Pretty much the same situation as in Croatia (ex-Yugoslavia). Back in the days we were also neutral and every residential building/school/kindergarten had at least one nuclear bomb shelter. We still have regular siren tests every first Saturday of the month at noon.
Appreciate the tour, and especially the walk around town. It gives one a sense of what it's like to walk around a modern Swedish city, of which I have never done. Thanks :)
Hi Woody, I'm 68 and remember as a child having regular drills at school in the 50's and early 60's. When the sirens would go off we were supposed to line up and march single file down to the fallout shelter that was in the basement of the school. Also we were taught to crawl under our desks and cover our eyes if there wasn't time to get to the basement. These days the sirens are used for tornado warnings and they are still tested the first Monday of the month. Most younger folks don't even know the original purpose of the sirens. Back in those days they wouldn't have worked to warn of tornadoes since they didn't have the technical ability to see what the weather was doing that they have today. Living and growing up in Iowa the threat of tornadoes has always been a regular yearly thing so the sirens turned out to be a good investment but I'm not so sure that the fallout shelters have been kept up so they would be ready if we needed them.
that must have been a terrifying ordeal for you as a child. i watched some nuclear attack public-advice films on TV in the 70s and it really traumatized me for years.
@@WoodyPianoShack Woody, if you ever get to the states and go to Las Vegas, there's a Nuclear Museum and you sit in a room while the sound of a real nuclear bomb goes off, it is absolutely horrifying, no way to describe it, like a high pitched long tone.....
G'day Woody from all the wayyy Down Under ... There is a lot of love all around the World for your Synth/Keyboard reviews and they are surely missed. The main reason is the passion you have for these instruments along with the joy you clearly experience from playing them. Sincere thanks for all of your time, knowledge and effort. By the way my favorite video was the one with the Yamaha Motif XF (part 5) where you started swearing like a trooper when things got a bit confused with the sampler. Bring back the Synth reviews !!! Best entertainment on the net. Much respect ...
that was a long time ago, thanks for sticking around. we'll get back to that eventually, still a big part of my life but got a bit tired of shooting those videos, so see this just as a refreshing break for me, and chance to share some other interests and other creative ideas!
:-( it's getting scary now what's going on, but I would think why ANYONE would want to bomb Sweden or Switzerland? Payback for the expensive chocolate? Doesn't make sense, everyone loves those two countries.
Here in Switzerland it‘s exactly the same with the bomb shelters and the regular siren tests. Another reason that people can confuse Sweden with Switzerland 😀
My parents had some friends who had a bomb shelter (late 1950s). I got to tour it. The shelter was made just for a single family. I remember that it featured a hand cranked air filtration system, and they planted grass for the roof of the shelter that supposedly was to help with radiation absorption.
We still have air raid sirens in my state of Ohio and they all went off yesterday due to tornadoes. National Weather Service issued more tornado warnings yesterday afternoon in the span of about an hour since 2005 here (warning means there’s a tornado forming or already on the ground). I don’t know of any remaining bomb shelters like yours in my sector though. Cheers!
Born in 1960, in USA, I remember the air raid siren tests well. There were a few shelters in my neighborhood. My elementary school cafeteria was designated as a shelter. The university I attended has underground tunnels between buildings because it is next to an airforce base. The tunnels were great when the weather was bad. These days sirens warn of tornados and the like. But I feel that if I heard the sirens for a real nuclear attack, I would get to the highest location possible and simply watch the flash.
A sublime and very interesting change of pace from the usual music videos on your channel, Woody! Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Although I'd never want either myself or you to actually be in need of one of these bomb shelters, there's just something so thrilling and mysterious about their existence! Was a pleasure to watch, man. Please bring more of these types of videos if possible! ❤
Nice natural reveb going on there! At the very least, you should do some convolution reverb recording, and afterwards, maybe cut a track or two in there!
Thanks Woody; I had never heard of those shelters. They show a great amount of concern for safety; I guess scandinavian countries felt particularly vulnerable during the most paranoid periods of Cold War... On the other hand, maybe when "The Morning After" aired in Sweden people felt privileged to have them. Who knows whether they might be useful on a (God forbid) future pandemic...
Very different to the UK. My father worked for BNFL so we technically had access to the local shelter- along with a few dignitaries- but he was not allowed to tell anybody about it. He told his family of course, but wasn't supposed to and was in breach of the Official Secrets Act for that- uncaught fortunately. Once he retired our entitlement ended and we would have had to use an interior door, pushed against the wall and covered with bags of soil- which is the UK recommendation as per the Protect And Survive scheme of the 80s. Oh and we would be told to paint the windows white too! And we don't even have Hesa Fredrik!
good reading scott, thanks, yes, it's all the more remarkable that UK and DE have no such systems after being bombed to smithereens not that long ago... not a single bomb has ever fallen on SE and all this protection. gotta spend those high taxes on something I guess :)
Here in Switzerland we have those shelters too, I have one in my home. Just the last week I had mandatory service in the civil protection and the task that was assigned to me was actually to check some of those shelters for compliance to the norms (state of the ventilation system, structural integrity, etc). Yours wouldn't have passed that check as the rubber gasket, the lock and other parts are missing on the security doors :-) Normally we use those shelters as storage spaces, hobby rooms, etc, me I use mine as electronic lab, storage and server room. This is allowed by the law, with the condition that if an event where those shelters are needed happens, they have to be emptied and prepared for use as soon as possible.
