This is the thread where we talk about Iron Maiden!!

-- Roger Fascist (RogerFascis...) (webmail), November 11th, 2002 12:06 PM. (Roger Fascist)

lol

They are touring US again, and I am so fukcing there, .. i won't miss this for the fucking world

most rulest

MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE!!! Oh, c'mon Bruce ... please do 1 or 2 songs for the headz...

As mentioned in the rolling metal thread, their five Western Canadian dates all sold out within a couple hours today...60,000 tickets. The Calgary pre-sale outsold the one for MSG. We've missed them a lot out here. Can't wait for June 8th!!!

"flight 666" is showing here tonight, i think it's sold out though ;_;

Dying to see that.

i got "the early years" a 2-dvd thing from netflix in the mail yesterday and watched 30 min of concert footage from a gig in late '80 or '81 (copyright) from a place called 'rainbow'? where they played iron maiden the song. it was paul di'anno, adrian smith and clive burr with dave murray and steve harris. they looked so much like fuckin spinal tap! my mouth was open when i wasn't head-banging. so awesome! can't wait to see the rest of this thing

Early Years is great! You are in for a treat and a half. But 'Beast Over Hammersmith' blows Rainbow away. Hearing/seeing Bruce with full pipes back then...glorious.

oh man i can't wait to get to my dvd player, dudes

Why did we never talk about this:

http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/eddie-jessica-parker.jpg

From metalsucks back in 2008.

i'm shocked (shocked!) the final frontier is being ignored in year-end roundups. it's too bad, since "isle of avalon" is one of their great epics

It's really good but a combination of High On Fire and Cathedral has booted it out of my end of year list.

that cathedral album is GREAT and i cannot knock high on fire ever. seems like maiden somehow always gets the shaft though

Yes. YES. They're touring North America this summer...

http://www.ironmaiden.com/maiden-on-the-charge.html

V. sad news -- Clive Burr has passed on:

http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blogpost.aspx?post=f7aff587-1038-49c6-9d83-e27c0b007e53

So sad. Such a lovely-seeming guy, and man what a beast of a drummer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmswOIYWlg

ah fuck it, play this whole thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfU_zLWsh6I

ragh screw that link, it's way out of sync

this one's better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWF-B95qZj0

got home from a morning appointment and my daughter immediately runs up to me and says "I have something very sad to tell you. One of your drummers died"

:(

:(

yr daughter is the cutest

That guy could pull off drum fills like no other. I remain a big fan of Nicko's, but Clive really did bring a lot of personality to those early Maiden songs.

Yeah Nicko is terrific. I do think there was something special about Clive's drumming though (possibly sheer nostalgia for him talking but I'd like to think not) - I feel like he helped to set the speed and the punk feel of that first album and helped informed their early style through full-out metal transition with Dickinson and NOTB. I don't know if you could do that with just any drummer.

Yeah, Clive definitely brought the speed that the first two records demanded. Like Nicko, he was one of a kind, the perfect fit for that era of Iron Maiden.

it's funny how Nicko still feels like the new guy to me and he's been playing with them for how many years now?

RIP to a great drummer

Why did he leave Maiden?

So Piece of Mind is thirty years old today, sez Ade.

i recommend CRANKING THE HELL out of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udUlQmI3Mys

happy birthday Piece of Mind!

FLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
ON YOUR WAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
LIKE AN EEAAAAAAAAAAAAAGLLLEEE
FLY AS HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGHHH
AS THE SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN

Well yes.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfel9LJIGco

I've been listening to a lot of Maiden the past week because I finally read Garry Bushell's Iron Maiden Running free, which has been out of print for a long time, but revived on Kindle earlier this year for $5.99. I hoped it would be better as he does have writing/journalism credentials, and covered the band for various magazines over the years. However it's largely fanboy stuff, with a lot of fawning about what a blast it was partying with the band, relating (largely in heavy cockney slang) had-to-be-there inside jokes/pranks, and boring play-by-play accounts of their soccer games. Ah well, if you're a fan it's still kind of enjoyable. Most alarming was all the stories about what a dangerously bad driver Bruce was, and he vowed never to ride with him again. I wonder if he ever flew with them since then!

Regarding references to the band's annual Xmas cards, there was a (crappy B&W) reproduction of the one from 1981 in the book. I asked Martin Popoff if those cards are included in his Run For Cover: The Art Of Derek Riggs book. He said there should be a bunch in there. They are out of print, but you can still order from Riggs' site (derekriggs.com) or via Amazon.

I used this one for a piece 8 years ago that was likely from a card (I added the "Heavy Metal Holidaze" type):

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/eddie_dwarves.jpg

Lastly, I considered starting a thread about Iron Maiden acolytes, bands with strongly recognizable Iron Maiden influence, but I couldn't think of that many. There are a lot of bands with some Maiden influence of course, but not that many where they are easily recognizable as their primary sound. Savatage, Wolf, 3 Inches Of Blood and of course Slough Feg. Any others?

Dawnbringer springs to mind.

I always maintained that The Decemberists' (yawrn, I know) "The Infanta" was heavily Maiden-influenced.

