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| Brutal Mind | | 05.07.2008 18:00, Киев, "Барвы" 40 грн. |  | | >> Обсудить на форуме << | | | | !!! Hurricane Party !!! | | 05.07.2008 19:00, г.Днепропетровск Арт Бар "Альт-Кафе" 30 грн. |  | | >> Обсудить на форуме << | | | | TOTAL ARMAGEDDON Christian Extreme Music Fest Sum | | 31.07.2008 00:00, АРК Крым, г. Судак 55, 150 грн |  | | >> Обсудить на форуме << | | | | ПРО РОК 2008 (Rock Stage) | | 02.08.2008 14:30, г.Конотоп(Україна, Сумская обл.) 10 грн. |  | | >> Обсудить на форуме << | | | | ПРО РОК 2008 (Metal Stage) | | 03.08.2008 00:00, г.Конотоп(Україна, Сумская обл.) 10 грн. |  | | >> Обсудить на форуме << | | |
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| | Stratovarius - прекращает свое существование! |  | Stratovarius - прекращает свое существование! По заявлению бесcменного лидера группы Тимо Толкки, он устал от всего. На своём офицальном сайте, Тимо написал Послание фанам, где подробно объясняет свою позицию. |
| Dear Stratovarius Fans,
It is time to stop the silence and announce what some of you have already been speculating. Stratovarius is no more.
Last October I told the guys that I am stopping the band and told them
the reasons why. This letter is addressed to you, Stratovarius fans,
who have supported the band for so many years. I first thought that I
would write just a very generelized, typical ”music business” statement
that basically never says anything. Then I decided that you deserve to
hear at least parts of the truth what has been going on behind the
scenes so you will be able to understand my decision better.
All the time, since TK and Jörg joined the band, there have been
tensions and negativity flying around. This has been concentrating on
me, TK and Jörg. The reasons Jari Kainulainen was fired some years back
were so absurd that I am not even try to explain them here. If I write
a book one day, maybe then. Anyways, I think the seeds were planted
already back then, something like 12 years ago. There were many
confrontations, Jörg has been complaining to me about TK and TK
complaining to me about Jörg. At a times it was a mess, although of
course, it never would show outside to the fans. It is not my intention
to disrespect TK and Jörg here. They are both fundamentally good guys.
Things just sometimes happen and relationships go to directions we
don’t want them to go. It’s like a divorce, nobody wants it to happen
but sometimes it is best for all so everyone can continue their own
lives. Plus I want to tell how things have been behind the curtains.
You always only see the good side anyway, you don’t really know what is
going on.
We had amazing years, 14 records, 6 world tours with over a thousand
shows all across the Globe, 3 gold discs, a Finnish Grammy and almost 3
million records sold. I have arrived to my decision after careful, long
and rational thinking of over a year and I know it is the right way for
me. I just felt so bad being in Stratovarius. Something was terribly
wrong in there and nobody seemed to care.
The countdown really started from the last Stratovarius album in 2005.
At that time the atmosphere in the band was extremely weird. I had
spent most of 2004 recovering from my nervous breakdown in April 2004
when I was hospitalized. It was at this point when things started to
change. Jens supported me immensely during 2004 with his phone calls.
We then did that ”Stratovarius” album, which I think is an awful album
and went for the subsequent tour production. By that time it was
apparent to me that things really were bad. Nobody seemed to care about
anything. I had the idea to use projection screens and for that, you
need to produce graphics. I planned those and basically the whole show.
Nobody seemed to have any interest in it. It was more like, the less
the better. The atmosphere at the rehearsals was awful. Lauri Porra who
had just joined the band was wondering what is going on with this band.
Jörg Michael came straight from Saxon to this tour wearing a Saxon
shirt during most of the shows. His attitude for most of the tour was
extremely arrogant, pretty much towards everybody. But especially
towards me and TK. And TK’s attitude towards me was lukewarm and
polite, but I could sense the hostility. Of course we as professionals
put on very good shows but it was more craftmanship and rehearsed
performance than a great united band playing emotionally from the
heart. I think TK was always very bitter about that he could not get
his songs and/or lyrics on Strato records. I did not understand this
really cause he had/has his solo band where he could do what he wanted.
