Jonas
started playing the guitar in 1983 at the age of 12, inspired
by guitar players like Ace Frehley, Michael Schenker and Gary
Moore.
A
year after Jonas started playing guitar, Jonas put his first band
together and played live at some schools and even some backyard
partys. The summer of 1985 completely changed Jonas’ playing
when he heard Yngwie J Malmsteen for the first time. Jonas also
discovered jazz/rock guitar player Al Di Meola that summer. This
lead to an almost obsessive guitar practicing period since Jonas
wanted to take his guitar playing to a higher level.
In
1987, Jonas was in the biggest rock band competition ever held
in Sweden, playing live in front of 2500 people with his band
Calilio. A year later his band signed a record deal which resulted
in a single that sold well all over Europe.
By
the end of 1991, Jonas disolved his band and started to work on
more progressive songs, during 1991 Jonas also recorded an 8 song
instrumental demo which sold almost 2000 copies world wide.
In
1993 Jonas put together his current band Treasure Land. In April
1996 Treasure Land signed a world wide record deal with German
label Modern Music.
Two cd’s later (”Questions” released 1997 and
”Gateway” released 1998) Treasure Land parted ways
with the label.
Treasure
Land also participated in two tribute cd’s:
Power from the north – Sweden rocks the world 1999
A guitar odyssey – A tribute to Yngwie J Malmsteen 2000
Treasure
Land is currently writing songs for a 3rd CD after some years
of doing other music stuff.
Jonas
have also written 3 books about ”Guitar technique”
written for the Swedish market. There will also be 3 instructional
dvd’s.
Jonas
is currently teaching 35-40 students a week, both privately and
online. At the moment, Jonas has students from USA, Italy, France,
Germany, Denmark, Canada and Sweden.
