― chaki (chaki), Friday, 8 November 2002 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 8 November 2002 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― original bgm, Friday, 8 November 2002 21:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 8 November 2002 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Friday, 8 November 2002 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 8 November 2002 22:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Friday, 8 November 2002 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Queen G (Queeng), Saturday, 9 November 2002 10:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― meirion john lewis (mei), Saturday, 9 November 2002 12:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 11 November 2002 03:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also Brave New World is probably the best 'comeback' album by a metal band ever.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 November 2002 05:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Monday, 11 November 2002 17:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 11 November 2002 20:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 December 2003 04:29 (twenty years ago) link
― alext (alext), Thursday, 11 December 2003 09:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 11 December 2003 12:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Roger Fascist (RogerFascis...) (webmail), November 11th, 2002 12:06 PM. (Roger Fascist)
lol
― =[[ (eman), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link
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...
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 29 March 2008 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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!!!
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 29 March 2008 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link
"flight 666" is showing here tonight, i think it's sold out though ;_;
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 1 May 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Dying to see that.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 1 May 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― a fool committed to a VISION of SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS (jdchurchill), Thursday, 6 May 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 6 May 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man i can't wait to get to my dvd player, dudes
― a fool committed to a VISION of SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS (jdchurchill), Friday, 7 May 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― kamerad, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
It's really good but a combination of High On Fire and Cathedral has booted it out of my end of year list.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
that cathedral album is GREAT and i cannot knock high on fire ever. seems like maiden somehow always gets the shaft though
― kamerad, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes. YES. They're touring North America this summer...
http://www.ironmaiden.com/maiden-on-the-charge.html
― Clarke B., Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
V. sad news -- Clive Burr has passed on:
http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blogpost.aspx?post=f7aff587-1038-49c6-9d83-e27c0b007e53
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
So sad. Such a lovely-seeming guy, and man what a beast of a drummer.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmswOIYWlg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
ah fuck it, play this whole thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfU_zLWsh6I
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
ragh screw that link, it's way out of sync
this one's better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWF-B95qZj0
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
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"
:(
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
yr daughter is the cutest
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
RIP to a great drummer
― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
Why did he leave Maiden?
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 14 March 2013 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
So Piece of Mind is thirty years old today, sez Ade.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 May 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
:D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
My final decision was that I liked a few songs, the album was a little more ponderous than I like even though they do that sort of thing way better than anyone else. Ultimately they're making themselves happy and not tarnishing their legacy. I won't listen to it nearly as much as the classics but I'll add it to my collection without hesitation and added "The Writing on the Wall" to my Best of 2021 Spotify playlist.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
"Stratego" aside (it's their best short song since "Rainmaker") the two I keep going back to are the title track and "Hell on Earth". There's such a consistent feeling of gravitas to this album, from start to finish, that we've never really heard from Maiden before, and for me that's pretty darn appealing.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 06:32 (two years ago) link
Hero
https://consequence.net/2021/09/iron-maiden-bruce-dickinson-covid-willy-shrivel/
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:08 (two years ago) link
Tickets on sale for NA, and tickets in hand for myself, VG and Mr. Veg for Oakland. Up the Irons, etc.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
FUCK i didn't even know.
next October, Tampa! woo
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
Well now you do!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
i’m gonna see iron maiden next year i swear to fuckinn satan
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
Wisdom
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
MAIDEN \m/
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
While you all wait, I recommend a preorder of this:
https://www.prestomusic.com/books/products/8895730--denim-and-leather-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-new-wave-of-british-heavy-metal
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
Sioux Falls, huh.
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
Second ever gig was Maiden on the No Prayer for the Dying tour in late 1990. It was at Wembley Arena (a pretty shit now dead venue) and I remember being terrified about the kinds of people who might be there. Five minutes of being in there and I thought 'shit, I've found my people'. 30 years ago! Would love to see them again next year.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
the last four times I saw them were completely mindblowing each time.
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
yeah the last Sacramento show was fun as hell. its always a good sign when the audience is already rocking out to the pre-show songs on the PA (to be fair Maiden are always great at priming the audience esp playing Doctor Doctor right before the show starts, everyone loses their shit its so great)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
feel like I always make friends at these shows too. last time, I was sitting next to I think a Norwegian guy (I had bought his friend's ticket off of StubHub) and this funny guy a row back, and we were chatting the whole time.
the guy to my left vanished for a while, leaving his seat unoccupied, then randomly, two ladies invaded our row, despite not having tickets there, so now we had 11 people occupying the area of 10 seats. so now we were packed in tight, and the lady to my left kept passive aggressively putting her hands on my shoulder to try to get me from colliding with her (which was only happening because her and her friend weren't supposed to be there anyway!).
and then the Norwegian guy came back from getting a beer and yells "WHO ARE YOU TWO? THAT'S NEANDERTHAL'S SEAT, YOU ALL DON'T SIT HERE, YOU GET OUT OF NEANDERTHAL'S SEAT NOW!" and they went scurrying away, right as "Flight of Icarus" was starting.
the Piece of Mind trio was really dope at that show. that was....2019 i think?
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
Waited too long, worst seats I ever had for Maiden lol.
But I'm taking a friend
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 December 2021 04:46 (two years ago) link
“And what’s your friend’s name… Edward T. Head.”“RARGH.”
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 December 2021 05:41 (two years ago) link
So VG and Mr Veg and I can report that Maiden remain Maiden in the best of ways. Allow me to explain via tweets.
So yes, @IronMaiden, and if I had to sum up last night: pic.twitter.com/LVXy8voYUp— Ned Raggett (@NedRaggett) September 28, 2022
But some further additions. Thanks to @sharonjoy76 and Clay for the good company! pic.twitter.com/W6b43R9Ni8— Ned Raggett (@NedRaggett) September 28, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
It was a blast - can confirmThey 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 stunningAlso 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 <3maiden fucking rules
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
can't wait to see em again
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
i'm going wednesday :)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
next Thursday for me!!! enjoy
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
I’m going, next July!
― jel--, Monday, 17 October 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
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.
― JRN, Monday, 17 October 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
really wanted to go this year, but if I recall correctly it was on Yom Kippur.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 October 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
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.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 17 October 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
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
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:30 (one year ago) link
Bringing the Toilet Boys realness to Maiden
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:53 (one year ago) link
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
― a mix between aphex twin and nirvana with the swagger of count basie (Matt #2), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
you should get them!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
On the R&R Hall of Fame ballot this year.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
I want a Maiden theme park
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link
I hate all theme parks, but I would 100% travel across the continent to visit that.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
hell yes
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
Flight of IcarusAces HighPowerslaveRun to the HillsRime of the Ancient Mariner (log flume)
I mean, the rides sell themselves.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link
“Our focus groups say that Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter isn’t a ride that’s really gonna go over well, Steve.”
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 2 February 2023 04:19 (one year ago) link
Charlotte the Harlot Flume Ride (18+)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 February 2023 05:46 (one year ago) link
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…
― veronica moser, Thursday, 2 February 2023 14:36 (one year ago) link
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.
― JRN, Thursday, 2 February 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
"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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 2 February 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
They did "Clansman" last year as well so it's become a bit of a staple I think.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 February 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
FREEDOMMM
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:25 (one year ago) link