Seeing Iron Maiden on the "Powerslave" tour (with Accept opening) was one of the best concerts of my life. Can't wait for their tour this year.

GurneyHalleck: Seeing Iron Maiden on the "Powerslave" tour (with Accept opening) was one of the best concerts of my life. Can't wait for their tour this year.

Please tell me that 100% of the awesomeness was from Iron Maiden. I'm not ready to live in a world where anyone thought Accept was any good.

/Balls to the wall, indeed.

This must be a sign. I had a conversation with my GF the other day about Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and some of the other stuff I lived on as a teen. She had no idea who they are and what they sang, even after my accapella version of Flight of Icarus. Hrumph.....kids. Now, a fark thread specifically about them.

Fine, Gods of Metal, I shall go and buy Piece of Mind this week and worship at the alter of Eddie.

WRONG !!! (new window)

/well, not totally wrong
//not a rickroll or finalcountdown

Then, of course, we cannot pass on THIS GEM (new window)

11/1/2003
Never Forget

Is it true that maiden has gone the way of stryper and plays god rock now?

Go Fast Turn Left: I'm not ready to live in a world where anyone thought Accept was any good.

Balls to the Wall!
Yeeeeeah!
Balls to the Wall!

yes. Yes. farkING YESS!!

\m/

Bukharin: Is it true that maiden has gone the way of stryper and plays god rock now?

Bruce's voice, while it's pretty high pitched, in no way could ever match that of the dude from Stryper.

I saw Iron Maiden at Reunion Arena in Dallas during their World Slavery tour. W.A.S.P. opened, and they sucked

/W.A.S.P. sucked, not Maiden

I don't rock as hard as I used to and neither did they.

/now get off my motörhead

Coheed and Cambria covered this on their last tour. They nailed it, too.

Not saying they were better, just that they did a fantastic job with it.

indenture: W.A.S.P. opened, and they sucked

My understanding is that Blackie Lawless and the gang were really hit or miss live.

This kinda sounds like shiat you guys.

Better videos are out there of this tune.

lsc78: Better videos are out there of this tune.

From this concert?

FarkinHostile: This must be a sign. I had a conversation with my GF the other day about Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and some of the other stuff I lived on as a teen. She had no idea who they are and what they sang, even after my accapella version of Flight of Icarus.

That's a shame. I recently turned my fiancé (seven years my senior) on to both Maiden and Priest. I felt it was necessary that he know about such things.

Sorry SUBBY. I disagree. Good band, but SO many other bands rock much much harder.

Bukharin: Is it true that maiden has gone the way of stryper and plays god rock now?

Umm. No. From their last album:


Spiral path leads through the maze
Down into the fiery underworld below
Fire breathing lead the way
Lucifer was just an angel led astray

Free your soul and let it fly
Give your life, to the Lord of Light
Keep your secrets and rain on me
All I see are mysteries

That's a shame. I recently turned my fiancé (seven years my senior) on to both Maiden and Priest. I felt it was necessary that he know about such things.


Just another course in her education. She's been an A student so far. :)


BTW, you are a good woman.

Let's also not forget its role as the Primary Enticement Mechanism against the zombies at the Battle of Hope.

Enemies of Metal, Your death is our reward..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO7TZGgBbOw

rocinante721: WRONG !!! (new window)

/well, not totally wrong
//not a rickroll or finalcountdown

DEAR GOD! What is that thing in the middle!?!?

For some people, Barney or The Wiggles videos are the next best thing to a babysitter. For my kids (ages 5 1/2 and 15 months) it has been Iron Maiden (with some Zep and Rush thrown in occasionally)and I have been very grateful for it. But as spectacular as the Maiden DVDs I have are (Visions of the Beast, Rock in Rio, Death on the Road, The Early Days), after watching them all 100 times each, even they can get a bit grating on the nerves. So I skimmed through Netflix and found Raising Hell (the last tour with Bruce before he left) and figured yay, something new and it's gotta be full of win! Boy was I wrong. Not only is the audio quality craptastic, for most of it the band just sounds.....off. Sort of like a mediocre tribute band. I wish I could blame it on the absence of Adrian, but even Steve's intro to the Clairvoyant sounds bad. Then in-between songs, you get to enjoy the cheesiest magic show you'll ever see. For how much of a perfectionist Steve is, I can't believe he let this turd get released. Glad I only rented it.

/can't watch Youtube at work :(
//saw them in Scranton on the Brave New World Tour
///can't wait until I can take my kids to Maiden concert

RonJeremy: Enemies of Metal, Your death is our reward..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO7TZGgBbOw

My farkin' ringtone!

How about this, one of my new favorite bands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGdIChKSao (new window)

/Rest in Peace, Dimebag
//3IOB ringtone in the middle of a family dinner (or date!) gets me either weird looks or a knowing nod... determines the course of my relationship with the other people around me!

Maiden are truly awesome - will be seeing them this tour in Sweden - though I think they could benefit from unravelling their lengthy musical penises and showing us how hard they can rock in obscure time signatures on the next album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkAx-j9whiA

I've probably seen Maiden 15 times over the years, and they've always delivered - hell they are in their late 40's(at least)and they'll kick the crap out of most any band out there from a get-your-moneys-worth perspective. They still have energy, a tremendous stage show, and from a playing standpoint they are more on their game now than they have ever been. I'm with amindtat on two counts - Raising Hell was a HUGE disappointment for all the reasons given, and I have a son who will be 6 in April that is already asking me to show him Iron Maiden tunes on his half-scale guitar... He's partial to the Brave New World and Powerslave CDs, and his perfect world would be an Iron Maiden soundtrack to a Power Rangers video game. I even caught my wife singing along in the car last week - she's coming around to our point of view...
/ anyone else out there want to play in an Iron Maiden tribute band?

