSymq4
Sweden is a good example of what happens when you give every citizen in a country of about 8 million a thorough grounding in music. You get a lot of people who know how to write a decent song.
Also, Finland fukking rokks too. Metal is mainstream pop there.
This is the kind of stuff i look for on the interwebs. Good rock n roll I havent heard 1000 times before. They have a new fan.
Great post. As someone who was a big Entombed fan years ago, it's really cool to hear this.
Speaking of rip-off riffs, as this site was some weeks ago, that lead guitar riff reminds me a lot of the old Vapours track Turning Japanese. It also reminds me somewhat of the guitar work on Lou Reed's "Roll n Roll Animal" album, although I'm not sure which track.
For me I think of early Iggy Pop, just that the Hellacopters get it wrong with their Satanic theme. The 60s goal was to be Dionysian, not Satanic, with the power of music. Big difference. For that reason I probably put Canada's Cheerleader a notch over the Hellacopters when I wanted a good, old frantic wall of sound without the pretense.
The best part of this video for me was seing the vintage Epi Crestwoods with the batwing headstock both guitar players are playing in the beginning. That model is one of my favorites, best action of any guitar I've ever played.
"I'm in a rut! Keep kicking myself in the nuts!"
Been a fan for several years. Early stuff is along the lines of The Stooges and MC5. Later moved towards a 70s arena rock sound (Kiss,BOC,Sabbath). Check out All their videos on youtube. They are one of the best live bands I've ever seen and sadly they are breaking up.
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