What is your favorite thing about Tuomas Holopainen?

@tapio7133

Жыл бұрын

It seems like he is so humble minded person and eager to learn new every day.

@MilaMan

Жыл бұрын

I cannot say just one favorite. In one interwiev Tuomas said that someone asked him 'why don't you write songs that heals a heart?' Well he has done that 😊

@johannessilver8653

Жыл бұрын

He has his genuine way of thinking and being himself without being changed because of fame and money...and naturally his awesome ability to make music and lyrics about life issues and feelings. He also says that he gets letters every now and then where people say that his music has saved their lives...and he answers that "good that I have been able to do some good and help other people".

@dannbon7727

Жыл бұрын

My favorite thing, he had a Q & A about 2 years ago. you can look it up on you tube it's called: FAN Q&A - Tuomas Holopainen. A fan wrote and asked him his personal way of how to write a good song. His response was this: Be humble before the song, before the story you want to tell. Listen to how the song wants to be told. Be humble before it and execute. That was so powerful to me that I use that as my mantra and even had a tattoo done so that I would never forget.

@janihaavisto79

Жыл бұрын

Lol, that pronouncing was terrible on word Maan Mainiot. 🤣 All A letters are just that A. What makes it hard for English speaker must be second half that Mainiot. Anyway wasn't it cool to see How Tuomas said that he's dream is to make music based on Scrooge McDuck someday? Some self-filling proficy there.

The Romani family was his "adoptive" family during high school years since there was no transport to school from where he lived with his parents.

"Maan mainiot" (direct translation "the greats of the country") was a finnish doc series about some famous Finnish people, artists, politicians, etc. This Tuomas episode was done in 2006, so it was after firing Tarja, but before releasing "Dark passion play". So Tuomas had been living some rough times when they were filming this. And there were some big uncertainties with the future of Nightwish that time. I think you can kind of see all that in Tuomas, when you look at him in this doc.

He actually composed a full album based on that Don Rosas cartoon book. (Life and times of Scrooge Mcduck) and it is awesome.

I love the fact that here he is, in one of the darkest periods of his life (though on the way up again), surrounded and supported by his friends and family. Dark Passion Play wasn't finished yet, Anette hadn't joined; "The Escapist" was still in the future, with "Storytime" and "The Life and Times of Scrooge" even further out. It's painful to watch, but also contains the seeds of so much hope, especially watching it now, knowing how much better things became for him. I think he will always be easily knocked, but he survives and happiness comes around again. As the saying goes, "this too shall pass"...

I know Tuomas loves hockey. The cabin in the woods is in Tuomas' back yard at his current home on a lake in Finland near Kitee.

Tuomas is a intresting person to me, this humble nature loving guy, who basicly is a bit withdrawn with some stuff, but also share a lot, he feel hes suroundings strong, and make impact where he is, so its a very ordinary guy, that got some very mysterious feautres at same time, becoming a poet, and creating a band like Nightwish, so i do feel Tuomas got a special gift, he is one of a kind, that got these unique ways of making music and poetry, you do feel like he is hitting the core of something, you should listen to..

this docu is around the time that he wrote the album Dark Passion Play which he wrote to deal with his severe depression resulting in the poet and the pendulum and other songs that dealt with Tarja leaving note how he is never alone brothers parents even the camera man is with him

Tuomas is not the only Disney fan... The weekly "Donald Duck" was, as far as I remember, the most subscribed weekly publication - among all possible - in the 70's. You really waited for Wednesday every week! When I was 6, both my godmother and my parents promised to make subscription for me for Christmas. They didn't know they both had made it, and I suddenly got two copies delivered to me. For some mix-up they both cancelled the subscription, and I had to wait for another year. The disappointment was huge, I can still remember it after 55 years... Well, I got a lesson the life doesn't always go like you want. I'm over it now 😁

Thank you so much for reacting to this. I'd never have found it on my own. Really enjoyed sharing it with you. I'm glad you brought up how knowing more about Tuomas' personality explained the letter to Tarja (made more sense how he handled it). In two YT videos I've watched about Finnish culture, they've mentioned people leaving notes rather than talking to neighbors about a behavior they didn't like. The situation with Tarja was much more personal, but if it is sometimes difficult for Finnish people to be "confrontational" and Tuomas has a tendency to "escape"...

