Nightwish - Dead Boys Poem Reaction, That Guitar SOLO!!!

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[@TimoArula]

As soon as Floor started singing my eyes went all misty. One thing someone pointed out on another reaction to this song that I thought was pretty poignant….Emppu’s guitar solo…the expression on his face when he finishes…not his usual smiling, happy visage. Maybe that demonstrates the power of this song….it even got to him. Marko's instrument is called "The Beast". The top neck is a 4 string bass guitar, and the bottom one is a 6 string electric guitar. For Tuomas himself this song means a lot. He has said that this is the “mother of all Nightwish songs, about himself and how he wants people to remember him as when he passes away. He said ”This is the most personal song I’ve ever written. My testimony for the whole world. With this song I want to apologise everyone who deserves my apology. It also makes an “I don’t care” -statement to them who deserve it. The song is also about what Nightwish means and has meant to me. It’s all, without it I’m dead. I have created it and it has created me. When I pass away, this song’s lyrics are of what I wish to be remembered. An Ocean Soul.” Here are the words read by the boy; I live no more to shame, nor me, nor you I'm sorry If you read this line Remember not the hand that wrote it Remember only the verse Songmaker's cry, the one without tears For I've given this its strength And it has become my only strength Comforting home, mother's lap, chance for immortality Where being wanted became a thrill I never knew The sweet piano writing down my life Teach me passion, for I fear it's gone Show me love, hold the lorn So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me I'm sorry Time will tell, this bitter farewell I live no more to shame, nor me, nor you And you I wish I didn't feel for you anymore So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me Time will tell NWSU/FloorFan 🤘😎🤘

[@Kelsea-2002]

Unfortunately, it has become established pretty much all over the world that radio stations only play short songs around 3 minutes. It's hard to imagine how successful Nightwish would be if this wasn't the case. ❤Nightwish Forever❤

[@evergreendorneymahoning5435]

And radio can not exist without processed tunes using Auto Tune

[@jaskau2462]

...Yet they aren't too willing to deal with the business which is revolving around monetary system...

[@FERNANDOAUGUSTO-fv1ck]

I don't heard nightwish in any radio station

[@redguern]

My local radio station ignored my request to play Floor Jansen as they prefer playing garbage by Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora etc. I no longer listen to the station.

[@evergreendorneymahoning5435]

@@redguernwhen I am in my car, I can go through the radio dial 3 or 4 times without stopping on something decent - I'll go through at least 2 "classic rock" channels playing the same songs over and over since 1973, a few more that play nothing but current hip hop, club music laced with vocals saved by autotune that all sound like the same person is singing, another 2 religion channels and 2 or 3 more country/western channels - watch reactors from America completely blown away by Nightwish saying "why have I not heard of this band before now" and can only say Floor reminds them of Amy Lee because they have no one else to compare her to - well, the answers are contained in my above text

[@ValtteL]

