Thor: Come on guys! my cousin is a professional photographer and has a studio in his basement. He has a groovy brown backdrop and a killer hair-light. He can make us look awesome!
Erics #2: Fine. But I need time to get my hair done first.
Looks like all the members of Thor~Eric had time to hit the beauty salon before heading down to the basement studio. With a band motto to ‘never reveal our ears’ there was some serious use of a curling iron. Eric #1 never had a problem with it, and Eric #2 even added facial hair into the mix. They were all hell-bent on going with the "I-am-a-serious-musician-but-I-can-convince-you-to-buy-this-album-with-my-killer-eye-contact" look too. Well everybody but Sven. He was a rebel and refused to look at Thor’s cousin when he was taking his photo. He was still mad his name was left out of the band name. Thor had control issues. I suppose the closed mouth/serious look was beneficial for Eric #3′s bad dental issues. But he was sporting those awesome sorta-sunglass-glasses so most gigs the ladies barely noticed his missing teeth. Thor had another cousin who was a dentist, so by their next album they can crack a smile.
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UPDATE: WOW. First time in the series. I found them.
On You Tube of course. Apparently they hate hippies. No I am not kidding.
WOW
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OK, I’m going to confess right now that I couldn’t sit through that whole video. I slid the little bar at the bottom so I could see all the glorious still photos though. Worth it just to get to the lovely striped shirts at the end.
Is it just me or do those haircuts make their heads seem misshapen?
May the real Thor strike down these poseurs with their seventies kindergarten teacher hairdos.
But the glasses stayed the same. Thank goodness. Some things just shouldn’t change.
yep I played the video for all of 5 seconds and that was it. That was funny!
How happy were you when you found the video? Pretty happy right? …what’s the deal? Don’t they have long hair? Aren’t they hippies? It’s all so confusing.
Hey, the tune of this song sound suspiciously like “Mommas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys”. Hmmmm…
They actually released a song against Hippies! That must have been their “niche”. CRAZY! Back then NObody hated hippies! Everyone WAS a hippie.
ROFLMBO
Can’t believe you found this!
heh. are you sure they aren’t all just sharing the same wig?
And the clothes on the video!
A rare moment! Really. Thanks to share this treasure.
I had the same hairstyle as the last Eric. I kind of still do. I’ve seen these wigs at Fredrick’s of Hollywood, they are still available for both men and women.
LOL!! Hilarious!
the 70′s gave us so much..
I found another Thor-Erics on youtube, they actually covered the rockband Gasolin’s ‘this is my life’! whoa!
Does Merle Haggard know they ripped off his song “Okie From Muskogee”? Unless they really ARE from Muskogee . . . Sweden . . . then I guess that would be okay.
A line from the song: “We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee . . .”
I’m so sad that I know that.
Merle Haggard called and wants his song back. LOL!! That is really funny.