Trees Grass and Stones - ’69

Trees,Grass and Stones - Trees,Grass and Stones 1969 Sweden ,Psychedelic Blues,Rock TRAD, GRAS OCH STENAR (Trees Grass and Stones) evolved in 1969 from the bands PARSON SOUND (1967), INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER (1968) and HARVESTER (1969), which were all playing important role in the Swedish experimental rock scene. The first line-up of TRAD, GRAS OCH STENAR concisted from Bo Anders PERSSON (gtr, voc), Arne ERICSSON (kb), Torbjorn ABELLI (bs) and Thomas GARTZ (dr, voc). The group had concerts in small Swedish towns with loud voice and psychedelic visual shows, focusing on improvisational, minimalist and trance-oriented performances, which soon granted them a cult status. Their music resembles classic krautrock, like the material of German band AMON DUUL. At year 1970 the band was participating in the legendary open-air festival Gardesfesterna, which was documented on the double LP “Festen pa Gardet“ (Silence SRS 4603). The band stopped being active after year 1972, but they had several re-unions, and from 1995 they again started to tour in Scandinavia, continental Europe and also at United States. In year 2009 they released a new album “Homeless Cats“ with Bo Anders PERSSON (gtr, voc), Jakob SJOHOLM (gtr, voc), Torbjorn ABELLI (bs, voc) and Thomas Mera GARTZ (dr, voc). After album release both Torbjorn ABELLI and Thomas Mera GARTZ sadly passed away, but the band has continued to give concerts with Sigge KRANTZ and Reine FISKE. Tracklist 1 All Along The Watchtower 0:00 2 I Can’t Get No Satisfaction 8:16 3 Sanningens Silverflod / The Silverriver Of Truth 19:24 4 Tegenborgsvalsen / The Waltz From Tegenborg 23:18 5 All Makt At Folket / All Power To The People 25:53 6 Svarta Parla / The Black Pearl Vocals – Thomas Gartz 31:59 Credits Bass, Jew’s Harp, Flute – Torbjorn Abelli Cover [Inside] – Thomas Gartz Cover [Outside] – Bo Anders Persson Design – Frequent Form Drums, Jew’s Harp, Flute – Thomas Gartz Electric Piano, Cello, Flute – Arne Eriksson* Guest [Helped With], Jew’s Harp, Vocals – Ulla* Guitar, Vocals, Violin, Flute – Bo Anders Persson Recorded By – Anders Lind (tracks: 1 to 3, 6), Bengt-Goran Staaf* (tracks: 1 to 3, 6), TGS* (tracks: 4, 5)