All for one, one for all

Pink Poison died together
with Jann XXX and resurrected
as Black Nightshade.

The decision to join Trevor's
band took me a while but since
you are my best penpal in here
I think I own you that and it
is also best for Pink Poison
who played medicore concerts
after more then a year in
popworld. I am looking forward
to rock with you Pekka and
Trevor. We will be big rockstars.

Bianca Leanza

Band News 21/11/2008

Really important and BIG news tonight:
- There is no more band called "Jann XXX." This blog will continue, because there´s some part of our band´s history and couple of nice articles about Popmundo.
- Also Bianca Leanza´s band called "Pink Poison" died last night.
- Bianca is my best friend in this game, so I think we can really have good band together!
- Our band´s new name is "Black Nightshade." Black Nightshade is poisonous plant, so we thought that it could be good name for rock band.

....and now rest of our band´s news:
- Tonight we´re going to record a-side of our next single here in Stockholm.
- Rock ranking tonight: 225.
- Our FIRST gig tonight together!!!!!!!! :)
- I produced track called "Gabba Gabba" for band called "Lauren of the Land."

Band News 19/11/2008

- Leo Reema is now out of our band. I´m really sorry, but we need active members in our band, not someone who even hasn´t logged in for almost 2 weeks! Also we would need to get our new single and video ready, but it´s impossible to do those if we´re missing one member all the time.
- Well....maybe we will find a new member very soon.... :)

Band News 17/11/2008

- Our rock ranking is still going up: it´s now 227!
- Waiting to get our new single out, I just need to do that 1 song.... :)
- ....and after couple of weeks I can start to do our videos myself....

I can´t Sleep....too many ideas. :)

I Couldn´t sleep, so I will have to write something now about our future plans.

So I will just write some finnish now, otherwise I couldn´t write anything very well. :)

...and this is in finnish, but I will try to translate this later:
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Meidän Bändille:

Trevor...elikkä minä:
- Seuraava tehtävä ois saada tuo meidän sinkun a-puoli valmiiksi, joten yritän keskittyä nyt siihe. Kunhan se on valmis, niin alan opettelemaan "Valokuvauksen perusteet" ja sen jälkeen ois vuorossa: "Filmien tuottaminen," jotta olisi ainakin yks tyyppi aina valmiina tekemään meille mahd. hyvän videon.

Leo: Leon tehtävä ois saada ensin tuo rumpujen soitto haltuun, hyvää rumpalia ollaankin etsitty jo pitkäään....ja kuntoilu on varmaankin tärkein ominaisuus pitää hyvänä, jotta keikat sujuu. "Näyttelemisen perusteet" pitäs saada kanssa 5 tähteen, jotta saadaan tehtyä sitten se mahd. hyvä video.

Toivomus ois kanssa, että kerran päivässä kerkeäisit sitten näilläkin sivuilla käydä, jotta aika ei menisi hukkaan. 5-15 min....ihan sen verran vaan, jotta oot oikeassa paikassa tekemässä oikeita juttuja oikeaan aikaan. :) Eihän tuo tietty onnistu edes multa aina: kukaan ei voi olla täällä 24/7/365. :) Varsinkin kun nyt on tuo P.Amerikan kiertua menossa, niin se on entistä vaikeampaa. No kohta ollaan taas Euroopassa.

Pekka: oot kokoajan oppinut lisää ja lisää tästä pelistä ja hyvin menee. Seuraavaksi pitäs kanssa opetella "Näyttelemisen perusteet" 5 tähteen. Sen jälkeen voit ihan itse päättää, minkä haluat toiseksi soittimeksi: Piano, syntikat vaiko akustinen kitara?

....videot, kukaan ei vielä tunnu tietävän kuinka tärkeä osa tästä tulee tässä pelissä, mutta yritetään nyt kuitenkin tehdä niin hyvä kun voidaan.

Biisien nauhottaminen on jo aika helppoa: kunhan nauhotuksen alussa saa syötyä ostereita, niin paljon, että hahmon fiilis on 100%, niin lopputuloksen pitäs olla 21/26!. Varmaankaan ei keretä nauhottataan tuota uutta biisiä nimeltään "Broken Dreams(...ja tää biisi on muistona TAAS edesmenneelle Hanoi Rocksille)" ennenkun päästään takas Eurooppaan ja löydetään paras mahdollinen studio.

Siitä biisien tekemisestä muuten vielä pari juttua: hahmon "Health" pitäs olla 100% kun alkaa tekemään uutta biisiä ja parhaat biisit syntyy kuulemma hotellissa tai jossain kämpässä. Sama sääntö koskee myös sen biisien teon lopettamista. Ja meidän keikkasettiin ei sovi biisit, jotka on alle tuon 21/26.....

