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Risto! Live! Yeah, I knew it the first time I saw the band onstage: this is the wickedest live show in all of Finland. Absolutely. Somehow, though, the album fails to convey it. No new songs or anything. Fortunately everyone’s too drunk to take notice. Rakkauden rock has got to be the worst song ever to play live. It starts too quickly for any sound guy to figure out what to do with the knobs, and once they do, the song’s finished. There’s Leinonen and Juntunen on drums and Minna on bass, Eriksson plays guitar. Risto nearly knocks himself out every night, and his knees are so bad that, the way he keeps jumping, you always fear he won’t be standing up again. Really, these guys work so hard, it makes you ashamed to do anything at all if you’re not going to work as hard as they are. The best band in Finland, then? Well, maybe not.
