...por supuesto sin Timo Tolkki. Éste, tras muchos cambios de idea y comunicados al mundo a favor (a ratos) y en contra (a otros ratos) de las Stratosobras, les cedió todos los derechos del nombre del grupo, los discos antiguos, los royalties y demás a sus antiguos compañeros. Esto sucedió hace meses, en mayo, creo. A finales de agosto contrataron a un guitarrista (Matias Kupiainen), y hoy anunciaron que van a sacar un disco el año que viene, con su correspondiente gira, de la que ya confirmaron un par de fechas en un festival.
Bueno. No soy lo que se dice el más rápido del Oeste dando noticias, porque todo esto ya se tiene comentado varias veces en los últimos meses, pero hasta hoy no lo confirmaron todo oficialmente...
Mor informeichon jíar.
Edito. Timo Tolkki ya contestó a eso con otra de sus misivas en hisspace.
Voy a repetir la estrategia de la otra vez de poner las parrafadas en comentarios, pero la verdad es que se hace pelín cansino el rollo de estos finlandeses... ¿Por qué lo pongo entonces? Bueno, no deja de ser un pedacito de historia de un grupo que en su día fue muy grande y que definió una rama del power metal, aunque fuera imitada después hasta la saciedad. Me da un poco de pena que acabaran a tortazos.
Bueno. No soy lo que se dice el más rápido del Oeste dando noticias, porque todo esto ya se tiene comentado varias veces en los últimos meses, pero hasta hoy no lo confirmaron todo oficialmente...
Mor informeichon jíar.
Edito. Timo Tolkki ya contestó a eso con otra de sus misivas en hisspace.
Voy a repetir la estrategia de la otra vez de poner las parrafadas en comentarios, pero la verdad es que se hace pelín cansino el rollo de estos finlandeses... ¿Por qué lo pongo entonces? Bueno, no deja de ser un pedacito de historia de un grupo que en su día fue muy grande y que definió una rama del power metal, aunque fuera imitada después hasta la saciedad. Me da un poco de pena que acabaran a tortazos.
STRATOVARIUS RETURNS IN 2009
ResponderEliminarOct 23, 2008
By JensJohansson
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Live gigs and new album with Matias Kupiainen on guitar
Finnish melodic power metal legends Stratovarius are breaking the silence since guitar player Timo Tolkki left the band. They will return with a new studio album in 2009. It is a positive and powerful record that the band's fans all over the world are certain to take to their hearts.
"After Tolkki gave his blessing for us to go on without him, and after writing music together again this summer and a lot of thought, we have decided to carry the legacy of Stratovarius into the future", says Jens Johansson.
"We are all very excited about the record and about playing Stratovarius music live to our fans. We can't wait.", adds Timo Kotipelto.
The new guitar player is 25-year old Finnish guitar phantom Matias Kupiainen. Jörg Michael says, "in Matias we found new character who fits perfectly with his way of melodic guitar shredding, he is a killer player, a 'Wunderkind' from Finland!"
The first two festival dates for 2009 have been confirmed already:
Wacken Rocks, Kreuth / Aurich, May 22, 2009
Wacken Rocks, Kreuth / Aurich, May 23, 2009
More 2009 festivals are planned and will be announced soon. These dates will be followed by a concert tour.
Stratovarius is:
Timo Kotipelto – vocals
Matias Kupiainen – guitars
Lauri Porra – bass
Jörg Michael – drums
Jens Johansson – keyboards
A RESPONSE TO THE STATEMENT FROM "STRATOVARIUS"
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I, like everybody, read today that Kotipelto, Michael and Johansson are continuing their new band as "Stratovarius".
I have really nothing else to say except to comment the quote of Jens Johansson "After Tolkki gave his blessing for us to go on without him".
I have never gave them any "blessing" to continue as Stratovarius. As I have said many times, I think it is wrong and I would never have continued Stratovarius without Timo Kotipelto, Jörg Michael or Jens Johansson. What Johansson calls a "blessing" was that I gave them the rights to the name I owned and the rights to something like 14 Stratovarius albums. But not as a gift, but as to cut all the ties to them because I was told then that they will continue as Stratovarius which I though was totally
wrong towards the fans and of course to me.
They write that they continue the Legacy of Stratovarius, but it cannot be continued. Even I cannot really continue it because it existed only when we were together. It's a shame to see that they cannot start from the clean table like me, but are just using the name. Without that name, they know that they would have it much harder. They took a long time in deciding if they will use the name or not and some of them were totally against using that name. Now that has apparently changed. It is timed very well also to the release of the website of my new band Revolution Renaissance.
It is a sad day for me, because I believe that Stratovarius as a band died to the publicity stunt the whole band, management and record company organized in 2004 when nothing that was happening was true. After that nothing was the same and the truth could not be told before I told it some days ago in an interview with ontrackmagazine.com.
Finally to sum it up: I do not think that the band that now calls itself "Stratovarius" is the band that its fans came to know as "Stratovarius". I think it is a sad way to make a financial use of the name and shows lack of courage to stand on their own feet and music and instead going on as a new band with a new name that I believe would have been the right way.
Stratovarius is dead, Long live Stratovarius!
mira, mira:
ResponderEliminarhttp://power-ride.blogspot.com/search?q=Revolution+Renaissance
Ahora va a haber dos Stratovarius :)
Revolution Renaissance apareció hace tiempo, de hecho ya sacaron un disco, con Kiske a la voz... estar está bien, no es grandioso pero se puede oír.
ResponderEliminarLa verdad es que se hace todo un poco surrealista... se van por un lado el ompositor y por otro los músicos, es lo que tú dices, dos estratos varios, al final a ver qué hacen, acabarán haciendo exactamente lo mismo... jaja
Ya te digo.
ResponderEliminarEl link te lo pasé más por absurdo de todo:
El mismo disco lo grabaron con la formación original y con Sammet, con el Thunderstone y Kiske (que si tanto odia el metal, que no lo cante. Es sencillo) y alguna canción más con la formación nueva.
Vaya circo.
Cuanto tiempo sin verte... (a ver si te vienes a San Alberte ;P)
ResponderEliminarWeno, lo mío no son los coments así que...
Muchos besos ^^
PD:los mamoncetes tb te recordamos
PPD: voy a ver si se como se linkean blogs =P