Mikko Alatalo visited Alfa TV on Jukka Laaksonen’s show and shared a happy memory with the President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö from Tampere in the 1970s.
Mikko Alatalo is also currently on the Vain lääää season. Jenni Gästgivar
Musician Mikko Alatalo visited Alfa TV’s Jukka Laaksonen’s show. The conversation turned to the early stages of Alatalo’s long career, when he had started his studies at the University of Tampere.
Alatalo got to know Juice Leskise in the 1970s at university and Harri to Rinnewith whom they founded the first known Finnish-language music band Coitus Int.
– I was supposed to study to be a journalist, but I started studying at Juice Leski, Alatalo laughs.
He says that he taught Leskinen how to play, while Leskinen in turn taught Alatalo how to write songs. In the 70s, most rock music was in English, so Coitus Int started a completely new trend in the domestic music field.
– That’s when rock in Finnish began to live. Many rock men have since said that when they listened to Coitus Indi they realized that you don’t have to do it in English like the Hurriganes.
The golden age of culture people
Tampere in the 1970s lived in the so-called golden age of culture Manserock gained a foothold in the Finnish music scene. In addition to Alatalo and Leskinen, famous Manserock pioneers include Eppu Normaali and Popeda.
– We had a lot of guests at the training camp there. Among other things, one time a school friend of Harri Rinte came there, a boy with curly hair named Sauli Niinistö, Alatalo says.
He continues by saying that at the training camp, songs from the band Coitus Int were played for Niinistö.
– Nice songs like In life, there must be a Trunk and drank white wine.
Alatalo recalls that the young people’s night out ended up at the door of Tillika, a restaurant near Tammerkoski, when the security guard didn’t let them in.
– They didn’t let us go. We were too drunk.
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