Happy New Year my dear friends!

I wish you all the best of the BEST!!

It´s been another year of madness, in good and bad! But mostly in a good spirit and with our hearts in the right place 🙂

To be at the end of a year and just about to start a new one feels kind of scary ever time it happens, and I must say that it only gets worse year after year. I don´t quite know why, but it is what it is my friend!

I LOVE every moment that I can breath music, and 2013 was another year with success and a lot of GREAT WORK! Not so many of us are allowed to “work their hobbies” in the way that I do. On top of my list 2013 is the Toto warm up gig in Jakobstad in Finland! It was GREAT to have a few days together with my friends in the band, but also to have fun with friends and family when we where there! I just LOVE THAT TOWN!

Time to ROCK!

To write music is my biggest passion in combination together with doing it with my dear friends. We have done a lot of very cool songs in 2013 and I really hope that we can release some of them in 2014. Robert Wells and Douglas Carr, I just LOVE YOU GUYS!! It´s time now for us to STEP IT UP and get going!

Lets get started live and kicking 2014

Jimmy the man!!

Jimmy Westerlund, the magical mind of Finland! I am really looking forward to keep up what we have started my friend. Lets see to that we keep on ROCKING even in 2014! 🙂  I have even a few “new born babies” together with other friends, but I don’t want to go out in the open with this yet, better be safe then sorry!

A warm thank you to everyone at Wasa Theatre for the great fun we’ve had doing the musical “Fighting Star”! A specially warm hug to you Maria Sid for putting your MAGIC into this one, I couldn’t have done this without you! I really hope that we can work together again someday!

This fall and winter at Wasa SportsClub was a time of good health and GREAT FUN! Thank you Pia and all of you “guys” who’s working there!  I have not been in better shape for many years!

Wasa SportsClub I love you

Rock it my way 2013

To have done live gigs such as “Rock it my way” at Strampen in Vasa together with my blood brother Dennis Rönngård, Felicia Eriksson, Anna Timgren and a fantastic band with Marcus, Patte, Janne and Matte is another dear memory from this year! Thank you Robert Ekman and Strampen for daring 😉 The Christmas Shows in Jakobstad with Jaro! Niklas Storbacka 😉 what can I say? A fantastic live band under the wings of Mikael Svarvar! To be in front of you guys together with Paulina Biström and Nina Tapio was “the kick of the year” 🙂

Paulina Biström, Geir and Nina Tapio in front of THE BAND! Great Live Christmas Show!

New friends such as Johan Björk! I am really looking forward to work together with you again my friend, sorry I couldn’t make it to Sotsji!

I send you all a hug and a wish for a successful 2014 for us all.

Take good care of yourself, your friends and family! And reach out for your dreams 🙂

Oliver, Theo, William

To still be living this dream and on top of that being a proud father of seven sons is the biggest blessing of them all!
An extra BIG HUG to my dear wife Anna and my sons Stefan, Peter, Chris, Kevin, Oliver, William and Theo. I couldn’t do this without you!!

Kevin, Chris, Peter, Stefan

Hugs and respect!

Geir

Soon brothers and sisters.. Soon!!

Time to ROCK!

Now Yihaa right at the start, and I mean that! Every once in a while we get the chance to taste the best parts in life, without even knowing what is going on 🙂 I am in the path of something really good, and it gives me the right to send out a warning signal just to make sure you know THAT YOU BETTER BE THERE!!

 

This spring has been pretty good to me and my family, the allergies and those problem is still bugging us like crazy but somehow it is a part of life so it is what it is

 

We had a fantastic week together with my dear friend Alf and his lovely family when we where in Denmark together. I am not so good in slowing down, but this holiday was more then welcome.

 

I went to Stockholm after that and to a combined week with pleasure and work. To see my son Chris come out from school after getting his papers and finishing what we call “studenten” is a dear memory I will carry with me through life! And to have the time on the same journey to write music together with my partners in crime Douglas Carr and Robert Wells is a double trouble kick I wont forget! Jesus what a GREAT TRIP!

 

After a weekend back home it was time to get up to Vasa to my dear brothers Dennis Rönngård and Jimmy Westerlund! We checked out the songs we´re going to do when we are opening act for Toto in Jakobstad 5^th of July! Jimmy IS THE MAAAAN! Like i´ve said many times before, every time we go into a studio together MAGIC HAPPENS!! We just checked out what to do but ended up doing a demo of one of the songs I have written together with Maestro David Paich and it ended up CRAZY GOOOOD! I just emailed a version to Dave and I really hope he digg it as much as I do!! We will perform this song at the concert 🙂

 

Now I am sitting in the flight on my way to Norway and Oslo. First a short break there, then up to my hometown Ålesund for the weekend. Next week I will spend in Oslo before heading back home to Finland again. Two days at home then off to Vasa and Jakobstad doing our magical week together with my favourite band in the WORLD!! Yihaa!!

