- The story of The Soul
Preachers
- Part two: 1988 -
1989
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After their short "tour" in Finland the band broke up
again. The rest of the Dorian Gray didn't like that half
of their band toured in foreign countries with another
band. So Tero and Vesa left The Soul Preachers. Lars
"Calle" Carlsson wanted to continue, he had such fun. But
it took a couple of months again before they found a bass
player and a drummer. But they did.
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- The name of the new drummer was
Hannu Alakoski. He was the
perfect drummer for The Soul Preachers at that point. He
hits hard and distinctly and liked the same music that
Calle and Jarmo: Velvet and Iggy. Soon they found even a
bass player: Dan Pettersson.
He was a former hard rock guitarist with a new Marshall
stack and a metallic-red Van Halen type guitar. And long
curly hair. The rest of the band had more punk rock
attitude.
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The 12-inch EP "The Correct Use Of
Hope" is still available. Contact (e-mail ) us if
you want to buy one.
The pictures on the right are from
the recording session of the record. The first
picture: mixing the record, from left to right:
Lars Carlsson, Jarmo Haapamäki, Dan
Pettersson. Second picture: Jarmo and Lars playing
guitars. Third: Hannu sleeping. The fourth: Jarmo
playing piano.
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- Dan sold his heavy metal stuff and bought a bass rig
instead. The Soul Preachers #3 was formed. It sounded
even better than the last one. New songs were written and
very soon went The Soul Preachers into a recording studio
in Eskilstuna to make their first record. The songs:
Touch And Go, The Harbour Of Love, No Place To Go and We'll Meet Again were recorded and
it sounded OK. Not really like the band used to sound
live, the engineer was an asshole who didn't let the guys
touch the filters themselves. And Hannu, the drummer, had
a terrible hangover when they played the songs.
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- Anyway, the songs were later published as a four-song
twelve-inch EP The Correct Use Of
Hope. But then were there no The Soul Preachers.
Hannu took and went to Australia after the band was in
the studio in spring '88 and said he'd get back in a
year. Maybe. Calle was offered to take over lead
guitarist's place in Dorian Gray and he said yes.
Hannu wasn't that long time in Australia. The money went
out after only a couple of months and he had to come back.
Dan, the bass player and Jarmo wanted to continue and they
did. But they had found a great guy that could play the bass
instead of Dan, who could switch back to the guitar again.
The new bass player's name was Uffe
Enokson.
- It was autumn '88. The guys jammed together once or
twice, but it wasn't really a band. They drank bier and
red wine more often than played with their instruments.
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- The Soul Preachers moved their
stuff from Hälleforsnäs to Flen, the town
nearby where Hannu Alakoski and Dan Pettersson lived
(Uffe studied literature in Åsa Folkhögskola near
Flen), but they hardly touched them. After a couple of
months moved Dan from Flen to Northern Sweden and in
January '89 moved even Jarmo from Hälleforsnäs
to the East Coast, Hallstavik, where he was offered a
teaching job. Jarmo gave out the record with his own
money in the early summer but he wasn't playing in any
group, though he moved back to Hälleforsnäs. In
fact, The Soul Preachers wasn't playing a tune together
in 1989.
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(to be continued)
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an elevator. The Soul Preachers, May 1988 in Eskilstuna,
Sweden, Skyline studio. We can hear the elevator in the
beginning of "Borneo". It was recorded '92 in the same
studio as "The Correct Use Of Hope" '88. The really tired
guys from left to right: Dan Pettersson, Lars Carlsson,
Hannu Alakoski, Jarmo Haapamäki.
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