Interesting video ! As a brit thats lived for 20+ years at 60 degrees north just over the water i’m following your new journey with interest. Every year when the winter kicks in i question living this far north and think about moving south.
Really interesting Woody. You are a very engaging presenter and I do enjoy your stories synth related or otherwise. On another note, you came to mind when I went on a road trip the other day to collect a pristine condition DX7s. I’m 52 and have wanted one since I was 16. A dream come true and your videos have been very informative so thank you. The road trip wasn’t an epic. From Buckinghamshire into Oxfordshire!
Woodys great. I'm intrigued by the new direction of the channel ...still it would be cool to hear the JD XI down there lol (I know he sold it, but still)
The "krig" switch is brilliant! There is a norwegian band called Darkthrone who used to reherase in one of those bunkers in the 80's (they have those bunkers also in Norway), they even recorded a couple of albums in that same bunker few years ago. "If Sweden is attacked by another country, we will never give up. All information to the effect that resistance is to cease is false" Magnificent
I once recorded the "Hesa Fredrik" and made a Kontakt Instrument of it. Not the hardest thing to do but if anyone is interested, contact me and I can send a copy.
We also have an array of sirens in France, not as dense for similar type of alerts, they are also tested regularly, and we have the same jokes about attackers needing to attach on that day/time :D (from memory it is the first Wednesday of the month, can’t remember the time..)
Us Scandinavians are a bit crazy. In Denmark its the first Wednesday of the Month at noon they sound. Like it's gonna save us if the Russians should throw a nuke or 2 90% of us would be gone anyway as I doubt most of us even know where the nearest bomb shelter is located. 😂
Hi Woody! With the 50Hz electrical system in Sweden, you likely need to set your camera shutter speed at 1/100s or 1/50s (or frame rate to 25/50fps) to avoid that horrible flickering where there are fluorescent or LED lights.
thanks scott, yeah, i'm aware of that, it's just that some modes on this stupid gopro force you into 30fps, so I chose 60fps. I removed a lot of footage due to the annoying flicker!
@@WoodyPianoShack I wish there was a simple, automated way to fix it after the fact. I recently ruined a bunch of irreplaceable one-time video by having this setting incorrect!
I once had a rehersal space in a garage that I don't think was a bomb shelter but marked as "skyddsrum". It was not in a basement, it was built over ground. The drummers father built the garage and got some of it, maybe all, paid by the swedish government.
This makes me so depressed seeing this. I live in a small town just outside of a major city in the US and if there's ever a nuclear war at any point, I'm basically screwed 😢 The only reason is because I have no shelter to run to, seeing as I live in an apartment complex. There's not even a MAP of places to go to.
🇨🇦 Hi ya Woody! So Awesome to see you again in a new video. Both Sweden and Switzerland take their safety and protection of citizens seriously. Everyone in Swissy land must serve a year in basic military and they ALL get to keep their hand guns when completed . Interestingly, Switzerland has auto detonation of all entry/exit points in case they were ever attacked. This is to ensure no enemies could come in with armored vehicles etc. I would love to have a bomb shelter place or even an abandoned silo. Hell, I would be happy even with a large cave...lol. And awesome that you speak the language. I always wanted to learn High-German language but it's pretty hard. So wonderful to see you again in a new video Woody. Thank you so much for showing us around the joint and the country's procedures and measures in case of attacks whether domestic or foreign. There is very strong and most likely inevitable war in our future with US, Russia, and China especially. Anyway, awesome video my friend and once again, so nice to see you out and about. 🤗 🍁 ♬
Doubt 2 years is gonna cut it, when you think how big todays nukes are compared to the ones that were dropped during WWII, Cities like Stockholm or Copenhagen would be levelled to the ground and uninhabitable for many years if it was the epicenter of impact. But Honestly as reason for an eventual attack would be to get their Fleet out to the North Sea, normal nukes would tactically seem a bad Idea If your own troops have to sail right thru.
In the Netherlands we still have air raid sirens in active use as well, nowerdays they are used for incident alerts, like fires factories or environmental accidents. They also these every first Monday of the month at 12 o’ clock. They want to replace it with a cell broadcast system for a few years now but those tests often fail. In the cold war era they built a bunker complex along the river IJssel, with a system to that could flood a large area to stop soviet tanks. The complex was secretly built in the 1960’s and was a secret until 1990 when it became obsolete. I have been in similar air raid shelters in Switzerland, they seem to have a lot of them there as well. Probably also because of their neutral state like Sweden.
In the U.S., all of the yellow and black fallout shelter signs have been removed from all buildings. The shelters may still be there, but the general public won't know where they are.
i read somewhere that a lot of them haven't been upkept and would no longer provide the protection against blast and radiation that they were meant to. perhaps that's why the signs have been removed from many of them.
hei Woody , i think you should record drums here and check the sound . Some years ago I recorded drums in big wide atomic shelter underground and it sounds wooooow big energy and powerful , you get feeling of that big huge live rock olympic arena concert sound with at list 80.000 people in crowd .
