I've been told that only two things in life are certain: Death & Taxes. I'm here to tell you there's a third: purchasing a ticket to an Iron Maiden concert is worth ever penny of the admission price. Every penny! Things have changed a little since I first saw the band on the World Slavery Tour in June of 1985. Most notably, is the size tour shirt I had to purchase: 1985 = L, 2008 = XL. Heh. Onward. The only [...]
Dearest Friends, I'm back! I hope you didn't forget about me during my absence. Sigh, it has been ages... So, where have I been? To New York and back, yes, but elsewhere as well. To my pasts (plural intended) and back. And to those of my parents. And back to my Mother's present. And to her future. It could have all gone so badly, but it didn't. In fact, it went quite well. It wasn't easy at times, but, yes, all went quite well. Largely because [...]
Guess who got tickets to see Maiden on June 11?! Scream for me, Rosemont!! I don't remember the last time I was this excited about seeing a show...honestly. There's a new "Best Of" album called Somewhere Back In Time that's coming out in May. I could pick it apart and piss and moan about how it totally misses the point, but I'm not going to. The story below explains the band's intentions with the release and their aim seems to be true. They could've completely ignored the Di'Anno material, but they included a few songs...I guess [...]
by crustcake gerf (NYC) Iron Fucking Maiden has announced more fucking tour dates (all the swearing means I'm excited). If you (like me) missed them on the first leg of their "Somewhere Back In Time" tour (complete with epic Powerslave stage setup), they'll be hitting a few more major markets in June (also complete with epic Powerslave stage setup). Iron Maiden - Somewhere Back In Time Tour 2008 - New Dates: 6/11 - Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena * 6/12 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH [...]
Axl and I saw Maiden last night at the Meadowlands. How the fuck do they still do it? Nothing short of incredible, full production, Eddie, and material from only the first 7 albums. I'm assuming most of you have seen Maiden at some point, so you know what you're in for and you know what we saw. And if you haven't... you're an idiot. Including this gem of an epic from Powerslave , from which the band played no less than 5 cuts, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." So spark up that bowl, take a big sip [...]
A l'occasion du premier anniversaire de "I PREDICT A RIOT", un jeu était organisé... Il est aujourd'hui terminé. Les réponses correctes aux questions étaient : Q1 : YAMAHA TYROS 2 Q2 : 2005 Q3 : JUNO... SAY YES. Après tirage au sort parmi toutes les bonnes réponses des membres du groupe Facebook "I Predict a Riot" , c'est LUCILE qui a gagné le Ipod Shuffle... Elle vit à [...]
Hot off the press : From onstage last night (Feb 19), amid the pandemonium in front of 14,000 screaming fans at a packed Los Angeles Forum, Iron Maiden announced the first leg of their eagerly anticipated North American summer tour. Tickets for Iron Maiden's current "SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME - WORLD TOUR 083 dates at the Los Angeles Forum and New Jersey's Izod Centre sold out months in advance, the band are delighted to announce they are coming back [...]
by beatmasterspeech (LA) Can you hear me out there crustcakers!?!? Every metalhead, thrash master, gore grinder, and ball-squeezing power metaler's heroes, IRON FUCKING MAIDEN , are coming to LA and fittingly so-- LA is one of few places where you can still see the thrash boots (read: Converse with fat tongues), denim vests with original patches, and big hair (in the Tom Araya sense). Bruce Dickinson and crew's 'Ed Force One' will be touching down at LAX shortly, bringing Maiden's " Somewhere Back in Time " tour to The Forum [...]
Maiden Mania has struck, folks...I'm not sure more cowbell is the cure. A friend recently e-mailed me the setlist from the band's Somewhere Back In Time Tour and since that point, I haven't listened to anything other than the first couple of Maiden albums. The band are revisiting the very same tour (the legendary Egyptian stage set from the 1984-85 Powerslave tour) that I saw them on the very first time (wipes tear from eye). How often does one get to revisit something they hold near and dear 20 years later?! Not very often. This [...]
