Nightwish Reaction: Classical Guitarist REACTS to Nightwish Weak Fantasy (Live in Tampere 2015)

[@JoneRuiz]

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[@tland4912]

Troy got a question from a journalist once: Is there anything you don’t play? Troy answers: Yes. Ice hockey.

[@Thorgrim247]

Troy is playing a bouzouki. A type of traditional guitar/mandolin with 4 double strings. It is a little buried in the mix of this heavy song. He is basically just strumming the rhythm.

[@FrankWirth-ij4rq]

Troy is such a BEAST on anything. He is chopping that Mandolinish Guitar. Kai??? Floor?? Oh fk the whole band. Production people?? Great live band.

[@diedzjeeoudshoorn7726]

Fantastic song, fantastic performance, fantastic singer, fantastic lyrics. I totally feel at home in those lyrics.

[@tarmotyyri6733]

🇫🇮❤Just to let you know, the bassist Marko Hietala also studied & played classical guitar in his younger years.

[@erickvermeulen9734]

I think Troy is playing the Irish bouzouki, a mandolin like instrument (four double strings), while Marko has a double neck with a bass and a guitar neck. I bought an electric mandolin but still need to figure out the chords, the tuning is like a violin.

[@ecbftl]

I seem to remember reading that Marko studied classical guitar early in his career. Love the sound of his Framus acoustic guitar in this piece and in The Islander song from this concert.

[@572Btriode]

Hmmmmm, it's not really an acoustic guitar that Marko has, it's a Warwick/Framus Infinity (Bass)/Panthera (solid body 6 string). The Infinity/Panthera is in the Warwick catalogue but to custom shop order only and exceedingly expensive !!!! The acoustic tone is from a piezo pick up in the bridge and a Kemper modelling amplifier.

[@Bonovin]

Its 7 am here in Sweden , great song in the morning . Love it ... thank you

[@dianabryson5264]

New subscriber here. I`m always going to subscribe to anyone who reacts to Nightwish as they have been my favorite for over 15 years.

[@Mars-is4un]

🤗🍒🤘🏻 well done Jone

[@NickBR57]

Hi Jone One of the very best Nightwish songs, well up towards my top 6. Suggestion: 7 Days to the Wolves from Wembley 2015... Most of the orchestration for Nightwish is by Pip Williams, though the new album has a different arranger Here Marco plays The Beast, his double necked Warwick Bass and Framus 6-string. He doesn't usually put too much effect on the Framus, leaving it sounding more acoustic than electric. It is, of course, custom made for him as he is a Warwick exclusive artist (and Framus is part of the same group of companies as Warwick). IIRC The Beast is around 17kg but I could be wrong. Things I love about this song, and this is my preferred version, include the way Floor can switch accents, styles and so on within the same phrase - going from the soft "wake up child" into more operatic-toned "once upon a time" into a more aggressive "your only truth". Marco's vocals are excellent too. There is good enough videography here to see exactly how he is achieving the enunciation he gets in lyrics like "the strength of our love" and "mother's milk laced with poison" (a reference to religious indoctrination from birth, and hate of those in other religions). Also love Marcos "acoustic" playing (yes I know it's amplified). Before switching to bass he was a lead guitarist and you can see his skills on pieces like this, The Islander, Elvenjig/Elvenpath, My Walden and others. It is, of course, about the bad sides of organised religions - not religions per se but the power structures that grow around the organisation of religion. As such it caused some controversy on release. Here are some comments from band members at the time and also a brief comment from Marco about The Beast... MARCO: What comes to the new lyrics, "Weak Fantasy" was the only one that actually hints at ancient tribal literature We obviously realized that religion is a touchy subject and that we'd have to carefully consider the tone of the lyrics. It's still funny that you can publicly criticize and mock art and politics as much as you want, as well as artists and politicians but when you stick your finger in the hornet's nest of religion.. uh-oh. TROY: We were working on "Weak Fantasy" for quite a while. Tuomas originally used more direct, aggressive metaphors, but in the end, we decided to opt for a more ambiguous tone. Some people might still find "Weak Fantasy" confrontational, but you can have different interpretations as well. The wisdom is in the eye of the beholder. TUOMAS: We discussed this stuff with the band for hours on end, and everybody stood behind the lines in Weak Fantasy" for instance. In Nightwish, I have never felt the need to neither rebel nor preach, and that hasn't changed, but if the listener stops to consider different viewpoints because of our music, that's always great. There's never enough open, intelligent, and unprejudiced discussion in the world. Marco- There's obviously nothing wrong with leaning a higher power per se. A belief in something supernatural can comfort you and help you get through the day. But its just horrible when people use ancient religions as an excuse for their own utterly condemnable acts or to instigate senseless indiscriminate hatred towards others. Blind fundamentalism seldom leads to anything good, whether you bow to Allah. Jahve, Jesus, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or something else. TROY: As the wisdom goes, if you could reason with a fundamentalist, there would be no fundamentalists. TUOMAS: It's only during the last years that l've started to question my own religious stance. Why have I been a Lutheran and believed in the kind of God Lutherans do? It's simply because I was born in Finland in the 1970's. In another culture, in another time, there would have been another god above others. In 10th century Denmark, I would have worshipped Odin and Thor. If I'd been born North Korean, I would've been forbidden to believe in any kind of Supreme Being In other words: what you believe in - or what you think you believe in - is based on pure coincidence. TROY: It's baffling, but some of my friends are actually afraid that I will be cast intothe fiery pits of hell. I can only compare these dear friends of mine to chain smokers in this respect: they know it's unhealthy, but they still refuse to quit. I don't understand why people believe in something without any proof, yet laugh at other similar beliefs - I mean, if I were to claim that you can live to be 150 by eating just yoghurt, nobody would believe me. They would ask me for some kind of proof and research findings. Why can't they apply this logic universally? TUOMAS: To be precise, I consider my- self an agnostic atheist. I don't believe in God, so that makes me an atheist How do I know that God does not exist? I don't, but neither does anybody else. That's why I am also an agnostic. To confess that you do not know some- thing is actually an intelligent and constructive stance. It makes you humble, unlike a blind belief in something unproven MARCO: We had just returned from an 18-month hiatus, so everybody was itching to make some noise again even to rehearse! It's always interesting to play new material, because new songs are not in muscle memory yet. I'm using a double-neck instrument for "Weak Fantasy" for example, and there's a moment when I have to leave the bass humming, turn on the guitar, and, on a certain eighth note quickly grab the other neck. You have to practise these things quite a bit to be able to play them with confidence.

[@JoneRuiz]

Thank you for all these information about the song. Very interesting. Also, thanks for the suggestion!

[@JoseDiaz-qw7mg]

I’ve wondered how would Anette sing this. Her voice fits really well with the song

[@anneliendekramer9243]

Stabat matar dolorosa.....epica featuring floor jansen...are you in for a treat? ❤ its a classic hymne, opera..

[@jaanaliden9837]

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[@davidlagassee8236]

try NORTHERN KINGS with marko and a couple oyher great singers. guaranteed pleasure try epica SANGTA TERRA withfloor and simone and an orchestra, guitars, and a choir.

[@ilkkak3065]

Their backing track is made with London Philharmonic Orchestra, James Shearman and Pip Williams. So might take some time before they do show with orchestra. Could react to Battle Beast - Tempest of Blades kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGavhKaXjdqCjsUsi=LnUQTQ2qe3BUZdCE Please?

[@youaremysecretstream]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘❣️ It's an electric bouzouki Troy's playing.

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