News Burning Ambition Documentary

[Spaldy]

I can reveal that I was not approached to wax lyrical about VXI

Maybe you'll be asked back for the sequel, Zero Ambition.

 

[Diesel 11]

Maybe you'll be asked back for the sequel, Zero Ambition.

‘The RLonger/Nomadd Cut’

 

[Yax]

I have found my article! Outside a payall, this should give you the PDF:

Machine Guns and Machine Gun Drums:Heavy Metal’s Portrayal of War (2010)

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/66623721/mmp2ever1150210-libre.pdf?1619262581=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DSeries_Editors.pdf&Expires=1775804136&Signature=cdK22O-0N3sENkb0-UN3QK6DVKQHbLjiSDX2XdKqDEepiDjn7hkZqFrbJOdtUbHGCU5p9PCxU8LTQQc66da6fZNMEhD04flfYzIMrEwatc7iJslUKBgOhQc6TbcHE8KwdeH5ddGU4e0xAvAP2um6RMYeAkQFNNpZ0mgkuvzWf5iQFmBVF18uTk62A-ANu~sYSif04goEFesjXAtD4h2eRXOS3ss9uzjfk-sx2~0xciAqCQP6BZf37N-bsznEeE-mtO2KTS0XWPdLuMsOjFsNWDTW3kodQRD2zZs9yk-Wiievv5xe8nCd0rXco5VImTfYIiuF4hvwkTLb3d7u-HnP~A__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA#page=66

I had a great time reading it!

 

[riff]

Asked why now was the right time to tell the MAIDEN story in film form, Harris said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Well, in actual fact, it wasn't us. It's about us, but not by us. That's the difference. So it's a documentary, which they came to us with an idea that they wanted to do, and it changed a little bit from the original idea. They were gonna do it more about the fans, and it still is, to a certain degree. So, yeah, it's not by us. They wanted to use our artwork and everything, and it seems like as if it's our documentary. It's not. I think they really should have put out that it's a documentary aboutIRON MAIDEN, not byIRON MAIDEN, because it's not us. We didn't have that control that we would normally have if we were doing it ourselves, of course."

Harris added: "Yeah, we cooperated with it and we did interviews for it and all that stuff — we did what they wanted us to do — but if we'd have done it, I think we'd have done it in a slightly different way, and I'll say no more. But I still think the end result is… Well, I'll say no more because it preempts whatever. I think people should just go and see it and see what they think."

Asked by "Trunk Nation" host Eddie Trunk if "Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition" covers the overall history of the band, Harris said: "Yeah, it's historical stuff. There's a lot of historical stuff for the first hour, probably, I suppose. So, yeah, I think people have gotta watch it and make their own minds up, really."


Strange comments to make, sounds like he's not that happy with it.

 

[Vaenyr]

Yeah, seriously. He sounds like he's distancing himself from the whole thing. Unhappy with how certain parts were portrayed? The 90s perhaps?

 

[CA Bryers]

Yeah, seriously. He sounds like he's distancing himself from the whole thing. Unhappy with how certain parts were portrayed? The 90s perhaps?

It sounds very much like he's distancing himself from it. If it is indeed the '90s coverage he doesn't like, I'm MUCH more interested in the documentary. I've said it a million times, the '90s is pretty much the one era of Maiden's internal history that has the drama to sustain the interest of a more casual moviegoing public. That and the fact most unofficial biographies gloss over the Blaze era in a handful of pages is what got me considering writing an unofficial band biography specifically about the '90s.