Niclas Etelävuori
Last updated: May 22, 2011
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Date of birth: November 8, 1971 Gear: ESP Vintage-4 Custom basses, Seymour Duncan pickups, Ampeg SVT-VR head, Ampeg 810 speaker, T-rex Fuel Tank power supply, Boss TU-2 tuner, Sans Amp Bass DI, Electroharmonix Micro POG, Boss Chorus, DR-Strings |
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| Idol/musical influence: | Jimi Hendrix | |
| Sources of musical inspiration: | Things that happen around me might trigger a huge inspiration to write music, likewise they might kill all the inspiration | |
| All-time favourite song: | AC/DC: It’s A Long WayTo The Top (If You Wanna Rock’n’Roll) |
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| All-time favourite albums: | Slayer: Reign In Blood Metallica: Master Of Puppets AC/DC: High Voltage |
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| Current favourite album: | Graveyard: Hisingen Blues | |
| Best gig ever seen: | Metallica ‘88 | |
| Favourite Amorphis songs: | Crack In A Stone, Into Hiding | |
| Best Amorphis gigs so far: | Too many to mention and remember. 2010 Wacken was quite memorable |
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| Personal highlight with Amorphis: | Getting this far, meeting good people & seeing a lot of the world |
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| Funniest tour memory: | A guy in St. Petersburg sat quietly next to me for 30 min, then he informed me that he was only into satanic, brutal death and left. Maybe he came to the wrong show. |
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| Worst moment on stage: | Playing sick every day for one week during U.S. tour ’05 | |
| Recipe against boredom on tour: | Sensi & sleep or Jack & Coke and party | |
| Other bands/side projects: | To Separate The Flesh From The Bones, Grease Helmet | |
| Good & bad habits: | There’s a very fine line to that. Somewhere a good habit can a bad habit elsewhere. |
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| First instrument: | Hagström Classic guitar | |
| First album ever bought: | Deep Purple: Machine Head | |
| Favourite… | ||
| …Kalevala character: | Kullervo | |
| …songwriter: | Mark Sandman | |
| …classical composer: | Jean Sibelius | |
| …historical figure: | Charles Darwin | |
| …visual artist: | Salvador Dali, Maurits Cornelis Escher | |
| …movie director: | Francis Ford Coppola | |
| …movie: | Battle Royale, Limitless | |
| …book: | Mr. Nice, I’m Ozzy | |
| …cartoon: | South Park | |
| …concert venue: | Z7, Pratteln (Switzerland) | |
| …backstage: | 1Rock, Moscow (Russia) | |
| …holiday destination: | Japan | |
| …food & drink: | Yaki Niku, Jack & Coke | |
| …animal: | Octopus | |
| …sport: | Hockey | |
| …game: | CIV 5 | |
| …TV show: | Madventures | |
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