eggstone & bob hund at

gino, stockholm, march 30, 1994

rating: eggstone (2 out of 5) and bob hund (4 out of 5)

eggstone is a nice band. they do things right, the play well and they look the way they should look. but, hey, nothing happens! maybe it's because they want to re-live large parts of the history of rock to get to be included in it themselves. except in japan. that is something that makes you suspicious. one should be careful with bands that sells most of their albums in japan. unfair, but true. eggstone's big problem on the other hand, is something else, something more important. the songs. if they could do a whole concert with songs like 'against the sun', 'wrong heaven' and 'shooting time' everything would be perfect. but they can't.

on their tour, eggstone and bob hund take turns on who's playing first each night. the audience at gino can thank their lucky star (or maybe the tour manager) that the second band this evening was
bob hund.

five to twelve, they turn up on the stage and start off with two instrumental songs. but with bob hund, everything is the other way around, so instrumental or not, it doesn't matter. the audience (gino was packed at this time) sings along. the singer, thomas öberg is everywhere. he jumps down into the crowd and claps his hands to the music, he dives from the stage and walks on the hands of the audience from the stage to the bar [at the very back of the room] and back again to the stage, he climbs on everything he sees. he is, like they say, not like anyone else. a title like 'det skulle vara lätt för mig att säga att jag inte hittar hem med det gör jag; tror jag' ('tt would be easy for me to say that I can't find my way home, but I do, I think') says pretty much.

the wild pop music of bob hund touches every corner from punk to go-to-sleep songs. about the time you think you know it, something new and unexpected happens - but still completely logical. crystal clear descriptions aren't available when it comes to bob hund. on the other hand, the following statement fits perfectly: see them. they are too good to be missed.

 

expressen, march 31 1994