Arts
RUS
Search / Поиск
LOGIN
  register
MENU LOGO
×
СОБЫТИЯ
Новости
Новости.Рус
Видео
Концерты
Репортажи
МУЗЫКА
Группы
Рецензии
Интервью
Стили
ИСКУССТВО
Графика
ОБЩЕНИЕ
Форум
Ссылки
Контакты

LOGIN
Новости
*REX BROWN Is 'Absolutely' Open To Writing New PANT... 45
*BLACK SABBATH: Box Set Of TONY MARTIN-Era Recordings, '... 32
*'Corpse Paint' Black-Metal Inspired Makeup Now Ava... 21
*WOLF HOFFMANN Didn't Know If He Wanted ACCEPT To Be Cal... 21
*THE WHO's Pete Townshend - "AC/DC Made 50 Albums, Bu... 14
*METALLICA's ROBERT TRUJILLO: Playing Stadiums Is '... 10
* 9
*SKID ROW Parts Ways With Singer ERIK GRÖNWALL; LZZY HAL... 8
*ROB HALFORD Says All The Music Is 'Ready' For His ... 8
*KIRK HAMMETT On METALLICA: 'It's A Musical Love Af... 8
Поиск по новостям O
Фраза, имя группы
Группы в стиле
 
Подстиль
 
Основной стиль
Дата : с по  
Новости
[= ||| все новости группы



*

Stratovarius

*



24 апр 2023 : 
STRATOVARIUS Live At Wacken Open Air 2022; Pro-Shot Video Posted

25 ноя 2022 : 
STRATOVARIUS - "Forever Free" 1997 Live Video Restored And Streaming

16 ноя 2022 : 

11 ноя 2022 : 
STRATOVARIUS - 1996 "Speed Of Light" Live Video Restored

30 сен 2022 : 

9 сен 2022 : 
JARI BEHM - Former STRATOVARIUS Bassist Releases Mind Adventures Album; Two Videos Streaming

23 авг 2022 : 

5 авг 2022 : 
STRATOVARIUS - New "Firefly" Single Streaming

8 июл 2022 : 

23 июн 2022 : 
STRATOVARIUS - Fan-Filmed Video From ProgPower USA 2022 Show Streaming

3 июн 2022 : 

2 июн 2022 : 
STRATOVARIUS Announces 'Survive' Album

13 окт 2021 : 
STRATOVARIUS – Fright Night Debut Reissued On Limited Edition “Flaming” Vinyl

7 сен 2021 : 
STRATOVARIUS - New Album In The Works: "It Will Be A Busy Next Few Months"

23 апр 2021 : 
STRATOVARIUS Tribute Project STRATOFORTRESS Streaming "Distant Skies" From Upcoming Anthems Of The World Album

19 янв 2021 : 
STRATOVARIUS Tribute Project STRATOFORTRESS Reveal Anthems Of The World Album Details

21 апр 2019 : 
TIMO TOLKKI Calls Former STRATOVARIUS Bandmate TIMO KOTIPELTO "One Of The Best Power Metal Vocalists Of The World"

25 сен 2018 : 
STRATOVARIUS: Lyric Video For Orchestral Version Of 'Unbreakable'

13 авг 2018 : 
STRATOVARIUS To Release 'Enigma: Intermission 2' Album In September

16 янв 2018 : 
STRATOVARIUS Vocalist Says Band Hopes To Start Recording New Album In The Spring

28 мар 2017 : 
STRATOVARIUS Is Not Interested In Recording Album Of Covers

18 апр 2016 : 
STRATOVARIUS: Official Lyric Video For New Song 'Until The End Of Days'

5 апр 2016 : 
STRATOVARIUS's 'Best Of' Collection To Include New Song 'Until The End Of Days'

5 апр 2016 : 
STRATOVARIUS To Release Best Of Collection In May; JENS JOHANSSON Issues Video Teaser

8 мар 2016 : 
STRATOVARIUS Bassist LAURI PORRA Pays Tribute To TIMO TOLKKI On His 50th Birthday With Cover Of Fourth Dimension Album's "030366"

