Legit, he's the only person outside of a family member dying that I really felt upset about. COB were the first "extreme" metal band I got into after the usual Iron Maiden/Metallica thing. This band holds a special place in my heart, and always will. Nice to see Janne doing things again with Warmen, they have Petri Lindroos on vocals and guitar which is cool
RIGHT! I’m so fucking happy I got to see Alexi and COB on stage. His stage presence, and the energy of the whole band was OUT OF THIS WORLD. Alexi was the coolest frontman and such a great guy in every way. RIP legend! 🤟
Glad I was able to be present on their one of the last live gigs in my home town. Alexi is a legend, always will be. And COB is one of the most influential bands in my teenage years also. There are others, for example Sentenced that also had a big influence on me. But there is only one Wild Child.
Don't wanna bash on his GF at the time but she kinda pushed him and inspired him to drink more and more in his last year or two of his life judging by the pics they've both uploaded on their instagrams
@@MethicalYT actually.. their personal life is something we don’t know shit about. He seemed genuinely happy with her and if you read his last interview from December, he was excited about future and had been spending some quiet time in 2020 (like many of us). I wish his partner would have tried harder to keep him away from alcohol, but I mean.. An addict is an addict. He was a grown man who made his own decisions.. I don’t think anyone could have necessarily done anything more. He was loved and had a lot of people who cared about him.
I've been a life long metalheads, but it wasn't until last summer I heard Downfall and was instantly hooked. COB is the reason that I picked up a guitar at 47 years old. RIP Alexi 🇫🇮
Awesome fellow metal head i was the same but afew years earlier, first time i heard Touch Like Angel of Death on the Something wild album i was hooked and wanted to play guitarr like that. But just follow your dreams i found afew bands that wanted to make music like that and live most of my 20's following the dream of being a touring mucician. Its hard and most of your friends and family will discurage you but follow it i loved it i was poor as fuck but i loved every day of it.. now im to old and just write music for fun and my self but give it a shot if you feel creative while playing Alexis amazing leads. Cheers from Sweden and good luck with your musicmakeing.
I feel like such an idiot for missing on this band for years even though I'd heard of them. My drummer is a big fan and when Alexi died he posted links to their music and after that I was hooked. What a terrible loss.
The sound itself may be original, as in they didn't edit anything to fix wrong notes and stuff, but professional DVD releases like this are always mixed and mastered afterwards. In the credits of the DVD itself, they have mixing (Mikko Karmila) and mastering (Mika Jussila) engineers listed along with someone separate who did the live recording (Hans Ostlund).
I have seen cob many times in the 2000s and tbh. they never convinced me live. (I like their studio work a lot!) Alexi used to say that the drinking etc. esp. in this time never affected the performances, but thats not true ! What I have heard about the last years is that alexi was more professional on tour and that the quality improved. but just hearsay, I havent seen them for a decade. we all know that drinking and excessive behavior is part of the whole thing. but I think that artists also have the responsibility "to be in shape" for a good performance. it´s a thin line and cob is, i dont like to say it, one of the few bands I have in my mind that crossed it more than 1-2 times.
@@gerdokurt Saw cob in 2019 and they sounded decent, but enjoyed the hell out of the show. Then I saw Bodom After Midnight at the end of 2020 and they were so tight and had entirely new energy with the new group. Future looked bright for them... :( @TankTheTech You should react to a BAM video!
@@gerdokurt I remember seeing them in Toronto after Alexi was sober and it was a super tight set! But I agree there were a lot of performances I've seen that we subpar edit: this was with the lineup right after roope left
I had heard of Children of Bodom before, knew they were a huge influence for the Finnish metal scene but this was my first time listening to them and it was great! I don't think I can have regrets about being late to the party though, because I wasn't ready for their kind of music before. A few months ago, I may have not liked it. I'm in a huge death melodic metal phase right now and it's time to finally give their 10 CDs a spin. Thanks for the musical journey, Tank!
Since 1996 with these guys... I was 12 and was a fan from the beginning when I heard them first time playing album Something Wild. This is so sad that I can’t even read all these amazing comments.. Thank you Alexi..
And check Roope’s band Stone 🤘Magical first Album Get Stoned. There were talking that Hetfield copied one of Roopes riffs etc.. that was bull but the band was great 🤘🇫🇮
@@TankTheTech yeah that lead in the chorus is difficult to get down on it’s own. I say that as someone who’s trying to get the string skipping down at that speed, I can’t imagine how much it would’ve taken to get that same part down while singing.
@@metalftw9652 the most insane thing is that most of his solos are still leagues above in difficulty...once you can play the chorus you just have to play it so often that you basically play it by muscle memory, then get the vocals down individually and combining the two at this point isn't that hard. It's just a matter of time you have to dedicate to every song individually and it is generally only dependant on your confidence. Also a great way to get better with that is by simply not looking at your fretboard (unless you jump like 10 frets)...compared to playing and singing this chorus, the first solo took me like two more years of learning completely new techniques and developing the left hand dexterity required to play at that speed. And even now it would take me weeks if not months if I were to learn another solo of his, the stuff he wrote and performed when he was 17 years old...I'm so sad he's gone but he left a great legacy and created thousands of new guitarists. I've spotted many younger bands where the lead guitarist plays an ESP Alexi signature model and that's when I know... "One of us"
It is! Plus we have other Finns pretty much like that! Marco Hietala, with his accurate virtuoso base playing, and then those divine vocals at the same time, wowza! I would put Alexi's instrument domination 1st and Marco's 2nd, but vice versa with vocals: Marco 1st, Alexi 2nd. As bands and genres, I always preferred COB, but with Marco's training and talent as opposed to the screaming vocals...Marco.
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Maaan, I feel this way too. Even if this video is now 9 months old. I still feel the same. Alexis passing is - for me personally - the biggest loss in heavy metal. COB brought me into the heavier and more extrem metal after I listend the first time to "Something Wild" back in 1997 (wtf). Thank you for sharing these moments.
I liked them but wasn't a huge fun until they came to my town. I live in a small city in the middle of the Mediterranean and in 2004 they came for a festival. They weren't the headliners and the crowd wasn't that big.. still they came out like thunder and performed as if they were playing for 50.000 people. I remember thinking "so this is how a band who really loves playing sounds like..." :)
I think he is still the youngest person ever to be on the cover of Guitar World magazine. It was in March 2005 for his 26th b-day. And in 2004 he was ranked No. 96 out of 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of "ALL TIME" by Guitar World. Legend... i hope he drinks beer in Vallhala with innocent lake Bodom victims... he hounored them with his band.
