"Whoops" you would like to know who I am.

Well, I was born 1955 and I live in Nol, which is located approximately 18 miles (25km) northeast of Gothenburg, Sweden. I live together with my lovely wife Mariana and our daughter Bernadie. (Bernadie is a collie dog.) My interests are music, fishing and dogs.

Music:

A pic of me in action: '92

I have been a guitar player and a sound engineer for many years. I'm influenced by many great guitar players, for example: Alvin Lee, (who would have guessed?), Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Garry Moore, Steve Lukather, and David Gilmore among others.

I use a Heritage H-535 (Betina) as my main guitar. As backup I use two guitars, one is a Blade Limited Edition (Mr.Blade) and the second one is a Telecaster ( General Caster). They are all very good guitars. The Blade has a Stratocaster look with 2 humbuckers and 1 single-coil. The Heritage is a Sunburst one and is almost the same as a Gibson ES-335. The Telecaster is a Nashville Delux model, sunburst. For power I use a Marshall 6101 anniversary amp; they all sound great together with the Marshall.

In my heart I'm a blues and R&R player, and we still have some rock clubs left were one can play the blues. Even so here in Sweden you have to play all kind of Music styles to get gigs.

In the studio, I've worked as a sound engineer with such names as: Tower of Power, Tata Vega, Alex Acuña, Koinonia, Jessy Dixon. Also, a master class video with Bruce Swedien, just to mention a few.

In addition I've been working with a lot of Swedish artists like: Carola, Janne Schaffer, Frank and Simon Ådal, Per-Erik Hallin, Stefan Andersson, Per Lindwall, Rutger Gunnarsson, Johan Stengård, and so on.

Here is a link to a crazy Band from Sweden; No Tjafs (only in Swedish, "but some cool pic's")

If you would like to get more information about Gothenburg, please check out my good friend Garry Stewart's home page.

Fishing:

Fishing is one of my greatest hobbies. Sweden is a country with a lot of good fishing lakes and from where I live it's only a few minutes to the sea. It doesn't really matter where you live, you are always close to a lake, or to the sea.

We have a lot of different kinds of fish here in Sweden. You just have to go out and catch them (smile). I'm not going to name them all, but here are a few: Salmon, Salmon Trout, Char, Pike, Mackerel, Codfish and Sea Trout. and so on.

I prefer to fish in the sea, which I do very often. It's very nice and relaxing. Listening to the birds and getting fresh air is great. If you haven't tried it, please do. You're going to love it. I promise.

Our Dog:

I really like dogs a lot, especially Collies. We have a collie of our own, Her name is Bernadie. She is sable colored, and a real beauty. She was born 1992 at one of the biggest collie kennels there is here in Sweden. She has a very good pedigree. She is very nice and calm, but likes to fool around with other dogs, and she loves the nature just like me. It would be nice if she got puppies some day. We'll see; we're still looking for a good mate.

She follows us wherever we go, and sleeps with us in our bed every night. Believe it or not, she has been with me on stage before. She's a real Rock & Roll dog. Or what do you think?

Here's a pic of Bella:

Thanks to Garry and Anna who took this picture of Bella.

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