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compilation nr. 1 in salescharts

In a couple of weeks its 10 years since my last gig with Frank & Rita Eriksen .

My last gig with them was in San Francisco , a fun trip and a nice way to round of our 6 years of working together.

Rca/Sony released a compliation of their best songs from the 4 albums released between 92 and 98 a couple of weeks ago, and this week it hit the nr. 1 spot on the official sales charts. ....

I play on 11 of the 17 songs

great little aniversary i think, Rita released a fine solo album last year but they have not released anything together since the 98 album

Tang Wa Sessions done...

Spent last weekend  at NRK Studios in Stavanger working on Svein Tang Wa's new album, the regular crew was there: Per Ravnaas (engineer) Reidar Larsen (piano) Tor Mathisrud (bass) Stein Inge Brækhus (drums)  Johan Egdetveit ( accordion) and me (guitars) ... Nice 

that was then this is now

first "pro" session i did 1992, Matti Røssland , and these days.....










Reidar Larsen . Ikkje min tid

Rogalyd.no

great new site launched; a wikipedia for musicians and artists from Rogaland

http://www.rogalyd.no

my page looks like this: look here

news mid march 09

Back from a week in studio, recording Reidar Larsens new album. 

I've cowritten 4 songs for the album, with Ingvar Hovland, Gunnar Roalkvam doing the lyrics. The basic tracks are finnished so now we have to add some horns , background vocals, percussion. Our buddy Norton Buffalo (norton-buffalo.com) will add harp . This will be Reidars 10. studio album and his first in Norwegian. Its recorded in the studio Pettersens kolonial in Hønefoss, a new studio with great rooms, Bechstein piano, a 59 Hammond b3 , protools and a great sounding SSL board.

the band was me on guitars, Kyrre Sætran on Bass, Knut hem on drums and cajon , and the man: Reidar Larsen on Keyboards

upcomming is recording more tracks for the new Svein Tang Wa album

Live webcam broadcast from houseconcert with Marbletown

Live webcast from Flekkefjord its ........

Marbletown

http://www.marbletownmusic.com/

friday jan. 23 9-11 pm (+1 gmt)
hosted by Rita & Arne at our place

Webcams, Streaming Live - by Camstreams

if that didnt work try:

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Revy...

Enkelt oppsett: prs . Og podxt pro

ATHANA/ARSKAGE LIVE

  sounds: www.myspace.com/hanaskagesirnes 

Blues In Hell

Great new festival rises from the ashes of "Hell bluesfestvial"

Notodden / Eikerapen

2 nice gigs this weekend Eikerapen roots fest ( we went on way too early here but what the heck) and Notodden bluesfest ,

Dr Z maz jr -- Zkage amp

my amp of choice these days .

www.drzamps.com

www.vintagegitar.no

Notodden bluesfest comming up with more of my favourit artists/guitarists

Reidar Larsen & the Storytellers are playing Notodden @ the Tapperiet stage on saturday aug. 4 and Bluestown stage on sunday aug. 5.

Nytt Little Feat album kommer 30. juni
Little Feat selger fantastisk bra med billetter hos oss om dagen – både til torsdag og fredag. Den gode nyheten nå er at Little Feat slipper et nytt album i og tid til festivalen. 30. juni kommer albumet JOIN THE BAND med LITTLE FEAT & FRIENDS.

Mick Fleetwood featuring RICK VITO erstatter Bill Wyman på Notodden
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John Hiatt overøses med superlativer
Kritikerne går av hengslene over John Hiatts nye plate Same Old Man som er på markedet i disse dager. Bedre opptakt til hans Notoddenbesøk i august kan man vanskelig tenke seg. Hiatt demonstrerer for all verden hvorfor han den 18. september skal få overrakt «2008 Lifetime Achievement Award for ...

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Great weekend

Rogafest My 31

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On the edge" Eigerøy fyr

June 1

Asher retrofit

My goode friend Christian Sunde helped me fit a new pair of p90 pickups in my Asher electro hawaiian junior deluxe..... out went the super hot Seymour humbuckers in came a pair of GFS dream 90

Hilo Breakdown

Recording my Hilo, I tried tuning my guitar from the 1920s to open G.... this is what happend:

and it sounds like this.....

Hilo Breakdown

Reisefølge

Karianne Arntzen,

Svein Tang Wa,

Siv Langøy og

Jan Ingvar Toft

på Egersund visefestival 3. juli, Losen Egersund.

Mer info her

Band: Arne Skage jr , Stene Osmundsen, Roar Skjeldbred og Johan Egdetveit

London...

The London trip was great, i spent a whole day with steelguitar maestro BJ Cole at his home in north London. The next day i spent a couple of hours with loopmaster Steve Lawson in Herne Hill. a very inspiring trip indeed thanx to them both. friday night was spent listening to the fantastic and funny Hank Wangford and the Lost Cowboys ( Roy Dodds, Martin Belmont, BJ, Reg Meuross and Kevin Foster)