Rolf Nilsson - Bio - Musical history

The musical history of me

I used to be a guitar player, composer and teacher. This page will list some of my musical activities in the past in no particular order.

Please note that for the sheet music, I use the ancient Swedish way of spelling the note B as H and for single staff notation I write the chords under the melody (this is how we used to write sheet music before "the Real Book" came along and "Americanized" us). I also sometimes write - and + signs instead of b and # (+5 instead of #5 even though often b13 would be the most correct notation).

Good Vibes Between 1989 and 1993 I lead a quartet that included guitar, vibes, bass and drums. I composed the material and below are some recordings we made. The guitar used is custom built by a guy from my home town: Johan Gustavsson Guitars The amplifier was something (two Boogie amps?) that was available in the studio. I always liked the challenge of using whatever was available, on the road or in the studio, to prove to myself that the instruments used wasn't that important (I'm not sure about that any longer).
Are you leaving	Listen	Sheet music
Where's the key?	Listen	Sheet music
Your choice	Listen	Sheet music
Do Bap	Listen	Sheet music
Flash	Listen	Sheet music
You there (based on 'There will never be another you')	Listen	Sheet music
Blue twist	Listen	Sheet music
Annika (for my daughter)	Listen	Sheet music
Chinese wall	Listen	Sheet music
Sunrise (based on 'Softly as in a morning sunrise')	Listen	Sheet music
Jansson (for Lars Jansson - the great Swedish piano player)	Listen	Sheet music

Good Vibes

Between 1989 and 1993 I lead a quartet that included guitar, vibes, bass and drums. I composed the material and below are some recordings we made.
The guitar used is custom built by a guy from my home town: Johan Gustavsson Guitars
The amplifier was something (two Boogie amps?) that was available in the studio. I always liked the challenge of using whatever was available, on the road or in the studio, to prove to myself that the instruments used wasn't that important (I'm not sure about that any longer).

Are you leaving

Fair Play In the late 80's I was a member of an electric fusion group called Fair Play. It was a quartet where I played guitar and guitar synthesizer. The other members played soprano sax/wind synthesizer, electric bass and drums. I composed a lot of the material and below are a couple of my songs.
7 mm (my hair length)	Listen	Sheet music
Fair Play	Listen	Sheet music
Knuff	Listen	Sheet music

Guest Stars - a cover band We used to have great cover band in the late eighties, playing the tunes we thought were fun and swinging. The band played several hundreds gigs but were recorded only once. Below are some tunes from that live recording made around 1987 (for you guitar gear freaks, I used a Squire Stratocaster and a Fender Vibrolux through a RAT distortion pedal - a delay unit(?) and a Microverb - at least that is what I most often used at that time).
Owner of a lonely heart - Yes	Listen	Guitar solo
Wild horses - Gino Vannelli	Listen	Guitar solo
Set them free - Sting	Listen	Nothing
Wide_boy - (?)	Listen	Guitar solo
Hip to be square - Huey Lewis	Listen	Guitar solo
The Crush - John Hiatt	Listen	Guitar solo
Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan	Listen	Nothing
Take me to the river (encore) - Al Green	Listen	Nothing