GASOLIN'
If ever there has been a Scandinavian sound in rock music GASOLIN' is a sure
highlight among the groups to make the "boom"!

But - a Scandinavian sound never existed, just as a Mersey sound never really
existed. After all, what had Beatles and The Undertakers (which/you might recall,
was one of the great groups of that time) in common except the birthplace?

A boom is always press-hype. And Gasolin' sure is no hype at all. The reason
why they are the most lively act on the rockscene in Denmark today,as well as
being a huge success on the record market, is due to the fact that they don't try
to make other people's music.  They are happy being themselves and, because of that
relaxed attitude toward music, they are not just another frustrated copy of a
chart-topping American or an English act.

Gasolin' started as a rock group in 1969 with only a shadow of success.
It took the musicians a little more than one year to get themselves together,
to find their identity on the stage and get to much courage, that they could
start a kind of communication-therapy with the audience.  That is still one of
their finest qualities;- no matter what happens on stage, if the amplifiers
break down, the drums get smashed or if there are just ten people in the audience
(which, in fact, has not happened for some years now!) - they do not lose their
temper.
It was not until 1971 that it all began to come together seriously, when Kim Larsen,
the group's vocalist, and Poul Bruun - now CBS' A&R manager - chanced across each
other in a bar.
After innumerable - and more serious -meetings and a load of brainstorming with
the group the result was an LP with Danish lyrics, which slowly but surely got
into the public; and when the second LP was cut it had notched up sales of around
5.000, - a pretty fine rating for a Danish group.

Thing's began moving fast when the second LP was produced, and sales were farcbeyond
expectation: reaching 16.000 copies before the third LP was on the market.

At this point things were beginning to move into high gear: Gasolin' was becomming
an entire movement! People were singing their songs in the streets, school-kids
wrote examination papers about their lyrics, and everybody - no matter age, class
and background - was high on Gasolin'

When the third and, so far, latest LP (Danish version) appeared in the shops it
was really worth while watching: Gasolin' was IT - t h e thing on the musical scene,
i.e. on stage and on wax. Without exaggerating one might say that Gasolin' is
at least as big in Denmark as the Beatles and Stones ever were.

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