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Wigwam is a Finnish progressive rock band formed in 1968. Wigwam was founded after the split of the seminal Blues Section, with whom drummer Ronnie Österberg had played before. He formed the band as a trio, but soon brought in British expatriate singer/songwriter Jim Pembroke (also in BS) and organist Jukka Gustavson. A year later, Pekka Pohjola joined on bass. Kim Fowley produced Wigwam's second album ''Tombstone Valentine'' (1970). This album also featured an excerpt of Erkki Kurenniemi's electronic composition 'Dance of the Anthropoids'. The 1974 album ''Being'' is often called Wigwam's masterpiece. After its release, though, Pohjola and Gustavson quit the band. Commercially the most successful Wigwam album must be the more pop-oriented ''Nuclear Nightclub'' that followed in 1975, with new members Pekka Rechardt on guitar and Måns Groundstroem on bass. For a time in the 1970s Wigwam seemed poised to break through in Europe, along with bands like Tasavallan Presidentti, but even though they were highly praised by the UK press large-scale international fame eluded them, and by 1978 they had disbanded. Jim Pembroke and Ronnie Österberg formed the Jim Pembroke Band in late 1979, but following health problems with diabetes, Österberg committed suicide on December 6, 1980. Wigwam reformed in the 1990s with the Pembroke-Rechardt-Groundstroem core intact, and has been active to the present. In Finland they have a lasting (although limited) following, and their influence on Finnish rock music is widely recognised. ==Band members== ImageSize = width:1600 height:400 PlotArea = left:110 bottom:140 top:0 right:21 Alignbars = justify DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/11/1968 till:30/09/2006 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy Legend = orientation:horizontal position:bottom ScaleMajor = increment:1 start:01/01/1969 Colors = id:Vocals value:red legend:Vocals id:Keys value:purple legend:Keyboards id:Drums value:orange legend:Drums id:Bass value:brightblue legend:Bass id:Guitar value:brightgreen legend:Guitar id:Lines value:black legend:Studio_Albums id:Lines2 value:red legend:Live_Albums Legend = orientation:vertical position:bottom columns:3 LineData = at:15/12/1969 color:black layer:back at:15/11/1970 color:black layer:back at:15/12/1971 color:black layer:back at:15/02/1974 color:black layer:back at:15/04/1975 color:red layer:back at:15/06/1975 color:black layer:back at:15/04/1976 color:black layer:back at:15/12/1977 color:black layer:back at:15/05/1993 color:black layer:back at:15/10/2001 color:red layer:back at:15/05/2002 color:black layer:back at:15/05/2005 color:black layer:back BarData = bar:Pem text:"Jim Pembroke" bar:Gus text:"Jukka Gustavson" bar:Kot text:"Esa Kotilainen" bar:Hie text:"Heikki Hietanen" bar:Rin text:"Mikko Rintanen" bar:Öst text:"Ronnie Österberg" bar:Nop text:"Jan Noponen" bar:Ket text:"Jari Kettunen" bar:Hul text:"Mats Huldén" bar:Poh text:"Pekka Pohjola" bar:Gro text:"Måns Groundstroem" bar:Kin text:"Jussi Kinnunen" bar:Nik text:"Vladimir Nikamo" bar:Rec text:"Pekka Rechardt" PlotData= width:10 textcolor:black align:left anchor:from shift:(10,-4) bar:Öst from:01/12/1968 till:30/12/1979 color:Drums bar:Nik from:01/12/1968 till:01/07/1970 color:Guitar bar:Hul from:01/12/1968 till:30/05/1970 color:Bass bar:Pem from:01/01/1969 till:29/02/1972 color:Vocals bar:Pem from:01/03/1972 till:30/12/1979 color:Keys bar:Gus from:01/07/1969 till:30/06/1974 color:Keys bar:Poh from:01/05/1970 till:30/07/1974 color:Bass bar:Rec from:01/01/1974 till:30/12/1979 color:Guitar bar:Gro from:01/08/1974 till:30/12/1979 color:Bass bar:Kot from:01/01/1975 till:30/05/1975 color:Keys bar:Kot from:01/10/1977 till:30/12/1979 color:Keys bar:Hie from:01/06/1975 till:30/08/1977 color:Keys bar:Pem from:01/06/1991 till:30/12/1993 color:Keys bar:Rec from:01/06/1991 till:30/12/1993 color:Guitar bar:Gro from:01/06/1991 till:30/12/1993 color:Bass bar:Hie from:01/06/1991 till:30/03/1992 color:Keys bar:Nop from:01/06/1991 till:15/08/1993 color:Drums bar:Rin from:01/04/1992 till:30/09/1993 color:Keys bar:Ket from:01/09/1993 till:30/12/1993 color:Drums bar:Pem from:01/04/1999 till:30/08/2006 color:Keys bar:Rec from:01/04/1999 till:30/08/2006 color:Guitar bar:Gro from:01/04/1999 till:28/02/2003 color:Bass bar:Hie from:01/04/1999 till:30/08/2000 color:Keys bar:Ket from:01/04/1999 till:30/08/2006 color:Drums bar:Kot from:01/04/2001 till:30/08/2006 color:Keys bar:Kin from:01/06/2003 till:29/02/2004 color:Bass bar:Hul from:01/07/2004 till:30/08/2006 color:Bass width:3 textcolor:black align:left anchor:from shift:(10,-4) bar:Pem from:01/03/1972 till:30/12/1979 color:Vocals bar:Gus from:01/07/1969 till:30/06/1974 color:Vocals bar:Pem from:01/06/1991 till:30/12/1993 color:Vocals bar:Pem from:01/04/1999 till:30/08/2006 color:Vocals 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wigwam (Finnish band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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