Happy New Year everybody! I've come to the point in my life where I'm looking for an amp with a loud but clean sound. For years I've been playing with a "sweet and thick" distorsion and the clean sound has always suffered. This time I thought it was time for a change. I've just bought myself a Paul Rivera built Fender concert (60 w) from 82. It's an all tube amp, loud as hell but still 100% clean, not even a little bit of "crunch". 10 minutes ago I switched it off and now I'm …

 The mighty year of 2010 has come to an end and what could be a better way to end it, than to rehearse with HFMC! I've already told you about my feelings since we released FuturePast. I also mentioned some of the plans for 2011. I actually spoke to Mark "Truey" Trueack of Unitopia just before Christmas about "The Hope" project among other things. He informed me it's still on and it's progressing nice and easy but a little slow (sounds familiar!). Do you remember? Some blogs ago I …

 I'm actually not gonna quote the Irish schlager singer Johnny Logan and state that this has been "just another year". That's certainly not the case, quite the contrary I would say. 2010 has for the lads and me been rather extraordinary! After the fact that we mastered FuturePast for the third time and I realized that we wouldn't be able to release it before the summer, it was like bloody torture to sit on your ...ss and wait for over 3 months to get it out in the open. Since then it's …

 Finally! At last I can give you the dates of our next little trip of the FuturePast tour 2010/2011. Since we decided to not do England this time, I was forced to cancel one show and "reschedule" two of the other gigs. After lots of e-mails and phone calls, this is what it looks like: 110127: John Dee - Oslo (Norway). Together with Norwegian band Magic Pie. 110226: Musikens Hus - Gothenburgh (Sweden). Festival with Wasa Express and Lone Star Retractor. 110227: Into Music - Lund (Sweden). …

 First of all, tonight or today "and" tomorrow (depending on where you live) you can listen to Rick Dashiell of Delicious Agony and the investigating questions he had for me. I don't know what this little dialogue will end up like? But I remember we talked about the obvious, HFMC, FuturePast and also a little about TFK. As I remember it, we did it randomly in a relaxed and cozy way. For more information, this is the way to go: …

 I had me some breakfast a little while ago and it strucked me, it's been a while since I informed you about what's going on in the HFMC camp. We're just about to start to rehearse some new material, we're gonna do that now on saturday. That means it's once again time for a "moment of truth" situation. I have to confess, I absolutely don't know what to expect of what the guys will think of the new songs? I'm mighty excited and frankly a little nervous about it. At the same time we have to …

 Life can be a mystery? A while back I got a message on facebook and yesterday we had our second meeting about it. I have to say that in the end this might turn out into something quite extraordinary? Yesterday, I talked to an old friend of mine who said that things were moving in a certain direction?�I know it couldn't get anymore cryptic than this but sometime in the future I hope I'll be able to say, remember where you heard it first with this blog in mind. Yesterday�I also got a phonecall from …

 Last week I got a sign from Ken and Gerri of the Canadian based "Longshot Productions". They informed me that they're putting the final touches on our upcoming video to the song "Fallen Empire". Let me tell you, I'm just as curious as you are! I haven't got a clue to what they've been up to? Normally I would've been more involved but the way this "thing" happened, made me leave the control to these Canadian friends. I've seen some other videos that they've done. That + …

Hey, guess what! Playing in a band must be the greatest thing there is. First of all it's the sheer joy of playing music together, when you've become one with the song and the guys playing it (if you get what I mean?). Then it's of course the social bit. I mean you share both good and bad times but what really separates the boys from the men, is touring. Being together 24/7 for a couple of weeks or maybe a month, requires lots of qualities of all members. It's under conditions like these, you really can …

With the wind in your back and the sun right above your head, try not to feel good while you're riding your bike between Venice and Santa Monica. Riding on the beach pretty close to the shoreline amongst yoggers, people on rollerblades, skateboards or other "vehicles", must be the perfect medicine for your soul. Hippies, hip-hoppers, tourists, teenagers, surfers, skaters, cops and God knows what, together with the smell of Mariujana, makes it a very "interresting" impression. Coming …

...mmm...hmm...psst...hello...are you still out there? It's been over three weeks since my latest blogpost and I've never had such a long break since I started this page. We're also in the middle of July and I guess some of you are on, or is just about to go on vacation, which has been the reason for me, not to be online that much. Except for some short updates on facebook, there's been nothing since the blog "Sweet", that was written almost while the cab was waiting to take us to the airport …

"Sweet" If you're happy, music can make you more happy. If you're sad, music can make you even more sad. That's how it works for me. Back when the kids were young, everytime at the last day in school before the summer break when they started to sing "Den blomstertid nu kommer", I started to cry. It was "happy tears", a strange combination of relief, happiness and of course I was proud over the two junior Fröbergs. If you're talking about strong emotions, this is the …

The summer is just around the corner, at least for us here in Sweden. Beside the fact that it's actually quite nice outside, the "World Cup 2010 in South Africa" is the perfect proof of that. This time Sweden didn't qualify (thanks to Denmark). Seriously, as soon as I saw that we had them in our qualification group (again), I said this time it's there turn. Sad for us I was right. On the other hand, earlier on we qualified on there behalf a couple of times, so I guess in the end some kind of …

Heard on the radio about a boy, who took his life because he wasn't allowed to play as much computer games as he would've liked. Heard on the radio, in Pakistan the Taliban bombed a school for girls. Heard on the radio, British Petrol is cleaning up the mess in the Mexican Gulf with an "antiseptic", that's almost as bad as the oil. Heard on the radio about yet another priest, who have molested a child. Heard on the radio, in Haiti they amputate without giving anaesthesia. Heard on the radio …

I know I shouldn't write this because of all the people and companies that has gotten into trouble because of the volcano (dust) from Iceland. For me the timing couldn't be better. That little bugger actually gave me some time off from Arlanda that has been very useful as we're putting the final touches to the mix. On the other hand I have to say I feel so sorry for J.L.Anton and co. Last week I called him to see how they were hanging, before their trip to The States. I was actually trying to get …