In 1971 while living in Valby, a suburb of Copenhagen, I saw a small advert in the local newspaper about a newly started pop\/dance music band looking for a bass player. I auditioned and was accepted as a member of the band. We called ourselves “Nota Bene” and had quite a few gigs under that name during the first part of the 1970’es in music restaurants and for dances at sports centres around on Zealand.<\/p>\n In the beginning the band members were\u00a0Werner <\/i>S\u00f8n\u00e6s<\/i>\u00a0on Hammond-organ, Bent Scharnberg <\/i>on guitar, Freddy Pedersen<\/em> on drums and me on bass guitar. In the mid 60’es\u00a0Bent<\/i>\u00a0had been part of another Danish band called\u00a0\u201dThe Donkeys\u201d which he started together with Keld Heick<\/i>\u00a0who later got a good career in Denmark as a singer and TV-presenter.\u00a0<\/i>Freddy had played with \u201dMelvis & His Gentlemen\u201d\u00a0<\/i>among others.\u00a0<\/i>Werner was the lead singer with Freddy and me singing chorus on many of the tunes.<\/p>\n Werner was a school teacher as his day job, Bent was an electrical engineer, Freddy was working with reprography at the magazine “Se & H\u00f8r” and I graduated as a civil engineer during the time I was playing with Nota Bene.<\/p>\n We\u00a0had a photo session in the garden of Werner in Valby in order to get a series of <\/span>press photos; afterwards we relocated to nearby school yard to get some more shots of silly postings.<\/span><\/p>\n Example of press cutting 1973<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Performance at the Night Club Valencia, Sep. \u00a01973<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In the autumn of 1973 Nota Bene was engaged to perform for a month in the night club “Valencia” which was located on Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen (now closed). We played for dances in between the performances by strippers, magicians and entertainers. We shared the wardrobe with the stripper Eva Terese; the actor Alvin Linnemann was the showmaster.<\/p>\n Freddie worked for the Danish weekly ‘gossip’ magazine “Se & H\u00f8r” and had arranged with the editor that they would put something in the gossip column about our performance at Valencia. A photographer from the magazine took some photos in September 1973 in front of the entrance to the establishment. One of the photos together with a nonsense text ended as a notice on one of the pages in Se & H\u00f8r on 14 Sep. 1973.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/gerthemmingsen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_4313-e1523559412157-1024x941.jpg\")
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