Iron Maiden

[Grumma]

ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=80152

[damo0945]

"i've got two tickets to iron maiden baby..." not really, but i'll say at least 80% of people who read this'll know what i'm on about...

iron maiden are fairly cool... i should probably get some of their music...what's good?

[Evil Chris]

Get there best of (Edward the Great). Every song rocks!

[havoc_planet]

Get there best of (Edward the Great). Every song rocks!

Tickets will sell out (or atleast for Gen Admin) before public get a chance to buy tickets.
Stupid fan club!

[havoc_planet]

"i've got two tickets to iron maiden baby..." not really, but i'll say at least 80% of people who read this'll know what i'm on about...

iron maiden are fairly cool... i should probably get some of their music...what's good?

Come with me friday, Dont say maybe

[damo0945]

b-i-n-g-o!

[havoc_planet]

b-i-n-g-o!

I hate you, you go to hell, you go to hell and you die!!!!

I cant get that song out of my head

*holds ears and screams LALALALALA*

[damo0945]

my evil plan is coming together

http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/1660/burnxclt.gif

[Grumma]

Tickets will sell out (or atleast for Gen Admin) before public get a chance to buy tickets.
Stupid fan club!

Yeah I was worried about that as well.

And nah don't get Edward The Great, get Best of the Beast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_the_Beast)
and I'd go the standard not the limited edition

[Bec]

"i've got two tickets to iron maiden baby..." not really, but i'll say at least 80% of people who read this'll know what i'm on about...
It's a bit sad that when I saw this thread I thought of that before an actual Iron Maiden song. Come to think of it I'm not even too sure what they sound like.

[Grumma]

80s heavy metal

[Bec]

Eh, thought it was something like that.

[Grumma]

You can pretty much blame Iron Maiden for the creation of power metal lol

[Moose]

You can pretty much blame Iron Maiden for the creation of power metal lol

You can pretty much blame them for anything you like - their crimes against music and taste are many and varied.

[Grumma]

They're obviously doing something right if they're selling out stadiums after 30 years

[Moose]

They manage to be universally thought of as pretty cool.

I liked stuff liike Twilight Zone and Wrathchild, but all the galloping along to high pitched warbling is a bit...pantomime.

But hey what I'm interested in is what a metalhead like you is doing on a site like this?

Living End are most metal fans idea of a bit soft, or worse still dadrock, i.e that old gits like me like them!

Respect and doing a metal sign at ya

[Grumma]

i know heaps of metalheads who listen to TLE.

mind you most are guitarists that only listen for Chris :p

and the gallops are the best part of Maiden

[Grumma]

Speaking of Chris.

He obviously likes them because they used to cover Maiden songs in the early days of the band
Not sure they would've sounded any good but spose at least they tried!

[Neo]

AAhhhhhhhhaahaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!

holyfuckingshitmotherfuckerwangdangpoontangwaaaaah hhhhhh


I need to check my emails. I should have gotten something about this. Damn hotmail and their stupid windows live piece of crap that never works.

[billygal]

which maiden songs did they cover??? Can remember stray cats. violent femmes, adam ant, kim wilde but not any maiden. Are we talking before they became famous or after?????

[Grumma]

Before, and they covered Run To The Hills, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner and also Phantom Of The Opera.

Not sure they woulda done all of the last 2 considering one is 13 minutes and the other 7 or 8 :p

[billygal]

hmmm cant say I ever saw them do them but then was in alcohol induced state hehehehe.
Must have been around the POS days as dont think would have gone down with the rockabilly/psychobilly crowd they used to play to.
But more power to Chris Iron Maiden hehehe visualising him with the long head banger hair

[Grumma]

POS days?

I'd be looking even earlier than that

[billygal]

As i say most of early days are blur but we used to go to just about all their gigs up until about 3mths before single hit big as was organising wedding. But then not much of a maiden fan and cant imagine it ws played the same way (would be more rockabillised). So how old are you Grumma? Maybe we have seen each other in passing or are you a baby and just did the festival gigs??

