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.

Anyone tried the beer they make, Trooper? Not bad at all imo.

http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/pictures/420xAny/6/1/7/21617_iron-maiden-trooper-beer.gif

I love the beer, personally. Strong and citrusy. I also have no idea how to describe beer. But it's yummy.

They rock, they fly 747s, they make delicious beer. I don't know what this band can't do

It was a blast - can confirm

They always have great crowds but the crowd last night to me felt like the most energized I’d seen in recent memory, Bruce is sounding amazing - i think the break maybe helped rehab his voice - and the stage sets, if you have not yet seen the Legacy tour, are fucking killer… so stunning

Also not for nothing but i love that in the 20 years i have been seeing them, they never have shit sound, even the way they mike the drums is fucking glorious, they really are in many ways the gold standard for all big touring bands imo - professional, joyful, and always mindful that they are Putting On A Show <3

maiden fucking rules

can't wait to see em again

i'm going wednesday :)

:D

next Thursday for me!!! enjoy

I've heard really good things about this tour. The nearest show to me is on Friday but I'm skipping it. Glad to see other ilxors going, though.

I’m going, next July!

I've seen Maiden a few times now, the first time in 2016, and this tour was my favorite from a production standpoint. Nothing radically different, just really well-done.

really wanted to go this year, but if I recall correctly it was on Yom Kippur.

Chicago show was a blast. Still kinda parsing Bruce's take/speech from stage on Covid. But that aside, a fine stellar performance from all. Dave's guitar solos sounded particularly great.

everything about this show was amazing. I took my friend, who'd never seen them, and she was blown away, like, just kept thanking me for the experience. Bruce was in better vocal health than last time I saw them. also LOVED the Senjutsu sets, Senjutsu Eddie, and fuck, the songs themselves.

also accidentally caused a toilet to overflow in the men's room, causing many people to yelp

Bringing the Toilet Boys realness to Maiden

I was heavily tempted by these in the post office earlier but managed to resist

https://shop.royalmail.com/media/catalog/product/cache/d8a7db0523f43dec856c981f9b4fd49e/a/s/as9400d-1-ironmaiden-stamp-pack.jpg

you should get them!

On the R&R Hall of Fame ballot this year.

I want a Maiden theme park

I hate all theme parks, but I would 100% travel across the continent to visit that.

hell yes

Flight of Icarus
Aces High
Powerslave
Run to the Hills
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (log flume)

I mean, the rides sell themselves.

“Our focus groups say that Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter isn’t a ride that’s really gonna go over well, Steve.”

Charlotte the Harlot Flume Ride (18+)

here's one that you guys can probly help me out with: I have S/T through Powerslave, and I think I know all the major songs after '84, "fear of the Dark" "Bring yr Daughter," "wasted years" etc… but a while ago, it occurred to me that I don't know if they have their own "Sad but True" or two, like a really stomping, elephantine cut to stand up next to 70s Sabbath… they seem to be not exactly patient enuff, like they want to get to the fast part NOW…

Not sure if this is quite what you're looking for, but "stomping" and "elephantine" made me think of "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg" from '06.

"Revelation" is pretty heavy, and "The Clansman" (from the Blaze Bayley era, though they made Dickinson sing it when I saw them in 2003) is a slower epic.

They did "Clansman" last year as well so it's become a bit of a staple I think.

FREEDOMMM