No niin,
Stone olkaatte niin hyvät
Translation to Stone interview Celeb posted to Finnish section.
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Max Stage On the Road - Sauna Open Air Stone
Interviewer: We are once again at the backstage of Sauna Open Air and I have here Stone, Janne and Roope welcome.
Roope: Thanks!
Janne: Thanks!
Interviewer: What are your topmost feelings after gig?
Janne: Tired but happy.
Roope: Yeah.
Interview: Were you nervous before the gig?
Janne: Yes, at least I was.
Roope: Yes, about half an hour before the gig I started to be nervous.
Janne: But you need to be little bit nervous before, its good even in those basic gigs, it gives a little bit edge.
Interviewer: How crowd welcomed you?
Roope: Crowd was too good
.
Janne: Yeah, it felt like
Roope:
unbelievably good
Janne: It was so great to see that young people are digging us so much. It was slightly what the fuck feeling. They werent even born when we were active. But of course it is flattering and in the heavy music there arent such strong trends. Same way we were listening to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin kids has found in addition to Metallica also old Finnish metal.
Roope: Amazing Internet era, word spreads and people find all different kinds of things from there
Interview: Did you need to rehears a lot?
Roope: Not that much.
Interview: You are not playing together that often anymore.
Janne: We started at the March before Roope went off to tour with Bodom. And couple of weeks ago we started to rehears more intensively, but it was surprisingly painless, hands just found the right places, so it was really easy which is if course fucking nice.
Roope: As you sow, so shall you reap.
Janne: When you have learned something really well youll remember it. Its like riding a bike.
Janne at the stage: SAUNA! Fucking awesome. There are lots of you and it looks great!
Interviewer: Why are you doing there reunion gigs? Is it because crowd wants to see you or what?
Janne: This time
Roope: This success came out of nowhere; I wouldnt have believed it before hand.
Janne:
it is 20 years since first album so it was easy and simple thing to do a reunion gig. Every year some one asks us to play somewhere but we dont want to go every fucking party to play. But now there was good reason to do this. I mean of course, its fun to play here.
Roope: <mumbling>
Interviewer: You are both playing in successful bands at the moment, do you ever have such feeling that Stone should be back together? Ditch out Bodom and Suburban tribe?
Janne: We are looking ahead, not behind. Point is that we have never had bad feelings about playing in the Stone so its easy to do these reunion gigs. I found it hard to believe that we would start recording new album and forget current bands.
Roope: There are priorities, things that we have been building up and we continue those but this is positive surprise.
Interviewer: You collection album was remastered, right?
Janne: Yes, no there is new cover art compared to previous collection album that is same album. Old album art was quite awful so when they told that they are going to republish it I wanted to change at least the cover art.
Roope: I didnt know anything about it I just got it in the mail and thought that fucking cool cover art, this is how it should have been already earlier
silver or iron logo.
Dude #1: I would like to ask from Stone has crowd changed during last twenty years?
Janne: Well we have gotten older
but it was also fun to notice that those old dudes where still there.
Roope: When I was watching the crowd today I saw lot of same faces than back then. They came to refresh old memories. And then there was lot of new dudes.
Janne: It was most surprising to me that those kids were really into us. I have no idea what kind of fans we have nowadays. Im sure that Bodom is large factor, people check out Roopes old band and so on.
Dude #2: When Stone learned to drink Magyar?
Roope: What?
Interviewer: Magyar
Janne: Maguaaria!
Roope: its Maguaaria
Interviewer: Maguaaria.
Roope: Hungarian white wine, medium dry.
Interviewer: Tasteful drink.
Roope: Learned? Well we learned to drink it quite well back then. We bought it for every gig, we had brief case that hold two bottles of Magyar and bottle of booze and maybe something else. Two bottles of Magyar was must. Yes we have learned to drink it and are quite good at it.
Janne: When it happened? It was end of 80s. Thinking of it now it was really laughable; we were drinking white wine from the bottle at the stage.
Interviewer: Is it sweet or what?
Janne: Its medium dry. Or was it dry, I cant remember. Not sweet anyway.
Interviewer: Do you think its still available?
Roope: It was cheap so it was good.
Janne: Sure you can still get it. But because of the old memories I havent touched to white wine in years.
Roope: Yeah, its quite awful
Dude #3: Why Jiri Jalkanen was fired?
Roope: Im not really comfortable to talk about those old things
Interviewer: But some people want to know.
Roope: He didnt want to practice. We wanted to do more complicated songs but he didnt want to practice so
that was it.
Janne: Its those priorities. Every one is drinking and thats not the issue, but you have to practice.
Roope:
and its not because of the couple practices.
Interviewer: Every one should put same amount of effort to the band?
Janne: Exactly
Roope:
something more important to do.
Dude #4: Are you going to play more gigs in the future? I hope you will.
Janne: We have that
Roope: We broke the ice so
Janne:
that Jurassic Rock in the August. After that we will see, Bodom will be touring so much that I think its it for a while.
Roope: It might be, but its nice to play so
Janne: Never say never.
Dude #5: Do you still drink Magyar as much as you did earlier?
Janne: No, I havent been drinking Magyar anymore.
Interviewer: What has replaced Magyar?
Roope: White Russians.
Janne: I wont drink those. I have lactose problem.
Roope: That white things is there just to give some color.
Janne: Play Real Delusions. It was directed by Kaurismäki brothers and its important to notice that it was a short movie, not a music video.
Roope: I just have to mention that it was played at the movie theaters before the movie of the night.
Janne: Yeah.
Roope: It was great.
I doubt it'd have any real effect, but I supose that Roope'll be proud if he sees that people actually does know who Stone are/were.