[billygal]

was Trav there drummer then?? or was it still Joey cause hubby cant remember any maiden either and he likes em

[Grumma]

Im 18 and im only going by what Chris said in an interview

[Grumma]

Yeah, in Australian guitar... actually, I'll dig up the quote 'coz I can... kay, Chris said "we used to cover "Rime of the Ancient mariner", "Phantom of the opera" and "Run to the Hills" and stuff back in the early days...


Thar she blows!

[billygal]

think he may be pulling your chain. As I said I used to go to all their gigs and not once have I ever heard them do anything like that the longest song they used to play was Uncle Willy. Would have to either have been before I first saw them back in 91 or when the started doing festivals like meredith or BDO.

[Grumma]

Or maybe you just don't know TLE as well as you'd like to think?

[billygal]

I think I do know them better than you think I would!!!!!! As the only people that used to go to their gigs when we first met was their school friends and parents I would say that as far as their early days go Im an expert!!!!
Im not trying to pick a fight with you but I was there in those early days and Im telling you they didnt play it!!!

[Grumma]

And I'm telling you Chris was there and he said they did play them.

Also to further the argument - on the previous page of my quote there's a picture of him wearing a Maiden tee

[billygal]

how stupid of me of course its true you read it in a magazine!!!!!!!!!!
Bloody hell I know chris was there what do you think I am some kind of idiot what I am trying to get through to your pathetic little mind is that he never played it in the time I saw the band play live. And as far as him wearing a Iron Maiden T shirt BIG DEAL he wears loads of bands shirts doesnt mean he covers them. If you go back and read what I read I am not disputing that at some point they played Maiden simply the time frame you think it is.

[Grumma]

Yeah . . .

Pretty sure they did cover them at one stage

[billygal]

again not disputing that cant you read!!!!! Just saying it had to be after POS days as they didnt do it before then

[Grumma]

How do you know?

Spoken to Chris or Scott about it?

How do you know it wasn't before they ever had their own originals?

[billygal]

look let me explain this to you veeeeery slowly. I used to see them when they were a stray cat cover band before they had written any material of their own. This is why I am disputing the time frame you think they did them in BECAUSE I WAS BLOODY THERE!!!!! Hmmmm have you spoken to Chris or Scotty about it???? No you prefer to get your facts from a magazine. I spose you still think Elvis is alive and working at 7-11

[Grumma]

Yeah he works at the one down the road from my place
:)

[May]

look let me explain this to you veeeeery slowly.

Doesn't matter how you explain it. He's incapable of understanding.

[TheBait]

Would have to either have been before I first saw them back in 91 or when the started doing festivals like meredith or BDO.

back in 91 or when the started doing festivals like meredith or BDO

back in 91 or when the started doing festivals

back in 91 or when

back in 91

Yes boys, we have a real fucking fan here who thinks that they were around in '91. Carry on.

And I'm seeing them in Melbourne! :D

[Grumma]

Oh the ownage . . .

[Deadcat Kaye]

Maybe it was 'Back In '91" when they started to just do cover songs...
FIRST started the band...They went under 'Runaway Boys' Incase you mighta forgotten.

[Grumma]

Would have to either have been before I first saw them back in 91 or when the started doing festivals like meredith or BDO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_End#Beginnings

as i said: owned

[billygal]

I love the fact that you are still relying on stuff you read rather than actually living it.

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

Why are we talking about TLE? Maiden? woo...or something.

[Grumma]

I'm just proving a point that Maiden are much more awsome than TLE

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

me playing the recorder and the bongos at the same time is better than tle.

OH NO SHE DIDNT

[Grumma]

Can you do it well?

And I'd agree that it'd be more of a spectacle :p

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

I havn't tried it yet. I imagine I cannot do it very well at all.

[Ambs]

Is it bad that I want to sex Bruce Dickinson?
The man is a legend!

