Gain it for Riffs!

So, it happened.

We each made an undisclosed riff choice, as we do for most episodes, and happened to pick the very same band!

This is Episode 666 (42..actually) :

The Unexpected In Flames Special. Olle's mainriff is Clayman from the album of the same name and Jon's is Cloud Connected from the album after, Reroute to Remain.

We take a trip back to teenage years and scope in on In Flames development and changing of style and members over the years.

Othe riffs include "The Jester Race", "Dead Eternity", "The Hive", "Episode 666", "Bullet Ride" and "Only for the Weak"

Outro tune: "Blackbird" by Jonatan Hedlin

Blizzards! 

Jungle Valleys! 

Deserts!

What a mighty trek this week, folks.

Your resident riff-mongers are now not only back on earth but completely ROAMING the globe.

Jon is trapped in a blizzard but still welcomes you to the jungle with some mighty ass Slash-riffage as a (standing up!) Owlie explores Sky Valley with a guitar tone of Jurassic proportion.

It's an adventure worthy the, by now, established season 2 of Gain it for Riffs!

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Your riff boys are yet again touching ground on planet earth after a lengthy 144 days in Captain Beyond's Cosmic Space Station. 

Coming back as seasoned Monster Astronauts both Jon'o and Owlie-Steen celebrate their newly re-kindled connection with mother earth, by riffing - of course.

Olle is picking from the box this episode, crash-landing into Michael Amott's pentatonic riff-dreams from Halmstad:

Simultaneously, in another time, Udo Dirkschneider and Wolf Hoffman were plodding down autobahn in an old Volkswagen or Lada, touring their steady beer-chugging hymns from bierstübe to kneipe, from Wacken to Dong Open Air.

So get your riffsticks out of the closet and pour yourself a bland german weissbier and RIFF ON!

LISTEN: JUMP ON A MOON BEAM AND RIDE!

Captain Beyond - S/T (1972) is the deserted island album pick

for both of your resident riffsters, and the 35-minute riffstravaganza 

has brought an unfathomable amount of joy to us since we first heard it.

An undeniable classic but at the same time sadly forgotten

by time, sloppy management and bad luck - at the moment the album 

is not available on any streaming service..!

So our goal with this New Years Special is to play every riff on the album

and make an introduction to this mystery super-group featuring

Rod Evans (vocals, ex-Deep Purple), Bobby Caldwell (ex-Johnny Winter, ex-Armageddon

ex-Allman Bros), Rhino (ex-Iron Butterfly, ex-Rhinosaurus, ex-Allman Bros) and 

Lee Dorman (ex-Iron Butterfly).

Just like the album, this episode should be experienced as one unit, 

the imploding center of a dying star, the penultimate accomplishment in 70's riffdom,.

The LP that forged a bond stronger than quasars: 

CAPTAIN BEYOND

So strap on your fave purple guitar and riff along!

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Happy New Year!

'tis the season! - or something like that, right?!

Your riff brothers are building an ethereal airthrone as a respite from the ongoing lockdown. 

Two quintessential musical duos with riffs heading in vastly different musical directions. 

Olle explains why the electric bass is a funny instrument and why getting fired is more important than getting hired. 

Jon convicts his right riff hand to three tones of hard labor!

Enjoy the ride, lockdown riff lords!

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Fate has brought us both to the late 1960s...rock and/or roll in it's semi-adolescent years. Psychedelic habits, roaring Hammond B3s, increasingly heroic string pugilists. Yes, and why not? This is a great time indeed, a great time for riffs. A worthy stop on our ever elongated journey into and beyond riff dominion.  

So, this week Olle riffs out on Iron Butterfly and Jon hits it with the American Band themselves: Grand Funk Railroad. 

In A Gadda Da Vida, honey!

After a bit over half a year of doing this we take the opportunity to look back at our first 35 hours or so, a.k.a. Season 1!

We look back at riffs by artists such as  Led Zeppelin, Rush, Down, Link Wray, Death, High on Fire, ZZ Top, Justice, Kurt Vile, Metallica and Iron Maiden.

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Prince of Massachusetts! 

We both ended up in the later 70s with two rather different but equally brilliant music maestros in Tom Scholz and Prince.

In each episode we pick one main riff each, undisclosed to the other part, to base our discussions around.

We head on to Boston at 06:00 and we stumble about on the ice starting on 40:10

Enjoy!

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