There's a whole genre of (generally really shitty) metal that was spawned from the furrow Maiden ploughed, called "Power Metal". Other than the genre-dwellers, I don't know that Maiden had a lot of recognizable influence. It's too bad. They're my favourite metal band, hands-down, and one of the all-time greats in any genre. That run of albums up to Seventh Son was unbeatable.

I finally got the Maiden England reissued set (1988) and it kind of blows me away how not dissimilar 88 Bruce sounds to '14 Bruce. I mean he's definitely lost his highest of highs but when I saw him last year he sounded about as good on these songs as he does on this album. Guy's definitely got longevity.

i wish they were bringing teh Maiden England tour back to the US again this year. saw it in back to back years in 2012-2013 and it was so effing dope.

also noticing how he's managed to sing flat throughout "Wasted Years" :/

FLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
ON YOUR WAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
LIKE AN EEAAAAAAAAAAAAAGLLLEEE
FLY AS HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGHHH
AS THE SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, May 17, 2013 11:28 AM (1 year ago)

otm

i love how right off the bat quest for fire is so ridiculous

In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth

that when they keep going

When the land was swamp and caves werrrre hooooooommme
In an age when prize possession was fire
To search for landscapes men would roam.

it sounds like dickinson is hitting the high notes just to underscore it

work has offered up a lip sync contest for our sales meeting this year

think I'm going to do 'Run to the Hills' :D

mainly because I have listened to it more times than most of the other songs that I like and it's SO MUCH FUN

Well THIS sucks, glad it was caught early but

http://www.ironmaiden.com/bruce-dickinson-undergoes-cancer-treatment.html

fingers crossed for him

New album, The Book of Souls, September 4 (single global release date). A 92-minute 2CD set, last song is 18 minutes long.

dude was just a real rocker

When I first became a Maiden fan there was nearly as much Di'Anno material available as there was Dickinson material, so me and my friends had a lot of fights about who was better. I eventually came to prefer Di'Anno, probably because I began to like punk rock too. RIP.

those two records really changed my life. I love Iron Maiden throughout the years but when I heard those, after I'd heard Number and Piece, a sense of metal's depth and range was clearer to me. and the fuckin hooks. Di'Anno had an ear for a chorus hook, one for the ages.

listening to the first record now, what a ripper 2 tuff

obv he's the gruff belter to bruce's operatic thing but i find his clean, melodic singing here to be very affecting and almost touchingly naive in a way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fkD-jzgMXE

i like what the guy contributed very much and love the era of maiden he emblemizes, but there's a lot of "the first and best maiden singer has died" today, and it comes from people who say they're all about metal and maiden now, but who very obviously looked down on maiden, metal and metalheads in the 80s.

and that is true, UMS, that at the time he and thus surely Harris were invested in projecting a hard man/ world weary POV, and the music makes it clear that it was transparently but touchingly not so.

xpost yeah otm i think there is a lot of truth to that

The first two Maiden albums are really good. But if they'd never changed vocalists, they would have never gotten bigger than, say, Motörhead. When you listen to Di'Anno's post-Maiden work, his limitations (vocal, creative) become very apparent very fast.

Yeah I only care for the first two records nowadays but clearly they made the right choice in binning him off and getting Brooce in. Also he was completely unreliable.

yeah that’s what i was half-saying upthread - there’s only so far you can go with that. It is sort of self-limiting

xpost

At least from where I was from, you had to be a pretty serious head to know those first two Maiden records in the 80s as they were imports for a long time.

i'd forgotten how much killers is just souped-up and speedier deep purple. i haven't heard it in a zillion years.

i never listened to iron maiden much. they were always "my brother's band". back when you laid claim to bands. he got maiden and motorhead and i got priest and black sabbath. he got aerosmith. i got rush.

Same deal in my house; I listened to Judas Priest, my younger brother listened to Iron Maiden.

This was a fun time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvHb7q5UXYI

Nicko retires! I heard Steve Harris's son-in-law will be the replacement.

https://www.ironmaiden.com/an-announcement-from-iron-maiden/

genuine shock when i saw that. A shame but unsurprising. Hopefully he pops up for a song or two at least at the big London 50th anniversary show next summer?

Nicko did have a stroke in early 2023. He recovered nicely and adapted quite well, he changed his mechanics to minimize arm movement. I saw Maiden in September 23 and October 24, and he held his own very well.

But time catches up to all of us. I remember Rod telling me years ago that Nicko's age was the one big concern when it came to planning, because they plan things years in advance. This seems like a lovely way for Nicko to end his 42 year run. He's a true gentleman, the kindest fellow, and will be missed.

(also it would not surprise me at all if Maiden indeed keep it in the family regarding a new drummer)

yeah he’s had a rough go of late, i am glad he’s going to be taking care of himself

and what a fucking legend
42 years! he still feels like the new guy lol

The farewell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J39JgVCMpLc

And the final live song and goodbye:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VxufJ8pqR0

Wonderful clips!

Simon Dawson from British Lion (Harry's side project) will be taking over as Maiden's touring drummer.

Now he just has to grow some extra arms or something.

Formerly of Dearly Beheaded!

No double kick drums allowed. Right foot only. No cheating.

I love how Janick Gers is no longer the newest bandmember, having served a 34 year run of hazing involving getting the other members' gear or whatever.