 

I hope you will get a fantastic midsummer, and I hope we´ll see each other during this summer somewhere 😉  

 

Be safe and take care out there! Lots of Love..

  

Geir

The honor of being a friend..

What a GREAT road trip 😉

Hey there, and a BIG FAT YIHAA straight to your heart 🙂

There are every once in a while trouble in paradise, and the most important thing to do is of course to find a way out of the pain 🙂 NOT painkillers, but in a smooth way rethink and find options that kills the shadows so you can dive back into sunshine 🙂

We had a FANTASTIC trip together my “partner in crime” Dennis Rönngård and me when we went down to Smögen (Havsvallen) to see Toto in concert last weekend. With just a couple of hours sleep after our gig in Finland it was time to “kick in” and start our “road-trip” of fun 🙂 We did not know then that we would hit jackpot already at Arlanda airport!

We went to the gate there and I had to start laughing, the Toto guys where waiting for the same flight 🙂 When I was out in Los Angeles and wrote together with David Paich and Andreas Carlsson Dave asked us to come to the gig they had in Stockholm (Skansen) but as I said already then I could not make it. Dave told me that Andreas did not make it ether but he put Dave and Nathan East (a number one world act bas player working with Toto now) together with Dirty Loops who Andreas now is managing and producing/co writing together with. Dave said it is really something else.. “Crazy good” 🙂 I am looking forward to hear what they come up with now pretty soon 🙂

When we went into the aircraft then I had to ask Dave if he is following me in anyway.. We where sitting in the same row 🙂 What a weird coincident, ha ha. But we got another hour together planning a few things so that was really GREAT!! When we arrived in Göteborg Dennis and I got the rental car and headed into downtown to our hotel. I have to say that this Clarion Hotel Post is something REALLY DIFFERENT!! Totally cool and GREAT service day and night..

When we got out to Smögen and the venue, we went to the VIP section to get our tickets, but Dave forgot.. Ha ha.. But I know how these things work, so with a little patience and a nice smile I asked them to get in contact with the management and that “someone is waiting out there” 🙂 In less then 15 minutes Sören who have been working together with Toto on every Swedish tour came out and said “I had a feeling it could be you” 🙂 We got our passes and got “the royal treat”..

To me it was very special to see Steve Porcaro in action again and of course to have a chance to talk to 🙂 I have been recording together with him on some of his demos in the early 90´s and I even took care of him in Sweden when he was a part of “Jay Graydon all star” back in the days!! Very nice to catch up again and now we both want to keep in touch so a new trip to L.A. is absolutely coming up next year.

To hear original Toto songs with the brilliant voice of Joseph Williams and even the fantastic songs of Steve Porcaro such as “Lea” and many more was nothing but mind blowing.. Like I told David after the show, it is fantastic for us “true believers” of Toto to have even another side of it now when the guys came back on top of the MAGIC that Paich and Luke have been throwing our way all the time since the first time I heard Toto early 80´s.. My music planet have never been the same after that 🙂

Dennis and I ended up on another crazy “road trip” pretty late in Göteborg that night after saying bye to my brothers and they headed on to Denmark for another show. Speaking of Göteborg, I am really looking forward to meet my brother Sayit and Crazy Laine when we get together in Stockholm 24th of August. I do a tribute show at Fasching “A tribute to West Coast” together with many really talented and fantastic singers and “players” 🙂 Very very cool, and a blessing to all of us fans of the true music 🙂 Sören Sko from Denmark, Ole Börud from Norway, Anders Von Hofsten and Elias Ringquist from Sweden among many others!! Check it out and come if you can.. http://www.facebook.com/events/295210873891814/

And on top of that my dear friends, I will have the honor of being a guest together with my crazy “homies” Sayit and Laine when they do have their “Legends” concert together with the legendary voices of Bill Champlin (Chicago), Fergie Fredriksen (Toto) and Steve Augeri (Journey).. It will be another freaking crazy night my brothers and sisters.. Don´t miss out!! That show will start later on so we will be able to check out my friends (and me, ha ha) at Fasching first, then we all head on down to Kägelbanan, Södra Teatern to have some ROCKING GOOD TIMES to make the best night EVER 🙂 This is some info about Legends.. http://legends-vor.com/legends-voices-of-rock/

A very cool month will end with first another road trip together with Maestro Robert Wells 25th of August. This time I will bring The Rock Queen of Finland with me “Krista” 🙂 On top of that I will be in the studio with my brothers Douglas Carr and Maestro Wells, so life is pretty good my friends 😉 And I have The honor of being a friend.. Witch is the best door opener in the universe!!!

Lots of Love…

Geir