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Post by guesswho? on May 21, 2012 8:49:37 GMT 2
Where is firebox!!!!!! ? This is the only video (just a part of the song) I could find from Wetzikon, not the best quality... I also want to listen/watch this song live... I'm just back home from Switzerland, and I'm happy to see al those videos and photos. Because guess what ? I'VE MADE A COMPLETE MESS OF MY VIDEOS ! Firebox was the one I wanted absolutely to record, and I've done it. I was very close to the stage. it would have been an amazing film. But both the sound and the image are bad. a complete disaster. I had filmed Mic too, and Leven who was so near me and so beautiful... But there's nothing to be saved in what I've done ( You know what Stein-Vidar ? A crying smiley is missing here : i need it very much right now !) And there's something else I've missed : Joey Tempest, when he went out of the limousine. I was there with my husband, hoping to listen to the soundcheck, but I was watching something else and didn't notice when he walked right past me... The height of it is that my husband (who really doesn't care about Europe, for his sake!) saw him. He told me : "there's something happening there: people are rushing somewhere.." but it was too late. I just saw Tempest when he was going inside... ( Please, crying smiley again Stein-Vidar ...!)However, something is sure : the show was awesome ! I will add some more anecdotes later...
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Post by Stein on May 21, 2012 10:34:32 GMT 2
Joey's vocals sounded a bit closer to the album version here: He stayed on the last note in "again" for a bit longer than usual and he did the first couple of high notes in "I'm sure that we all miss her so".
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Post by guesswho? on May 21, 2012 14:17:41 GMT 2
Hi Guess/Michaela, a perfect representation from the fans of this forum. We will be waiting for your comments about the concert. Enjoy a lot ! Oooops ! Fortunately, Michaela and other fans were there ! Have a good trip and enjoy yourselves! Yes the trip was good : Switzerland is a nice country. And the show : AWESOME ! They were on perfect shape. Eager to play, obviously... So the performance was great and joyful. Tempest voice (the most fragile part of the show) was outstanding. Good luck and we're waiting your impression! An amazing show. As always with Europe. The only bad thing was that near me, at a corner of the stage, there was the organizers. And they DID SMOKE half of the show ! Non stop ! (although it was written "Smoking forbidden" upon their heads. Nobody was smoking, except those stupid organizers right near me ! :-X) Soooooo, I see that you have watched everything already! Thank you Fernanda, it's been fantastic to get home and find all the videos there! The concert has been a GREAT one, they added New Love in town to the setlist for the joy of my daughter! We were in the 2nd row, quite central, a bit on the left side so that we had John Leven and Mic in front of us also. I have posted on FB the photo album with the pictures taken by my daughter, for those who can access, later on I will post the best pictures somewhere else so that they can be shared with all: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.157616441035776.33575.100003622622365&type=1I have a 10 minutes video, not whole songs but just small bits of some of them, but with all the stuff on youtube I don't think it will be relevant. I still have to watch it - man, the time is never enough...I drove for 1000 Km in two days and I am exhausted, but very happy. During the concert you can see in the video of Superstitious that Fernanda already shared, that Joey signalled a guy in the crowd to the security man because he was filming and taking pictures, so his camera was taken... I have been quite hit by the episode, so I tried not to be very intrusive with my handycam. They arrived in the afternoon for the sound check with an amazing limousine of "The Pirates". I couldn't separate from that car!!! A lot of italian friends from the Europe Italian Fan club were there also. We've had really a great time! Your video is fantastic Michaela. I love it because it gives a full view of the adventure... Concerning the part with the camera man, I saw JTempest making some gestures at a moment. But from where I was, I thought that he was asking to one of his band crew to film the show... (as he said in an interview that they were recording all Europe shows...). I didn't see he was taking the camera of someone in the audience. But I'm not surprised by this. In fact, that's the reason why I've made so bad films... Because I've noticed, every time I had my true camera and was filming on previous shows, that JTempest was watching at me with a worried and nearly angry air. That's why this time I decided to film only with a phone... which had this disastrous consequence.
