Who's next?

I've spent my time mostly by listening to The Who and Rush. And... The Beatles (?)
I'd love to go to see Rush next summer when they play in Helsinki and tickets are already on sale.. I've heard they play live loud and their gigs are long, over three hours. Sounds good. The Who (or what's left from it, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend) are on tour too, but in America.

I decided to see Macca playing at Olympics Opening Seremony in London, so I watched all that fucking boring show with the flag thing and speeches and marching... and Macca came to stage at three a.m. and played on song; Hey Jude. But it was worth it.  

We got tickets to Alice Cooper Halloween Night Of Fear show in London (Wembley Arena) on 28th of October. And support acts are Killing Joke and Duff McKagan! That's gonna be awesome concert! <3

I think I have wasted this summer vacation. I haven't done anything, just been at home, been to shopping, been to one gig and spent few days at our summer cottage..
Oh yeah, I cooked seitan with my friend few days ago. It's veggie food made from wheat and water and it incudes lots of protein.. And making it is.. interesting, time-taking and extremely messy. All the kitched will be covered with flour after that. But seitan tastes good when it's ready.

Anyway, I should do something clever, but I've got only 2 weeks of holiday left.
I started to look for albums I've bought in a month and just thought that actually I haven't had time to do anything else.. so I should stop whining.

What the hell is wrong with my camera?!

Dead Boys: We Have Come For Your Children (LP)

The Clash: Combat Rock

Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St.

[Look the CDs you buy from sales like "Two CDs with 15€.. It's likely that the normal price of the CDs can be 20€ but if you buy two you'll get them both with 15€.. not bad, you'll save 25€. ]

Aerosmith: Pump

Alice Cooper: Hey Stoopid

Backyard Babies: Backyard Babies

My guitar heroes and few cool singers:

Jimmy Page: Outrider ( featuring singers on the album are Robert Plant, John Miles and Chris Farlow from Colosseum. Cool guys with cool voices. )

Jimmy Page and David Coverdale: Coverdale & Page

Jeff Beck: This Week: Live at Ronnie Scott's!

Jeff Beck: You Had It Coming 

And then the Rush albums:

It's funny to notice that you have liked some band for few weeks and you've already bought almost half of the band's albums... Luckily, Rush has that many albums that I think it might take quite long before I've bought all of them.

Permanent Waves

Moving Pictures

Snakes and Arrows

I've dreamed about a new guitar for a while but I haven't bought it - yet. I'm going to.

I hope your summer vacation has been happy too. Or you have spent your time smarter than I have :3

Happy rest-of-the-holiday and don't kill yourselves before the vacation ends! (:

Summer Songs

I thought I could share my little weird Summer Playlist with you guys.. So, here are few songs which have really made my summer this year, I hope you'll like them too (:

For Sunny Days:

Van Halen - Fools

[Yeah. Van Halen. Get over of that Horrible "Jump" and listen to older records and you'll get surprised positively. That's my advice.]

Rush - The Spirit of Radio

 [Strange songs.. that's the reason why I like Rush. Strange in a good way,

and also I love Geddy Lee's voice, although you mght find it weird..]

Led Zeppelin - Dy'er Mak'er

[Someone would wonder why in hell would the best blues band write a reggae song. Well, I don't know why they wrote this, but it works pretty good. Right? ]

Alice Cooper - Be My Lover

[Oh, Alice Cooper ♥ I don't know why I chose this song, it's positive and Killer is one of my favorite albums of him, and this is happier (?) album than Love It To Death so.. ]

Rolling Stones feat. Eric Clapton - Brown Sugar

[Happy 50th Birthday to the Rolling Stones! Hope they'll keep on rolling and come to Finland again.. on their next world tour. I've got a feeling their really doing it. This was nice version of Brown Sugar, and Eric Clapton one of the cool guitar players. ]

Sir Paul McCartney - Ob La Di, Ob La Da

[I don't know how the song should be written officially... anyway, if this really doesn't make you smile (at all, even a little bit), I think you should just shoot yourself. ]

For Rainy Days:



Jeff Beck - Drown In My Own Tears

[I love this song, I love Ray Charles and I love love love Jeff Beck. ]

Led Zeppelin - No Quarter

[This is the most unzeppelin of all Led Zep songs, but it's one of my favorites.]



Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan

[Probably the most beautiful song Black Sabbath has ever written, I suppose. By the way, Happy 63rd Birthday, Geezer Butler (: ]

Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory

[He would have had his 60th Birthday on Sunday. But no, he has died over 20 years ago. World is rude and unfare, but legends will live forever. Without Johnny Thunders my world would be so different. I love him, and I love this song.]

Music freaks or snobs?

I just started to think about people. And music, of course. Actually, I started to think about why do the most of the people listen to music. Because they love it? They love some special band or artist? I don't think so, because many of the people don't have any kind of taste of music. They listen to that what they hear from the popular channels, whatever it is.

Of course there's a lot of people who love music and they like some special genre or some special style. They feel it's their thing, it's something own. When you listen to song you haven't heard before and you like it, and you like it that much that you have to buy all the albums of that new band within next two weeks, I think it's something personal. I think there's always a reason why people like songs, and that reason can be very private and personal. That makes your and your favorite band's relationship special. The band's got something that has touched you, and I think that's the treasure of music. To some of the people.

Then, there are those who don't understand anything about music. Or they do, but they don't want to make music, they want to create something more. Like art students who started to make music that's art. What happend? Progressive rock was born. I'm not saying that all the proge guys are snobs, but I think that proge has something to do with those who don't listen to music for music, but for making an impression of smart person.
I just started to think about this when I read stories of how people in normal high schools think that IB school students are snobs and look down on normal high school students. For me, getting to IB had nothing to do with that I wanted to show to people I'm good at school or smart or other bullshit, I wanted to get to IB because I want to get out of Finland. Not very snob, or is it?
I think the same thing that happens with high schools happens with music. I mean, some guy buys Led Zep album, 'cause he wants to sound smarter than ordinary trash metal fan. Or some person can buy all of the Pink Floyd albums, 'cause he wants to show how well-informed about music he is. I think it's wrong, but if they really use their money to that, it's alright for me. Then the good bands just get money from idiot snobs, but whatever.

I wanted to write about this because I'm not going to change only because I'm in IB school next year. Should I start to listen to jazz and proge or classical music only for showing other how clever I am? Fuck that, I say. I'm still going to listen to rock, I'm going to listen to Underground Garage every Friday, I'm going to see Alice Cooper live, I'm going to spend all my money in Levykauppa Äx, and I'm still going to visit at Jim Morrison's grave some day. That has nothing to do with IB snobs. That's all I need to say.

This was just a flow of thoughts.
Please, don't get into a muddle.. XD

Band shirts? I've got a few...

Well, I could wait only few days after I got the money from my summer job, then I HAD TO order few band shirts from FullBreach77. It's the best rock band shirt shop I know, for all the people who love little punk and glam bands..the problem is that it's American, so the shipping cost 16 $.
Anyway, now I'm waiting for those shirts to come, and I sorted my old band shirts in case I could abandon few. Of course I couldn't, but I realized I have a nice kind of collection of band shirts, hoodies etc...

[Don't mind my old posters on the wardrobe doors...]

Ramones hoodie from.. actually I don't know the name of the shop,

it was a rock stand in a market year ago..

Slash shirt from Carlings

2 GN'R shirts from H&M (pathetic, I know..)

Michael Monroe hoodie from Levykauppa Äx

and Michael Monroe top from Backstage Rock Shop (from his show at Finlandia Klubi)

U2 -shirt is there behind.. bought from their show

David Bowie shirt is from TopTen

and the Rolling Stones shirt is from Dressman

Kurt and Courtney shirt is from Cybershop

Green Day -shirt's bought from their show in Helsinki 2 years ago

AC/DC shirt is from Rockjet

Mötley Crüe shirt's bought from their gig this year

Jimmy Page shirt is from some German music merchandise shop,

I bought it from Berlin as we were there in the spring

Led Zeppelin -shirts..other is from TopTen, other one

is from the same place than the Ramones hoodie..

The Clash shirt is from Rockjet

The Doors is from music store in Berlin, called "City Music"

Heaven & Hell shirt is from Levykauppa Äx

and Alice Cooper shirt is from TopTen..

And now I'm waiting for those two shirts from USA, Stiv Bators and Hanoi Rocks. I'd also love to find Ozzy Osbourne or Randy Rhoads -shirt, Megadeth -shirt and Rush -shirt. 

