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Stephen Palmer (07.03.08)
Stephen Palmer is an UK based musician and sci-fi writer who’s the main man behind the psychedelic space ambient band Mooch that has gone for a rockier direction on the couple of last albums. He’s also making music as Blue Lily Commission and under his own name. Mooch has an excellent new album out called 1967½, so it was a perfect time to ask a few questions to figure out what it’s all about.
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Helios Creed (28.02.06)
Coming from Hawaii, the guitarist legend Helios Creed was originally known from a San Francisco band Chrome who operated in the change of the 70's and 80's to do pioneering work on combining psychedelic rock, industrial, punk and new wave. This very influential guitar player has also made a lot of excellent solo albums with extraterrestrial music about aliens and other abnormal things that's been left a bit outside of the mainstream...
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Øresund Space Collective (22.01.06)
Øresund Space Collective is a great new band with members both from
Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmö, Sweden. They play totally improvised
psychedelic instrumental space rock. The name of the band comes from the
bridge that combines these two countries. They will release their debut CD
this week, so it was a good time to ask them a few questions. My questions
were answered by a long time space rock fanatic Scott "Dr. Space" Heller.
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Octopus Syng (19.09.04)
Octopus Syng is a one-man psychedelia orchestra by a Finnish guy called Jaire.
Under this name, he has released two 7"'s, one MCD and a fresh full-length,
that was released in Finland on CD and has just been issued on vinyl by
Nasoni in Germany. Jaire's music is a wonderful mix of Syd Barret era Pink Floyd,
acid folk and this and that other hippie oriented, and it was time to make
an interview with this enigmatic guy who has stayed in the shadows for far too long...
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Blandbladen (13.03.04)
Blandbladen is a very interesting new band from Malmö, Sweden playing instrumental
psychedelic and progressive space rock a bit in the Gong/Hillage/Ozric Tentacles
tradition. This great, but so far rather unknown act is coming to play at our club
on the 3th of April, so a short interview was definitely in order...
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Spiha (28.10.03)
One of the hottest bands in Finland right now is Spiha from Helsinki. These guys have played their hard rock for many years now,
and they are starting to get a bit wider success with their recent releases. Timo Paavola (aka Demon P.A. Volume),
the original guitarist of the band, answered my questions through email in October 2003...
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Bari Watts (26.04.03)
Bari Watts is one of the best Hendrix styled guitar player that I know. He had an excellent band called The Outskirts of Infinity
from the late 80's to early 90's. He also played in The Bevis Frond live band for a couple of years. Just when I though that it would
be really cool to interview my old hero I heard, that The Outskirts have reformed, and that they will support the Frond on a gig very soon, so
I feel this makes this interview even more reasonable... Thanks a lot for Bari for taking the time to answer my questions! You rule!...
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Nick Saloman (09.04.03)
The first Bevis Frond track I ever heard was 'Reflections in a Tall Mirror' in '91, and it totally blow me away. I've been
a die-hard Bevis Frond fan and collector ever since. Nick Saloman is the fellow who, more or less, is the Bevis Frond, writing all
the music and lyrics, and playing all the instruments on the early albums. I really admire his ability to write good, catchy songs
with hints of pop, punk, 60's psychedelia and folk rock. He's also one of the best guitar players I know, especially
his skilful solos are just absolutely marvellous. Nick was nice enough to answer a few of my questions in early April 2003...
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Adrian Shaw (24.03.03)
Adrian Shaw (ex-Hawkwind, Magic Muscle, Crazy World of Arthur Brown etc.) is one of the bass players that I admire,
and he also happens to play in one of my top 5 bands called The Bevis Frond, so it was time to interview him. Ade also
runs Woronzow Records one of the best underground labels in the world, along with Nick Saloman, whose interview should also appear shortly. I sent
Ade the guestions through email in the middle of March, 2003, and to my surprise he answered the next day! Thanks mate!...
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Sun Dial (20.03.03)
Sun Dial from the U.K. has been one of my favourite artists for about ten years now. They have won a lot of fans
all over the world with their 60's, kraut, and new wave influenced psychedelic rock. This legendary band released five
excellent studio albums, one live album and a lot of singles and 12"'s in the early to mid 90's. Now the band is activated again,
so it was time to ask Gary Ramon, the bandleader, singer and guitarist, a few questions...
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Gas Giant (08.03.03)
Gas Giant is a heavy Danish group from Copenhagen playing groovy, bluesy stoner rock with psychedelic touch. They are coming
to play at our club on the 19th of April 2003, so I thought that some kind of introduction was needed.
Their excellent lead singer Jasper answered my questions in the beginning of March...
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Kuusumun profeetta (08.03.03)
Kuusumun Profeetta from Pori has brought their original, progressive flavour to the Finnish rock scene for almost ten years now.
This very regenerative and many-sided band used to perform in English under the name Moon Fog Prophet. Some earlier stages and moods
of the group were dealt with an interview in Colossus magazine #7. I now thought, that it was time to find out, how our Prophets
are doing today. The bass player Mikko Elo answered these questions in March 2003...
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King Black Acid (17.01.03)
The American band King Black Acid from Portland, Oregon, has gained cult following in the psychedelic circuits all over the world.
The band was founded in the mid 90's, and is more or less in the hands and control of the guitarist/vocalist Daniel Riddle.
The band is known locally for its amazing live shows that are often formed of long tracks with slow and devotional changes in the mood...
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