Saw them live in 2014, I knew them but, I was there for Floor Jansen, ReVamp opened that show. I remember the most, when they started, that first note was a hard punch of energy, that shocked me and made me feel so alive... Awesome band, and Alexi, pfffff! so magnetic, and powerful, the friend with who i was there told me while we were staring at him: "Alexi is the sexiest creature on earth while he is on stage" and hell yes he was. I hug you dear Tank, I feel you and thank you for this great reaction, as usual 🖤🤘🏻😊
I was soooo waiting this, thank you Tank from bottom of my heart 😍 My first touch, as a teenager, with metal music was Stone (Roope's ex-band). Stone is one of the biggest reason why Finland have so many metal bands. I was musically a little pit lost between ages 16-26. After that I founded my musical interest again, it was mostly metal and classical. I was over 30 years when I founded COB 🤩 Now I'm almost 50 years old and the death of no other celebrity has touched me so much than Alexi's death. First 2 weeks I cryied every day... And here we go again 😭 Even I'm from Finland, saw them only once on stage, precious memory 😊 and I have this dvd, it's one thing what "I will take with me if house is burning". I know some people criticized these "reactions", but I don't feel the same. As a fan, I see if some reactions are false. Atleast for me, in this pain of mine, it was great relief to see and hear people who shared their memories of Alexi. And found out how much people appreciated him, not only as a musician, but also as a person who was so funny, humble and warm hearted. He was so down to earth. Always had time for fans and shared his passion and knowledge to a novice musicians. He left us way too soon, but I think he lived his life as fullest. Made his dreams come true and still was his own self. Some people criticized him earlier how he changed their music during years. What I loved about COB that they was evolving all the time, always something different. One thing what make me even more sad, is that their last album Hexed is one of my favorite. How much awesome music Alexi took with him, we will never going to know that... Hugs 😍
I saw Children of Bodom twice. Both times touring with Lamb of God, oddly enough. They were and still are among my favorite bands and I was devastated when Laiho died. Your tears are my tears too, brother.
just getting to this video. The (I think third?) time I saw them, Randy Blythe from Lamb of God was touring in DC at the same time in 2006. He kept randomly showing up throughout the show and messing up/seriously boosting the show. It was amazing. I saw Bodom 5 times and each time it was different and special
Got to see them in....2008? 9? I was in 12th grade and my buddies and I roadtripped to see them play at the NorVa, one of the best shows of my life. Right up there with seeing Between the Buried and Me open for Mastodon...that was fucking wild
I never heard COB, mostly because it's not my kind of metal. But I can't deny the immense amount of talent that all of they have. A terrible loss, that's for sure. But Alexi won't be forgotten.
Total respect for not getting into this earlier (as you explained in the beginning of the video), very...honorable should I say. Pretty soon after Alexi passed, I spent a weekend listening for hrs and hrs to their albums that are my personal favorites. That got me past worst of the sorrow...the man/quitar god may be gone, but his music will live on forever! Eläköön Children of Bodom!!!
we're almost the same, my top 3 are Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir and Children of Bodom..btw, the guitar im using on my profile picture is a LTD Alexi600 Blacky.. :)
Man the same album that sticks out in my mind when I think of COB " needled 24/7 " guitar riff is so sick it is what I think of when I think of this band.
COB, In Flames and Dimmu Borgir. You just can't go wrong with those (although I have to say I have lost interest in In Flames quite a bit since 2010 or so...)
Hi TankTheTech, awesome chanel you have got here. I really like your videos. You should check old footage (ruclips.net/video/t0gmFaTbZQc/видео.html) where Alexi, Roope Latvala and Marko Hietala were playing at music store in Lahti, Finland 2002. At that time Alexi and Roope were still playing Jackson guitars. Would be cool for you to react some older COB stuff and give us your knowledge of Jackson(s) Alexi used to play and also give your audience facts when/why/how Alexi made his change to ESP.
Alexi never played LTD ALX600. He was photographed with them and may have shot a few promo videos with the LTD models for promotional purposes / endorsement obligations. Live he only played Custom shop ESP 1000s. The LTD models were a completely different shape than the real signature ESPs. His signature was too similar to the Jackson Rhoads shape which Jackson had a copywrite on so the LTD models and the ESP models made for the American market were closer to a king V shape than a Rhoads. He said unofficially he did not like them for that reason and I 10,000% agree.
Thumb way up. I feel for you ... CoB was my first extreme metal band (vocal style). Seen them five times. Still recommending: Parasite Inc. "Once and For All" (music video, you should be able to see all their gear ;)) , and Aephanemer "Bloodline"
CoB is a band I have long knew but only got into in recent year. One of my favorite songs long before I ever started appreciatibg extremer styles of metal and vocals was "Angels Don't Kill". It's still my favorite but others I love are "Chindren of Decadence", "If You Want Peace... Prepare For War", "Living Dead Beat", "Towards Dead End", "Blooddrunk" and "Everytime I Die". Would be cool to see reactions on them in due time ofc but that's not the underlying point of me mentioning them. The news didn't hit a soft spot for me due to being so new to the band as a fan but I understand what will be missed whenever I hear new music from them now. Obviously a major part in what I like in their sound and music and will be impossible to fully replace or copy. He's iconic! R.I.P Alexi Laiho. An exceptional talent and a legend!
We're the Hate Crew, we stand and we won't fall! We're all for none and none for all! Fuck You! We'll fight 'til the last hit! And we sure as hell aint taking no shit! Fun Fact Alexi did play Jacksons until 2003. :)
He bro. Back in the 90's CoB played Jackson guitars. One night their entire backline got stolen. Esp helped out and offered them to play on their gear. After that they signed a deal with esp. Henkka played Ltd f104 and 105. He has one with a rose inlay. Beautiful piece. I also started to play Ltd F104 in 2005 after I parted ways with scheckter. Alexi tho has an entire 600 custom line. Most are scythe models. I am almost certain the pinstripe is. Friend of mine collects them. He has 14 models of the alexi 600. As true metal heads we are we loved the pink one. Hahaha. But hey... This was hard to watch man. I also had a tough time when he passed cause CoB was important to me especially back then. They helped me through some rough times in my life. The friend I mentioned, he and I had a special bond with angels don't kill. We learned to play it and made a cover of it with the band I was in back then. I never thought that Alexis passing hit me so hard. Today is the first day since he passed that I listened to them. Thanks my man for this video. Means a lot.
