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I remember Tony saying somewhere he prefers to sing the slow ones over the fast ones. Anywho. Elias vs Jani is a debate I hear very often in YouTube discussion videos. I think that they are both awesome guitar players (obviously - they've played in Sonata :P), though they are quite different. Jani s...

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Indeedy. Though that A5 was taken from a recent 2010 show :P. It is falsetto though, which is different to the more powerful sounding head voice he usually uses with high notes (he might even be able to go higher with falsetto). I'm not sure whether he could sing that Destruction Preventer G#5 with ...

It's cool how they just throw that in there :P. what's the random guitar shred at the end? Well, I've gone ahead and made a Tony Kakko video :D what do you think? <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4zuyaDFuOo8?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="...

Have they ever played "false news travel fast"? Yeah it is on the first live album. The official forum has a list that has been cut and cut and now they have realised almost every songs has been played live once. Silly me :P forgot about that. It would be interesting to hear a new live version thou...

Hmm.. not that I know of, but part of it has been included in medleys that the band has performed.

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bScImiMfauw (5:50)

I've never heard of them playing 'Ain`t Your Fairytale' live, so hopefully that'll be on there! Also Wildfire has never been played, but I get the feeling it wouldn't be on the DVD. The Vice would be cool too

Oh wait this isn't the Spam section.. Let's continue the topic, does anyone else listen to Land of the Free only because of the middle part? :) You mean the bit with the "Hey, hey"? It's a cool song :P, the chorus is particularly catchy! What songs d'ya think they'll play at the upcoming DVD shooti...

I can agree with the phone thing. I'll be innocently minding my own business on a (relatively) quiet bus, when a group of chavs start blasting the latest gerbil-voiced techno remix of a remix of a cover of a popular 80's song on their phones. Add the incredibly "tinny" noise you get from mobile phon...

Sonata fan reporting in :P I like TDoG and Unia, though it took me a few listens to get to appreciate the songs fully. I find a lot of the songs on TDoG to be quite 'soothing', especially when complemented with Tony's Vocals. He's really shown what he can do with his voice over the years: rough and ...

I rather liked Unia and TDoG, I think most people just expect to hear power metal, when it isn't any more :P. It does take a few listens to fully appreciate the songs though. By the by, if you liked Flag in the Ground have a listen to 'Nothing More' - it's a bonus track in SA's olde power metal styl...

mayhem-for-all wrote:I have heard Kotipelto go very low too.
Well I don't know about notes so...

If you could direct me towards the songs I could try and find out

Sorry to jump in to go off topic again, but this Kakko/Kotipelto range discussion intruiges me! :P I think Rebel is giving Kakko a bit too little credit! I'm not trying to start an argument or anything, but I think it's quite possible Kakko could have an equal, or perhaps bigger range than Kotipelto...