29 сен 2015 : 
STRATOVARIUS
Показать далее
| - |

|||| 8 май 2008

Ex-STRATOVARIUS Leader TIMO TOLKKI Responds To Former Bandmates



Ex-STRATOVARIUS leader and current REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE mastermind Timo Tolkki has issued the following statement in response to comments released earlier today by his former STRATOVARIUS bandmates regarding the cirumstances surrounding the group's break-up:

"I am very surprised about this. But my original statement in www.tolkki.com is still all I have to say about this. There are several outright lies in the STRATO statement and it is also clearly written by Jens [Johansson, keyboards] alone. I will make some comments about these here:

"[Quoting statement from his former STRATOVARIUS bandmates] 'If you live your life through other people's eyes, declining sales or a perceived loss of power are matters of deep, stinging personal humiliation.' [end of quote]

"Well, I don't really live my life through anybody else's eyes. Neither I felt 'stinging personal humiliation.' I felt sad.

"[Quoting statement from his former STRATOVARIUS bandmates] 'Other sad facts remain. The legal fight left us without a way to make a new album, and financially strapped. Timo's main motivation for what he did was greed, not issues of friendship or art.' [end of quote]

"My main motivation was not greed, it was what you can read in my statement. It's true of course that my decision was a hard one and left others on their own. But sometimes in life you have to make decisions based on your own well being and what you want to do.

"All the guys have a stable income from other sources, Jörg [Michael, drums] is running a booking agency, [Timo] Kotipelto [vocals] has his own band and record label, Jens has a record label with his brother and Lauri [Porra, bass] has loads of work as a bassist. By the way, just yesterday Lauri sent me an SMS where he was inetersted in joining REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE and he was asking questions about who will be playing in it.

"[Quoting statement from his former STRATOVARIUS bandmates] 'In the summer of 2007, he presented the STRATOVARIUS/REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE demos we had all financed and recorded to Frontiers Records, and signed a recording agreement for a solo project. Unbelievably, he promised Frontiers that he alone could (and would) stop STRATOVARIUS from being active for the duration of the R.R. project, for marketing reasons. In exchange for this, Timo alone was paid 154,000 US dollars.' [end of quote]

"I didn't present any STRATOVARIUS demos to Frontiers at that point. By the way, I paid for those demos and I mixed them without any fee in Sonic Pump studio, which alone would cost 1000?. The contract was signed after I broke STRATO.

"There were two contracts: One for 'Saana', my solo album, and one for RR. I, of course, felt no obligation to tell anything about my personal life/business to people whom I have left behind.

"Why should I do that?

"Frontiers demanded the STRATOVARIUS clause because they probably thought that I might put STRATO back again. It simply says that as long as RR contract is valid and active, there cannot be any STRATO records, which was totally okay for me since the band was already broken up. Why should that be a problem? The money I don't comment other than that's a blatant lie.

"So to make is clear: First I broke up STRATO and finished my opera and then I started thinking about forming a new band.

"[Quoting statement from his former STRATOVARIUS bandmates] 'He did this behind our backs, as we were deep in pursuit of Sanctuary legally with a large legal bill. He still hasn't had the guts to tell us what he did. We pieced it together from various press releases of his and scattered email correspondence.' [end of quote]

"Again, these were my personal business things after the STRATOVARIUS was already broken up. So nothing behind anybody's back.

"[Quoting statement from his former STRATOVARIUS bandmates] 'In October he sent us a mail saying he didn't want to continue, a quite impersonal way after having been in the same band for 12 years. He explained that he was tired of STRATOVARIUS, and would concentrate on things like his opera. We had known for some time he really hated playing live.' [end of quote]

"Another lie. The mail was extremely long and I asked them to come back to me after reading it.

"At that point I did and was concentrating in my opera. There was no plans of RR at this point. I was fully in the production of my 'Saana' opera. I told in the mail the same reasons I am telling in my www.tolkki.com statement.

"[Quoting statement from his former STRATOVARIUS bandmates] 'He did not mention anything about his Frontiers deal, which placed the rest of us at great financial risk. He very clearly asked that we wouldn't contact him and try to talk him out of it, which we all respected. He would later make much of the fact that nobody tried to talk him out of it.' [end of quote]

"I could not mention anything about the Frontiers deal because there was no Frontiers deal at this point. I for sure didn't want 'anybody to talk me out of it.' Why would I want to do that after I just broke up the band. And Jens has all the time been sending me emails and we have been talking on the phone with very friendly terms. Now I see that this all has been just a big lie.

