Old photos

Fantastic morning. Sunshine all over the place and face. I am in a great mood so i give you a blast from the past. As i told you some time ago i have way to many photos and stories to not share a few here.

When HCSS had some time off (yeah right) i sometimes did a few guest appearances here and there.

Some good and some bad ones. I also have a bunch of "kodak moment" photos. 

Enjoy

Check this line up-

Nikke Ström, Mikkey Dee, Ebbot Lundberg, Bengan Blomgren and Håkan Svensson.

Charity gig at Gothenburg sea side. My wife and me did a couple of songs. One of them was The Stooges "I wanna be your dog" with Ebbot behind the drums. Classic. Too many tele´s and strats there thou. I played my Gibson Firebird just to break even!

                                                                       And this is Tour manager/guitar tech Sanjay in Tallinn, Estonia. With some very hot sauce in his eyes! Amazing city in many ways. Cheap food and drinks all over the place. Even the most expensive restaurants are fairly alright money wise. But their hot sauce is lethal and jumps at you when under 

pressure.

This one the bastards took when i was sleeping. Somewhere in the E.U many years ago.

Apparently i stayed in this position for quit some time and did not move a muscle for a couple of hours even when the bus was driving. 

This reminds me that i still haven´t got back at them for this one!

Well, we painted Adde a bit but he just liked it.

Hard to get back at a guy that just asks for it!

Can you spot the black ears that the man desperately asked for himself.

And Jocke´s got a little green going there in the back.

    The plane to tokyo 2006.

And I like this one. HCSS mark II

  

All those crazy dreams that never fades

Hi all!

I´ve been working a lot with music for the last weeks and have come up with a bunch of great songs.

I have recorded some demos and i have learned a bit more about The world of Cubase. Some songs written by me and some with other musician friends. (Jonas Almqvist, Andreas Kleerup, Timo Räisänen amongst a few)

I have a fairly nice set up that works great for demos and for recording guitar or vocals. I have even fucked around some with our old Bösendorfer Grand piano, just to try to get a good sound and try different microphones as well. 

Got some Summit Audio pre-amps and compressors.

So there´s about 7-8 songs and more to come. I record it all by my self for the moment so before a final product theres a lot to do. I have some plans to where to record these songs one day!

I also had a few interesting meetings regarding my music lately, and i think i actually will release some of  it some time this year. A single first. And i even got a gig request.. time will tell.

This boy haven´t been so lazy lately you see!!

"Maybe i will do an album.

Maybe i will go on tour.

Sure there must be some fans,

For this aging RnR star."

Thomas Silver

News from dunlop

The Dunlop/MXR team just put out great stuff for great musicians. I am a true believer that MXR make the best effect pedals around today if you don´t geek out and search yourself to death for boutique nonsens. (And while i am writing this, Peter Forsberg Scores his first olympic goal since 1998,JIPPI) time is 07.18 here in Sweden.
Anyway.
The 3 available gauges are HEAVY, HEAVIER, and HEAVIEST, and each is based on a different core-to-core wrap ratio to ensure maximum control and comfort while beefing up your tone! Nice package as well, let´s find out if i can get my hands on a set and try them out a bit.
    

the one in the owen.

Remember i had a guitar in cooking at 200° to make it crack up a bit. it sure did. the photos dont show it though i have to fix my camera. this is from the webcam. feel like a 16 year old teenager. There is no pup´s installed as i wait for the new Yngwie Malmsteen "Fury" from Seymore Duncan. The neck has been sanded down, logo removed and re fretted with Dunlop jumbos 6100, i think. Stefan is the guy who re frets all the guitars i actually use. Live or in studio. So what we have here is a guitar that costs new around 1600skr/160€/220US Dollars. The frets and the job is more money then the guitar itself.
But it´s all fun. A guitar does not need to be shit expensive to be a good player and a cool looking lefty guitar.
Silver

Heres a story from once upon a time called right about now!