Best reaction video ever for me because I also grew up on Bodom and Alexi's passing hit extremely hard. I couldn't even listen to Bodom for a while cause it was just too hard. This video kind of brought an emotional catharsis that helped me through that. Great tribute to Alexi right here, thanks man! Let's keep the legacy alive
This live DVD also holds a special significance. I had just finished military conscription and wasn't sure what the hell to do next, running out of money etc. I then got a job that wasn't much but better than nothing, and decided to buy this DVD cause at least I had some income :D Watched this thing over and over and over, really helped me get my shit together, thanks to Alexi and all the Bodom guys for that!
Man, thank you for sharing all of that with me on here! This band, and Alexi, will always hold a special place in my heart and it's awesome to hear stories from other people about how the music has affected them. 🤘
@@TankTheTech Actually I've come to realize this reaction was more like therapy for me. Thanks once again! Insomnium - Pale Morning Star, that one is a must btw! Besides a great lyric video there's also a sweet virtual live stream video for gear stuff. Still I would recommend the lyric video, it's goddamn awesome
Yooo I have a very similair experience with this band as you do bro', I was about 13 years when a buddy of mine made me listen to COB, I was "into" hiphop back then, and I absolutely hated it at first, I thought it was pure noise. Then about a year or 2 later, I was chilling at his place, and he had one of their CD's playing in the background. I went home that evening with CD's "Hatebreeder" through to "Are you dead yet?", and while it still took me a while to actually get used to the sound, they still ended up being the reason I started listening to metal. Even though I haven't really listened to them for a long time, I was still gutted when that same friend told me Alexi has passed away recently, they hold a special place in my heart :(
If my band wasn't medieval themed, I'd 100% have a classic car on stage too, I loved that Alexi and I always had cars and guitars in common. I have a white Monte Carlo alot like his and I've played Bodom songs on my guitar sitting in that driver seat more times than I can count. Fuck I miss him. The last show I ever saw before the lockdowns were Children Of Bodom and it's going to remain my last show I ever attended until I can return to the stage myself.
Ugh.. Last time I saw the Wild Child was 2016 at San Antonio TX. Aztec Theatre. Saw half of the show cause at the same time the Winterhell Fest was going on a few blocks away. Had I known it was my last time watching the wild one.
I like that the bands you mention at the start are all from the classical metal countries Sweden (In Flames), Finland (Children of Bodom) and Dimmu Borgir (Norway). Another thing I thought about was when you mentioned the keyboards, for me so is that also a way of showing to the crowd that they are actually doing something. I prefer a player that has it like that over something that is flat and sort of hidden. And once more, do a video with Ghost live!
Goddamnit I feel you man, as a Finn cob was like a "coming of age" rite like band for metalheads, which was like 80% of finns.. But yeah, still feel saness and happiness listening to them.
After Alexy's death, a piece was torn out of me. I still can't find a place for myself. I can't find a replacement and I only listen to CoB in the gym. I've been to the forums, but it didn't help.
I attended this show and have the dvd. Fryshuset Arenan is not a big venue, more like a sports center. I, like yourself, did not get into this band instantly but soon changed. Love the channel. R.I.P Alexi
Btw. Tank, what kind of a man you are, because if I remember right you once said that Nightwish is now one of your favorite band or even number one band, and then there is another Finnish band you like very much. There are only 5.5 million people in the whole Finland. And you choose two bands out from our country to be one of the best bands you like. There is no problem for me but I wonder. Any way thanks for your fine reacts.
Really stoked that you have Insomnium in the background of the intro. The Finns are fucking killing melodeath. The Swedes may have started it but the Finns are pioneering it!!!
getting older year by year and when get 35-40 years old ,people get down (die)faster and faster next to me and world. when was young,then not really thinking or see deaths,but then come age when death imagine have alarm in brain and knowledge. thanx to great memory reaction about alexi. have great weekend there.
So your three top european metal bands are from Norway, Sweden and Finland. 😀 Maybe more scandinavian metal than european then 😉. Seriously though, scandinavia is kind of the metal scene in Europe.
Thank you for sharing. First COB song I've listened to end to end... hmm, I might be be warming up to melodic death metal as I am getting older... seemingly opposite the musicians' trajectory who turn more "progressive" with age, like Opeth or DT))) First I found Soilwork catchy (Let the River Flow), now this... not to mention finally wading into SYL... maybe once you get through In Flames, I'll be on my way down that rabbit hole )))
My Bluetooth headphones are almost dead and I can’t find the cord. I only have time for one more video. I choose Tank and Alexi/COB. Good 'last video', imo. *EDIT* Finished watching... I cried, Headphones died. All is well.
@@TankTheTech I feel so bad! I went in to edit and delete my whole original edit! Note to self: don’t mess with comments when you’re falling asleep!!! I couldn’t remember what I wrote so I had to go back in with a very generic couple of sentences. Sorry bout that! Still, yes. Music is so powerful and our reactions are so primal and instant a lot of the time. Nothing in the world, probably the universe lol, quite like it.
Awesome show and thanx for sharing your history with their music. Unfortunately I only saw them once, at a small festival in 2005 in Sweden. The only thing I remember is that I thought it was awesome even though I had a really bad hangover from the pre party the day before!
one of the best vocalist,guitarist,shredder,song writer,frontman ever life all the time. my biggest inspiration of metals. facts : playing guitar while singing is hard but doing solo with singing are more hard and he just did it.,playing guitar+singing and playing guitar solo you are god alexi miss u.
CoB are new-ish to me. I think I heard a few songs over the years, but probably got sidetracked along the way before I could get more into them. Will definitely check out more of them now. Also, I feel old now. 2003 was the last time I was at a big festival (the Mer'a Luna) and I was deep into my 30s back then. That festival was were I actually discovered Nightwish.
@@TankTheTech of course not. I'm 54 now and I've never stopped exploring. Apparently most people are stuck on whatever they liked before they reached 30. Well, not me.
Thank you so much for this. Alexis death is a huge loss for music and also for me personal. I am listening to CoB since maybe 2002 and had the luck to see em live three times. Alexis passing makes me still so sad to this day and I share your feelings and emotions. He was a great entertainer and a godlike guitar player. RIP Alexi
Hey Tank! What did you think about the last CoB album? Also did you know that Alexis last band Bodom after midnight will be releasing the 3 songs they recorded as an ep? R.I.P alexi🖤
Was super sad to learn of Alexi's passing. I remember when I first heard of this band back in 2008 a few months leading up to Gigantour that year. Definitely a big part of my youth. Favorite song from this album has to be Sixpounder. That chunky riff is just so sick.
