Grønt Græsh og JuJu

Ja, så kom min skumle fortid igen kravlende, og hvor var det super hyggeligt!

Jeg fik en mail fra Bjarke, fra de gode gamle dage i Gørnt Græsh.

Vi fik hygget, set gården og Bjarkes fantastiske studie, hørt Runes band Juju Fabulous, som VARMT kan anbefales (www.jujufab.dk). Vi fik også hils på Marianne og Karsten. Det glæder mig i den grad at se at de lever livet og arbejder med de ting de brænder for. Jeg var så heldig at Marianne gav mig et eksemplar af hendes første bog (hun har 16 udgivet!!!), tilegnet Monique og jeg. Tusind tak for det, Marianne, det betyder meget.

Hvor var det dejligt at se en så glad familie hygge sig så meget. Jeg er dødmisundelig over hvor rart de ser ud til at have det sammen. Jeg tror vi alle kan lære noget af familien Slot.

Visittet og det at se at de alle arbejder med noget som virkeligt interesserer dem har virkeligt fået mig til at tænke over jobbet. Det får mine dage på NKT til at virke uendeligt kedelige. Det må jeg sgu se at få gjort noget ved.

En ide om en gendannelseskoncert med Grønt Græsh blev også foreslået, og det kunne da være super sjov at lave noget i den stil.

Grønt Græsh anno ca. 1994

Grønth Græsh - 14 år senere!

 

...og Juju Fab i fuld bredde!

Velkommen, Sussi

Vores lille ny, Sussi, ankom iaften. Hun er allerede ved at falde til. Efter ca. 15 minutters gemmen sig under sofaen kom hun ud og begyndte at snuse lidt omkring, og i løbet af ingen tid og en kort lur begyndte hun at lege på opfordring fra Danielle. Jeg snuppede et par hurtige billeder af Sussi mens hun legede.

Velkommen i familien, Sussi!

Rock'n'Rollers

It was fun listening to the Rock'n'Rollers last night at King's Pub here in Kalundborg. As part of the town festival, they did a gig Saturday night.

I know most of the guys from the good old days. Peter, the guitarist, was the guitar player in my very first band! Jimmy, the singer, and I did a radio show every friday night for a while, about 10 years ago. Lots of fond memories.

They did a great job with music from the good ole days, Elvis, The Beatles, etc.

Glam Gang (Dudes In Limos)

This weekend was Kalundborg's annual town festival. It's always nice when something different happens, especially in a small town like ours.

Back when I was a teen Kalundborg had it's own little world class hard rock band, named Hero. They were the big thing here, and I think they were the only local band who has ever had the guts to put up a venue size concert here, filling the reasonably big concert hall here in Kalundborg. Not only that, they did it twice! This is also the only Kalundborg band that I know of that actually managed to get a record deal back in the day when it actually took a real label to release an album. I still have it somewhere, signed and all! :)

After the Fall of Hero, they have been out there playing all the good ole 70's glam rock songs that we all know and like. I have been trying to get to see them for so many years, and last night I finally made it!

It was great to see the guys play again, and really great to have a little talk with guitarist Peter Fernando and a couple of greetings from the rest of the gang.

This is definitely not the last time I'll be seeing them live.

Alien Warrior

We finally got to buy a scanner!

I have been meaning to scan a lot of old photos that I found at my Mom's and my Dad's places.

Also, I would like to publish some of Dee's awesome drawings. She is getting better every day, and she really impresses me with her art.

Here is the first scan of one of her drawings, the Alien Warrior:

Awesome drum solo

It was finally done... a drum solo duel between the world's two finest drummers...

Min kære gamle far

Jeg har lånt en masse gamle fotoalbums fra min gamle far. Planen er at jeg skal have indscannet alle billederne så vi har dem i fremtiden.

Mens jeg tog et hurtigt overblik over alle de MANGE billeder, faldt jeg over et som jeg syntes var lidt mere end vanligt spændende. Et GAMMELT billede af min far med sin bror Bent, anno 1935. Min far var 6 år gammel, og Bent vel et par år yngre.

