Added: 03 January 2014
Trilogy (Swe)
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Band Info
Artist
Trilogy
Country Sweden
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Genre
Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Active 1979 (as Toxic) - Sep 1984, 1992 - XXXX
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Members
Marc Gransten - Vocals, Bass Christofer Hofgaard - Guitar ( Mud & Blood, Cloon Machine, Hang 'Em High, Vision, Trezpass, Tommy Tysper and the Kids (guest), Electric Savage, Maple Fat) Håkan "Ian" Haugland - Drums ( Stitch, Axia, Red Baron, Europe, Candlemass, John Norum, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, Niva, Sha-boom, Baltimoore, Ten 67, Clockwise, Last Autumn's Dream, Glenn Hughes, Brazen Abbot, Nikolo Kotzev, R.A.W (guest), Coldspell (guest))
Former / Past Members
Leif "Leffe" Edling - Vocals ( The Doomsday Kingdom, Candlemass, Nemesis, Avatarium, Krux, Abstrakt Algebra, Witchcraft, Jupiter Society, Leif Edling, The Project Hate MCMXCIX) Kjell "Mr. Presantatör" Nilsson - Vocals ( Red Baron, Paradise, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force) Håkan Sundberg - Bass
Info from Janne Stark's EncyclopediaTRILOGY was formed already in 1979/80, initially under the name TOXIC. The style was inspired by bands like RUSH and BUDGIE, with lots of instrumental passages. They also had CANDLEMASS bass player Leif Edling in the line-up for six months, but as a lead singer. TRILOGY also made a 5-track demo with Ian on vocals. He also made a short session with the band STITCH, but nothing was recorded. They split in september 1984 when Ian joined EUROPE, Christoffer joined and recorded an outstanding single with the band VISION the same year. In 1992 Ian reformed TRILOGY and they did some odd cover gigs, but after EUROPE split they started working harder on original material. The band was working on a second album, however nothing ever came out. Hofgaard is now found in the band MUD & BLOOD. Ian Haugland Bio (from http://www.wingsoftomorrow.com/member_ian.htm) Jan Håkan Haugland was born in Norway, but didn't stay there for long. When he was eight months old, his father got a job at the Broby mansion in the suburb Märsta outside Stockholm, so the Haugland family moved there. Håkan has three brothers and a sister. He found his love for music early on. "My mother had a bunch of old Swedish records, kind of folk music, and we had a little gramophone. I couldn't have been more than five or six years old. I started to play these records. I just liked the music. I didn't really like the kind of music, but I liked music." At the same time Håkan wanted to play music himself. "I played on my mother's pots and pans. I remember I got this toy guitar. I used to play, pretending that I was a guitarist and having these shows for my mother and father in the living room, haha!" When he was eight years old, he listened to the radio and heard "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple. "That was the first time I heard Deep Purple, actually, on that radio show. 'Machine Head', 'Highway Star' and those songs. And I found out that I liked the more aggressive kind of music. From there I started listening to groups like The Sweet and Nazareth, and then I went over to KISS, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and Deep Purple." In 1976 he went to see Rainbow in concert at the Stockholm Concert Hall. "I got Cozy Powell's autograph outside the concert hall. A convincing introduction to the rock 'n' roll. Rainbow at the concert hall. Fuck, how strong it was!" Cozy's powerful drumming inspired Håkan to become a drummer himself and think, "I'm gonna play the drums just like him." Shortly after, his parents gave him his first drum kit as a confirmation present. "I had dreamt about that for a long time. They bought a used drum kit at the Expert store in Märsta." When Håkan was 13 years old, he and a friend started a band. "I didn't know what to play. I liked drums and I liked bass guitar. I decided on playing the drums just because a drum kit would be less expensive than a bass amplifier and a bass guitar. I got sacked because I was hitting the drums too hard. I was playing too loud for the other guys." In 1979 Håkan and some friends formed the band Toxic. "Our first concert was at a friend's house on his birthday." Later that year he, Håkan Sundberg and Christoffer Hofgaard formed the trio Trilogy. Their influences were Rush, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. "The idea was a really Rush influence and we wanted to play really complex instrumental heavy metal, lots of solos. I was the lead singer, so I was playing drums and singing at the same time." In 1982 Trilogy participated in the national talent contest "Rock-SM" and played in the same part competition as FORCE. Trilogy lost and FORCE qualified for the quarter finals. Later on FORCE changed their name to EUROPE and won "Rock-SM". Håkan still remembers that night. "I watched the final on TV. I sat there, pretty pissed off, with my arm in a cast and couldn't do anything..." After that, Trilogy