Wall of Mouths

Next few weeks I will attend in Finland festivals called Ruisrock, Tammerfest and Ilosaarirock, and going to see in those festivals Slash, NOFX, Faith No More, Anti-Flag, Bad Religion, Ozzy Osbourne…

Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone
http://ramones.kauhajoki.fi
The Most Complete And Updated Ramones Homepage Already Since 1995

New book: Ramones: Soundtrack Of Our Lives:
http://kauhajokinyt.fi/~jplaitio/kolmoskirja.html

Imperial State Electric is suggested to check out. They just released album, band is leaded by Nick Royale (ex-Hellacopters’).

Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone
http://ramones.kauhajoki.fi
The Most Complete And Updated Ramones Homepage Already Since 1995

New book: Ramones: Soundtrack Of Our Lives:
http://kauhajokinyt.fi/~jplaitio/kolmoskirja.html

Surprising to hear The Wildhearts shows being bad. Normally they are really at live. Maybe that day guys had taken too much drugs.

I want walk out occasionally from shows, as a journalist I gotta also interviews with bands I can’t stand.

Atha, can promotion really been so bad or were you travelling whole summer and it was reason why you hadn’t heard of Jurassic Rock?

1-2-3-4.

Now I had time to log-in to forum again. Here’s text of interview I did with guys to Pohjalainen newspaper. I did this for regular newspaper, so it is why there are told also basic infos etc.
Gentlemen told they do not have before told publicly about plans to record live album, they will record 5-10 shows and release album in 2010.

Sorry this is only in Finnish. Translation would take a lot time.
I do include for this mail also link to page where can order that my new book Ramones: Soundtrack Of Our Lives, it has great interview with Andy:
http://kauhajokinyt.fi/~jplaitio/kolmoskirja.html

Newspaper interview begin:

Terapeuttista musiikkia
Therapy? tarjosi raskaahkosti rokkaavaa hoitoterapiaansa Suomessa viiden vuoden tauon jälkeen. Mikkelissä Jurassic Rockissa Therapy?:n kappaleista ihmisiä hyvällä tuulella pitivät Nowheren ja Storiesin kaltaiset menevät hitit, ennen kuin setin päätti synkeänkaunis Diane.
MIKKELI
Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone
Pohjois-Irlannissa parisenkymmentä vuotta sitten perustettu Therapy? on nauttinut Suomessa kohtuullisen hyvää suosiota bändin 1990-luvun kiihkeidenkin vuosien jälkeen. Nurse-albumin kautta hoito alkoi ensin tehota Suomessa 1992. Runsaasti eri medioissa huomiota saivat Troublegumin (1994) kappaleet. Troublegumilta lohkaistiin peräti viisi singleä: Nowhere, Trigger Inside, Die Laughing, Isolation ja Femtex.

Crooked Timber
Therapy?:lta ilmestyi viime maaliskuussa kahdestoista albumi, Crooked Timber. Albumin ensisingleksi valittiin radiosoittoa ajatellen harvinaisen pitkä, 5,5-minuuttinen nimibiisi.
- Emme tahdo tehdä levylle minkään kaavan mukaan kolmen minuutin singleä. Halusimme luoda hyvin kokonaisuutena soundaavan 10-12 biisin albumin, painottavat laulaja-kitaristi Andy Cairns, basisti Michael McKeegan ja rumpali Neil Cooper.
Crooked Timberin tavoin monet muutkaan levyllä olevat kappaleet eivät ole suoraviivaisia, vaan rytmiikaltaan vaihtelevia, yllätyksellisiä ja haastavia. Kolmikko ei tyrmää huomiota, että Crooked Timberin teoksissa on samaa tunnelmaa kuin Die Laughingissa.
- On parempi, että kuulija aluksi miettii ”mitä helkuttia”, kuin että levy avautuisi heti. On hienoa, jos voi viikkoja ensikuuntelunkin jälkeen löytää julkaisulta uusia asioita.
McKeegan, Cooper ja Cairns myöntävät, että livenä Crooked Timber ja bändin 1995 nauhoittama harrastunnelmainen Hüsker Dün Diane–coveri olisivat koskettava parivaljakko peräkkäin soitettuina.
- Jos tekisimme noin, itkisin lavalla varmaan yksinäisen itkua, naurahtaa McKeegan.
Diane oli viimeinen Therapy?:n Mikkelissä Jurassic Rockissa soittama kappale.

