Roope Latvala and Alexi Laiho guitar clinic in Lahti, March 2001

[@jaybob9317]

Imagine being in that little guitar shop and young Alexi and Roope are just there shredding their jackson. I would pay a shitload of money to be there at that time. RIP Wildchild and wish you well Roope.

[@rgtwergf]

You´re 25 years too late man..=)

[@cvtt3194]

We need more Roope! People from Finland, please show him your love and support during these difficult times, Roope is too much of a great talent, he needs to come back and shred!

[@AliZurix]

did u see the last interview with him? he seemed depressed and drinking his soul out.. so sad to see its unbelieveable

[@JohnDoe-ej9mi]

@@AliZurix i was about to say it . i highly doubt he will come back got a big hit when they kicked him from the band without reason at all . People should think to the impact of their actions on other people life . The funny thing was that everybody was a alcohol and drugs addict but the only one kicked out for that was him . that choice make even less sense now that unluckily alexi laiho died cuz drink himself to death . Really a one bad ending for one of my favorite death metal band .

[@bobcat3653]

I pray for his serenity and sobriety in Jesus' name , Amen ! 💪😇🙏💯💥🌄

[@JohnDoe-ej9mi]

@@bobcat3653 you need jesusss XD

[@bobcat3653]

@@JohnDoe-ej9mi Already have him in my life bro 💪

[@SuomiChicago9808]

I’ve been feeling so nostalgic lately, I’m so happy to find these gems on KZbin. Look how young my boys are here! These were the good old days 😊. I really appreciate these uploads.

[@eggwaffle]

No way is this the real Kimberly..

[@23gtrh2_02]

@@eggwaffle real. RIP Alexi

[@kimmorintamaki4422]

Osanottoni suruun💔. Like we say in finland.

[@chaosriddenyears]

@@eggwaffle she probably is because she used the same phrase "my boys" in her real instagram account too.

[@gringostarr69]

Yoko Ono

[@donorne92]

R.I.P Alexi Laiho! Too soon you passed away, yet never forget. Ever.

[@ToastedCigar]

This was filmed in the golden era of Finnish metal. During the early 2000's Alexi (may he rest in peace) was at his best and Bodom was making pure gold, record after record, Nightwish had released a couple of records and was starting to bloom, Ensiferum and Moonsorrow released their first albums etc.

[@nissenilsson9158]

Sonata arctica releasing Ecliptica and silence

[@bigpapa5558]

wintersun

[@ragztheking]

@﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿ lmfaoo fr fr

[@darkinglory]

Stratovarius was on top of their game, norther was coming out, imperanon released their first and only album, sinergy was active, better times then.

[@kalatasguitarchannel2150]

Don't forget HIM's major success.

[@melgibsonfan9082]

Goddamn shame these two aren't making music together anymore. Roope should be a huge name in the guitar world.

[@arlos21]

This is amazing... Alexi playing Jackson !!!! Golden years

[@nr1pimme]

Never seen this footage before, amazing stuff from a magical era of COB/Sinergy.

[@MightyALX]

Tracklist: The Dawning Of Doom (Waltari Remix) - 0:00 Passage to the Reaper - 4:13 Get Stoned - 8:53 Downfall - 10:00 The Bitch is Back - 10:21 No Commands - 11:17 Deadnight Warrior - 11:55 The Warrior Princess - 12:15 Bark at the Moon - 15:15 Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: IV. Tempo di Borea - 16:27 Miracle Man - 16:53 Paul Gilbert Licks - 17:08

[@Oulde]

thanks, especially for classical piece |m|

[@nostalgiaof98]

Thank you... so much!

[@MightyALX]

@plisskenation - thrash albums yep

[@thekingofplayers1]

Thanks! i tried to figure out what roope was playing at 16.27 it sounded nice.

[@NEEDLEFEAST]

Thanks for this! One thing, shouldn't the 2nd Track at 4:13 be "Waltari - Move" instead of Passage to the Reaper? Or they just named their jamming over Move being Passage to the Reaper?

[@2paktolife]

Nostalgia! They're the reason why i started playing the guitar!