split up and Håkan started to become more interested in synth rock. When he was in high school, he and two schoolmates formed the band Vox Humana, which was influenced by Gary Numan and Ultravox. Later on, Håkan tried out for Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, but didn't think he fitted in. At that time Håkan worked together with his father at the Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, but he still wanted to go on with his musical career. "Either I had to find a famous band in Sweden, or I would have tried to do like Yngwie and move to America because I wanted to be a musician." One day when Håkan was about to go home, his father met him in the doorway and told him that there had been a phone call for him. "He said, 'Some guy from a record company or management called up and he asked for you, and he left his phone number, so please call him up." Håkan did and found out that it was EUROPE's manager at the time, Thomas Erdtman. EUROPE was looking for a new drummer and Erdtman told Håkan that the band members had said they wanted to try him out. "It was like a dream coming true." Håkan met up with the band at their rehearsal place at Berns in Stockholm and received a tape with four songs to rehearse to: "Seven Doors Hotel", "Scream of Anger", "Wings of Tomorrow" and "Treated Bad Again". "Then there was nothing left to do but go home and rehearse like hell." After that, Håkan hooked up with the band for the deciding rehearsal. "We just went for it and the guys said, 'Well, you're in!'" The reason he decided to take the artist name Ian Haugland was because "Håkan was too hard to use internationally. 'å' would be difficult to use because it doesn't exist in English. I took Jan and made it to Ian. Mostly because of similarity and because of Ian Paice." In 1986 Ian played on Tone Norum's debut album, "One of a Kind", which was produced and written by Joey Tempest. John Norum and Mic Michaeli also played on the album. After EUROPE went on hiatus in 1992, Ian reformed Trilogy, which released their first album, "Lust Provider", in 1994. In the same year Ian played on the Baltimoore album "Thought for Food" and the Niva album "No Capitulation", and he, Mic and John Levén joined Glenn Hughes for his "From Now On..." album and tour, which resulted in the live album "Burning Japan Live". In 1995 Ian played on the R.A.W. album "First", and he and Mic joined Brazen Abbot, a band that was formed by former Baltimoore guitarist Nikolo Kotzev. Brazen Abbot released their first album, "Live and Learn" in 1995, and the following year John Levén joined the band. With Levén in the lineup, Brazen Abbot released the albums "Eye of the Storm" in 1997, "Bad Religion" in 1998 and "Guilty as Sin" in 2003. In 1996 Ian and Levén were asked to take part in vocalist Benny Söderberg's new project. The band was called Clockwise and released their debut album, "Nostalgia", the same year. At the same time Ian started the pop project Brains Beat Beauty, which released the album "First Came Moses, Now This" in 1997. In the same year he played on the R.A.W. album "Now We're Cookin'". In 1998 he participated in several projects: He played on the second Clockwise album, "Naïve", made guest appearances on the Candlemass album "Dactylis Glomerata" and the Totte Wallin album "Mmm Blues (och lite country)", and recorded a cover version of the Black Sabbath song "Changes" for the Ozzy Osbourne tribute album "Ozzified". In addition to that, Ian, Mic and Levén played on the Thore Skogman album "Än Är Det Drag". Clockwise recorded a cover of the Journey song "Send Her My Love" for a Journey tribute album, but the album was never released. Demos for a third Clockwise album were recorded, but nothing more. In 2000 Ian started to work as a radio host at Rockklassiker, Stockholm's rock radio station. "I got the job after they interviewed us about a one-off Millennium show EUROPE did." He was the host of the morning show "Morronrock" from 2000 to 2009, and nowadays he's hosting the afternoon show "Eftermiddagar med Ian Haugland". In 2000 Ian and Mic played with blues guitarist Tommy TC Carlsson, Sha-Boom and the Deep Purple/Whitesnake cover band White Purple. In 2001 Ian, Mic and Levén were all part of "Nikolo Kotzev's Nostradamus", a project that was released as a concept album. In the same year Ian played on the Baltimoore compilation "The Best of Baltimoore". In 2002 he played on the Sha-Boom compilation "FIIIRE!!", and an Uli Jon Roth tribute album. In 2003 Ian was the vocalist in the project band 10.67, which recorded a cover of the KISS song "Rock 'n' Roll All Night". The band was completed by Lion's Share guitarist Lars Chriss and DJ's from Rockklassiker. In the same year Ian, Mic and Levén joined the project band Last Autumn's Dream, which released a self-titled debut album. However, later that year EUROPE reunited, so Last Autumn's Dream had to recruit new members. Ian is married to Marita Haugland (née Isaksen) since 1993, and they have three children, Simon, Jannie and Linnéa. Simon made a guest appearance in the music video for "Hero".
