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Iron Maiden on BBC4
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Live after Death is teh commuting album for tomorrow!
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it is quite good fun, but watching this & that Metallica documentary, I can't help but think of Spinal Tap
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& Bruce Dickinson seems to be the only band member who has realised that fashion has changed slightly from Maiden's heyday...
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Not enough toms on that drum kit.
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And the pilot of the plane is a band member...
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They had better get it on iPlayer. Heavy Metal Brittania tomorrow, too.
Damn my lack of TV...Posted 2 years ago # -
I have their double DVD of videos. Great stuff and very nostalgic. Saw them at Donnington in '88 - 107 000 capacity I believe. 2 people were crushed during the Guns n Roses set.
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Isn't there a whole Metal night on BBC4 tonight, documentaries etc, culminating in the Maiden gig?
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Saw them at the Red Lion, Leytonstone High Road and doubt if there were 107 people there
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mastiles_fanylion - Member
Isn't there a whole Metal night on BBC4 tonight, documentaries etc, culminating in the Maiden gig?
Why yes, yes there is, thank you!
Must get beer on the way home!
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Blimey, the Red Lion. You could drink six pints of Watneys in there and go home stone cold sober. I was in the same class as Stephen Harris in primary and secondary school in Leytonstone and Leyton, nice guy but very quiet then.
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And my wife happens to be going out for the evening.
Funnily enough it was my mum who alerted me to this televisual feast - I brainwashed her with my music as a teenager and she has never recovered (she still really likes Maiden's NOTB)
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You may know me too then Bill, I also went to Leyton County High at that time
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Heh-heh,saw them at the Caird hall in Dundee in 1980,500 there.NOTB,one of my fav albums of all time.
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NOTB
The only album I, quite literally, wore out. It was so badly scratched that I bought a second copy on vinyl. I would come home from school and listen to it again and again and again and again. No wonder my mum likes it
(And saw them live on the Beast on the Road tour as a 14 yr old, head in the bass bin as I thought that was what you 'did').
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the mighty Maiden, saw them a few times but the first time was when my dad took me as a 13 year old to the Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour at Edinburgh Playhouse........i "moshed" all night while he sat beside me with hankies stuffed in his ears
oh yes
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Yep big NOTB fan here - I got to see them at Roskilde Rock Festival with a whole bunch of crazy drunk Norwegians
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They were superb at Monsters of Rock doing their Fear of the Dark Stuff, but sometimes I wish I was a little older to have seen them do Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son live.
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Headlining Sonisphere festival this year, my metal loving GF is dragging me along...
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Check the listen again for Radcliffe on Radio 2 last night. I am not knowledgable on metal but they did play Breaking The Law and discuss the rise of metal. It was worth listening to for the Brummie accents.
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Breaking the Law - amazing track. Was listening to Hell Bent for Leather on my way into work this morning though
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Much prefer the earlier stuff from Sad Wings Of Destiny such as Genocide and Tyrant
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Yeah, some of the early Priest stuff's corking...tho' some of the later stuff is too:)
It's worth checking out the 'Halford' albums (and Two for that matter) - some of the best albums Priest have never made, iyswim...
I used to like Maiden in the very early days (Di'Anno plus a bit)....but they were on at Download a few years ago, and I wandered off to one of the other tents
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Yeah, some of the early Priest stuff's corking...tho' some of the later stuff is too:)
Yeah - I love Judas Rising on Angel of Retribution. Great drum track.
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The "Unleashed in the East" album is excellent.
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Didn't think much of it as a live album, too heavily remixed and no audience participation apart from the odd scream here and there
Much prefer Live After Death (perhaps a bit too much scream for me long beach)UFO Strangers in the night, Scorpions tokyo tapes or one of my favourites Big Country without the aid of a safety net
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I must be getting old!
I bought my first Maiden album, it was Killers when i was hmm about 13/14yrs old. First saw them live on the Powerslave tour in 84 or 85 and was completely blown away!
Fave all time track is 'Still Life' from the Piece of Mind album.
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My best mate was the official photographer on that tour. Some awesome stories!
It's worth checking out Flight666 too
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watching it now and they;re doing Wasted Years, that's brought a lump to my throat (goes to look for the Somewhere In Time album i have on vinyl)
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Y'know, last couple of yrs i've been dealing with clinical depression.
'Wasted Years' actually tells me to MTFU and live my fookin' life!
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Maidens MINT
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Woohoo, I was so tired last night that I went to bed and hadn't realised this was on.
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Just finished watching the documentary and I have to say - what a conceited c*ck Bruce Dickinson was. Yes you may be a technically better singer than Dianno but he was and will remain (IMO) a singer with more style and character than you will ever hope to have.
(Although I did have a lump in my throat at the end when they showed people piling in to the sold out Beast on the Road tour when 'metal went stratospheric' - I was there for my first ever gig at Bradford St George's Hall as a 14 yr old in my home-made Maiden tee).
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I thought Bruce was OK. I don't listen to them anymore but was a fan for a decade or so. I didn't know he could fly those things so that with his music and fencing achievements makes for an impressive chap really.
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