I'm quite fascinated by these nuclear bomb shelters. A very insightful video, too! I see the process is quite the same over here in the land of Dutchies. Even with the monthly test.
I live in Switzerland and we have a reputation for still having a bomb shelter under every building (it's still law to construct them AFAIK). However I've not seen any here under residential buildings with those impressive blast doors.. not noticed any advanced filtration system for the air.. and I guess there may be locked rooms with gas masks and so on, but I've not come across one. They're not sign posted either. There is a public shelter about 10 minutes away from where I live that can house 20000 people and supposedly has a hospital inside, although that relies in part on closing off the ends of a motorway tunnel. We test our sirens once a year in the spring at a designated time (it's the classic WW2 style sound).. and yeah the first time I heard that I thought "okay, well that's the perfect time to attack then" 😂 PS: Wind up radios are a pretty new invention aren't they? Maybe 1990s? I remember them and wind up lights being made for Africa with no electricity supply
We did Gas Mask Drills in the US Navy (I worked in the Fleet Hospital-like M.A.S.H. on TV). The masks have a filter, most likely the masks you have in that shelter if they're there at all, are not well maintained and wouldn't be safe if they were used in the current day because the filters would most likely be rotted out or too old. Anyway, the drill goes GAS GAS GAS! And we have 9 seconds to put the Masks on, anyone that went past that got tapped on the shoulder "you're dead, you're dead, and you my friend sadly have diseased", I think it was 9 seconds, could have been 20.
Its funny, but here in Australia I have never seen a fallout shelter, maybe a few private ones exist? We used to sell uranium to the Soviet Union, which then made nuclear weapons, some of which were aimed at us, very smart, eh? I remember in the early 80s being taught Duck & Cover by our teacher. They told us that if we saw a flash in the sky, that by going under our half inch thick plywood desk, that we'd be protected from a nuclear blast, which is ridiculous!
Yes, we had the same at Kenthurst Public School. I remember Darren Neuman screaming like a girl and scrabbling to get under his every time we flipped the fluoro lights on. Poor Darrne. Sorry, mate. It was 1985.
Those massive doors remembered the back door of my house that I found on a demolition store probably from a bank or some. Here on latinoamerica we have our own nuclear threat: robbery. By the way: your English sounds more understable to me than the one of many natives.
@@WoodyPianoShack I meant that it’s not necessarily a waste of money. Amazing how the world has changed in the 6 months or so since you made the video (really interesting by the way and although synths are my primary reason for following this channel, I really like the off-piste stuff like this that you do). Hope you never need to use those shelters for anything other than storing bicycles 🤞
@@iixorb indeed, publishing this video just a few months ago has turned out to be tragically ironic, if that's the right word. the media is full of stories about these shelters being cleared out and restored to original purpose, but fortunately mins is still full of bikes :)
never a waste of money, to save its population from fallout two world wars and nearly nuclear war during the cold war people can survive these places are a god send i wished every country had these to protect from NBC nuclear biological chemical weapons. the UK government said that it would cost nearly 8billions pounds back in early 1950s to install a shelter in every home and office block so now its up to the contractor to decide if they going to be installed into days money that would be about 400 billion pounds sterling.
I remember in the 60's and 70's doing our Preparation for Nuclear attacks at School in the United States. Bend under the desk and kiss your %# goodbye. Visited a Missile Site, interesting to note that it takes 2 to turn the key, but even when they turn the key, a 2nd site has to also turn their 2 keys for the missile to fire (unless the other site was destroyed, then the missile would delay but launch, and once they launch, there's no way to recall them, they're up in the air and on their way.. Current climate welllll who knows... Another Fyi, some missiles aim for farmland to destroy the crops, no food, no chance to survive. Pretty scary :-(.
Sudden nuclear evil gaz attack on Sweden, before the 48 hours usual warning, when the ennemy is supposed to say he/she kills anyone! No big dammage, all bikes are safe.
@@WoodyPianoShack I should not laugh about Sweden, at least you have shelters. I my country the only shelters are for the chief of state, his family, and his ministers
Has the government told you to clean out the bomb shelters now? given the current state of the world. I think it would be a pretty interesting indication of things, if so...
i agree, interesting, so lots of talk in the media about restoring them. but so far no directive from government, however some housing associations are taking matters into their own hands and prepping them. our shelter still contains bikes, long may that continue!
I have a non-Nuclear bunker related question. I really want the Yamaha YC61, need a piano for gigs. But I also need to eat. Have you tried the Nord E6D, and how is it vs the YC? And do we really need to eat? Oh and greetings from Denmark. Love your channel Dit svenske er ganske godt ;)
thank you!! onto your question, i like both but I think I prefer the Nord e-pianos and pianos, somewhat more characterful and the overdrive adds just the right dirt. organ is not fantastic on either (compared to the legend anyway, and hammond clones). I prefer the fatar action on the nord too, as the YC had some isseus there with noisy keys. always like the electro action (same as used on legend actually!). in other areas, the two keyboards are a close tie. hope that helps.
