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All news written by Jarmo Haapamäki, unless mentioned otherwise. Some of the older news have been erased, some of them can be found on the OLD NEWS page. A link there at the end of this page. 5/4 1999 The Sun about The Soul Preachers lyrics: "Don't look at this it's horrid" I took a peek at The Soul Preachers guestbook one day and saw a message from a guy from England. He told that he had red the lyrics of "Dunblane" at a paper. I wrote back to the guy and asked what paper he had been reading. He replied (a copy of the mail):
29/7 1998 Still in the studio - but the recording session will soon be finished Over three weeks in the recording studio now - trying to get the perfect sound takes time, we've noticed. Well, it's not going to be perfect (I'd guess it's impossible) but it sounds much better than we've ever achieved in any studio before. Yet the studio gear we've using is nothing but expensive. The seven songs (see the news article below) have been recorded as planned. There's still a couple of things to put on tape, guitar solos and acoustic guitars and stuff. But 90% of the stuff is already done and we think it sounds great. Pasi, the original drummer, listened to the raw tapes (not mixed at all) and he was impressed. We'll see a bit later what you, dear The Soul Preachers friends think of the stuff. It seems that the quality is good enough to be released on CD. If nothing unexpected happens, the recordings are complete and mixed at the end of this week. You will be notified. We would like to thank Timo Raita at DSL (Disco Sound Lightning, Eskilstuna) for kindly borrowing us compressors, effect processors and microphones during the recording session. We have been able to use the (quality) stuff at no cost for several weeks now. 7/7 1998 The Soul Preachers
in studio We started a recording session at the It's Alive! studio yesterday. At the moment, only Fredde and I have been in the studio, soundchecking and injusting the instruments. Jörgen and Pelle will join us later, when we think we are ready with the sounds. Maybe tonight? Normally we have always had such a hurry to start recording that the sounds have not been that great. We try to do it better this time, let's see if we have the patience to continue injusting the gear until we are satisfied. Yesterday we spent several hours injusting the drum kit - changed drumheads, tuned them and stuff. Fredde's bass guitar needed some injusting, too. We're getting there... We plan to record the songs we think are good for the moment - that's the songs we played at our first gig in April. Maybe there will be one or two additional songs, but we haven't been rehearsing that much since then. That's the stuff we can play with the new line-up. We like to record them before we get sick of them and want to play brand new stuff instead. The songs we plan to record are: Looking For America, Holy Cow, I Will Kill You, Wishing Well, I Want You, All The Songs She Writes, Meatballs Only Make You Cry. None of the songs we plan to record are brand new, some of the songs have already been recorded earlier, with Pasi on drums. A couple of the songs have been recorded at jam sessions, some of them with other guys playing the instruments, some of them as demo recordings by myself. This time it's for real... The plan is: If the stuff that comes out is good enough, the recording session will result to a new CD. Some of you guys have been demanding a new The Soul Preachers record for some time now. As you know, we don't have a record deal so it propably will be released by ourselves. Hope you'll like (buy) it then so we get our money back, at least the most of it. What about Pasi, our former drummer? - He's still around, we have jammed with him a couple of times, just for fun. The Soul Preachers still has two drummers, but Jörgen is the one that "counts" at the moment. Pasi is still having vacation.
I just took a look at our Geocities mirror site to see if it was still there. The last time I looked (months ago) there were only a few visitors and I haven't updated that site for ages, I just put a link to our Swedish site there, to the site you're visiting now. To my BIG surprise the counter showed me that there had been over 150.000 visitors on our site. Incredible! I'm not sure if the counter's just gone mad or if there really has been that high a trafic. If the number's not a joke by someone, I'd guess I'll have to start to update that site, too... And if the number is true, does anybody know why there has been so many visitors??? E-mail me. 27/4 1998 First gig with the new line-up The Soul Preachers played it's first gig with the new line-up at Saturday. We played two sets, the first one with original songs: Looking For America, Holy Cow, I Will Kill You, Wishing Well, I Want You, All The Songs She Writes, Meatballs Only Make You Cry. That part of the gig went very well, I think. When we later played covers, it wasn't that exiting. The audience wasn't carried away with it and neither were we. Good thing was that the other band playing there, Texas Snowboards, could save the rest of the evening. Part of the audience were boiling to them. They were really good. The covers we performed were: Pale Blue Eyes (Velvet Underground), Dancing Barefoot (Patti Smith), Greenback Dollar (The Kingston Trio), Guns Of Brixton (The Clash), Passenger (Iggy Pop), Rocking In The Free World (Neil Young)... and maybe a couple more. Don't remember. Oh yes, later at the night, when Jörgen, the drummer, had already gone home, Tero Larsson from Dorian Gray took the drum sticks and Petri Liikanen from Gherkin Fly my guitar (I had the same morning bought a mint condition Yamaha SG 3000S guitar), Fredde played the bass and I (Jarmo) just sang. Pelle gripped his guitar and was supposed to play too but I don't remeber if he did. Skitsamma. We played a couple of covers, too. Waiting For The Man (Velvet Underground) and House Of The Rising Sun (The Animals). Then I think we improvised some blues stuff or something. At the end there was only Tero playing the drums and I ad-libbing with a microphone in my hand. And a beer in the other hand. I'm glad the first part of the gig went so well, the one with The Soul Preachers originals. I'm also glad I drove 160 kilometers early in the morning to buy my new black beautiful electric guitar. If you're interested in Yamaha SG 2000S or SG 3000S click here. 13/1 1998 Uffe has moved again. We have not. We received a post card today from Uffe. He notified us that he has moved to Växjö (Småland) again. He writes: "I'm here now". That's all we know of him. And now you know exactly as much as we do. Pelle and Jarmo has started to collect material for a book about every rock and pop band in Flen there has ever existeded. Everyone reading this and having some kind of information to share, e-mail Jarmo. If you understand Swedish, you can even visit the home page of It's Alive! There's more info of the project. The tryout rehearsal with the new drummer Jörgen Danielsson turned out very well. We will rehearse again tomorrow. It seems that Jörgen's one of us now.
We haven't spoken with Uffe Enokson, the bass player, since last spring. We haven't been playing together for almost a year. We haven't even seen him. We think it's time to say that he is no longer our bass player. Shit, it's going to be a hell to change everything on our home page... But there's more changes to come in the line-up. Doctor's Special, the cover band with line up: Jarmo Haapamäki (lead guitar, lead vocals), Pasi Taskinen (drums), Fredde Larsson (bass, backing vocals), Pelle Holmgren (guitar), will propably change it's name to The Soul Preachers. We have been rehearsing for months now and have started to write (or jam) own stuff now. No more just covers. And that's not all. Pasi Taskinen, the drummer, has told us that we can start looking for a new drummer. He thinks he cannot put his whole soul (!) to the band because of his work and his family and stuff. It came as a chock to us. But after a couple of weeks of concidering we contacted this guy we knew, Jörgen Danielsson. He lives in Flen and is formely known as the hard-hitting drummer of Pope On Dope. He is willing to try. And we are willing to put something together with him. This is very new stuff. We phoned Jörgen today. Pasi will propably continue playing the drums with us every now and them (not that often) but there will be two different bands and Jörgen will be the drummer of the "serious one".
It's easier to remember. Every time someone asked me of our net address I had to say that I don't rember. There's too many numbers. http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-36234 is the real URL. It can now be reached by typing come.to/the.soul.preachers . Much easier. If you want to directly to the LIVE PIX section, then type come.to/live.pix . My Finnish site Hunajaa can reached with URL come.to/jarmo . The new addresses were provided free by come.to. Works just fine.
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