I probably would have had done him, had I been older earlier! :-P

[May]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_End#Beginnings

as i said: owned

Owned my arse.

Not that you were old enough to experiance it at the time, but it was possible to see 'them' - being Chris and Scott - back in '91.
A little band called the Runaway Boys.
You might've heard of them.
A few of us actually saw them.
And dont recall them playing any Maiden.

But like billygal said, nice to see you still giving us a second hand account of what happened, rather than drawing on your own recollections.

[Grumma]

It says there they formed in 92 as the Runaway Boys, and Chris and Scott knew each other before then anyway so it's possible they jammed out to them

[Neo]

Is it bad that I want to sex Bruce Dickinson?
The man is a legend!

I probably would have had done him, had I been older earlier! :-P

haha that's not bad at all. I used to have a major, major crush on him not that long ago... I think i still might! but not to the same degree :p

one of my 'top 10 things to do before I die' is to get a hug from that man :D

[Grumma]

You can start by getting tickets to the show!

:p

[Neo]

You can start by getting tickets to the show!

:p
I plan on doing so once I find out ticket prices :D hopefully it wont scare the crap out of me. Man... so want to go. I had a dream last night that I was at a maiden show and it was so weird, they were all young hahaha. I got my hug though but hopefully that one will be 'not' only in my dreams :p

[Grumma]

Yeah I'm expecting them to be up around $100.

Bout as much as the speeding fine I'm gonna get from today!
lol

[Neo]

yeah I was guessing at least $140. I might not even be able to get tix on the day they go on sale, cos I have a service to attend then straight after mums flying interstate. I have a feeling they may sell out fast. damn damn damn

[Grumma]

Yeah I've got work that day so I'll be headin straight to Ticketek to pick em up afterwoulds!

[Neo]

Ticket Prices*
Gold - $150.00
Silver - $99.00
*Transaction fees apply.

... I was close! hmm not sure if I want gold or silver. obviously silver would be seating and gold would be the floor, and as much as I want to be right up front Im prolly gonna be there on my own, cos I dont think anyone I know would be willing to come, so being a 5'4" female sandwiched in a crowd of boofheads wouldn't be much of a smart idea :p

[Grumma]

Haha I'm just gonna but 2 golds.

Sure someone will want to come with me :p

[havoc_planet]

Haha I'm just gonna but 2 golds.

Sure someone will want to come with me :p

yo Grum im up for it!
Im gonna try and get some golds aswell!

[Grumma]

Sounds like a plan!
lol

Hopefully they haven't sold out by the end of the day cos I've got to go after workies

[havoc_planet]

Then you have exactly 0% Chance as i am sure tickets will sell out in the Presale......And i dont think the estimated $1000 For Ebay Scalpers really tickles my fancy!

[Grumma]

meh we'll see. :p

Otherwise there's Cog (which I'm going to anyway) and RATM are playing a couple of gigs in Jan (including BDO)

[havoc_planet]

IS anyone going to attempt to get tix on Thursday mrning 9am!

[Grumma]

My mum will on my behalf :p

Hopefully she can have a crack at em over the net . ..
Otherwise I'm stuffed lol

[Neo]

IS anyone going to attempt to get tix on Thursday mrning 9am!
ME!! provided I get the money on Wed. Looks like im gonna be a loner though :o

[Neo]

:o I just saw the ad on tv. I almost had a heart attack! woohoo and I ripped out the full page advert from the paper too and turned it into a poster :D

[Neo]

Anyone get tickets?

[Neo]

ps. second sydney and melbourne shows announced!

