This section gives you a complete history of all bands and musical projects Pär Lindh has ever been part of in the past.
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Änglagård!
The next band out is the story of Änglagård a band Pär supported as well as played with around the time for their debut CD Hybris and for the Progfest 93 success concert .
Read about it here below after The Nice section!
The New Nice!
the band that almost played a gig...
Read all about it here.
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1. Antenna Baroque
2. Vincebus Eruptum
3. The Royal Swedish Chamber Orchestra
4. Duo Andrew Brown & Pär Lindh
5. Silver Spirit
6. Manticore & Triton
7. Iconoclast or Lindh & Jonsson expedition
8. Änglagård
9. The New Nice
10. PLP mark one
11. New Groove Project
12. Duo Björn Johansson & Pär Lindh
13. Daniel Lanz Trio
14. Kopecky with special guest
15. The Bollenberg Experience
16. PLP mark two
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In 1993 Pär was introduced to Lee Jacksson in Los Angeles by Will Alexander. 1994 they met again in England as Pär made an interview with Lee. Lee told Pär that he and Brian Davison would be interested in getting a band going again and it was decided that Pär would join in on keys to create sort of a rebirth of The Nice or Refugee.
At the time Pär was looking for a band to perform his newly released album Gothic Impressions so it seemed like a good idea for all.
Pär got a Swedish festival gig summer 95 going if only he could find a band to perform his progressive hit album Gothic Impressions with.
He suggested that he would play with Lee and Brian and the festival people loved the idea.
Through the old Nice roadie Mr. Baz Ward Pär rented a rehearsal studio at John Henry´s in London for a weekend of hard work getting a concert program ready for the Swedish festival later on that year.
It was a wonderful time for all as the three musicians got on really well and played compositions by Pär as well as some old Nice classics like Rondo.
¨I remember when we had played Hang on to a dream Lee with a tear in his eye afterwards said that he had not sung it in over twenty years! I looked around and there was tears in everyone elses eyes as well ¨.
Also a Swedish folk song was rehearsed which Lee really loved.
The band was now ready to get out and play!
Unfortunately the fee from the Gothenburg Artrock Festival (although O.K. by progressive rock standards at that time) was considered to low by the band considering they had to travel from England and all. Pär offered to play without a fee and called the organisers to raise the fee just a bit to make it all possible. But sadly enough it just wasn´t meant to be.
Says Pär ¨It was so close to happening...two hundered pounds more or so and we would have been playing and who knows what might have happened after that...!¨
Pär´s newly started record company Crimsonic Label had only released one CD at the time and although Gothic Impressions sold very well the company didn´t have to much cash to spend on new adventures.
Says Pär ¨I just realised that I couldn´t take the financial risk of promoting a band with Brian and Lee at the time which would have included a lot of travel costs back and forth from England to Sweden etc. So in the end I wrote Lee & Brian a very honest letter to explain the situation for them¨.
¨Nice¨ chaps as they are they understood the situation.
Says Pär ¨To my dying day I will never forget those rehearsals playing Rondo and other songs with two of the heros from my youth. Brian impressed me on the drums with his wonderful jazzy style of playing and Lee did a great job as well¨¨
In the fantastic book ¨Hang on to a dream¨ by Martyn Hansson Helter Skelter
publishing there is a short passage about these events in the history of one of the first (1967!) truly original progressive rock bands ever... The Nice.
Said Lee Jackson about Pär´s playing
¨Pär impressed us both with his ability, but it was no to be¨. |
The band hitting the press in Sweden |
Lee Jackson with left handed Rickenbacker given to him
1968 by some bass player from a band called the beatles! |
The New Nice Left to right: Brian, Lee & Pär. |
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Thomas and Tord summer 92 while transporting Pär´s B3 Hammond to
studio Largen for the recording of Änglagårds first album Hybris.
Piano & drums duo poster. |
The Änglagård connection!
Pär tells the story of his involvement with Änglagård:
This was a band I was never a member of but a band which I supported before, during and after the release of their famous debut album Hybris in 1993. I also played with them both in concert as well as on record.
In supporting the group I was perhaps the first one to write a review of Hybris. Later on as the band was invited to play Progfest in Los Angeles may 93 they asked me to come along and play with them which I did.
Tord offered me to be the manager of Änglagård at the time
but as I was by then recording my own debut album I had to turn the offer down.
In LA the band was a stunning success and I remember drawing down the first explosion of applause after my concert organ solo.
Listen to Organ solo(mp3 format)
This one gig put Änglagård in the focus of the emerging new progmovement at the time. In return for my help and for coming along without pay to play Progfest Änglagård offered to help me by playing on my debut album Gothic Impressions. Which they at long last also did on a couple of tracks. Listen specially to the great bass playing of Johan Högberg on ¨The Cathedral¨ and Jonas Engdegårds brilliant guitar work on the track ¨Green Meadow Lands¨ which can be heard much clearer on the improved mix of the rereleased version from 2004.
In the autumn 1993 the band came to my Crimsonic Label studios to record a new track ¨Gånglåt från Knapptibble¨ (named after the village where my studio was situated at the time) which was released as a bonus track of the rerelease of Hybris some years later. After trying to lay down a very difficult passage just to many times the keyboard player Thomas finally gave up as fatigue was setting in after a long day of recordings.
So suddenly everybody sort of started to look in my direction and go like...Pär could you perhaps...eumh....have a go? After a short rehearsal I got it down at the second take.
So I´m actually playing the keyboards for just over a minute on that album. A fact very few people know about.
Also
around this time Mattias Olsson and I had a keyboard & drums duo happening and we did a couple of gigs as well as playing at a Stockholm Progressive Rock Festival. Some studio recordings were also done but never released.
This was in short the story of my involvement with Änglagårds sometimes wonderful but in general rather turbulent history.
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