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Another pick for this week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme, #PunkRock. Here's a Finnish #ProtoPunk classic by the group Virtanen, with lead singer Moog Konttinen and guitarist Veltto Virtanen. Virtanen: Elektroninen Xtaasi ("Iltatähti", 30.4.1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiFQ_sDVJHA Veltto Virtanen later went on to become a member of the Finnish Parliament, but his political career is another (and almost equally zany) story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veltto_Virtanen #Virtanen #VelttoVirtanen #MoogKonttinen #Finnishmusic #suomirock

Another pick for this week's #TuneTuesday theme, #thebubble. This otherworldly early seventies classic is probably a fairly obvious choice for a Finn: Pekka Streng & Tasavallan presidentti: Sisältäni portin löysin (1970) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP1tcsVoFOU Pekka Streng (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Streng) was still a quite obscure cult figure during my teenage years in the early 1980s. I think I may have read about him in Esko Lehtonen's "Suomalaisen rockin tietosanakirja" ("The Encyclopedia of Finnish Rock") before I actually heard this record for the first time on the radio. I do remember that bought a reissue version of his second album ("Kesämaa", 1972) at the very first record fair I ever attended, at Lepakkoluola in Helsinki back in 1987. #pekkastreng #finnishmusic #progressiverock #progrock