Even though I don't like Children of Bodom and never really enjoyed a single song from them, they still managed to take a place in my heart. Back in early 10-s I've been working in a local music web-media as a photographer. Sure, as the beginner I've been getting assigned to local artists or ones from neighbour countries, mostly in small venues with smaller audience. And the first show of really popular respected band in a huge concert hall I've been working on was Children of Bodom gig. Sure, my photos were not as great as they could've been cause again, it was my very first experience in such circumstances, but still this show is a sweet memory of mine. When Alexi died, I was thinking about reprocessing all the photos from that show, but unfortunately I've lost the original files, so all I've got is 900x600px pics. Still love them though.
Hey Tank if you wana i can mail you that "Chaos Ridden Years" live dvd? I just got one laying around and im sure you out off all people would appreciate this in your collection.
Your showing how everyone feels about Alexi, we were all devastated. My first COB song was bed of razors and then soon after their whole discography. Thanks for doing this one Tank.
@@pasiikola9860 I heard Roope's situation last year and it made me feel so sad, even I think he f*cked his job with COB and with guys by himself. Imo, that was nasty resignation and Roope can blame himself only. Still I have so much respect for Roope. With all my heart I really hope he will stand up again. He is one of the biggest pioneers in finnish metal music...
Your reaction now was almost exactly the same as mine when I watched this video at the day of the news. So much emotion man.. That being said, I must point out the fact that about 30-40% of what you said about his sig esp was correct 😅 Anyway, you said you haven’t seen this show, so you definitely should take your time and see this whole gig, I think there is a complete playlist of the dvd (each song in a separate video, but from the same source including all the speaks and stuff) on YT in HQ. This particular concert is the best Bodom live record there is imo. That time period the band was at it’s best for what comes to the live shows.
@@TankTheTech Sorry brother, didn't mean to be an asshole. You are one of the best YT at the moment! (Y) 1. The guitar is ESP, not LTD. They sold that particular ESP Alexi signature -model for some time, but haven't since. The alexi LTD signature scythe is nowhere near the real ESP-lineup -version of it. Those two guitars really couldn't be more apart and he never played a single LTD-guitar on stage. He also had more sig-models over the years (like you said), but that's a whole different story. Alexi signature-ESPs (not LTDs) has been on the market over the years all the time. 2. That mike is his signature thing and the guitar indeed has a battery and an on/off -switch. It is true that the passive EMG-HZ mic is basically on the guitar, but there’s a twist: the guitar has an EMG F-ALX -set, which icludes some EMG-mic (like I said, i think it’s basically EMG-HZ) and preamp! The pre-amp switch is located under the volume-knob, it’s very small and kinda impossible to notice from the video if you don’t know it’s there. I could say something about the differences in ESP CS USA and the original ESP CS in Japan (in whitch the og scythe is made in), but that might not be relevant in this case.
The guitar premiere has a series on their YT-channel called ”rig rundown” in whitch they have Alexi with his guitar setup pretty spot-on on what he had all of his carreer. ”The chorus? -yea its ON all the time 😎” 😄
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The tear in your eye represents all of our mutual feelings ;(
Still got the same reaction anytime i watch live clips :( worship cob since mid school, 18 years now... Fvck 🥺😖😣
Legit, he's the only person outside of a family member dying that I really felt upset about. COB were the first "extreme" metal band I got into after the usual Iron Maiden/Metallica thing. This band holds a special place in my heart, and always will. Nice to see Janne doing things again with Warmen, they have Petri Lindroos on vocals and guitar which is cool
Alexi is the coolest..shredder, vocalist, stage presence, melodies, cool guitars, good looks.. :)
frontman!
RIGHT! I’m so fucking happy I got to see Alexi and COB on stage. His stage presence, and the energy of the whole band was OUT OF THIS WORLD. Alexi was the coolest frontman and such a great guy in every way. RIP legend! 🤟
@@mmnde12 how lucky you are
i'm so jealous
Now he's one of the coolest for sure
Glad I was able to be present on their one of the last live gigs in my home town. Alexi is a legend, always will be. And COB is one of the most influential bands in my teenage years also. There are others, for example Sentenced that also had a big influence on me. But there is only one Wild Child.
Remember kids, try to play like Laiho, but not drink! RIP wild child.
Yeah, not the life style anyone should be emulating. He was the definition of burning the candle from both ends. RIP Wildchild!
Don't wanna bash on his GF at the time but she kinda pushed him and inspired him to drink more and more in his last year or two of his life judging by the pics they've both uploaded on their instagrams
@@MethicalYT actually.. their personal life is something we don’t know shit about. He seemed genuinely happy with her and if you read his last interview from December, he was excited about future and had been spending some quiet time in 2020 (like many of us). I wish his partner would have tried harder to keep him away from alcohol, but I mean.. An addict is an addict. He was a grown man who made his own decisions.. I don’t think anyone could have necessarily done anything more. He was loved and had a lot of people who cared about him.
I have no doubt that dimebag darrel would not live past 4p either from drinking if he had not been killed
Sadly, you can't keep an addict away from their addiction until they are ready for it.
The man died, but the legend lives forever, rest in power Alexi. Tank, thanks for open your heart, you are one of the best reactors.
I've been a life long metalheads, but it wasn't until last summer I heard Downfall and was instantly hooked. COB is the reason that I picked up a guitar at 47 years old. RIP Alexi 🇫🇮
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Awesome fellow metal head i was the same but afew years earlier, first time i heard Touch Like Angel of Death on the Something wild album i was hooked and wanted to play guitarr like that. But just follow your dreams i found afew bands that wanted to make music like that and live most of my 20's following the dream of being a touring mucician.
Its hard and most of your friends and family will discurage you but follow it i loved it i was poor as fuck but i loved every day of it.. now im to old and just write music for fun and my self but give it a shot if you feel creative while playing Alexis amazing leads. Cheers from Sweden and good luck with your musicmakeing.
@@lodar158 My man!! Touch like angel of death was also the song for me to get hooked up to this absolute best band in the world!
Oh I know man, I cried for like 3 days off and on after I heard the news. They were very important to me as well. I loved all of their albums. R.I.P
I feel like such an idiot for missing on this band for years even though I'd heard of them. My drummer is a big fan and when Alexi died he posted links to their music and after that I was hooked. What a terrible loss.
Always trust the drummer. They have knowledge.
I have this DVD. Alexi said in his book that the sound is original from the concert, so it’s not fixed up. You can still hear screwups in some songs.