[Grumma]

Yeah I got tix to the second Melbourne one :p

After the first one sold out in under 10 minutes or something stupid like that lol

[Neo]

my tickets were purchased approximately 17 minutes past 9 am. dont know if I got the first or second show... dad bought em for my on his morning tea break :p I wasnt allowed to go on my own so my dads gonna see if my brother wants to go otherwise he'll be coming :p he says he doesn't like maiden, although I bet he's lying, he likes sabbath and priest so im sure he'll like maiden! obviously hes knows em, so im sure he used to listen to them a fair bit back in the day, but my brother is a metal head so he might be coming. haha that'll be weird but, I havent seen him in a few years

[Grumma]

lol yeah anyone who likes Sabbath AND Priest is likely to at least be able to enjoy Maiden :p

[Neo]

hehe Im so excited, I just made my mum stand here and listen to maidens version of bohemian rhapsody. fuck their version is killer!! is so dramatic :)

[Neo]

Oh my god. it just hit me IM GOING TO SEE fucking IRON MAIDEN!!! *dies*

2 minutes to miiiiiiiiddnigggggghhhht..... lalala the 3 songs featured in the ad are Run To The Hills, The Trooper and 2 Minutes To Midnight :D yay so im listening to em now. I think tonight I'll chuck on a maiden dvd too.

[Grumma]

Bohemian Rhapsody?

:confused:

and I think my Beast Over Hammersmith cd > your dvd :p

[Neo]

Bohemian Rhapsody?

:confused:

and I think my Beast Over Hammersmith cd > your dvd :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZAZaz9AVVE
actually I lied. its bruce only :p But I heard somewhere that Adrian Smith was on guitar so...

[Grumma]

Well wasn't Smith in Dickinson's solo band?

[Grumma]

Interesting . ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC5tN_IiQ40

[TheBait]

Oh fuck. I was in Ballarat and forgot. I couldn't find a Ticketek up there. :O I'm fucked, aren't I?

[Johnny_Wah]

My friend, if you are prepared to spend $300+ on a ticket, then you have been blessed by scalpers.





If not, my condolences.

[Grumma]

They'd be well over $300 now wouldnt they?

*edit*

yeah there's one set that's worth a grand lol

[Grumma]

Just a month away :D

[Grumma]

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/photos/2006/10/iron-maiden_acc_03.jpg

[cdejonge]

Looks like a pretty cool set.

[Grumma]

Yeah I think this tour's gonna have a huge pyramid as part of the set

[Droogie]

I cant believe ill be seeing them in 8 days! and then another day after that:D the above pic made me horney:p :p

[Grumma]

Another LORD fan I see :)

Early on word was going around they were gonna support Maiden, but as it is I know Vanishing Point are in Melbourne, and LORD are supporting Nightwish

[Neo]

Yay the calendar entry on my phone has now come up on the main screen so it's officially soon!! :D

[Burner]

I'm suppose to be driving in exchange for a free ticket, but my car won't start. Next thursday can take forever till i get it fixed.

[Droogie]

Another LORD fan I see :)

Early on word was going around they were gonna support Maiden, but as it is I know Vanishing Point are in Melbourne, and LORD are supporting Nightwish
yeh Melbourne get Vanishing Point we, in Sydney get bloody Behind Crimson Eyes :mad: :mad: :mad:

MEH Maiden will wipe the floor anyways....ive seen the setlist from the 1st show in india...gonna be epic!

ohhh yeh LORD are the shit woulda been awsome to see them on the Acer Arena stage!

[Grumma]

Behind Crimson Eyes are gonna get booed as much as any band is likely to ever get booed :p

and I think they're only doing pre-90 stuff aren't they?

[drifta_21]

i know...i like em but i thought maiden or something woulda chose a different band...so we'll see what happens

n yep theyre playing songs from the first album to seventh son, ya lucky bastards lol im not going so yeah...thats why im kinda pissed lol

[Droogie]

yeh its all 80s except for 1 song i wont spoil it but im sure you could guess what it is!!!!

cant w8 3 days...I cant believe they played in perth....there in Australia:D :D

[Burner]

That one song is probably off Killers or something. Unless you included Killers as 80s.

[Grumma]

Killers was released in 1981 :p

[Burner]

I had a feeling it was. but for some reason i thought it was 79.

