If you had asked me 20 years ago this band would have said it is a commercial waste ... rock for teenagers who are led by a singer with pretty face and a lighter sound. And in that time swarming with many bands of this type, the result of an industry that had sweetened the heavy metal music and made it massively attractive disposable.
The surprise I took a few years when, being dissolved and visited us at the Festival de Viña. I saw the truth only to appreciate the great guitarist Kee Marcello was integrated in the latter part of the history of the band and who I had a solo cassette. Of course the big Kee did not disappoint me, especially when played on electric guitar the impossible "Flight of the Bumblebee." But not only surprised me, just at that moment I realized that this band came from a totally different from current glam of Los Angeles, the influence of Rainbow they got it from all sides and the excellent quality of its players became a pleasure from start to finish. In fact by now be almost dissolved had stopped combing his hair and I was surprised to be shown as they were, a great weaknesses of the pure hard rock roots Europe.
A fact I did talk about this band, a comment that left me in the post dedicated to Dire Straits for a guy who told me that my comment was crap and as I was going to say that Dire Strais was not commercial if it was thing to hear "Walk is life." First of all I never said they were not commercial, in fact much I stressed this fact, so I invite you to learn to read above ... but the thing is I got to thinking ... what's wrong with being commercial if you do real quality stuff. And it is hence the name of this blog, as I said Mick Jaeger "It's only rock and roll, but I like it." After his rocker for many years and to listen as hard and can be flown, only today, leaving aside prejudices I can enjoy guilt-free band "pretty boys" like these. Even at this point I respect Jon Bon Jovi has continued to work with real consequence all these years. But just because I realized how big it really was ... because I'm hating Warrant, Poison, Winger and all that shit and I still loading Depeche Mode ... now say they are "cult" ... it is my time was called "techno pop" ... yuck!
So I do not believe in styles or alleged movements, for me are just inventions of the industry to standardize the proposals for sell and to fashion a lot going around, only time shows the truth of each.
Europe, initially called Force, born in Sweden (we are coming to surprise the Swedes now with your great music industry) started like most ... in a garage where four teenagers were rehearsing with his cover band. After polishing begins to compose his own songs and recording demos, were to fucking throw in the towel when Ingwie Malmsten was bassist John Leven of its still unknown band Rising Force, but did not last long and returned with his friends, Joey Tempest (keyboards and vocals), John Norum (guitar) and Tony Reno (drums). Was Malmstem a world figure and Leven soon had to repent, but that did not last long. In 1982
win a band contest and the prize is a record that is published in Sweden and Japan, surprisingly become an event in Nipponese land. The album that I discovered many years later, a real whirlwind of good hard rock in the purest style of Rainbow ... Swedish rock undoubtedly owes much to Ritchie Blackmore to this day, is something to listen to all those bands " melodic heavy-progressive ", a delight to some. It's amazing the seed sown in those old touring Deep Purple and Rainbow years ago. Anyway
not I imagine Ronnie James Dio with lipstick ... haha \u200b\u200b... but back to Europe.
in 1984 became known in these parts with the album "Wings of Tomorow" which contained the single "Open Your Heart" (a greeting for my friend Anita Mary who loved this album) and perhaps represents the emergence of band as we know, with the keyboardist Mitch ADDITIONS Michaeli, to give more freedom of movement and change Tempest Tony Reno and drummer Ian Haugland ... classical training was ready to take the world rankings
1986 was the year they all happened to coincide with the fashion of "Hair Rock", "Pop Metal "or whatever you call it, the band released" The Final Countdown "reaching the number one worldwide with the single of the same name and overexposed, even today, power balad called" Carrie "... over my life I have rarely seen a disk with more ... radio broadcast that touched him to death, sold it and became millionaires all to the admiration of his fans, mostly girls, and anger and contempt for the most rock traditionalists (including me).
Of course as always the fame brought problems, John Norum left the band on tour and leaving the post to named Kee Marcello, so continued success After releasing two more albums, "Out Of This World" 1988 and "Prisioners In Paradise" in 1991.
However with time and influence of American industry were softened and increasingly standardized gradually losing its European essence ... a case similar to that seen in the post of Focus. This coupled with the emergence of Nirvana with all the changes that brought the beats caused the dissolution of the band in late 1991.
A year ago when almost no work finally accepted an offer that came from far away as Chile to play at a festival inviting llevava years ... and now as they had decided to accept commitments ... just then, as I told them, I realized that was another thing.
dissolved are maintained until 1999 when invited to the celebrations of the millennium in his homeland ... reunited to perform "The final countdown" by matching the end of the topic with the arrival of the new millennium amid fireworks hugged and decided to rejoin.
While the thing did not materialize until 2003 when they return with a new album and are surprised themselves and the audience packed into his concerts in Europe, Japan and North America, although they can not repeat the massive success of yesterday, are today respected the younger generation and their latest album, out last year only corroborates its sheer quality we should never neglect.
An anthology of the musical history of Europe is what I leave this time ... The compilation "Europe 1982-2000" ... only I took the liberty of deleting the remix edition of "The final countdown" ... but rubbish techno ... yuck who did that!
Okay I have become more tolerant ... but never both.
Topics:
In the future to come
Seven doors hotel Stormwind
Open your heart
Scream of anger Dreamer
Rock the night Carrie Cherokee
Supertitious
Ready or not
Prisioners in paradise I'll cry for you (acoustic) Sweet love
child (unpublished)
Yesterday news (unpublished)
DOWNLOAD (RISE)
"... what's wrong with being cute ... I too would be nice"
Lemmy (Möthorhead)
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