The sound itself may be original, as in they didn't edit anything to fix wrong notes and stuff, but professional DVD releases like this are always mixed and mastered afterwards. In the credits of the DVD itself, they have mixing (Mikko Karmila) and mastering (Mika Jussila) engineers listed along with someone separate who did the live recording (Hans Ostlund).
I have seen cob many times in the 2000s and tbh. they never convinced me live. (I like their studio work a lot!)
Alexi used to say that the drinking etc. esp. in this time never affected the performances, but thats not true !
What I have heard about the last years is that alexi was more professional on tour and that the quality improved. but just hearsay, I havent seen them for a decade.
we all know that drinking and excessive behavior is part of the whole thing. but I think that artists also have the responsibility "to be in shape" for a good performance. it´s a thin line and cob is, i dont like to say it, one of the few bands I have in my mind that crossed it more than 1-2 times.
@@gerdokurt Saw cob in 2019 and they sounded decent, but enjoyed the hell out of the show. Then I saw Bodom After Midnight at the end of 2020 and they were so tight and had entirely new energy with the new group. Future looked bright for them... :(
@TankTheTech You should react to a BAM video!
@@gerdokurt I remember seeing them in Toronto after Alexi was sober and it was a super tight set! But I agree there were a lot of performances I've seen that we subpar
edit: this was with the lineup right after roope left
Kiitos.
🙌
So glad I have this DVD. We miss you so much Alexi
Check out second guitar player..Roope Latvala. Foundin member of finnish trash/speed metal band Stone. the big influence band fo Alexi
This is such an honest appreciation of an unbelievable artist. I loved your reaction 👍👍❤️ Rest In Peace Alexi Laiho
Alexi died once but he has saved hundreds of lifes
Well said brother.
I had heard of Children of Bodom before, knew they were a huge influence for the Finnish metal scene but this was my first time listening to them and it was great! I don't think I can have regrets about being late to the party though, because I wasn't ready for their kind of music before. A few months ago, I may have not liked it. I'm in a huge death melodic metal phase right now and it's time to finally give their 10 CDs a spin.
Thanks for the musical journey, Tank!
🤘🤘🤘
I envy you! Bodom is my favorite band of all time and I can't believe you're gonna be hearing them for the first time. They are truly amazing.
Since 1996 with these guys... I was 12 and was a fan from the beginning when I heard them first time playing album Something Wild.
This is so sad that I can’t even read all these amazing comments..
Thank you Alexi..
And check Roope’s band Stone 🤘Magical first Album Get Stoned. There were talking that Hetfield copied one of Roopes riffs etc.. that was bull but the band was great 🤘🇫🇮
It was Kirk Hammet who was inspired by song "Get stoned" to make Enter Sandman. And you can clearly hear they did copy much from that song.
It's sick that Alexi played the lead sections in the chorus while singing!
He’s an animal. The coordination it takes to rip those leads and sing is so damn impressive.
@@TankTheTech yeah that lead in the chorus is difficult to get down on it’s own. I say that as someone who’s trying to get the string skipping down at that speed, I can’t imagine how much it would’ve taken to get that same part down while singing.
@@metalftw9652 the most insane thing is that most of his solos are still leagues above in difficulty...once you can play the chorus you just have to play it so often that you basically play it by muscle memory, then get the vocals down individually and combining the two at this point isn't that hard. It's just a matter of time you have to dedicate to every song individually and it is generally only dependant on your confidence. Also a great way to get better with that is by simply not looking at your fretboard (unless you jump like 10 frets)...compared to playing and singing this chorus, the first solo took me like two more years of learning completely new techniques and developing the left hand dexterity required to play at that speed. And even now it would take me weeks if not months if I were to learn another solo of his, the stuff he wrote and performed when he was 17 years old...I'm so sad he's gone but he left a great legacy and created thousands of new guitarists. I've spotted many younger bands where the lead guitarist plays an ESP Alexi signature model and that's when I know... "One of us"
This!
It is! Plus we have other Finns pretty much like that! Marco Hietala, with his accurate virtuoso base playing, and then those divine vocals at the same time, wowza! I would put Alexi's instrument domination 1st and Marco's 2nd, but vice versa with vocals: Marco 1st, Alexi 2nd. As bands and genres, I always preferred COB, but with Marco's training and talent as opposed to the screaming vocals...Marco.
Maaan, I feel this way too. Even if this video is now 9 months old. I still feel the same. Alexis passing is - for me personally - the biggest loss in heavy metal. COB brought me into the heavier and more extrem metal after I listend the first time to "Something Wild" back in 1997 (wtf). Thank you for sharing these moments.
I liked them but wasn't a huge fun until they came to my town. I live in a small city in the middle of the Mediterranean and in 2004 they came for a festival. They weren't the headliners and the crowd wasn't that big.. still they came out like thunder and performed as if they were playing for 50.000 people. I remember thinking "so this is how a band who really loves playing sounds like..." :)
I think he is still the youngest person ever to be on the cover of Guitar World magazine. It was in March 2005 for his 26th b-day. And in 2004 he was ranked No. 96 out of 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of "ALL TIME" by Guitar World. Legend... i hope he drinks beer in Vallhala with innocent lake Bodom victims... he hounored them with his band.
I only got into CoB after Alexi's passing, but since then they've become my favorite band, and I don't think that'll really change.
Same here m8, same here. EVERY-FUKCING-TIME. Cheers.
Losing Alexi was, I got no words man. He was one of a kind man. RIP MAN!!!!!
ill bet ya should start just looking finnish bands :D u have love em all so ill bet there finds lots more :D
Saw them live in 2014, I knew them but, I was there for Floor Jansen, ReVamp opened that show.
I remember the most, when they started, that first note was a hard punch of energy, that shocked me and made me feel so alive...
Awesome band, and Alexi, pfffff! so magnetic, and powerful, the friend with who i was there told me while we were staring at him: "Alexi is the sexiest creature on earth while he is on stage" and hell yes he was.
I hug you dear Tank, I feel you and thank you for this great reaction, as usual 🖤🤘🏻😊
I was soooo waiting this, thank you Tank from bottom of my heart 😍
My first touch, as a teenager, with metal music was Stone (Roope's ex-band). Stone is one of the biggest reason why Finland have so many metal bands. I was musically a little pit lost between ages 16-26. After that I founded my musical interest again, it was mostly metal and classical. I was over 30 years when I founded COB 🤩
Now I'm almost 50 years old and the death of no other celebrity has touched me so much than Alexi's death. First 2 weeks I cryied every day... And here we go again 😭
Even I'm from Finland, saw them only once on stage, precious memory 😊 and I have this dvd, it's one thing what "I will take with me if house is burning".
