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i have been wondering if tt takes pictures with his fans... hopefully ill have one of those with every member of the band

My jealousy talking to Warrior of Hell: you motherfuckeeer!!!!

Hey Warrior of Hell, is that a new strato shirt that I saw?

If yes, where did ya hell got it from?

Equinox wrote:Hey Warrior of Hell, is that a new strato shirt that I saw?

If yes, where did ya hell got it from?

yes it is. I bought it in Wacken. Its cool. In front there is this symbol and on the back is: "Stratovarius - Back to madness". But the band did not even know this shirt. They asked me where i bought it

If is anybody interested in, at http://aneete.wz.cz in section "Akce", there are some pictures from Wacken, with 3 pictures from Strato gig

Warrior of Hell wrote:I have forgot something: A compliment to TK: His vocals were perfect! He reached every tone perfect. I have something for you guys...

This is me and Timo Tolkki


TT and Jens:


TK and Jörg:


Lauri, TK and Jörg:


Jörg, TT and Jens:


Have fun^^

and here is a picture from the gig:;


sorry quality sucks..

GREAT Pics! And you are one lucky dude!

And, yes, I like that shirt, too!
Hope eventually the Stratoshop has some like that for us!

Warrior of Hell wrote:and here a little bonus picture from my vacation in Helsink:

My Girlfriend, Timo Tolkki and myself:

What's Kalevala?

htcdude wrote:What's Kalevala?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala

I'm in that picture, you can't make me out though. I'm in about the 3rd row pretty much in line with Jens. It was a brilliant show, a bit of a tease though, with only 3 songs. HH&L got a great response from the crowd, it was fantastic how many people were singing along. The new bassist was great too

I'm sure they could have fit in Speed Of Light though

Pikkusielu wrote:

htcdude wrote:What's Kalevala?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala

I thought TT did not like nationalism&it says this Epic is what led to the Finnish nationalism of early 1900's.
Well, I guess you can believe in a part of something without taking in the whole. For example, The Song of Solomon is a beautiful part of The Bible, but I don't guess a person has to belief in God to enjoy the ideals of it.

Aresius wrote:shit that means they are going to play maniac dance in argentina :S... i really prefer other songs instead of it

Oh, c’mon... it’s just one song in an entire set list. I bet it won’t ruin your gig...


I wish so bad I was in Wacken... despite of Strato playing there this year it must be a hell of a festival!
Maybe next year

Cristiane wrote:I wish so bad I was in Wacken... despite of Strato playing there this year it must be a hell of a festival!
Maybe next year

Yeah, me too!

And... maybe also .

Rock On!

I wish i had a vacations like that
only 11 days for strato in arg and i just wish i could met them

motherrrr fucker....those pics are amazing....damn lucky finnish......

I WANT THAT SHIRT!!!!

I hope that we can get them in Stratoshop as welll....

Oh shit yeah! I was there! I was so happy when I saw them on the back of the Wacken t shirts and just knew they were the surprise act! Especially when I'd missed them in 2003 to go and see Darkane (I'd never heard of Strato )

I had a great view of the stage, it was quality. But I did feel wholly unfulfilled by only 3 songs,even though they were awesome. I want a full set damn it!

I also have one of those t shirts (in fact I'm wearing it now). They had a comp on the Wacken site to guess the surprise act. The winner got a stratovarius guitar. I wonder whic lucky bastard that was!

My photos are still being developed. I have the photos my friend took on disk, but some of them are blurred. I'll get them posted.

But, man I'm so damn happy I got to see this band! Sucks I missed Jari, but all the same I'll always be able to say I saw the first show of this lineup!

Here you go! Six pics of Strato!













Sorry if some of them are a bit blurry. It looks in the second one as if TK's head is changing shape or something. When mine get developed I'll scan and post them as well.

BTW I also have a video clip of them playing Maniac Dance. Does anyone knowif there's a way I could post that to show you all?

you can upload it on a server, then we can download it

Some picture from the Wacken gig can be found from http://www.metalscope.net

Warrior of Hell wrote:you can upload it on a server, then we can download it

Any idea how I can do that? I've got an angelfire account and tried uploading it onto that but it isn't working. The file is 43.6 MB and I've only got 20 MB of space on my account so I think that's why it's not working. Any ideas?

Paulo wrote:Any idea how I can do that?

You can upload it on any free file-upload server like Rapidshare (max filesize 50 Mb) or Megaupload (max filesize 250 Mb, needs a valid email) and then post the provided download link in here for us to get the file.

Uploading is very simple, like just go to Rapidshare, click "Browse" on the front page and search the file you want to upload, then click OK. Wait until finished and copy the provided download link for later use.

Hint! It is convinient to pack several smaller files like images into one bigger zip-file instead of uploading them one by one, because the free download allows only downloading one file per hour.

Great Pics, Paulo! Those are very nice, and you got to see them live! Fan-tastic!

Yeah---I wonder who won that Guitar
But, I think I'd keep it a secret, too!

CottonCandy wrote:Great Pics, Paulo! Those are very nice, and you got to see them live! Fan-tastic!

Why thankyou! And those are only the ones my friend took. Like I say, I'll have mine up in a few days.

For now though, here's that video link. I'll upload some more Wacken footage later (but not of Strato).

http://rapidshare.de/files/3907348/Stra ... e.AVI.html

I just noticed that at mainpage, there are new thing: New posts on Forum "box"

@Paulo, use Megaupload.com to put your video there. It's simply and easy.

Has it worked putting it on rapidshare?

Sure it works. It says on the download page that it's been downloaded 9 times already. Thanks for sharing the clip.

I've taken better pictures than these from a cell phone!
I ask you guys - were you being beaten from behind when you took this pictures? Everything except 2 pictures I saw were dramatically off focus.

I guess with the excitement of Strato @Wacken, making sure the pics coming out nicely wasn't the main focus but rather, enjoying the show.

*repeatmyself* ...
Wacken-gig-photos at http://www.stratovarius.de ...

...and a small notice for those of you who are really in sorrow: Tolkki was absolutely sober!!, at least when I left at 3:00 am... but they were about leaving, too, that time!!!

Paulo wrote:

CottonCandy wrote:Great Pics, Paulo! Those are very nice, and you got to see them live! Fan-tastic!

Why thankyou! And those are only the ones my friend took. Like I say, I'll have mine up in a few days.

For now though, here's that video link. I'll upload some more Wacken footage later (but not of Strato).

http://rapidshare.de/files/3907348/Stra ... e.AVI.html

it does not work!

Warrior of Hell wrote:

Paulo wrote:

CottonCandy wrote:Great Pics, Paulo! Those are very nice, and you got to see them live! Fan-tastic!

Why thankyou! And those are only the ones my friend took. Like I say, I'll have mine up in a few days.

For now though, here's that video link. I'll upload some more Wacken footage later (but not of Strato).

http://rapidshare.de/files/3907348/Stra ... e.AVI.html

it does not work!

the same here