News on the Stratovarius Soap Opera...

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"Posted:2004-01-22
By: Anders Johansson, HammerFall
From:


Hello all,

Thanks for the
support!

I was never going to leave
HammerFall. I think we have a great
thing going with HammerFall and a cool
vibe. Everybody fits together nicely
both as musicians and people. Timo and
Jens asked me to help out with the
recording their new record. I told them
all the time it was juts to be a studio
session. After a while Timo started to
weird out. He talked about voices in his
head, religion and german dictators all
the time.
And about what a legendary
band we could be..breaking more WC's
than any band before. Then Kainulainen
started to call. He just sat ther silent
on the other side of the phone. What a
strange bunch of
guys...


Cheers,

Anders"
 
So...Anders runs out the door screaming...getting out of the madhouse before he's corrupted.

Seems like a pretty lucid, straight-forward kind of comment, not inflammatory, just kinda calling it the way he sees it.

Makes you wonder, man...he can't be making this stuff up...

Well I guess he could...but...what's the point?

Weird...and the saga continues...haha
 
Good god. I bet Kotipelto is laughing all the way to the bank with the royalty money he makes from the GOOD Strato albums. Oh wait, I forgot Tolkki prolly only gave him a five Euro a day per diem at all times because he was just a little bitch that should be so lucky to play with Sir God Tolkki. Bow out gracefully because your reputation is irrevocably stained.



Ben
 
OH MAN thats hillarifuckinus...WOW glen if you read this PLEASE KEEP STRATOVARIUS OUT OF THE STATES...we have enough psychos over here to worry about!
 
I love the quote from Tolkki:

"I suspect that the decision of Anders has something to do with my reputation. I can understand him very well, I wouldn't join a band in which I would be playing in."
 
I'm...speechless here...either this is a really idiotic hoax, or a whole group of morons who are having a nervous breakdown when they should be enoying the fact that they are doing what every musician/songwriter dreams off - making some kind of decent living off what they love to do! Makes me sick.
 
What I don't get is what the hell Jens, Anders brother and keyboardist maestro is still doing with Strato? I mean don't get me wrong, I love the old Strato stuff but lately the shit that has been coming out is big enough to fill a dump truck! If Strato's direction is going where Timo Malmsteen :) solo album went, it will be a sad day for the band.

If this was a true statement from Anders I applaud him for saying it like it is...now all he needs to do is save his brother from this cult...I mean band! ;)

Cheers
 
I've also been wondering why Jens has remained silent while the band is making fools out of themselves...either he has more class than his bandmates or he hasn't been communicating that well, or both...either way, I've always felt his talents were being wasted in Stratovarius...