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Tuomas Holopainen has posted the following entry in the online Nightwish diary:
"I'm writing this while flying back to Finland from Hamburg, Germany. We spent the weekend there with Ewo & Toni (King Foo), meeting some people from the publishing company and Nuclear Blast. They wanted to hear some new Nightwish demo songs and make some preliminary plans for the year 2007. The meeting went really well, one broken stereo system, due to listening to the new songs far too loud, and a bunch of happy big bosses. The feedback from them was very flattering, which naturally gave us loads of confidence. We also chose the upcoming single songs.
The discussion went on in the evening in our hotel room. Posing in the cover of latest Talouselämä (Financial lives) magazine, business guru Holopainen decided to draw back from the conversation, since he didn't understand anything of the jargon they were talking about. I'm happy to leave the money issues etc. to those smarter than me.
In a few moments I find myself in Clochard bar, hammering nails into a wooden log, and drinks into my head. Kapanen, the legendary keeper of the Hamburg rock shop, and Ville of HIM are also there. Kapanen wins this extremely simple but addictive hammer-a-nail-into-a-log-game every time. But hey, he was the only one sober.
The journey continued into another bar, where Ewo and Toni also joined us. This girl, hanging from an aluminum pole, was having a birthday. Ville and I sang a 'Happy Birthday' song to her (Ville sang, I sounded like Evinrude-engine in distress), a gesture which gave us free drinks for the rest of the night. One way of making it cheap, I guess.
A couple of weeks ago I visited Emppu in his studio in Kerava, Finland, checking out his progress with the guitars he's been recording for the upcoming Nightwish album. He had 13/15 done of the comp guitars. 4 comp guitars with 2 different sounds (Bogner + Engl & MesaBoogie + Marshall). In addition to these, he will record 2 more guitars here 'n there with a special sound, plus leads and solos. This is pretty much the same way we recorded guitars for the Once album. Everything he's done so far sounds simply fantastic, and played with utmost care. First Jukka`s better-than-ever effort and then this.
I feel very proud of the guys.
The very next day we tested another vocalist canditate. She came to the studio to sing some new songs. Sounded astonishingly good! She sang one of the new slower songs with such soul it made the songwriter bite his lip instead of producing.
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