Erk Røe

adding some slide on the next Erik Røe album with my beloved Oahu hawaiian

Erik Røe & Arne Hovda (producer)

Last livegig with Reidar Larsen & co. this year...

selfportrait on stage... Live at stavanger bluesclub

Homecomming

I've moved my gear home from sharing space at my good friend "Pøya" Thorsen' studio. Im nearly done setting up at home...

Erik Røe & the Hillstone Halos sessions comming up..

http://www.thehillstonehalos.com/



Ive been asked to conribute on new material from artist Erik Røe and the band Hillstone Halos..






http://www.erikroe.no

Omnichord in da house

Ive used it on my song "icemans ghost" on www.myspace.com/arneskage

G# guitar finally arrives

great little shortscale guitar, made in china for luthier Øyvin Fjeld. As the name indicates its normal pitch is tuned to g -sharp, rich, full sound, almost "acoustic" tone with lots of overtones.

I Love E-bay

Cheesy rythms and atmospheric strumming... is all in the mighty omnichord, I just can't wait til I get it "in da house"

Mr Dave and I ( and some other guys)

Reidar Larsen, David Lindley, Arne Skage jr, Knut Hem
Notodden 2006

New Guitar - Gibson SG standard

I just got my hands on this beautifull early 1969 SG standard (serial nr 559929 no "made in usa" stamp, for you guitar-geeks out there)

Happy!!!

FØRST OG SIST

"B a part" live with Thomas Dybdahl "først og sist" NRK1 video here , me on 12 string and hawaiian guitar.

on tv with Thomas Dybdahl

I will appear together with Thomas Dybdahl & TGOS on "Først og Sist" med Fredrik Skavland on NRK1 this friday..... im honoured

Thomas Dybdahl Single A listed

Im playing my ouahu hawaiian guitar on the first single("B a part") from Thomas D's new album "science".

The single is A-listed on NRK P3 and B-listed on NRK P1

AlbumRelease in september.

listen to the song HERE

Jackson Browne/ David Lindley

Got to meet Jackson Browne who showed up with his friend David Lindley at the Notodden Gig last saturday, Jackson did "your bright baby blues" with Lindley , a song I used to sing with our band when I was in my teens , I was tickled pink.














(alle foto Hege)

G-sharp guitar

Luthier Øyvin Fjeld came to the soundcheck in sarpsborg and showed us his g# guitar..... a great little thing it is. I ordered mine before summer and Roy will be ordering his soon. http://g-sharpguitar.com/

(alle foto Hege)

On the Road again

First leg of the second tour with Roy Rogers /Reidar Larsen this year is over. We did Canal street festival in Arendal, cafe K , Porsgrunn and Kulåsparken sarpsborg last week, this week are doing Oslo and Notodden bluesfest




have purchased a new pedal: a Durham electronics sexdrive , great booster with a bit of compression.


foto 1&2 Arne Askerød, 3 Hege, 4 Canal street.no, 5 Arne Skage

Myspace

finally getting my myspace page up'n running www.myspace.com/arneskage

masterclass commig up

Im asked to do a masterclass in slideguitar this fall at gig - guitar school in Stavanger.

more info later

http://www.gig.no/

classic videos of my 2 top favourite slide guitarist

Lowell George & David Lindley

Classic videos on www.youtube.com !

here are two of my all time fav's, Little Feats "dixie chicken" and Jackson Browne's "Running on empty"

first round with Roy over...

the spring tour with Roy Rogers is over. Good shows all the way...

Stavanger Aftenblad has taped the stavanger show for their webcast check it out
Bergenfest has put out a gallery from our gig there



The new album finaly out.......

Here we go.......

First leg of the Reidar Larsen /Roy Rogers tour is over. We got a flying start in Bergen, a full house and live national radio broadcast( http://www.nrk.no/programmer/sider/p1-scenen/ use the link marked; P1-scenen 28.04.06 21:03 P1-scenen 28.04.06 22:05 ) 2 hours of rehearsals and off we went.... ,the radio stream will be availabel for 3 weeks

"crossing" will be released may 8.

