A true story.I know these people.
Four of them went to the same high school as me. The guy standing to the right - Tommy Hagman - was in my class. Extremly funny guy. Would propably have been expelled after the first year if he had not left to form this awful, awful band. Me and my friends were hunting imports of US records and thought Tommy was crazy and this music was the most uncool thing in the universe but he was working class, from a small paper mill town along the coast, as was most danceband musicians. The scene was strictly low brow and very gay without being openly gay and these people were making ridicuolous amounts of money. When the rest of us went to university they all had their private villas and drove mercedes. The most popular dancebands had their own private jets. So just think for a moment, that you were growing up in a small paper mill town in northern Sweden, on the same latitude as northern Alaska, and you discovered that you were not that good in icehockey and did not see drinking vodka as a career, this gave you an option to travel, have sex every night in a new town, play music and earn seven figures yearly. So they do not really care if we laugh at them.
Propably still not do.
And one more thing, if you think these clothes and these haircuts are BAD you should see some pics from their very unfortunate mid 80:s Flock-of-Seagulls-new-romantics period.
Four of them went to the same high school as me. The guy standing to the right - Tommy Hagman - was in my class. Extremly funny guy. Would propably have been expelled after the first year if he had not left to form this awful, awful band. Me and my friends were hunting imports of US records and thought Tommy was crazy and this music was the most uncool thing in the universe but he was working class, from a small paper mill town along the coast, as was most danceband musicians. The scene was strictly low brow and very gay without being openly gay and these people were making ridicuolous amounts of money. When the rest of us went to university they all had their private villas and drove mercedes. The most popular dancebands had their own private jets. So just think for a moment, that you were growing up in a small paper mill town in northern Sweden, on the same latitude as northern Alaska, and you discovered that you were not that good in icehockey and did not see drinking vodka as a career, this gave you an option to travel, have sex every night in a new town, play music and earn seven figures yearly. So they do not really care if we laugh at them.
Propably still not do.
And one more thing, if you think these clothes and these haircuts are BAD you should see some pics from their very unfortunate mid 80:s Flock-of-Seagulls-new-romantics period.
I thinks you should joined that band Mona, by any means.
ReplyDeleteJust think where you would be know!
There's some seriously scary stuff on those links too.