They have existed for over 50 years. They have moved over a sea of genres, with everything from rock to reggae, and while times have changed and other artists have come and gone.
But mickey baker & have been standing on the stage, and lead singer Peter A. G has been with you all the way, even if the band is switched in and out along the way. The many years on stage and in the rehearsal room has gradually put its mark on the lead singer.
– You can, after all, hell, not come and believe, you can play for a thousand people and then come with a tiny bit of magic, which can’t be felt from a distance, says Peter A. G.
– We are running hard with the energy, and then the screws we piss high up, but we do it with sound. It is so loud that I’m deaf in one ear. And it is a shame, and I am sorry that I am. But after all, you hear me not complain about it, says Peter A. G. with a big smile.
He nods to that, it’s pretty rock’n’roll to play themselves deaf.
Peter A. G. love, if you can look at a postman, he sorts out 1000 letters between the fingers of each day.
the Band’s guitarist, Per Frost, left mickey baker & in 1996, but returned at the band’s latest album ’the Geek’ in 2017. He has, together with Peter A. G. created mickey baker & the forthcoming album, ‘Robot’n’Roll’.
Per Frost looks back at the band’s history from time to time and welcomes, how much they have achieved and how grateful they are that people still listen to them in 2019.
– Everything is about the present moment. But why can we not renounce us, we have lived a long life and has a large back catalogue. If you turn it positive, so we have a lot of experience, we can use, but it can also be tragic, because you can see that we have lived, and the time becomes more and more button.
– It is a privilege that we have been allowed to be with for so long. But we have also worked hard for it and still do it. We like to make fun, but you must not take the fault of the, that we take it very seriously. It is life or death for us, says Per Frost.
For the summer touring the once again the country around and visiting various Danish festivals. In all, they have to play 32 concerts, and this is precisely the scene that mickey baker & the’ dna are allowed to unfold. It is there that they can use their rock’n’roll. But it consumes also on the forces.
– When you stand in it and has a plate that is to be sold, so if you find out how much it is a show, and how much is business. You can’t be in the industry half.
– Once we reach October, we are tired, but then it takes some time, and then there comes a new song, says Peter A. G., while Per Frost adds:
– It will be a little like to eat. When I haven’t played in a while, so I’m off to do it. The redeemer of the world. It brings a balance into your nervous system, says Per Frost.
Peter A. G. calls it ’the meaning of you and me’. To redeem something. It is, as rock’n’roll refers to them. They found the energiudløsning and redemption in reggaen, which was less convulsive than the traditional rock, which they began to play at the end of the 1960s.
But one must be careful with rockstjernelivet and take care that you do not burn her candle at both ends. Although mickey baker & have avoided it, so is the balance between the show and the business gone awry for many stars over time.
– The big stars die after all of it. Michael Jackson, Prince. The door of it, because it is supposed by them, that they appear, but can’t do that all the time, says Peter A. G.
mickey baker & new album ‘Robot’n’Roll’ contains lyrics about the increasing digitization of society and on several tracks draw mickey baker & a picture of a dystopian future, where all will soon become robots.
In the present age is the rate of digitisation has already started, the cds have largely disappeared, and the artists earn less and less on musiksalget, because their music has ended up on the streaming services, which provides more ears than crowns.
But even though the times change, so will the load bearing things in music, always be there according to mickey baker&.
– Streaming scares us not. We have always found a way. We made our own record label, and since no one wanted to release our second album, so we just did it itself. Since no one would book us for gigs, so we made our own club. And it makes young people today. They find a way. And it is very important that you do it.
– It is essential in all of this is that there are still a commonplace fact: That humans have two ears, and I have a voice, ” says Peter A. G.
After so many years on stage and with the 23. album on the way, so using the band not his time to ponder over how the music is being taken against, or whether all now understand it.
– All the time you can spend on worrying about whether the music is now have a meaning and are appreciated. What if you instead use the time to ask themselves: ‘Have I anything to say? Is there something I would like to inform me with?’.
I most like will say, this is what I sing, says Peter A. G.
