ABBA, MICROPHONE, 1978-1981, used by all four, vintage, AKG acoustics, D 330 BT, AUSTRIA LOW IMP, serial number #001864, metal.
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length ca 19 cm Length 19 cm Certificate will follow this lot number PROVENANCE: as seen in picture, Claes af Geijerstam, ABBA live sound engineer CLAES AF GEIJERSTAM Geijerstam was born in 1946. His career in Swedish show business started with sound engineering in the early 1960s. In 1966 he became a member of the Swedish pop band Ola & The Janglers, one of the major rivals to Benny Andersson's band The Hep Stars.
In 1973 Claes was a member of the duo act Nova who competed against ABBA in the Swedish selections for the Eurovision Song Contest. Nova's contribution, You Are Summer, You Never Tell Me No, won the selections. ABBA's Ring Ring only finished third.
Claes joined ABBA as a sound engineer on their 1974/75 tour of Europe, and the tour of Europe and Australia in 1977. He was also there to take care of the sound on the 1979/1980 tours of North America, Europe and Japan. As a performer he actually toured places like the United States before ABBA: he was there with his group Rocket as early as the mid-1970s.
Claes af Geijerstam became a television personality in the early 1970s but is best-known in Sweden as a popular DJ on radio and in discotheques. His DJing (in Swedish) and music is now available around the clock via his own app that carries his nickname, CLABBE. In more recent years, he has served for a few years as one of the judges on the Swedish version of Pop Idol. In 2016, he hosted the 50th anniversary party for Benny and Björn as composers. (ABBA THE OFFICIAL SITE) POP HISTORY FROM THE BIG STAGE Straight over disc? Absolutely. But Claes "Clabbe" af Geijerstam is more than that. He is right over the whole of entertainment Sweden. A personified red thread that bound together several generations of viewers and listeners: as guitarist and songwriter in Ola & The Janglers from 1965, as an innovative radio DJ in "Rakt över disc" 1979-1993 and as a jury member in the television program "Idol" in 2004 -2006.
Beyond that and in between?
At the end of the 1960s, Clabbe wrote film music for Bo Widerberg, Jörn Donner and Janne Halldoff, led the radio and television program "Opopoppa" into the 1970s, and beat ABBA himself when, together with Göran Fristorp, he won the Swedish melody festival with "The summer that never says no" 1973. When ABBA won with "Waterloo" the following year and set out to conquer the world, Clabbe was hired as sound engineer, handling the sound for every single gig (106 in total) until the very last concert at the legendary Budokan in Tokyo on March 27, 1980 . In addition, he has produced a wide range of artists and also events such as the opening of the Globe in 1989.
- It's more fun to be quite good at quite a lot than the best at just one thing - even if you don't make a huge breakthrough that way, says Clabbe af Geijerstam with a smile.
When he now organizes a collection of memorabilia for Crafoord Auktioner Stockholm, he thus has a rare content-rich career with many magical memories to pour out. Everything is directly linked to him and also musician colleague Caj Högberg who performed with ABBA, Carola, Tomas Ledin and Jerry Williams among others. Highly personal, or "Straight from the source" as Clabbe af Geijerstam himself puts it.
- I have many items in the ABBA museum from before but was inspired by Michael B. Tretow's auction at Crafoord and found quite a few more, says Clabbe. They shouldn't just lie in the drawers at home. "Everything for the fans" is the motto!
Among the items are a number of tour jackets that Clabbe af Geijerstam received, exchanged for himself or designed himself, the rare maxi single "Hovas vittne" by ABBA as a gift to Stikkan Anderson on his 50th birthday in 1981, ultra curiosities in the form of a bar of soap from the hotel room that two intimate 'perches' were meant to be shared in connection with the 'Top of the Pops' TV taping in London, backstage passes, ABBA's 1974 tour schedule and jewelery as gifts to band and tour members.
- The microphones are probably the coolest, Clabbe thinks. It was expensive to have many pickups so we chose carefully. These are the ones that ABBA has sung at every gig since 1977. They were tuned to the different voices with a built-in equalizer and traveled comfortably in their own boxes.