@@WoodyPianoShack currently with the fantom G 14 years infact ! wich would you recommend the roland fa ? or the modx ? as the next move ... like your videos down to earth and some good playing ;0)
In the 1950s, people were very afraid of the atomic bomb that motivated Sweden and perhaps other countries to build these bomb shelters. Here in Portugal I am not aware that there are Bomb Shelters in buildings or houses. Portugal does not harm any country, Portugal is a peaceful country just like Sweden. Woody don't live with that fear. Our countries would be excluded from a nuclear attack. I cannot say the same for the USA. Unfortunately there are many countries that don't like the USA. If one day there is a nuclear attack I think it will be in the USA and in a big city like New York to make huge victims. September 11, 2001 is an example of what might one day happen to the USA, but in large proportions it could kill millions of people. But let's not live thinking about it. The USA knows what can happen and is on high alert 24 hours a day.
respect to neutral portugal! the threat was very real in the 60s, and with some poor decisions all hell could have broken loose. hopefully all that is behind us for ever.
@@WoodyPianoShack MSB did begin checking the shelters again a few years ago. Locking systems, rubber seals on the heavy doors, filters, anything damaging etc. Fines if removed.
Very Interesting! Sadly it is clear that Sweden has become complacent in their preparedness. Not only would they only have minutes or maybe an hour or two to even get to the shelters; but even 48 hours wouldn't be enough time to get those back in service. It would take weeks of preparation without the stress of an imminent bomb hit. Those bomb shelters are just like masks are to covid, they look cool but will do nothing to protect you in any real threat situation.
Easy, you need to be prepared with all of these messy Synth on the market, you never know what happen, too many at the same place may trigger some nasty nuclear reactions! Joke apart, Wow 100 people in there? That’s basically only for a couple of hours, you can’t live there for days with so many people in
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More of this, please. Living like a local.
Pretty much the same situation as in Croatia (ex-Yugoslavia). Back in the days we were also neutral and every residential building/school/kindergarten had at least one nuclear bomb shelter. We still have regular siren tests every first Saturday of the month at noon.
Appreciate the tour, and especially the walk around town. It gives one a sense of what it's like to walk around a modern Swedish city, of which I have never done. Thanks :)
happy to oblige!
Stereo field recorder, a nice tap on that door = instant crazy IR reverb sample! \o/
thanks for bringing it back to audio production tips!
I really liked this content, Woody! Sweden has so many interesting places and history.
Hi Woody, I'm 68 and remember as a child having regular drills at school in the 50's and early 60's. When the sirens would go off we were supposed to line up and march single file down to the fallout shelter that was in the basement of the school. Also we were taught to crawl under our desks and cover our eyes if there wasn't time to get to the basement. These days the sirens are used for tornado warnings and they are still tested the first Monday of the month. Most younger folks don't even know the original purpose of the sirens. Back in those days they wouldn't have worked to warn of tornadoes since they didn't have the technical ability to see what the weather was doing that they have today. Living and growing up in Iowa the threat of tornadoes has always been a regular yearly thing so the sirens turned out to be a good investment but I'm not so sure that the fallout shelters have been kept up so they would be ready if we needed them.
that must have been a terrifying ordeal for you as a child. i watched some nuclear attack public-advice films on TV in the 70s and it really traumatized me for years.
@@WoodyPianoShack Woody, if you ever get to the states and go to Las Vegas, there's a Nuclear Museum and you sit in a room while the sound of a real nuclear bomb goes off, it is absolutely horrifying, no way to describe it, like a high pitched long tone.....
G'day Woody from all the wayyy Down Under ... There is a lot of love all around the World for your Synth/Keyboard reviews and they are surely missed. The main reason is the passion you have for these instruments along with the joy you clearly experience from playing them. Sincere thanks for all of your time, knowledge and effort. By the way my favorite video was the one with the Yamaha Motif XF (part 5) where you started swearing like a trooper when things got a bit confused with the sampler. Bring back the Synth reviews !!! Best entertainment on the net. Much respect ...
that was a long time ago, thanks for sticking around. we'll get back to that eventually, still a big part of my life but got a bit tired of shooting those videos, so see this just as a refreshing break for me, and chance to share some other interests and other creative ideas!
Fascinating, you never know what's around the corner they might have to put them back into use. Neat infrastructure.
:-( it's getting scary now what's going on, but I would think why ANYONE would want to bomb Sweden or Switzerland? Payback for the expensive chocolate? Doesn't make sense, everyone loves those two countries.
Here in Switzerland it‘s exactly the same with the bomb shelters and the regular siren tests. Another reason that people can confuse Sweden with Switzerland 😀
similar in many ways then, although we don't seem to have the banks and watches that CH is famous for...
My parents had some friends who had a bomb shelter (late 1950s). I got to tour it. The shelter was made just for a single family. I remember that it featured a hand cranked air filtration system, and they planted grass for the roof of the shelter that supposedly was to help with radiation absorption.
We still have air raid sirens in my state of Ohio and they all went off yesterday due to tornadoes. National Weather Service issued more tornado warnings yesterday afternoon in the span of about an hour since 2005 here (warning means there’s a tornado forming or already on the ground). I don’t know of any remaining bomb shelters like yours in my sector though. Cheers!
hearing those sirens warning about incoming tornado must be terrifying. all the best, hope they all miss.
Very interesting video Woody!
glad to hear that, thanks!
