THE BAND
THE BAND
.. was found by Wentus in Oulu some years ago, he says that he was working at the mentalhospital but we are not quite sure about his version of the story. What we know is that he is the son of a preacherman and offtours he is working in the filmbusiness ( adult entertainment or soundeffects ? )
The guy is a maniac, but a helluva singer and entertainer, a born star ( NOTE: do not read: Pornstar ).
Quite often when he does backwardflips onstage the audience gets horrified for ending up seeing his ding-a-ling, it happened at our 20th anniversary, and in Toronto, and in..etc..
..uses a - early 80´s Squier guitar that he has been playing since he was 12 years old, so you can actually say that the guitar is a part of his body.
Niko is a nice guy and his interests are: reading books, taking long walks, listening to music, philosophize about the matter of being. He loves being on long tours and when he´s not on the road, he is hiding out either in Helsinki or in Nedervetil..
Niko has sofar used about 200 km of guitarstrings and has not yet received a sponsordeal.
JUHO KINARET
..has played keyboards with nearly all popstars in distant Finland, he joined Wentus some years ago and hasn´t played popmusic since that..
If we translate his name into English his name is Peter Green, but once at a show in Germany, he got recognized; somebody in the audience said that
he´s the prince of Holland ! ( the perfect lookalike! )
Pekka is the true social guy that loves to chat with everyone and he has got the special gift to make friends in a pub with everyone in notime and sometimes we feel that he knows everyone! Maybe because he´s from the dutch royalfamily ? Who knows?
NIKO RIIPPA
is doing the dirtyjob as the bassplayer in the band and besides that he is a notourios wheeler and dealer in the true Kokkola - leather and horsetrading-manner. After the shows you can buy CD`s, DVD´s, merchandise, T-shirts, underwears, socks, hotdogs, cars or whatever you need from him.
Robban started to play the blues so that he wouldn´t have to be working in the garage lying under cars in the oilditch.
Still he does do the service for the Wentus Chevy bluesvan.
is also one helluva character, the first impression you get from him is that he is a shy guy that does not speak much.. but you are wrong.. he speaks a lot! So don´t get him started..
Kim lives alone in a big house with flat roof up on Ollishill in Nedervetil. Offtours Kim does nothing but play his guitars. He smokes cigarettes constantly and slowly. In his younger days he used to work at a concretemill but he quit that at some point.. and haven´t worked since that either,
- A true blues decision. Kim is a natural wonder.. believe it or not !
.. playes on a 60´s Ludwig drumkit. Axeli is a devoted fisherman and catches every now and then with his own wobblers fishes of sizes you could only dream about. He is a big catlover and raises Norwegian forestcats. You can also buy cats from him or just talk about animals.. a true animal-lover!
Throughout the years Wentus has travelled about 600.000 km, Axeli has been behind the wheel for about 400.000 km. Beat that!
ROBBAN HAGNÄS
MIKAEL“AXELI” AXELQVIST
PEKKA J.V. GRÖHN
KIM “HIDING” VIKMAN