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Steve on the cover
Steve Morse is the cover story of the Finnish magazine Riffi, issue 4/2025. The magazine is about all things for practicing musicians: advice, gear, and associated stuff. Inside is a three-page special on Steve, his band (and, we presume, probably their latest album). And it is all in Finnish, of course.
Thanks to MR for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Thank you so much for expecting us being so well educated that we understand Finnish!
November 27th, 2025 at 06:45OTOH: I am finish ☺️
Is it my raging solipsism or has Steve introduced a wardrobe change? I would want to attribute that to my constructive and benevolent sartorial criticism here in the past! 😎
November 27th, 2025 at 07:59@1
Could be worse… it could be in Welsh. 😎
November 27th, 2025 at 09:29He he.
Remember “Finish in Finland” ? I certainly do..!
But here´s the first lesson in Finnish for the eager HS beginner :
The Steve´s idea in the Riffi (“riff” in English, that is) magazine cover can be translated something like this: “If it sounds good when you´re recording, it will do that later on, too.”
Kippis (Karin, I presume You know at least that already…) !
Now after all this effort I deserve my cup of coffee, don´t You think?
: )
Best wishes!
November 27th, 2025 at 10:01Thank you so much for expecting us being so well educated that we understand Finnish!
Always this bickering among the assorted Scandinavian tribes knowing full well they are all the same! One look at the expansion of the Danish Empire in the early 16th Century – Karin was still a small girl back then so her recollection is of course hazy – tells you all you need to know:
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ca9e44033985d2f3ee1700c36c8ca247-pjlq
November 27th, 2025 at 15:34@ 5- Uwe, why is that Scandinavian area all in red on that map? Is that some sort of a warning or something? Cheers.
November 27th, 2025 at 20:33@ 2- it is a bit colder up that way Uwe. Cheers.
November 27th, 2025 at 20:34@ 3 – ha ha ha, reminds me of Blackadder’s advice to Baldrick. Blackadder: Have you ever been to Wales, Baldrick?
November 27th, 2025 at 20:40Baldrick: No, but I’ve often thought I’d like to.
Blackadder: Well don’t. It’s a ghastly place.
Huge gangs of tough, sinewy men roam the Valleys, terrorising people with their close-harmony singing. You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the place names. Never ask for directions in Wales, Baldrick. You’ll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.
They could have never fit the album titles on the DP sleeve covers if they had spelled them in Welsh. Just imagine this one …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Rock,_We_Rock,_and_When_We_Roll,_We_Roll
That would have read:
pan rydyn ni’n siglo, rydyn ni’n siglo, a phan rydyn ni’n rholio, rydyn ni’n rholio
And only Roger would have understood a thing – if he even speaks Welsh that is!
November 28th, 2025 at 01:57@8
Yup, Welsh is even worse than tryin’ to pronounce some of them eastern European names… like this place for instance https://www.mindat.org/loc-310282.html
November 28th, 2025 at 03:44@2
“Is it my raging solipsism or has Steve introduced a wardrobe change?”
– Uwe if you look closely you can see the sleeves are not firmly attached, so when he needs to show off his arms…. It’s easily done 😃
November 28th, 2025 at 05:43@3
“could be in Welsh. 😎”
– 😄 you’re right Russ!
But I’ve also great difficulties understanding the language of Greenland but it sounds beautifully spoken.
The languages of Norway and Sweden is very easy for a Danish person 😊
November 28th, 2025 at 05:49@4
“ Kippis (Karin, I presume You know at least that already…) !”
– and cheers right back at ya 😃
And thank you for the Finnish crash course 😄
Yes you indeed deserve some well-brewed coffee 😃
And I do too, after reading in here 🤩
November 28th, 2025 at 05:56@5
“knowing full well they are all the same!”
– come on Uwe! As your dear wife must have told you, even in Denmark there are local dialects when spoken, most of us are coughing politely and looking away hoping for some rescue from a bewildered German gentleman to take away the awkwardness from the situation!😄
No honestly: I live in an area where everyone is easy to understand, but at Bornholm (the beautiful island nearby Sweden) I need to speak English with the natives, should they not want to make them understood!
Likewise in the southern part of Jylland….
November 28th, 2025 at 06:17My mum had some friends from that area, and the man loved to confuse us all by talking his local dialect combined with, what we in Denmark call ‘speaking black’, that’ll say he spoke real words but put together so they were completely nonsense.
I’m still confused whenever I hear this guy:
https://youtu.be/pZ-d_aC4EzY
Do you know him by any chance?
@6
“Uwe, why is that Scandinavian area all in red on that map?”
– MacGregor, it was the only color left in his printer 😄
We should pool our money and help the poor lawyer…
November 28th, 2025 at 06:19@ 6 Vikings.. they will boil Tasmanians for supper 😀
November 28th, 2025 at 08:04Well, well, well.
I´m not telling fish how to swim… : )
But practically Finland isn´t part of Scandinavia. That´s one thing to keep in mind.
When Finland is counted as belonging together with Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and The Faroe Islands, it´s part of Fennoscandia.
….that lesson we learned already in elementary school.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennoscandia
@8 MacGregor – Rowan Atkinson is a genius – always good to remember, too. Kippis, mate !
November 28th, 2025 at 08:46@8
“You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the place names.”
– 🤣🤣
It’s the same with Danish MacGregor!
“You’ll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnigh”
November 28th, 2025 at 14:13– can be used as a styling product 😄 just saying!!
