1 / 1

The legendary band embarking on a third career

DON PATROL. Late seventies ravaged members back home in Sweden after gold discs for both the album and the hit single named "Summer Night." Touring became so intense that the guys gave up after two "mad" tours. November – December 1979 they did 58 shows!

kaycee
Download Presentation

The legendary band embarking on a third career

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. DON PATROL Late seventies ravaged members back home in Sweden after golddiscs for both the album and the hit singlenamed "Summer Night." Touringbecame sointensethat the guysgave up after two "mad" tours. November – December 1979 theydid 58 shows! Late eightiesgavethe band a new record deal and theypresented the two albums "Don Patrol" and quicklysequel, "A Wire A Deal And The Devil", bothvoted for ”Album Of The Week” in Germany and the reviews of the band'stiles and live performance waslyrical. Press wrote that this is onlycan be compared to greats as Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin and leadsinger Dille Diedricson was height to the skies as one of Europe'sleading singers as theyalsohailedthem as an exceptionally tight live band. Manager Thomas Engstrom- who worked with the band sinceitsinception - got a phonecall in 1989 where the band with oneday'snoticewasoffered to play main support to former Van Halen ex-singer David Lee Roth´s show at The Globe Arena in Stockholm. It became the signal to a somewhatsurprisingturn for the band. Right after the band'sappearance strides Mr Lee Roth aheadinto the boys' dressing room and says, "... I want you guys come along with me for the wholeentire European Tour as ”Special Guets"! Whenis that? - ... Well, I thinkit'sGermanytomorrow! - onemonths later Don Patrolhaddone 25 shows in 30 days in 11 countries! After this hugebreakthrough with theirtwo albums in a short time early 90s, touring with David Lee Roth hadone of the albums produced by Charlie Midnight (James Brown, Doobie Brothers, Joe Cocker, etc.) and "Best Album Of The Week" in Germany it tookoutthrough a bit of "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fighting in the dressing room "...and theyseparatedagain…now for a longlong time… ...BACK ON THE BENCH Nowthey`re back as old friends - leadsinger Dille Diedricson and guitarplayer Peter Nordholm with the twoother original members, Henkan Thomsen and Imre Daun. It´s a pleasure to present this "dynamitepackage" for the rock industry and itsaudience, says Thomas Engström. We hope to deliever the new album early 2015, says frontman Dille Diedricson. The band right nowhavefinishedwritings and recordings of the new material. With a songwriter like Dille Diedricson songwritingtakes a little time cause he´s is heavilyengaged in both Swedish and foreign artists. Amongothers, he has writtensongs for many European artists and evenhad a "Eurovison Song Contest” winner 1999 and twoyearsago a compostion nailed in the Swedish top-10 list for over 1.5 year! Other members over the years has played and appeared on records with artists as Phenomena (UK), Lost Weekend (UK), NOW (BRA), White Wolf (CAN) and manyothers. The legendary band embarking on a third career

More Related