Swedish rock&roll? Ehh, not quite
I ‘m a driver for buddies on cruising sometimes. Pretty fun. Weird things happen and then it’s nice to be sober knowing I didn’t do anything. Lets go for a ride.
When you were young and without anything behind the frontal bone you made a lot of fuzz. Turning 50 I’ve thought back on the follies of youth, and it is fortunate that we live and are not seriously injured but that’s another story. It was cruising in Sundsvall and I was the driver. When had been cruising around for a while when the car owner started to play “Alptoppen”, whatever that was. It turned out that it was an old “hit” with Ove Törnqvist, in my ears a clean catastrophically disaster of real lows.
Swedish rock&roll
Not in a million years.
When the song was over, he rewinded the
tape, and the noise was there again. After being plagued by song at high volume 25-30 times during the evening I was severely sick of all the noise. I worked at a steel industry with high noise and rattling. I’m hardened but this was much worse than a noisy day at work. After a lot of beer drinking, they went out and relieved the pressure. Then I hurried and took the cassette and threw it in the back of the glove box and were looking forward to
KLICKA HÄR
another tape. When the car owner came back he was going for Alptoppen again and began to wind the tape back and forth but found no song. Then he looked very, shall we say, surprised.
He presses eject and sees that it’s the wrong cassette so now starts an intensive search for the right one and eventually he finds it and sadly it gets to exacerbate my tinnitus again. If only it had been a good quality recording. Then I might have managed to withstand it but the recording had everything to be desired.
To understand the quality...
Take this affliction of song recorded on a scuffed vinyl , put the disc on a gramophone at 1 watt 60’s with 1.5 Watts plastic speakers and turn the volume to max. Then take a cassette recorder of 3 watts of 1973 and record the song with a microphone. Then remove the cassette and put it in a car radio player of 2.5 watts from the mid 70’s with 8 Watts plastic speakers and turn up the volume full throttle. Imagine the sound, dig into this and sing along.
To cut bodywork sheet with pad in a large, echoing garage without hearing protection is music compared to this recording. Who run with