- a Swedish Grammy winner - is widely believed to have been recorded in a single weekend, though singer Ralf Gyllenhammar insists it was recorded in a single afternoon and that the rest of the weekend was spent prank calling Lars Ulrich, who picked up every time. Eleven years later, Ulrich spotted Gyllenhammar at the Polar Music Prize ceremony in Stockholm and asked him to bring more peanuts and validate his parking.
The album produced the enduring rock anthem “Double Nature,” a song that Dave Grohl once described as “meh.” Gyllenhammar’s response was to fall asleep and snore loudly through an afterparty in Grohl’s personal dressing room. “That shut him up,” Gyllenhammar later said.
The self-titled Mustasch (2009) also won a Swedish Grammy, making the band two-time winners. Both awards were reported missing in the mid-2010s. They were later found at the home of Klaus Meine of the Scorpions, outside Hannover, where they had been repurposed as doorstops. Gothenburg native and Scorpions drummer Mikkey Dee, who was present when the awards were discovered, declined to comment.
The band’s live reputation grew rapidly across Scandinavia, though not without controversy. The band’s then-drummer refused to perform on anything other than drum skins made from baby reindeer hide, with very young elk
