“Not an interview like now right?
My head’s drained, must sleep so that the brain can add 1+1 tomorrow. Maybe. He” by Ellen Kay
It’s when I on Facebook message the guitarist and asks for his number that he responds with two exhausted lines. Richard Åberg has already figured out what’s in the making when I make contact. The verdict is in for Worldkustom Music Challenge of Mars!
THE QUINTS took home the entire thing, both the jury vote AND the reader’s vote!
Richard Redneck Åberg
I don’t hear him answer, the dial tone just stop ringing. At the other end I hear a muffled thud like when you drop a two gallon sack of corn on the ground.
– Congraaatulations, you won the jury vote And the reader vote! I Yell way too peppy and way to shrill.
– Oh, shit that’s cool, that’s not bad at all.. He he.. Richard Åberg goes in for a second try and ads:
– That’s great, then more hesitant:
– Well but, won’t it be strange if we win both votes, how darned for the other bands that don’t win nothing. His Bruce Springsteen-socialism is really touching to hear. This from the spokesman of Quints, which derives from Jaws where the badass shark hunter Quint almost one-handedly, but not at all, blows up the Cutie-Fin.
The future
– Weeell whaat’s….up? I ask slightly cooler this time in attempt of part up with his laid back coolness.
– T-shirts. T-shirts. They just finished drawing up some cool prints for their shirts and are in process of choosing one.
– Whooo…Who picks the print? I ask.
– I and Stefan decide, he answers seriously. Suddenly, I’m uncertain, is that a smile I hear? Test the water with a follow up:
– Why is that? The answer comes before the pen even touches the notebook and the finger-picking Gretschplayer explains: 
– It’s usually the best. While I’m on a roll I throw out:
– It’s not the Dane then?
– No, hell no, that’s no way to go about it, you know if he gets to deside there will be a T-shirt with a turtle and heart, heart, heart. Richard burst out in a warm laugh that gradually turns into a series of coughs to be followed by some scratching noises which I’m guessing is when he wipes the phone clean.
The Quints play for fun, are planning the summer right now, have a cool T-shirt in the making and a brutal Youtube music video with bomb drops and grenade booms. The Quints have something as rare as two lead singers. Which voice that belongs to which man is kind of like a blind Memory – And one of many exciting ingredients in their repertoire.
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In conclusion I ask Richard for a comment on Promised Land and he responds:
– Everybody have at some point dreamt about being played in a helicopter in the mist of war. But only Creedence and Jimi Hendrix got to experience that. So we had to cheat our way into it.
For Worldkustom