"[Quoting statement from his former STRATOVARIUS bandmates] 'This year, Sanctuary agreed to settle, but Timo's announcement and Timo's announcement alone ruined that, leaving us with a debt of 54,000 US dollars. The total loss is around 346,000 US dollars. There was no reason for the timing of his announcement other than some foolish belief it would make the promotion of Timo's project record a bit easier.' [end of quote]

"Yes, this is very unfortunate, but Jens is making a mistake by assuming that RR is a project. It is a band, as everyone can see: I am looking for musicians.

"I waited as long as I possibly could in announcing the RR band, but the reason why the legal case did not succeed was that STRATO management and lawyer could not get us out of the deal although they had ONE AND A HALF years time to do that. That is a very bad peformance for a simple case if the record company takes the option or not. I was not informed about anything at this point about the legal case although I was asking constantly. And I knew that if I would release RR without telling about STRATOVARIUS breakup, everybody would just take it as a project, which it is not. So these are the reasons for announcing the split before the RR release.

"[Quoting statement from his former STRATOVARIUS bandmates] 'Then late January, surprisingly, he proposed us playing as hired guns on R.R. (turning it into a STRATOVARIUS record), and doing a tour with Jari on bass. Apparently he again had financial problems due to his failed opera project. He then quickly dismissed the idea himself.' [end of quote]

"This is a lie. I asked them if they would like to do a farewell tour of STRATOVARIUS, as I have explained in my statement. It was nothing to do with financials, but as a respect towards STRATOVARIUS fans. My opera wasn't even out yet, so how could it have failed at that point?

"It is now taking off nicely and I am happy. I dismissed the idea of farewell tour, that Jens was happy about, but Kotipelto and Jörg in a very hostile way rejected.

"[Quoting statement from his former STRATOVARIUS bandmates] 'In short it's not so much a story of simmering discontent leading to a wise and respectable decision. It's definitely not a story of naiveté. It's the story of Faust, the story of madness, of a band's natural and slow decline, but in the end something mundane: the story of a supreme narcissist going broke and betraying friends of 12 years who helped save him a few years earlier.' [end of quote]

"Well, I've never been called a Faust before, so at least that's a new one. I don't consider that I have betrayed anyone, but that I have stayed true to myself and my beliefs. Also from the very beginning I shared all the income from every source equally between all the band members. That doesnt sound like greed to me. Bitter it does sound.

"It is not a story of Faust, it is a story of a rock band and this statement verifies all those things I am writing in my statement. There is hate. There is tension. All those things were and are still there.

"The statement ends 'the remaining members of STRATOVARIUS.' Although I own the name and all the rights to that, I have no problem if the guys want to continue the band without me.

"I am very happy with RR getting interesting fresh musicians and doing loads of creative stuff in my life. Too bad it had to end this way."



Like!+0Dislike!-0


КомментарииСкрыть/показать 30 )

Комментарии могут добавлять только зарегистрированные пользователи.
Вы можете зарегистрироваться на сайте или залогиниться через социальные сети (иконки вверху сайта).

8 май 2008
У них теперь будет великая баттл-переписка! )))
Давненько такого не было!
Ждём ответа Стратов! )))
8 май 2008
А мерзкий жирный плакса когда же ты заглохнеш наконец аРраРР
8 май 2008
самое смешное, что обе стороны говорят настолько искренне, что и не знаешь кому верить(((
8 май 2008
Блин, Толлки уже совсем из ума выжил, идиот.
8 май 2008
Цитата) "В этом году в Sanctuary согласились уладить всё мирно, но одно лишь заявление Timo разрушило это согласие, оставив нас с долгом в 54 000 долларов. Общие убытки составили около 346 000 долларов. Он выбрал время для этого заявления лишь с тем дурацким расчетом, что ему будет проще раскручивать свой новый проект." (конец цитаты)

Да, это очень досадно, но Jens ошибается, предполагая, что RR - это проект. Это группа, и каждый может увидеть, что я ищу для нее музыкантов.

