{"id":3184,"date":"2019-01-07T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2019-01-05T11:06:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T11:06:46","slug":"3184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3184","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Dogs &#8211; Reload, Rewind &#038; Recall Rock N Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_2285\">RELOAD, REWIND &amp; RECALL ROCK N ROLL<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Swedish glam boogie blue-eyed soul rockers\u00a0<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_2288\">DIAMOND DOGS<\/strong>\u00a0are back to set things straight!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3185 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail.jpg 980w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-768x328.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4041\">After the loss of saxophone player and longtime band member Magic Gunnarsson (who died in a drowning accident 2014)\u00a0<strong>Sulo<\/strong>\u00a0and the rest of\u00a0<strong>DIAMOND DOGS<\/strong>\u00a0called it a day. They released the album \u201c<strong>Quitters &amp; Complainers<\/strong>\u201d in 2015 and went on a farewell tour ending in Oviedo in October together with\u00a0<strong>Iggy Pop<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4051\">Since then\u00a0<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4050\">Sulo<\/strong>\u2019s been releasing 3 solo albums, working with\u00a0<strong>Chris Spedding<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Paul Young<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4052\">The Crunch<\/strong>\u00a0and the rest of the members been busy with other projects. During this time a lot of\u00a0<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4053\">DIAMOND DOGS<\/strong>\u00a0gig requests been dropping in from all over the world and when they found out that 4 of the 10 previous studio albums been out of stock for a long time and wasn\u2019t available as download they started to make a plan.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4054\"><strong>Sulo<\/strong>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<strong>Honk<\/strong>\u00a0(Henrik Widen), the remaining original members thought it was time to set things straight and release \u201cthat\u201d compilation they\u2019ve been talking about for many years. One thing led to another and soon they had a plan and even some new tracks to blend up the compilation with.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4060\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3186 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-1.jpg 980w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-1-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-1-768x282.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a>\u201c<strong>RECALL ROCK &amp; ROLL<\/strong>\u201d (Cargo Records) will be a double album including 30 tracks. 25 old and 5 brand new songs. At the same time, Cargo Records will re-release 4 previous albums on Vinyl\/CD &amp; download.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4056\">The albums are: \u201c<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4058\">As your greens turn brown<\/strong>\u201d, \u201c<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4103\">Too much is always better than not enough<\/strong>\u201d, \u201c<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4057\">That\u2019s the juice I\u2019m on<\/strong>\u201d and the split album\u00a0\u201c<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4097\">Atlantic Crossover<\/strong>\u201d with legendary US Punk rock singer\u00a0<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4055\">Jeff Dahl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4105\">\u201c<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4104\">RECALL ROCK &amp; ROLL<\/strong>\u201d will be released in September\/October and\u00a0<strong>DIAMOND DOGS<\/strong>\u00a0planning to tour Europe.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4107\"><strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4106\">DIAMOND DOGS 2019<\/strong>\u00a0are:<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4108\">Sulo &#8211; Lead vocals<br \/>\nLars Karlsson &#8211; Guitars<br \/>\nMartin Thomander (ex\u00a0<strong>Electric Boys<\/strong>) &#8211; Guitar, Backing vocals<br \/>\nHenrik \u201cHonk\u201d Widen &#8211; Keys, Backing vocals<br \/>\nStefan Belln\u00e4s &#8211; Bass<br \/>\nThomas Broman (ex\u00a0<strong>Glenn Hughes<\/strong>) &#8211; Drums<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4109\"><strong>DIAMOND DOGS<\/strong>\u00a0have over the years delivered countless hard rockin\u2019 shows worldwide, they have also been on tour sharing stage with:\u00a0<strong>Nazareth<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Ian Hunter<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>The Damned<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Hanoi Rocks<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>The Cult<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Sensational Alex Harvey Band<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>The Quireboys<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Dan Baird<\/strong>, among others.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4110\">Members of\u00a0<strong>Diamond Dogs<\/strong>\u00a0also have associations with such fine artists as\u00a0<strong>The Hellacopters<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Johnny Thunders<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4111\">The Solution<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4112\">The Dogs D\u2019amour<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>The Nomads<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Lisa &amp; the Lips<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Ian Hunter<\/strong>\u00a0and T<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546685804287_4113\">he Crunch<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3187 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-2.jpg 980w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mail-2-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RELOAD, REWIND &amp; RECALL ROCK N ROLL\u00a0&#8211; Swedish glam boogie blue-eyed soul rockers\u00a0DIAMOND DOGS\u00a0are back to set things straight! After the loss of saxophone player and longtime band member Magic Gunnarsson (who died in a drowning accident 2014)\u00a0Sulo\u00a0and the rest of\u00a0DIAMOND DOGS\u00a0called it a day. They released the album \u201cQuitters &amp; Complainers\u201d in 2015 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[709,1004,687],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-diamond-dogs","tag-roc-n-growl","tag-sulo","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3190,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions\/3190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}