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Thåström, 2015 [Photo: Michael Nilsson]

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Peace Love & Pitbulls - Alla vill till himlen. Live at Hultsfredsfestivalen, 1997 [full concert]

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Thåström, 2012 [Photos: Pär Magnus Lögdberg]

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Some more "Slicka uppåt, Sparka neråt"-recording troubles... [x]

"Damnit! I don't know! I'm counting wrong! I don't know why I'm not getting it... why it's... there. It's four times right?"

"Yes I think it's just that the guitar is a bit off there..."

"Mhhm.."

"So that's why it's.."

"Yeah yeah, sure, let's go!"

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Thåström, 2010 [Photos: Linus Johansson]

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Joakim Thåström in "Ett hjärta är alltid rött - En film om Imperiet"

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Joakim Thåström as Killian in Den Frusna Leoparden (1986) [x]

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– If I've burned a lot of money in bars? You could definitely say that. All the money I've had I've burned there. Ok, some leather-pants and a few guitars as well, but the rest has been spent there. - Joakim Thåström, 1999

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Joakim Thåström, Imperiet (1985) [Photo: Mikael Almse]

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just for the shits and giggles lmao (x)

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Thåström | Arvikafestivalen, 2006 [Photos: Jesper Frisk]

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Joakim Thåström getting some help from Tomas Ledin during the 1985 ANC-gala rehearsals [Photo: Torbjörn Ekebacke]

"Tomas Ledin's comeback breakthrough is as tragic as when Karl XII lost the battle of Poltava. Ledin as a lyricist is nothing but embarrassing." ~ Thåström [Aftonbladet, 1992]

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Joakim Thåström recording an overdub for Slicka uppåt, sparka neråt [=Lick upwards, kick downwards] [x]

"Thåström's painted Gibson lay across his lap. His hands supporting his chin, legs hitched under the chair. It's a somber moment, a situation in the studio where Ebba Grön right now are recording their second LP. But it's also a scene in the film with the working-title "Ebba The Movie" that a crew led by Johan Donner is working on. Thåström curses the guitar-sound and throws the guitar into the amplifier so that everything just shrieks. It's an overdub for "Slicka uppåt, sparka neråt" that needs to be nailed. His Gibson keeps going out of tune all the time and the beat is off. We are standing in the control room and hear the alarm that almost blow the speakers. — Now it's serious, says Johan. What we have filmed previously was just a rehearsal before the real feeling. At this time the Ebba-gang, Thåström, Gurra and Fjodor and the film-crew has gotten to know eachother to the point where everyone knows that Thåström has to get some nerves out before it can fall into place. Despite that the atmosphere is vexed. The LP has to be finished within a few days and time is running out[...]" ~ Schlager Magazine, 1981

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Thåström + triangle | Øyafestivalen, Norway (2009) [Photo: Oda Bahr]

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