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Jari Mäenpää's Fans

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About Me

This is a FAN SPACE I created for other Jari's fans, to celebrate him and exchange opinions and works about him and his music.If you have fan art or other works you'd like to submit, feel free to send them via pm or via e-mail to: [email protected] LolaJOIN THE FORUM!!! http://aplaceinthenorth.forumfree.net/Jari Mäenpää, born in Finland (23.12.1977), is the founder of metal band Wintersun in which he performs vocals and plays guitar. He also played bass and keyboards on Wintersun's first album before hiring a full-time line-up.He started playing at 14 or 15, when his friend Oliver Fokin got a guitar and he showed him some Metallica riffs. He thought they sounded pretty cool, so he wanted to learn too.Before forming Wintersun Jari was best known for his time in the Viking/Folk band Ensiferum, which he joined in 1996 after leaving his prior band named Immemorial. Wintersun was initially planned as a parallel project alongside Ensiferum, but in January 2004 he was forced to leave Ensiferum due to clashes between their touring schedule and the studio recording time he had booked for Wintersun. In 1997 Jari had to put his musical career on hold to take part in Finland's compulsory military service. In an interview Jari admitted he disliked the time he spent in the military, and suspects it's where he acquired tuberculosis.Some of the inspirations for the Wintersun lyrics come from that dark period of his life .Jari was also was a member of the band ArthemesiA.He likes meat, fish and extra cold Coca Cola in 0,33 glass bottle. Jari's equipment: Pod Pro, Mesaboogie ,Jackson, Tokai Telecaster ; Ibanez PGM, Ibanez Jems (Infos from: Wikipedia; Wintersun forum; Behind the Dark Sun site; thanx Joey for infos about equipment)Video Wintersun - Beyond the Dark Sun:&nbsp

My Interests

Music, music, music and get wasted

I'd like to meet:

Jari Mäenpää's fans ! LINKS:www.wintermadness.netwww.ensiferum.comwww.arthemesia.b lackmetal.fiwww.behindthedarksun.de.vuwintersun.extra.hu www.wintersunbrasil.com

Music:

Jari's fave bands:MetallicaDevin Townsend BandStrapping Young LadJudas PriestSkid RowMalmsteenSteve VaiWASPKissMegadethCarcassClassical and soundtracksDiscography: Ensiferum - Demo (1997)Ensiferum - Demo2 (1999)Ensiferum - Hero in a dream (1999) [Demo]ArthemesiA - Devs-Iratvs (2001) [CD]Ensiferum - Ensiferum (2001) [CD]Cadacross - Corona Borealis (2002) [CD]Ensiferum - Tale of Revenge (2004) [single]Ensiferum - Iron (2004) [CD]Wintersun - Wintersun (2004) [CD]

Movies:

Braveheart

Heroes:

Jari's inspirations: Devin Townsend James Hetfield Steve Vai Roope Latvala

My Blog

News from Kai at the end of february

From the Wintersun forum:"hello all! We had a good meeting with nuclear blast while some of them were in Finnish metal expo last weekend. also our manager was doing work for this situation that we fac...
Posted by Jari Mäenpää's Fans on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:18:00 PST

News about the donations

"Our manager thinks this is not a good idea. There most likely wouldn´t be enough true fans to donate, although it may seem like there´s lot of them. Sure there´s lot of fans, but those who would be w...
Posted by Jari Mäenpää's Fans on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:02:00 PST

Donations for Jari

Thanx Pems for this message: "Please check http://wintermadness.net/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=493 andhttp://wintermadness.net/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=454 &start=45 And please send the links...
Posted by Jari Mäenpää's Fans on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:59:00 PST

Happy birthday Jari!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JARI!!! Paljon onnea vaan !...
Posted by Jari Mäenpää's Fans on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:54:00 PST

News - Jaris guitar sold and album updates!

News from the Wintersun forum !Jari's guitar has been sold to Thomas from Belgium - congratulations!   And some news from Kai and Jari - Kai: "hi people! i´m making a little statement where we a...
Posted by Jari Mäenpää's Fans on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:28:00 PST

Jari sells guitar - From Wintersuns forum

From Wintersun forum   "Hi! I´m selling my JEM7V White Steve Vai signature model guitar! It´s in great shape, just like a brand new. Never been used live or rehearsal place, only at home and in s...
Posted by Jari Mäenpää's Fans on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:20:00 PST

NEWS from the official site (updated)

This blog entry is gonna show the last news from the Wintersun official site, http://www.wintermadness.net/ . I' ll post a bullettin everyime it's updated.     17.04.2007 News update T...
Posted by Jari Mäenpää's Fans on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:22:00 PST

Fan Art

Here you can find some fan art inspired from Jari and/or his music. Please send me more if you made something !!!!!!! :D   From Ambra (Evil Butterfly), inspired to Sleeping Stars: from Valeria -...
Posted by Jari Mäenpää's Fans on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:05:00 PST

Jari's pictures

Here's links to Jari's pictures all around the web. As always, if you have more just send your links ;) thanx !   WINTERSUN Promo pictures and some live and other pics from the official site: ht...
Posted by Jari Mäenpää's Fans on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:23:00 PST

Interviews with Jari

This blog entry is supposed to link interviews with Jari all around the web. It will be updated everytime I find a new one, so if you wanna help me with this - send me interviews you find and are not ...
Posted by Jari Mäenpää's Fans on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:01:00 PST