Livelevy suunnitelmissa
Tässä haastattelussa Therapy? mainitsi ensimmäistä kertaa julkisesti aikeistaan nauhoittaa keikkoja ensi vuonna julkaistavaa livealbumia varten.
- Tuon teemme 20-vuotisjuhlamme kunniaksi. Uutta studioalbumia aiomme ryhtyä myös kirjoittamaan alkuvuodesta 2010.
Yksi eksoottisin Therapy?:n esiintymispaikka on Réunion. Réunion on Ranskan mertentakainen hallintoalue Intian valtamerellä, Madagaskarin itäpuolella.
- Se oli erikoinen ja ihana paikka. Huomasimme Réunionissa olevan alakulttuurirokkiskenen, myhäilevät Cairns, McKeegan ja Cooper.

I hope you guys are liked of book who ordered it after seeing infos here.

I am probably going to see Therapy? in few weeks in Finland. If someone is going to order book now, if you want I can ask for it dedicated autographs for you from guys if I see them. Send me an E-mail:
jplaitio <a> kauhajoki.fi

Average Green Day album. As Squall said, Know Your Enemy is weak compared to the rest of them. There would have had much better choices for first single.
Some great and harder punk tracks are Murder City and Horseshoes And Handgrenades-

Jari-Pekka
http://ramones.kauhajoki.fi

Amorphis’ etc. related things somehow, as Pete and Kati are dressing Amorphis’ shirts. This photo was taken June 19 or 20. So you will see how Pete and Kati looks like:
http://www.metalshots.com/2009/2009-06-18_Nummirock_Nummijarvi/sl … _0384.html

Yeah, Bristarman, Strength To Endure is great song. CJ is playing it now in his shows with Daniel Rey (Ramones producer) and Brant Bjork of Queens Of The Stone Age and FuManchu.
Here are their shows in Europe, USA and Mexico:
http://kauhajokinyt.fi/~jplaitio/gigs/cjmisc.html

As Kossu wrote, so you can now order my book. Inside of Europe it is 22 euros (book + postages + PayPal fees. My PayPal is: jplaitio@kauhajoki) or money in a letter to:
JARI-PEKKA LAITIO-RAMONE,
KEVATTIE 4,
61800 KAUHAJOKI,
FINLAND, EUROPE

Kossu, here is another article of that my Amorphis interview:
http://www.kauhajoenkunnallislehti.fi/artikkeli.asp?uutinen=5345

Amorphis set was one of the best in this year. I did longer interview with Esa and Tomi of Amorphis (to Pohjalainen and local newspaper), this was their eight show at Nummirock.
Hopefully we will meet in Tammerfest. There is beside of it 3-6 festivals which I will attend. My plans of Jurassic Rock are a bit open, but if I come, it is then always better to meet personally with artists who are in a book as they might have some questions etc.

kossu wrote:

Got the book today and I really enjoyed the interview JP did with Andy!! There´s lot´s and lot´s of other great interviews too like Phil Campell from Motörhead, Ricky Warwick etc. Go on and order yours now!!
So I´m a T? “tourmanager” now, hohoohoo, thanxx JP for that compliment if you´re reading this;) Wish I was a tourmanager, I´d book T?hem a full Finland tour from Helsinki to Rovaniemi or even norther;) Richard is the REAL tourmanager not me;) >order the book and you will know what I´m talkin´about;)

1-2-3-4 thanks Pete of all your comments, and of your help to spread word of the book to the Therapy? fans. Result of Andy Cairns’ interview is pretty extensive, and it was good to include that photo where Kati and you are with the Therapy? fans.

And sure I am happy that Ricky Warwick sent that photo to the book where he does play with Andy in front of Johnny Ramone’s statue.

Pete, sadly we did not had chance to discuss yesterday, I saw you being in first row in the audience at Nummirock.

Dennis wrote:

Agreed, but if an artist painted the same, simple piece over and over for 30 years and didn’t progress or change much, you’d think that was odd, no?

Of the some reason it is easy to see that you do not have listen any Ramones albums released in 80’s or 90’s, or then you doesn’t know nothing about the music.

You seem to try to tell you has heard all the Ramones albums… Can you compare albums like Pleasant Dreams, Brain Drain, and Mondo Bizarro? I really would like to hear how much similarities you found of their productions etc.