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| A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TELLING ME THAT INSTEAD OF PLAYING A 5 ON THE E STRING I SHOULD BE PLAYHING
AN OPEN A STRING. IT IS THE SAME NOTE. 5 ON THE E STRING IS A. IF I WERE TO PLAY IT MY WAY IT WOULD
SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME IF I CHANGED 5 ON THE E STRING TO AN OPEN A STRING. JUST LIKE PLAYING THE 5TH FRET ON THE A STRING IS A D. WHY NOT PLAY AN OPEN D STRING? BECAUSE IT IS A LOT EASIER TO KEEP YOUR HAND IN ONE
POSITION. SO I THINK YOU SHOULD PLAY AS FEW OPEN STRINGS AS POSSIBLE AND KEEP YOUR HAND IN ONE SPOT
I THINK IT SOUNDS A LOT CLEANER TO NOT PLAY OPEN STRINGS. IT DOES SOUND A LOT CLEANER. NO OFFENSE BUT LEARN YOUR INSTRUMENT BEFORE CORRECTING MY TAB.
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OZZY OSBOUNRE'S "CRAZY TRAIN"
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| January: Pink Floyd make their debut appearance using that name with the line-up of Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Rick Wright. The venue is the Countdown Club in London's Palace Gate. They play for five hours with only a 20 minute break. Their fee is £ 15. 13th March: Pink Floyd gets its first billing at London's Marquee Club. 14th October: The band play their first real "underground" set at All Saints Hall, Powis Gardens in London having dumped all their r&b material. 15th October: Band performs at the International Times "All Night Rave" at London's Roundhouse. 31st October: Pink Floyd sign a management contract with Peter Jenner and Andrew King. 18th November: A "philadelic" music event is staged at Hornsey Colege Of Art featuring Pink Floyd and light show. November: Peter Jenner and Andrew King take the band into Thompson Private Recorders in Hemel Hempstead to record a demo tape. Four tracks are cut, "Interstellar Overdrive", "Lucy Leave", "Stoned Alone" and "Silas Lane". 12th December: Band plays for the first time at the Royal Albert Hall. 18th December: Pink Floyd play The Blarney Club in Tottenham Court Road. The next week it changes its name to the UFO Club. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1967 11th January: Two days of recording at Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea with Joe Boyd. The tracks recorded are "Interstellar Overdrive", "Arnold Layne", "Let's Roll Another One" (later to be called "Candy And A Currant Bun") and "Nicks Boogie". 20th January: Granada TV film part of a TV documentary at London's UFO Club, featuring the "house band", Pink Floyd. 1st February: Pink Floyd turn professional. 7th February: Granada's TV documentary on the UFO club and underground scene is broadcast. 27th February: The band go into Sound Techniques studios to record with Joe Boyd. The tracks will become the band's first single. Early March: Pink Floyd sign to EMI records with an advance of £ 5,000. 11th March: "Arnold Layne" is released backed by "Candy And A Currant Bun". 16th March: Sessions start at EMI's Abbey Road Studios for the first album. 24th April: Roger Waters is hurt when a coin is thrown from the audience. 29th April: The "14 Hour Technicolour Dream" is staged London's Alexandra Palace. 10,000 watch Pink Floyd play at sunrise. 12th May: A "musical and visual exploration" is staged at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Titled "Games For May:" it features a song composed for the event, which is soon re-named "See Emily Play". The concert features the most complex light show seen in London and the first use of a quadrophonic sound in the U.K. 23rd May: After several days abortive work at Abbey Road Studios, the band moves to Sound Technique studios to record "See Emily Play" and "Scarecrow". They'd been unable to re-create the sound achieved on "Arnold Layne" without returning to the same studio. 16th June: "See Emily Play" is released backed by "Scarecrow". 24th June: First appearance on Top Of The Pops to promote "See Emily Play". Syd is immaculate in velvet and satin. 31st June: Top Of The Pops again. Syd is still wearing he same, now crumpled, clothes. 6th July: Top Of The Pops. This time Syd arrives in all his psychedelic finery but changes into dirty rags before going in front of the cameras. 5th August: "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" is released. 7th August: Danish tour starts. 11th August: Sessions at Abbey Road Studios for "Apples And Oranges". 21st August: German tour is abandoned when Syd vanishes. 24th October: First U.S. tour. 26th October: First of three nights at the Fillmore in San Francisco. 29th October: The band appear on Dick Clark's American Bandstand lyp-synching to "See Emily Play". Syd doesn't open his mouth. 30th October: The Pat Boone Show. The band are interviewed but Syd doesn't react when questioned. 2nd November: Recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios for "Paintbox". 14th November: Start of U.K. tour supporting the Jimi Hendrix Experience. David O'List of The Nice (also on the tour) stands in on dates when Syd doesn't show up or cannot play 18th November: "Apples And Oranges" is released backed by "Paintbox". 5th December: The Hendrix tour ends at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow. 22nd December: "Christmas On Earth Revisited" is staged at Olympia. Syd seems incapable of playing, standing staring at the audience. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1968 January: Dave Gilmour steps in to play guitar when Syd is unable to play at Brighton. 11th February: Pink Floyd record a session for John Peel's Top Gear show. 13th February: "It Would be So Nice" and "Julia Dream" are recorded at Abbey Road Studios. 2nd March: During a meeting at their Ladbroke Road offices, Syd is asked to stop touring and contributing material. 6th April: A statement is issued to the press announcing that Syd has left the band. 26th May: The band play the Oz benefit at Middle Earth. May: The band are asked to record the soundtrack for the film, "The Commitment" by director Peter Sykes. 29th June: Pink Floyd play the first Hyde Park Free Festival. "A Saucerful Of Secrets" is released. 4th November: "Point Me At The Sky" and "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" are recorded at Abbey Road Studios. 17th December: "Point Me At The Sky" is released. It is to be their last U.K. single for eleven years. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1969 March: Studio sessions for the soundtrack of "More". 14th April: "More Furious Madness From The Massed Gadgets Of Auximenes (The Man And The Journey)" is held at The Royal Festival Hall. 27th April: Performance at Mothers Club in Birmingham is taped for the album "Ummagumma". 2nd May: Performance at Manchester Chamber Of Comerce is taped for the album "Ummagumma". 28th June: Studio sessions for "Embryo", released the following year on the Harvest sampler "Picnic". Sessions are completed the following day. July: "More" is released. November: "Ummagumma" is released. December: Studio sessions in Rome for the soundtrack of "Zabriskie Point". Syd Barrett releases his first solo single, "Octopus". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1970 January: Syd Barrett's first solo album, "The Madcap Laughs" is released. 18th January: "The Amazing Pudding" is performed live for the first time. February: Sessions begin for "Atom Heart Mother" at Abbey Road Studios. 6th June: Syd Barret plays his first gig since leaving Pink Floyd. The occasion is "Extraveganza '70", staged at London's Olympia. He is assisted by Dave Gilmour and Jerry Shirley. 27th June: "Atom Heart Mother" is premiered at the Bath Festival. June: The Harvest sampler, "Picnic", is released bearing the only recorded version of "Embryo". 18th July: Pink Floyd play to 20,000 people at a free concert in London's Hyde Park. 12th September: $ 40,000 worth of equipment is stolen in New Orleans while the band are on a U.S. tour. 10th October: "Atom Heart Mother" is released. October: Billboards on Sunset Strip are adorned with 40 foot high pictures of Lullubelle III, the cow featured on the cover of "Atom Heart Mother". November: Syd Barret releases his second solo album, "Barrett". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1971 4th January: Sessions begin at Abbey Road for the follow up to "Atom Heart Mother". January: Stanley Kubrick asks for permission to use parts of "Atom Heart Mother" in "A Clockwork Orange". He is turned down. 22nd April: "Return Of The Son Of Nothing" is played live for the first time. Its name is soon shortened to "Echoes". May: "Relics" is released. 31st July: The band leaves for its first tour of Japan, Australia and Hong Kong. 23rd August: The first of three days of final sessions for "Meddle". They continue on the 25th and 27th. 21st September: Quadrophonic mix of "Meddle" at Command Studios. 26th September: Quadrophonic mix of "Meddle" is completed. 15th October: U.S. tour opens in San Francisco. November: "Meddle" is released. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 2nd January: Syd plays an unannounced gig at King's College Cellar, Cambridge. With him are Twink and Eddie "Guitar" Burns. This line up becomes Stars. 17th February: "Eclipse" gets its first public performance at London's Rainbow Theatre. February: Syd plays the Corn Exchange in Cambridge with Stars but leaves the stage after badly cutting his hand. 23rd February: Recording starts at Chateau d'Herouville outside Paris for the soundtrack of "Obscured By Clouds". The album is finished by the 29th. 3rd March: Japanese tour starts. 23rd March: Eight days of recording and filming starts in a Roman amphitheatre for "Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii". 3rd June: "Obscured By Clouds" is released. 4th June: Sessions start at Studio 2 in Abbey Road on "Eclipse", the original title of "Dark Side Of The Moon". September: "Pink Floyd Live In Pompeii" premieres in Edinburgh. The band, meanwhile, start a U.S. tour. November: At the end of a French tour, the band record the music for a Roland Petit ballet in Marseilles. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1973 13th January: The first of two days of studio sessions in France, continuing work on the Roland Petit ballet. 24th March: "Dark Side Of The Moon" Released. 18th March: "Dark Side Of The Moon" performed at Earl's Court, London. 