In August 1984 guitarist Jan Akesson and singer Peter Grundstrom got to know each other after a mutual concert. Jan played guitar in a band called Ravage and Peter was a singer in a band called Whitelight. Their meeting led to the conclusion of Jans work with Ravage and he became a new member in Whitelight in the fall the same year.
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The concentration of Whitelight was melodic hardrock and main influence among many where: Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Bad Company, but later on, "newer" bands (english and american) such as Whitesnake, Van Halen, Journey,Toto, Riot, Wrabit and Dokken.The band did many gigs and demos (in hope of getting a proper record deal).
In 1987 Jan decided to leave Whitelight and went his own way. He wanted to try his own wings with a tougher; more guitarorientated hardrock. Peter stayed in Whitelight but Jan wasn't replaced. Instead the name of the band was changed to Kee Avenue. Jan established a new band called Why Not and later he also established new bands like Perfect Stranger and Dr Blue. These bands did really successful gigs and recordings in different places.
In 1994 Jan stepped down from the stages, but kept on writing songs and recorded them in Cubase. Since then he owns a studio.
Kee Avenue split up in 1991 after the bassplayer and the keyboardplayer left the band. The band never found anyone tho replace them. After this breakup Peter played with different band, mostley coverband. He kept on writing songs.
15 years after the two played together Jan called Peter on the phone. He tought that it was time for a "reunion". After a good meal, a few beers and whiskey the interest grew to once more form a project. The result of this was
StoneLake...