JANI YLIKANGAS
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Q&APast and present musical influences/favorites? My first memories of music are of 80s metal like W.A.S.P, Twisted Sister, Scorpions, Accept etc. That stuff still works for me. In the 90s Megadeth was THE band and got me into other great thrash metal like Annihilator and Kreator. That style of guitar playing is something that comes naturally for me as a player. I also went through a period where Finnish folk music style melodies played by bands like Amorphis and Sentenced infected me. Nowadays the emotional content of music and especially the grooves and feelings within songs are really important to me. Therapy? is probably the strongest band at the moment and Manic Street Preachers also just released a classic album. It seems like music is coming back! I also have to mention ZZ Top here. Their new live DVD blew me away and their albums are full of amazing songs, performances and sounds. And finally a nod to the Schenker brothers who influenced the whole world of music and never really get recognized for it. Rock Bottom pretty much encapsulated the whole idea what a riff should be while Rock You Like a Hurricane later showed that metal could be used to make everlasting hits. My guitar playing has been mostly influenced by Dave Mustaine and Chris Holmes. I'm very fortunate to play guitars that these guys used to play live around the world in their glory days. Other influences include Wolf Hoffman, Michael Schenker, Billy Gibbons, YJM, Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Jeff Waters, Jimmy Page, SRV, Eric Johnson, Paul Gilbert, Jerry Cantrell, Glenn Tipton, KK Downing... As a songwriter I appreciate originality and attention to detail (ABBA, Queen, Dire Straits...) but I also like more straight-forward outbursts of emotion (Nirvana, The Cure, The Clash...). What are your other hobbies? Basketball, guitars, wilderness... Favorite albums? Megadeth - Peace Sells Therapy? - Troublegum ZZ Top - Eliminator W.A.S.P - Wasp Accept - Metal Heart Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists Some good Finnish albums... Sentenced - Down Zero Nine - Intrigue TAROT - Spell Of Iron Stone - Stone Songs? Therapy? - Dead, Straight Life ZZ Top - Planet Of Women Stormwitch - Ravenlord, War Of The Wizards... Kim Wilde - Keep Me Hangin On Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter Nirvana - Negative Creep, School, Drain You... Warlord - Aliens Winterkat - The Light Of Day Obliveon - Dynamo Heaven - Where Angels Fear To Tread Adramelch - Eyes Of Alabaster, Zephirus Virtue - Hideaway Angelwitch - Angelwitch The Clash - Magnificent Seven Sirusho - Qele Qele TAROT - Dark Star Burning Babylon Whores - Omega Therion Dover - Better Day The Donnas - Take It Off Jethro Tull - Seal Driver, Songs From The Wood Megadeth - Angry Again, This Was My Life... Thunder - Low Life In High Places Helloween - A Little Time, Future World, Sole Survivor... YJM - Crash & Burn, Soldier Without Fate... Led Zeppelin - The Rover, Since I've Been Loving You... Annihilator - The Fun Palace Close II You - Baby Don't Go MSG - Essence, Desert Song, Captain Nemo... Amorphis - On Rich And Poor Dire Straits - Your Latest Trick Crockett's Theme - Jan Hammer Unconditional Love - Cyndi Lauper ABBA - Summer Night City Damone - Get Up And Go The Supremes - Love Child ... I could go on forever. I love music! :) Movies? Blood Diamond, Van Helsing, Mel Brooks comedies... TV-series? Pasila, Get Smart... Books? The Tripods Actors/Actress? Jennifer Connelly, Kate Beckinsale, Mo Collins, Hugh Jackman, Will Ferrell... Food? Herkkupizza, Chinese buffets, ham with smashed potatoes Drink? Dr Pepper Favourite DoF song(s)? Blossom & Decay, Generation Of Clones, Loaded Dice... | |
