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Butter Utter
12+ albums
punkpunk rockSwedish Punkrockswedish
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Swedish punk rock. It all began back in 1975, when PEG (Peter Gillgren) succeeded in escaping from his parent’s hippie colony in India and make it back to Uppsala, Sweden. PEG hated everything that had to do with alternative living, drugs or human relations. In Uppsala he teamed up with his old pal HAC (Hans Carstensen, aka Carsten Riff). HAC descended from an old family of nobilities and despised everything that had to do with upper class traditions and values, including money, good manners and well-being. When he was thrown out of the family mansion, he was given a grand apartment in central Uppsala. It was there that the group came to compose and arrange some of their most memorable songs. PEG and HAC knew a bit about musical instruments and decided to form a rock group, probably in order to rid themselves of some boredom and frustrations. But in order to succeed they needed a few companions to associate with. After a number disappointments they finally found their fellow soulmates in CHRIB (Christer Björkman) and TOJ (Tommy Jansson). CHRIB came from a family of communist miners, originating from the very north of Sweden. This made him suspicious of all leftism, radicalism, politics and progress. TOJ’s origin was more uncertain, but it has been suggested that his ancestors were Spanish inquisitors, which would explain why he was so extremely critical towards everything of foreign origin, such as philosophy, popular music and red whine. Both went to the same high school a
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