Jak, they are all 50+.

Jak Damage

I wish our kids lived closer to each other! In the meantime, we'll just have to wait for an Iron Maiden summer camp.

/my wife is coming around too

Jak Damage: They still have energy, a tremendous stage show, and from a playing standpoint they are more on their game now than they have ever been.

I feel I must disagree with you there, sir. While it's true Adrian's just kept on evolving as a guitarist and is on top of his game, Dave got stuck in a technical and tonal rut since No Prayer for the Dying; his solos these days rarely excite. He seems at times to have lost the "spark". My favourite recent solos of his since the "reunion" are Brave New World, and Rainmaker (my girlfriend is partial to Benjamin Breeg).

Adrian's solos never fail to send a shiver down my spine, in fact I can find enough in them to have written an entire dissertation (10,000 words) on them!

/won't get started on Janick's solos, but his songwriting is very good.
//They do need to get out of the E C G D chrod progression thing, too.

ClicheGuevara07: rocinante721: WRONG !!! (new window)
/well, not totally wrong
//not a rickroll or finalcountdown

DEAR GOD! What is that thing in the middle!?!?

~~

Someone that is more metal than you shall ever be

/Couldn't resist.
//Loves Maiden.
///UP THE IRONS!!

Jness
Rock on.. If you dig MH you will prob like the new Exodus disk..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3D0s-cLQRc

Thrash'olishous..

I never got Maiden. No real problem with them, 1000x better than the hair metal of the mid-late 80s, but that whole high, opera-ish voice was kinda the ghey compared to a voice like Lemmy from MH. if you're going to sing thrashy metal, you need that gravelly pised off voice.
to each his own i guess...

RonJeremy: Thrash'olishous..

Indeed, my good sir. Indeed.

if you're going to sing thrashy metal, you need that gravelly pised off voice.

Example One..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89h-X-tZa_w

rocinante721: ClicheGuevara07: rocinante721: WRONG !!! (new window)
/well, not totally wrong
//not a rickroll or finalcountdown

DEAR GOD! What is that thing in the middle!?!?

~~

Someone that is more metal than you shall ever be

Really, because I was pretty convinced that it was the Zuni Warrior Doll from Trilogy of Terror.

Bukharin: Is it true that maiden has gone the way of stryper and plays god rock now?

No, but they have ALWAYS rocked like gods.

submitter: Iron Maiden's "The Trooper," live. No matter how hard you rock, these old guys still rock way harder

I'm going to have to disagree. I guarantee I will smoke their ass on this song in Guitar Hero II.

I dunno subby, I rock pretty hard at 40.
(im in the white ballcap/hair)
in grade 11, 1983, my band covered Maiden's "Revelations"..long song.

I dont understand why everybodys in love with Maiden again..
prolly because of thier mention in that Teenage Dirtbag song.
/never loved maiden, but they get my respect...'cept for the vocals.

Go Fast Turn Left: GurneyHalleck: Seeing Iron Maiden on the "Powerslave" tour (with Accept opening) was one of the best concerts of my life. Can't wait for their tour this year.

Please tell me that 100% of the awesomeness was from Iron Maiden. I'm not ready to live in a world where anyone thought Accept was any good.

/Balls to the wall, indeed.

Hey now, just because we don't tease you for your Barry Manilow collection, leave us Accept fans alone.. ;-)

seriously, I have been a fan of Accept since 1985, and still love their music, of course Queen still takes the number 1 spot, but if you got a chance to listen to the Breaker CD Accept can be really cool. I had the fortune to be in Osaka for their show that got recorded for their video and Cd "Staying a Life"

I respect Maiden, they've influenced a lot of other bands, but they just don't quite do it for me.

/Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Kamelot, Angra, Iron Savior, Queensryche, Judas Priest, Gamma Ray, Helloween - all good bands.
//have some solo Bruce Dickensen tracks
///He's a Farker, wonder if he'll wander in here

RonJeremy: Enemies of Metal, Your death is our reward..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO7TZGgBbOw

"This video is not available in your country."

WHAAAAAA?

Alphax: //have some solo Bruce Dickensen tracks
///He's a Farker, wonder if he'll wander in here

For real? What's his handle?

Tenebreux
Try
This one..

Could not agree with you more. Machine Head's new disc blew me away. It's a great combination of focus and aggression.

RonJeremy: Jness
Rock on.. If you dig MH you will prob like the new Exodus disk..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3D0s-cLQRc

Thrash'olishous..

Marshmallow Jones: I never got Maiden. No real problem with them, 1000x better than the hair metal of the mid-late 80s, but that whole high, opera-ish voice was kinda the ghey compared to a voice like Lemmy from MH. if you're going to sing thrashy metal, you need that gravelly pised off voice.
to each his own i guess...

Well Iron Maiden is a lot more melodic and a lot less influenced by punk than Motorhead. while, Maiden took a lot a lot of the energy punk had, Steve Harris wasn't really into it and preferred the so called dinosaur bands. Thus when the more punk oriented Paul Di'Anno got kicked out, he went for a more melodic vocalist closer to say Jon Anderson, than to Johnny Rotten.

rocinante721: Alphax: //have some solo Bruce Dickensen tracks
///He's a Farker, wonder if he'll wander in here

For real? What's his handle?

It's something like TheRealBruceDickensen. I see him in political threads sometimes.

^^^ Dickinson