Rocky Road 6 Staffanstorp Skåne

Summer, sun, bus breakdown  and a fantastic Staffanstorp !!!

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New driver today. Meet Tore Granbom. Ice cold skipper who took water filled  ship through brutal storms. This time, he took the bus in an orbit around Sweden in 54 hours.

Departure 9 am Harnosand Friday. Granbom pressed the pedal to the metal directly. In Avesta gave the return spring  the throttle gave up and trick off, but Tore said nothing. What is a limp accelerator pedal  to a diving as last man from a capsized ship for a sea dog like Granbom.

In Fagersta, we stopped for refueling.
– The pedal has been laid off, said Tore like  “by the way”.
-Whata! we said ?? With 1000 miles  left before we were home, it was no highlight.

Up with the engine cover. Krantzen found the spring  lying on top of the engine. It had snapped. Gotte made a new one of a banner strap. Next stop Värnamo in five hours for new refueling and a burger.

Arrive at accommodation at complete  strangers Conny and Anette  at 10 p.m. After five minutes we were at home and sat in the Skåne summer evening and just enjoyed with our new friends.

Sweden’s National Day in Staffanstorp are cars and motorcycles on parade from Willys, which offers free breakfast to all. Cool. It was like the Blues Brothers when the caravan snaked under police escort through town and they announced  rock and roll show in the park.

Krantz & Krantz pushed away a half hour and invited to the new! It is always risky with  “the new”.

For the first year the club wanted to extend the meeting  with  rock and roll in the evening.

Our job was to draw people to the party and to ensure that it became jammed.

After five songs  two blondes danced  in the grass in the middle of the day …

… and several joined in

Skåne people  are fantastic. I’ve seen it before. They are open, cheerful, playful half-Danish partyers.

Göran Persson (left)  felt good.

He was the clubs contact with  us. Another cool dude.

The club had worked terrific and when evening came, the distinguished  party place  in the  middle of the town got so packed that the head master Adam had to run upstairs to find more tables to put outside.

Jammed.

The bus was to big. Gottfrid moved concrete  and ….

we pressed on in to the plantation.

New place, new play.  New carry.

The Krantz found a place to sleep also.

Whole grilled pork was so tender the meat fell off the bones when served, sunny day, the evening warm and Sweden just  perfect.

We gathered in the bus, and agreed that this was the epitome of a perfect gig. An evening when everything was right.

The crowd wanted us to  start earlier !! (Think that back home in  Härnösand where the audience comes out to the pub 11:30 pm  nowdays.)

The ordinary. Somebody want to check if it’s real.

Alfred on the dance floor in a guitar solo. A guy came up afterwards. I thought it would be just another  rockabilly night but this was just wonderful. You can  play everything !! Blues, rock, country, swing, rockabilly and heavy Texas rock.

Thank’s mighty  Matti Arvinder. When Matti plays it feels like he weighs 300 pounds. Powerful.

The audience  is always at the center when Krantz & Krantz plays. Another tough girl who came  on stage was Anette Green.

She had been practicing karaoke to Krantz & Krantz-CD.  Of course she was brought up on stage . She took the  Dixi Chicks song You’ve gotta dance, away

– Awesome  Anette!

We started 8 pm to applause and people on the dance floor, played until  1:00 am and enjoyed every minute.

Fabian Rapp bass player  in sunglasses tonight.

A direct hit.
Afterwards we were supposed to go to  our fine accommodations but then came Tore.

– I’m ready to roll, he said, as we packed  sound and light two at night.
He had slept a few hours in the bus.
– If you say so , lets go home 630 miles
Said and done. At home 3 pm  on Sunday without exhaust. It fell off in Norrköping.

Thanks Staffanstorp !!
YOU  ROCK.

Next gig in five days  Saturday 13 of june  430 miles north at the midnight sun place Gällivare.