A good memory from a concert is often linked to much other than the actual artistic the performance. Who you had with them, whether known artist from before, how long ølkøen was, how the evening went on and where you are in life can both steal and add eyes of dice you throw the next day.
But sometimes these things nothing to say.
A few times the audience to see and hear something that is so good, so new or so shocking that it outright stops time. It is these concerts is usual documentaries and tell your grandchildren about.
Not Coldplay front 100,000 in Roskilde, not a-ha in front of 200,000 at the Maracana. These are the small club gigs with half full hall, where suddenly got the feeling to witness something big.
Although Norway has never been any music superpower, it has been held legendary concerts also on Norwegian soil. Here are the nine concerts from Norwegian music history you’d been on. If you were born then.
1. Otis Redding in Njårdhallen (Oslo), 1967.
OTIS-FAN: Åse Kleveland says that Otis Redding in Njårdhallen outside Oslo is one of the best music experiences she has had.
Otis Redding was born entertainer. He became known in the US after winning the local talent competition 15 times in a row and through the hit single “(Sittin ‘On) The Dock Of The Bay” was he known until Norway, where he also held a concert in 1967.
Redding was on tour with other artists from the label Stax, which had a strong African American profile.
– Today we are accustomed to see the world stars here every day. It did not happen then. It was incredibly much less offer, especially when it came to popular music. So that Otis and the gang arrived, it was a sensation, says Åse Kleveland, who was at the concert.
The former culture minister says she was captivated by American youth at the time. Kleveland had even secured a Ford Mustang shortly before the concert.
– It was a revelation. Man had the danced to this music before, it was so physical. This was musicians who played as sweat ran without any technical aids or effects.
What makes precisely this Otis Redding concert so special is that it is regarded as his best concert recordings. Six months later, died musician in a plane crash.
– There and then it was the best concert I’ve been to, if one can put it that way. If I use an emotional scale. I was after all 18 years. Nevertheless, it is one of the largest musikkøyeblikkene in my life.
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2. Led Zeppelin at Gimle School / Manglerud Club, 1968
TIME GREATEST ?: Led Zeppelin are regarded by many as the greatest and most influential rock bands. Evidence indicates that they played two small concerts in Norway a few weeks before they changed their name from The New Yardbirds to Led Zeppelin.
The next point on the list is not confirmed. But there are chances that one of the greatest rock band, Led Zeppelin, played at Gimle School in Bergen and Manglerud Club in Oslo in 1968.
The story goes as follows.
When band The Yardbirds was dissolved in 1968, got guitarist Jimmy Page with three new members and founded the group The New Yardbirds. These three names, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and John Bonham, stands today with raised gold lettering in rock bible.
Along went the bunch after all bask brands on a small tour in Scandinavia before they were forced to change name as bassist of the Yardbirds threatened lawsuit. Such as Led Zeppelin was born.
NRK got in 2008 contact with one of those who claim to have been at the concert at Gimle School in Bergen.
– I was attending a concert at Gimle school a Sunday in autumn 1968. There played it several bands, including Neither Nor. I have a vague feeling that it attended an English blues band in concert, but funnily enough did no great impression on me at the time, says concert gang opportunity.
Well, that was a pity. Especially since Led Zeppelin by many regarded as the biggest band, and that they shot themselves invented the modern guitar rock.
3. Tom Waits at Club 7 (Oslo), 1977
POSOR: Photographer Morten Haug got his opportunity of a lifetime when he had a photo session with Tom Waits after a concert in Oslo in 1977. Photo: Morten Haug
Tom Waits is enough high, if not the top, on the list of artists you should get with them before they go away.
Blue legend with the sharp tongue and the raspete voice is known to play a few concerts, at least in Europe. Therefore, it was a scandal when the Norwegian Opera said no to let Waits play in 2011.
However, he has played twice in Norway. In 1977, photographer Morten Haug Tom Waits concert at Little Club 7 in Oslo.
