completely broke Mötley Crüe’s kit
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Thankfully the two people most seriously injured are no longer critical.
the jewish mom in me breathes a sigh of relief
― dyao, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Totally. Also they're both in law school.
― Tolaca Luke (admrl), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The Maiden frontier - Mark LeVine asks if heavy metal music offers a blueprint for modernisation in the Middle East.
(posted because I never expected to see Maiden namechecked in Al Jazeera)
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 7 March 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://coilhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ironmaiden.jpg
http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Dr-Bruce-Dickinson900px-e1311152853132.jpg
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 August 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
RIP Clive Burr
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
really? sad
― poking pocong (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah we were talking about it on another Maiden thread. Sucks.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
man, just can't put my finger on why audiences never warmed up to this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXchebmMlvc
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 04:37 (six years ago) link
christ I about choked back vomit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRwAA2J7iwA
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 04:39 (six years ago) link
My god, this tour is amazing
Love the first three tracks on Piece of Mind? Check.
Love "Sign of the Cross" and "The Clansman"? Check.
Love "Aces High" as an opener? Fuck yeah.
I would see this twelve times if i could
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 July 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
Damn, I had tickets to go last night but one of my kids was sick so we just stayed home.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 25 July 2019 08:56 (four years ago) link
Oh wow, just watched those Blaze clips upthread. Did he always sing that way? As in singing choruses an octave below Bruce because he's--I guess--unable to hit the high notes? Hate to pile on, but why did Maiden hire this guy?
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 25 July 2019 10:39 (four years ago) link
Alexander the Great, performed in concert for the very first time. Waited 37 years for this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53HXErBKcog
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 28 May 2023 21:28 (ten months ago) link
Iron Maiden is sort of a strange band for anyone (who isn't thirteen in 1983) to use as an aesthetic line in the sand, or as the Golden Mean of music. Were or are there Maiden fans who thought that everything heavier than they were was "too heavy"? Like thrash metal and everything after was just too much?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:49 (ten months ago) link
Oh yeah, there are loads of folks my age (52) and older who still won't touch anything heavier than Maiden.
Slayer was extreme in 1986, so yeah, that reluctance to listen to anything remotely "shouty" was already present. But lots of Maiden fans had stuff like Helloween and Savatage to move laterally toward. We all branched out in different directions. Heck, I found Morbid Angel and Death boring when I was 18 so I'd gone in a more prog/experimental/alt metal direction by 1989.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 22:12 (ten months ago) link
It's funny how fast and nonlinear metal's evolution was in the 80s. I was writing a 20th anniversary piece on Metallica's St. Anger this weekend and mentioned that Kill 'Em All was released four months after Quiet Riot's Metal Health, and two months before Mötley Crüe's Shout At The Devil.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 22:36 (ten months ago) link