You should definitely react to the end of innocence documentary. It's a great look into the early years of the band before Tarjas departure. There is a sub version on youtube.

Tuomas is a BIG fan of finnish baseball!

"what is his favourite sports?" Don't know about favourite but he is a big hockey fan. He has had Fantasy Hockey League with his friends for a long time and they even made a support song for the Finnish national ice hockey team for the upcoming World Championship tournament: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hZuMsKR7e9e0o6Q.html

@kaljami3061

Жыл бұрын

Finnish baseball "Pesäpallo" is also his favorite sport, i think. He made a support song for his home team Kiteen Pallo.

@Idefixu

Жыл бұрын

​@@kaljami3061 And there was the Nightwish logo on the team's jersey. Not too bad for a team from a town of 10 000 people to play pesäpallo, the Finnish version of baseball, on the highest level.

@Idefixu

Жыл бұрын

Tuomas was talking about wanting to write a soundtrack for the Disney book he showed. It took him 15 years from the initial idea to completion. If you haven't reacted to it yet, I don't think you have, please consider reacting to: TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN - A LIFETIME OF ADVENTURE (official video) from his 2014 (marginal, as he described it) solo project 'Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge' the graphic novel by Don Rosa, the storyteller/illustrator. Beautiful vocals by Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas' wife. Don Rosa is in the video, drawing. The album was recorded in London with an orchestra. Tuomas and Don Rosa had a 7,5 hour signing event in Tampere together after the album was released. Interesting and funny backround info about how they first met and so on: "Holopainen and Rosa interviewed by Radio Nova parts 1, 2 and 3" They are all short ones, just a few minutes each. There's also a new video "Once upon a time in Kitee" about Nightwish' history, told by Plamen Dimov, the godfather of Nightwish. Nightwish owes him a lot. He is a Bulgarian musican and a very wise music teacher. His band came to play in Finland among other countries, and he fell in love with a Finn, and moved to Kitee in 1980's. He knew Tuomas, Tarja, Jukka and Emppu well before Nightwish. Young Tuomas played the saxofone in Plamen's jazz band. There's a funny story about Plamen singing a love duet with young Tarja.

I have some things in common with Tuomas. I loved Biology in school and ended up getting a Masters Degree in Biochemistry. I love science, I am an atheist and I love music. I am not great at empathy like Tuomas and Floor but have great regard for "artists" that do, they improve my life.

@siren369xstar8

Жыл бұрын

Tuomas is empathic yes but Floor sorry but Floor likes to kill animals she said that her self!!!!

@tomvenner6030

Жыл бұрын

@@siren369xstar8 Really, shes a vegatarian?

@MOON-SHADOW-ANNE

Жыл бұрын

@@tomvenner6030 yes she for the most part is Veggie, she said any meat she does eat needs to be fresh wild game. Where they got she loves to kill, well.. lets just say thats Ridiculous. I wont even address that person directly. There seems to be Some animosity there.

@stpfs9281

Жыл бұрын

@@MOON-SHADOW-ANNE Fresh meat, living wild, not in a factory farm, only what you need at that moment. Floor is a highly sensitive person, almost an empath (that doesn't preclude eating meat).

@MOON-SHADOW-ANNE

Жыл бұрын

@@stpfs9281 She does claim to be vegetarian tho. Tuomas and Troy are vegetarians also. Butt Jukka the first drummer was the first vegetariian in the band, the others switched later.

I had no idea there was a gipsy community in Finland and that Tuomas was raised in it. I was shook

What a fantastic view into his life. Makes you appreciate and love him all the more. Coffee is big in Finland (at home, not many coffeee shops). Disney Metal! Fantasia, yep. Gollum! This is why we connect so well. He feels the connections with his older brother, in the woods. His film and book references. 2006. He did his Donald Duck project. Disney figuratively kicked him in the teeth for working with Don Rosa, the illustrator, claiming copyright, blocking the story.

There is also very nice document about of course from nightwish partly, but broader, the story of small town, and the music scene: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m5t5t8euf9K3dZs.html You get the picture about the surroundings where Tuomas and the band started their trip, places, music life and people that impacted on the way.