I know some people criticized these "reactions", but I don't feel the same. As a fan, I see if some reactions are false. Atleast for me, in this pain of mine, it was great relief to see and hear people who shared their memories of Alexi. And found out how much people appreciated him, not only as a musician, but also as a person who was so funny, humble and warm hearted. He was so down to earth. Always had time for fans and shared his passion and knowledge to a novice musicians.
He left us way too soon, but I think he lived his life as fullest. Made his dreams come true and still was his own self. Some people criticized him earlier how he changed their music during years. What I loved about COB that they was evolving all the time, always something different. One thing what make me even more sad, is that their last album Hexed is one of my favorite. How much awesome music Alexi took with him, we will never going to know that...
Hugs 😍
Was working in this gig. Great concert 🤘 Greets from 🇫🇮
Like many, CoB was one of the bands that got me into Metal 15 years ago... yeah, this reaction did hit home as well.
That same 2003 time frame for me. Every time tank paused it was times i already was about to as well.
I saw Children of Bodom twice. Both times touring with Lamb of God, oddly enough. They were and still are among my favorite bands and I was devastated when Laiho died.
Your tears are my tears too, brother.
fuckin hell i was cryin all the fuckin video ,i miss him so much..
just getting to this video. The (I think third?) time I saw them, Randy Blythe from Lamb of God was touring in DC at the same time in 2006. He kept randomly showing up throughout the show and messing up/seriously boosting the show. It was amazing. I saw Bodom 5 times and each time it was different and special
I was at that show as well. He just randomly showed up! it was absolutely fantastic
Got to see them in....2008? 9? I was in 12th grade and my buddies and I roadtripped to see them play at the NorVa, one of the best shows of my life. Right up there with seeing Between the Buried and Me open for Mastodon...that was fucking wild
Dude, I love the Norva. That would have been a killer show to see at that venue!
You should react Children of Bodom - A symphonic tribute. It’s the most epic shit you can hear as a Children of Bodom fan.
Netta Skog in not bad either.
Yes, amazing...and also COB Piano Medley...very beautiful and emotional
I never heard COB, mostly because it's not my kind of metal. But I can't deny the immense amount of talent that all of they have. A terrible loss, that's for sure. But Alexi won't be forgotten.
Total respect for not getting into this earlier (as you explained in the beginning of the video), very...honorable should I say. Pretty soon after Alexi passed, I spent a weekend listening for hrs and hrs to their albums that are my personal favorites. That got me past worst of the sorrow...the man/quitar god may be gone, but his music will live on forever! Eläköön Children of Bodom!!!
we're almost the same, my top 3 are Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir and Children of Bodom..btw, the guitar im using on my profile picture is a LTD Alexi600 Blacky.. :)
Tank you need to get that DVD. It's freaking awesome.
Easily one of my favorite bands of all time. I miss you, Wild Child.
Man the same album that sticks out in my mind when I think of COB " needled 24/7 " guitar riff is so sick it is what I think of when I think of this band.
Can you not cry during this video please? You're making me cry too lol fuck I'm so sad he's gone.
COB, In Flames and Dimmu Borgir. You just can't go wrong with those (although I have to say I have lost interest in In Flames quite a bit since 2010 or so...)
I feel ya. I still enjoy In Flames, but personally enjoy the pre-Sounds of a Playground fading sound more.
@@TankTheTech truer words have been seldom spoken. / Subterranean 4ever.
Hi TankTheTech, awesome chanel you have got here. I really like your videos. You should check old footage (ruclips.net/video/t0gmFaTbZQc/видео.html) where Alexi, Roope Latvala and Marko Hietala were playing at music store in Lahti, Finland 2002. At that time Alexi and Roope were still playing Jackson guitars. Would be cool for you to react some older COB stuff and give us your knowledge of Jackson(s) Alexi used to play and also give your audience facts when/why/how Alexi made his change to ESP.
Alexi never played LTD ALX600. He was photographed with them and may have shot a few promo videos with the LTD models for promotional purposes / endorsement obligations. Live he only played Custom shop ESP 1000s. The LTD models were a completely different shape than the real signature ESPs. His signature was too similar to the Jackson Rhoads shape which Jackson had a copywrite on so the LTD models and the ESP models made for the American market were closer to a king V shape than a Rhoads. He said unofficially he did not like them for that reason and I 10,000% agree.
Thumb way up. I feel for you ... CoB was my first extreme metal band (vocal style). Seen them five times.
Still recommending: Parasite Inc. "Once and For All" (music video, you should be able to see all their gear ;)) , and Aephanemer "Bloodline"
R.I.P COB n Alexi❤️epic back track🤘BRHG as we say in our hategroup, menkkakuppi(that time of month for woman+ cup)greetings from Finland.
CoB is a band I have long knew but only got into in recent year. One of my favorite songs long before I ever started appreciatibg extremer styles of metal and vocals was "Angels Don't Kill". It's still my favorite but others I love are "Chindren of Decadence", "If You Want Peace... Prepare For War", "Living Dead Beat", "Towards Dead End", "Blooddrunk" and "Everytime I Die". Would be cool to see reactions on them in due time ofc but that's not the underlying point of me mentioning them. The news didn't hit a soft spot for me due to being so new to the band as a fan but I understand what will be missed whenever I hear new music from them now. Obviously a major part in what I like in their sound and music and will be impossible to fully replace or copy. He's iconic!
R.I.P Alexi Laiho. An exceptional talent and a legend!
Hey Tank! You have to react to band named Kalmah, song seventh swamphnony 🤟 they are highly inlfuenced by Alexi. Greetings from 🇫🇮
We're the Hate Crew, we stand and we won't fall!
We're all for none and none for all!
Fuck You!
We'll fight 'til the last hit!
And we sure as hell aint taking no shit!
Fun Fact Alexi did play Jacksons until 2003. :)
He bro.
Back in the 90's CoB played Jackson guitars. One night their entire backline got stolen. Esp helped out and offered them to play on their gear. After that they signed a deal with esp.
Henkka played Ltd f104 and 105. He has one with a rose inlay. Beautiful piece. I also started to play Ltd F104 in 2005 after I parted ways with scheckter.
Alexi tho has an entire 600 custom line. Most are scythe models. I am almost certain the pinstripe is.
