The History of Reform VIII

In the summer of 2003 Jesper was back in STockholm. Reform now bacame a trio consisting of Johan Glasson on guitar and Isak Andersson on drums. The gruop change direction a bit towards Tony Williams' Lifetime and John McLaughlin's record Devotion. Alvaro G guested this formation once. Songs were written both by Johan and Jesper. Johan brought his portable digital studio and in early 2004 the band recorded their third album, Reduced and Maximized (recently re-issued).

After this disc Reformed was laid to rest for a while.

Johan had a project of his own. Isak was the drummer and there was a bassist, whose name I can't remember. The project still had no name, but a demo was cut. Johan was not really satisfied with it and he decided that he would change his personnel. For a period of time he had been jamming with a guy called Garre and I suggested that Garre was a candidate for the drum chair in the project. I was selected bassist and I was very happy for that. Johan wrote all the songs and since I liked them, actually loved them, it was easy for me to create bass lines. During our time in school I called Johan "Glasson" (son of ice cream) since he did not like ice cream. One day Johan came to the rehearsal studio saying that the band was to be called Glasson.

To be continued...

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Jesper