Show in Czech Republic - June 2nd, 2006

[Electric Eye]

I saw them two days ago. The show was magnificent, great tracklist and performance. Very emotional and powerful, as usual. Many songs, which had not been played recently. Guys looked very pleased, audience was really cool. Very good show!

Tracklist:
Hunting High And Low
Paradise
Phoenix
Eagleheart
Speed Of Light
The Kiss Of Judas
SOS
Twilight Symphony
Forever
United
A Million Light Years Away
Father Time
Will My Soul Ever Rest In Peace
Distant Skies
Black Diamond

Photos:
http://www.cechovka.cz/default.aspx?sec ... article=49

http://www.stratovarius.wz.cz/galerie_brod.htm

[Equinox]

Wow, they played Will My soul....and A million Light...that's awesome! I wish they'd play that when thy come here in October, it would be great!

[IceBreaker]

Very interesting setlist, yeah! Finally they had done some important changes to it, that´s great!

Also TK seems to have shaved his beard again away, and now Jens has quite a big beard.

[Gregory]

It' a great setlist! And one of my fav: Phoenix!!!

[NeonVomit]

Excellent setlist, Million Lightyears is an awsome song!

[browneyedgirl]

Those are great pics&that setlist is fantastic! Yeah, I hope they keep that list, too!

[dirge]

WOW! great beard jens!
Will my soul ever rest in peace, PLEASE play it at bloodstock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love that song!

[Patricia]

They also played "Paradise" and "Distant Skies"!! Wow!!

Thanks for the links!

[Leo]

I din't know that JJ has so much bear now.... :viking:

[nefertari]

Fantastic , lovely pics! Thank you! The gig seems to been great!!

[a_Sniper]

Woa cool what a tracklist! They look so Fresh now from those pics Nice to see so much positive energy now

[D.Murray]

the show was again great! they played Million light years away and Will my soul... phantastic! it was a little bit cold but it was good, i have photo with jorg michael

[IceBreaker]

Yes, adding Million Light Years is a very good move, IMO. I really hope they gonna play it in the next gigs too.

It´s btw the first Strato-song I really started to like.

[Burning Reflection]

Fucking amazing setlist

[Beast_Pete]

Jensus has arrived.

[gothic.child]

The concert in Čechovka was amazing. I just didn't understand where the hell did they get those terrible bands that played before Stratovarius. The first band who played there was a Czech Ozzy Osbourne revival band, which was quite good, and the singer looked like real Ozzy ) Then we saw a pop-rock band called Burma Jones, with one of the worst Czech singers behind the microphone- Mr. Bohous Josef. Anyway, their gig wasn't that bad, and it was better than I expected. Then Salamandra came!! Salamandra is a Czech power metal band with no ideas, and they absolutelly lack spark. Their concert was dull and boring and I almost fell asleep. But this was amazing when compared to the band that came after them. They are called Tibet, and I've never heard about them before. It was a total disaster! The crowd was slowly going mad, because the gig was almost unbearable and you could see many middle fingers raised in the air ) Then we saw a short fire-show in the rythm of Rhapsody, Nightwish and Manowar. And finally!! Time for Stratovarius to enter the stage!! The gig started a little bit late, because of some technical problems, but after those amazing Fins entered the stage, brilliant show started. The sound was crystal-clear and everyone was in a great shape. From the beggining it was clear, that Tolkki's physical problems are history, he was smiling, jumping and chatting with the other guys all the time. Kotipelto was in a great vocal form (unlike from the gig on Winter Masters Of Rock in March, which was really bad), he hit all the high notes and his allocutions between the songs were really funny )) Lauri Porra was great, headbanging all the time, I just missed a longer bass solo. Jens was headbanging as well and his keyboards had a beautiful clear sound. Jorg Michael is definitely one of the best drummers in the world. I have seen Stratovarius three times already, but this gig was their best. Hope to see them again!!
P.S. And I was really surprised by the great setlist. Only a pitty they didn't play I Walk To My Own Song and Visions...

[Electric Eye]

Right, that was really great show. After firts song Timo announced that they would play some songs that had not been played recently. And another interesting thing came to my mind: Lauri was singing intro to SOS, really, no joking. It was great and funny:) I wonder how it was the day after, at Gods Of Metal in Milano, anyone was there? Tracklist from Myötätuulirock looks also interesting.