User:Mymac77/Erik Engebretsen

Erik Engebretsen was born in Fredrikstad, Norway on the early Thursday morning of July 27th. His father left him at age 1 leaving his mother and grandparents to raise him. At age 3 Erik would set up pots and pans or anything he could find to resemble a drum kit. He would beat the shit out of them for hours,months and years until he was 6 when he's mother presented him to the local marching band that he joined a year earlier than legal age. They stored a wrecked Tama Superstar drum-kit in the basement of the school they rehearsed and after a few years he was given the privilege to go down there 3 times a week to play the drum-kit on his own. A tape recorder was used plugged with headphones so he could play along with the artists like Elvis Presley - Deep Purple - Journey - Queen - Genesis - Kiss - Rod Stewart - Toto - Abba and Pink Floyd to name a few until the age of 12. By the age of 13 his mother bought him his first brand new one of a kind Japan imported drum-kit spending most of her savings, and on top of that worked a lot of extra hours to raise the money. He played on his first record by the age of 15 but it never saw the light of day, the end of that story with the band he joined ended up being law suited as a unit and also personal one by one. The major record company and the Swedish world known producer/owner who was in charge of the record deal, had already made huge superstars of ABBA and a lot of other Swedish international artists at that time. "Someone" all of a sudden got the brilliant idea that the money the band and the producer in Norway got transferred in advance, which was earmarked to pay for the recording of the whole album, could easily cover the studio work and a "tiny" 24/7 party for nearly a whole week inviting friends an local fans to celebrate the possible major signing. That adventure ended "surprisingly" enough when nothing of the material was delivered on time, but he became a local Rockstar at least and hit the news. A lot more could be told about that period but it's better left untold.

He played a lot of gigs with numerous of bands from that time and a few of those became locally famous for many reasons….the Police (not the band) stopped a few of those concerts because the audience made riots and the security couldn't handle it on their own. The first big concert he went to was when manage to jump on a bus with a lot of crazy old rockers heading to Gothenburg in Sweden to see Whitesnake Slide it in Tour. Ever since that day he got addicted to the music scene/business and never looked back. He's played with an endless list of bands and solo artists for nearly 3 decades doing Studio sessions - Live gigs - Tours - Tv shows and Drum clinics.