At last; we´ve hit a hot spot here;
"Gasserne" as they´re called at home.
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Had a chat this summer with our rented summer cottage (at Fyn, Gasolin´s singer Kim Larsens current home island) with our chimney sweeper back there... He used to see Larsen every now and then in downtown Odense. Cool.
For novices; Gasolin´existed 1969-1978 and made Scandinavias heaviest and rolliest rockenrål during that period. Guitarist Franz Beckerlee nowadays makes junk art from trashed cars (well, he seems to have been a real far out junkie along, say, 1972-75... He is as close to Hendrix as a guitarist can be without copying; takin ol´ Jimi a bit further, I´d day. Big-eyed Jönsson was a driving bassist. Sören Berlev one of the most canonading wardrumming rockenrål drummer the world have seen, most active - and youngest - of the boys (born 1942-1950)= thats Gasolin´.
You rock ´n´roll fans out there ready for trying out those Danish Stones-answers; why don´t you start with the record Gas III or Stakkels Jim. There are also some more recent compilations that are good. larsen solo is as uninteresting as Jagger... Which, in fact, is interesting in itself: Both have been called "whiggers". Larsens main influence is said to be Ledbelly.
My favorite Gasolin´rock songs: "Det var Inga, Katinka og smukke Charlie på sin Harley"(1973, Gas III); "Bob-Shi-Bam" (1977, Gör det noget); "Det bedste til mig og mine venner" (same); "Daddy Ding-Dong" (1974, Stakkels Jim or Gas 4); "På banen (derudaf)" (1972, Gas II); "Kap Farvel til Ümanarssuaq"(1974, Stakkels Jim or Gas 4); "Girl You Got Me Lonely"(1978, Killing Time, in English).
Finally; I have to adjust my own statement above: Kim Larsen have made two terrific album and one quite good: The former are "Vaersgo" from 1973, "Kim Larsen og Yankeedrengerne" from 1977 with American session musicians, where he make some fine Chuck Berry-covers (other tímes - on an EP - he has made Leiber-Stollers "Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello" in a way that would have made Elvis proud. The quite good solo album is with The @#$%& from 1977, where he makes some fabulous job with Stig Möller. Guitarist Beckerlee have not really made it solo either, I hear some stuff he did with Christianshavn Blues Band (it can still happen?) is O.K. I dont recall drummer Berlevs new group.
Scandinavian rock in 1977-78 was terrifyingly good; with Hurriganes in Finland, Nationalteatern and an awakening punk scene in Sweden, and Gasolin´in Denmark (sorry Norway)... And, remember: Gasolin´ i s Denmarks Stones.
No shit.