Info from Janne Stark's EncyclopediaTRILOGY was formed already in 1979/80, initially under the name TOXIC. The style was inspired by bands like RUSH and BUDGIE, with lots of instrumental passages. They also had CANDLEMASS bass player Leif Edling in the line-up for six months, but as a lead singer. TRILOGY also made a 5-track demo with Ian on vocals. He also made a short session with the band STITCH, but nothing was recorded. They split in september 1984 when Ian joined EUROPE, Christoffer joined and recorded an outstanding single with the band VISION the same year. In 1992 Ian reformed TRILOGY and they did some odd cover gigs, but after EUROPE split they started working harder on original material. The band was working on a second album, however nothing ever came out. Hofgaard is now found in the band MUD & BLOOD. Ian Haugland Bio (from http://www.wingsoftomorrow.com/member_ian.htm) Jan Håkan Haugland was born in Norway, but didn't stay there for long. When he was eight months old, his father got a job at the Broby mansion in the suburb Märsta outside Stockholm, so the Haugland family moved there. Håkan has three brothers and a sister. He found his love for music early on. "My mother had a bunch of old Swedish records, kind of folk music, and we had a little gramophone. I couldn't have been more than five or six years old. I started to play these records. I just liked the music. I didn't really like the kind of music, but I liked music." At the same time Håkan wanted to play music himself. "I played on my mother's pots and pans. I remember I got this toy guitar. I used to play, pretending that I was a guitarist and having these shows for my mother and father in the living room, haha!" When he was eight years old, he listened to the radio and heard "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple. "That was the first time I heard Deep Purple, actually, on that radio show. 'Machine Head', 'Highway Star' and those songs. And I found out that I liked the more aggressive kind of music. From there I started listening to groups like The Sweet and Nazareth, and then I went over to KISS, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and Deep Purple." In 1976 he went to see Rainbow in concert at the Stockholm Concert Hall. "I got Cozy Powell's autograph outside the concert hall. A convincing introduction to the rock 'n' roll. Rainbow at the concert hall. Fuck, how strong it was!" Cozy's powerful drumming inspired Håkan to become a drummer himself and think, "I'm gonna play the drums just like him." Shortly after, his parents gave him his first drum kit as a confirmation present. "I had dreamt about that for a long time. They bought a used drum kit at the Expert store in Märsta." When Håkan was 13 years old, he and a friend started a band. "I didn't know what to play. I liked drums and I liked bass guitar. I decided on playing the drums just because a drum kit would be less expensive than a bass amplifier and a bass guitar. I got sacked because I was hitting the drums too hard. I was playing too loud for the other guys." In 1979 Håkan and some friends formed the band Toxic. "Our first concert was at a friend's house on his birthday." Later that year he, Håkan Sundberg and Christoffer Hofgaard formed the trio Trilogy. Their influences were Rush, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. "The idea was a really Rush influence and we wanted to play really complex instrumental heavy metal, lots of solos. I was the lead singer, so I was playing drums and singing at the same time." In 1982 Trilogy participated in the national talent contest "Rock-SM" and played in the same part competition as FORCE. Trilogy lost and FORCE qualified for the quarter finals. Later on FORCE changed their name to EUROPE and won "Rock-SM". Håkan still remembers that night. "I watched the final on TV. I sat there, pretty pissed off, with my arm in a cast and couldn't do anything..." After that, Trilogy split up and Håkan started to become more interested in synth rock. When he was in high school, he and two schoolmates formed the band Vox Humana, which was influenced by Gary Numan and Ultravox. Later on, Håkan tried out for Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, but didn't think he fitted in. At that time Håkan worked together with his father at the Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, but he still wanted to go on with his musical career. "Either I had to find a famous band in Sweden, or I would have tried to do like Yngwie and move to America because I wanted to be