This year will the European markt remember by the simple rock band from Finland, the group Rasmus. Whit their top hit In The Shadows (now whit First day of my life), their album Dead Letters became a nomber one salle hit. They call them the next generation from Him, in theirm 9 years exsistens we heart a lots storys about them. A few of then we liked to know, when their are true, so we had call the bassist Eero. When we call him,he was in a meeting whit the other band members. A little sleepy and peacefull, he answer some questions.

1. Why do you think, thath the poprock is in Skandinavien so populer?
I don't know. We newer think about it. Ok, in Skandinavien is the single First day of my life populer, but I think, the populerst is retrorock.

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3. You are working ten years, but the result came leiter. At first where you the front group
for the other bends, it's thath the best prescription?
We start with fifteen years like a garage band, we play yust for fun, but we had many set in's. We woked hart for our results, but I think thath you can see. We reccord 5 albums, the way to the top was wery hard. Ewery album was for it self wery special.

4.Why is good to be the a front group from a big bend?
We where the front group from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Him, Garbage and Raneid. The best its, theth you can learn from the big bends like them.

5.Have you meet the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and have you tallk to them?
No, yust with the drumer ( Cad Smith ), he told us, thath they like our music.

6.When have you decide theth you are strong enought to be THE bend?
Thath happend this year, becuse we played in Evroup.

7.Has your life change?
Yes, we have more responsibility. But I enyoi in theth, I'm like to be with my friends and play…

8.I have herad theth you said, when you sit in the bus, sweaty, stinky, talking the badest yoks, you feel good - then you know you are on the right place.
Yes. With thath we meant, thath we feel good, when we are with our friends sitting in a stinky bus, we don't care about it. We can be how we are.

9.How dou you look about the comparison with Him? Do you angry about it?
Theth make us laugh. They play the same sound like us, that's naturaly thath the fans compare us. They have to dark liriks, I don't like it.

10.Wich relation have you and your bend with them?
We meet us only by a rock festival, we support each odder.

11.It is true the bend made Lauri smoke?
Yes it's true, but our manager make him smoke, becuse the better sound.

12.Become you and the bend many letters? How meny of the letters are >dead<?
(laugh) Yes we become many of letters, we tray to read them all.

13.Have you got problems on the street, when you fans recognise you?
Not realy, they yust wont a avtogram from us.

14.And the girls do they wont >more<?
When they say something, I yust say ''no''.

Under the picture it says:
(without shadows-In their song they sing about shadows, but where ewer they are they don't make any)