Stratovarius ja johdannaiset

[Hese]

Tuomo Lassila vetää rummut seuraavalle Avalonille

[Jussi K]

Tuomo Lassila vetää rummut seuraavalle Avalonille

No, johan se Alex Holzwarth sanoikin siinä bonarideeveedeellä, miten ei ollut tarpeeksi nopeita biisejä. Toivottavasti tämä ei tarkoita, että hitaampi kama valtaisi enemmänkin alaa!

[Hese]

^No kyllähän se nakutteli ihan kiitettävästi noilla Straton ensimmäisillä levyillä että tuskin pelkoa on hitaampaan kallistumisesta.

[Jussi K]

Mutta onko nakutellut enää 1995 Against The Windin jälkeen? Mulle ei tule kuin aika hitaahkoja Conquestin juttuja mieleen viimeisen 18 vuoden ajalta. Plus, eikö tuo nopeus tai sen puute ollut yksi syy heivata mies Jörg Michael Musilakin tieltä?

[Hese]

Lisää vanhoja Stratojamppoja Avaloniin, Antti Ikonen soittelemaan kiippareita levylle.

[Hese]

Straton Tavastian vedon lämmittelee Arion, sopii paremmin kuin hyvin tämä järjestely!

[Jussi K]

Straton Tavastian vedon lämmittelee Arion, sopii paremmin kuin hyvin tämä järjestely!

Kuka on Ari.. höhö. Mutta hyvä homma, olisi itsellekin melkein syytä mennä katsomaan Strato, mikäli samassa kaupungissa olisi. Lupaava bändi!

[jytte]

Tavastia kutsuu taas ties monennenkymmenenkerran Straton kanssa, pakko oli vilkuilla vetoja Lutakosta ja Hämeenlinnasta. Sorry spoiler mutta esim. The Hands Of Time, Nemesis!! Pää irtoaa lauantaina salettiin

[Hese]

Sorry spoiler mutta esim. The Hands Of Time

UI VIDDU!

Edit. mistä muuten bongasit setit? Setlist.fmstä ei löytynyt.

[jytte]

Sorry spoiler mutta esim. The Hands Of Time

UI VIDDU!

Edit. mistä muuten bongasit setit? Setlist.fmstä ei löytynyt.

Sama reaktio täälläkin

Setlist.fm ei kertonut mitään mutta jostain yuotubepätkän kommenteista löytyi seuraavaa settiä jommaltakummalta keikalta :

Speed of Light
Under Flaming Skies
Eagleheart
Million Light Years Away
Dragons
Deep Unknown
We Hold The Key
Fantasy
Nemesis
Hands of Time
Destiny
Forever
Unbreakable
Black Diamond
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Father Time
Paradise
Hunting High and Low


Hieno setti ja toivottavasti Tavastialla sama toistuu ! Aina voi seteistä valittaa mutta jos tämä Tavalla tulee lauantaina niin todellakin pää irtoo. Tosin kaikilla muillakin edellisillä Straton keikoilla on käyny samoin (vuodesta 1997 lähtien)

[Hese]

^Ei ole muilla biiseillä mitään jakoa tuon The Hands Of Timen kanssa!

[Jyyd]

^^ Jumalauta! Nyt alkaa olemaan settilista kohdallaan, sopiva sekoitus uutta ja vanhoja harvemmin soitettuja helmiä, noin sen pitäisi aina olla.

[Hese]

Taas kerran mainio Stratojen keikka, kohokohtina tietty The Hands Of Time ja We Hold The Key! Seuraavaa keikkaa odotellessa.

[jytte]

Taas kerran mainio Stratojen keikka, kohokohtina tietty The Hands Of Time ja We Hold The Key! Seuraavaa keikkaa odotellessa.

Juuri näin! Merchandise-osasto oli turhan vaatimaton tällläkertaa mutta kyllä sitä taas jotain tarttu mukaan

[Hese]

Taas kerran mainio Stratojen keikka, kohokohtina tietty The Hands Of Time ja We Hold The Key! Seuraavaa keikkaa odotellessa.

Juuri näin! Merchandise-osasto oli turhan vaatimaton tällläkertaa mutta kyllä sitä taas jotain tarttu mukaan

Itse en ostanut kuin Arionin EP:n, jestas kun jätkät veti komeasti lämmittelijän pestinsä!

[Jyyd]

Videoita:

Helsinki:
Destiny
Hands of Time
We Hold the Key

Turku
A Million Light Years Away

Kotipelto on kieltämättä hyvässä vireessä näissä, kun ottaa huomioon että esim. We Hold the Keyn julkaisustakin on jo 18(!) vuotta.