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Post by Michaela Italy on May 21, 2012 15:16:53 GMT 2
Your video is fantastic Michaela. I love it because it gives a full view of the adventure... Concerning the part with the camera man, I saw JTempest making some gestures at a moment. But from where I was, I thought that he was asking to one of his band crew to film the show... (as he said in an interview that they were recording all Europe shows...). I didn't see he was taking the camera of someone in the audience. But I'm not surprised by this. In fact, that's the reason why I've made so bad films... Because I've noticed, every time I had my true camera and was filming on previous shows, that JTempest was watching at me with a worried and nearly angry air. That's why this time I decided to film only with a phone... which had this disastrous consequence. Hi GuessWho welcome back! I think to have understood who you are now...we've been really very close, even at breakfast the morning after! Your husband has let me pass over to where the bread was at the buffet... I have been tempted to say something...but then I thought "what if they are not the ones?". It would have sounded quite weird hearing somebody asking "Excuse me, are you by any chance GuessWho from the internet?"...and as you might have noticed, there were already very "weird" people over there...LOL! I was sitting with my daughter close to the buffet table, while you ate in the other room... Anyway, happy to meet you! I saw the two of you also arriving at the place of the gig in the afternoon, before the soundcheck started. I had just arrived and met with the italian team of the Europe fans club. I was TERRIFIED by Tempest after Superstitious and that episode... But there's something I don't understand really, because if you go on Ian's facebook page, then you see that he shares also the vids of the fans from the concerts and also the Wetzikon ones are there... I understand that Ian is Ian and Tempest is Tempest (I can't really call him Joey when he is like that ), but...they should know very well that they can't avoid the fact that after each concert lots of videos get uploaded! And in a way they are all for good, because they keep fans dreaming and watching! Anyway...Joey is Joey and I respect him if he doesn't want this habit to widespread too much... You should have been very close to me even during the concert, because I also had John Leven quite in front of me. He is really watching everybody! Lovely John!
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Post by Michaela Italy on May 21, 2012 17:05:33 GMT 2
Joey's vocals sounded a bit closer to the album version here: He stayed on the last note in "again" for a bit longer than usual and he did the first couple of high notes in "I'm sure that we all miss her so". Yes, I think he is in a very good shape with his voice, he dares a lot more recently. And he is so happy to sing, you can tell he is having fun! Of course sometimes - particularly in those acoustic performance at radios and such - he may not sound perfect, but from here to draw drastic conclusions as some people did on youtube there's a long way to go, IMHO! In some vids from the promotion he did with Norum, you can see Norum surprised and looking at him when he takes some high notes because Joey was used to adjust differently... And well, it depends if he sings in the morning and what he has done the night before, I guess! At the concert in Wetzikon I noticed I was not in a good position to hear the voice of the singer. The band who played before Europe, China, sounded like the singer had no voice at all, while it was the effect of being in front of the stage, with the lateral loudspeakers being behind me. Nevertheless, when the singer was Joey you could well hear him! I only imagine that being in the middle of the room in the right position to hear from the loudspeakers would have sounded fantastic!
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Post by guesswho? on May 21, 2012 17:39:04 GMT 2
Hi GuessWho welcome back! I think to have understood who you are now...we've been really very close, even at breakfast the morning after! Your husband has let me pass over to where the bread was at the buffet... I have been tempted to say something...but then I thought "what if they are not the ones?". It would have sounded quite weird hearing somebody asking "Excuse me, are you by any chance GuessWho from the internet?"...and as you might have noticed, there were already very "weird" people over there...LOL! I was sitting with my daughter close to the buffet table, while you ate in the other room... Anyway, happy to meet you! I saw the two of you also arriving at the place of the gig in the afternoon, before the soundcheck started. I had just arrived and met with the italian team of the Europe fans club. Michaela, you know that I've searched for you a lot ? I even asked my husband to search with me ! Your description was : "same hair like Joey Tempest" ! So, I avoided brown and blond hair... Pretty funny situation ! So, if you were where you say, at the breakfats with a young girl, and being not with the drunk people, I think I see who you are, now. Well, never mind for this time ! we'll meet for another show, as I've understood that you were ready to attend MANY of them !
