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The story of The Soul Preachers
Part five: 1992 - 1994
- In late summer 1992, after a gig in Katrineholm, the guys were drinking beer in a local restaurang with guys from Candy Kicks Ass, Dorian Gray and Dirt. Jarmo asked them if they were interested in releasing singles every now and selling some of the singles for the other bands. They could help each other with selling the stuff. Another idea came up instead, they could raise some money and make a compilation CD together.
- Everyone liked the idea and soon it was realized. The four bands recorded four songs each. All the other bands booked expencive studio time in Stockholm while The Soul Preachers took the cheapest one they could find in Eskilstuna, the town nearby. For half of the money the other bands put in recording four songs, The Soul Preachers recorded 17 songs!
- The Soul Preachers posing for the Bull's Eye inner sleeve.
- From left to right: Uffe Enokson, Pasi Taskinen,
- Jarmo Haapamäki.
- Photo: Lars Carlsson (1992)
- The CD, Bull's Eye, came out (after a long wait for Dorian Gray to finish their recordings) in april '93 and the rest of the songs The Soul Preachers put on tape were released as a cassette a couple of month later. The cassette was titled Mono Sapiens' 16 Frog Vomits - You Need Them Like A Hole In The Head. There were 17 songs but the guys thought sixteen sounded better seventeen. It wasn't a typo. In some of the folders you could read: ...Need Them Like A Hole In Your Head. That was a typo.
- The Soul Preachers didn't really tour anywhere. They sent some demos to record companies and magazines but all the gigs they did were near Hälleforsnäs and Flen. They played a couple of times in Katrineholm as well. One of the gigs there was at the Rockholm 93 festival, where popular Swedish bands like KSMB and Clawfingers were headliners.
- As the month got by, The Soul Preachers got thicker skin on their hands and fingers and didn't bleed do much on stage anymore. Jarmo didn't rip off his guitar strings as often, at least not before the last song of the evening. They sounded better and better on stage. In spring 1994 they were propably at their peek and then after the summer it all suddenly vanished. Uffe had finished his studies in Linköping and it was time for him to move back to Växjö in southern Sweden. Again. Uffe declared that it would be impossible for him to come to Hälleforsnäs and play when he lived several hundred miles away. Seeking for another bass player started.
- The Soul Preachers in autumn 1984 at Liket Lever Igen! festival in Hälleforsnäs. Uffe hadn't officially left the band yet but he was in Australia and couldn't therefore play.
- Jarmo and Pasi asked their friends and former The Soul Preachers members Vesa Saarelainen (left, the bass) and Lars Carlsson (right, guitar) to help them out.
- Photo: Anders Olofsson
(to be continued) - The photo at the top of the page is taken by Lars Carlsson in 1994.
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