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Hellborggroup.com -
info, pics,
video and audio material
about all musician
combinations in the
Jonas Hellborg group
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Bardo Records -
Jonas' record label and
online shop for his
releases
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Equipment The beginnings
1970 - 1979 The beginnings
A 12 years old Jonas picks up the saw, chunks of wood, electronics and a screwdriver and puts together his first bass guitar. "It didn't have a truss rod and it was very ugly, but I was proud of it - I had build it myself!". Sadly, there is not even a photo testimony left to remind of it.
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Around the same age, he gets to buy a "real" bass for 50 Swedish Crowns (about 8 USD today) from a pawn shop. It was an Egmond bass guitar. That guitar doesn't exist anymore either - it was modified and finally "massacred" for parts.
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Later on, Jonas spends his earnings as a child actor in a popular TV series on a Gibson bass and a Fender Bassman 50 amp system.
He also builds a new mahogany body bass in school, around the age of 16.
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'77-'78 Jonas' new touring instrument is a London Burns.
He also played a Fender for a short while.
Then in '79 he bought a Wall bass. |
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