Sam Sodamy

The same Timo Huovinen, the seventies stalwart who played bass in Virtanen, a crucial Finnish altrock outfit who prefigured new wave, amd who elected to play bass under Pete Malmi's influence for the masterful first proper Finpunk band Briard and appeared on the great Briard 2nd punk single, Fuck the Army and Malmi's self-titled solo masterpiece album. For these punk projects he became Sam Sodamy. Later a producer and guitarist and new wave group leader. Rejoined his old Virtanen bandmate Moog Konttinen for work in some memorable punk inspired crossover groups.