Heres a story from once upon a time called right about now!
A bunch of months ago, last year. I was invited by Crafton to come and try out 3 new neck prototypes from Ibanez. I was one of twenty.
The Crafton staff served a wonderful cake by the way. Just addictive!
Japanese and Dutch IBZ employees showed me 6 guitars?
3 different necks and 2 different bolt on types. the newer AANJ and the older Rg/Jem style with a back plate. 80´s style again. Like on the re issues for Paul Gilbert. Actually almost all of the prototype bodies was PGM´s. I could easily tell from the position of the volume knob and pick-up switch. As it was the necks it was all about, i think they just took what bodies they had laying around. So three new necks to choose from. I was in there alone with them for almost 2 hours then they let the other 19 in for a some time.
The bodies were totally raw. No paint job, just bare untouched wood. Routed for H/S/H but only bridge pup installed, PGM hardtail bridge, volume knob and no switch. No back plate over the routing and no logo.....NO LOGO!!!!!
They were all numbered. NR 3 had a U shape, NR 2 had a D and NR 1 was a C shaped 17mm dream i could not forget since!
My god it was nice. The best IBZ i have played.
I cried out that this was the shit! Look no further, guys.
I left there after a great day but with this guitar banging my shred brain.
Time went on as it does.
And yesterday Anders from Crafton came by me with a box! Said -here its for you! Its NR 1....
Do you think i was chocked, i had almost forgotten about her and never thought that i one day had it my hands. So here she is:

There can be only ONE

In my pedalboard

Talking about pedals made me think that some of you might actually like to know whats in my pedalboard at the moment. Just so you know, i am a true believer that anything you put between your guitar and your amp takes away tone! So it´s all compromises. When i was in HCSS i only had Boss dd-3 delay, MXR micro amp, Boss NS-2 and a optic Wah! So there was really only two effects. Delay and wah. I like to keep it simple. All other effects i did with my fingers.
Here it is today: Korg pitch black tuner, Ibanez Paul Gilbert signature Airplane flanger, MXR micro amp, MXR line driver/Booster, MXR carbon copy delay, Dunlop EVH wah, Xotic effects BB boost.
A bit to much actually...

The Silv

the Jerry Cantrell Wah pedal from Dunlop

I had the chance to try the new J.C wah pedal when visiting the NAMM show in Jan. It was a great pedal. Dunlop really hit the right nail when it comes to their pedals lately. And they just don´t sound good, they look awesome as well. Especially the EVH wah, who i am a proud owner of. Can´t wait to get my hands(or feet) on one of these very soon.
Text below from dunlop site.
The Silv


 One of the most influential guitarists to come out of the Seattle rock scene, Jerry Cantrell’s epic riffs and searing tone have been the driving force behind Alice in Chains since the late 80’s. His melancholy wah-drenched melodies in modern classics like “Man in the Box” and “The Rooster” left an indelible mark on a generation of guitarists. Jerry favored wah-wahs with a wider, darker response, and Dunlop has painstakingly replicated that moody sound to create his signature pedal. It’s custom-voiced for a tight, punchy heel-down tone and a rugged side-control knob lets you fine tune the toe-down frequency. And with its antique, oxidized “road worn” brass casting and custom Alice in Chains tread, this is one pedal that looks as great as it sounds.

Happiness is a warm gun....Down memory lane "2

Well, here´s a old picture of me and one of my fav guitars ever. And i tell you a little story about how it died!

We were about to do a video in Stockholm for the song "have you been around". Hcss debut album and third single from it.

Me and the director came up with the idea of rain falling like mad all over us somewhere in the middle of the song. And it gets heavier as the song goes into the grand finale. We had a big freakin fan that came from a propeller from a DC-3. Run by a big ass V8 Chevy engine.

I choose not to use my expensive Les Paul´s i had at the time so i got this Viper from ESP guitars in Tokyo, Japan. And i thought it could use this E.S.P in the video instead and it could get as wet as it wanted. Well, fresh out of the case. Here was this Japanese guitar that i were about to trash in the vid.

It all went well and we went on tour right after the final shot. Off to the EU. (Remember that this was when all countries had their own money). I am old..

So when i opened the case to see the state of the guitar it jumped at me, cant explain it at all really!

But the damn thing somehow manage to get me to play it on the first show and voila´.

It became the best sounding ax i have ever heard. i just loved that damn jap.

ok, anyhow...

One cold, cold night somewhere, many years later, we had a gig far away.

And a very good one to.

So in the middle of all the Sleaze that occurs at a HCSS live show i saw Adde on top of Martins Ampeg rig. So i threw him my guitar across the stage. And all of you who knows "the great drummer of Landvetter" also know that he was never any good at dealing with any kind of balls? For sports that is. The other ones he´s great at....! He had a firm grip around mine for a few years, thank god!

So he did not catch it  and i never played that guitar again. My fault i suppose.

But it´s all good, I know where he lives............