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Thumbs up for this thread, I love these guys. I have noticed that lyrically Bag of Bones is not as optimistic (or something) as previous efforts. They seem to be exploring a darker place right now.
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"Don't want 'em to get you goat, don't show 'em where it's hid." - David Lee Roth -
Exactly..Comment
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Why did they give Reno the boot?Comment
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From what I can remember, he couldn't take the pace.. He was late at the rehearsals, and so on...Comment
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loved his double kickin'Comment
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Here:
If the arrival of Michaeli was a relatively easy thing to accomplish, the next step was a bit harder. In the summer of 1984 the drummer Tony Reno had to step aside. "Tony never arrived on time for rehearsal," Norum explains. "Half an hour would be okay, but not two - three hours. Every now and then he didn't show up at all. Then you got a little angry. He had a nonchalant attitude. He thought it was more important to be at home with his girlfriend than to rehearse. And when we told him so, he would just start laughing."
Was it because he didn't really see where EUROPE could go as a band?
"Maybe that was it," Norum says. "We were really young, maybe just around 17." The message that Tony had gotten the sack came from Erdtman and was sent as a letter. "None of us talked with him about it for several years," Norum says. "Tony didn't do anything about it, but his father called me a couple of times and screamed: 'How can you do this?' It was tough because he was my buddy. I think he took it really hard. It must have been. That was probably why he moved from Upplands Väsby to Copenhagen where he joined a band called Geisha. In Väsby there would always be people who reminded him and asked questions. Today we're in touch again but as soon as I mention EUROPE he won't talk about it."
Tony Niemistö himself says, when Sweden Rock Magazine reaches him on the phone, that he doesn't remember so much about the circumstances of his leaving, since "it's more than 20 years ago. I actually don't know what happened, but I think it had something to do with the manager starting to lead and control," Tony says, who for the time being lives in Upplands Väsby.
(Sweden Rock magazine, 2004)
Full article here: http://www.wingsoftomorrow.com/art_2...en-rock_p1.htmComment
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Interesting. And while you're at it... John Norum leaving??
Creative differences with Joey right?Comment
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Europe will be playing at the Sweden Rock Festival on June 7th 2013. Celebrating 30 years of Europe. They'll be filming for a DVD as well. Cool, huh???
Sorry if you already knew that, but I didn't..Comment
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One more question... What is The Final Countdown about anyway???
Drugs?
Traveling to a women-only planet?
It sold an absolute shitload of units, yet I've never heard an interpretation from anyone except for the closing of eyes, head back, fingers on imaginary keys going bah-bah-bah-bah etc....Comment
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I guess it was about traveling through space.. Kind of a Sci-Fi thing.Comment
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I'm pretty sure it's about... MAGIC!
gob-amazes-and-delights-the-crowd-as-the-final-countdown-blares-468x312.jpgMy karma just ran over your dogma.Comment
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That made me laugh, Zing. Good call..Comment
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