Boogie Machine - Harri Saanio

Kari Johansson
guitar

Harri Saanio
piano - vocal

Boogie Machine - Kari Johansson
Boogie Machine - Juha Haapasalo

Arto Taskinen
drums

Juha Haapasalo
uprightbass

Boogie Machine - Arto Taskinen

Arto Taskinen

born 1963

Arto got his first drumset when he was about fifteen years old. There was big rockabilly influence at that time and he was playing in very popular band named Poppin Pete Trio. Later he found and got hooked to blues and New Orleans funky rhythms. Stanton Moore and Earl Palmer were his inspiration of drumming. At gigs he uses vintage gretsch drumset. Artos favoured food is sausages and his motorbike Harley Davidson is close his heart.

Boogie Machine Arto Taskinen

Harri Saanio

born 1964

Harri started playing guitar at schoolband and got hooked at 50's rock'n roll genre. He got himself his first piano at beginning of 90's. Since then he has been singing and playing in many bands in area of Helsinki. He has been playing bands like Barnshakers and Hogs ot rhythm. "Amos Milbourn, Professor Longhair and all other masters of old rhythm'n'blues stars have been influenced me a lot",tells Harri.

Boogie Machine - Harri Saanio

Juha Haapasalo

born 1956

Juha started playing bass when he was 15 years old. He tried to catch a sound of Chicago blues and early jazz masters like Willie Dixon or Bam Brown. Juha plays blonde engelhart upright bass and uses Ampeg B15 as an amp. He has been playing in lot of bands in finnish blues scene. He`s hobbies are old mahongy sailboat and chevy-55, he also likes good cold beer.

Boogie Machine - Juha Haapasalo

Kari Johansson

born 1958

Kari started playing guitar when he was in teenage Since then he has been digging guitar heroes like Freddie King and Elmore James, He has infuleced in many bands in finnish blues genre. He loves all kind of roots music from Western swing to urban blues. At gigs Kari plays hallowbody silvertone or Gibson es-175. The amp is Ferder supereverb black face. At summer he spends his time with old motorcycle wl -45 and he is very fond of ice-cream.

Boogie Machine - Kari Johansson