Background things Swan on the screen: In Finnish mythology and folklore, the swan was the divine messenger between the living and the dead. Tuonelan Joutsen (Swan of Tuonela) carries the dead to afterlife. Tuomas composed this when he was 22 years old. This from their book, timeline year 2000: ------------------------ Besides the choir, the album featured some other guest artists, Ike Vil of Babylon Whores contributed some deranged self-inspection for 'The Kinslayer', and 'Dead Boy's Poem' featured a child's voice. "I had an idea of a song with a young boy reciting a poem", Tuomas says. "The trouble was that no Finnish 12-year-old could pronounce English so that it sounded right, so I had to find a native speaker to do it. My mother's sister, actress Miitta Sorvali, knew (the English-Finnish director and writer) Neil Hardwick well, and my mom remembered that Neil had a son called Sam. I called him and asked him to do the poem, and Sam agreed right away. It was just funny that when I talked to this 15-year-old boy, he seemed like such a citizen of the world and was actually familiar with our band, too. Sam said he'd be free to record the poem anytime; I'd just have to give him a call. He even knew where Finnvox was and promised to meet us there." The professionalism of young Sam Hardwick made a deep impression on Tuomas. "When he arrived at the studio, I had to ask him to wait for ten minutes or so, and he just pulled a book from his pocket and sat down to read", Tuomas says. "I gave him the poem, and he read it through a few times. We did some editing, and Sam just sat down on the studio floor and read his book, after which I asked him to read the poem a couple of more times." "When I started talking about his reward, he wouldn't hear anything about it. He just said "It's okay, it was fun". I insisted on giving him at least a couple of hundred marks, and then he left. A very puzzling young man, but a real pro and a very nice person. He later did the beginning of 'Bless the Child', too, and once again, everything worked like a charm. 'Dead Boy's Poem' continues to be a sort of a signature song for Nightwish, and after 'Wishmaster' came out, the song was voted on our web site as the best Nightwish song ever. There's certainly something about it that defines us, and - for me at least - the poem is the absolute high point of the song. So Sam Hardwick made a big contribution to our music." For Tuomas, 'Dead Boys Poem' is a deeply personal song. "The idea for that song came to me when I was thinking that if I die tomorrow, what kind of a message do I want to leave behind", Tuomas explains. "That song is all about apologizing, about saying thank you to those who deserve it - and likewise telling those who deserve it to fu*k off. It's kind of a testament. I had to make a song like that, just in case I happened to die tomorrow. A Finnish man rarely thanks anyone, or says he's sorry, but for me at least, it was possible through music." "I still live at my mom and dad's, who are the best people in the world, but I've never been able to tell them what I think about them", Tuomas confesses. "Maybe if they listen to the song and read the lyrics, they'll understand that it's partly about them, too. It's also about my best friends and Nightwish, the band that has come to be a significant - if not the most significant - part of myself in the course of years. My band mates are really important to me, but it's hard for me as a Finnish man to show my feelings. I'd rather write a song like 'Dead Boy's Poem' and ask them to listen to the words, because I just can't say it out loud. It's such a personal song, and I think it has the best lyrics I've ever been able to write. Musically, it's really good, too, definetely the best song on 'Wishmaster' - maybe the best Nightwish song ever." It had not gone unnoticed by Tarja (1st lead singer) that Tuomas expressed his feelings through music. "The melodic power of music - and the fact that music can be beautiful even at its heaviest - has always meant an awful lot to Tuomas", Tarja says. "He's able to show all his feelings in his music. I think Tuomas is very brave, because not many people can do the same. He may not look like a macho man, but when it comes to music, It's all or nothing for him."

[@jamieberrings9753]

She is the best. Such a beautiful soul. The whole band is amazing.

[@Duskwind_]

This isn't a ballad, it's a funeral dirge for Tuomas' lost childhood. As soon as I hear the first G-minor passage on the piano tears start to well up, then Floor comes in with her whispery yet oh-so potent vocals and I'm dirty-crying instantly. The death of innocence is a sad, sad thing...

[@madluck04]

Emppu is one of the best guitarists nowadays cuz he can do anything that is necessary(!) to the song. No skillshow no overdoing things... just what the song needs.

[@monicacarolina6480]

Song facts: This song is about a young boy who is misunderstood. He never has had anyone close or anyone at all to talk to, so his music is what he lives for and is where he puts his feelings. His music gives him the push to keep on living and he puts everything into it. He tries to improve his life but whatever he does, he can never get back to the way he used to be. He says that people shouldn't ask for a better world because the world has already been made and been done. In the talking part of the song, he is telling people not to remember him but to remember the music that was his life. He wants a mother's lap to sit on, he just wants to be loved. He cares about the world but he feels like he is just a waste of space because he has nothing and no one to love him he is just like an ocean - abused - and is just a very lonely boy and it is just his "bitter farewell." Thanks❤

[@mvellis3863]

Marco calls his guitar "The Beast." It's a Warwick bass and a Framus 6-string

[@wangtang7768]

@mvellis , I thought I read or heard that Warwick and Framus are basically the same company, is that true ? Sorry I’m not a guitar guy but that is one sick Beast lol

[@humphreyterveer1338]

Floor & Nightwish is something else as we know!