Friend of mine collects them. He has 14 models of the alexi 600. As true metal heads we are we loved the pink one. Hahaha.
But hey... This was hard to watch man. I also had a tough time when he passed cause CoB was important to me especially back then. They helped me through some rough times in my life.
The friend I mentioned, he and I had a special bond with angels don't kill. We learned to play it and made a cover of it with the band I was in back then.
I never thought that Alexis passing hit me so hard. Today is the first day since he passed that I listened to them. Thanks my man for this video. Means a lot.
Best reaction video ever for me because I also grew up on Bodom and Alexi's passing hit extremely hard. I couldn't even listen to Bodom for a while cause it was just too hard. This video kind of brought an emotional catharsis that helped me through that. Great tribute to Alexi right here, thanks man! Let's keep the legacy alive
This live DVD also holds a special significance. I had just finished military conscription and wasn't sure what the hell to do next, running out of money etc. I then got a job that wasn't much but better than nothing, and decided to buy this DVD cause at least I had some income :D Watched this thing over and over and over, really helped me get my shit together, thanks to Alexi and all the Bodom guys for that!
Man, thank you for sharing all of that with me on here! This band, and Alexi, will always hold a special place in my heart and it's awesome to hear stories from other people about how the music has affected them. 🤘
@@TankTheTech Actually I've come to realize this reaction was more like therapy for me. Thanks once again! Insomnium - Pale Morning Star, that one is a must btw! Besides a great lyric video there's also a sweet virtual live stream video for gear stuff. Still I would recommend the lyric video, it's goddamn awesome
Yooo I have a very similair experience with this band as you do bro', I was about 13 years when a buddy of mine made me listen to COB, I was "into" hiphop back then, and I absolutely hated it at first, I thought it was pure noise. Then about a year or 2 later, I was chilling at his place, and he had one of their CD's playing in the background. I went home that evening with CD's "Hatebreeder" through to "Are you dead yet?", and while it still took me a while to actually get used to the sound, they still ended up being the reason I started listening to metal. Even though I haven't really listened to them for a long time, I was still gutted when that same friend told me Alexi has passed away recently, they hold a special place in my heart :(
If my band wasn't medieval themed, I'd 100% have a classic car on stage too, I loved that Alexi and I always had cars and guitars in common. I have a white Monte Carlo alot like his and I've played Bodom songs on my guitar sitting in that driver seat more times than I can count. Fuck I miss him. The last show I ever saw before the lockdowns were Children Of Bodom and it's going to remain my last show I ever attended until I can return to the stage myself.
Ugh.. Last time I saw the Wild Child was 2016 at San Antonio TX. Aztec Theatre. Saw half of the show cause at the same time the Winterhell Fest was going on a few blocks away. Had I known it was my last time watching the wild one.
My first metal koncert was at Fryshuset 2006. I went to see Edguy who had Dragonforce and Sabaton as support.
I like that the bands you mention at the start are all from the classical metal countries Sweden (In Flames), Finland (Children of Bodom) and Dimmu Borgir (Norway). Another thing I thought about was when you mentioned the keyboards, for me so is that also a way of showing to the crowd that they are actually doing something. I prefer a player that has it like that over something that is flat and sort of hidden.
And once more, do a video with Ghost live!
Goddamnit I feel you man, as a Finn cob was like a "coming of age" rite like band for metalheads, which was like 80% of finns.. But yeah, still feel saness and happiness listening to them.
After Alexy's death, a piece was torn out of me. I still can't find a place for myself. I can't find a replacement and I only listen to CoB in the gym. I've been to the forums, but it didn't help.
I attended this show and have the dvd. Fryshuset Arenan is not a big venue, more like a sports center. I, like yourself, did not get into this band instantly but soon changed. Love the channel. R.I.P Alexi
Btw. Tank, what kind of a man you are, because if I remember right
you once said that Nightwish is now one of your favorite band or even
number one band, and then there is another Finnish band you
like very much. There are only 5.5 million people in the whole Finland.
And you choose two bands out from our country to be one of the
best bands you like. There is no problem for me but I wonder.
Any way thanks for your fine reacts.
R.I.P Alex one of the best guitar players ever.
Like this? Please do react to Warmen - Hell on four wheels, Janne Wirman's band
Really stoked that you have Insomnium in the background of the intro. The Finns are fucking killing melodeath. The Swedes may have started it but the Finns are pioneering it!!!
Good and emotional video. Don't forget Roope Latvala, who's fantastic also!!
Dead night warior is so good... make reaction? I loved children of bodom.✌ thx finland ❤
getting older year by year and when get 35-40 years old ,people get down (die)faster and faster next to me and world. when was young,then not really thinking or see deaths,but then come age when death imagine have alarm in brain and knowledge. thanx to great memory reaction about alexi. have great weekend there.
React to Children of Bodom: Black Widow pretty please :3 I bet it will get some likes.
Had to give a like for the solid beard and the true love for bodom felt that shit man we feel the same
🤘🤘🤘
Cob is best band ever. Im huge fan children of bodom and alexi laiho 🤘❤ do video wolfheart and verikalpa band 😀
the best reactors is you buddy
rest in peace wildchild 79-20💐
So your three top european metal bands are from Norway, Sweden and Finland. 😀 Maybe more scandinavian metal than european then 😉. Seriously though, scandinavia is kind of the metal scene in Europe.
Correction from Finland: Finland is not part of Scandinavia ;)
@@Bashi88 you are right, 'nordic countries' is better. I'm always forgetting that our Finnish brothers and sisters ain't nordic 😆
my third or fourth time trying but I cant watch this. Still hurts. :) all the best my friends.
Allu was and is the best metal guitarist in the fucking universe...
Should react to some Sinergy stuff too, he did some great work in that band as well.
Thanks Tank for giving Alexi some light! Great guitar player and singer. Always love and respect. I cried too btw ;)
Thank you for sharing. First COB song I've listened to end to end... hmm, I might be be warming up to melodic death metal as I am getting older... seemingly opposite the musicians' trajectory who turn more "progressive" with age, like Opeth or DT))) First I found Soilwork catchy (Let the River Flow), now this... not to mention finally wading into SYL... maybe once you get through In Flames, I'll be on my way down that rabbit hole )))
My Bluetooth headphones are almost dead and I can’t find the cord.
I only have time for one more video.
I choose Tank and Alexi/COB.
Good 'last video', imo.
*EDIT*
Finished watching...
I cried,
Headphones died.
All is well.
