Log> Evernight over Europe pt. 4

I've managed to start uploading photos finally. I also have three hours of various video material, but post-production takes time. I will put up videos of the tour though, so stay tuned. In the meanwhile, here's Tommi about to get on stage in Budapest and a link to a really random photo gallery. With two professional digital SLRs in the tow, I've concentrated on capturing random live footage. And it's proving to be random indeed.

A personal musing here - I've had a great opportunity to meet and hang out with the various fans of the band. Some are superbly dedicated, some recently converted, but all very nice people. The scariest-looking ones are the nicest, too. I have definite favorite bands that I feel strongly about and try to see in concert, but it's been long since I've been properly fanatic about a band. I may have outgrown it, not to say I couldn't see it happening again.

With Amorphis, about 1994-1995, I was a bit of a fanatic. I read everything I could about the band, saw all the shows I could, wore the t-shirts and read up on Kalevala and Kanteletar, the Karelian (area in Eastern Finland and Westernmost parts of Russia) epics Amorphis based their lyrics on back then. I even called Tomi Koivusaari at home once, and I think it was only to ask where I could get the same Ukonvasara-pendant (Finnish-style Thor's Hammer) he wore in a promo shot for Tales From the Thousand Lakes. His girlfriend answered and told me Tomi was rehearsing with the band. I was awed at this - he was rehearsing that great music right now and couldn't speak with me. I felt the presence of grandeur. Then they came out with Elegy, I was disappointed and moved on. So only marginal phone stalking, but that was my most intensive fan experience.