So after 4 gigs with the mighty Los bastardos and a session with Don Osmo in his studio going thru songs and ideas for the next LB album I've decided to join the band full time. It's good to be playing rock'n'roll with an attitude again :-) , the guys are great and the crew is dedicated, everything works! We're already playing 3 new songs in the set + on friday we're adding 2 older ones as well. Don Osmo is a very good band leader and I'm again after 6 years just doing what I do best, play! What a pleasure!
I've put BGB and the halfready album on hold completly! Don't know for how long but at least for a year or 2.
I will however do some gigs as a trio with Miri and a bass player (an old friend of ours, I'll post the name soon) later this year to see how that feels. It will be a little more free and jamming than BGB.... more experimental if you like... to satisfy my need to play the Stratocaster :-)
I've got some trio songs written + we'll do some stuff from previous albums that haven't been played live for at least 3-5 years and some covers from way back to the -90's. Wouldn't mind doing a live album either :-)
Granfelt/Nikku Group will do a few gigs in the autumn and we'll record an album live in the
studio with some originals and some covers as well.
It's funny how music divides my playing style and guitars... in LB it's Les Pauls and loud amps (ENGL and Naylor + big rack in stereo) and with the trio it's Strats and combos (Tube Thomsen and ENGL + small pedalboard). GNG is Les Pauls and an SG with an ENGL combo, wah and leslie pedal.
I would say that my favourite guitar is still a Strat but I can't live without a Les Paul :-)
Take it easy and check the gig page for all the bands.
Ben
