Is there a strong American influence present in the Swedish music scene?
Chris Dangerous: There has always been a lot of American influences. The whole country speaks English, so it’s not only people our age that grew up listening to American, British or Australian music. It goes a long way back; probably from the time [America] invented rock ‘n’ roll, pretty much. It was big in the ’50s to listen to Elvis. I don’t really know why that is because if you go to Finland it is not the same thing at all. They listen to more of their own traditional music. I don’t know why that is. JamBase: I know in the early ’60s blues music invaded the American countryside. I was wondering since you guys were more of a garage band, what American garage bands influenced you? The Hives by Bill Pratt Chris Dangerous: We didn’t even know there was something called garage rock until pretty late. We started playing and listening to punk. We listened to stuff like The Ramones and the Sex Pistols. We didn’t find stuff like The Sonics until later on. We didn’t really listen to garage r
