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I caught the Permanent Vacation tour twice and the Pump tour once; haven't seen them live since. But those shows were fantastic, and I've watched a lot of concert footage from the 90s / 2000s. Once they sobered up, they turned into a monster live act -- tight, polished, but still raw & dirty...

There's a documentary available on Netflix now called "We Are Twisted Fucking Sister," which is more interesting than I thought it would be. They were never my favorite metal band: I think I wrote them off as "kid stuff" due to their hit videos based on young-adolescent rebellion and their...

In a recent interview, all three said they use heavies. But the Live After Death booklet said Dave used mediums back then.

"Flight of Icarus," on a radio ad for their upcoming local stop on the Piece of Mind tour. I think I'd seen the album in record-store bins; I got it not long afterward. I was 13.

Started learning this song on guitar this week, and it felt familiar - and then I realized that the chorus uses almost the same chord progression as the verse to "Spirit of Radio" by Rush, minus the G#maddE chord, with the same arpeggiation of the chords. Wonder if that was a conscious nick -...

Born in 1970, so grew up in the 70s and 80s, college late 80s/early 90s. Evolution of my musical tastes: 1974: obsessed with Cat Stevens (Teaser & the Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman albums); also liked Nilsson Schmilsson, which Dad had recorded on the same open reel tape as those other two...

Maiden California (NorCal Iron Maiden tribute) next gigs: Dec. 3, 2016 (Starlite Room, Sacramento); Jan. 14, 2017 (Whiskey Barrel, Stockton)

Update: I did get the intro / outro riff to Number of the Beast into solid shape, all downstrokes, without my forearm seizing up, for my first gig with the Maiden tribute band. And at the last rehearsal, I started off the song at what felt like the tempo from the studio version, played it...

I hear you - I bought the 2013 self-titled album when it came out, but it rarely gets a spin and I can't even remember which tracks I like on it. Condition Human is a much better return to form, with a few standout memorable tracks: "Hellfire" is my overall favorite, but I doubt it will find...

A couple of the songs from the Somewhere In Time / Seventh Son era where they didn't really bother to write a chorus, just had Bruce sing the title of the song over and over. (e.g. "Caught Somewhere In Time," "The Evil That Men Do")

I'm still tweaking all my tones, and have changed them a bit since my last post. Mostly phase (longer - like 1.1 Hz) and delay (about 30% feedback). Dave uses a Phase 90 with speed knob set on about 11 o'clock - I have to do a side-by-side comparison with the Script Phase effect on the POD so...

"Now I am cold, but a goat lives in my veins." I'm gonna try and implant this one to our singer and see if I can get him to mess up and sing it that way one day.

Good list. One suggested addition: Humble Pie's self-titled album. It wasn't all proto-metal -- there was some country, blues-rock, and soul type songs on it too -- but there were some real hard rockers on it too. Great guitar work from a young Peter Frampton, and Steve Marriott's vocals...

April Wine had some great songs. That "Harder ... Faster" album (technically it came out in 1979, but close enough) was one of their best; it also had a cover of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man" and my favorite of theirs, "I Like To Rock" -- which wasn't the most clever lyrically, but...

I'm referring to "prog" in the sense of 70s prog-rock - e.g. Yes, Genesis, Nektar, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Crack The Sky, etc. The definition of "prog" has expanded a bit with metal bands like Dream Theater, Savatage, Tool, and others pushing the musical virtuosity and heaviness towards the...

I like dogs and cats both. But I've never met a cat who was an Iron Maiden fan.

Yeah, the RS1000 came out around '81, so he likely would have had it from sometime pre-Piece of Mind (when they seemed to have some kind of relationship with Ibanez) through at least Slavery Tour years, however much he did or didn't use it.

I "cheated" on that riff at first by switching to alternate picking when my arm cramped up, but then it got tricky to mix the single-string and 2-string parts and it didn't sound right. I could hide a bit behind "Adrian" once he came in, but it's better to just do the "right" way (I mean the...

The two songs I've had the most trouble learning so far: "Number of the Beast" -- just the intro & outro riff. I've got it down now, but when I first started the project of learning a bunch of Maiden songs, my picking forearm would cramp up about halfway through the intro ("Just what I saw...

I'm gonna cheat and make 2 lists - one for rhythm players and one for lead players. Fave rhythm guitarists: Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick) Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) Ronnie Wood (Faces, Rod Stewart, Rolling Stones) Pete Townshend Jimmy Page (hon. mention: Jimi Hendrix) Fave lead guitarists...