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Originally Posted by DevilsSon
that's just bollocks though. Costello did the cover on a radio show saying basically that it's cheap-ass pop song but at least Jon is honest about it so that's ok. Jon just took it out of context, as he always does. Elvis Costello never really covered Bad Medicine.
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Costello did sing a piece of it on the air and I think he has played it live at least once, not sure though.
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Iceman - if someone is part of Company A, but then starts company B (even while he is still part of company A, and even if there are people from company C and D within this new company B) - well, in very simplistic terms, that's a spin-off. Now my perception of Hietala was that he was the leader of the Northern Kings (maybe because he's the singer on Wanted). Even if that was wrong, it still makes no difference. Northern Kings are a spin-off of Nightwish (or Sonata Arctica or whoever else is there). That statement is still accurate.
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It's not. Whitesnake is not a spin-off of Deep Purple. Just like Dio isn't a spin-off of Black Sabbath. Or just like The Winery Dogs isn't a spin-off of Poison. Or Nightwish isn't a spin-off of Tarot. Your definition of spin-off is off. If it was Marco Hietala as a solo artist, you could call it spin-off, but even then that would be a stretch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin-off
Your definition of spin-off isn't a spin-off, it's just starting a new company. A spin-off would require the people from company A to start company B by splitting company A and starting a new business, for example based on an old business unit of company A.
Northern Kings is a project band, "super group" if you will, not a spin-off. And if anyone is leading that group, it's J.Ahola. He's the one who's worked the most on the albums. And from what I've heard the producer, Erkka Korhonen, had a lot to do with the beginning of the whole concept, which BTW was early on called "Helldivo" or "Killdivo", a parody of Il Divo.
Ice