We're simply talking pop history and ABBA DNA.
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minor wear, no case/no box.
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length ca 19 cm Length 19 cm Certificate will follow this lot number PROVENANCE: as seen in picture, Claes af Geijerstam, ABBA live sound engineer CLAES AF GEIJERSTAM Geijerstam was born in 1946. His career in Swedish show business started with sound engineering in the early 1960s. In 1966 he became a member of the Swedish pop band Ola & The Janglers, one of the major rivals to Benny Andersson's band The Hep Stars.
In 1973 Claes was a member of the duo act Nova who competed against ABBA in the Swedish selections for the Eurovision Song Contest. Nova's contribution, You Are Summer, You Never Tell Me No, won the selections. ABBA's Ring Ring only finished third.
Claes joined ABBA as a sound engineer on their 1974/75 tour of Europe, and the tour of Europe and Australia in 1977. He was also there to take care of the sound on the 1979/1980 tours of North America, Europe and Japan. As a performer he actually toured places like the United States before ABBA: he was there with his group Rocket as early as the mid-1970s.
Claes af Geijerstam became a television personality in the early 1970s but is best-known in Sweden as a popular DJ on radio and in discotheques. His DJing (in Swedish) and music is now available around the clock via his own app that carries his nickname, CLABBE. In more recent years, he has served for a few years as one of the judges on the Swedish version of Pop Idol. In 2016, he hosted the 50th anniversary party for Benny and Björn as composers. (ABBA THE OFFICIAL SITE) POP HISTORY FROM THE BIG STAGE Straight over disc? Absolutely. But Claes "Clabbe" af Geijerstam is more than that. He is right over the whole of entertainment Sweden. A personified red thread that bound together several generations of viewers and listeners: as guitarist and songwriter in Ola & The Janglers from 1965, as an innovative radio DJ in "Rakt över disc" 1979-1993 and as a jury member in the television program "Idol" in 2004 -2006.
Beyond that and in between?
At the end of the 1960s, Clabbe wrote film music for Bo Widerberg, Jörn Donner and Janne Halldoff, led the radio and television program "Opopoppa" into the 1970s, and beat ABBA himself when, together with Göran Fristorp, he won the Swedish melody festival with "The summer that never says no" 1973. When ABBA won with "Waterloo" the following year and set out to conquer the world, Clabbe was hired as sound engineer, handling the sound for every single gig (106 in total) until the very last concert at the legendary Budokan in Tokyo on March 27, 1980 . In addition, he has produced a wide range of artists and also events such as the opening of the Globe in 1989.
- It's more fun to be quite good at quite a lot than the best at just one thing - even if you don't make a huge breakthrough that way, says Clabbe af Geijerstam with a smile.
When he now organizes a collection of memorabilia for Crafoord Auktioner Stockholm, he thus has a rare content-rich career with many magical memories to pour out. Everything is directly linked to him and also musician colleague Caj Högberg who performed with ABBA, Carola, Tomas Ledin and Jerry Williams among others. Highly personal, or "Straight from the source" as Clabbe af Geijerstam himself puts it.
- I have many items in the ABBA museum from before but was inspired by Michael B. Tretow's auction at Crafoord and found quite a few more, says Clabbe. They shouldn't just lie in the drawers at home. "Everything for the fans" is the motto!
Among the items are a number of tour jackets that Clabbe af Geijerstam received, exchanged for himself or designed himself, the rare maxi single "Hovas vittne" by ABBA as a gift to Stikkan Anderson on his 50th birthday in 1981, ultra curiosities in the form of a bar of soap from the hotel room that two intimate 'perches' were meant to be shared in connection with the 'Top of the Pops' TV taping in London, backstage passes, ABBA's 1974 tour schedule and jewelery as gifts to band and tour members.
- The microphones are probably the coolest, Clabbe thinks. It was expensive to have many pickups so we chose carefully. These are the ones that ABBA has sung at every gig since 1977. They were tuned to the different voices with a built-in equalizer and traveled comfortably in their own boxes.
We're simply talking pop history and ABBA DNA.
Condition
minor wear, no case/no box.
Theme
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