Thank you so much for sharing that. Music is such a powerful thing. 🤘
@@TankTheTech I feel so bad! I went in to edit and delete my whole original edit!
Note to self: don’t mess with comments when you’re falling asleep!!!
I couldn’t remember what I wrote so I had to go back in with a very generic couple of sentences.
Sorry bout that!
Still, yes. Music is so powerful and our reactions are so primal and instant a lot of the time.
Nothing in the world, probably the universe lol, quite like it.
I feel you bro. Cob is and always will be in the top three of my favorite bands of all time
Awesome show and thanx for sharing your history with their music. Unfortunately I only saw them once, at a small festival in 2005 in Sweden. The only thing I remember is that I thought it was awesome even though I had a really bad hangover from the pre party the day before!
one of the best vocalist,guitarist,shredder,song writer,frontman ever life all the time.
my biggest inspiration of metals.
facts : playing guitar while singing is hard
but doing solo with singing are more hard and he just did it.,playing guitar+singing and playing guitar solo
you are god alexi
miss u.
Hearing that break in the song where the crowd was screaming the lyrics back at Alexi was hard to hear. RIP to the legendary Wild Child
I usually don't comment on videos, but those tears deserve a suscribe
getting to see COB tour with Cannibal Corpse in 09 will always be a concert highlight for me absolute monster of a show
CoB are new-ish to me. I think I heard a few songs over the years, but probably got sidetracked along the way before I could get more into them. Will definitely check out more of them now. Also, I feel old now. 2003 was the last time I was at a big festival (the Mer'a Luna) and I was deep into my 30s back then. That festival was were I actually discovered Nightwish.
Never too late to discover new music!
@@TankTheTech of course not. I'm 54 now and I've never stopped exploring. Apparently most people are stuck on whatever they liked before they reached 30. Well, not me.
Thank you so much for this. Alexis death is a huge loss for music and also for me personal. I am listening to CoB since maybe 2002 and had the luck to see em live three times.
Alexis passing makes me still so sad to this day and I share your feelings and emotions. He was a great entertainer and a godlike guitar player.
RIP Alexi
Hey Tank! What did you think about the last CoB album? Also did you know that Alexis last band Bodom after midnight will be releasing the 3 songs they recorded as an ep? R.I.P alexi🖤
I liked it. Wasn’t in love with it as much as the older stuff, but still enjoyed it.
Yeah man, such a tragedy, his music lives on.
Love the Insomnium in background, "While We Sleep"
It s awesome tank, i fucking love you now ;)
Alexi
Was super sad to learn of Alexi's passing. I remember when I first heard of this band back in 2008 a few months leading up to Gigantour that year. Definitely a big part of my youth. Favorite song from this album has to be Sixpounder. That chunky riff is just so sick.
Even though I don't like Children of Bodom and never really enjoyed a single song from them, they still managed to take a place in my heart. Back in early 10-s I've been working in a local music web-media as a photographer. Sure, as the beginner I've been getting assigned to local artists or ones from neighbour countries, mostly in small venues with smaller audience. And the first show of really popular respected band in a huge concert hall I've been working on was Children of Bodom gig. Sure, my photos were not as great as they could've been cause again, it was my very first experience in such circumstances, but still this show is a sweet memory of mine.
When Alexi died, I was thinking about reprocessing all the photos from that show, but unfortunately I've lost the original files, so all I've got is 900x600px pics. Still love them though.
Hey Tank if you wana i can mail you that "Chaos Ridden Years" live dvd?
I just got one laying around and im sure you out off all people would appreciate this in your collection.
I found one online and ordered it already, but thanks a ton!
Your showing how everyone feels about Alexi, we were all devastated. My first COB song was bed of razors and then soon after their whole discography. Thanks for doing this one Tank.
YES!!!!!!!!!! Absolutley love Bodom! Chase and your reactions are my favorite, best out there.
Thanks Mike!
I know brother I feel the hurt too!!!!
Sad part about Roope is that he is now basically full time drunk wandering Helsinki bars :(
That’s a bummer to hear.
Roope is geting his shit together. Or at least tying to get his shit together. I hope he doesn't go same route. We have allready fucked up times.
ruclips.net/video/t0gmFaTbZQc/видео.html
@@pasiikola9860 I heard Roope's situation last year and it made me feel so sad, even I think he f*cked his job with COB and with guys by himself. Imo, that was nasty resignation and Roope can blame himself only.
Still I have so much respect for Roope. With all my heart I really hope he will stand up again. He is one of the biggest pioneers in finnish metal music...
Fucking amazing emotional Video!
How about doing Stockholm Live 1 by 1 journey ? get me+surely lot of fellow Finns on board..
RIP Alexi you absolute legend
Your reaction now was almost exactly the same as mine when I watched this video at the day of the news. So much emotion man..
That being said, I must point out the fact that about 30-40% of what you said about his sig esp was correct 😅
Anyway, you said you haven’t seen this show, so you definitely should take your time and see this whole gig, I think there is a complete playlist of the dvd (each song in a separate video, but from the same source including all the speaks and stuff) on YT in HQ. This particular concert is the best Bodom live record there is imo. That time period the band was at it’s best for what comes to the live shows.
So if only 30-40% was correct, correct me on what I’m wrong about so I learn something, rather than just telling me I’m incorrect. Haha
@@TankTheTech Sorry brother, didn't mean to be an asshole. You are one of the best YT at the moment! (Y)
1. The guitar is ESP, not LTD. They sold that particular ESP Alexi signature -model for some time, but haven't since. The alexi LTD signature scythe is nowhere near the real ESP-lineup -version of it. Those two guitars really couldn't be more apart and he never played a single LTD-guitar on stage. He also had more sig-models over the years (like you said), but that's a whole different story. Alexi signature-ESPs (not LTDs) has been on the market over the years all the time.
2. That mike is his signature thing and the guitar indeed has a battery and an on/off -switch. It is true that the passive EMG-HZ mic is basically on the guitar, but there’s a twist: the guitar has an EMG F-ALX -set, which icludes some EMG-mic (like I said, i think it’s basically EMG-HZ) and preamp! The pre-amp switch is located under the volume-knob, it’s very small and kinda impossible to notice from the video if you don’t know it’s there.
I could say something about the differences in ESP CS USA and the original ESP CS in Japan (in whitch the og scythe is made in), but that might not be relevant in this case.
The guitar premiere has a series on their YT-channel called ”rig rundown” in whitch they have Alexi with his guitar setup pretty spot-on on what he had all of his carreer. ”The chorus? -yea its ON all the time 😎” 😄