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Winter Skies
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68-W0f2rswM

Black Diamond
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=devfGe-5eds


Decent quality clips from awesome performances - as always

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Jens intro in Black Diamond hahah is fantastic! Jens should always make that kind of variations and make more solos, he is fantastic playing!

And TK is singing really well again!

Wow Winter skies is just amazing...

A bit off topic, but at their gig in Turku I was standing right in front the stage, almost leaning on to it. Jens and his keyboards were just about 4ft away so I had an ecxellent wiew to follow his fingers fly on the keys.

could anyone post the setlist?

Black Diamond sure was nice.
It really is nice to see them active and on the road even though I am looking forward to seeing them working on a new album next year.

TK sure would need some rest for his voice. He sounds a bit tired but his stage presence is good as always.

Fantastic show. Pretty good sound from the camera too, what were you using?

NeonVomit wrote:Fantastic show. Pretty good sound from the camera too, what were you using?

Sorry, those aren't my clips, I live 600 km south of Oulu. I didn't want to travel that far since I saw Strato twice this summer already here in south. Found those on YT while looking for clips from this show at Club Teatria and thought I'd share them here because of the good sound quality.

(My current camera is a Canon Powershot S5 which records very good audio in stereo, hence I pay attention to sound quality even in YT-clips.)

Tero-75 wrote:A bit off topic, but at their gig in Turku I was standing right in front the stage, almost leaning on to it. Jens and his keyboards were just about 4ft away so I had an ecxellent wiew to follow his fingers fly on the keys.

me too, but I was in Sao Paulo, is just fantastic viewing his fingers!!

I love the improvisations that he does in the begging of Black Diamond

Funky intro to BD! One of the melodies sounded like it was from Heavy Machinery! Awesome

Wonderful... That harpischord sound on the solo - right after which the solo itself - made my skin go all goose bumps on Winter Skies. And the singing - wonderful. We just need those damn backing vocals for once! All singing! Except for Jörg. What I'd like to hear one time, for real, is why didn't he sing the backings to WS. I just bet he lives too much to the south. Yup.

Oh and that intro by Jens on Black Diamond was, like, the best one I've heard, in my opinion! There was some deep thought to it clearly (if not, he's even more genius I've ever known ). Tricky, surprising, not so characteristic, great as hell! Great correction to the rhytm in the beginning of BD, too, the instruments just blend together even though they were a bit off rhytm at first. ^^

Gotta love the good old Jörg's drum fill/feel in the end! We've heard those bridges before, but they are such great trademarks.

Also, Kotipelto dared to each much, much higher at the end of Black Diamond on the gig _I_ saw!

Did i hear black night (deep purple) ? JENS = GOD !! AMAZING !!! INTROOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

lalodrums2 wrote:Did i hear black night (deep purple) ?

...black!??

Ragehead93 wrote:

lalodrums2 wrote:Did i hear black night (deep purple) ?

...black!??

You know, when you did this in the thread about Silent Rain it was actually funny because I really overreacted to the song. But this is just getting old. How about you do something about the whole "Marcel Jacob Suicide" that happened a few months back? Or about me always getting pissed about Edguy? That would keep things fresh and diversified. Or wait, how about I open a thread about the Artowork of the "Walls of Jericho" album by Helloween being anti-Semitic? That would be something completely new!