Inquisitive Herr MacGregor @6: As a man of great taste surely you must be aware that the color red was deeply entrenched with Viking culture as anthropological observations such as
“During the Viking Queen’s period the men around her all wore scarlet beards.”
amply demonstrate.
(Note to self: Now that was plunging new depths in depraved juvenility even for me!)
November 28th, 2025 at 15:16Herr MacGregor @7: As usual, your schooled perception is blinding in its acuity! Why didn’t I think of that! Steve’s fetching new long sleeve shirt does indeed remind us of Lapland undergarments (certainly a step up from the previous gas station chic). The profoundness of your observations, you just can’t rein in, Dear …
https://laplandwelcome.fi/userassets/uploads/2017/09/reindeer-3-1.jpg
November 28th, 2025 at 15:59“Fennoscandia”, Hiza, seriously? You Finns are a difficult people – it must be that sisu nature in you, you don’t want to be Scandinavian and you didn’t (repeatedly so!) want to be Russian.
And when we gave you the chance to be German, you didn’t – quite uneqivocally – want that either! 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2k4QAItiSA
November 28th, 2025 at 20:05Good question Uwe in regard to Roger Glover and the Welsh tongue. Also with Robert Plant too, he is one to keep in touch with his Welsh roots from what he says, does he delve into the lingo? I am still concerned about Karin’s little dog Anton though. Does the poor little thing end up covered in phlegm every time she talks to him, and that is when she is in a good mood. Can we imagine what he looks like after Karin has given him a ‘tongue lashing’. Knowing my Dutch lady friend for 35 years out here in Oz, I tried to learn some Dutch a few times, but I just couldn’t work up enough spittle. Australia is a dry hot country (continent) and it is really difficult to work up enough phlegm. So I gave up. Mind you, when I was in a relationship with her and she was giving me a talking too, well, you can all imagine how I looked afterwards. Cheers.
November 28th, 2025 at 21:14@19
So, that’s how Erik the Red got his name…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-H5g30ewLc
November 29th, 2025 at 06:37@22
“I am still concerned about Karin’s little dog Anton”
– no need to MacGregor! The man of the manor often complains about me treating Anton way better than him 😄
“Does the poor little thing end up covered in phlegm every time she talks to him, and that is when she is in a good mood.”
– Anton is covered in kisses not phlegm! 💋💋💋💋
“Can we imagine what he looks like after Karin has given him a ‘tongue lashing’”
– uhhh I never give anyone a tongue lashing, and especially not Anton! Anton is a lovely and very spoiled little doglet 😃 and he never behaves in such a way that it is necessary to reprimand him 😍
“Mind you, when I was in a relationship with her and she was giving me a talking too, well, you can all imagine how I looked afterwards.”
– as Uwe so often says: pics or it didn’t happen 🤣
And here is a little tip:
November 29th, 2025 at 15:29https://youtube.com/shorts/32cdsmEUzJM?si=3tTScQhlgTwNLArN
MacGregor @ 8
LMAO…one of my favorite scenes in the whole series. The Blackadder writers (and actors) are brilliant.
November 29th, 2025 at 15:36Is it just me, or does Baldrick look just like Roger?
I think it’s unlikely that Roger speaks Welsh to any deeper extent – he was born at a time when popularity of the Welsh culture was at an all time low after centuries of growing abandonment and the language hardly spoken anymore even in Wales -, its resurgence has been a (positive) development of recent decades. Roger left Wales when he was 9 together with his parents, moving to London and, so he says, losing his Welsh accent when speaking English in the process. His second wife, Lesley (following Judi), was actually a teacher from Wales and did have a Welch accent, but whether she actually spoke the Celtic language I don’t know though she likely had an ear for it coming from her education background.
Somehow, if Roger really spoke Welsh, I would have long expected a song in that language to have cropped up on one of his solo albums. It wouldn’t have seemed out of place there.
November 29th, 2025 at 18:45@ 21 – you are into your war history and movies and the like Uwe. I don’t get them, well I mean I am not into them, each to their own. Regarding that movie, it is a wonder Mads Mikkelsen wasn’t the lead actor, I have watched a few movies with him, a full on actor and a good one at that. Now back to something a little more lighter perhaps…………..music….that’s it……..sometimes I feel like screaming……………..Cheers.
November 29th, 2025 at 21:12Sisu isn’t really a war movie, it’s a Rambo type action spoof with the depth of a graphic novel.
There are good Finnish movies about the Winter War and the later conflict with Nazi Germany, but Sisu is not an earnest contender for that. It’s a bit like saying that Raiders of the Lost Ark was a WWII movie.
But in general, yeah, I’m interested in that particular historic era. But my movie taste isn’t confined to that, I only saw a couple of days ago following Udo Kier’s passing this art house ditty here:
https://youtu.be/2kosUYQLKZc
Lovely (feel good) film and a testament to how great Udo Kier could be when he was not cast as the villain in some B or C movie for the umpteenth time.
November 30th, 2025 at 14:57Does anyone have a copy of the actual article?? I do know someone who is Finnish
December 13th, 2025 at 12:42🤯🤯🤯
Where do all these female fans of the – only comparatively recently widowed – hay farmer,
https://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/wp-content/uploads/35655283910_b07e47a3c7-e1511024582723.jpg
muscle shirt-endorser
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQbbuHdzswOzT3nw7cvPRW5HkIMF0FnZp4zuwqlw7cG2Q&s=10
and finger-nimble guitar player
https://troygrady.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/pickstroke-timelapse.jpg
suddenly come from? They flock around him!!!
I think I’m just jealous. 😑
December 14th, 2025 at 05:36