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GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:30 pm
by browneyedgirl
StratoMembers have given some wonderful interviews in the past. Here is just a drop in the bucket of great ones, IMO!
1994 DREAMSPACE
http://www.hut.fi/~shaavist/strat/hardforce.html
JENS After E1
http://www.metalrefuge.com/interviews/strat.html
TT&TK Live Audio
http://www.metalmeltdown.com/interviews.html
TT after Visions. Slow to load, but worth it! This is one insightful dude!
http://beregond.tripod.com/Interviews/Int02.htm
Hope you enjoy these as much as I did. I will add more later!
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:30 pm
by shaz
Thanks for those! I always enjoy reading a good interview.
BTW in the Jens interview I found one pretty interesting sentence:
"He (Jens)
speaks with a beautiful Finnish accent which is very easy to listen to over the phone, but couple that with the mild midwest accent of the interviewer, word association became a little interesting."
Since when did JJ have a finnish accent?
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:21 pm
by browneyedgirl
shaz wrote:Thanks for those! I always enjoy reading a good interview.
BTW in the Jens interview I found one pretty interesting sentence:
"He (Jens)
speaks with a beautiful Finnish accent which is very easy to listen to over the phone, but couple that with the mild midwest accent of the interviewer, word association became a little interesting."
Since when did JJ have a finnish accent?
I noticed that "slip" too!
Jens is SWEDISH!
When I have time I will add a few more interviews. I'll try to find some that are rare¬ listed on the StratoWebpage list.
I enjoy good interviews, also.
Those last 3 TT did on that list almost blew me away!
I had never seen those particular interviews before&they showed TT very intimately, I thought. He really expressed an inner side to him which was controversial, but very intriguing/interesting!
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:25 am
by browneyedgirl
I can't seem to find any interviews BEFORE Dreamspace---but there has to be some, so I'll continue searching tomorrow.I'll put up a couple new links if possible. I know of a Jens interview I think is in my saved files.
I bet iron_thunder has some great nterviews!
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:37 am
by browneyedgirl
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:34 pm
by browneyedgirl
TWO GREAT JORG MICHEAL INTERVIEWS!!!
http://www.intrometal.com/webzine/inter ... arius.html
http://www.metalexpress.no/showinterview.asp?id=215
These are terrific interviews---hope you can get connected to them okay!
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:49 am
by browneyedgirl
If I can make a suggestion, Moony's site has some really good interview links!
I may search allthe web.com today&see what pops up about Strato Interviews.
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 5:43 pm
by browneyedgirl
http://www.the-plague.net/strat.htm
Infinity Interview
JENS, Again!
http://dmme.net/interviews/johansson.html
http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/Stratovarius.html
Not an interview, but a review after Intermission, called RETURN OF THE KINGS
I thought that was appropriate, especially now!
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:48 am
by browneyedgirl
Thought I'd bump this up for the weekend!
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:58 pm
by browneyedgirl
Lets give this topic one more shot--maybe I'll have time to look for more interviews later......
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:43 pm
by htcdude
Kool thanx for those
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:33 pm
by browneyedgirl
htcdude wrote:Kool thanx for those
RETURN OF THE KINGS I like that title---very appropriate right now!
You are welcome--I enjoyed looking for them&reading them myself!
I'd like to find some older one at the beginning of the band's creation, but I have not been successful as yet.
Maybe tomorrow I can search some more--I'd like to put up a few more before the topic dies.....
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:21 am
by htcdude
Keep searching my friend.....but be careful for you do not know your fate....
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:49 pm
by cliff
That one was actually "mine" (I think my full name is mentionned below the page)
A really old interview. Kotipelto wasn't in the band yet. I still have the original paper. Great interview. Tolkki already had the reputation to be a "dictator"
There is one great interview with Kotipelto that I did myself in 1997.
The french translation can be read in
www.kotipelto.net, but I dunno where to find the english original version (perhaps in my archives, i should check...)
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:51 pm
by browneyedgirl
cliff wrote:That one was actually "mine" (I think my full name is mentionned below the page)
A really old interview. Kotipelto wasn't in the band yet. I still have the original paper. Great interview. Tolkki already had the reputation to be a "dictator"
There is one great interview with Kotipelto that I did myself in 1997.
The french translation can be read in
www.kotipelto.net, but I dunno where to find the english original version (perhaps in my archives, i should check...)
You should be proud of that interviw, Cliff--it was great! It ranks as one of the better ones, IMO!
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:57 pm
by browneyedgirl
htcdude wrote:Keep searching my friend.....but be careful for you do not know your fate....
That sounds omnimous!
Do you know something I don't!?
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:03 pm
by htcdude
Maybe
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:24 pm
by browneyedgirl
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:02 pm
by htcdude
Where in the world do you find all this stuff it's so kool!
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:52 pm
by browneyedgirl
htcdude wrote:Where in the world do you find all this stuff it's so kool!
Google. The search engine.
