(Helloween)
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Kiske:
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Well, Japan. We've been there, I think, two times now, and it's always been
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a great fun playing there. I like the venues. They are sounding very good,
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they look very good, and kids over there really appreciate good music and
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stuff. And I think the next time we're gonna play at the Budokan, which is
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pretty cool. Lookin' forward to it. It's gonna be fun.
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Schwichtenberg:
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Japan has been always great to play there, and will be in the future. And
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Japan people are great, it's fun to play there and you feel very confident
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and convinient or whatever to play there. And Japanese people are listening
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very carefully, I don't know. It's great to be in Japan.
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Kiske:
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"Kids of the Century" is the first life sign of us after two and a half
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years. And after all those rumours going around about this band me
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leaving the band, me splitting up, or the band splitting up, and all that
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stuff, which has been quite a lot. Maybe that's normal when the band's not
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on the scene for a while. But after that it feels really good to have,
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actually, a new album ready and a single out. So the kids know we are still
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there. And with the music you can prove what you can do still even without
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one guy that just left the band. I think we found the right person there,
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Roland. And I think the album says everything. Yeah, I wrote "Kids of the
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Century" about more than two years ago now. And remembering that time I
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feel like, when I wrote that song, I was in that feel of that all the kids
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today, they just feel like they haven't got anything to do with the
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problems. Everything goes wrong, the nature or whatever. Just came out of
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that feeling actually. And that's what the song's all about, I think. What
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the kids today...Because I feel like everybody's responsible, especially
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the kids. If they don't feel like they have to change anything or have to
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make things better, nobody will.
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Schwichtenberg:
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I think having Roland in the band is.. we are as lucky as we have Michael
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in the band by that time, we are lucky having Roland in the band. And he's
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just doing great songs and great guitar work he's doing. And a good pal as
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well. He's a nice fellow. And he just fits in the band very much. I think
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the fans will accept him of course.
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Weikath:
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Well, the nice thing about Roland being in the band is that I saw him
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like, I don't know, fifteen years ago or so on stage, and I thought that
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was pretty impressing, what he did there, and I could never forget about
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that. And that's why actually I called him up then when we needed another
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guitarist, "Remember that guy?". And so it took me, like, four hours to
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find out the number, like I had to phone up musicians I knew and suddenly
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somehow I got the number, and phoned him up: "You might not know me, but I
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know you. How about playing guitar in Helloween?" And he didn't even know
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the band. So I had to give him some examples of our songs, like really
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loud, cranked it up. And so, well, he was interested, like it quite a lot.
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And then we went to rehearsing, we had to do the whole stuff within two
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months. 'Cause then we had to go on an American tour and Japan meant two
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hours of playing. And well, ha ha, quite a tough job I would say. After
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all, I mean, we can handle that, we are pretty good, you know. And I'm
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sorry about that, but well... yeah, Roland is a very nice guy. He's
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doing a big part of the band with his character, and his kind of being.
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And it's quite a difference too how the whole thing worked before, because
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he is a completely different character. He is a lot more calm and very
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critical. He's always got his own opinion and that's exactly what we need.
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Kiske:
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Yeah, we recorded the album at PUK studio in Denmark, which is a very good
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studio, I think, very lovely place. It's right in the middle of nowhere
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but that's actually what we wanted, to really concentrate on the album.
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And working with Chris was pretty cool, because he's got a very strong
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sense of humor as we like it |