[新聞] Symfonia~

[AnthonyL (阿牛)]

as title....

轉貼自FB，Timo Tolkki聲明。

I don't know how many of you are interested in reading this and quite
frankly, I dont even care so much, but I am just writing down some early
morning thoughts regarding Symfonia and other stuff going on in my life.

  As it turned out to be, it all started from a cake. I thought it might be
some kind of a celestial joke and maybe it was, but when 2 fans handed me a
Symfonia cake after the last gig of Symfonia's South American tour, after
spending 3 nights in a 15 bucks cold motel with grey concrete walls looking
like a prison in Santiago de Chile and flying 28 hours to another continent
to play to audiences varying from 100 to 350, I started to think that maybe
this really is it. The cake was in a funny way telling me:"hey Timo, don't
you see:it's over".

And I started to really consider my whole musician's career. This happened in
June.

Exactly a year before I had flown to Sweden to record 3 demo songs I had
composed hoping to record some vocals of Andre. I spent there 6 days and from
those days, I was able to squeeze about 6 hours of singing from him. In
between going to supermarkets, changing diapers and me trying to solve some
of their domestic disputes, I started to think if it was such a good idea
after all.

  But people liked the demos and I went full on producing the "In Paradisum"
album to which I put around 1000 working hours. Andre Matos told me very
clear that this band should not do any gigs if it doesnt make any money. I
basically agreed but at the same time I knew that people would still consider
it as a new band. Not "The Spartacus of Metal" where the gates of
superstardom would open just like that. Uli Kusch had been in and out of band
due to his hand injury and in the middle of vocal recordings in Sweden, he
sent me a mail telling me he would never ever play any gigs in his life
because "he was tired of piss smelling backstage rooms, the chaos, the
travelling etc. In vain I tried to tell him that this was not what we agreed.
He did tell me that if Symfonia would make a second album, we could use his
name for 10 000 euros and use Alex Landenburg for the recordings. And after
10 minutes came a text message that he also wanted me to pay the taxes of his
fee so it would total 13 000 euros for the usage of his name. I did not
respond to that but I really found it hard to believe.

Then Matos lost his voice in the middle of the vocal recordings for 4 days
and while hunting for cortison shots in the middle of the deepest Swedish
countryside, I really started to think that this is not gonna work.

Well we got the vocals done, did the interviews and released the album. I
still think it's a good album.

  Also the Japanese earthquake messed the little touring plans the band had.
Then Andre told me we could make a lucrative tour in South America booked by
his manager. Apparently there was some mysterious investor that was in the
game. I should have known better even hearing the word investor. I decided to
do the tour and after flying 30 hours: Helsinki-Frankfurt-Rome-Sao Paulo we
landed only to hear that the tour is cancelled. At that point I was already
ready to buy a ticket back to Finland but they managed to make a settlement
and we did I guess it was 6 gigs. It was the worst and heaviest tour I have
ever done in my career.

Keyboard player Mikko Harkin developed high fever and lung inflammation that
was bounding pneumonia.

While lying 2 days in Sao Paulo in Formula 1 hotel (the cheapest you can get
there) in a darkness I was starting to really get doubts about my future as a
musician.

When I got the sales figures from Edel Records and the report from the
booking agency for the festivals of Summer 2012 I decided to call it a day.
It didnt make any sense to try to "conquer" the metal world since it was
obvious that there was not enough interest. Don't get me wrong, it's totally
cool if there is no interest.

  Then I thought about my career. Around 3000 gigs, 20 years, 20 CD's,
productions, clinics, travelling. I realised that I have done a lot. I guess
most of you know that I am suffereing from Bipolar Disorder, one of the worst
mental disorders, but with medication and non stressful lifestyle, this
illness can be controlled but never cured. Playing in a touring band is far
from "non stressful lifestyle" and in fact the rock'n'roll life itself is
manic with its highs and lows. In those long Stratovarius tours being
undiagnosed with the illlness, I could have died. I am not kidding.

 3.3 next year I will be 46. This autumn I made a decision to take some time
off from music business and concentrate on something else. I have a wonderful
wife and daughter, who also happens to be a world class singer. I started
giving guitar lessons again. Im taking lots of photos. In other words, living
quite normal life.

I do realize the marks the years have left in me and that I should rest and
heal the wounds. There is a lot to heal. The music business is in extremely
sick state in this moment and it's not gonna get any better. In a few years
we will know what kind of form it will take. Maybe I one day take some part
of it, maybe I dont. I really dont know at the moment.

  So what about my future? If you are interested in that I can only say that
it is possible that I will never record anything again. For some of you this
might come as a relief. I don't know what the future will hold for me but I
want to thank all of you who have supported me in these 22 some years. For
you who havent supported me and continuosly are mocking me for example at
Stratoboard (which makes me really sad mainly due lack of respect from a band
that was my vision for 22 years and that still plays 80% of my songs although
there is 2 guys left in the band called Stratovarius) I also want to thank
you because without you guys, I could never have done everything I have done.
It's been a great career. I hope the future brings more music but most likely
it will not. But still after all I can say...I Did It My Way.



                   Hope to see you somewhere, take care of yourselves. -Timo


簡單說就是Symfonia要散團了。
成軍一年就結束了。
當初是簽四張專輯的約。
囧到翻掉。XD

--
I've got to keep breathing.

Because tomorrow, the sun will rise.

Who knows what the tide could bring?

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