Jon Oliva.....remembers his brother.

I remember this one day, this was really funny. We had this party at this house, the first house we had together. We were livin' together, he and his wife, me and my wife. We were really young, I was like 21 and he was 19. He wasn't married yet but we were all livin' together. We had this part and we made this drink out of pure grain alcohol. (Laughs!!) This is really funny!!

So we made this drink, We got this pure grain alcohol and my brother Criss is there and I'll never forget this. He had this big bottle of Everclear pure grain alcohol, so he pours this in this big punch bowl, and you know we had like friends over and stuff. So we start mixin' fruit juices and shit in there, anything you can think of we put in there, like all the frozen concentrates.

So my brothers mixin' this thing up. It this big batch of shit, so we start drinkin' this stuff you know, we had like 3-4 of them. Man we got so f**kin' hammered. So here we are in this house right in Palm Harbor and it was right near the woods, and we had like an outdoor front porch, so we're sittin' there hammered out of our minds with acoustic guitars tryin' to write some songs and he (Criss) was sittin' accross from me and all of asudden I look down and this huge f**kin' snake, had to have been 6 foot big fat black f**kin'snake. And it goes under his chair and he looked down and saw this....man I'll never forget this!!

He just went "Haaaaahahahaaa!!!!!" (Screams) He just flipped the back of the chair and we had an acoustic guitar, he came down on the acoustic guitar, snapped the neck off in half and I'm tryin' runnin' around tryin' to beat on that snake!!

That was one really funny memory!! I re-live that alot!!

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Probably the funniest thing was the Blue Moon Circus in Oberhausen (Germany). We went nuts there, there's so many memories its hard to say, we had so many f**kin' good times you know, we had lots of bad times too. Its hard to discribe one moment there were so many great times that we had, its like I remember more like periods of time.

Like the most fun we ever had was doing the Testement tour and we were just out on the road for like 9 months that run and everyone got real close. That was probably the best time that we enjoyed me and him together!