My mistake. :p

[Grumma]

and their self-titled was 1980 :)

[Grumma]

And in reply to Droogie's last post about the one post-80s song:

Fear of the dark,fear of the dark
I have constant fear that something's always near
Fear of the dark,fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there

[Burner]

I thought this was pretty funny. (http://www.spazoutny.com/ironmaiden.htm)

[drifta_21]

OMG OMG OMG I GOT A FREE TICKET THIS MORNING AND I'M GOING TONIGHT!!!

sorry guys...just yeah MAIDEN, MAIDEN MAIDEN!!!!

[Grumma]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden_Tour_History

this is a hell of a lot of world tours
imagine the frequent flier points!

[Burner]

If they didn't have thier own jet. *wink*

[Grumma]

ah yes, Ed Force One lol

But they only bought that just recently (for this specific tour infact)

[Grumma]

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/resources/classicrock/plane.jpg

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5875635,00.jpg

[Burner]

Fitting.

'Tis a sweet looking aerocar.


On Glenn Robbins' new show last there was a question about it.

[Grumma]

Dickinson looks like the biggest bum in that picture though :p

[Burner]

Dickinson always looks like a bum :p

[Grumma]

yeah true.
He's been wearing a beanie at all the Aus shows so far :p

[Burner]

thats coz he is old :p

[drifta_21]

I went to the show in Melbourne last night. The only word to describe it was EPIC.

The story so far.......last night my friend said that he needed a replacement to go with him because his sister was sick so she couldn't go. My parents said no and because I'm a goodie goodie, I did my homework to 'prove' that I was 'worthy' lol. Next morning I woke up and asked my parents when they were all happy lala (lol) and then they said yes. School was so shit but hey, I just couldn't wait for my second favourite band (E-cookie if you know who my favourite band is lol). Got home, dressed up, got dropped off and went into the arena. Got my Somewhere In Time T-shirt, sat down (we were near the back but we had a dead-straight view of the stage at least) and watched Lauren Harris. She was like Hillary Duff mixed with metal and the guitarist seemed like a wannabe Zakk Wylde but still pulled a good show. 2nd band was Vanishing Point and they reminded me of Dream Theatre so much, but still pulled up a good show. After that, Maiden went on (well duh).


**SPOILER PART**


WE waited for about 30 mins and it just got so intense. one of the songs that they were playing in the background sounded like some epic-thing and everyone assumed that they were gonna go on but we were wrong lol. There was people who threw Beach Balloons into the crowd and security took it away so everyone started calling them wankers (Aussie slang for Gays fyi) and we got it back lol. The room went dark and a video of Bruce flying Ed Force One went on and showed the band getting off etc. then the start of the Aces High video went on. Aces High went off with a BANG and it was just crazy. After that 2 Minutes to midnight went on, EPIC!!! Third song was Revelations, excellent song but personally I wished they played Alexander The Great or something instead then THE TROOPER!! The background changed form time to time (I think there were 5 designs in total) and the second I saw the artwork, I just went "Yep, it's the Trooper", F**KING EPIC!!! lol after that Bruce started promising that they'd come back sooner (they better lol) and that they're going to Sydney tomorrow and of course the Melbourninas started booing and then with Brisbane we all booed even more lol. Somewhere later on (not sure) Bruce starts taking a piss outta Canberra because they had to go there during the Number Of The Beast tour and asks why we have it "It's just like Ottawa, it's pointless." They played other songs (I forget setlists so quickly) which included Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (BEAUTIFUL they filled the stage with smoke, it looked so cool. Before they played it Bruce started talking about albatrosses and Sailors, he's really knowledgeable), Wasted Years (OMG OMG OMG I went crazy tro that song haha), Number Of The Beast (screaming out 66 was awesome lol) and Run To The Hills (my favorite for the night). Last song was Iron Maiden (of course) and the Somewhere In Time-era Eddie came out. Of course there was gonna be an encore so they played Moonchild, The Clairvoyant (awesome) and Hallowed Be Thy Name (oh yeah baby lol). But then again screw the ranting, end of story lol.

