COB Interviews

children of COB said:
Thanks a lot for both interviews, they rock!

BTW, about that one the ''guest'' name the interviewer says is Fred Dust or what? I have listened to it like 10 times but I can't get it :lol:
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-> that´s what I meant while complaining about that interviewer´s fucking way to speak. I also think she meant Fred Durst. World help us out!?
 
Alexi's speaking isn't very clear at the part in 2:24 but he says something like " Dude, we are trying to do an interview here so don't disturb us." Something like that.
 
So am I the only one who thinks Alexi was harder to understand than the interviewer?

It was very clear to me that it was about Fred Durst for example.
 
Two interviews in Finnish that I uploaded ('01 & '03)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AhdKwvnEqk]Alexi & Ale, Finland, 2001[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHebx2bhLeI]Alexi, Henkka & Jaska, Provinssirock Fest, 2003[/ame]
 
-Warlord- said:
You guys need translations for these interviews? I can translate them if someone wants.
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thanks a lot warlord, but for the first one there´s already some translation at another youtube version:

but I would strongly appreciate one for the second, my dear :)


edit: hahaha fuck that, just seen your signature and realised that it´s YOUR version in there lol
 
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And this is for the 2001 interview

Alexi: Finnish tours have been great and audience has been lot better than we expected.
There's also been lot more people than we expected. So it's been very great but this tour
has been very fucked up. I don't mean the audience but everything else has just went so
wrong.

Alexander: Yes, everything has went wrong.

Alexi: So everything else than audience
has sucked ass.

There are lot of good venues in Finland where local promoters arrange this as they should be
but there are also some places that are completely fucked up. In europe, venues are usually
well organized and everythings fine and they have tight schedules. And in Europe and in Germany for
example the venues are made for metal bands and in Finland venues like this one are also good.
Although originally these venues are meant for something completely different than metal
bands. 60 years ago there weren't assholes like us hereand thats for sure.

Alexander: This is good place since here's room for a lot of people, and what's also good
is that minors are allowed here too, since most of our fans are propably minors, so it's very important
that they are allowed here too.

Alexi: I think that it sucks that some our fans can't come to our gig because they happened
to born on wrong year since thats not their fault. I remember too when I was young and there
were many good bands in Tavastia and I wasn't allowed there.

You can't get your live performance good just by planning when you mosh and when you do
other kinds of stage moves.

Alexander: There are too many things that can go wrong that way.

Alexi: And it looks very stupid. Only way to get good live performance is just to
gather a lot of live experience, and thats what we have been doing all the time.
I think that when playing live first of all your playing should be flawless and also
there should be a lot of running around the stage and stuff like that.
Band should also get some contact with the audience.I don't like it when the stage is
like 5 meters away from the audience because then you can't get in touch with the audience.

Alexander: Audience should feel that the band is playing there for them and not playing there
just because it's fun to play on stage. Many bands do that mistake.

Alexi: Thats like bands that play proge music, well I've never seen Dream Theather live
but I can imagine how boring it is to watch them play live. Bands that are very good at
playing just concentrate on their playing and don't take any contact with the audience.
It's doesn't matter what you feel when you're playing live as long as the audience is having
fun.

Of course we never want to fuck up a gig and especially not because of drugs.
We never drink much before a gig. Of course we might take few beers during a gig
but it doesn't affect playing in any way. I think it would be most pathetic thing
a band could do to go palying a gig when you're very drunk and fuck everything up
because of that.

Once we were playing in Austria, propably in Gratz or somewhere there and the venues
backstage was very complicated and there were many doors where you had to go if you where
going to stage and our gig was starting and the other guys where already there and I was
coming there a bit later and when I was heading to the door where you can get to the stage
there was just some local dude there who asked me that "are you seriously going to that door?"
Then I said that of course I have gig there so out of the way dude. Then I opened the door
and it was some fucking cleaning room, and the guy pointed another door and said that the
stage is that way so get the fuck out of here.

Fuck you! By the way I'm Alexi Laiho.

Alexander: And I'm Alexander Kuoppala

And we are from Children of Bodom. Read Perkele. Or fuck you if you dont.
 
sleeper666 said:
^ Miia, what does Alexi say in Finnish to someone in the room, at 2:24?
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Hi :wave:. I noticed that you go translation already, I was seeing Opeth so I wasn't here yesterday :)

-Warlord- said:
You guys need translations for these interviews? I can translate them if someone wants.
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If you have spare time translate those interviews with Roope that Radio Rock did ( http://www.radiorock.fi/podcast/haku.asp, search for "Roope Latvala" and you find all of them). I have been planning to translate those but I have been busy.
 
The first Roope interview. Again sorry for my crappy english. Hope you like it!

Roope: I'm Roope Latvala and I'm a DJ guest here in radio rock for this week.
Interviewer: How old you were when you started playing guitar?
Roope: It was probably when I was 12 years old and first it was just playing punk rock and shit like that but I started taking lessons when I was 13. I practiced classical and rock guitar and my teacher was Fred (something). And I practiced classical music in a Espoon musiikkiopisto (a music school in Espoo) with Kari Äikäs. There was a good balance in learning since I practiced both rock and classical until punk rock took over.
Interviewer: How many years you studied classical guitar playing?
Roope: About 4 years and even nowadays I try to keep it going somehow. But it's just some random acoustic guitar playing and usually my fingernails are broken so it's not so easy anymore. But it's been very helpful to have some classical guitar skills and it also grants me a bigger repertoire in guitar playing and classical influences are also good in heavy metal.
Interview: How much you practiced guitar playing every day when you were young?
Roope: Sometimes I could play 10 hours in a day because I was so ambitious and everything and also sometimes I faked that I was ill so I didn't need to go to school and I could practice guitar playing.
Interviewer: Did you do that often?
Roope: Well, sometimes. It was so cool when I could practice whole day.
Interviewer: Who where your guitar idols back then?
Roope: There was a whole lot of them. If you think all the hair metal bands in 80's. There was W.A.S.P, Dio and then came Metallica, Anthrax, Exodus and other bands like that and of course I liked them. Also Megadeth and Ozzy Osbourne, with all three guitarplayers in it. There was a lot of them, also AC/DC, Twisted Sister, Peer Günt and Eppu Normaali. My first touch with a bit harder stuff was Sex Pistols and Steve Jones was a cool rock dude back then. It was the beginning of 80's so Eppu Normaali and Pelle Miljoona's Viimeinen Syksy sounded very hard back then.
Ozzy Ozbourne and their album Bark at the Moon was a very cool thing when it came out. I was probably 13 or 14 at the time. There was no return from that and there was a song Centre of Eternity on that album which is one of the fastest songs on the album. I've always liked those fast songs most. And the guitar player there was Jake E. Lee.
Interviewer: Wasn't there one funny story regarding this album when you were kid?
Roope: Yeah, I wasn't allowed to go to school for a two weeks because I had a terrible fever but I went to Max (store) in Leppävaara which was few kilometers from my home. It was very cold in middle of winter and I was ill but I went anyway. I found that album and when I got back home I listened that album 24/7 for next two weeks. Of course I wasn't very good guitar player at that time but I got a lot of influences from that album and it has remained one of my all time favourites.
Interviewer: And this Ozzy fever has also remained?
Roope: Yes, it's been since then.
 
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