А про долг ничего не сказал)) Значит он - Кидалаво!))
8 май 2008
Ну все, пошел махач...
8 май 2008
эээхх... в свое время в Норвегии вопросы решались гораздо быстрее и эффективнее ))))))))
8 май 2008
А что группа распалась что-ли? o___O
8 май 2008
Дааа, норги серьезные мужики ))). А Толки тока ноет и просто галимо отмазывается "я-не я, жопа не моя" Группа то конечно тек себе, но желаю парням поднять ее без Толки, тогда его точно пожизнено в психушку увезут
8 май 2008
Пусть пригласят к себе Sammeta попеть! )))
8 май 2008
В Норвегии? Вы это к чему? Это финская группа. Хотя барабанщик - немец, а клавишник - швед (если не ошибаюсь). А - ладно. Речь не об этом. Значит так - оставшиеся возьмут новое имя, но похожее на старое. Что-то вроде SLAPTAVARIUS. Пухлый Толкки провалит всё, так как продажи через сайт это как... Ну вобщем не очень пока это катируется. Вот. Скорее всего у всех рыльце в пушку, просто Толкки к тому же ещё и псих, поэтому все шишки ему. А оно и верно!
8 май 2008
А Норвегия к тому, что в средине 90-х все проблемы и разногласия решались понажовщиной и убийствами, за что собственно Варг Викернес и сиди до сих пор
8 май 2008
Надеюсь что STRATOVARIUS продолжит свою деятельность и заткнут Толлки!
8 май 2008
достал уже...
8 май 2008
Да зря они вообще что-то ещё выпускали в 2005-м, группа уже тогда изжила себя. Правильно, что развалил хотя бы сейчас.
8 май 2008
Бха)))) Мочилово)))))
8 май 2008
Да....
Непонятно, кто прав, а кто виноват, но что-то уж больно гладко Толлки ответил. Хотя бы в одном месте сказал - ну да, сорри, был не прав.
8 май 2008
Нет уже никакого желания вникать и понимать, кто прав, кто - нет. Имхо, такие дебаты - уже слишком. Устроили из СМИ аську какую-то.
8 май 2008
а давайте Андре Лаптева в революцию ренессансную пропихнём ударником
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
8 май 2008
Взрослые мужики решили вспомнить Детский сад или ясли )))))
Чем сор из избы выносить, лучшеб музыкой занимались. Всех в угол!!!!
8 май 2008
Какой же ты мудило... Тухлый Финский Финик Тиммо Толки...
Всей душой за Stratovarius и Kotipelto! Без угрюмого пня!
9 май 2008
Прикольно,Oloir, ты сказал про аську из СМИ сделаную!!!!!!! УГОРАЮ,респект,Oloir! А тем не менее Финик Толки основной композер в Стратах- так что псих/непсих,а тяжко им без него будет.
9 май 2008
Это заколебало еще больше писем Йонссона с наездами на BG и Ханси. Что-то каждый май кого-нибудь прорывает на подобные ток-шоу. Как бы в традицию не вошло...
9 май 2008
Чем -то мне Толкки своими заявлениями Саакашвили напоминает...они случайно не родственники??? 8-)
9 май 2008
Обидели мышку, насрали в норку....

У них у всех надо спросить, знают ли они хорошую еврейскую фамилию "накойхер" ?
9 май 2008
да, Толлки пора лечиться нафиг, совсем сдурел
10 май 2008
Пора забыть о этой группе.Сколько можно.Ребята,завязывайте
10 май 2008
Весеннее обострение. Согласен. Что-ж слава Б-гу Толкки пошёл в отпуск.
[=
10 май 2008
Да это по форумам каждому известно - как начнешь трепаться, так остановиться нельзя уже. Толки, видать, не спит теперь по ночам, думает, а что же там про него завтра напишут.
Предлагаю группе назваться Самовариус и разъезжать по селам и хуторам Финляндии и России, это будет супер ход, Жирный офигеет. А вообще все эти метал-оперы - это такое Г....
14 май 2008
Классная шутка про аську, очень смеялась)))
А забывать о стратах не хочется! Великолепная ведь группа! Была когда-то...((( Грустно и печально, что этой полуживой легенде не хватает выдержки, чтоб уйти красиво. Брали бы пример со своих земляков Sentenced.

просмотров: 4512

||| =]
[=     =]
/\\Вверх
Рейтинг@Mail.ru

1997-2024 © Russian Darkside e-Zine.
Если вы нашли на этой странице ошибку или есть комментарии и пожелания, то сообщите нам об этом