Nicko's Rock & Roll Ribs

^ My thoughts exactly. Seriously, who are we to be "disappointed" by their lifestyle choices?
 
In the 'Run To The Hills' book there is a passage about getting wasted on the road, and nick does mention beer but also the odd bit of 'disco dust'...they absolutely would have partaken in cocaine use in the 1980s, but I would be surprised if Steve ever touched it, or possibly Bruce.
 
Who cares? The band's private life is none of our concern, unless it makes it into the music.

Are you really not interested though? Do you really not care? I've invested thousands of dollars, hours and a lot of love into this band. I am curious about the guys that they are. They publicise aspects of their private life (the football, tennis and golf, all of Bruce's activities, etc) on DVDs that have "Iron Maiden" slapped on them for the fans to hand over their cash. It hasn't been just about the music since the first magazine interview, the first biography, the first video/dvd extra.
 
I don't watch DVD extras. I read interviews when they mention the music. I really don't care.
 
In the 'Run To The Hills' book there is a passage about getting wasted on the road, and nick does mention beer but also the odd bit of 'disco dust'...they absolutely would have partaken in cocaine use in the 1980s, but I would be surprised if Steve ever touched it, or possibly Bruce.

Definitely.

Of course I can't find the source or remember where or when I heard it but I'm pretty sure I read that Steve had to tell Nicko to "calm down" with the partying in the 80s...
 
I don't watch DVD extras. I read interviews when they mention the music. I really don't care.

Did you watch Flight 666? All the stuff about the plane, the footage of the band sightseeing, the hotel life, the tedium of signing thousands of photos, etc - did you find none of that interesting at all?
 
Did you watch Flight 666? All the stuff about the plane, the footage of the band sightseeing, the hotel life, the tedium of signing thousands of photos, etc - did you find none of that interesting at all?
I did watch it. I found it kinda boring most of the time, but Flight 666 is also something that portrays the band in a very positive light. It's not really...a view into their actual life. It's more what they want you to see.
 
I did watch it. I found it kinda boring most of the time, but Flight 666 is also something that portrays the band in a very positive light. It's not really...a view into their actual life. It's more what they want you to see.

That's kind of my point. They use certain positive aspects of their private lives, under the Iron Maiden badge, to sell an image of themselves as down-to-earth, decent blokes. This stuff forms part of an Iron Maiden package, alongside the music, the artwork, the stage sets, and it is sold to us. So, they have, to an extent, commercialised an image of themselves, including a view of their private lives.

I have no interest in poking into the minutae of the band's lives, but I am interested in the six guys that I have invested so much money and emotion in. The photos of Nicko above run contrary to the image the band sells us. The photos make me a little disappointed.
 
I wouldn't really consider Flight 666 a look into their private lives. That to me would be something like Ozzy Osbourne's reality show where you get to see them with their families and what they do in their spare time. And that's definitely not something I'm interested in.
 
Maybe not their home lives as such, but I suppose something like Flight 666 is a step towards showing the band offstage or in their downtime. Once you've painted an image of the band out of what would normally be the public eye, there'll always be someone who asks: "Okay....but is that really what they're like offstage?"
 
Granted it's been years since I've seen Flight 666 but I don't remember anything private about it at all. It's a tour documentary. You see the band going to and from places, gearing up for the shows, sorting things out etc..but they're always out in the public and in their Maiden persona if you will....

If you want to see a documentary that manages to capture the private life of a band I'd recommend Some Kind of Monster by Metallica. They had a camera crew following them around for three straight years recording them in the studio and everywhere they went to the point that the band even forgot they were there. The fact that you get to see them in the studio, working/living together is very different from seeing a band being out in the public sphere and around fans etc..
 
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If you want to see a documentary that manages to capture the private life of a band I'd recommend Some Kind of Monster by Metallica. They had a camera crew following them around for three straight years recording them in the studio and everywhere they went to the point that the band even forgot they were there. The fact that you get to see them in the studio, working/living together is very different from seeing a band being out in the public sphere and around fans etc..

And that film is all reasoning needed for me to explain why I have zero interest in a documentary on a band's private life.
 
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Good point!

The closest Maiden ever came to doing a Some Kind of Monster and an actual sneak peak into the band's private life would be Mission From 'Arry :D
 
For me, what a band does in their private life doesn't really affect the music at all, so seeing bands at home (unless they're doing something musical) just bores me.

I do like reading/hearing about what artists' lives were like before becoming famous though. It's interesting and very inspiring to see what made them pursue music.
 
And as we all know, there's a difference in making a mistake and making a human error.

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Nicko saying that guy was out of order and then Steve turns it around and calls Nicko out of order two times. Brilliant.

But for sure that guy didn't deserve that bollocking..
 
For all we know, that chick on the pic could be a lighting rigger telling Nicko to watch out for the lighting truss coming down on him.
 
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