[@stevehunt914]

Whoever filmed this.... i'll love you FOREVER!

[@SeanDiegoOfficial]

Seriously so cool of you to upload this! Probably some of the best content showcasing Roope's playing and seeing Alexi playing his old "Stone" RR is truly something wonderful to behold.

[@noodlehair6566]

Was stone stolen with wildchild?

[@tfbytslols8426]

@@noodlehair6566 yeah, that white pinstripe rr is imo the holy grail of jackson guitars

[@noodlehair6566]

​@@tfbytslols8426 I asked a local luthier to build me a replica of this 1 pickup rr because I want to have one without having to sell my kidney lol. I need inputs whether I should ask them to paint it like Wild Child or Stone. I originally was thinking of the wildchild black and yellow bevel. but after watching this I'm kinda liking the black and white pinstripes

[@tfbytslols8426]

@@noodlehair6566 i got a japanese RR1 that i modded the hell out of to make it look like the Stone RR. I could send you some pics, if you'd like. Its easier to do the Yellow bevel look, cause you just have to paint them, but the pinstripes are a little tricky to get right.

[@noodlehair6566]

@@tfbytslols8426 would love to see that. you can send pics of it to me here: [e-mail]

[@lespaul1973bcn]

Two great guitar players RIP Alexi Lahio!

[@chaosriddenyears]

SIR THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UPLOADING THIS PRECIOUS VIDEO OF ALEKSI AND ROOPE

[@Bodom247]

Love your profile picture lol

[@chaosriddenyears]

@@Bodom247 love yours too 🤣

[@anwar.termizi]

This is very beautiful. Thank you for uploading this for the world to ser. I really appreciate it

[@BKaliasCami]

Thank you for uploading this! Good to see the guys jamming back in the old days. 🔥🤟

[@palque]

Thank you so much for uploading this!

[@Yupppi]

As for when it comes to the gear that produces these sounds, their racks have the following: Roope: Rocktron Hush IICX Lee Jackson GP-1000 Alesis Quadraverb VHT 2902 (old version. Similar to the 2150 that was virtually in every metal band's rack late 80's, early 90's, including Megadeth. Both have KT-88 tubes for massive headroom, this one was just 2 rack units instead of 4) Alexi: Lee Jackson GP-1000 Rocktron Intellifex (old blackface) Rocktron Velocity 250 EDIT: Roope's unit wasn't just basic Hush, but a multiunit from Rocktron that hasHush and Expander too.

[@martinkingston1498]

Thanks for the info.

[@monstercadaver]

Tanks man! I was just about to ask if anyone knew 🙂

[@ChristianVirial]

How do you know?

[@Gerardlydon]

do you know their settings? Or if they had any pedals etc ?

[@Gerardlydon]

Thanks for the info too

[@daviddelpuerto9140]

RIP Alexi my guitar hero, forever missed :(

[@ollierips]

Holy shit! Thank you for uploading this!!

[@milindgurung4158]

🙏🏻🙏🏻Bodoms, thank you for making my childhood awesome🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@mistic_metal]

When Alexi started to play Downfall, I screamed, when I was waiting the bell and his singing.

[@soundgarden6478]

Happy to say I got to see them both play live on stage a couple of times in the 2000s. RIP Alexi Laiho, it's a massive loss for music.

[@Alejandro4891]

this video was great, thanks for uploading it.

[@NovaRahmanvisuals]

Golden Period, sad to see now only Alexi left in Bodom.

[@VonDecken97]

Alexi think cob is his own project

[@rajgopinoth4241]

There are many good accomplishments after this. Alexi works his fucking ass off

[@numchacar]

@@rajgopinoth4241 alexi got greedy with this band it's why alexander and rooper left. they where un happy with alexis new riff structures . really alexi started producing shit

[@rajgopinoth4241]

@@numchacar Alexander quit in the middle of a tour with very little notice and pretty much fucked COB over. He wasn't happy with the tour life and wanted to go home to his wife Roope pretty much drank himself out of the band

[@hairulaidil4343]

@@rajgopinoth4241 lol you should watch the interview Kaaoszine did with Alexander that explains the reason why he left Bodom. After the HCDR All over Europe tour it was a breaking point for Alexander due to burnout.