28th March: "Dark Side Of The Moon" hits number 1 in the Billboard album chart. June: U.S. tour. 1st October: Recording sessions start for the "Household Objects" album. They continue until the 4th, re-start on the 8th until 10th, then 22nd to 26th and 29th to 31st. 12th November: More "Household Objects" sessions until the 14th, then 19th to 21st and 26th to 28th. 3rd December: Final sessions for the "Household Objects" album until 5th December:. The project is abandoned after only three tracks are recorded. December: "A Nice Pair" is released. W.R. Phang, the dentist complains after his shop is featured on the cover. It is removed from later pressings. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1974 July: "Raving And Drooling" is performed live during a brief French tour. October: Nick Mason produces Robert Wyatt at CBS Studios in London. Several tracks are recorded but only a single, "I'm A Believer", is released. November: Syd Barrett returns to the studio, prompted by the success of "The Madcap Laughs" in the U.S. The project is shelved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1975 6th January: Sessions start at Abbey Road Studios for "Wish You Were Here". May: Syd is seen shopping at Harrods. Trying to get away from the journalist following him he drops a carrier bag full of confectionary. 5th June: During the final mix of "Wish You Were Here", Syd turns up at Abbey Road. He is bald, fat and unrecognised. Dave Gilmour marries Ginger. The reception is held in the cafeteria at Abbey Road. Syd attends. 6th June: The band leaves London for the U.S. tour. 28th June: Roger Waters pre-empts Punk by spitting at the audience. Stunned by his own actions, he starts to think of building a polythene wall between himself and his audience. 5th July: Knebworth Festival. Pink Floyd premiere "Wish You Were Here" with the help of Spitfires, pyrotechnics and an exploding plane which flies into the stage. Probably the most spectacular gig of the decade. September: Wish You Were Here is released; black, shrink-wrapped, anonymous. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1976 1st April: Dave Gilmour's house is broken into. Thieves take guitars valued at £ 7,000. April: Dave Gilmour is producer for Unicorn's "Too Many Cooks" album. May: Britannia Row is set up as the Floyd's new studio. 2nd August: Peter "Puddy" Watts, road manager and one of the voices on "Dark Side Of The Moon", dies of a heroin overdose. 2nd December: Hipgnosis photo shoot for "Animals" at Battersea Power Station in London. An inflatable pig breaks free and (depending on which story you believe) is shot down by a marksman or eventually comes to earth in a field in Kent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1977 19th January: Press launch for "Animals" at Battersea Power Station. 20th January: "Animals" gets a world exclusive airing on the John Peel Show, Radio One. 23rd January: "Animals" is released. The world tour starts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1978 January: The Damned want Syd Barrett to produce their new album. They make do with Nick Mason instead. Dave Gilmour and Rick Wright both start work on their solo albums in different studios in France. 14th February: Rick Wright finishes his solo album at Superbear Studios. June: "David Gilmour", the guitarist's first solo album is released. July: Roger Waters convenes a meeting of the band to decide on their next album concept. He has two 90 minute demo tapes. One is "Bricks In The Wall', the other, "The Pros And Cons Of Hitch-Hiking". Dave Gilmour takes the tapes home and returns with his verdict two days later. Although he feels "Bricks" is weak in that form, he likes the basic idea. That will be the basis of their next album. September: Rick Wright releases "Wet Dream", his first solo album. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1979 January: The band start work on their follow up to Animals. For tax reasons they record in Paris and Los Angeles. June: EMI are given tapes of what could be either a single or a double album. The band are told to continue work on it. October: Rick Wright is dropped from the Pink Floyd Partnership during final sessions for "The Wall". The move is Waters idea but he is backed by Gilmour. 16th November: "Another Brick In The Wall Part II" is released. It goes straight to number one in the U.K. chart. It is the band's only number one. 30th November: "The Wall" is finally released. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1980 24th January: A billboard is erected on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles for "The Wall". Every day workmen add another brick to the wall until it is finished. 7th February: "The Wall" tour opens at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. The show is held up for a while after fireworks set fire to some curtains. 22nd March: "Dark Side Of The Moon" breaks the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top 100. The previous record holder was Carole King's "Tapestry". March: A New York radio DJ breaks the story that a backwards message can be heard before "Empty Spaces". The message says, "Congratulations, you have discovered the secret message. Please send your answers to Old Pink, care of The Funny Farm, Chalfont. 4th August: Pink Floyd open their "residency" at London's Earls Court. 9th August: Ten original Gerald Scarfe drawings for "The Wall" are stolen from the foyer of Earls Court where they are being exhibited. 9th August: Last performance of Earls Court "residency". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1981 March: Pink Floyd issue a writ against accountants, Norton Warburg. Their chairman, Andrew Warburg flies to Spain. May: Nick Mason releases his solo album, "Fictitious Sports" with help from Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt. 13th June: Pink Floyd play Earls Court. The performance is filmed for inclusion in the film of "The Wall" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1982 13th June: Sessions start at Britannia Row for "The Final Cut". 14th July: The world premiere of "the Wall" takes place at The Empire, Leicester Square. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1983 20th March: Roger Receives a B.A.F.T.A. award for "Another Brick In The Wall Part II". 21st March: "The Final Cut" is released. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1984 5th March: Dave Gilmour releases his second solo album, "About Face". It is co-written with Pete Townshend with whom Gilmour has been playing. 9th April: Rick Wright releases a self-titled album of his collaboration with Dave Harris, "Zee". April: Roger Waters releases his first solo single, "5.01 a.m. (The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking)". May: Roger Waters releases his first solo album, "The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking". Rehearsals begin for "The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking" world tour. Guitarist for the tour is Eric Clapton who played on every track of the album. 16th July: "The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking" world tour starts in Stockholm. 31st July: Eric Clapton quits Roger Waters tour band in Canada. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1985 13th July: Dave Gilmour appears at Live Aid as part of Bryan Ferry's band. 19th August: Nick Mason and Rick Fenn release their album, "Profiles". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1986 June: Recording starts on Astoria, Dave Gilmour's house-boat studio at Hampton for "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason". 11th October: Dave Gilmour appears on The Tube to help promote Pete Townshend's Double O charity. October: Roger Waters performs on the sountrack to the film, "When The Wind Blows" which is screened on television. 11th November: A press statement is issued stating that Pink Floyd intend to continue using the name without Roger Waters and are recording their next album. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1987 6th April: Roger Waters' lawyers issue a statement that Roger believes himself to be the creative driving force behind Pink Floyd and therefore he will contest the use of the name by anyone else. 15th June: 30 hired hands move 800 rented NHS beds onto Saunton Sands in North Devon for Storm Thorgerson to shoot what will be the cover of "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason". He had tried in Los Angeles but could not get the right sort of bed he wanted. June: Roger Waters releases his second solo album, "Radio Chaos". 14th August: The "Radio Chaos" world tour starts. 7th September: Dave Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright release "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" as Pink Floyd. 9th September: The "Momentary Lapse Of Reason" tour begins. Originally scheduled for 11 weeks, it lasts 22 months. 23rd December: Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters sign an agreement ending the years of dispute. From this date on, Waters will receive a royalty payment every time that any images created during his time with the band are used. Reproductions of the "Dark Side Of The Moon" ecg image, videos and flying pigs are all included. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1988 28th January: To promote the new tour, a giant inflatable bed is floated down the Thames past parliament. 16th June: Pink Floyd play Berlin. The concert is very close to The Wall and 2,000 East German fans gather at their side to listen. 21st June: The band plays Versailles. The show is filmed for the "Delicate Sound Of Thunder" video. August: More shows are filmed during the US leg of the tour. 17th October: A collection of out-takes and unheard tracks by Syd is released under the title, "Opel". October: Syd returns to the spotlight when a "journalist" from "The News Of The World" tracks him down to his home. Syd is described as "a lunatic who barks like a dog". 21st November: Pink Floyd release "Delicate Sound Of Thunder". 26th November: A copy of "Delicate Sound Of Thunder" travels into space with Russian cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 7. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1989 3rd June: Pink Floyd play Moscow. 15th July: The band plays Venice on a floating stage. 200,000 people are there but the damage they and the group's music do, causes incredible damage. Marble crumbles from buildings and fans damage some of the bridges. September: Roger Waters issues a High Court writ against the band for breach of copyright. He claims $ 35,000 compensation for illegal use of the inflatable pig, one of his concepts, which has been used on their latest tour. 5th November: Nick Mason finishes his fourth London to Brighton (vintage car) Rally. This time he is driving his 1901 Panhard-Levassor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1990 10th April: Dave Gilmour and Ginger, his wife of 15 years break-up. 23rd May: Nick Mason marries Annette Lynton at Chelsea Registry Office 30th June: Pink Floyd are one of the supergroups to play Knebworth Festival in aid of Nordorf Robbins music therapy. Their short set is preceded by a twenty minute film by Storm Thorgerson including old promo clips. 