Whole name:Mikko Viljami Lindström
Birthtime and -place:12.08.1976 Klaukkala, Nurmijärvi
Nicknames:Linde, Lily Lazer, Lilli, Lintti, Daniel Lioneye, Danny, Raven Monroe, Vaenaemoeinen, Ramses 200
Tattoos:Ornament on his right upper arm, the face of Väinämöinen on his knee. Väinämöinen is one of the maincharacters in finnish national epic Kalevala.
Other instruments:Vocals on his Daniel Lioneye-alterego, Kantele in Deep Shadows And Brilliant Hightlights-album, Bass on pre-HIM (in the year 1993).
Kantele is finnish instrument with strings, played in horizontally. In traditional kantele is 5 strings and it's made from one piece of wood. There is also different variations for the amount of strings, biggest instruments contains even 40 strings.
Family:Four years younger littlebrother, his father worked as engineer and mother worked in Finnair (finnish airline-company) when Linde was child.
Childhood:Linde was a kind child with glasses and polkahair.
Touch to music:His father was a big fan for Elvis and there's no place to escape that music in his childhood. The tunes of Elvis took their place and stays in the head of little Linde.
His parents was not musical people, but they give an acoustic guitar to Linde as a christmaspresent when he was 10. Before that he played KISS with his cousin using tennisrackets instead of guitars. First song that Linde learned play with that guitar was Heaven's On Fire by KISS. He played it with one string using his thumb. KISS was the first band that's cool for Linde.
First parents of Linde doesn't understand that boy wants to play guitar and when Linde took immediately guitarlessions to learn more of playing, they finally open their eyes and started to support Linde for playing.
Linde & cigarettes:He started to smoke when he was 7 and he stopped smoking in early 2001. Stopping is easy for him and he thinks that he won't ever been the slave of nicotine.
Relationship with alcohol:Alcohol and bad company dragged young Linde to troubles and he was in jail different times for his incidents.
Schoolyears:After comprehensive school he went to same school where Ville was, but Ville quits that school. Linde went it through in 2 and a half years. After schoolyears Linde started to play in HIM...
Relationships with HIM-members:Linde met Ville when he goes to upper classes (about 13 years old) when Ville came to same school.
Bands before HIM:Aurora (late 1980's---Ville on drums,Lind on guitars. First band that plays only their own music. Ville and Linde met in the school when Linde came to same school with Ville and they started to play together Charlie Parker. This band was very offensive and in the one gig their singer was drunk and he fell against equipment for lights and the whole stuff falls down and breaks the drums. It took a big time to fix the drums that Ville could play with them). Aurora was rehearsed about a half of year when they started to plan to make a classtrip. They planned to organize hippieparties in their school for saving the money for their trip. Parties had to be on the next week when the principal of their school lost his nerves and screamed that 'you can't make your parties, you'll only smoke your joints there!'. Parties was cancelled and after that pupils went very angry for that principal. The revenge for that principal was the song called 'Martti Ilvonen tunkee kyrpää suoleen' (free translation: Martti Ilvonen put his dick down to asshole). The band plays that song in the autumnconcert of their school and all of the other teachers was almost killed in the laughter. The crowd in concert went insane and started to throw seats around the area. After that Ville and his friends were not welcome to play in the concerts in the school of Oulunkylä. They made another way to save the money for their trip, they sold donuts and stuff like that. They finally arrived to Amsterdam by driving bus through Sweden,Denmark and Germany. They planned to play music in local schools. In Holland they played 3-4 gigs and the trip takes about 10 days. That was first time when Ville was outside of Finland because of music.
In HIM:HIM was on the break because of Mige's in army and the thing get started again in 1993 and then Linde came in to play guitars and bass (Ville sings and plays drums) and they recorded 3-song demo in Lepakko. Demo was done in 4-track studio and it includes songs Serpent Ride, Borellus and The Heartless.
The second version of HIM made a song called 'Borellus' that was straight taken from Lovecraft. That source of inspiration stays. Borellus are inspired by the novel that tells about dead people and other dark creatures that are awaken alive. Most important parts of that song Ville sang straight from the book. Lovecraft wrote his books in lyrical way and that's why it's so easy to sing in its original form.
After that demo done by Ville and Linde they got company (Mige & Pätkä) and that's the big bang to the story of band who created love metal...
In the summer 1995 they recorded demo included Stigmata Diaboli, The Phantom Gate and Wicked Game what was lately their breakthrough-hit.
Other jobs than playing:Linde worked in computerfirm as an assistant on summer 1995. Later he worked firm that built air-conditions for icehalls and other big venues in Helsinki.
Daniel Lioneye:It has to been a secret that wasn't possible to keep a secret. Word spread fastly when Linde, Mige and Ville decided to form Daniel Lioneye-project. Daniel Lioneye is a freak alter-ego for Linde. That's escape from sobriety. The first show played by Daniel Lioneye was the birthdayparty of Mige. They got three songs complete when they came into the studio, the rest of the album was written in the studio. The producer of 'The King Of Rock And Roll' was Hiili Hiilesmaa and he also appeared on the stage as a engineer for effects like the sounds of motorcycles etc. Mige plays bass in the band and Ville is behind the drums (he uses name Bil in this line-up).
Linde haven't got a thoughts about the comments about album, because it wasn't meant to release. Album was more joke than a venerable product.
Daniel Lioneye was some kind of therapy for finnish rockstars, they wanted to relax a little bit..
Other facts:Linde loves parties and he's very crazy when he's drunk, but without alcohol he's very silent man. Ville was said about Linde that he's 'the most silent man in the world'.
Equipment:guitar: Gibson SG
amplifiers: Laney VH100R
loud-speakers: Laney 4x12"
pedals: lots of different fuzz/wah/tremolo/octave etc.
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Subject: Linde Biography 
Wed 4 Jul 2007 - 10:18
Ville's probably right. Lilly sure doesn't speak very often 
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