[@ahmedsgallery3507]

Uhh man RIP Allu ..never ever to be forgotten Alexi 🙏🏽 respect to you always master. love you brother we all do. thanks for uploading this Kimmo.

[@heavoc9793]

WONDERFULL ! Thanks for that !! SINERGY made me discover and love metal

[@UrosR]

Great stuff! Thanks for the upload Kimmo!

[@KappaDaKappa]

Say what you may, but to me Roope always rips the hardest.

[@cvtt3194]

Roope's level of accurary and aggression plus soul is just amazing to behold.

[@MarshallAmpMan]

@@cvtt3194 Totally agree... what is he doing now? I wonder.

[@op1095]

@@MarshallAmpMan He didn't touch his guitars for long time after getting fired from cob. He doesn't have a band either. Mostly drinks sadly, because the legend he is.

I Saw him couple days ago in Helsinki, drinking again. Just sad. What a legend.

[@cvtt3194]

Hes the best, i hope he finds happiness.

[@randyrage3306]

Jackson days. Sinergy days.

[@rafaell.atlanticforest603]

R.I.P. Alexi - the best !

[@NotTylerT]

6:55 dude roope tone was heavenly mesmerizing to say the least

[@tyhnbgtyhnbgt]

My favorite album is HALO OF BLOOD.. every song is professionalism at its best.. and a halo of blood is spinal fluid ringing around a drop of blood.. it's how you tell a traumatic spinal injury

[@666Aatu]

Rest in peace Wild Child!🤟

[@ALMStudios]

Nice archival footage,Kimmo! Great memory💪

[@CorpseChords]

damn! You know this is old when you see the jacksons!

[@jettamk422]

Im so nostalgic, i bought à jackson RR last week... miss you 2

[@josuemcvicker6122]

Thank you guitar world for introducing me to bodom in middleschool when blooddrunk came out rip Alexi I fucking love you Roope is so amazing

[@mitchwilson2037]

Phenomenal Thank you Alexi for all your great music you put out there 🤘🤙 You will always be remembered RIP Now I'm doing my nails 😎

[@MikaelMikaelMikael]

I was at a similar clinic in another town that same year. Brings back memories! I was 15 years old then. Had just started playing the guitar. It was really cool to see these two shred from two meters away. And when they left they both gave me a high five! Life sure was great back then...

[@acegibson9533]

Great video! This is when they just received their guitars, no Wildchild stick on Alexi's guitar.

[@oxtoxes]

Wildchild guitar had yellow pinstripes if i remember correctly. And roope had his RRs before laiho.

[@Yupppi]

@@oxtoxes it had yellow bevels. This one seems to have white pinstripes and I believe it to be the one bought from Jiri, the one he ordered in Stone the same time as Roope ordered his. I can't quite put a date to Roope's guitar. It could be the same one he ordered back then, just retrofitted with single coil, since the single coil appeared in pics pretty late.

[@evankeaton4856]

Both Jackson's Alexi used in the older days were made in the late 80's. Both bought from Jiri Jalkanen from stone.

[@TheGordovando]

Seeing this makes me wonder: Where is Roope? After the Bodom, he went into depression and vanished. Hope he's alright.. helluva guitarrist

[@NarviMusic]

Yeah, would be so cool to actually hear some music from him.

[@bonbelz249]

There is a Finnish article from 2017. You can try to use translator or something and hope it makes sense. yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2017/06/29/roope-latvala-selkaanpuukotettu-mies

[@2esps]

Kimberly goss posted pictures with roope on instagram few days ago

[@TheSteinbitt]

The story of all Finns lol

[@San_Tom]

@@bonbelz249 Thanks for sharing !

[@Rattlehead467]

one of my favorite videos of Alexi

[@nostalgiaof98]

12:15 there's some beautiful, melancholic melody in there.