– I had not actually heard about Tom Waits before. But it was evident that there was something special. What I remember most was that he was very drunk, says Haug.
Waits is, for good or ill, is known to have a close relationship to the bottom of the whiskey bottle.
– After the concert I took him aside and asked if I could take some pictures of him.
– How was it?
– It does not directing Tom Waits, in any case. He posed and gave me a whole bunch of expression. I had lots of pictures, but most have been lost.
– Did you spoke something to him?
– Yes, I asked if he were to visit some old relatives when he was here. It’s common that Americans do. But he said that he would not scare them, says Haug.
4. Sex Pistols at the Penguin Club (Oslo) and Studentersamfundet in Trondheim, 1977
If you ask a music interested Norwegians if he or she can get on one concert in Norway they gladly would have been on, the answer is more often than not Sex Pistols in 1977. The legendary punk band with Sid Vicious spearheaded played two small concerts in Norway in 1977.
Former writer for a music magazine Beat Tom Skjeklesæther, was one of them.
– In retrospect, it is difficult to explain. What is new is only new in a very limited time. Suddenly it becomes familiar. It’s hard to explain to people today how shocking it was to see the Sex Pistols, says Skjeklesæther.
Music journalist says that the Sex Pistols did not look like anything he had seen before.
– All artists I had seen up to then was pleasant. It used to be a great atmosphere. “Thank you, good to be here,” and so on.
– Pistols was the opposite. The concert was seen as a war between artist and audience which was completely untried in 1977. It was a shock.
Skjeklesæther says bassist Sid Vicious was extremely aggressive. And violent.
– He played almost on his bass at all. He was more concerned to fight. I remember that he jumped into the crowd and struck down a guy in the middle of the concert.
– Was it a good concert?
– It was so loud volume that it was impossible to decipher whether it was a good concert or not.
5. Bob Marley in Horten, 1978
ROCK LEKSIKON: Asbjørn Bakke got come up on a hill, so have got seen Bob Marley playing over a sea of umbrellas.
A of the most influential musicians, both musically and politically, held in 1978 concert in Horten.
After a fantastic volunteer work where the whole town stood on its head, played Bob Marley Horten Festival. He also took the time to do interviews, talk to people and play football behind the scene.
One of those who were at the concert, Asbjørn Bakke, says Marley and The Wailers impressed.
– Marley, his Wailers and I-Trees delivered a magnificent concert. He wore light blue jeans (with solid slap) and – jacket. He danced with rocking guitar dangling more behind him than in his hands. Some jog he danced around the stage, other times he stretched his fist in the air and looked at the sky while rasta braids hung far down her back, says Bakke, who recently wrote rock lexicon “Revolver.”
Unfortunately, it was not many in the audience who actually got to see Marley.
– It rained during Marley concert in Horten. Norwegian festival goers and organizers were not experienced enough to know that umbrellas and concerts are a very bad combination. It was in other words difficult to see anything of what was going on atop the stage for many, he said.
Bakke also tells a funny curiosity from the concert. The political organization Red Youth handed out concerts against Bob Marley while legend played. They believed that the Third World superstar had corrupted and betrayed their own because it fresh album “Kaya” contained most love songs, not political struggle songs.
The irony is that “Kaya” mostly contains songs like Bob Marley already wrote in the 1960s.
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6. Pearl Jam Alaska (Oslo) 1992.
Right after grunge band Pearl Jam had released the successful album “Ten” from 1991, they played on the small rock club Alaska in Oslo.
Alaska, which later changed its name to Concrete, located under Chateauneuf Majorstua in Oslo. Surprisingly few music journalists and reviewers were joined concert, one clear reason.
While vocalist Eddie Vedder hung by the arms from the ceiling of the floor below, set an overall music Norway turnout in the audience over. There was namely Spellemannprisen dealt.