a musician." One day when Håkan was about to go home, his father met him in the doorway and told him that there had been a phone call for him. "He said, 'Some guy from a record company or management called up and he asked for you, and he left his phone number, so please call him up." Håkan did and found out that it was EUROPE's manager at the time, Thomas Erdtman. EUROPE was looking for a new drummer and Erdtman told Håkan that the band members had said they wanted to try him out. "It was like a dream coming true." Håkan met up with the band at their rehearsal place at Berns in Stockholm and received a tape with four songs to rehearse to: "Seven Doors Hotel", "Scream of Anger", "Wings of Tomorrow" and "Treated Bad Again". "Then there was nothing left to do but go home and rehearse like hell." After that, Håkan hooked up with the band for the deciding rehearsal. "We just went for it and the guys said, 'Well, you're in!'" The reason he decided to take the artist name Ian Haugland was because "Håkan was too hard to use internationally. 'å' would be difficult to use because it doesn't exist in English. I took Jan and made it to Ian. Mostly because of similarity and because of Ian Paice." In 1986 Ian played on Tone Norum's debut album, "One of a Kind", which was produced and written by Joey Tempest. John Norum and Mic Michaeli also played on the album. After EUROPE went on hiatus in 1992, Ian reformed Trilogy, which released their first album, "Lust Provider", in 1994. In the same year Ian played on the Baltimoore album "Thought for Food" and the Niva album "No Capitulation", and he, Mic and John Levén joined Glenn Hughes for his "From Now On..." album and tour, which resulted in the live album "Burning Japan Live". In 1995 Ian played on the R.A.W. album "First", and he and Mic joined Brazen Abbot, a band that was formed by former Baltimoore guitarist Nikolo Kotzev. Brazen Abbot released their first album, "Live and Learn" in 1995, and the following year John Levén joined the band. With Levén in the lineup, Brazen Abbot released the albums "Eye of the Storm" in 1997, "Bad Religion" in 1998 and "Guilty as Sin" in 2003. In 1996 Ian and Levén were asked to take part in vocalist Benny Söderberg's new project. The band was called Clockwise and released their debut album, "Nostalgia", the same year. At the same time Ian started the pop project Brains Beat Beauty, which released the album "First Came Moses, Now This" in 1997. In the same year he played on the R.A.W. album "Now We're Cookin'". In 1998 he participated in several projects: He played on the second Clockwise album, "Naïve", made guest appearances on the Candlemass album "Dactylis Glomerata" and the Totte Wallin album "Mmm Blues (och lite country)", and recorded a cover version of the Black Sabbath song "Changes" for the Ozzy Osbourne tribute album "Ozzified". In addition to that, Ian, Mic and Levén played on the Thore Skogman album "Än Är Det Drag". Clockwise recorded a cover of the Journey song "Send Her My Love" for a Journey tribute album, but the album was never released. Demos for a third Clockwise album were recorded, but nothing more. In 2000 Ian started to work as a radio host at Rockklassiker, Stockholm's rock radio station. "I got the job after they interviewed us about a one-off Millennium show EUROPE did." He was the host of the morning show "Morronrock" from 2000 to 2009, and nowadays he's hosting the afternoon show "Eftermiddagar med Ian Haugland". In 2000 Ian and Mic played with blues guitarist Tommy TC Carlsson, Sha-Boom and the Deep Purple/Whitesnake cover band White Purple. In 2001 Ian, Mic and Levén were all part of "Nikolo Kotzev's Nostradamus", a project that was released as a concept album. In the same year Ian played on the Baltimoore compilation "The Best of Baltimoore". In 2002 he played on the Sha-Boom compilation "FIIIRE!!", and an Uli Jon Roth tribute album. In 2003 Ian was the vocalist in the project band 10.67, which recorded a cover of the KISS song "Rock 'n' Roll All Night". The band was completed by Lion's Share guitarist Lars Chriss and DJ's from Rockklassiker. In the same year Ian, Mic and Levén joined the project band Last Autumn's Dream, which released a self-titled debut album. However, later that year EUROPE reunited, so Last Autumn's Dream had to recruit new members. Ian is married to Marita Haugland (née Isaksen) since 1993, and they have three children, Simon, Jannie and Linnéa. Simon made a guest appearance in the music video for "Hero".
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