p.s. It's probably the 2nd best show I've seen (Living End at The Palace was my fave lol)
p.p.s. I got there for FREE!!! That's what makes it even more epic
p.p.p.s. I'm gonna post pics, I'm just putting them up on Myspace first

[drifta_21]

And here's the pics (i'm too lazy to resize so yeah......)

http://a774.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/16/l_b8fe61244e9fc09c3ed8d3c48515c8ed.jpg
http://a711.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/51/l_fe9c7c35cfa46314e08bdf658dc74f0e.jpg
http://a602.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/65/l_3497fdf1a45601106f720c1ef5928da9.jpg
http://a886.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/102/l_d2ceaf3a826fd75547624c2028ff82c5.jpg

[damo0945]

you just highlight them and press the picture button

[Grumma]

In the second picture I'm about in the bottom left hand corner somewhere.
And last night shit all over anything The Living End are ever likely to produce as part of a live show

[Moose]

In the second picture I'm about in the bottom left hand corner somewhere.
And last night shit all over anything The Living End are ever likely to produce as part of a live show

Yes I can see how a few mummies would improve TLE's shows.

[Grumma]

i didn't say anything about mummies.

Iron Maiden's show was an extravaganza, and it made pretty much any other band I've ever seen look second rate as far as the lengths they went to in order to put on a ballbusting show

[Burner]

i didn't say anything about mummies.

Iron Maiden's show was an extravaganza, and it made pretty much any other band I've ever seen look second rate as far as the lengths they went to in order to put on a ballbusting show

yer, Iron Maiden are good for that.

[Jake]

I second the fact that it was one of the best live shows I've ever been to. Muse and Bruce Springsteen are equally tied with Maiden for top place I think..

[Grumma]

Aren't you lucky my friend is a pussy then :p

[Jake]

You're a pussy? what now?

[Grumma]

my friend who couldnt go cos of work

[Moose]

i didn't say anything about mummies.


Yeh, but you can see them on the stage.

I'm poking moderate fun at your claim that they 'shit' all over anything TLE are ever likely to produce as part of a live show.

By that yardstick I reckon Shakira would 'shit' all over Maiden, if a spectacle is your major concern.

And she has nice hips and toons.

(Attaches bait, casts off and waits for the catch....)

[Moose]

i didn't say anything about mummies.


No. It was a case of Grandpa's on stage and Grumma's in the audience.

[Jake]

It wasn't the fact that it was a major spectacle, it's that it was done so well. For example, for one song (I forget which), they brought the light frame closer down, and had the smoke machine and it created a really eerie atmosphere - even in an arena. Then they had pyrotechnics for number of the beast - and it was subtle enough to be effective, plus it was in time.

Shakira would be crap live, 'cause people only know that one song about her breasts being small and not mountains or whatever. ;)

And Grumma, tell him thanks!

[Moose]

I'm not greatly serious. I'm sure it was good fun!

[Neo]

Holy fucking shit everyone!!! I went last night and it was incredible. I am so sad its over though. but I am going back to the arena tonight to get me a tshirt :p i didnt have enough cash last night for one.

I really cant believe I saw them! woah. nothing is ever going to top that experience :D:D:D

[Neo]

Behind Crimson Eyes are gonna get booed as much as any band is likely to ever get booed :p

you were so right! haha it was so funny :)

[Grumma]

It wasn't the fact that it was a major spectacle, it's that it was done so well. For example, for one song (I forget which), they brought the light frame closer down, and had the smoke machine and it created a really eerie atmosphere - even in an arena.

IN THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D

The firework-things were in time in that song as well, after the Stonehenge-esque part :p

No. It was a case of Grandpa's on stage and Grumma's in the audience.

If anything that just proves how good Iron Maiden are