[Jussi K]

TeeTee on oikeassa, plus mielenkiintoista nähdä aikanaan, mikä tuo "outo viesti managementiltaan" on ollut:

TIMO TOLKKI: 'For Me, STRATOVARIUS Pretty Much Was Dead After 2004'
December 4, 2013

Dave Smiles of Full Throttle Rock recently conducted an interview with former STRATOVARIUS guitarist Timo Tolkki. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Full Throttle Rock: What was the inspiration for the story behind [the debut TIMO TOLKKI'S AVALON album] "The Land Of New Hope"?

Tolkki: For the story, it was mainly from my own observations of where this world and mankind are heading. I hope I am wrong, but it just seemed to be a good idea to do a trilogy about this subject. I wrote the whole story at one go, chunked it in three pieces and "The Land Of New Hope" is actually the end of the story so the first album is kind of last at the same time.

Full Throttle Rock: What are some of your favourite memories from your time with STRATOVARIUS?

Tolkki: 2500 shows, 24 years, 300 written songs, 2 million albums sold and insane amount of work in producing all the albums. I was there all the time cause it was my artistic vision. I was lucky to have good musicians and I think I was right there in the beginning to create this musical format called power metal. Lately, I have gotten some recognition about that and it feels good because I really worked hard on the music, arrangements and the production. It was 24/7 job, really. For me, STRATO pretty much was dead after 2004, regarding all aspects. Something weird just happened there and there are quite a bit misinformations about that in the media and Internet, but there is nothing I can do to that.

Full Throttle Rock: Jens Johansson [STRATOVARIUS] is on "The Land Of New Hope". Do you see yourself working with any more of your former bandmates in the future?

Tolkki: Well, it's possible. In fact, just last week I got a bit weird e-mail from their management regarding something that sounded quite interesting. I have to give it some thought first before I can talk about it.

Full Throttle Rock: What's your opinion of the current state of the music industry? Where do you see things going with the development of downloading music?

Tolkki: It's the question, and I believe it varies from one music style to another. Metal fans are still buying CDs. But it is true that there is a major shift taking place right now and it's gonna get harder and harder to be a professional musician. CD will be obsolete in 10 years, I think, and vinyl is not the savior. The quantities are very small. I think we will see more and more music going to streaming services and artists getting paid less and less, which might force them to direct interaction with their fans. This is very difficult if you are a starting band. In any case, it seems that it’s gonna go completely to Internet and I think it will be all streamed in the end. Unfortunately. This forces anybody from not taking any risks which might contribute to some interesting music being recorded and released and results more to just very formalized and perhaps not so interesting music.

[Hese]

Floor Jansen on päävokalisti seuraavalla Avalonilla ja kiertuetta keväälle, sehän sopii!


Floor Jansen is the main vocalist on Avalon II, the album and European tour planned for May 2014

The Nightwish/ReVamp singer Floor Jansen will appear in the leading role on the next album of Timo Tolkki’s Avalon Metal Opera.

Jansen is the main vocalist on the album and sings lead vocals on the first single and promotional video. The release date for both single and the video is planned for March. The recordings are currently taking place in East Sound Studios in Helsinki, Finland. Jansen joins the cast that already includes Epica singer Simone Simons and the reunion of the early Stratovarius. Lineup: Tuomo Lassila on drums (the founder of Stratovarius) and Antti Ikonen on keyboards (the original keyboard player of Stratovarius).

A European Tour is also planned for May 2014, to coincide with the release of the album. More details on the live lineup and dates will be revealed later.

Timo Tolkki comments straight from the studio: “I am right now recording probably the best vocalist I have worked with in my whole career. This has been a jaw dropping experience and I thought I have already seen it all. Floor has proven me wrong. For example in the 10 minute title track of the album, she delivers in my opinion the best vocals of her career so far. This song is probably the biggest sounding of my whole career and Floor simply makes it an astonishing, almost breathtaking experience! We are both surprised of how amazing this has turned out to be and both very happy to hear how amazing it sounds.”

[IndianaJones]

I am right now recording probably the best vocalist I have worked with in my whole career. This has been a jaw dropping experience and I thought I have already seen it all. Floor has proven me wrong. For example in the 10 minute title track of the album, she delivers in my opinion the best vocals of her career so far. This song is probably the biggest sounding of my whole career and Floor simply makes it an astonishing, almost breathtaking experience! We are both surprised of how amazing this has turned out to be and both very happy to hear how amazing it sounds.