Born in 1960, in USA, I remember the air raid siren tests well. There were a few shelters in my neighborhood. My elementary school cafeteria was designated as a shelter. The university I attended has underground tunnels between buildings because it is next to an airforce base. The tunnels were great when the weather was bad. These days sirens warn of tornados and the like. But I feel that if I heard the sirens for a real nuclear attack, I would get to the highest location possible and simply watch the flash.
of course, yes sirens are used for tornado warnings in some parts of US, that's fascinating. yeah, maybe short sharp is the way to go....
I was not looking for this video but it was absolutely interesting, thank you for taking the time to share this.
A sublime and very interesting change of pace from the usual music videos on your channel, Woody! Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Although I'd never want either myself or you to actually be in need of one of these bomb shelters, there's just something so thrilling and mysterious about their existence! Was a pleasure to watch, man. Please bring more of these types of videos if possible! ❤
How ironic I'm watching this 6 months later in April 2022 and thinking they might not turn out to be such a waste of money after all.
my thoughts exactly, we had not the slightest idea what was about to heppen when we made the vid. so strange and tragic.
Woody, you are a fantastic gem. Thank you for sharing about those very interesting and solidly engineered shelters. Also that old Swedish joke.
Nice natural reveb going on there! At the very least, you should do some convolution reverb recording, and afterwards, maybe cut a track or two in there!
totally should do that!
grammar and svänglish is on point A+
Thanks Woody; I had never heard of those shelters. They show a great amount of concern for safety; I guess scandinavian countries felt particularly vulnerable during the most paranoid periods of Cold War... On the other hand, maybe when "The Morning After" aired in Sweden people felt privileged to have them. Who knows whether they might be useful on a (God forbid) future pandemic...
love you Woody, always interesting
Very different to the UK. My father worked for BNFL so we technically had access to the local shelter- along with a few dignitaries- but he was not allowed to tell anybody about it. He told his family of course, but wasn't supposed to and was in breach of the Official Secrets Act for that- uncaught fortunately. Once he retired our entitlement ended and we would have had to use an interior door, pushed against the wall and covered with bags of soil- which is the UK recommendation as per the Protect And Survive scheme of the 80s. Oh and we would be told to paint the windows white too! And we don't even have Hesa Fredrik!
good reading scott, thanks, yes, it's all the more remarkable that UK and DE have no such systems after being bombed to smithereens not that long ago... not a single bomb has ever fallen on SE and all this protection. gotta spend those high taxes on something I guess :)
This is very common in Sweden. Especially in apartment buildings built in the 60's.
Here in Switzerland we have those shelters too, I have one in my home. Just the last week I had mandatory service in the civil protection and the task that was assigned to me was actually to check some of those shelters for compliance to the norms (state of the ventilation system, structural integrity, etc). Yours wouldn't have passed that check as the rubber gasket, the lock and other parts are missing on the security doors :-)
Normally we use those shelters as storage spaces, hobby rooms, etc, me I use mine as electronic lab, storage and server room. This is allowed by the law, with the condition that if an event where those shelters are needed happens, they have to be emptied and prepared for use as soon as possible.
i think the SE shelters must still be regularly inspected and I saw all the missing parts in a locked storage room...
Interesting video ! As a brit thats lived for 20+ years at 60 degrees north just over the water i’m following your new journey with interest. Every year when the winter kicks in i question living this far north and think about moving south.
exactly why I moved 700km south, hoping it will be comparable to north england at least...
Really interesting Woody. You are a very engaging presenter and I do enjoy your stories synth related or otherwise. On another note, you came to mind when I went on a road trip the other day to collect a pristine condition DX7s. I’m 52 and have wanted one since I was 16. A dream come true and your videos have been very informative so thank you. The road trip wasn’t an epic. From Buckinghamshire into Oxfordshire!
congrats on the DX7S, that's quite a rare model I think. you'll have fun, kinda miss mine. thx for the feedback!
Woodys great. I'm intrigued by the new direction of the channel ...still it would be cool to hear the JD XI down there lol (I know he sold it, but still)
i was hoping to find a badly tuned and derelict piano in the shelter for some post-apocalyptical tunes but nothing doing.
Interesting video! Didn't know or imagine these existed.
I can see inspiration for fallout in this
The "krig" switch is brilliant! There is a norwegian band called Darkthrone who used to reherase in one of those bunkers in the 80's (they have those bunkers also in Norway), they even recorded a couple of albums in that same bunker few years ago. "If Sweden is attacked by another country, we will never give up. All information to the effect that resistance is to cease is false" Magnificent
My country, little or no shelters: "Guess I'll die."
I once recorded the "Hesa Fredrik" and made a Kontakt Instrument of it. Not the hardest thing to do but if anyone is interested, contact me and I can send a copy.
I live in student housing in Finland and my storage unit in the basement has a massive door and same sign.
Thank you Woody very informative tour, something different from music, keep up the good as I enjoy this very much, cheers from New Zealand.
We also have an array of sirens in France, not as dense for similar type of alerts, they are also tested regularly, and we have the same jokes about attackers needing to attach on that day/time :D (from memory it is the first Wednesday of the month, can’t remember the time..)
oh, interesting. in the uk we have no such thing, even though parts of england was bombed to rubble not so many decades ago...
