Iron Maiden anyone?

[lepage]

A guy I work with gave me a cd yesterday with a mix of Iron Maiden (burned mixture) and it took me back.

I saw Iron Maiden (somewhere in Time tour) in Montreal Canada back in the 80's. It was the first big production concert I had ever been to and I was simply blown away especially when the 10-12' Eddie came stomping around on the stage and the music was amazing especially when they did the Rhyme of the Ancient mariner which is one of the songs on the disk my buddy gave me.

Anyway, I still love Maiden and heard they were touring again!?

Anyone else into Maiden?

[Overkill]

I love Iron Maiden. Great band!

[Bo8a_Fett]

LOOOOVE the Maiden

[JPkempo]

[spaceace35]

Iron Maiden On Tour 2008
Event Name Date Location Venue

USA June 12, 2008 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
USA June 14, 2008 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
USA June 15, 2008 New York, NY Madison Square Gardens
USA June 17, 2008 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Centre
USA June 18, 2008 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
USA June 20, 2008 Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center for The Peforming Arts
CANADA June 21, 2008 Montreal Parc Jean-Drapeau
ITALY June 27, 2008 Gods of Metal Festival Bologna
BELGIUM June 29, 2008 Dessel Graspop Festival
FRANCE July 1, 2008 Paris Ominisport De Bercy Arena
FRANCE July 2, 2008 Paris Ominisport De Bercy Arena
ENGLAND July 5, 2008 London Twickenham Stadium
PORTUGAL July 9, 2008 Lisbon Super Bock Super Rock Festival
SPAIN July 11, 2008 Merida Via de la Plata Festival
SPAIN July 12, 2008 Zaragoza Metalway Festival
SWEDEN July 16, 2008 Stockholm Stockholm Stadium
FINLAND July 18, 2008 Helsinki Helsinki Olympic Stadium
FINLAND July 19, 2008 Tampere Ratina Stadium
NORWAY July 22, 2008 Trondheim Lerkendalstadium
NORWAY July 24, 2008 Oslo Valle Hovin
SWEDEN July 26, 2008 Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium
DENMARK July 27, 2008 Horsens Horsens Gods Bane Pladsen
GERMANY July 31, 2008 Wacken Open Air Wacken Festival
GREECE August 2, 2008 Athens Terra Vibe Park
ROMANIA August 4, 2008 Bucharest Cotroceni Football Stadium
POLAND August 7, 2008 Warsaw Gwardia Stadium
CZECH REPUBLIC August 8, 2008 Prague Slavia Football Stadium
CROATIA August 10, 2008 Split Split City Stadium
HUNGARY August 12, 2008 Budapest Sziget festival
SWITZERLAND August 14, 2008 Basel St Jakobshalle
HOLLAND August 16, 2008 Assen Assen TT Circuit
RUSSIA August 19, 2008 Moscow Olympic Stadium

[megoscott]

When I was in Jr. high I used to make $5 each selling pen and ink drawings to kids at my school. The girls all wanted E.T. the boys all wanted Eddie...I never really took to them, though.

[Vortigern99]

I used to love these guys! I saw 'em in '86 on the Powerslave tour. Almost every day in '85-'86 I would come home from school and listen to Die with Your Boots On, Flight of Icarus (both on Piece of Mind) and 2 Minutes to Midnight (on Powerslave). Best pre-Metallica metal band, IMO. Bruce Dickinson has THE voice.

[saildog]

One of my favorites!!!

Iron Maiden (and my own curiosity) pushed me to figure out the significance of literary or historical references within their lyrics. At the time, Metal was consistently getting a bad-rap from media/authority figures and frequently labeled E-ville. Whatever. All I know is, my appreciation of Iron Maiden was definitely not wasted time.

[toys2cool]

I liked Iron Maiden,they always had the coolest record covers

[4NDR01D]

Holy Smoke Holy Smoke, plenty bad preachers for
The Devil to stoke
Feed'em in feet first this is no joke
This is thirsty work making Holy Smoke
making Holy Smoke

[enaud]

Iron Maiden is my favorite HM band of that era & have never stopped listening to them.My 1st concert was Maiden on the Piece of mind tour in 83(& I still have the shirt & tour program)

[Cosmicman]

Iron Maiden is one of the best metal bands of their time. Anything before Bruce Dickinson or during the time he exited the band sucked.
Since he has returned to Iron Maiden as the front man again, the band has returned to the reigns of their greatness.
My favorite Iron Maiden album is probably Piece of Mind or Number of the Beast. Anything from that era is pretty good also.

[Bo8a_Fett]

I remember a few years ago when they rereleased The Trooper here as a single (to celebrate Bruce back in the band)...they were on top of the pops and had hoards of maiden fans flood the studio.....every one else got soundly boo'd except one other band who had the presence of mind to go on stage wearing Maiden t-shirts.....lmao...all these "supposed" hard rappers shi**ing themselves on stage being boo'd by rabid HM fans....a memory that lives on

[enaud]

Iron Maiden is one of the best metal bands of their time. Anything before Bruce Dickinson or during the time he exited the band sucked.
Since he has returned to Iron Maiden as the front man again, the band has returned to the reigns of their greatness.

I totally agree with you 100%.Everything they did with Bruce on vocals up until his departure was nothing less than excelence.I despise D'anno(or however you spell that turd's name)There are good songs on the 1st 2 albums though & I love how some have been re-recorded with the dominant lineup.For years,with all of the reissued & rereleased albums I thought it would be cool if they went back & re-recorded them.

[ctc]

>Iron Maiden (and my own curiosity) pushed me to figure out the significance of literary or historical references

They've written songs about an astounding variety of topics. Like:

-WW2 Spitfire pilots (Aces High, one of the best songs EVER!)
-Nostradamus (Die With Your Boots On)
-Minamoto Musashi (Sunlight and Steel)
-The Doomsday Clock (2 Minutes to Midnight)

Don C.