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:00 am
by browneyedgirl
Here is an article I found on my googling adventures. I think it was from last
year&its in Finnish.
http://www.city.fi/lehti/article.php?id=1673
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:34 am
by IceBreaker
A very good interview & touching, btw.
Certainly one of the best TT interviews for a long time.
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:20 am
by stratoplayer
THANK YOU SHERRY!! I always love reading interviews, especially Strato ones, when i have the time ill read them all!
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:40 am
by browneyedgirl
stratoplayer wrote:THANK YOU SHERRY!! I always love reading interviews, especially Strato ones, when i have the time ill read them all!
Thanks! I enjoyed reading&finding them, too!
I'm sure there are probably hundreds more out there---maybe one day when I have time I'll search for more!
I'd like to find more of the very early interviews&reviews, but I bet they are kind of rare indeed!!!!
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:26 pm
by empi
here is one from the visions era with TT
http://www.jesters-news.de/interviews.php?id=15
dont know if it was already posted
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:14 pm
by Stratofanius
Stratovarius: Symphonies In The Snow
(Interview from Metal Hammer No.12 Vol.4 June 26th 1989)
Finland is more likely to conjure up visual images of hot 'n' sweaty saunas than hot 'n' heavy metal bands. There are exceptions, like the infamous sleaze bags Hanoi Rocks, but even these Nordic glamsters moved South as soon as they could blag the air fare. A further exception, and looking set to change the face of Finnish rock music, is the arrival of three young and talented musicians: Timo Tolkki(guitar and vocals), Tuomo Lassila (drums and backing vocals) and Jyrki Lentonen (bass) call themselves Stratovarius and have just released their debut album "Fright Night" on CBS.
The name Stratovarius is a combination of the words Stratocaster and Stradivarius: as classical music buffs amongst you might know, a Stradivarius is an extremely famous, expensive and beautiful sounding violin, named after it's Italian builder Signore Stradivari. These young Finns are into an earload of the old classical muzak themselves. Drummer Tuomo is a student at the Helsinki Conservatory Of Music and in his "spare" time he plays for the conservatories very own symphony orchestra! He told us recently: "I'm really into combining classical influences with rock music. We're not exactly a headbanging band - I listen to a lot of heavy, progressive rock music. Believe it or not, our songs are getting longer and more and more classically influenced from day to day... I'm also a big Ozzy fan and I listen to a lot of Rush and progressive rock bands like Yes and Pink Floyd as well." This blend of classical influences and prog-rock are mixed with a mega dosage of raw power and rounded off with powerful lyrics. Timo wrote the music on "Fright Night", and Tuomo and Timo conjured up the gloomy lyrics, embracing subjects like darkness and fear. "We write about ourselves and our lives." Tuomo added. "So our lyrics contain references to changing the world and the future." The three guys arranged and produced the album on their own, helped only by engineer Make Torronen. But even before recording the album, Stratovarius had frequently played to live audiences in their native Finland. Despite still in their early twenties themselves, Tuomo told us: "Our audiences at home are 'oldish' HM audiences, they're nearly always over eighteen. A lot of the younger Finnish kids are into manic thrash - it's the older crowd who like our brand of progressive rock." You have to ask yourself whether the spoilt and overfed rock audiences in the rest of the world will pay a Finnish pomp-rock band much notice, but Tuomo knows the score: "We're really aware that it's going to be difficult for us to make the break in the rest of Europe. I've never actually been to England yet, but we're not desperate to move away from Finland anyway, we really like living here." And he added: "The Finnish rock scene was quiet for the last three years, but there's loads happening at the moment. There are some really great bands and they're just going to burst on the scene soon! It's really exciting.
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:08 pm
by iron_thunder
any of mine up there?
follow linky poo in my sig...
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:28 pm
by Stratolily
Thanks so much for the links, Browneyedgirl!
I specially like the interviews I can listen.
I have an interview from Visions era, 1997, from a spanish rock magazing called Kerrang, but I'd have to translate it cause it's in spanish. Mmm, I have to see if I have the time...
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 6:18 pm
by TerrinePotter
Stratolily wrote:Thanks so much for the links, Browneyedgirl!
I specially like the interviews I can listen.
I have an interview from Visions era, 1997, from a spanish rock magazing called Kerrang, but I'd have to translate it cause it's in spanish. Mmm, I have to see if I have the time...
Hey Stratolily, if you want me to help you translating, just send me the archive and I can try to do it. What du think?
Re: GREAT PAST STRATOVARIUS INTERVIEWS
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:32 am
by Stratolily
TerrinePotter wrote:
Hey Stratolily, if you want me to help you translating, just send me the archive and I can try to do it. What du think?
I apreciate so much your help, but it's impossible!
I said it's a magazine, you know, a paper one and I can't scan it.
When I'm in the mood I'm going to translate it, ok?, it's just that I'm not ok now. Something happend to me yestarday and I feel like shit so I don't feel like doing anything...
Sorry!
