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So, very simple: your first encounter with Stratovarius. Here's mine:
It was late 1997, I was looking on a mail catalog for interesting cds and I saw this awesome cover that really impressed me... there was this red moon, and a comet crossing the rainbow... I thought "fuck this looks great! If the music sounds as the cover looks, this must be the best band in the world!
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I went straight to the phone and ordered it. It took two weeks to arrive, I almost forgot it. Then a wednesday evening I went to the mail-office and took it back home. I spent the first 10 minutes in fixing in my mind all the details of that cover, it was really astonishing (it's still one of my fave arts). Then I put the plate on my cd player... and I went totally crazy! I was lost for words, I phoned my best friend and told him "hey I've discovered this band called stratovarius man they rock" and bla bla bla...
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In the following months I ordered all their cds... but the Visions one has a weird story, indeed. I used to have an history teacher who loved Iron Maiden, and one day (knowing I did too) he asked me if I knew some "new" bands he should listen to and of course you can imagine the name I shout out
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It took me more than a year to re-buy it... in Germany! I was in Münster for an exchange of students, and the fellow that had been sheltering me (whose name was Lars) was a metal maniac (he introduced me to Blind Guardian), and a day we went to some kind of metal only mega-store and there I found it. Since that day I keep it very jealously like a treasure... my precious!
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So, that's all... hope I haven't annoyed you! Hope to hear your stories!
Cheers,
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