Recent content by AncientMariner_Essex

Im lucky enough to have seen the band over 30+ times and for me, just off the top of my head these are my highlights: * Brixton academy 1995 First time seeing the band and I was a huge My Dying Bride fan too. Great set list and thought Blaze sounded great although pretty boring to watch on...

That was my understanding too, that they couldn’t play the ed hunter tour for tax reasons. It was around this time they did that thing about selling some of the royalties to their albums on the bond market and raising a massive amount of capital so the band members got a nice bumper pay day and...

Shazam! Thread resurrected :) Thinking back to best of the beast I really wish I’d bought the 4lp vinyl set. It goes for ridiculous prices now but as afar as I’m aware it’s the only official release the band has ever done which includes the sound house tapes recordings (apart from the actual...

We’ll see :p I wouldn’t call myself the most well researched and knowledgeable Maiden fan but having been a fan for 35 years and after reading most books released about the band as well as many magazine articles and watching various documentaries I very much doubt this documentary will tell me...

I can say from my past experience on the official forum that there are definitely fans that would fly anywhere in the world just to find out what Maiden is up to. There are some scary fans out there that take fandom too far. Following the band on tour to watch gigs, buying and collecting merch...

I’d rather be a boring normal fan than a total Loser obsessed with the band to the point it takes over my life.

That makes me sad to think that some fans just have so little going on in their own lives that they have to be totally obsessed by the band to follow every little bit of news to the point they find out where they are recording and fly there just to pester them. Why can’t fans just leave Maiden...

I remember when TFF was released I was disappointed. Not because I thought it was bad per se just that after AMOLAD it just came across as a bit meh for me, a bit average. For a long while I hardly ever listened to it save for the odd time I’m having a run through of the whole catalogue. Then a...

Of course it’s totally different. Every gig they do on the road they get paid for. They don’t get paid anything to sit in a recording studio for a few months writing and recording, in fact it costs them to do this.

I’m not American no. Whilst I understand it’s a big market the world does not start and end with the USA. My point stands, does Maiden at this point in their career, over 50 years since they started, need any more fans than they already have? Sure a few more fans won’t hurt but they’ve just...

I have been saying for a while that I don’t think they’ll be any new album and that the reason they’ll be taking 2027 off is to sit back and plan retirement. They’ll release some live stuff I’m sure from recent tours but as for a new album and a commitment to tour it I’ve always been a bit...

I honestly would have a ton of respect for the band if they snubbed it and never turned up to accept the award if they get it. Everyone knows the RRHOF is a joke the way they pick and choose who they want in there and no one who’s a proper music fan gives a toss about it. I mean, Maiden have...

Don’t think that’s how it works. I think the RRHOF just decides which members they feel were important to the development of the band. It’s all goal bollocks to me as if a band is inducted then every person who was in an officially released album should be in as they all contributed in some...

You’re right, I think Dennis Stratton is the only one who gives a shit about this. Funny thing is, nothing against Dennis but it could have been anyone else on the debut album and it would still sound exactly the same. He was just a bloke in the right place at the right time. No writing credits...

I’ve heard that Stepjan Juras (Maidencroatia) is supposedly in this documentary. Cannot stand that bloke. Apart from his nefarious background and history he always comes across as a total leach doing anything he can to get some attention in the Maiden community just to earn money. I’m...