...that's helped produce so many extremely good lead guitar players? Besides being the birth place of the greatest guitar player ever, bar none - Yngwie J. Malmsteen (in case you wondered), the country has produced such luminaries as Magnus Karlsson (my second favorite guitar player, as probably not known from Last Tribe, Starbreaker and the Allen/Lande projects), John Norum (Europe, Dokken, etc), Kee Marcello (Europe), Johnny Öhlin (Dionysus), Carljohan Grimmark (Narnia), Jonas Hörnqvist (Treasure Land), Chris and Michael Amott (Arch Enemy), and the list goes on....
Since Norway has about half the population of Sweden, shouldn't we by sheer force of statistics have produced half the number of great lead guitar players Sweden has?
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John Norum is Norwegian, isn't he? At least born in Norway?
You forgot Göran Wennerbrant, which is an extremely tasteful guitar player. Heads and shoulder above the dime a dozen fluffy haired schredders you've listed...
That's spelled Wennerbrandt, btw.
Heu ....
I don't know any of them !!
I believe Norum was Norwegian for about a year of his life or something, yes...
"Dime a Dozen fluffy haired shredders"? At least the guitar players I listen to know how to tune their instruments, have heard about metronomes, know more than one scale in one position, recognize the fact that stomping your workboots slightly out of beat to a perceived rhytm does not constitute percussion, and have 5 fingers on each hand, in stark contrast to the underachievers you claim to idolize.
......ya brown leather jacket-wearing, unshaven, coffee-mug-toting, Volvo-driving, Teletubbies merchandise-buying, several-piece-of-crap-resonator-guitar-owning, "alternative" guitar tuning, "Legend-of Robert-Johnson"-worshipping wuss .....
:-D
Hey! "brown leather jacket-wearing"
I recent that! No need to be mean. It's black as the night! It's just that some people perceive it as brown when sunlight hits it in a certain angel (like, from above, sort of...).
As for color, just remind me: What color is that strat that's on display in your living room?
And btw, Göran Wennerbrandt is Swedish, has long (fluffy?) hair, has five, count'em five, fingers on each hand and hasn't played a Robert Johnson song as far as I've heard...
Yes, we should. Just like the Eurovison Song Contest should by sheer force of statistics have included at least one good peace of music during its history. Since it hasn't, other forces must be at work.
I blame the aliens.
Anders: Dude; don't even go there. I've seen your jacket. And for your information, only the manliest of men play turquoise guitars. ;-)
Göran Wennerbrandt Swedish, you say? Who would've thunk it, eh?
Kjerstin: Apparently, whatever forces apply, the don't follow Gaussian distributions worth a damn. Although I have to disagree; I started following Eurovision again (after a break since I was like seven) two years ago because of Wig Wam....
So, only the manliest of men follow the Eurovison Song Contest, apparently.
But to stay on topic: Norwegian guitarists like Terje Rypdal and Ronni Le Tekrø. How would you rate them against the Swedish ones listed in the original post? I know, Rypdal is in a quite different musical genre, but still.
Tekrø rates favorably against several on the list, in my opinion. As does (parts of) Rypdal ('s work), actually. You might even throw in Norwegian guitar players such as Jørn-Viggo Lofstad and Tore Østby.
Of course, none of them even come close to Yngwie, even if using an objective scale, seeing as how Malmsteen has had a huge impact on the way people approach guitar playing and composing.
Problem: "Since Norway has about half the population of Sweden, shouldn't we by sheer force of statistics have produced half the number of great lead guitar players Sweden has?"
Keeping mister Norum out of the Norwegian vs. Swedish contest, since he obviously could have drunk some guitar potent water when he was a baby in Norway, we have eight Swedish guitarists on your list. Tekrø, Rypdal, Lofstad and Østby make half of that.
Problem solved, next case please!
Well, not really, seeing as how I didn't bother listing more Swedish guitar players. I could easily add 10 more to that list, but for Norwegian guitar players, the only additional one I can think of in this category is Trond Holter.
Well, thanks for nothing. Here I solve your problem, and all I get is more complaining. ;-)
You haven't included Bjørn Berge on your list. He is Norwegian...
But seriously, I don't even know half of these guys you mentioning, but it's been awhile since I've been blown away by a new guitar player, be it Norwegian or Swedish.
Well; we can't all be as blasé and suave as you.
Tru, tru, they are all within a very narrow genre of rock, even, but they're totally unappreciated. If you go some general Norwegian guitar forum, you'll se people rave about that dude from BigBang, or the guitar player in Turboneger, probably based on a) they have heard of the band, and b) they like the music, and thus, the guitar player must be a freakin' genious. That's some solid logic for ya right there.
Bjørn Berge was not on that list because I've been to several concerts with him, and because I've also heard a recording by him. Hence he's not on da list....
How do you like that National electric now, by the way? Have you found an electric sound you can live with?
Duh, it's a Supro. It's not like I only have Nationals. How pathetic would that be?*
Not quite there yet, but will try to make some time to experiment during the summer.
*And of course, a National headstock would increase the price three-fold...
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