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    Pekka Pohjola fun bit

    I don't think many, outside Finland, knew Pekka Pohjola's fun side:


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    Wow. If I didn't recognize Pekka in there, I'd swear this was a joke. Was this really intended as non-comedic musical entertainment?

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    Having had a Finnish girlfriend, I can see why the Finns think this is funny. They have a pretty unique sense of humor. There is a lot of their comedy on YouTube.

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    i'm speachless

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    Greetings,

    I'd seen this before, but forgotten about it. Strange, but it's always great to see Pekka.

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    Alan

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    He appears to be reading music. Just an axe for hire? His playing is -- as always -- exemplary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeuhlmate View Post
    Right, I was going to say that I saw this somewhere else. Thanks!!!

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    Is that Ohli Ahvenlahti at the keys?

    Of course, this is meant as comedy.

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    A friend of mine in Switzerland posted this to [social media] a few days ago. I wondered how long it would migrate here. I recognized Mr. Pohjola immediately.

    Quote Originally Posted by yesstiles View Post
    Is that Ohli Ahvenlahti at the keys?
    Probably. He’s waving the conductor’s baton here:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post

    Quote Originally Posted by yesstiles View Post
    Is that Ohli Ahvenlahti at the keys?

    Probably. He’s waving the conductor’s baton here:
    Ahvenlahti actually conducted the orchestra for all the Finnish entries for ESC between 1990 and 1998. He also played for house bands in many light entertainment shows in the 1980s, and as the mild-mannered and henpecked pianist Puppe, accompanied actor Vesa-Matti Loiri's popular chanson singer caricature Jean-Pierre Kusela (I believe the video for ”Naurava kulkuri” has been linked here in the past for more of that ”strange Finnish humour”).

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    Quote Originally Posted by yesstiles View Post
    Of course, this is meant as comedy.
    What comedy? We don't need no stinkin' comedy or humour in Finland! That's just for good-for-nuthin' layabouts and wastrels. Decent folks got no time for that sort of thing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    He appears to be reading music. Just an axe for hire? His playing is -- as always -- exemplary.
    Pohjola is a session player here. He would play an occasional session throughout his career right up to the early 2000s. And while some of those were closer to his own kind of material (e.g. Kalevala, XL, Wolf Larsen, UMO Jazz Orchestra etc.), he also appears on a few recordings that are quite a bit more ”down to earth”.

    That was true even during his Wigwam years. For example, the whole band had to back two up and coming Love Records pop singers on their debut albums just to pay off the studio fees accumulated during the making of Being. That included Pembroke writing songs for one of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post
    Probably. He’s waving the conductor’s baton here:
    Also, the singer is Pave Maijanen who produced Wigwam's Nuclear Nightclub.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kai View Post
    Pohjola is a session player here. He would play an occasional session throughout his career right up to the early 2000s. And while some of those were closer to his own kind of material (e.g. Kalevala, XL, Wolf Larsen, UMO Jazz Orchestra etc.), he also appears on a few recordings that are quite a bit more ”down to earth”.

    That was true even during his Wigwam years. For example, the whole band had to back two up and coming Love Records pop singers on their debut albums just to pay off the studio fees accumulated during the making of Being. That included Pembroke writing songs for one of them.
    Maarit!

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    That's right. The other one was Muska "Kirka's sister" Babitzin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    He appears to be reading music. Just an axe for hire? His playing is -- as always -- exemplary.
    I am sure he is hired.
    He plays on a lot of albums
    http://www.wigwam.fi/discography/poh...nvolvement.htm

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    Hopefully no one was really in doubt that that was meant to be humorous!

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    Quote Originally Posted by yesstiles View Post
    Maarit!
    He wrote the lyrics to “Life is a Jigsaw,” with music by Paroni Paakkunainen, who also plays the crazy-ass sax solo in the middle eight (nice crochet vest, too!):



    There’s also this very fab video out there of Wigwam backing a very groovy, sunglasses-wearing Seija Simola, covering a Savage Rose song! This particular video is from the late 60s, and pre-dates their first LP.

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