Iron Maiden (Official Thread)

[taha]

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I'm still partial to Rock n Rio......I can listen and watch !

 

[LG]

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True enough Taha, but sometimes I just want to sit back close my eyes and just go wherever the music takes me. Other times like you I enjoy the visual spectacle as well.

 

[METALPRIEST]

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[taha]

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stupid question , but does their original drummer have anything to do w/ the band now, does anyone know how he is doing ?

 

[METALPRIEST]

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stupid question , but does their original drummer have anything to do w/ the band now, does anyone know how he is doing ?

Clive Burr...original drummer. Sad to say he has been diagnosed with MS. Iron Maiden has done many charity concerts for Clive Burr's MS fund and he is in a wheelchair.

This was not the reason he left in 82 however. That was family issues.

 

[snakes&ladders]

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Nice to see some fans of this band. I am not a "Metalhead", per se, but I do have an extensive collection of old and new bands. But not the Black/Death/Doom/Porn/Grindcore/Crustcore/Metalcore/Folkcore varieties as a rule. Only a couple of bands from that whole smorgasbord of sub-genres in the library.

Here's the First Maiden album, I don't listen to it very often, but I had to have it I enjoy following a band from the very beginning if I really like them. Sometimes as they go forward I will skip an album or two depending if they are just lacking the spark or below the expectations I have.

Prowler.



Released in 1980, and here's Eddie.

I still remember the trhill I had when I first saw this album. I was always hanging around the record shop of my friend who used to get all the new albums directly from his brother in NYC. One day he got a huge parcel full of records from the USA out of his car and the first one on top was "Iron Maiden". I instantly knew that the record would send a chill up my spine......and it did!!!!!

 

[taha]

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I still look at that LP and wonder why Eddies holding a welding torch (lightpole)....

 

[LG]

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I never even noticed until you mentioned it Taha, but it does look like a welding torch...

 

[T_Dude]

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One of the first bands I was totally "religious" about. Always remember going and buying their back catalogue whenever i had enough pocket money!

The number of the beast album is an absolute monster. Most of the rest of their 80's output is too to be fair.

 

[LG]

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^^I tend to agree with you T Dude about their 80's output, and many of my contemporaries are in the same boat as you, they just loved Maiden to death.