Mr Dave @ Notodden Bluesfestival

My all time favourite guitarist, the king of polyester: Mr. David Lindley is playing Notodden Bluesfest..... and so are we!, we are actually sharing stage on the 5th of august at sliperihallen .
We are also sharing stage with legendary Johnny Winter, also a favourite of mine..... august 4th at sliperihallen

David Lindley.com
johnnywinter.net

Reidar Larsen on myspace

check out www.myspace.com/reidarlarsen Reidar larsens new myspace site

Also the the new Roy Rogers / Reidar Larsen album is called " the crossing" and will be availabel in Norway , and on the internet through http://www.roy-rogers.com

Big Fun at high seas

This weekends gigs went well, great fun to play with Knut Hem Jørun Bøgeberg and Terje Kinn. Reidar & the storytellers where of cours big fun too







Knut soundchecking









Jørun & Terje

Svein Tang Wa fyller 60 i dag! Gratulerer

Norges best bevarte hemlighet, tusenkunstner Svein Tang Wa fyller 60 hipp hipp etc. etc.

Calendar added

calendar is added... check it out

Craig Whitson DVD

Im doing the music for the upcomming DVD release from chef - Craig Whitson.

I've known Craig for years, a great guy, this DVD will feature footage from Craigs homestate of Oklahoma and the theme is BBQ ... okie style

Hanse Voktor is directing

http://www.craig.no

Re-release from Thomas D. and other stuff

Thomas Dybdahl is re-releasing his triology as a box set, I im contributing on the 2 first albums. Im called in to play on Torolf Nordbø aka "Han Innante" first "serious" album, also new Reidar Larsen gig booked... in may at Bryne

Yeee Haa

I will be substituting for Lars Håvard Haugen in Hems Strengelag on the cruise march 08/09-
(øve nå)

Blåtonar under breen, Cosmopolite, Maijazz added

More dates added for the Reidar Larsen/Roy Rogers tour: Blåe tonar under breen (Jostedalen) april29. cosmopolite in Oslo at april 30. and MAIJAZZ in Stavanger at Folken on may 11.









Reidar Larsen & storytellers + Hems Strengelag
Larvik/Fredrikshavn april 8


Han Innante & kamerattane
Aksdal Tysværtunet kulturhus tors. 27 april

Reidar/ Roy Rogers / Storytellers
Bergen Musicfest april 28.
Blåtonar under breen (Jostedalen) april29.
cosmopolite in Oslo at april 30.
Lillestrøm 05/04
TBA 05/05
Drammen Teater 05/06
in Stavanger at Folken on may 11.



Reidar Larsen & storytellers
Huse på prærien -Bryne may 26
Lillesand - daene 06/28
TBA 06/29
TBA 06/30


Reidar Larsen/ Roy Rogers / Storytellers
Arendal canal street festival 07/27
TBA 28/07
Notodden blues festival (sliperihallen) 08/4-5

Gallery added

check out the gallery link in the right collumn

gallery

"new" Demo

I have'nt updatet my demopage for ages, so to "freshen up" the site here is a mix of some of the stuff I've contributed on, spanning 13 years or so.......
starting with Thomas Dybdahl(2002, weissenborn and ambient lap steel) then Eriksen (1995, dobro), Eriksen (1993, bottleneck slide), Eriksen (1993, Oahu hawaiian), Bethany Joy Lenz ( 2005, Oahu Hawaiian), Something Odd/ Odd Nordstoga (1998, weissenborn), Jørn Hoel (1995, bottleneck slide), Reidar Larsen (2001, National Steel)

Links to the different artists are found on the discography page, hope you like it.....

click header of this article to download or click "Demo"-link to the right

More gigs comming up

Reidar Larsen & storytellers
- Ålgård Riverside 03/17
- TBA 03/18
Larvik-Fredrikshavn april 8

Han Innante & kamerattane
Aksdal Tysværtunet kulturhus tors. 27 april

Reidar/ Roy Rogers / storytellers
Bergen Musicfest april 28. cd-release.
Lillestrøm 05/04
Drammen Teater 05/06

Reidar Larsen & storytellers
Lillesand - daene 06/28

Reidar/ Roy Rogers / storytellers
Arendal canal street festival 07/28
Notodden blues festival (sliperihallen) 08/4-5

New Bronze slide

London resonator center has moved to Denmark street. I visited them in 1999 at their former spacious store location. These days you have to look real hard to find them tucked away as they are on the first floor above another guitarstore with just a small sign giving away their location.


Anyway i bought this brass slide there last friday, its called the LRC King Slide and I like it alot

http://www.resocentre.com

charity concert for the children of Rwanda

with Organist Geir Kalleberg, Flekkefjord church sun feb. 12