Recent content by Hawkmoon

More gloating ! Lucky you !

Could you come over to England and work on getting my wife into Maiden now please?

Like to add a comment about this interpretation if I may? To me this can be interpreted in a few different ways. A crucible is something used to create - so I guess the crucible of pain is referring to birth and the pain associated with that. Forging the blanks of sin is interesting - here...

is it true that Ticketmaster pre-sale tickets (made available to IM fan club members) are often worse tickets than those which become available to the general public later? I heard on the official IM forums that some FC members feel they have been given crap tickets in pre-sales.

Interesting comments ! I'm puzzled that some find the production/mixing of LAD better than F666 - I have a decent hi fi and F666 blows away LAD for clarity. Only very occasionally do the three guitars produce a wall of sound in which its hard to distinguish them. Overall the sound is excellent.

Hey man, don't gloat !

Yes, good idea, but I'm happy to meet up with girls too ;-)

Well-put - I like the way that the band on Flight 666 sound fresh and as if they are enjoying playing these classics. They don't sound like a parody of themselves in their prime, but rather aband that remains fresh and incredibly tight. I also think that, while they were very good musicians at...

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Well, I think I may be in a minority but in some ways I prefer Flight 666 (the CD). While the performances on LAD are fierce, and maybe Bruce's vocals a little better (maybe, I'm not 100% convinced though), I actually think the Flight 666 versions of the classics are in some ways better -...

hmm, I would love to take my sons to a Maiden gig, but at 1 and 3 years old respectively, they are probably just a little too young...

Just wondering, on a related topic - if your other half isn't into Maiden, who do you bring along (if anyone) to Maiden gigs? I've always found it a bit disheartening to attend concerts on my own before, but might just do this if I can't get wifey into Maiden

I have to say I just LOVe the current Maiden live versions of old Maiden classics like Hallowed. Is it me or do some of Nicko's recent (and by that I mean, say, 2005+) interpretations of the drum parts for some classic Maiden tracks sound phenomenal, and often better than the original ? I find...

Well, are we going for technique, compositional skill on guitar, tone, etc? All of them? It's hard. In no particular order:- Adrian Smith Dave Murray Hendrix Dave Gilmour Jimmy Page Eddie van Halen Alex Lifeson and here's a surprise one from an old prog fan: Steve Rothery - he may not be...

That's great ! Nice one! Maybe I have to start working on my 3 year old now - it'll make a change hearing him sing Wrathchild instead of Twinkle Twinkle little star  :edmetal: