In 1979 I managed to manipulate my parents to buy me an electric organ. That was a key to the wonderful world of music and a big bunch of bands, listed below, in roughly chronological order – lots of overlap makes the chronology quite ambiguous.
| 1981 – 1983 | Nightmare | First band; at first playing organ, then changed to bass in the next incarnation of the band |
| 1983 – 1986 | India Fall | Rock in Finnish |
| 1983 – 1986 | Le Cardinal | Blues, Rhythm’N’Blues, Southern Rock |
| 1986 – 1988 | Southern Backyard | Le Cardinal shrunk and changed names and progressively styles as well, eventually to funk/soul |
| 1988 – | Lazybonez | Southern Backyard changed its name to something pronounceable (but not writable as evidenced by the numerous misspellings on gigs) |
| 1988 – | Oktoplus | Prog-pop-rock-weird in Finnish |
| 1990 | Alaston haave | Prog-pop-rock-weird in Finnish, different from Oktoplus but very much out of the mainstream just as well. I was recruited to replace their deceased bass player but the band folded fairly soon. |
| 1994 – 1995 | FunQTwo | FunQTwo played a few funky cover gigs |
| 1998 – 2000 | Riitala Index | An attempt of playing my songs |
| 2001 – 2003 | Tomo Goes Groove / Tomo Big Band | Tomo Goes Groove (funk and rock with the Tomo Big Band horn section), also some gigs with the big band: Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert (on guitar) and some latin stuff conducted by Carlos del Puerto (back to bass) |
| 2002 – | Intergalactic Huso Orchestra (IHO) | Fusion jazz seen from the rock perspective |
| 2003 – 2005 | E.N.E. | Jazz standards, funk and especially latin jazz |
| 2004 – 2005 | Jastam Kastam | Organ rock jazz group put together for a recording project |
| 2005 – 2014 | Hitmen | Party cover band quartet/quintet |
| 2009 – | Top3 | Classic rock party cover band founded to study the classic trio format |
| 2009 – | Susi hukassa | Mostly acoustic cover band, not so much founded but put together for a gig (and lasted quite a few of them) |
| 201x – | Jimbo’s Garage | A hard rock project run by Jimbo from IHO. |
| 201x – | Bossalino | Jouni‘s (Oktoplus) bossa project |
| 2018, 2022 | Spiders From Malmi | This incarnation of the band put together for two gigs of Bowie music, me on keys and guitar. A new version in 2022. |
| 2018 – 2020 | Moonstone | Party cover trio |
| 2019 – | Fig Fable | I joined to complete the reborn band and soon started writing music for them as well |
| 2020 – | Nova/Riitala | Duo with Fig Fable singer Lubena Nova, founded to feast on the songs unsuitable for Fig Fable |
..And a fair number of temporary one-off subbing gigs and unnamed bands aside all this. Plus a few projects that never made it to the gig or music release state.