Woody Piano Sha.... Shelter. Woody Piano Atomic Shelter... Amazing video! Thank you! :)
Us Scandinavians are a bit crazy. In Denmark its the first Wednesday of the Month at noon they sound. Like it's gonna save us if the Russians should throw a nuke or 2 90% of us would be gone anyway as I doubt most of us even know where the nearest bomb shelter is located. 😂
Hi Woody! With the 50Hz electrical system in Sweden, you likely need to set your camera shutter speed at 1/100s or 1/50s (or frame rate to 25/50fps) to avoid that horrible flickering where there are fluorescent or LED lights.
thanks scott, yeah, i'm aware of that, it's just that some modes on this stupid gopro force you into 30fps, so I chose 60fps. I removed a lot of footage due to the annoying flicker!
@@WoodyPianoShack I wish there was a simple, automated way to fix it after the fact. I recently ruined a bunch of irreplaceable one-time video by having this setting incorrect!
@@WoodyPianoShack film in 24fps chaps
Great for music producers! Speakers up.
it was made in a diffirent time happy to see your new stuff getting settled and stuff :D you just ask if you ever need anything
Funny how time changes, being in UK I keep looking for these as times have changed loads since this video was made.
I once had a rehersal space in a garage that I don't think was a bomb shelter but marked as "skyddsrum". It was not in a basement, it was built over ground. The drummers father built the garage and got some of it, maybe all, paid by the swedish government.
Where I lived as a kid we had gas tight doors in the cellar. The houses were built in 1942 when the Netherlands was occupied.
what an interesting video you got there Woody :)
we need a synth jam in those Bunkers haha
"all that reverb"
totally right on that brother, maybe one day...
This makes me so depressed seeing this. I live in a small town just outside of a major city in the US and if there's ever a nuclear war at any point, I'm basically screwed 😢
The only reason is because I have no shelter to run to, seeing as I live in an apartment complex. There's not even a MAP of places to go to.
🇨🇦 Hi ya Woody! So Awesome to see you again in a new video. Both Sweden and Switzerland take their safety and protection of citizens seriously. Everyone in Swissy land must serve a year in basic military and they ALL get to keep their hand guns when completed . Interestingly, Switzerland has auto detonation of all entry/exit points in case they were ever attacked. This is to ensure no enemies could come in with armored vehicles etc. I would love to have a bomb shelter place or even an abandoned silo. Hell, I would be happy even with a large cave...lol. And awesome that you speak the language. I always wanted to learn High-German language but it's pretty hard. So wonderful to see you again in a new video Woody. Thank you so much for showing us around the joint and the country's procedures and measures in case of attacks whether domestic or foreign. There is very strong and most likely inevitable war in our future with US, Russia, and China especially. Anyway, awesome video my friend and once again, so nice to see you out and about. 🤗 🍁 ♬
hi candle, interesting comment, thanks! here's hoping they remain unused for generations to come...
excellent vid
cheers cress!
Considering nuclear fallout can continue up to 2 years after an attack how long do the Swedish authorities expect citizens to spend in 0.8m of space?
up to 3 days, but I suppose that'll save you from the worst of it.
Doubt 2 years is gonna cut it, when you think how big todays nukes are compared to the ones that were dropped during WWII, Cities like Stockholm or Copenhagen would be levelled to the ground and uninhabitable for many years if it was the epicenter of impact. But Honestly as reason for an eventual attack would be to get their Fleet out to the North Sea, normal nukes would tactically seem a bad Idea If your own troops have to sail right thru.
great for reverb
In the Netherlands we still have air raid sirens in active use as well, nowerdays they are used for incident alerts, like fires factories or environmental accidents. They also these every first Monday of the month at 12 o’ clock. They want to replace it with a cell broadcast system for a few years now but those tests often fail. In the cold war era they built a bunker complex along the river IJssel, with a system to that could flood a large area to stop soviet tanks. The complex was secretly built in the 1960’s and was a secret until 1990 when it became obsolete. I have been in similar air raid shelters in Switzerland, they seem to have a lot of them there as well. Probably also because of their neutral state like Sweden.
In the U.S., all of the yellow and black fallout shelter signs have been removed from all buildings. The shelters may still be there, but the general public won't know where they are.
i read somewhere that a lot of them haven't been upkept and would no longer provide the protection against blast and radiation that they were meant to. perhaps that's why the signs have been removed from many of them.
Building owner would be away on “vacation” in another location, in the rural countryside.
0.8m squared personal space, Or one 37 mini keyed Yamaha Reface
haha perfect, love the humour here in the comments!
hei Woody , i think you should record drums here and check the sound . Some years ago I recorded drums in big wide atomic shelter underground and it sounds wooooow big energy and powerful , you get feeling of that big huge live rock olympic arena concert sound with at list 80.000 people in crowd .
great idea, lacking drums at the moment, I might go down there and sing something in a dramatic way.
The roof shots with the horns blaring feel a bit “Bradbury-esque”!
Those two ‘filters’ beside the front door are overpressure blast valves.
wow, with your channel name I don't doubt it for a second :D
@@WoodyPianoShack 🤣
What a great studio space that would make!
i totally forgot to make that point!
