The man’s name was Bob Marley, and he would end up penning the majority of Catch A Fire under the very same roof. Then there’s that time Schaffer and American singer Johnny Nash offered a Jamaican reggae musician somewhere to crash in Stockholm while working on a movie soundtrack. I was disappointed by that concert because they were so high.” When David Gilmour came into the band it became a totally different thing.
They’d just be playing the songs round and round. “The only thing I remember is he was very… stoned. “It was the only time Syd played Sweden with Pink Floyd,” he nods. A bit later, we started supporting the English groups coming over - in 1967, a band called Pink Floyd, fronted by Syd Barrett, were coming to Sweden for the first time and needed to borrow our instruments.
There was our backstage room and then on the left of us, The Byrds, and on the right, Jimi Hendrix… all of us appearing on the same show. “When I was starting out, my band were on a TV programme. In 1967, a band called Pink Floyd, fronted by Syd Barrett, were coming to Sweden for the first time and needed to borrow our instruments “My whole life is like a pop music history,” he grins, sat in one of London’s swankiest hotels, behind a cup of coffee. But there are also some lesser-known experiences that are, quite simply, jaw-dropping… Or perhaps making jazz-rock history at Montreux in 1977 with the CBS Jazz All-Stars, alongside greats such as Billy Cobham and Stan Getz. There’s the millions and millions of albums he sold worldwide with ABBA. Swedish guitarist Janne Schaffer definitely has some stories to tell.
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