Excentral The Tempest | th
There are 10 known artists with the name Tempest:
1) Tempest is a Canadian black metal/crust band from Vancouver, who formed during the fall of 2007.
2) a Celtic folk-rock group based in California;
3) a Finnish demoscener named Janne Suni who was plagiarized by Timbaland;
4) an unsigned German Death/Thrash Metal Band from Nuremburg;
5) an electronic project of Elijah Colburn, an unsigned artist from Greer, SC.
6) a rapper from Bronx, New York City
7) a British progressive rock band active between 1972 and 1974, founded by ex-Colosseum rhythm section John Hiseman and Mark Clarke.They released two albums....
Wild Stormin' with the Tempests
Discover Magazine Sept, 1999.
Rick Gagnon & Dave Gnerre
Picture the scene: it’s 1958 in Rochester, New York. A young rockin’ guitar picker named Dave Casperson is handing out business cards to promote his band. They boast, ‘The Tempests - For the WILD SOUND!’ And they weren’t lyin’!
‘We named ourselves The Tempests because we played like a wild storm!’ exclaimed Casperson, who reverted to the original Norwegian spelling of ‘Kaspersin’ in 1983. Today Kaspersin and his original Tempests aren’t the wild bunch they once were. But in their minds the memory lives large.
Kaspersin’s...
Joey Tempest (born Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson, August 19, 1963, Stockholm, Sweden) is the vocalist and main songwriter in the Swedish hard rock band Europe. He has written hits like "The Final Countdown", "Rock the Night" and "Superstitious".
Like many of the other Europe members, he grew up in Stockholm suburb Upplands Väsby. His biggest idols were Thin Lizzy and Led Zeppelin. During his teens, he played in a number of bands such as Made in Hong Kong and Roxanne. At that time he alternated between playing rhythm guitar and bass, in addition to lead vocals. In 1979 he formed...
