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Snake oil is a term that references 19th century Americans who sold medicine claiming they were cure-alls when in reality they did nothing.  Someone who sells something claiming it does something that they know it actually doesn't is said to be selling snake oil.  It was one of those things...

Bruce said that El Dorado was written about greed and the current financial situation across the globe and used the story of El Dorado "The Lost City Of Gold" as a metaphor. Bruce in an interview in Kerrang,

I feel this way too.  I think, it's semantics to a point.  The story and letters that were part of the promotional website spoke of a guy who at one point studied the bible and become interested in the paranormal, and the occult.  So obviously you could say the bible is a religious item and the...

On the making of AMOLAD DVD Bruce says Out Of The Shadows is about birth and how your whole life is before you at that point, or something along those lines I haven't watched it in a few years.  Also TROBB never struck me as overtly religious song.  And the story that Maiden posted on the...

lol.  Sorry I meant to respond to the other part as well, but my baby has my attention divided.   I'm probably a phony Jazz fan.  When I was at Berklee in the early 1990's it was forced on me, but I didn't take to it immediately.  Then I started hearing more of it and I'd think to myself "wow...

Are you an Angra fan?

To me Maiden's rhythm section is so different from any other, not just in metal.  Because the backbone of it has two players in McBrain and Harris who have such unique styles and sounds it ends up with a very different feel than anyone else.  They don't have a traditional pocket, and there's not...

Definitely check them out, I think you'll really dig them. DT has two issues these days that I think may contribute to some of what you don't like about them.  They come into the studio with nothing and write and arrange as a group once they are there.  I think that can lead to to many ideas...

You know what's funny Jeff?  In regards to Dream Theater of whom I am a giant fan.  I made a comment a few weeks ago on the Ernie Ball Music Man forums that got me attacked and you'd appreciate this.  I said I had just seen the Rush documentary "Beyond The Lighted Stage", and at one point in the...

I agree with what you are saying here completely.  More magic comes out of a group of musicians writing and connecting on the same wavelength.  Being surrounded by other musicians in a band who are challenging each other creatively and working to towards the same goal, and are shaping the music...

I haven't seen them in 7 years or so.  I used to see them all the time.  They are one of those bands that you can take someone who has never heard them to see them live and they will leave a fan. BTW, nice avatar.

+1, Mind bogglingly good.  They are co-headlining with Accept in the US which seems like a really odd match.

I love Groskopfs playing, and the dude has had to play with a shitload of different drummers throughout his career, but he always sounds great. How about Doug Pinnick?

You have a few different options here.  Media player can play them, but it you will need to install 3rd party codecs, since Microsoft doesn't want to support flac.  You can find those here http://xiph.org/dshow/ As mentioned above Winamp and Foobar are your best bets.  Winamp is easy to use and...

Here's the Yngwie interview I referenced.  It may the single funniest thing I have ever read, it's hard to even take him seriously.  http://www.angelfire.com/musicals/zimi/pages/misc/yngwie_rates.html His comments on Satriani's "The Mighty Turtle Head",

LOL.  I recently saw an old Yngwie interview posted where he's played a bunch of albums to judge.  It's from 1993 and he hates everyone.  It's hysterical.  The only guy he gave props to was Petrucci.  Funny stuff, I'll try and find the link.

If you are talking solely about smooth legato playing, Allan Holdsworth is probably the smoothest player there is. Brett Garsed is probably at the top of that list as well.   Dave is great though, no question about it.

Killers is a really unique sounding album, (not that IM isn't) but to me there is something going on on Killers that just grabs me.  I love the mood of the album, it's got such a dark vibe to it.  It still sounds like Maiden but at the same time a lot of it is very different sounding from...

I love Bruce's solo stuff with a passion.  AOB and CW are amazing, and though I don't like it as a whole, I like where he was going with Skunkworks.   You know what's crazy?  The reunion era lineup has been together longer than any other Maiden lineup now.

Yeah I dropped the ball on my statement, it didn't come out exactly the way I intended and figured it would look like revisionist history if I tried to back out of it.  I worded it really poorly and I understand why Jeff laughed at it.  I was trying to say that no matter how much I love Maiden...