Tää juttu on nyt kirjoitettu pikkusen väsyneenä, joten sori, jos tänne tuli jotain virheitä. Yritän parennella ja ehkä kääntää tämän myös enkuksi kunhan on vähän virkeämpi olo. :) Mikäli jollain on jotain lisättävää, niin mielellään otan lisäyksiä vastaan! Pitäs olla läppäri, niin vois tuossa nopeammin lisäillä juttuja sitä mukaan kun niitä mieleen tulee. Ei vaan nukuta, joten tällänen näpyttely ois just omiaan tällä hetketkellä....

....ja kysymyksiä saa laittaa, mikäli jokin mieltä askarruttaa???
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And something in english:

Our plans:
- We got 1 song ready for our new single and we will soon record another one & video....
- ....and who cares about our blog, maybe I should just write finnish.

Band News 09/11/2008

Everything is going great! We recorded b-side for our next single here in L.A. and our rock ranking is still going up. It´s now 248!!!! I also helped Bianca Leanza to
record new single, I hope it will be great too!

Band News 04/11/2008

So much has happened since I wrote anything here....

- I kicked all our members out of band couple of weeks ago. I was just too tired and frustrated, because those members just weren´t active enough. I thought that I should continue as solo artist, but then:
- Pekka came back from holiday and he is now our new bass player and we got another new finnish member now. Leo will start to play drums as soon as he has learned to play those. So our whole band is now finnish and that should help us....my english isn´t really great, so it´s much easier to just write finnish with other band members.
- We released our new album and it has sold 62 216 copies after 2 weeks = 578 609 euros for our band. Our last single "Raining" has now sold 671 263 copies = 1 456 641 euros for us!
- Our rock ranking is really going up now and we are number 263 now!
- I hope we can start recording our new single soon....

Band news 05/10/2008

Well...going up again: our rock ranking is now 376. :)

Band news 03/10/2008

Good and bad news:

Bad news first:
- Scott left our band yesterday. Well...maybe it´s better for us and Scott. Now he can have solo career and we can do what we want. Maybe there was 2 too strong persons in our band. I didn´t want to do what Scott asked, so he had to go...
- Our rock ranking is now 427, which is our worst ranking after all members joined our band. Maybe we have so bad ranking now, because so many members has left our band....

Good news:
- We released our new single "Raining" and it has sold 430262 copies = 933668 euros for us! Now I can give good bonuses for all band members... :)

Band news 25/09/2008

Great news again this week:
- Our video "Raining" was released this week.
- Our last gig in Oslo was little bit better than our shows has been lately. We played "good(13/26)" gig there.
- Next week we are going to release our new single: "Raining/Angels Walk Amongst Us," so we will again start to earn some money too.... :)
- Rock ranking is going up and it´s now 363!

Band news 17/09/2008

Well, we´re here in N.Y. and we are going to record 2 new tracks for our single & video if we got enought time. Songs will be "Angels walk among us" and "Raining."

Rock ranking right now: 386, but we´re going up again!!!

Band news 09/09/2008

Some bad news:
- I had to kick Emilia out of our band, because she hasn´t been so active as she should be and she is in hospital again.
- Our rock ranking is still going down: 354.

Some good news:
We have now recorded 2 new songs: "Everything was beautiful" and "We´re not Angels."

Band news 02/09/2008

Well, I haven´t been writing here lately, but that just because there hasn´t really been any good news for couple of weeks. Our band ranking has been going down and it´s now 340.... :(

I have been writing new songs, but it takes so much time to get them ready. Our gigs have been little bit better lately, so maybe our rock ranking will start to go up again soon.

Band news 13/08/2008

Just good news again:
- Our last 2 shows (Helsinki + Tallinn) have been the best ones we have played since we got our band together!
- Rock ranking is now 245, so we´re still going up.... :)

And something about my own real life: it´s my birthday tonight, but maybe I will save my partying until Friday evening...

Band news 06/08/2008

Yeah, this is good day for our band! Reasons:
- Our tour finally begins from Glasgow tonight.
- Our new single has been released last night. It has sold 348484 copies so far, so we have now earned 756210 euros from that single...maybe I should give a little bonus for every member of our band.
- Our rock ranking is now 265, so we´re going up again.

Band News 02/08/2008

Well...our rock ranking is going down again, we are now number 270, but also some good news: we finally got our new single ready tonight and our tour is going to start very soon...

Band news 29/07/2008

So here we are in Montreal waiting for tonight´s gig....