[@armandomedina8651]

I love that song

[@rs180216]

Warrior princess such a great solo

[@joeraich2076]

Bark At The Moon is such a masterpiece.

[@draganapasti_]

Amazing stuff, indeed!!!

[@pnajnaja2720]

Roope fit so well to this band. For me the original bodom lineup

[@gretheflood1695]

This is magic!

[@ashkyra8961]

My all time favorite Guitar Duo. 🤘🤘

[@whitebuddha7047]

Bravoooo guys 👏👏 now that's a combination of skills

[@steroidspodcast3205]

That was fuckin sick. Alexi slicing and dicing through the hardest parts from Paul Gilbert's intense rock video

[@MrDreamsAlot]

8:18 that was some killer little string skipped sweep action.

[@zaattitarot9237]

I think these guys are gonna be famous one day

[@ErnoSallinen]

I went to the same event in Kerubi, Joensuu. I think it was closer to spring that same year. Cool to see how different the set was here.

[@MrDreamsAlot]

Heck yeah dude thanks for posting this is some killer footage!!!

[@valerieamrine1618]

Rest in Peace Alexi you were one bad ass guitar player and Number 1 guitar player. Wildchild.

[@frankE91210]

i mean he wasnt even best on stage in this video but RIP

[@valerieamrine1618]

Alexi was bad ass guitar player I have all three albums of Sinergy. His legacy will live on RIP Alexi aka Wildchild.

[@cactuscob]

The first time i saw Alexi was guitar world, he bit the string pack and said they taste great too. I thought ' wtf this guys weird'. Later on 'Betcha cant play this' i was stunned, wasnt much after i invested all my time in learning Sinergy and Children of Bodom licks on guitar. He was my main inspiration, and it sucks we lived the same path in life. He went and i refuse too

[@MissAzul2]

My pleasure 😍

[@surentamang9962]

Rest in peace Alexi

[@senseofself9560]

Rip :(

[@escobarpablo1607]

2022 no replacement found... Never will

[@ilikevideos4868]

Latvala was such a great player. Shame what alcohol did to this man..

[@joeythomas9062]

What happened to him? I haven't heard anything about him in awhile.

[@higler.]

@Franco After he got kicked out of Bodom he just stopped playing guitar all together and fell into ,a depression. There is a finnish interview where he talks about it. Pretty sad, and now with Alexi's passing I really worry for Roope.

[@Vukf1]

@@higler. why was he kicked out?

[@higler.]

@@Vukf1 I don't think there was ever an official reason, but it most likely had to do with his drinking since Alexi got clean and probably couldn't have Roope around him if he wanted to stay clean.

[@SatanicTemptation]

@@higler. Alexi didnt got "clean" he kept drinking just not on tour

[@oxtoxes]

The guitars they tested in the end of this video were probably Jackson RR-LL, which was laiho/latvala signature series. Only 20-30 of those were made and all were sold in Finland if im correct.

[@monstercadaver]

I did not know that. I have to have one.

[@RobboElRobbo]

Are there similar mass produced single pickup jacksons? All I've had luck finding is the occasional RR24

[@tfbytslols8426]

@@RobboElRobbo no, right now there are no production model single humbucker jacksons, i dont know why, they would make a lot of money from Alexi/80s guitar enthusiasts

[@zarasamo]

Very true since those have a bolt on neck and no bevels on the back of the body, saw a customer bringing one to a local guitar center years ago

[@gonzalogomez4367]

There whasnt alexi and roope signature series. There was Jackson Star series only produced in japan. Alexi asked Jackson about a signature model, but he taked too long for a sig model, thats why alexi has signed with esp

[@valerieamrine1618]

🤘 Metal horns to Alexi and Roope both guitar legends.

[@rahatalhasan2211]

R.i.p wildchild Alexi 😔

[@arlos21]

17:40 nice string skipping. Paul Gilbert influence

[@blapblapblapblap]

I didn't know he could do that shit. What happened to this Alexi?

[@Finlandiax1]

Nothing happened, if you have seen alexi playing live in these past 2 years he is fucking killing it ! Dude has been power practicing his shit

[@aleksi3679]

Finlandia Bullshit..

