Rock-musiikin ensimmäisiä askeleita Suomessa syksyllä 1956: Turun poliisimestari kielsi sekä rock & rollin että sitä sisältävien elokuvien esittämisen kaupungissa.

"Turun lättähatut pääsivät villiin hurmiotilaan" (Jaakkiman Sanomat, 25.10.1956)

#suomirock #rockandroll #Turku #1950luku #lättähatut #musaMastodon

The Finnish guitarist, band leader and arranger Esa Pulliainen (1957-2026) passed away on Saturday. Although he was widely imitated, no one could really replicate his sound and his sense of style.

Since his band, the Agents, recorded newly arranged versions of old tunes, there is a lot of great material for #MondayCovers among their repertoire. They reached the peak of their popularity in the mid-eighties with vocalist Topi Sorsakoski - this was one of their biggest hits:

Topi Sorsakoski & the Agents: Salattu suru (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i34rrdR_dkE

The song was originally recorded in 1965 as "My Heart Must Do the Crying" by the Renegades, a British group that was hugely popular in Finland at the time. The first Finnish-language version was done by Danny in 1966.

#EsaPulliainen #TopiSorsakoski #Agents #Renegades #Danny #suomirock

https://youtu.be/BR-yZp-Yj1s?si=s1GRPnFHl3osrDcx

Hyvää vappua! 🎉
Linkin takaa löytyy meidän bändin uusi biisi lisättäväksi teidän vapun soittolistoille 😁
#thehoneyballs #suomirock #suomipop #musiikki #autotallibaari #vappu

Another pick for this week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme, #PunkRock. Here's a Finnish #ProtoPunk classic by the group Virtanen, with lead singer Moog Konttinen and guitarist Veltto Virtanen.

Virtanen: Elektroninen Xtaasi ("Iltatähti", 30.4.1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiFQ_sDVJHA

Veltto Virtanen later went on to become a member of the Finnish Parliament, but his political career is another (and almost equally zany) story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veltto_Virtanen

#Virtanen #VelttoVirtanen #MoogKonttinen #Finnishmusic #suomirock

This week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme is #PunkRock. Here's one of the Finnish punk pioneers, Pelle Miljoona, and one of his best-known early songs, the title of which roughly translates to "Violence and substance abuse". At the time, he was obviously a man with a message!

Pelle Miljoona & N.U.S. - Väkivalta ja päihdeongelma (live 1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udmex9dmAQE

#PelleMiljoona #suomirock #finnishmusic

It's been a while since my previous #MondayCovers entry. Here's an old favorite of mine, a Finnish language cover version of the classic John Fogerty composition "Fortunate Son". The video clip was filmed at the Old Studenthouse in Helsinki:

Kari Peitsamo Revival: Onnenpoika (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1LkolDIWSQ

Peitsamo became first known in the late 1970s as a singer/songwriter, coming up with a stream of simple songs with highly original lyrics, often performed with very sparse instrumentation.

However, in 1982 he decided to form a new band, Kari Peitsamo Revival, which concentrated on playing and recording cover versions of the old CCR hits, the lyrics of which were heavily localized to fit the contemporary Finnish context. Later they expanded their repertoire to include Status Quo covers as well.

Although the Revival period lasted only for a few years, Peitsamo continued to be a regular fixture at the Ämy rock festivals, which were organized on non-commercial basis in my home town, Hämeenlinna. Unfortunately I didn't see the Kari Peitsamo Revival performances, but I did catch him several times in the later years, with other bands.

Peitsamo's later years have been somewhat erratic, and he has never enjoyed a great deal of commercial success. Nevertheless, he has issued more than 50 albums, sometimes playing solo, sometimes with backup musicians. According to a story, one of his albums was recorded while the engineer went out for a lunch break, and the record actually takes a longer time to play than it took to record it, as there were breaks inserted between the songs afterwards.

#KariPeitsamo #KariPeitsamoRevival #FortunateSon #Suomirock #Musiikkimastodon #CreedenceClearwaterRevival

Äänityspäiväkirja osa 6

#vaasa #demokratia #harava #indierock #suomirock

Tämä on kyllä hämmentävän hieno #suomirock #satasuomirockbiisiä

https://youtu.be/G_lz8-wUMk4?si=jBq5fZ1Njd1jOzch

Äänityspäiväkirja osa 4.

(Tämä video tulee Mastodiniin viikon verran myöhässä, pahoittelut! Kohta paukahtaa samaan syssyyn osa 5)

#vaasa #harava #indierock #suomirock #suomi #musicproduction

Studiopäiväkirja osa 1.

Kitaran haravoinnin taito ja Kirsikkapuut.

#suomirock #suomi #harava #band #rock #guitar #telecaster