Our rock ranking in Popmundo is now 257 and we´re going up again. There´s 60090 rock bands in this game, so we are pretty good!!! Our best ranking was 195 when I was still solo artist, but it has taken some time to get our band together. Soon we will release new single and start our "Neverending Tour" from London, so I think our ranking can just go up! .....we´ll just have to record that b-side of our new single and I have to write new songs. Of course other members and I need to learn new skills + try keep our health and mood up.

Otherwise this "holiday" has been actually rather boring...just staying here for so long and I really miss my "Gypsy" friends (http://www.freewebs.com/krisstark/index.htm), but we really needed that. It might have been impossible to start touring without this holiday. Everyone in our band was too tired to start long tour. So we will see what happens next: we will have a gig almost everynight, so it´s not easy to keep your health and mood up. ....and I have to write those songs, we would really need 2 people in this band who could do songs....

Band news 24/07/2008

Back in L.A. again and here are our holiday plans:
24.07.2008 relaxing + rehearsals
25.07.2008 making music video
26.07.2008 going to Toronto (+maybe rehearsals)
27.07.2008 rehearsals + Toronto concert
28.07.2008 Emilia´s and Scott´s wedding + flying to Montreal
29.07.2008 Montreal concert
30.07.2008 flying to New York + rehearsals
31.07.2008 New York concert
1-3.08.2008 We might record couple of new songs + rehearsals
04.08.2008 London

Of course these plans can change and probably will change.... :)
We have lot of rehearsals, but we need them now: we need to get rid of those "2 stars songs," so we must learn new and better ones before our european tour begins. Also we will get more experience points if we do something everyday...

PS. One really important tip for everyone: don´t forget to buy condoms!!! Someone might get pregnant, if you don´t remember to use them. You can find condoms from almost any "generic shop" in every city. You can find them from "Clothes(Underwear!)"

Band news 22/07/2008

Today I had to do something, which I really wouldn´t like to do: I had to kick one of our members out of our band. Reason for that was, that we are now recording our new single and that member just wasn´t active enough. He wasn´t online for days and didn´t answer to my messages. His character´s mood wasn´t good enough to start recording our new single. I wouldn´t have done this, if he had told me why can´t he be online. I also send every member of our band a message, that told them what we are going to do next, so he knew, that he should have been online today. Our band members must be active and if they will be offline for days it would be great if I would know why they can´t playing this game right now. I may take him back, if he just sends me a message and shows more activity in this game.

Fortunately there are some good news too: we recorded first track for our new single called "Carola Landvogt" and our recording session was so good that we can use this track on our single! :) I´m still not sure where and when we are going to record 2nd track and where we are going to do video for this single....I don´t even know what song will be b-side of this single. Should I try to write a new song or just use some older stuff???

Music for Saturday Night

Quireboys: a Bit of What You Fancy DVD

Some british blues-rock. Actually this isn´t official DVD, but I have just transferred their official VHS tape to DVD, so I can watch this again and again. Their singer has really great voice and songs are so good with lot of feeling. Spike(their singer) has that voice you can only get if you drink lot of whisky and smoke cigarettes or he just got that talent....maybe he has done both...
Favorite songs: 7 o´clock, I Don´t Love You Anymore and Hey You.

Actually most of our band´s songs got some inspiration from them....that´s why we´re mostly playing british blues-rock songs...

Quireboys: Bitter Sweet and Live DVD

Another official VHS release transferred to DVD by myself. Filmed at The Town + County Club in October 1992. If you like to party, this is really good music for that! Of course younger kids might have different music, but because I´m about 30 years old....so this is my music for partying....
Favorite songs: just everything right now!

Hanoi Rocks: MTV3 Max -Video 2008

This show is from finnish TV(maybe not their best gig...I have seen much better ones, stage was just too small for Mr. Michael Monroe.) So, having a career of 28 years they are still here! This is finnish band, but now actually there are now more swedish members in this band. Of course main song writers are still finnish: Michael Monroe and Andy Mccoy. They are now almost 50 years old, but just check what kind of live show they still can do, specially M. Monroe: there isn´t even 18 year old kids who could that! They do live shows around whole Europe and Japan, so check them! They will have gigs in UK soon.... (http://www.hanoirocks.info/tour/index.htm)

Other music tonight:

Just more Hanoi Rocks from Youtube.com: In the Year 79, Problem Child, Oriental Beat, Lightning Bar Blues, Back To Mystery City (live '85), Blitzkrieg bop, Until I Get You ...those old videos ....

And some songs live from Japan:
- HANOI ROCKS @ Summer Sonic 8/8 Up Around The Bend
- HANOI ROCKS @ Summer Sonic 4/8 Malibu Beach Nightmare
- HANOI ROCKS @ Summer Sonic 6/8 Tragedy
(These live songs are from the year 2002, when they started Hanoi Rocks again...)