It took me many years to learn to simply tell him that I don’t like his
songwriting and lyrics and that the main difference between me and him
is that I am writing songs that end up being Strato songs while he is
trying to write Strato songs that end up being Kotipelto songs, which
means they belong on a Kotipelto record. It is not easy to say to
someone that you don’t like his music. You guys and girls dont like all
music, neither do I. Neither does TK. I am not anyone to tell what is
good and what is bad music, but I do can tell what kind of music I
like. And TK’s stuff just doesn’t do it for me. I do have to say that I
think he has written many great songs as well during his solo career.
Plus he probably would say the same things about my songwriting. We are
just very different. He has a very different sense of humor than I
have. Maybe the weirdest thing in Strato was that we never really were
friends in the band. I visited TK in 12 years perhaps 5 times. To me
Jens was the closest in the band and lately Lauri Porra, who is a
wonderful guy. But none of use was really ever real friends. It might
be surprising to you but that is the truth.
The tour continued and Jörg’s drum roadie told me drunk that Jörg
is leaving the band after the tour but he is doing the tour cause ”he
is a businessman”. I guess you could say that Jörg’s attitude pretty
much culminated what he said to me in Seattle on that tour. He told me
that he thinks the band is over. We tried to record, 3rd time, a live
DVD in Sao Paulo but could not use the shootings because we played so
badly. It was just plain awful. Although we rocked lot of crowds on
that 120 date world tour, still the overall vibe was very much like
”going to work”. Not for me though. Not still at that point. But it
felt to me that nobody’s heart was in the band and it was just for the
money.
The tour came and went, we survived and Jörg didn’t leave the band. But
it was the weirdest tour I have ever done. Very succesful, but still it
felt like forcing something. It was not fun. It was sad.
The next thing I had in mind was to write a really fresh good old
fashioned Power Metal album in the vein of Visions. I felt our fans
deserved it and I felt it was the right thing to do. This was the
infamous ”RR” album. The songwriting was flowing and the songs sounded
really nice and melodic and very much like old Strato. I was all the
time on my toes because of the situation in the band and I was
anticipating difficult recording sessions. Anyways in late 2006 we
completed a demo tape containing 10 brand new songs. I wasn’t too happy
about the demo, but it did serve its purpose, to present the songs to
the record company. I then booked 12 days from Sonic Pump studio in
Helsinki for March 2007. This was the weirdest session I had ever had.
Jörg was all the time talking about that we have to get the ”Visions
hunger” back, although I don’t think he himself had that hunger. Nobody
had. The session was nothing like the recording sessions before. Nobody
had rehearsed the songs really and everything sounded pretty awful. I
tweaked the drum tracks for a week and gave up. It was around this
point when I really was starting to think why am I keeping this alive
when it’s so difficult. I remember how much time, energy and money we
put to Elements 1. There was nowhere to go after that anymore without
just repeating the past. I do know that TK didn’t like that album at
all, which yet again shows the difference between him me. It doesn’t
mean that he has to like it of course, but to me Elements 1 represents
the peak of the Strato evolution and perhaps I should have stopped the
band already then.
Last year, 2007, was the turning point for me in many ways. I felt
better, but regarding Strato I felt worse. There were fights about
everything, even about trivialities, which really annoyed me. A lots of
fights. A lot. I had to use a lot of energy to try to get merch to
Stratoshop, which was on the shoulders of Jörg and TK, because there
was no merch for people to order but still they were ordering cause the
items were on the page. The SSL certificate that proves the site is
secure was expired a year ago, I tried to get that fixed, could not do
it because I wasn’t authorized to do so. The most popular items from
the shop were sold out and Jörg refused to print more. I could not
understand any of the things that were going on. At the same time, I
was having more fun than in years with my rock opera Saana. When I was
making that, I realized what was lacking in Strato: the enthusiasm,
creativity and fun. It wasn’t like that in years. Saana gave me hope
that there still could be something new for me to learn at this age and
it gave me a whole new world of things and a start for something new.
