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19-abr-2007, 12:06
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Este video no se si es cómico o musical o que. En todo caso, les sorprendería saber que aun así tocaron una hora más y acabaron el concierto. Sucedió en el Wacken Open Air, en Alemania, en 2000. A mí me hace un poco de gracia...
Sobre eso:
The gig
OK, so the moment arrives which separates the mice from the men. It's time to take the stage! Nobody expects anything out of the ordinary. It's a pretty lazy, sunny, hot late-summer day, not a cloud in the sky, everybody's looking forward to play and have a good time. We have a streamlined set and lots of pyro.
Then in the middle of the set, something goes terribly wrong.
At the beginning of the song SOS, Timo K goes to the drum riser to put a water bottle down. He puts it close to one of the pyro devices (a magnesium flash pod which has quite a lot of thermal energy but not so much pressure..) Markku-the-pyro-guy ignites it, either due to lack of attention or obstruction of his vision. This particular cue is when the double bass drums start in the song.
Timo's face and left hand is in very close proximity to the fireball. As a reward for his lack of respect for the pyro he gets second and third degree burns on two fingers and the back of his hand, a really funny hairdo, and a Hitler moustache. Luckily his eyes appear to have been closed due to reflex. He could easily have had a permanent and total loss of vision. Someone gaffatapes a bandage to his hand and he picks up the song on the second verse! (Some serious Viking blood in that Kotipelto!!) He goes to a hospital in Itzehoe (close to Wacken) directly after the show....
The doctors say that the hand will probably be 100% OK. But due to the very real risk of infection, we have had to cancel a bunch of gigs while it's healing...
After the show...
Markku-the-pyro-guy is of course devastated. This is his first accident. It's hard to assign "blame" in a case like this, and it serves no purpose really. The crew did take care to not put any drinks on the drum riser due to the pyro. In an ideal world, accidents like this don't happen. But in the real world they do. I speak from experience — I once had a "concussion blast" go off 80 centimeters from my face myself, in 1991. It knocked me out for 10 seconds and I had to go to the hospital later, bu tthere was no pernn
nngggggg
öööööhhh gggghhhgggghhhh
manent damage (I think).
And Timo could have been a lot worse off. So no lawsuits or fired people. Hopefully the other "pyro greenhorns" (Timo T and Jari) in the band will have a lot more respect from now on. I think it's a safe bet that Timo K will...
Fuente: Click acá (http://www.panix.com/~jens/w2k.par?timokhand_yes#timokhand)
Hay una foto sumamente desagradable de la mano de TK despues del accidente :p.
Este video no se si es cómico o musical o que. En todo caso, les sorprendería saber que aun así tocaron una hora más y acabaron el concierto. Sucedió en el Wacken Open Air, en Alemania, en 2000. A mí me hace un poco de gracia...
Sobre eso:
The gig
OK, so the moment arrives which separates the mice from the men. It's time to take the stage! Nobody expects anything out of the ordinary. It's a pretty lazy, sunny, hot late-summer day, not a cloud in the sky, everybody's looking forward to play and have a good time. We have a streamlined set and lots of pyro.
Then in the middle of the set, something goes terribly wrong.
At the beginning of the song SOS, Timo K goes to the drum riser to put a water bottle down. He puts it close to one of the pyro devices (a magnesium flash pod which has quite a lot of thermal energy but not so much pressure..) Markku-the-pyro-guy ignites it, either due to lack of attention or obstruction of his vision. This particular cue is when the double bass drums start in the song.
Timo's face and left hand is in very close proximity to the fireball. As a reward for his lack of respect for the pyro he gets second and third degree burns on two fingers and the back of his hand, a really funny hairdo, and a Hitler moustache. Luckily his eyes appear to have been closed due to reflex. He could easily have had a permanent and total loss of vision. Someone gaffatapes a bandage to his hand and he picks up the song on the second verse! (Some serious Viking blood in that Kotipelto!!) He goes to a hospital in Itzehoe (close to Wacken) directly after the show....
The doctors say that the hand will probably be 100% OK. But due to the very real risk of infection, we have had to cancel a bunch of gigs while it's healing...
After the show...
Markku-the-pyro-guy is of course devastated. This is his first accident. It's hard to assign "blame" in a case like this, and it serves no purpose really. The crew did take care to not put any drinks on the drum riser due to the pyro. In an ideal world, accidents like this don't happen. But in the real world they do. I speak from experience — I once had a "concussion blast" go off 80 centimeters from my face myself, in 1991. It knocked me out for 10 seconds and I had to go to the hospital later, bu tthere was no pernn
nngggggg
öööööhhh gggghhhgggghhhh
manent damage (I think).
And Timo could have been a lot worse off. So no lawsuits or fired people. Hopefully the other "pyro greenhorns" (Timo T and Jari) in the band will have a lot more respect from now on. I think it's a safe bet that Timo K will...
Fuente: Click acá (http://www.panix.com/~jens/w2k.par?timokhand_yes#timokhand)
Hay una foto sumamente desagradable de la mano de TK despues del accidente :p.