Backseat Live

Der landede et Cruiseskib i Kalundborg. Stor ståhej. Flag i Kordilgade, forretninger med udvidet åbningstid, og sidst, men ikke mindst koncert på Klostertorvet. Problemet var bare, at der ikke rigtigt var nogen der vidste det. Ingen plakater i gaderne og inden anden annoncering. Jeg så ihvertfald ingen. Min gode ven Morten var med at sætte lyd op til showet, og jeg hørte om det via ham.

Nå, men en del folk mødte da op. Ingen fra Cruiseskibet dog. Det var sejlet en time før hovednavnet Backseat gik på scenen. Oh, well.

Som altid i Kalundborg er publikom nogle sløve bananer. Der skal godtnok meget til for at få dem med på noget som helst. Det måtte Ivan Pedersen også sande (han vidste det vist godt i forvejen), og han gjorde et ihærdigt forsøg. Ivan, hvis du læser dette, så undskylder jeg på Kalundborgs vegne. Her er så kulturelt dødt at folk ganske enkelt ikke aner hvad man skal stille op med en god rock koncert.

På den positive side var der så ingen der gik i vejen når jeg tog billeder, så de blev mægtigt fine.

Backseat spillede godt. Jeg kender ikke så meget til deres musik, men har da altid hygget mig over dem når jeg har hørt dem i radioen eller selv spillet dem i Kalundborg Lokalradio da jeg arbejdede der.

 

Kiss is Alive!

Finally, finally, finally do I get to post a review of the Long Awaited Kiss Concert in Denmark earlier this month. I know this is just about old news, but I still got a bunch of photos that I would like to post for you all to see.

I took pictures using my cell phone, and I will also be showing you some photos from a guy I met in there, Ian Cairns, who brought a better camera. I really need to be myself a nice and handy little camera for concerts. Most of the close-up were taken by Ian.

Anyways, my expectations were honestly not too high about this show. I love KISS, but it has seemed to be a little amputated these latter years. I like the thought of the reunited KISS with Gene, Paul, Peter and Ace. Seen them in the later years twice. Honestly, it was great for the novelty, but Ace and Peter couldn't live up to it. They just didn't show the talent and energy needed.

In comes replacements Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer. Both great musicians and they do their job just fine. But they are NOT Peter and Ace, and they are using their makeup. I really don't like that either.

I would have loved if KISS had kept the big show, lost the makeup and went back to where they were before the reunion. But that is just wishful thinking.

All this being said, it seems that Eric and Tommy has settled nicely into the KISS family (Eric of course been an off/on member on the drums since 1990) and the new foursome is really a better KISS than they have been for years.

I really liked that they were honoring the KISS ALIVE! album at this show, the entire main set basically being them playing the (almost) entire ALIVE! album. This album has a special meaning to me, as it was the first LP I bought using my own money. I had just gone to the movies and saw Kiss In Attack Of The Phantoms and it blew my 10-year old mind away! Seeing it today I can see all of it's faults, but back then it was awesome. The day after I saw the movie I went to the music store, found ALIVE! and purchased it on the spot. It holds a really dear place in my rock-heart.

So hearing it in it's entirery was really something else.

But enough of my babbling (you probably skipped it, but if you didn't - thank you for reading!).

Here are the photos in no particular order (and see if you can spot a great photo of Christian and Joseph, my great step sons, in there!)

 

Mors plejehjem

Min mor har ENDELIG fået tilbudt en plads på et plejehjem her i Kalundborg, næsten om hjørnet fra hvor vi bor. Vi glæder os meget til at få hende lidt tættere på, så vi kan besøge hende oftere.

Vi kiggede forbi for at tage et par billeder, så mor kan få et første indtryk af stedet.

Sådan ser Jernholtparken ud udefra:

En hyggelig terrasse:

Fællesrum/opholdsstue i afdelingen med mors lejlighed:

Soveværelset i lejligheden:

Badeværelset:

Her er også et lille fransk køkken:

En hyggelig stue med terrasse og god udsigt:

Set udefra:

Udsigt fra terrassen:

Dagcenteret ligger lige om hjørnet:

Stedet virker utroligt hyggeligt, med super søde medarbejdere. Jeg er sikker på at min mor vil nyde at bo der, og komme væk fra den midlertidige plads hun var været på i alt for lang tid i Næstved.