[@Frightspear]

Thank you, very nice reaction! Just Nightwish doing Nightwish things! And as you have surely noticed, although they are all outstanding , none of them standout. Nightwish is their own genre and no other band comes close to the level they are at. This is one of my favorites, for sure, and some consider it one of the "Big Three", the other two being "The Poet and the Pendulum" and "The Greatest Show on Earth". Here, Tuomas is thinking about how he wants to be remembered. Dead Boy and Ocean Soul are two names that he refers to himself by often. The band knows how much this song means. Emppu, usually smiling and laughing, is dead serious during this song, and the others are all striving to do justice to this masterwork. Thank you for this great reaction.

[@Rackelhane]

Floor is at home in Nightwish and for me she has taken the band to next level. Thank you for a great reaction. Cheers from a finn in Sweden.

[@frenkwd1]

my favorite song.

[@tsiouparoglou4493]

Jesus, what a Woman pffff 🌷😍🔥❤

[@warbear323]

Yeah. Floor makes any song look easy to sing. This song doesn't seem that challenging, but there are a few places that lesser singers would struggle to do nearly as well. The delicate beginning verses, with the subtle shifts in vocal style and "color". The silky smooth decrescendo without moving her mouth away from the mic (commonly used to mimic better vocal control). The rock-steady low (for her) notes in the first two of the last four lines. And of course her amazingly powerful high belts. And all the while giving a visual performance that is just mesmerizing, as always. Queen Floor in all her glory.

[@Drinckx2]

Marko's double-necked guitar - referred to as the beast is a hybrid of two different makes. The bass is Warwick and the guitar part is Framus. Warwick bought Framus, hence the hybrid. If you look at the lead(s), it's a complex looking set up and there is some midi interaction, I assume, to get the acoustic guitar sound. Emppu is not playing a Jackson - it is his signature ESP EM-1 (EM - Emppu Vuorinen).

[@glenngunnis6642]

That double neck is known to the crew as The Beast!🤘🎸

[@Drew_Guitarist]

ESP, his own signature series.

[@PaulOutdoors]

It doesn't get any better than Nightwish with Floor live 🙏😊👍❤️

[@alejandromoya7]

👍Only for choice that gem. I see you at the video-reaction/analysis!!! 👏😉

[@tracyfarnath2270]

Great reaction, Nightwish never disappoints 🇬🇧

[@Thorgrim247]

This is a very emotional and personal song for Tuomas. The small child's voice represents Tuomas inner child speaking. When asked what this song was about "Tuomas has said about this song, that it's about if he were to die tomorrow, what would he want to say to everyone that he loves, and that love him..." Notice the small boy on the screen reaching out to the flying swans on the screen. He is reaching out to implore them to take him with to the other side. In archaeological excavations done in Karelia, a child was found and its body was laying upon a wing of a swan. In Finnish mythology and folklore, the swan was the divine messenger between the living and the dead. When a swan dropped its head below the surface, people of old times believed that it was communicating to the spirit world. Killing swans was a terrible crime because it was as bad as murdering a human. Punishments for killing swans were severe, the usual penalty was death. Swan song often symbolizes an artist´s last performance but for a long time all across the world all the way to the 17th century it was believed that swans only sang when they died. A beautiful song filled with sadness from an unfulfilled destiny. Here are the spoken words from Dead Boy's Poem. "If you read this line Remember not the hand that wrote it Remember only the verse Songmaker's cry, the one without tears For I've given this its strength And it has become my only strength Comforting home, mother's lap, chance for immortality Where being wanted became a thrill I never knew The sweet piano writing down my life" "Teach me passion, for I fear it's gone Show me love, hold the lorn So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me I'm sorry Time will tell, this bitter farewell I live no more to shame, nor me, nor you And you I wish I didn't feel for you anymore" A lonely soul An ocean soul

[@guybaeyens2513]

and Floor reaching out with the same posture while singing early in the song. Just beautiful

[@majbrat]

So gorgeous - every time

[@markweiss9178]

The 8 string instrument Troy is playing is a Bouzouki. It originated in Greece. Lucky for us he playes it a lot.

[@mdudley52]

Emppu plays a custom ESP-EV1

[@erikchristiansen1323]

Emppu is playing a ESP EV1, his own signature guitar.