@@WoodyPianoShack You could put a speaker and a mic down there and turn it into a reverb chamber, just like they did in the old days. :)
How cool! I love sweden!
Seen similar one travelling Norway in 2010. The door in sweden has big slit under, not hermetic.
I live in Norway and we have those as well my kids have had partys in the one at the school.
interesting, i was curious if our neighbours to the west had a similar setup.
That would be hell to be in that shelter during an actual event. I'm claustrophobic just watching.
Great instructional video! Even for me, who was born and raised here :)
that's what I was hoping for!
Might need them soonish...
hope not, that would be a tragedy.
I wonder if the maintenance guy has been sent to find the bolt.
I'm quite fascinated by these nuclear bomb shelters. A very insightful video, too!
I see the process is quite the same over here in the land of Dutchies. Even with the monthly test.
hi xav, oh, interesting to read it's similar over there!
Super interesting! Which synth or groove box would you recommend for your time in a Swedish air raid shelter? XD
hmm, not that's a good question. i think there should be a battered old upright in every shelter for motivating sing-alongs!
I want more of your keyboard videos back
i won't rule that out!
I live in Switzerland and we have a reputation for still having a bomb shelter under every building (it's still law to construct them AFAIK). However I've not seen any here under residential buildings with those impressive blast doors.. not noticed any advanced filtration system for the air.. and I guess there may be locked rooms with gas masks and so on, but I've not come across one. They're not sign posted either.
There is a public shelter about 10 minutes away from where I live that can house 20000 people and supposedly has a hospital inside, although that relies in part on closing off the ends of a motorway tunnel. We test our sirens once a year in the spring at a designated time (it's the classic WW2 style sound).. and yeah the first time I heard that I thought "okay, well that's the perfect time to attack then" 😂
PS: Wind up radios are a pretty new invention aren't they? Maybe 1990s? I remember them and wind up lights being made for Africa with no electricity supply
very interesting to read about the similarities and diffs between SE and CH, cheers!
We did Gas Mask Drills in the US Navy (I worked in the Fleet Hospital-like M.A.S.H. on TV). The masks have a filter, most likely the masks you have in that shelter if they're there at all, are not well maintained and wouldn't be safe if they were used in the current day because the filters would most likely be rotted out or too old. Anyway, the drill goes GAS GAS GAS! And we have 9 seconds to put the Masks on, anyone that went past that got tapped on the shoulder "you're dead, you're dead, and you my friend sadly have diseased", I think it was 9 seconds, could have been 20.
Grew up not far away from where he is filming
not a bad place to grow up!
Imagine spending two weeks in there.
Its funny, but here in Australia I have never seen a fallout shelter, maybe a few private ones exist? We used to sell uranium to the Soviet Union, which then made nuclear weapons, some of which were aimed at us, very smart, eh?
I remember in the early 80s being taught Duck & Cover by our teacher. They told us that if we saw a flash in the sky, that by going under our half inch thick plywood desk, that we'd be protected from a nuclear blast, which is ridiculous!
Yes, we had the same at Kenthurst Public School. I remember Darren Neuman screaming like a girl and scrabbling to get under his every time we flipped the fluoro lights on. Poor Darrne. Sorry, mate. It was 1985.
might help you from some falling debris, better than nowt I guess, funny with the uranium story. thanks!
Needs to be soundproof for war jams
Those massive doors remembered the back door of my house that I found on a demolition store probably from a bank or some. Here on latinoamerica we have our own nuclear threat: robbery.
By the way: your English sounds more understable to me than the one of many natives.
well i'm only a visitor from the uk... although been here 30 years or so. robbery is the worst, stay safe!
So were the same buildings near the beach tiny houses? If so they were tiny.
hi tyson, not sure I understand the comment!
@13:32 Not necessarily these days😫!! Well done Sweden 👍. Meanwhile in the UK 🤷♂️
well, sweden is non-nato, and has been directly threatened by russia, so would have to defend itself...
@@WoodyPianoShack I meant that it’s not necessarily a waste of money. Amazing how the world has changed in the 6 months or so since you made the video (really interesting by the way and although synths are my primary reason for following this channel, I really like the off-piste stuff like this that you do). Hope you never need to use those shelters for anything other than storing bicycles 🤞
@@iixorb indeed, publishing this video just a few months ago has turned out to be tragically ironic, if that's the right word. the media is full of stories about these shelters being cleared out and restored to original purpose, but fortunately mins is still full of bikes :)
Wow! Paranoid.
I take it you didn't grow up during the cold war.
yeah, first thing that occured to me too, plenty of non-neutral NATO countries that have no such infrastructure.
Woodys piano 🎹 shelter 😂
Back when the Governments cared about the lives of their people. Not so much any more.
Do you have tornadoes in Sweden? Oklahoma could really use shelters like this.
no. nothing like that, thankfully!
never a waste of money, to save its population from fallout two world wars and nearly nuclear war during the cold war people can survive these places are a god send i wished every country had these to protect from NBC nuclear biological chemical weapons. the UK government said that it would cost nearly 8billions pounds back in early 1950s to install a shelter in every home and office block so now its up to the contractor to decide if they going to be installed into days money that would be about 400 billion pounds sterling.
