Stein
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Post by Stein on Mar 16, 2012 0:12:36 GMT 2
My name's Stein-Vidar, I'm from Norway and I'm currently working for a local digitization company. I've been a Europe fan ever since I first heard "The Final Countdown" sometime in late 1986, when I was 3 years old. I launched my first Europe site, The Europe Sanctuary, only a couple of days before New Year's Eve 1999, but sometime in early 2000 I decided to change the name to Aphasia. My favorite Europe album: My favorite Europe song: I've been to five Europe concerts, all in Norway: June 11, 2004 - Festplassen Vallset October 19, 2004 - Rockefeller, Oslo July 21, 2007 - Vikafestivalen, Mo i Rana July 12, 2008 - Midnattsrocken, Lakselv September 3, 2011 - Døgnvillfestivalen, Tromsø I was also fortunate enough to meet Joey, Mic and Ian backstage right before the Lakselv concert!
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Post by europefanwagr on Mar 16, 2012 4:57:43 GMT 2
My name is Wladimir Guzmán, I'm from Chile. I'm 21 years old and I've been listening to Europe since I was a kid. I like to play guitar and right now I'm in a project of forming a band (just starting). I'm a translation student. I also was lucky enough to meet Joey and Mic. I've attended to two Europe concerts Antofagasta, 2009 Santiago, 2010 My favourite Europe album:
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Tone Irene
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In a Europe state of mind :)
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Post by Tone Irene on Mar 16, 2012 23:26:02 GMT 2
I'm Tone Irene, 26, from Norway. I've been a fan since a friend made me a mix tape with The final countdown on it sometime in 1998-99. I am a saxophonist, saxophone teacher, work in a grocery store, and studying music Also know my way on a piano, and a little bit on guitar. I have been to 17 Europeconcerts so far Vallset 2004 Rockefeller Oslo, 2004 Vestlandshallen Bergen, 2005 Rockefeller Oslo 2006 Sandnes 2007 Mo i Rana 2007 Lakselv 2008 Kopervik 2008 Trondheim 2009 Gothenburg 2009 Stockholm 2009 London 2010 Skien 2010 Karlskoga 2010 London 2011 Grebbestad 2011 Tromsø 2011 11 gigs in Norway, 4 in Sweden, 2 in London Attachments:
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marylou90
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Gonna get a real avatar eventually...
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Post by marylou90 on Mar 26, 2012 22:49:37 GMT 2
My name is Mary Lou and I've been a Europe fan since I was twelve years old when a teacher recommended Europe Superhits, a compilation to me. I then saw Joey promoting Start from the Dark on VH1 classics and was blown away by awesome Norumy guitarness so I've been a super fan ever since. My username on the Europe official forum (while it still exsists...) is here comes the night - which I chose because I really suck at making log in names and happened to be really into that song at the time. The only Europe show I've seen is the Nalen webcast show, because I live in the United States and have no way to gather enough money to get over there to Europe. That show though was really cool and pretty special to me since it was live and I was technically sort of kind of there. Favorite album: Last Look at Eden Favorite song: Impossible to chose but I've probably played Human After All several thousand times since I got Secret Society in 2006. I have not met the band but someday I am going to find John Norum, shake his hand, have him sign a guitar, and then take a picture with him. Someday.... I do have a signed poster and album from John.... but he signed it to Shirley Rath (my mother.......... ) because it was her credit card that paid for it, though my name was on the shipping address. Glad to see some familiar faces on this forum!
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Post by steph on Mar 29, 2012 7:47:04 GMT 2
Hi, I am Stephanie or Steph, here and on ETB.com, Steffi on the German forum europefans.de, where I am a MOD. I've been a fan since 1986. Since I grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere I have never seen Europe live during their big days and had given up all hopes of ever seeing a Europe show. Since 2004 I have seen them in Munich (3 times), Zurich, Prague, London, Manchester and Leeds. The journey will continue this year with Wetzikon (maybe) and London (booked already). I have been fortunatr enough to meet the band a couple of times and to interview Mic twice.
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michaeljessen
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"Will things ever be the same again..."
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Post by michaeljessen on Apr 17, 2012 9:12:02 GMT 2
Can't hide that my name is Michael. Born in 1981 and a big fan of the band since the late 80's. I live in Aarhus, Denmark.
My day job is being an Air Traffic Controller, and I spend a lot of my free time working on my own music. At the time I'm actually working on an EP for release this summer featuring Göran Edman on vocals
I'm very much into Norum's (and Kee's) guitars and their stuff, and to this date own 1 ex-Kee and 5 ex-Norum guitars, including the white stratocaster from the TFC tour and Solna show.
Favourite album is The Final Countdown, but my favorite song is the live in Solna version of Stormwind
On New Years 1999, I was 18 years old, so I flew to stockholm on my own to see the show, and afterwards went back to my hotel, flew home the next morning. Since then I've been to Sweden Rock 2004, and seen the band another 4-5 times. Been lucky enough to meet them twice, well except for Ian, him I haven't met....
Thanx to Stein for running this new forum, brings back memories to the years 1997-2002 where there were a lot of Europe fan pages, and yes I had one myself.
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beckyboop
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Rockin' since 1996
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Post by beckyboop on Apr 21, 2012 23:21:38 GMT 2
Well, clearly from my name, you can tell my name is Becca Well - I've been a fan for about 4 or 5 years now. My Mother introduced me to them around 2006 and 2007 that was when the real love of Europe grew. Yes I am quite young (15 years) but my Mother is a proper fan of Rock and Metal. I saw Europe last year in Bristol. First ever concert, and it was well worth it! I held Joey's hand I'm going to see them now in Cardiff! I honestly can not wait. Favorite Europe Song: Open your Heart :3
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Post by wales55 on Apr 26, 2012 0:33:39 GMT 2
Hey I'm Lee and i have kept the same name as on the old forum. Im 24 and I am born and raised in Cardiff, Wales. Im currently working in nursing as well as hosting a radio rock show every Friday night on centralwales.co.uk (tomorrow will feature 3 new Europe songs!) I am also a musician in my spare time, no guesses where my influences have come from. I have been listening to Europe since 1992 when my uncle gave me my first album, The Final Countdown. See you in Cardiff in November!!!
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Post by Deni on Apr 28, 2012 12:03:03 GMT 2
Hi, everybody, I always knew Stein's website, I love it and searched it many times, but didn't register. Now I did. My name is Denitsa, but siply call me Deni. I'm 24 and live in Pleven, Bulgaria. I'm a credit expert in a bank. I've never met the band but will be on their concert in Bulgaria, Sofia on the 15th of June. Hope I have the chance to meet them. My favorite Europe album: The Final Countdown My favorite Europe song: Carrie I've made some photoshop stuff here a long time ago s630.photobucket.com/albums/uu30/Deni8705/Europe/probably have showed it to you in Europe forum. Well, lets continue the talk here in this forum, fellow Europe fans!
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Post by Eva Tomorrow on Apr 29, 2012 1:09:46 GMT 2
I'm Eva, from Spain, I work at an advertising firm, I love this band since TFC when I was 12 years... I've seen EUROPE three times in concert, are the best, a torrent of energy. Following the decision of the closure of its official forum something has changed for my about this band, but I still love their music and BOB is a fantastic album so ...
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