One of those who were joined concert was none other than Prince Haakon Magnus of Norway. He says the following to Lydverket about the concert.
– Figured crown prince that he was onto something special?
– Yes, I think in each case it was an extremely good concert. This was before it was huge, and it’s very fun.
There have been rumors that the crown prince even Stagedive during the concert. These disprove crown prince (unfortunately).
– No, I Stagedive not. I’ve never done, I think. But I have accepted, then!
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7. Eminem at Rockefeller, 1999
Rappers do not tend to head to Norway before they can sell out bigger venues. This was not the case when Eminem visited Rockefeller in 1999.
Today rapper one of the world’s largest. He has sold over 155 million albums and singles, which means that he is among the 30 most sold artists of all time.
When Eminem was in Norway, he played for half-full auditorium.
– It was around 800 people at the concert, thus not fully in all. That was before he became a world star. As I understand it, there was this tour that was the start of the adventure, says Roar Gulbrandsen, chief of Rockefeller scene.
– Was it a good concert?
– It was a very good concert, I remember. It was brand new and very exciting, and I think it was the start of hip-hop wave in this country.
The following year played Eminem for a packed Oslo Spektrum, with Outkast as heating.
8. White Stripes Concrete (Oslo), 2002
UNDER RATED: The White Stripes decided unfortunately to turn up for good in 2011. Jack White has been in Norway several times, but is remembered for the concert he and me kept on Concrete in Oslo in 2002. Photo: KEVORK DJANSEZIAN / AP / NTB Scanpix
In the same category as Eminem, we also find a relatively known gem from the small stage Concrete in 2002. There played namely Jack and Meg White , better known as The White Stripes.
It forever underrated blues rock band, which later became one of the biggest, played for 1,200 people when they were in Oslo. The concert was reviewed by including Dagbladet Håkon Moslet, who rolled the dice six.
“On stage last night proved White Stripes that they are a unadulterated phenomenon. They are an unruly and uncensored counterbalance a producer, management and stylist controlled industry, “wrote Moslet.
P3 music critic Marius Asp was also present at the concert.
– The White Stripes and Concrete was a fabulous match, and the feeling of witnessing something big was obvious from the start. Just at this time felt the whole guitar band renaissance new and fresh, albeit just a moment, says Asp.
The White Stripes was a band that never quite tackled any major scenes. Therefore these small concerts counted as additional precious memories of music lovers, as Asp.
– It was extremely loud and ditto hot, but the mood was ecstatic. Seeing them warm up for David Bowie on Quart few years later was a huge letdown – the scene was too great, and the sound blew almost gone.
9. Lady Gaga at Sentrum Scene, 2008
Samsaya: Samsaya honor to warm up for Lady Gaga shortly before the big breakthrough.
As previously mentioned, Norway has never been any music superpower. Norwegians are not particularly good at getting along the latest music trends before they reach the rest of the world.
But in 2008 this was turned upside down.
With freshly fried “Just Dance “and” Poker Face “on VG played Lady Gaga one Radio NRJ-sponsored (!) concert at Sentrum Scene. Gaga had not turned through international yet and were so touched by the reception she got that she took to tears.
– This year has been amazing, and much of it is thanks to Norway. “Just Dance” is now popular in the US because slow Scandinavia started playing it, I love it. The Norwegian crowd was amazing. I wish I could visit all the towns in Norway. It could well have been the rest of my career, just travel around the small Norwegian clubs, said the pop star to 730.no after the concert.
Samsaya and her dancers warmed up for Gaga that night.
– She made proper impression. She had only accompanied by two dancers and one DJ, but still managed to fill the stage with their presence, says Samsaya.
Despite the auditorium was only half full delivered popstar a sparkling show.
– It was very obvious that she loved being on stage. She was hungry and had plenty to give. It was a totally wild concert and I had never seen anything like alive.
Do you know any concert gems from Norwegian music history? Contact undersigned daniel.eriksen@nrk.no.
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