After several
years with Jim Oddwinds I found out it was time to do something else. I
was tired to allways discuss * Tore * Svenn * Svein-Erik * Oddbjørn* Front:
Arild * * Arild * Svein-Erik * Svenn * Tore * Oddbjørn * After a while jumped Svein-Erik out the
band. Got problems with transportation to our practice place,
with the so called "bandleader" the progress and how the music
should be
played.
It was time to begin to make music arrangement after my own head.
My own band should wear my name, my first and middle, so I started early
to called it for TORE HENNINGS.
First of all, I needed a good lead singer, a drummer and a saxophonist.
On the keyboards I asked a friend of mine
who said yes. Since the vocalist also played the guitar, I hoped he
could fill in the with some guitar on some melodies.
But we needed more
folks.
So, for the first time in my life, I put in an classified ad in a
newspaper named "Aftenposten".
I was lucky and got several usable folks
who came to Sørumsand to play and talk.
We ended up with these musicians : Oddbjørn Marki on Hammond, Arlid Olafsen
drums,
Sven-Erik Harms vocal
and guitar, Sven Lillegård from
Arendal
saxophone , and Tore Tveter on bass.
I had always in my head wished to have proper Hammond L100 organ with tone
wheels in the band, so I took a little tour into
my lockal music dealer
"Østnes Musikk" and
asked for a good price. He hadn't heard about this
type of organ before, so I promised him
a free ad on our new poster,
if we could get a good price.
I talked with big word:
We
are going to be very famous. Obtained a realy fine deal, and
full of self-confidence walked into the next shop:
Men's clothing. Just asked them nicely to get borrow 5 set with
menswear.
Only for use for photos at the Photographer next door,
and we
where still very famous,
and promised again free ad on the poster. And the result shows up in the pictures
below.
didn't
have a driving license unfortunately .
Sven got an working offer he couldn't say no to, at his home town, so we
had to rearrange the band.
I took over the song
after pressure from the others, and there was a common agreement that we
needed a
very good guitar picking man and a
new saxophonist. New classified ad came up, and we got reply the same
week.
Two new names came
into the band: Dag Kristoffersen on guitar, and Lasse Nettum on sax.
Later Douglas Haldorsen sax and flute.
* Dag * Oddbjørn * Lasse * Arild * Tore *
* Douglas * Tore * Dag * Oddbjørn
* Arild *
After a while we had got ourself a band
bus. I know, that type haven't you not seen before.
It was an Russian vehicle, the brand R.A.T Latvia 12 seats schoolbus,
purchased from the Russian embassy, Oslo.
And what a sight, brush painted, orange and black. The only positive
thing was, Volga motor and all
spareparts was fully enable to purchase in Oslo at a jolly reasonable
price .
This monster of a car started willingly in -10F, also on 50-50
gasoline and kerosine.
Some of the big ad's...