Plus I knew I had some really cool new Metal songs in the works.
We did have 8 festival shows during 2007 and it was then, when I was
standing on stage in Wacken Germany before 45 000 metalheads , when I
fully realized that this band is over. I remember clearly playing those
same old songs we had played so many times before and a feeling came to
me that told me: this band has no soul anymore. I looked around and I
felt like I am part of a play that has a script or machine and that
there is nothing fresh and exciting happening anymore. The band sounds
awful. Nobody’s heart was in it. It was just the same old song. Jörg
worked at this point full time in artist production company doing
tourmanaging and he was working at Wacken too. He literally came to
play from production office and returned there after. Everybody was
polite, on the surface, but there was no friendship, all I could sense
were the underlying tensions of relatioships that had come to an end. I
had felt during that year that the band existed only for one reason and
that was the money. I had felt that this was the main motivation what
kept Jörg and TK in the band still despite of the underlying tensions.
While standing on Wacken stage to my absolute horror, I understood that
also for me that had now become a reality. I was keeping this alive for
money. It was then when I decided that I must stop the band.
So it was during this show, I decided that it’s over. I was still
thinking about everything but I felt that for my future, it was the
only logical thing to do. I did not want to fire TK and Jörg because
they are and have been as much part of Strato as I have been and it
would not be fair to the fans. I then decided that it is best to lay
rest what is already dead. I informed guys by email in October 2008
about my decision and explained in detail my reasons hoping they would
see my points and agree what is real. Only Jens and Lauri answered. TK
and Jörg did not even answer to that mail. Jens understood my decision,
Lauri did not. I understand him, he got a taste of what it is to be in
a succesful rock band touring the world. It is not easy to give that
up. He did fail to see my side of the story. That TK and Jörg did not
comment anything really speaks for itself. I did want to finish the
Stratovarius saga with style and naive as I am, in February 2008 I
wrote a mail to the band and proposed that we would say goodbye to our
fans with style and do one more tour. I won’t go into details here, but
this time I did get a response from TK and Jörg. I wished them well and
wrote back that I can see there cannot be any more tours with this band
because of the hostile reactions.. So that was that. I felt good about
my decision, but not good that out of legal reasons I have had to wait
for this announcement for so long.
Then I thought that since I have all these great songs in my hands, I
wanna put these out somehow. So I contacted a few friends, we laid the
basic tracks in the same place where the Strato RR session had taken
place a year ago and it was just flowing. There was happiness. There
was energy. The songs sounded great. My friends Michael Kiske and
Tobias Sammet agreed to sing on the album. I decided to form a new band
called ”REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE” which would continue the legacy of
Stratovarius. In this first album I just wanted to release these songs
finally so I did not have time to search for a permanent line up. I am
now, so if you are interested, me a mail! The album comes out
6.6.2008 through Frontiers Records.
I am excited and happy…for the first time in years. I can hardly wait
what the destiny has in store for me with my new band, projects,
songwriting. I am living a very creative times. I have my production
company and I am doing lots of different projects and not only metal
but basically anything that moves me.
First I would like to, despite of all, thank Jörg, TK, Jens, Jari,
Lauri, Tuomo, Antti and Jyrki for these 22 years. It was a quite a
ride. I wish Jens, TK, Jörg and Lauri the very best with whatever they
decide to do in their life and success with it.
Last but most importantly, I want to thank you Stratovarius fans for
your love and support and for the great life. We will be seeing each
other in some ways, somewhere. You will always remain in my heart.
With Love, Timo
http://www.timotolkki.com/Split.html
| | Дата выхода: 03.04.2008 13:15:48 Издание: heavy-metal.com.ua | | | Читайте также |
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