21st July: 400,000 people watch Roger Waters stage "The Wall" in Berlin's Potsdamerplatz with a variety of guests. 5th August: The Kebworth album is released featuring three Pink Floyd tracks, "Comfortably Numb", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Run Like Hell". 17th September: "The Wall - Live In Berlin" is released. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1991 18th October: Roger Waters appears at the Guitar Legends festival in Seville, Spain. He includes "Brain Damage" and "Comfortably Numb" in his set. His is the only performance by any past or present member of the band. The others content themselves with their cars, planes and yachts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1992 April: Atlantic Records offer Syd's family £ 75,000 for any new recordings. The family turn them down. 30th April: Roger Waters announces his engagement to Priscilla Phillips. 22nd June: David Gilmour plays guitar for Tom Jones at London's Town & Country Club. June: Pink Floyd return to the studio to start recording their next album. 28th July: David Gilmour plays Roger Waters original acoustic demo for "Money" on Nicky Horne's show on Radio One. 7th September: Roger Waters releases his new album, "Amused To Death". 9th November: The "Shine On" box set is released. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1993 23rd February: Channel 4's documentary series, "Without Walls" broadcast "The Art Of Tripping". The programme is conceived by Storm Thorgerson with a soundtrack provided by Dave Gilmour. February: Dave Gilmour announces the band have started work on their new album. 24th March: To mark the 20th anniversary of the release of "Dark Side Of The Moon", the album is re-mastered, re-packaged and re-released. 26th April: EMI release "Crazy Diamond - The Complete Syd Barrett" as a box set. April: Vinyl Experience Films release a 12 minute video tape made-up of footage of Syd taking magic mushrooms in the hills near Cambridge and Pink Floyd outside Abbey Road studios. 6th May: The Newbury bi-election. Colin Palmer, the 21st Century Party candidate, announces that his political beliefs are based on Pink Floyd's work. 28th July: Roger Waters marries Priscilla Phillips at Romsey Registry Office. 1st December: A press conference is held to announce the 1994 world tour dates. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1994 February: The band start rehearsals for a world tour. Their location is a disused aircraft hanger near Palm Springs in California. 30th March: "The Division Bell" is released. In keeping with the album's theme - a lack of communication, the band don't give any press conferences or interviews. 16th May: "Take It Back" is released as a single backed by a recent live version of "Astronomy Domine" as a tribute to Syd (and boost to his bank balance). June: George Harrison turns up back-stage at Pasedena and spends ten minutes chatting with someone he thinks is Steve O'Rourke. It is in fact Nick Mason. 15th July: Detroit and the first complete performance of "Dark Side Of The Moon" for nearly 20 years. 22nd July: First date of the European leg of the tour which is sponsored by Volkswagen for £ 9,000,000. To celebrate, they release a limited edition "Pink Floyd" Golf cabriolet, available to a select few for £ 17,000. 25th July: Digitally re-mastered versions of "A Saucerful Of Secrets", "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals". 29th July: Dave Gilmour marries Polly Samson at Marylebone Registry Office. 7th August: "The News Of The World" reports that Rick Wright's accountant, Martin Stainton, has vanished with £ 3,000,000 of Wright's money. He was also accountant for Rod Stewart, Tina Turner and Simple Minds amongst others. 7th September: Pink Floyd play Prague in the Czech Republic. After the gig, Dave Gilmour and Czech president Vaclav Havel stay up half the night talking. September: Roger Waters announces that he wants to turn "The Wall" into a stage musical! 14th October: The first of 14 nights "residency" at London's Earls Court. The evening is marred by a section of seating collapsing and injuring several people. December: Pink Floyd are officially announced as the biggest grossing act in rock history. The "Division Bell" tour played to 5,500,000 people in 68 cities and grossed £ 150,000,000. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1995 August: A double album of "The Division Bell" tour is released. Titled, "Pulse", the first 2,000,000 copies come in a "limited edition" box with a flashing light on the spine. September: Nick Mason's biography of the band is stopped by Dave Gilmour who wants an official biography which involves all three members. December: Pink Floyd are inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame | | |
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| this is a biograohy about me ville valo and a little on HIM Ville Hermanni Valo - half sneering hard rock front man, half suffering poet. On stage with a bottle of red wine in one hand and a cigarette in the other, a Jim Morrisonesque figure (in Jimbo's slimmer days, that is...) with a deeply emotional voice, he instantly demands your attention. His mother's Hungarian ancestors are responsible for his dark looks and that drop of Dracula's blood that he has in his system. HIM stands for His Infernal Majesty. So....There he was, working behind the counter of his father's sex shop. It was all right for the time being, but the boy with an angel's face and a devilish smile had a dream. Disillusioned with the music he heard around him, he wanted something more. The music was lacking in soul and imagination. He wanted something that could move you, bring you to the verge of tears, leave a mark on you. And he fulfilled his dream..... There are three fellows who want to spit out their ideas in the musical way. The guys are very good friends since their childhood. They are Ville Hermanni Valo, Mikko Lindström (also known as Linde, Lintti and Lily Lazer) and Mikko Paananen (known as Migé Amour). At the beginning Ville plays bassguitar, but because Mige also plays it Ville starts to sing. Before HIM starts Ville plays the bass in the progressive band called Donits-Osmo. There are experiments with some persons that lately played in Ultra Bra. Ville makes some demos and plays it to Mige who rapidly enchanted on it. They need a guitarist for their new band and because they know Linde already, they only need a drummer. Ville's good friend Suho (the singer of Jimsonweed) gave Ville the phonenumber of Pätkä (real name:Mikko Rantala) and the band is ready. Pätkä had played in the Grungeband called Slumgudgeon from Lappeenranta. [The rest of the band jokes about Pätkä's origin. Lappenranta is smaller town in the eastern Finland.] The band is named: His Infernal Majesty. "It stands entirely for my reputation of being a truly infernal ladies' man, totally hopeless. I get burned time after time again. His Infernal Majesty has nothing whatsoever to do with ANY kind religious beliefs or ideologies - just as in our context 666 has nothing to do with the number of the beast. When I read about those people that burned historical Finnish churches and who names us along with Black Sabbath and Dimmu Borgir as being their main source of inspiration, I was deeply offended!" Ville Hermanni Valo forms HIM finally in the summer of 1995, gathering around him some old friends who shared his vision of a brand of rock Ville himself calls 'love metal'. Depeche Mode meets Dimmu Borgir in a David Lynch movie... Ville about love metal "You're so close! Love metal is music that includes elements of pop, metal, goth, glam... It's music inspired by the feelings you have before the first touch, before the first kiss. Love metal is like the movie poster of Gone with the Wind, you know, Clark Gable embracing Vivien Leigh in the sunset." Now they start public performances which are actually coverversionshows, because they've got not enough own material to play. They play Rauli Badding Somerjoki, Dingo, WASP, KISS, Depeche Mode, Type O' Negative and everything in between them. Ville imagines that the music he wants to play should sound like Dimmu Borgir meets Depeche Mode in a David Lynch movie. They (actually it is Ville) start to make own material. The first EP is released in autumn 1996. It is called "666 Ways To Love" - Prologue and on the cover of the record is the picture of Ville's mother when she was young. The EP contains their breakthrough song which is the coverversion of the Chris Isaak hit "Wicked Game". It was played with fuzzed guitars and mood from the TV-serie "Twin Peaks". At the end of 1996 Ville sings the background vocals of the 69 Eyes' album "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams". After the EP-release they get a new member keyboarder Antto Melasniemi which is an old friend of Ville. At the same time the band's name gets shorter. Now it's simply called HIM. "Wicked Game" is the 'maintheme' of their first album which is released in autumn 1997. The HIM version has layers ofhard-edged guitars on it but the soul-searching inner qualities of that song are left intact. "I could relate to the mood in that song, it contains that same kind of melancholy feeling that you can find in our music. After all, we have much more in common with a guy like Chris Isaak than any testosterone-heavy metal band. I hate joyful music! For You is my 'headbanging anthem', if you know what I mean? When Love and Death Embrace on the other hand is my version of all those cheesy 80's pop ballads." HIM's debut album Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666 has a track on it called Your Sweet Six Six Six. For Ville and HIM, 666 is all about contradictions, the Good and the Evil in love. Love that's larger than life and yet very close to death, the neverending duel between the carnal and the pure, spiritual sides. "666 is something you're posessed with, something you just have to get although you know it will destroy you in the end. It's something sweet but it has a bitter aftertaste, like Belgian beer or something, ha-ha..." .... says Ville Valo the androgynous figure on the cover of Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666, burning in the fires of hell and staring into