Jaa a, saa aika kova suoritus olla jos meinaa Floorin paras olla koskaan, Ayreonin "Y"llä ja Nightwishin liveklipeissä on jo niin jäätävän hienoa naisen ulosanti. Enkä todellakaan väitä olevani läheskään tietoinen Floorin kaikista edesottamuksista. Olikos tuo edellinen Avalon mistään kotoisin, esimerkiksi verrattuna vaikkapa Avantasian Babylon/Symphony-kaksikkoon? Vai onko meininki sitä vesitettyä Strato-humppaa, millaiseksi olen kyllä melkein kaikki Tolkin teokset Stratovariuksesta lähtönsä jälkeen mieltänyt. Enkä mie kyllä mikään älytön Strato-fanikaan koskaan ollut (lähinnä "ihan ok"-fiilis jää suurimmaksi osaksi), mutta tällaiset mahtipontisemmat jutut on kyllä usein kolissut.

[Hese]

No kuunteleppas sitten Revolution Renaissancet, Symfonia ja tuo ensimmäinen Avalon. Avalon ei ehkä tuota Babylon/Angel comboa voita mutta uusimman paska Avantasian se kyllä päihittää mennen tullen. Symfonian levy on ehkä "Stratohumppaa" mutta silti paremmat biisit kuin esim Straton elementseillä, S/T, polaris tai Elysium levyillä. Toki toinen juttu on, että pitääkö Matoksen äänestä ko. levyllä.

[Jyyd]

For example in the 10 minute title track of the album, she delivers in my opinion the best vocals of her career so far. This song is probably the biggest sounding of my whole career and Floor simply makes it an astonishing, almost breathtaking experience! We are both surprised of how amazing this has turned out to be and both very happy to hear how amazing it sounds.”

Huh! Mun mielestä esim. Infinitylla oli jo aikoinaan monumentaaliset soundit, mutta saas nähdä minkälainen jysäys sieltä tällä kertaa tulee, luotto Tolkin sävelkynän terävyyteen on kova.

[Hese]

TIMO TOLKKI’S AVALON REVEALS THE ALBUM TITLE AND THE REST OF THE CAST

The anticipated sophomore release from Timo Tolkki’s Avalon will be entitled “Angels Of The Apocalypse” and is slated
for a May release through Frontiers Records.

The singers that will appear on the album are: Floor Jansen (new NIGHTWISH singer), Simone Simons (of EPICA), Fabio Lione (of RHAPSODY OF FIRE), David DeFeis (of VIRGIN STEELE), Elize Ryd (of AMARANTHE) and Caterina Nix (who will release her debut album produced by Tolkki, later this year).

Other musicians which will appear on the album include two other former members of STRATOVARIUS: Tuomo Lassila (STRATOVARIUS' founder) on drums and Antti Ikonen, the original keyboard player of STRATOVARIUS.

Timo Tolkki also announces a contest for guitar and keyboard players. Now you have the chance to play a solo with Timo Tolkki in one song of the album. Please send one MP3 that contains your solo playing
to this email address: solos@tolkki.org

The winner will receive a backing track and will play his/her solos to this. The MP3’s for the contest has to be sent by 16th of February.

You can also visit www.avalonopera.com for videoblogs that has been made from the recordings of the album.
The website will be updated later today.

[Jussi K]

Kuten joku messulaudalla kommentoikin, niin kovin akkapitoinen. Mutta niin oli toisaalta The Land Of New Hopekin jos laulusuoritusten määriä katsotaan. Davelle paljon mikkiaikaa, niin saadaan ulinaa koko rahalla!

[Finnish Eddie]

Hmm vähän yllättävää tuo David DeFeisin (no miksei tuon Lionenkin) mukaan tulo ... Olikohan Kiskellä ja Rockilla ollut muita kiireitä vai halusiko Tolkki sekoittaa pakkaa kunnolla?

[Hese]

Tänne lienee voi tämän iskeä:

Devil's Train

HELLO PASSENGERS, AND BRACE YOURSELVES FOR OUR NEW HELL-RIDES !!!

WE 'RE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE BAND IS READY TO ENTER THE STUDIOS
IN MID-MARCH TO START THE RECORDINGS OF OUR SECOND ALBUM, WHICH
WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE PROPHECY & MUSIC FACTORY STUDIO IN GERMANY.
STAY TUNED FOR PHOTO AND VIDEO UPDATES OF THE BAND'S REHEARSALS,
TRACKING, AND OVERALL PROGRESS DURING THE RECORDINGS.

ALSO, TO PROMOTE THE NEW ALBUM, WE WILL MAKE SOME NEW, HOT'n'TASTY
VIDEO CLIPS, WHICH WILL BE RELEASED THROUGH THE SUMMER !!

MOREOVER, THE BAND HAS CONFIRMED THE FIRST SHOWS FOR 2014,
WHICH INCLUDE A SPANISH TOUR IN EARLY MAY, SEVERAL FESTIVALS FOR THE SUMMER,
AND MORE SHOWS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON.

SO, STAY TUNED FOR TOUR AND CONCERT POSTERS,
RECORDING PHOTOS AND VIDEOS, AND MANY MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS !!!