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Some people might say Wigwam was a milestone in Finnish prog, but then the band is still in function after numerous and long lay-offs and umpteen changes in their line-up. Their first album in 1969 - Hard N'Horny - belonged to an era when adventurous rock was still a somewhat odd thing in Finland ...
This radio show had traveled before that all around Finland, recorded live music and broadcast it few days later. Before Wigwam had mostly played cover songs in their live concerts, that was the way all the Finnish bands did in the sixties. But in N-klubi 4/5 of material was their own! Naturally there were two pieces from their forthcoming album.
Wigwam reformed in the 1990s with the Pembroke-Rechardt-Groundstroem core intact, and has been active to the present. In Finland they have a lasting (although limited) following, and their influence on Finnish rock music is widely recognised. In the 2010s, the former members of Wigwam have made concerts billed as Wigwam Unplugged or Wigwam ...
The Finnish band WIGWAM was formed in 1968 by drummer Ronnie Österberg after his split from the band Blues Section. Immediately he recruited another member Jim Pembroke (a Brit) from the same band and formed a new musical entity that took their name from the famous Native American domed dwelling.
Hard'n Hornyn kakkospuoli on luku sinänsä. Pembroken säveltämä ja sanoittama yhdeksänosainen Henry's...-kokonaisuus on tasapainoisinta ja kehittyneintä pop-musiikkia, mitä Suomessa oli tuohon mennessä tehty. Kaikessa monimuotoisuudessaan ja kekseliäisyydessään Hard 'n Hornyn kakkospuoli vertautuu lähinnä myöhäiskauden Beatlesiin ...
The recording of Hard 'N' Horny took far longer than expected, resulting in the group going way over their recording budget. Love Records, still in their early days, didn't have extra available cash to print the album covers, so the Wigwam band members elected to save the day by making hand drawn sleeves for the first pressing.
Unfortunately to the non-Finnish listener, much of the dramatic effect of this track is lost in the Finnish narration. Guardian Angel, The Future has the band using English lyrics for the first time and has Gustavson toying a style very similar to what Traffic exploited, that of expanding their musical ideas based on a Rhythm & Blues rhythm. In ...
