PERSONAL COMPUTER

After some mindly strolling between the two countries, lived in Helsinki one year (where I heard Frank Zappa, Baden Powell among others), it ended up in Malmoe in southern Sweden for about five years (where I heard Laurindo Almeida, Red Mitchell and many others) Already during the dancehalltimes I took some lessons in classical guitar, occasionally my teacher happened to be Gunnar Spjuth.

We were in the same age and had no problems to communicate, and I found everything about the guitar interesting, if it´s was ancient lutemusic or modern experiments, it didn´t matter. To me he vitally opened the doors for the idiom, for the first time I heard fx guitarmusic by Tarrega and Villa-Lobos executed just in front of me, with full power.

I was surprised of the complexity of the instrument, and how far developed the written music could be. Just a short time after I had began to take lessons, in the early seventies (as said it was still during the dancehalltime…), I also began to do some tests in guitarduoplaying with Leif Bengtsson in Halmstad, and we sharpened those activities in the late seventies, when I lived in Malmoe, which ended up in touring summertime. But the first summertour (mainly in churches, much for the mostly delicate accoustic environment for the instrument – we never used any kind of microphones) was done with, the Malmoe native guitarist Morgan Svanberg. Like Gunnar Spjuth he was very well informed whats in and around the classical guitar repertoire at the time, their teacher was Per-Olof Johnson who was important for the development, lifting up (classical) guitarplaying in Sweden on new educational levels.

Picture: Beside music I always had spontanous interest for writing…, but I never studied it like music. I don´t know too much of good litterature.
In the seventies the PC was; the typewriter and your head. I think it´s good to see all this young people writing today, and many, many of them are young women , …..as a mother of fact it´s normal behaviour, and not only for Gods ----- remember that you Shrinken Zoombiefied Stupidheads in the Duck Pondcity of Halmstad. I know too much people who deal with great problems writing more than their name. It´s not that they have nothing to say, or know nothing…., they just wanna be …perfect...