Started 71 by Kenny Håkansson.
After the years with Mecki Mark Men it was time for a change again. Life seems to full of changes, this time to Kebnekajse. It started of as a quite normal kind of rock band, with material written by me. The not so normal about it might have been that we were using instrumental tunes as well as vocal. The first album was "Resa mot okänt mål", "Journey towards unknown goals".

  It so happened that I was in a studio session with one of the greatest sing-songwriter of Sweden, 1971. When releasig this album, we went on a tour, on which two of the absolute best fiddle players of Sweden also,were a part of This made me hear, and understand the magic of traditional Swedish fiddle tunes. I brought this new knowledge to Kebnekajse, and used these tunes in our show, and the fit was perfect. At almost the same time we were socialising with another band, Homo Sapiens, so the four of Kebnekajse, added the four of Homo Sapiens plus one more spaced out guitarplayer, Ingemar, and our African friend, Hassan, to us. There we were then, a ten man band, with Five guitarrs, two basses, two drummers and one percussionist.
Huge.

Here we were exploring the field of folk and fiddle music, and we found it to be a vast area with an infinte amount of tunes to be found, and juggled with. Ans so we did.  And we played these tunes as the biggest, highest, loudets and most spectacular band in Sweden for a couple of years.

We had this bus, an old twelve meters long bus used by the Royal Post before us. We furnished it to be like a camper. 8 beds in the back, and a possibility of some more beds in the middle part. Water and cooker for tea or coffe or such. With this bus we went through all of Sweden, a whole lot of Norway, Finland, and even to Amsterdam, through Roskilde and the autobahn of Germany.

 We had some really good years 71 - 74, and then the band started dissolving.
One of the drummers took his life, early 74. One of the bass players didn´t always show up. The same with two of the guitarrists. Around 73 -74 the violin player, who up till now had been on guitar, found a pick-up system for violin, so he now abandoned the guitar.
 So before we split the band up for good, we came down to a five piece band, not so original anymore.