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Post by guesswho? on May 21, 2012 17:50:10 GMT 2
I was TERRIFIED by Tempest after Superstitious and that episode... But there's something I don't understand really, because if you go on Ian's facebook page, then you see that he shares also the vids of the fans from the concerts and also the Wetzikon ones are there... I understand that Ian is Ian and Tempest is Tempest (I can't really call him Joey when he is like that ), but...they should know very well that they can't avoid the fact that after each concert lots of videos get uploaded! And in a way they are all for good, because they keep fans dreaming and watching! Anyway...Joey is Joey and I respect him if he doesn't want this habit to widespread too much... You should have been very close to me even during the concert, because I also had John Leven quite in front of me. He is really watching everybody! Lovely John! Concerning that point, even Norum told in an interview in France that he enjoyed when fans were sharing videos on youtube ; so that he can see what is wrong when he's playing, or if everything was OK. His message to the fans was : "share many videos, please !" So, Leven likes it too, and Ian, also. For Mic, we don't know... But it's clear that it's different for Tempest ! Perhaps because he's the most concerned by his look. He's the frontman, so the image he gives is important (especially for a kind of sex-symbol like him... ) Concerning Leven : yes, he's sweet with the audience. when he saw I was filming firebox, he came towards me and played near the place I was, taking some very cool attitudes !(I was not in front of the stage, but at the back side corner, so it was kind of him to come that way...) Too bad my videos are so nuts ! ( Stein-Vidar, I need again a crying smiley : please add one, so that I can express all my despair as it must be expressed !!!)
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Post by Michaela Italy on May 21, 2012 17:56:24 GMT 2
Hi GuessWho welcome back! I think to have understood who you are now...we've been really very close, even at breakfast the morning after! Your husband has let me pass over to where the bread was at the buffet... I have been tempted to say something...but then I thought "what if they are not the ones?". It would have sounded quite weird hearing somebody asking "Excuse me, are you by any chance GuessWho from the internet?"...and as you might have noticed, there were already very "weird" people over there...LOL! I was sitting with my daughter close to the buffet table, while you ate in the other room... Anyway, happy to meet you! I saw the two of you also arriving at the place of the gig in the afternoon, before the soundcheck started. I had just arrived and met with the italian team of the Europe fans club. Michaela, you know that I've searched for you a lot ? I even asked my husband to search with me ! Your description was : "same hair like Joey Tempest" ! So, I avoided brown and blond hair... Pretty funny situation ! So, if you were where you say, at the breakfats with a young girl, and being not with the drunk people, I think I see who you are, now. Well, never mind for this time ! we'll meet for another show, as I've understood that you were ready to attend MANY of them ! Joey had got quite blond hair in the past! ...actually I was in the same room with the drunk people, but not in the same part of the room, even if one of the two came at my table shouting "hey lady you were at the concert yesterday! Look at this!" showing me a picture on his phone of him together with Joey...poor Joey!!! They woke me up at 5 o'clock in the morning with all their shouting, LOL!
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Post by guesswho? on May 21, 2012 18:10:42 GMT 2
Something very cool happened to me. I nearly forgot it ! In fact, it could have been cool, but as I'm stupid, it turned rather silly... In the afternoon, when we arrived at the venue, me and my husband, I searched for someone who could tell me when Europe will play precisely. There were men outside, but they didn't know exactly. So, they told us to go inside and ask someone..! Which we did. Once inside, we heard the sounds of instruments. My husband, who is never afraid, showed me a staircase and told me : "it's that way!" I dared not climbing in : I guessed it was EUROPE SOUNDCHECK !!! But my husband climbed upstairs, saying : "After all, they told us to ask inside the venue ; it's not our fault..." So, i followed him. From upstairs, I saw that the soundcheck was about to begin : Ian was already there, and Norum was preparing a guitar. A europe soundcheck : My dream coming true ! Then, I could have sitted there, hidden on the ground, and I would have attended everything..; But you know what ? I felt i t was like a betrayal to do that without permission. So, i stand up and showed myself clearly. And immediatly, a guy downstairs came running and shouted that I had to go away... STUPID ME !
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Post by Michaela Italy on May 21, 2012 18:54:34 GMT 2
...actually you wanted to avoid THE Tempest! What if HE found you there?!?
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