Folk, indie rock, old school glam metal, euro rock, and sweet girly music... All under the cut! Bon Iver - Skinny Love This song resonnates a lot with me. I absolutely love the raw, honest, melodic, and harmonic wailing that's somewhat one of the trademarks of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon. In a lot of folk music, drama is downplayed. Folk artists tend to wring your heart with music and lyrics rather than vocal stylings, but Bon Iver uses all the aforementioned. One of my friends in [...]
"Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" by Iron Maiden which clocks in at 9:53 I didn't want to listen to Iron Maiden, but I had to. No choice. I listened because my most basic survival instincts told me to. See, there was this "kid" in homeroom with me in 7th grade - not quite a bully in the classical sense of the term (most likely because he wasn't smart enough to put together the facts of his own existence and realize that he was, indeed, made to be a bully), but [...]
There's no safer and better way to travel then by air, but the heavy metal icons of Iron Maiden go a step further, by commissioning their own custom plane. The plane has been primarily purchased as the band intends to do some serious traveling for their upcoming 2008 tour around the world. Piloting, the converted Astraeus Boeing 757 decorated with the Iron Maiden logo and the band's skeletal mascot Eddie, will be none other then the band's frontman Bruce Dickinson , who is also a licensed pilot as well as a talented musician. [...]
MP3: Iron Maiden - The Prisoner MP3: Iron Maiden - The Number Of the Beast NOTE: Today's FUCK YEAH! contribution comes from my life partner Matt Giordano, who sent this in forever ago (October 4th to be exact) but I never got to it. Literally, I never even read it [...]
I realize I should post these NEXT Monday, since it's closer to Halloween. Oh, well... (In beta-alpha-cal order) Iron Maiden ~ Dance Of Death Fucked Up ~ Dance Of Death John Fahey ~ Dance Of Death Andrew Bird ~ Dance Of Death Bonus Fahey cover: Calexico ~ Dance Of Death Which song do you dig best? Or did I leave out your favorite "Dance Of Death" song? Leave a [...]
Zwan - Number of The Beast.mp3 Although an official soundtrack for the movie Spun was never released, you can easily get your hands on a full soundtrack from the internets. The Billy Corgan origional soundtrack is at its best during the full-song credits intro. In this scene Jason Schwartzman drives his brown Volvo while Zwan's cover of Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast plays. Spun is an all around impressive film that I have watched too many times. history of zwan - spun imdb
Invisible Oranges turns 1 today. It's come a (somewhat) long way since its start as a dumping ground for reviews that didn't fit into publications for which I write. The first entry wasn't that bad, actually. I'm pleased that the featured band, The Sceptic, now has a human drummer and a killing new demo track up on its MySpace . What started as an afterthought has turned into my favorite place, by far, to write on metal. While it's nice to see my "real" work online or in print, here I'm [...]
Time to listen to tracks with hours of the day. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Midnight from By The Way Fairweather - South Street, 1am from If They Move... Kill Them Iron Maiden - 2AM from The X-Factor Matchbox 20 - 3am from Yourself or Someone Like You Our Lady Peace - 4am from Clumsy [...]
Last week homercat stated that he was back from his mini vacation and I had plans to write a couple posts and obviously that idea got derailed. Soon after I had written my review of the Nazareth concert, I received word that a friend of ours had been found dead along the shoreline of the island. It was not immediately evident what had happened, although the police had ruled out foul play. Al was not a close friend, but a good friend nevertheless. So it came as a real shock to us, especially since the last time [...]
Evidently, the new American ambassador to Iraq is a heavy metal fan . One of his prized possessions is a poster of Iron Maiden's "2 Minutes to Midnight" single (EMI, 1984). Pretty hip for a diplomat, though of course the song and cover has geopolitical significance, which a Maiden fansite explains in detail here . Mission from 'Arry The single had two interesting B-sides, both of which appeared on the 1995 reissue of Powerslave . "Rainbow's Gold" was a cover of obscure prog rock band Beckett, with an [...]
Are we on part 4?? Well, then.. 4 of ... 12? maybe. 10? How's it going so far??? Like? Also feel free to check out some of our earlier ABC's HERE and HERE and HERE . H . The Hold Steady - Modesto is not that Sweet (Live) I . Iron and Wine - Her Tea Leaves (Live) Iron Maiden - The Trooper [...]
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