nowhere. A guy who started his musical career learning the bass entirely because of Gene Simmons' pyrotechnics and for whom performing is a kind of mental masturbation. The sex shop boy who with had band HIM has just delivered one of the most impressive debut albums of the 90's. This album contains another coverversion, a stunning, slowed down reading of "(Don't Fear) The Reaper". The song was originally recorded by Blue Öyster Cult in 1970's. "You could say that Romeo and Juliet are the hero and heroine in our music - that's why we chose to cover (Don't Fear) The Reaper. I heard the original for the first time on the soundtrack of Halloween and it has stayed with me ever since."HIM work hard on stage and start to plan their future. The second album is first named "Slippery When Dead" in the dedication to Ville's favourite Bon Jovi. Originally it should be released in spring 1999, but they get some problems. Antto leaves the band in autumn 1998 and is replaced by Jussi-Mikko Salminen (known as Zoltan Pluto or Juska). Juska was a hardcorefan of HIM and formerly member of the Glamrockband Mary-Ann from Kouvola. The first gig he ever does together with HIM is their first gig outside of Finland in Germany in November 1998. They have tours in Germany, Austria and Switzerland at the end of 1998. Towards the end of 1998 Ville again sings the background vocals on the 69 Eyes album 'Wasting the Dawn'. He also helps with the pre-productions of the vocals and gives the redwine guidance for the album. They record almost the whole year 1999. They do this with Pätkä, however, the band is not satisfied with it. Pätkä's girlfriend becomes pregnant and he doesn't want to give 100% for the band. So Pätkä leaves the band and is replaced by Mika Karppinen (also known as Gas Lipstick or Kaasu). Kaasu was formerly a member of Kyyria. They record the album again in Wales. In November 1999 they finally release new material. The single is called "Join Me" and it is featured in the Roland Emmerich film "The 13th Floor". It immediately becomes the number one in Finland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Before their second album the band is a guest of other finnish bands, e.g. in the video of Neljä Ruusua and the song 'Hunningolla'. Ville also sings three songs of Rauli Badding Somerjoki with the Agents in the TV-show called 'Laulava Sydän'. [The songs have been lately released on an album with other finnish singers.] In January 2000 they release their second album whose title is changed into "Razorblade Romance". It is also top of the charts in Finland, Germany and Austria. The album is not that darkmooded as their first album. It's rather in the style of the 80's. The cover is pink in contradiction to goths, because they use black very often. In spring (in Germany on Valentine's Day) they release their second single 'Right Here In My Arms'. It is number one in Finland. In Germany the position is 21. On June 17th HIM play their only gig in summer 2000 in their homecountry Finland. That happens in Provinssirock in Seinäjoki. In summer the third single 'Poison Girl' is released. The best chartpositions is number 3 in Finland and number 34 in Germany. When July is turning to August HIM are in Hollola recording demos for their new album. Rumours tell that they have already recorded 11 new songs. On two evenings in the center of Lahti at a restaurant called Teerenpeli Ville also sings two surprise performances with the material of Rauli Badding Somerjoki. The band's musicians are from Lahti. HIM also becomes popular in Greece where the records climb into the Top 10. Ville is backing vocals again with the 69 Eyes. The new 69 Eyes' album is released in Finland in September 2000. In August 2000 HIM is taking shots for 2 forthcoming videos in England. There are also rumours about contributions of Desmond Child. Child is a famous composer of Bon Jovi,Alice Cooper etc. ^Recent Events^ The finnish singer Tuomari Nurmio will be fifty in november 2000. There will be released a album for him and Ville is singing a song called "Valo Yössä'. The song is dedication to Nurmio and his father. Ville's father, he was a taxidriver when Ville was a little boy, he always played it and it became an important song to Ville. In October 2000 HIM release the fourth and last single of "Razorblade Romance". It is 'Gone With The Sin' and contains a version in collaboration with Avanti Orchestra and Radiomafia. There is a section of strings behind Ville. The version is arranged and produced by a respected finnish musicperson, Otto Donner. Ville wanted to put something special to the single for the fans. He doesn't like to rip-off the money of them. [Avanti is a finnish chambermusic collective and Radiomafia a finnish national radiostation.] The finnish humourband Eläkeläiset made a coverversion of 'Join Me' in the autumn 2000. The song is retitled 'Humppasonni' and it's played in humppastyle which is an oldfashioned finnish musicstyle. HIM breaks the platinumlimit in Germany and the band plays an acoustic concert in Köln. "Wicked Game" is the next singlerelease in England. For the next album they already have about 14 songs and they plan to go to studio in december 2000. One choice for the title of the album is 'Ozzymandias Dargunum'. It might be an intermediate of the first two albums. It