{"id":600,"date":"2019-06-08T07:27:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T05:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipjetheridge.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2022-05-20T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:28:47","slug":"44-alone-again-or-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/08\/44-alone-again-or-2\/","title":{"rendered":"44. Alone again or"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Men On The Border: Jumpstart Redux. Cover by Ian Barrett.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Next week, Friday 14th<\/sup> June,\nMen On The Border will be at the Sandviken Kulturcentrum theatre to play the\nlatest release, Jumpstart Redux<\/em> – acoustically. We\u2019ll be on the main\nstage like last time (in 2016), but with the significant difference that this time\nthe audience will be on the stage with us \u2013 making it a smaller venue with a more\nintimate atmosphere. The auditorium will be sealed off with a curtain, perfect\nfor projecting our film material to. There\u2019ll even be a bar outside the stage\nentrance in the foyer and tables on the stage on which people can rest their\nglasses when their arms get tired. The show will also be streamed live on\nFacebook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seriously, it feels like I\u2019m describing\na hip event in London rather than Sandviken. But on second thoughts, recent\nexperience assures me this will be better than London. The sticky floors and\nsmelly toilets I experienced there in April will not be missed. Try dancing to\nSmiths songs on a floor covered with 100 layers of dried beer. I did, and it\nwasn\u2019t easy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have some very special guests with us: \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bertil<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bertil F\u00e4lt <\/a>will be playing soprano sax. As Bertil puts it himself, he\u2019s from a completely different musical world (namely jazz), but that\u2019s what makes it so exciting. His playing adds a new sonic dimension and feel to the songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amanda<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Amanda \u00d6rtenhag<\/a> is a rising star who likes a challenge \u2013 and we\u2019re very willing to provide one. Her projects include the band Different Cups with several prizes won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steven<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Super-guitarist Steven Kautzky Andersson <\/a>is active in progressive, metal and alternative rock, but has even delved into folk and world music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A beatbox. Yes, we\u2019ve been experimenting with programmed beats. And why not? All-in-all a varied bunch of people and styles which we\u2019ll pull together and aim in the same general direction. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019ll also have the now quite famous Hero guitar (or The Beast as Yngwie Malmsteen dubbed it), built by my employer, Sandvik. The third guitar which was built has now been sold at auction, but I\u2019ll bring along number one of the two prototypes and let Steven try it out. It\u2019s a bit heavy and the scalloped frets feel strange, but sound-wise it\u2019s perfect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve decided to wear my Indian gear again. Mostly because it\u2019s nicer to look at than black jeans, but also because it reminds me of 1967 hippiedom, the summer of love, flower-power and psychedelia. A time when even a lot of hit music genuinely had something to say (unlike today). But at the beginning of 1967 you had both The Beatles (Strawberry Fields\/Penny Lane) and Engelbert Humperdinck (Release Me) side-by-side in the charts. In other words, it wasn\u2019t all roses back then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alone again or<\/em> is the brilliant first track on Love\u2019s 1967\nalbum Forever changes<\/em>. It didn\u2019t reach my consciousness at the time – it\nwas too obscure for me at age 14 and there were no hits. Also, Love stayed at\nhome in San Francisco while the main competition, The Doors, toured the world\nand became big stars. It\u2019s a shame it turned out that way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seriously, it feels like I\u2019m describing a hip event in London rather than Sandviken. But on second thoughts, recent experience assures me this will be better than London. The sticky floors and smelly toilets I experienced there in April will not be missed. Try dancing to Smiths songs on a floor covered with 100 layers of dried beer. I did, and it wasn\u2019t easy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[466,467,491,394,490],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-men-on-the-border","tag-amanda-ortenhag","tag-bertil-falt","tag-kulturcentrum","tag-smash-proof-guitar","tag-steven-kautzky-andersson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}