TRULY LOVER TRIO FROM CALIFORNIA

And there we are.... TRULY LOVER TRIO from California guested the Old Style Weekend in Bakamo.
Swedish Stand-Up bass player Anders Höjlund from Gothenburg was invited to join the band during the tour in Sweden this summer.
The band started in Säterdalen the 26th of July and finished the tour yesterday in Alunda.

Marcel Riesco the bandleader and singer rocked together with the fans. A pure rockabilly band that ROCKS and spreads joy.

Anders Höjlund , Stand-Up Bass

Ricky Mc Cann, drums

crazy fans

The trio

After the concert

Marcel Riesco, vocal and guitar

WORLD LISTEN UP......THE WALL IS BACK

Last week my dear fiancé invited me to a concert at Brew House in Gothenburg. I didn't really know what I was going to see, I just knew it was something about Pink Floyd and The Wall.

Well, born in the late 60-ies of course you grew up with Pink Floyd and who the hell did not , by that time see or listen to THE WALL?

I have to admit my expectations where not high, because Pink Floys is Pink Floyd and you got to be really good if you want to succeed in copying them.

Now suddendly there was this group called HIGH HOPES. A bunch of about 20 amateur singers and musicians from an island outside of Gothenburg wanted to make the impossible.

I waited anyhow unpatiently the start of the concert. I was definitively curious.

Just a few words...about the concert. GUYS you made me close the eyes and rock again! The whole concert was like beeing inside the movie and be there! Your voices, your god damn guitars made my evening. So THANK YOU!

I would have loved to see you on big stage and a huge crowd and I am sure I will sooner or later.

Thank to you legends live again and maybe todays youth can learn about Pink Floyd, coz they seem not even know who they are.....

To everybody who reads this check out http://www.highhopes.se/ for updates for concerts, pictures and informations about the group and hey you guys out there that have money and are intresting in rock, INVEST in High Hopes, because it's worth every cent!!

The next day I went back to the concert with a pass and photographed the half of the concert.

So here some of the pictures!

ZEN MUSIC SHAOLIN GRAND CEREMONY

One of the highlights of my trip to China was the Zen Music Shaolin Grand Ceremony very closed to the Shaolin Temple in Deng Feng. My very good friend Huan came with us and fixed us tickets for the show. Now you have to imagine the movie "HERO" with all those beautiful colours, the monks and the fights. You get involved in something mistical, that does not belong to us really.
One thing is it to see it at the movies, at home in front of the TV, another is it to be part of it.

For an evening I felt part of a big big fantasy, meditation, admiration. I felt hypnotized by the chants and the music, by the music of the water, the movements of the monks. The only negative thing that I can report are the rich chinese people that come there, eat and drink and talk and scream out loud during the concert. But beside of them I can say that I have never been so touched by a concert like that nigh. It's China's biggest seightseeing performance.

Unfortunately I can only share with you some pictures that I took that night.
Check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLpscIVjgSU&NR=1, close your eyes and dream. SWEET DREAMS to you all