Dead Boys Poem: I live no more to shame, nor me, nor you I'm sorry Born from silence, silence full of it A perfect concert, my best friend So much to live for, so much to die for If only my heart had a home Sing what you can't say Forget what you can't play Hasten to drown into beautiful eyes Walk within my poetry, this dying music My love letter to nobody Never sigh for better world It's already composed, played and told Every thought, the music I write Everything, a wish for the night Wrote for the eclipse, wrote for the virgin Died for the beauty, the one in the garden Created a kingdom, reached for the wisdom Failed in becoming a god Never sigh for better world It's already composed, played and told Every thought, the music I write Everything, a wish for the night If you read this line Remember not the hand that wrote it Remember only the verse Songmaker's cry, the one without tears For I've given this its strength And it has become my only strength Comforting home, mother's lap, chance for immortality Where being wanted became a thrill I never knew The sweet piano writing down my life Teach me passion, for I fear it's gone Show me love, hold the lorn So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me I'm sorry Time will tell, this bitter farewell I live no more to shame, nor me, nor you And you I wish I didn't feel for you anymore A lonely soul An ocean soul A lonely soul An ocean soul So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me Time will tell A lonely soul An ocean soul A lonely soul An ocean soul

never see this document before. fun extra facts about tuomas holopainen. 1 he write his name 3,5 years old 2. he read whole lord of the rings book 6 years old :) thanx to great reaction and have wonderful new week.

@enterthecronic

Жыл бұрын

Interesting!

Such a great family to grow up in! His sister is 11 years and his brother is 10 years older than him. I suggest you react to the cover of his song Meadows of Heaven live by Gregorian. Thank you so much for watching this documentary. It is very simple but it is the best of all documentaries about Nightwish (the rest are too boozy for my liking).

@enterthecronic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’ll tell Alanna the age gap!

I think he played tennis , too

Disney and metal ?? Have you checked Tommy Johansson s mesh named Disneyton ?? He is guitarist in Sabaton and he sings soooooo good on his own. Greetings from nwAse Sweden Btw Tommy helps Floor with arr and mix etc togehter with Hannes.

Fans and everybody can meet him every July in Kitee (during KIMAF) in those sceneries seen here.

@enterthecronic

Жыл бұрын

Have you been?!

@johannessilver8653

Жыл бұрын

@@enterthecronic Yes, I made a trip to Kitee church where they had concerts by Ocean Souls - a group who make awesome covers of NW songs. It was public and I also saw Tuomas just like a humble ordinary guy in the center of Kitee surrounded by international fans and talking with them. Nice scenery and woody wilderness around - that mindset he talks about and stars can clearly be seen at night even Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights).

6:45 Who also waited for Hogwarts to appear? xD Well, you could interpret it as Hagrids hut.

Loved this, thank you!😊 I had not actually seen this before. The subtitles were annoying, though. They didn't keep up, sometimes they were ahead and sometimes behind. And for me, if there are subtitles that can't be turned off, I just have to read them even if I can understand the language😂 I suppose I am so used to subtitles since pretty much everything has subtitles in Finland (like if it is in foreign language)

@enterthecronic

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😊

@Huckfinn37

Жыл бұрын

Finns always have something to complain about hah Someone has kindly translated the old program for Tuomakse's foreign fans, but the subtitles are bothering you. Do you think subtitles will bother those for whom this is intended?

He has some hair :)))) I love all these reactions from you. :))

@enterthecronic

Жыл бұрын

😊 thank you

LOOK AT FLOOR'S COMMUNITY POST!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@enterthecronic

Жыл бұрын

Amazing news!!!

Baseball

Can you guys react to SYLOSIS -Deadwood

Awesome reaction! One thing that bothered me is that those subtitles were very badly timed. Of course it wouldn't bother so much when you don't understand Finnish, but I can't understand why they were constantly out of place.

@enterthecronic

Жыл бұрын

Yea it was behind a lot of the time! Thank yo though!

@NightwishArena

Жыл бұрын

@@enterthecronic it didn't take away anything from me. I always enjoy watching your reactions...or maybe it did take away a bit, because I felt sorry for you guys 🙂

@enterthecronic

Жыл бұрын

All I know is without the poor subtitles, Alanna and I wouldn’t have known anything they were saying! So it’s all good on our end!

@NightwishArena

Жыл бұрын

@@enterthecronic naturally 🙂 I was just wondering that how it's possible, that they were so much off in times, but we should never complain about free "stuff", right.

@enterthecronic

Жыл бұрын

I agree! But we are spoiled, aren’t we 😂