Pekka Pohjola live with Made in Sweden, 1976

[BassTractor]

Thought some of you might enjoy Swedish prog/fusion/folk band Made in Sweden playing live.
Pekka on bass, but I think they were all good musicians.
From a 1976 festival in Ålesund in Norway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63f2Wl5UIGQ

 

[Earbrass]

Thanks for posting. Just wanted to add that, despite the band name, the rhythm section comprising Pekka Pohjola and Vesa Aaltonen was actually made in Finland 😊.

[BassTractor]

43 minutes ago, Earbrass said:

Thanks for posting. Just wanted to add that, despite the band name, the rhythm section comprising Pekka Pohjola and Vesa Aaltonen was actually made in Finland 😊.

Aye, and even called that: "Made in Finland", though not officially. 🙂

[itu]

The late Bass General did lots of progressive and somewhat complicated music, but his compositions include fun stuff, too.

 

[LeftyP]

Now that brought back some memories of listening to Radio Sweden in the early 70s.  I actually bought this LP!

 

[BassTractor]

10 hours ago, itu said:

The late Bass General did lots of progressive and somewhat complicated music

Methinks he made many luvverly albums under his own name as well as with The Group, and I also love much of the Wigwam stuff - a lot.
That said, listening to his albums, and I think I've got all of them, I tend to feel a longing for something slightly more adventurous.

Fun fact, in the late seventies or early eighties, I played in a Dutch band called "The Group". We were so famous that we sold at least 13 records, maybe even more than 15, and when I once told some Dutchman our band was called "The Group", he looked at me in awe and went: "You play with Pekka Pohjola?" 

Well, it's one way of hearing about a musician you later learn to appreciate! 😄

Edited November 23, 2019 by BassTractor

[itu]

To clarify my previous comment, I downright love his music and playing. I even had a chance to see him playing live maybe two, three times. The bands were so tight and at the same time so relaxed. The just played! Bass General is one main reasons I still play. I covered some song of his while applying to a music school in my late teens and got in.

Now, I am far away from his level but his playing made me try to develop and reach for more. His son, Verneri Pohjola is also an honored musician. Fathers and sons...

[wateroftyne]

Never heard of them, but they’re bloody good. That clip seems pretty lean and modern, especially when you think it’s around the time of Relayer and A Trick of the Tail, which feel a bit more ‘of the time’...

Edited November 23, 2019 by wateroftyne

[BassTractor]

21 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

Never heard of them, but they’re bloody good. 

Nice. If you're interested in checking them out, the first four of these five tracks are from their '76 album "Where Do We Begin".

[howdenspur]

Like that, though not my usual diet. Is it me, or is that a remarkably good quality video/film recording?

[BassTractor]

2 hours ago, howdenspur said:

Like that, though not my usual diet. Is it me, or is that a remarkably good quality video/film recording?

It is to my ears too.
Apparently it was made by our local "BBC", called NRK. It probably was broadcast at one point.
 

Which reminds me: we lived in times when it was possible for national TV to give us for example a one hour prog gig...
...on Saturday...
...at 8PM.

Whoa!

Edited November 23, 2019 by BassTractor