could be straighter, more melodic, more rockin' and hopefully more live than studio. They like to put more Hurriganes in the music which means that the style might be closer to the 70's than the 80's. Ville is voted most stylish pop-person in Finland by listeners of Radiomafia. He gets more votes than anyone else. At the end of October BMG becomes recordcompany of the year and Seppo Vesterinen is chosen as a manager of the year 2000 in Finland. "Gone With The Sin" climbs the top of the singlecharts in Finland and gets position 19 in Germany in its releaseweek. "Wicked Game" will be heard in a Chilean moviesoundtrack. In the year 2000 Razorblade Romance-album reaches platinumrecords from Finland and Germany and goldrecords from Austria, Switzerland and Poland. In Portugal and in Greece the album is close to goldrecord selling. HIM wins two awards [from Viva and ZDF] in Germany in autumn 2000. HIM gets the awards for the best video ["Join Me"] and the band was also the channel's most popular one. HIM puts its videoprize to sell by auction. It is kept in the internet at the end of the year 2000. The proceeds of the auction goe to the children's neurological ward of Helsinki's academic central hospital. Juska plays his last gig in HIM at New Year's gig in Helsinki. In future he wants to concentrate on his studies and his energy won't be enough for the band. Ville will play the keyboards for their forthcoming album. They replacement for Juska Salminen is Emerson Burton. HIM play first gig without Juska in Helsinki on January 12nd in little club called Semifinal. Behind the keyboards there is 'an old friend' of the band. Burton has formerly played in bands like Cosmos Tango, Sub-Urban Tribe and Torpedo. His real name is Jonne Puurtinen. At the end of January 2001 the total sales of the two albums get over the limit of one million copies internationally. The first album Greatest Lovesongs Vol.666 has been sold about 223.000 times and it's a platinumrecord in Finland. Razorblade Romance have a friend in 795.000 homes and it got platinum in Finland and Germany. The record achieves goldrecordlimits in Austria, Switzerland, Poland and Portugal. The next goldrecord is probably coming from Greece. In Germany Razorblade Romance is the second best-selling album of BMG after Supernatural by Santana in 2000. In February 2001 Razorblade Romance has been in the German album charts for more than a year ! Furthermore in February at the finnish Emma Awards HIM win in two categories: the band of the year and the album of the year. Austrian Rennbahn Express readers vote HIM to get three golden penguins. Ville Valo is the star and the singer of the year and HIM win the category 'band of the year'. In February the official website Heartagram.com wins the most popular prize in the international advertisement competition. The competition is organized by the union of marketing communication offices. The Jury of the competition says that the site is the best international advertisement in Finland right now and it also does excellent export marketing. According to the sites' designers (Satama Interactive) Heartagram.com collects about 10.000 visitors daily. Ville is a guest singer in the reunion gig of the Finnish goth band Musta Paraati at Tavastia Club, Helsinki in March 23rd 2001. The original singer of Musta Paraati died in early 1990's and his name was Jore. There are also talkings about tribute album. In April 2001 the readers of the Finnish magazine Seepra vote a band 'Finnish Allstars' and Ville is chosen as singer. The other 'members' of this band would be guitarist Albert Järvinen and drummer Remu Aaltonen (both from Hurriganes) and basist Pekka Pohjola (known from Wigwam). Voters choose also an alternative fifth member for the band and it is pianoplayer Lenni-Kalle Taipale. The number of votes is 1067. Ville says about this band: 'Sounds scaring. I'm not sure that I belong to company like that. I'm afraid of that record sessions of the band like that would turn into a fight. Here's so many big egos - some kind of soloartists, so this is arising the hell on earth.'HIM is going to release their first single ’Pretending’ of the forthcoming album ‘Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights’ on July 2nd 2001 and the album is planned to be released on August 27th. The single is going to include a few remixes of the song and there will also be a special edition of the single which contains a couple of surprises from the band. The band had had 14 songs ready for the album in summer 2000 and one choice for the title of the album had been 'Ozzymandias Dargunum'. The record is supposed to be the intermediate of the first two albums. It might be straighter, more melodic, more rockin' and hopefully more live than studio. They put more Hurriganes into the music which means that the record will be closer to the 1970's than the 1980's. That’s what Ville says about the album in autumn 2000 in an interview for the Finnish radiostation Radio Mafia. Guitarist Linde releases a soloalbum in May 2001 under his pseudonym Daniel Lioneye. He’s doing some gigs in Finland with a group called the Rollers. The Rollers contain members of few Finnish rockbands. By the way, Ville plays the drums on Daniel Lioneye’s record
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