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Post by azbatx on Mar 28, 2010 10:07:57 GMT -5
This was my third time seeing them. The first time was at The Boathouse on the Cryptic Writings tour. Then I seen them a few years later at the Norva. And now again at The Norva. Awesome everytime!
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Post by bigw1966 on Mar 29, 2010 12:08:53 GMT -5
GW. considering that you play Bass, I am surprised at your lack of Maiden love. Their bassist is one of the best there is in Metal. They have many great songs and in concert they were pure showmen. I lived in Toledo Ohio for years and I used to date a girl who along with her sister were models through a small agency. Anyway they got a call to appear in a photoshoot for a local rock Magazine with the band Iron Maiden. Well after the shoot, I got to go with them out to dinner with the band who were all really cool guys. The next day we hung out with them and played soccer at a local park before getting to go backstage at the Concert to watch the show. there is nothing cooler than watching an enormous show from the side of the stage only to look up when you notice that the 8 foot tall Eddie Mascot (guy in costume) is leaning on your shoulder for support. Fucking Awesome.
I still have the backstage pass and was showing it to a friend the other day.
I am a huge Priest fan also. The two were touring together last year. Castle Rock as you called it was the realm of Black Sabbath and DIO. Both monsters of Rock. I still listen to them. Along with all of the other music on my ZUNE
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Post by G on Mar 29, 2010 20:28:03 GMT -5
I don't know how to identify it. Doesn't sound like traditional bang your head headbanging. Always sounded like it had sorta a flavor to it and it just never grabbed me the right way.
I think the bassist name is Steve Harris and he can play, I'll give him that, but it always has that sorta galluping stallion sound, which he kicked butt in. I don't know. I guess Iron Maiden never really did too much for me. It's a personal problem I guess. Like I said, its great to hear a jam from a compilation disc or when they come on the radio, but to listen to song after song....can't get into it. Kinda bores me after awhile. They always have.
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Post by azbatx on Mar 30, 2010 17:36:20 GMT -5
Iron Maiden is a great band. I would love to see them live. Judas Priest is good as well. I got to see Dio a few years back with the Scorpions and Deep Purple. That was a good show.
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Post by G on Mar 31, 2010 13:03:05 GMT -5
Iron Maiden is a great band. I would love to see them live. Judas Priest is good as well. That's the thing about music, everyone has different taste. And no one is really wrong about the way they feel. I could sit here and spout off about a bunch of bands or acts I love and I'll get people chiming in saying "I can't stand them". I don't hate Iron Maiden. In fact, I would go as far as say I like their music. I just can't take them for long periods of times. One song after another. That's when they get on my nerves. But 1 or 2 songs, cool. I consider myself a fan of Judas Priest, but I saw them back in the 1980s and thought it was one of the worst shows I ever saw. It had the worst sound I ever heard. I couldn't understand one thing he said the whole night, even when they weren't playing. It sounded like one long distortion with a beat. I was disappointed. It didn't stop me from liking them, but it stopped me from wanting to see them again. Maybe it was just a bad sound night. I don't know. All I know is the one time I seen them, it was the worst sound ever.
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Post by defiant1 on Mar 31, 2010 17:41:16 GMT -5
Iron Maiden is a great band. I would love to see them live. Judas Priest is good as well. That's the thing about music, everyone has different taste. And no one is really wrong about the way they feel. I could sit here and spout off about a bunch of bands or acts I love and I'll get people chiming in saying "I can't stand them". I don't hate Iron Maiden. In fact, I would go as far as say I like their music. I just can't take them for long periods of times. One song after another. That's when they get on my nerves. But 1 or 2 songs, cool. I consider myself a fan of Judas Priest, but I saw them back in the 1980s and thought it was one of the worst shows I ever saw. It had the worst sound I ever heard. I couldn't understand one thing he said the whole night, even when they weren't playing. It sounded like one long distortion with a beat. I was disappointed. It didn't stop me from liking them, but it stopped me from wanting to see them again. Maybe it was just a bad sound night. I don't know. All I know is the one time I seen them, it was the worst sound ever. Roadies told me RH (Judas Priest) was a pedophile. Dancers told me KM (Scorpions) was gay. Not as a joke, but seriously. I've never met anyone in either band, but I believe the sources and the stories they told. I did take the Scorpions' road manager to the back stage entrance of a Motley Crue concert so he could hang out while in town. He didn't need a pass. They knew him. This was maybe a year after their live album came out. The Scorpions's road crew paid the way for a couple of girls I hung out with to go to Germany and watch the Scorpions do a live concert that was filmed. They got to sit through rehearsals. Music used to mean a hell of a lot more to me then than it does now. I don't hate Iron Maiden. I just think most of their stuff is pretentious with their songs sometimes being based on passages of books they'd read and things like that. I did see Iron Maiden live. I like the song Flight of Icarus, but I think the theme of the song is stupid. Seeing Iron Maiden was forgettable. I think I saw Judas Priest, but I don't remember anymore. I may be remembering some video footage I saw. When you really get down to it, some odd things make me like a band live. First and foremost is their ability to clearly and cleanly reproduce the music from their albums. Bonus points go to bands that exceed the album quality when they play live. Queen is such a band and I wasn't a huge Queen fan. Queen was so good live that my jaw dropped in awe when they played Radio Gaga at Live Aid. They took a song that didn't impress me at all and not only made it good live, but they had a stadium full of people into it as well. AC/DC (except Brian Johnson) was also a band that was incredible to see live. I'll never forget Angus playing the notes at the beginning of Guns For Hire and instantly appearing on the opposite side of the stage on every note. All you saw was him focused in a spotlight yet in the time you could blink he was magically in a different spot on the stage. He either sprinted to accomplish that or was swinging from spot to spot. I guess they could've had someone dressed up like him. Either way it charged the whole audience. The loudest concert i ever saw live was Cheap Trick with Axe opening. I was a huge Axe fan. I knew the show was pretty damn loud when my ear drum was making a noise like a flag flapping in the wind during a guitar solo. That was when Axe played. When Cheap Trick came out it was a just a wall of sound and my ears hurt afterwards. I saw Metallica from the snake pit which was fun. There were monitors in the snake pit so you could see what the audience was seeing if you felt like you were missing something. Otherwise, the band was on a circular stage that rotated around you. If you wanted to see the drummer, he'd rotate to where you were standing eventually and he was maybe only 10 feet in front of you at most. I met Blackie Lawless and Chris Holmes from WASP at a record store promotion. I got to hear Blackie Lawless himself tell how he first saw & contacted Chris Holmes through the beaver hunt feature in Hustler magazine. My life is very different now. I'm not really used to working days in a corporate environment. My coworkers can tell. I entertain them daily. I've seen the rock and roll life. Hung out with their roadies. Dated some of rock star's girlfriends. It was never boring. Going from that to sitting in an hour meeting talking about how to conduct a meeting... it's a very different world. df1
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