Someone is going to ask next, that do I have any other shirts? The answer is: well, um, let me check... two black shirts, that's it. So really no. So in case you have a problem or question about some shirt thing, I believe you can ask that from me. (:

Full Breach 77

News and thoughts..

I've gotta write about some news which I saw in the morning.
First one was about Tommy Lee, and he was telling what he thinks about fan photos. He obviously hates photos with fans, as he told "when he bought all his Led Zeppelin albums and tickets, he never thought some day the band would owe him a picture" and " he owes nothing to his fans". The reason I had to write about it is that he thinks Mötley Crüe is something so much more than the band really is!
Mötley Crüe is famous for everything else but its music. It's famous for drugs and girls, not music at all actually. Mötley has never been musically important band, the only reason why it's still existing is the fans. Mötley Crüe owes everything to their fans, because without fans that band would be nothing. That's why, as a "fan" it pisses me really off when Mr. Lee says that he owes nothing to his fans.
Led Zeppelin is totally different, I know that Tommy Lee knows Led Zep is so much more than just a band. It's musically one of the most important bands of all time, and I can say, they owe a lot to their fans too, but maybe not as much as Mötley Crüe. Every band and musician owe their carreer to their fans, 'cause without anyone who is ready to buy their records (even the worst ones) or anyone who is ready to go to gigs regardless of the band's mood (even the band is that drunk that the gig sucks), the band can't go on. It's nothing. So the bands owe so much to their fans.
Of course I understand Tommy Lee's opinion about those who come to tell they want a photo with no situational awareness. Like if he is dining with his family and so asshole comes to ask for a photo, I know it can piss him off. I've heard many scary stories of crazy fans, so it's no wonder he doesn't like photos with all of them. But still, it's wrong to say that the band owe nothing to its fans.

The other one was about Queen. When the Football European Championships were organized in Kiev, there had been a free charity concert, and the performers were Elton John and Queen. Queen with Adam Lambert. Some guy had put a video of the whole concert to Youtube, so I watched it (I would have liked to go to Sonisphere in Knebworth to see Queen). Well, the comments were.. let's say that the amount of criticism was enormous. Most of the people thought that Adam Lambert was wrong person to "play Freddie" and Brian May is guilty of treason when he turned Queen from the real stadium band to club tribute band.
I just have to mention that Adam Lambert is different kind of singer than Freddie, Adam has higher voice and not as strong voice as Freddie did. Still if you look at the today's singers, can you find any better to sing with Queen than Adam? I mean, that the singer isn't a copy of Freddie? I agree with that nobody can play Freddie Mercury, because there is a strong vision in people's minds what the singer of Queen should sound like or how he should act like. Nobody can change that.
It's not Queen, but it isn't a bad fake either. There's still Brian May and Roger Taylor, and I can't understand what they sould be doing today, that has nothing to do with Queen? Queen has personified to Freddie Mercury, but Freddie isn't Queen. Why should other three members just forget 20 years fom their lives? Maybe Adam wasn't right choice, maybe the whole plan was bad, maybe, maybe, maybe.. They made their decision and respect that. And if they tour as Queen and come to Finland, I'll be there.

The text became so much longer than I thought O_O
Now I've gotta mention that I'm jealous to all the people who could go to Tuska Festival in last weekend. I didn't go there, but after I heard that Dave Mustaine actually had been on the good mood and the crowd had seen him even smiling (at Megadeth's last gig in Finland he had been quite pissed off..) I repent that I didn't go there. But I believe that Megadeth will come to Finland again (and again and again..) and I know that Dave isn't as bad as Axl, so I'm positive about this. 

I actually haven't been doing anything special, just doing some sports, playing guitar and painting. I should read all of the 10 books I got for X-mas present but I didn't bother to start. I was about to go to Ruisrock until I realized it's much too soon, in the weekend already, so I can't go. Then I thought about Porispere too, it would be cool to see Marky Ramone live ♥
And I realized how wonderful idea library (with good music and book collection) really is. I borrowed about 15 CDs from Library of Vaasa last time I visited there. The best thing is, that I don't have to pay XD

Well, this came quite random post and I don't want to bore you with too much writing (it's already too much, I know) so I think I'm gonna end the post to this. Remember to eat strawberries and watch mafia films! (:

Hippie cars suit to summer, right?