I remember in the 60's and 70's doing our Preparation for Nuclear attacks at School in the United States. Bend under the desk and kiss your %# goodbye. Visited a Missile Site, interesting to note that it takes 2 to turn the key, but even when they turn the key, a 2nd site has to also turn their 2 keys for the missile to fire (unless the other site was destroyed, then the missile would delay but launch, and once they launch, there's no way to recall them, they're up in the air and on their way.. Current climate welllll who knows... Another Fyi, some missiles aim for farmland to destroy the crops, no food, no chance to survive. Pretty scary :-(.
Sudden nuclear evil gaz attack on Sweden, before the 48 hours usual warning, when the ennemy is supposed to say he/she kills anyone!
No big dammage, all bikes are safe.
lol, love the comment!
@@WoodyPianoShack I should not laugh about Sweden, at least you have shelters. I my country the only shelters are for the chief of state, his family, and his ministers
just a heads up I might call you one day to see if you want to hang out
Ha ha All that wasted space Woody. I think I see your new TH-cam Keyboard 🎹 studio. At least you’d be safe and the sound might stay in.
I would be playing 99 red balloons as the bombs fall around me
I live in America where we piss everyone off and have hardly no bomb shelters...I wish my government wasn't a bunch of sociopaths
The cost of living close to a belligerent country! You could even use this as a studio for all those synths you're bound to buy soon!
synths and cycles! great studio name :)
Has the government told you to clean out the bomb shelters now? given the current state of the world. I think it would be a pretty interesting indication of things, if so...
i agree, interesting, so lots of talk in the media about restoring them. but so far no directive from government, however some housing associations are taking matters into their own hands and prepping them. our shelter still contains bikes, long may that continue!
48 hours is ridiculous with a warning time of 15 minutes.
I have a non-Nuclear bunker related question. I really want the Yamaha YC61, need a piano for gigs. But I also need to eat.
Have you tried the Nord E6D, and how is it vs the YC? And do we really need to eat?
Oh and greetings from Denmark. Love your channel
Dit svenske er ganske godt ;)
thank you!! onto your question, i like both but I think I prefer the Nord e-pianos and pianos, somewhat more characterful and the overdrive adds just the right dirt. organ is not fantastic on either (compared to the legend anyway, and hammond clones). I prefer the fatar action on the nord too, as the YC had some isseus there with noisy keys. always like the electro action (same as used on legend actually!). in other areas, the two keyboards are a close tie.
hope that helps.
After a major nuclear exchange there would be nothing worth coming out for Woody, better just to go out and lie on the grass and KYA goodbye. :)
that's probably what I would do! get blown to smithereens playing my banjo, just what myself and the world would want! :D
would they allow you to bring the modx in the bunker.....??? im thinking you may get a few funny looks !
i could bring the banjo, then I'd have the place to myself :)
@@WoodyPianoShack currently with the fantom G 14 years infact ! wich would you recommend the roland fa ? or the modx ? as the next move ... like your videos down to earth and some good playing ;0)
In the 1950s, people were very afraid of the atomic bomb that motivated Sweden and perhaps other countries to build these bomb shelters. Here in Portugal I am not aware that there are Bomb Shelters in buildings or houses. Portugal does not harm any country, Portugal is a peaceful country just like Sweden. Woody don't live with that fear. Our countries would be excluded from a nuclear attack. I cannot say the same for the USA. Unfortunately there are many countries that don't like the USA. If one day there is a nuclear attack I think it will be in the USA and in a big city like New York to make huge victims. September 11, 2001 is an example of what might one day happen to the USA, but in large proportions it could kill millions of people. But let's not live thinking about it. The USA knows what can happen and is on high alert 24 hours a day.
respect to neutral portugal! the threat was very real in the 60s, and with some poor decisions all hell could have broken loose. hopefully all that is behind us for ever.
I would rather stay at home than leave my dog. I wouldn't be able to live with myself
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Seems odd they would decommission them. Have they not seen any sci-fi films with alien invasions?
the 48 hour regulation is actually for protection against the zombie herds.
@@WoodyPianoShack MSB did begin checking the shelters again a few years ago. Locking systems, rubber seals on the heavy doors, filters, anything damaging etc. Fines if removed.
Are you allowed to own firearms over there?
And the [Swedes] shall inherit the earth…
Let's not beat around the bush, most are after homes with shelters or just building them 😉 these are after all, strange times 😅
Very Interesting! Sadly it is clear that Sweden has become complacent in their preparedness. Not only would they only have minutes or maybe an hour or two to even get to the shelters; but even 48 hours wouldn't be enough time to get those back in service. It would take weeks of preparation without the stress of an imminent bomb hit. Those bomb shelters are just like masks are to covid, they look cool but will do nothing to protect you in any real threat situation.
too bad u can never say not great not terrible in a home like this
didn't quite understand your comment roy, sorry!
Easy, you need to be prepared with all of these messy Synth on the market, you never know what happen, too many at the same place may trigger some nasty nuclear reactions!
Joke apart,
Wow 100 people in there? That’s basically only for a couple of hours, you can’t live there for days with so many people in
good one! in fact, they are designed to be used for up to 3 days at a stretch, wouldn't be nice, but perhaps better than being outside...
Good luck on getting though up and running in 3 hours. With all the parts made in China today.