Nostalgia, Lund "Olympen" Sweden

Nostalgia

  Lund a University-town in South of Sweden, was a place to be if you wanted to go to great conserts of all kind in 70-90´s.

Most people in my generation that lived in south of Sweden or studied at the University in Lund surely has some kind of great memories of Big and great conserts there.

And we who were lucky to lived near a town like LUND in SWEDEN are many!

"Olympen" in Lund was the Name of the conserthall, well in fact it was an arena built in a big complex of studentdorms that should been meant to be for sportactivities and sportevents.

But instead it became an "institution" for musiclovers of all kind instead.

Recently a historical book and reveiw has come to the bookstores. This book is packed with information, pictures and memories of good concerts and all the great artists that once have been there. 

 

(Click on the pictures)

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  I was lucky to live in Malmö (20 years) a town very close to Lund and I had the chances to go to some of these conserts that was held in Lund at that time. The closeness to Copenhagen and the continent surley made it possible for the arranger to get all these amazing big stars to Lund. Its just unbelivable how many of the big stars and bands that has been playing in Lund.

Now, "Olympen" was not the only arena for conserts in Lund, there were also Pub Sparta, and the Auditorium in the big Studentdorm complex called Sparta. Sparta was a 4 big 5-floorhouses for students, so called "studentcorridors" were a student had his/hers single room.

Some concerts were also held in AF, Akademiska Föreningen (The Academic-association house) and also at studentclubs in Malmö.

Well, lots of memories, some that you will remember if you read this book. Names and time and year of the conserts.

It is also an encyclopedia for concerts-nerds and nostalgia, a must have for us who were there at the time being. I´ll come back to this book later as a referecebook.

A good reason to buy this book if you want to refresh old memories of concerts of all kinds, that were held in Lund, and if you have your own "forgotten memories" of all conserts that you have visitied. This book could refresh your memories a little maybe?  Not only for all of the cats that once have studied at the University of Lund or in Malmö, but to all musiclovers as well.

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It´s fun to see old pictures, posters and tickets,

Check this out:

Notice: Time changes and so does the stars, and the music, Fairport Convention was once a popular English folk-rock group at this time, today almost forgotten...

But Larry Coryell is one of the greatest Jazzfusion guitarists of all time. He still used to be called "Mr Fusion". Today still going strong. Who is the biggest star today? The brand of his guitar? He still plays the Hagström!  (In this picture above from the book,  Hagström The Swede)

Larry Coryell, on a Hagström Viking in 2012.

Click on the grey link below and learn more of this great guitarist !

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Coryell 

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