[@paisa20]

Thanks for the reaction, greetings from Colombia

[@black4pienus]

GP42 sees bass and guitar in one (The Beast) and jizzed his pants. lol. And I don't think you're the only one. It's called The Beast for a reason.

[@kylestaples465]

Watch The Islander live at Tampere. it s a solo Marko song for the most part and hes on this double neck it sounds phenomenal

[@markmorales9402]

You have to check out 7 Days to the Wolf!!!

[@jasonmarshall7572]

Written by Tuomas the key board player. Another great song where Tuomas who is an empath communicates through his music rather then through other more social ways.

[@robertthurman9866]

Marko the Bass player has a contract with Warwick.

[@Mars-is4un]

🤗🍒🤘🏻 well done , And what a great song

[@danilolapierre5610]

You should really also react to songs from the early live albums "From Wishes to Eternity" (2000) and "End of an Era" (2005) with Tarja Turunen as lead singer.

[@user-le5fu3vx9e]

all the lyrics, include the boy's voice text, were writing by Tuomas, and, as I suppose, about himself...

[@mandje2002]

Try Ayreon - The Day That The World Breaks Down - The Source (2017) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXfYfn6ap9-Dp7c And Ayreon - Valley of the Queens (Anneke van Giersbergen, Floor Jansen, Marcela Bovio) kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipPIk4Jrd7-cY6s Or Star One - Fate of Man (Brittney Slayes, Michael Romeo) kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ-agWali7Khr9U Or Arjen Lucassen's Supersonic Revolution - Golden Age Of Music (Official Music Video) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZ_cnoShj62mZ80 Or Ambeon - Ashes (Simone Simons) (Electric Castle Live And Other Tales) kzbin.info/www/bejne/kH21ZJSKptF1hMk Or Guilt Machine - Twisted Coil (Damian Wilson) (Electric Castle And Other Tales) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZSrn2OheMygd9U

[@paisa20]

I love Nightwish, I think it's time to meet another band The Warning A rock band of 3 sisters from Mexico Let The Warning Army arrives !!! 2014 Enter Sandman - METALLICA Cover - The Warning kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5PShox4brF5gLs 2021 Alessia Cara & The Warning - "Enter Sandman" (Official Music Video) - The Metallica Blacklist Album kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6WugpqbqKiWisU From their new album (2021) The Warning - CHOKE (Official Video) kzbin.info/www/bejne/ip2yqmOOl6uJoq8 The Warning - Z (Live Session) kzbin.info/www/bejne/opSvpnVorbGfY5o The Warning - DISCIPLE (Official Music Video) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmqqlIZupdmjebs

[@jaskau2462]

🤩👍💯💥 🎼 🤘😎 🇫🇮 💙

[@whirledpeaz5758]

HORNS! Is there anything more majestic than French horns? Oh yes, Floor. Empuu's Solos are always a highlight. He brings the house down in High Hopes, End of an Era kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIm3nptum6iSiLM

[@papaverweg]

Did you recognize the Jesus Christ statue in the pose that Floor takes at @ 5:46/11:01min. As if she was standing on top of that mountain herself, looking out over Rio de Janeiro, Brazilia? Although this song was recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[@badmotherrucker]

Double neck sex machine is a great name, but Marko refers to it as “The Beast”.

[@loneghostwolf7388]

if u'd be down to try something new. one of my fav bands "one ok rock" and i'd say start with either "we are official video from ambitions japan dome tour" or for something a bit more wild "make it out alive 1chance festival 2023" also most people say their name as "one okay rock" but it's meant to be said in the same rhythm as "one o'clock" basically not saying the work okay fully (leave the "ay" out)

[@leemarinus]

None of the songs from Wacken to Endlessforms Most Beautiful were written for Floor.

[@VivianaRaquelGonzalez-1988]

Prefiero la VERSIÓN ORIGINAL de Dead Boy's Poem de Nightwish con Tarja Turunen primera vocal femenina y COFUNDADORA DE LA BANDA NIGHTWISH del concierto de Tampere Finlandia 2000 Aquí te dejo el enlace kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGXXqYZ4aKiMY7ssi=hdpowUp1jjI1Fwag