[@2paktolife]

@@blapblapblapblap listen to sixpounders solo!

[@mkzvlx7802]

@@blapblapblapblap he broke his ankle and his ability to play guitar lessen.

[@88dnw]

Tää oli sitä aikaa kun Laiho vielä osas soittaa.

[@sumitdas9428]

This guys riffs are really cool 😎

[@Maverick06723]

Nice work sounds great awesome

[@Eira-vt5tl]

He is very god musiker, Roope

[@shawnhigney6453]

Amazing

[@99WaysCarr]

Man that was cool.

[@erkkiriekkola3305]

In March 2001 Laiho was 21 years old. He’s born in April 8th 1979

[@zMPHz]

No nyt! Siistii nähä sinergy riffejä lähietäisyydeltä kuvattuna :D

[@toddbieschke8215]

imagine being there. None of those poeple's faces were still attached when they left. 100% facemelting solos = 100% faces melted

[@lobodom89]

The warrior princess’s solo is just awesome. What a duo this guys. Rip Wild Child.

[@mpjht]

Jackson Guitars are awesome! RIP WildChild.

[@BlackRose-vi2yg]

Amazing fretboard wizardry ❤🤟

[@michael4591]

Jackson will release a model just like this in 2024! Jackson Concept RR24

[@Jackson5101]

I own one of them, they're awesome!

[@thekingofplayers1]

Nice! Never seen this video before :)

[@wretchedrider2157]

RIP, Alexi 🤘🏻

[@chicoguarro7258]

Cool video, man. Thanks for sharing!

[@jswazz9264]

This is gold

[@proximityscan]

RIP Allu ❤️ I (we) hope Roope ⚡️⚡️⚡️keep on playing! And please COB respect where u came from, let past mistakes fade away 😍and be friends 4eva

[@Dracu13]

Alexi healthy and in full possesion of his powers - can't beat that.

[@Speedboar]

Miracle man 16:54 🔥

[@gruzovozz2020]

Неподражаемые ❤

[@tyreekmurillo4524]

make alexi great again

[@praisethesun7198]

Oh shit :(

[@op1095]

@@praisethesun7198 :,(((((

[@jeroen0011]

He will always be remembered as the great guitar god he was, true legend and inspiration for many... R.I.P. Alexi 'Wildchild' Laiho.

[@tyreekmurillo4524]

fuckkkk i feel bad leaving this comment now

[@TheSadistNat1on]

@@tyreekmurillo4524 i mean he left on amazing note at least..hexed was the best album of the 10's from him and bodom after midnight was great for the 2 songs it was

[@valerieamrine1618]

Alexi Was a bad ass guitar player and is number 1 best artist in Finnish metal.

[@nonexistence3321]

Roope's still better guitarist than alexi tho

[@dmitryzolkin7904]

Thank you for another rare video with Alexi and Roope on f*cking KZbin

[@saraalarid1265]

Wow. Just wow. R.I.P King. 😔

[@XxXxSabooxXxX]

Saw them on tour in 2005

[@hispanoamericano3015]

I pray to play like that and have a RR guitar!!!

[@terran236]

Don't pray to become like that you fucking practice God damnit LOL

[@hispanoamericano3015]

@@terran236 hahaha i know, but also you need to have some natural skills

[@terran236]

@@hispanoamericano3015 I kind of agree but hard work is always going to be necessary. Saying that it's natural talent discredits how much time they spend practicing. You aren't going to get that good if you only play in Noodle around without focusing and doing it for hours

[@hispanoamericano3015]

@@terran236 i know 😒 just joking

[@trypulling921]

Rip Alexi

[@ibanez33150]

RIP unbelievable

[@dakotad3970]

Long live the war child I’ll listen to this until it’s stale idc his playing is top notch here he’s so into it

[@Andreas_the_axe_wielder]

RIP Legend

[@Ty2052]

This was SICK ❤

[@tonymoncivaiz7330]

Thank you Alexi!! See you down the road brother.