Last night was the 3rd time I have seen Maiden in Houston....and the Houston fans suck.
Someone posted a video of the fans in Dallas barely doing anything during Maiden and I was thinking that won't happen in Houston...but it did.
The only time I heard any noise from the audience is when they turned the lights on them, during Fear of the Dark and Number of the Beast. It was like they only knew that handful of Maiden classics and otherwise it was boring to them. The jackasses in front of me rented lawn chairs for 6 bucks and sat in them the whole concert. The jackasses next to me laid on the grass the whole time and 90% of everyone standing just stood there with their hands in their pockets. I was embarrassed. I don't know, I'm 37 and have been to several Maiden concerts and I own all the albums and have damn near worn them out...maybe guys like me don't go to the concerts....or there's just more assholes that think standing around drinking $11 beer with a $50 ticket listening to someone they think has cool album covers is a fun night. Maybe, there were too many teenage jag-offs there that heard one Iron Maiden song in their uncles truck 10 years ago and that's all they know. But, I felt slighted, I put all my energy into it but it's not as fun when no one else is.
Houston-save your money and go to the Jonas Brothers show next time....you sucked the life out of the Maiden show.
T'boo
Someone posted a video of the fans in Dallas barely doing anything during Maiden and I was thinking that won't happen in Houston...but it did.
The only time I heard any noise from the audience is when they turned the lights on them, during Fear of the Dark and Number of the Beast. It was like they only knew that handful of Maiden classics and otherwise it was boring to them. The jackasses in front of me rented lawn chairs for 6 bucks and sat in them the whole concert. The jackasses next to me laid on the grass the whole time and 90% of everyone standing just stood there with their hands in their pockets. I was embarrassed. I don't know, I'm 37 and have been to several Maiden concerts and I own all the albums and have damn near worn them out...maybe guys like me don't go to the concerts....or there's just more assholes that think standing around drinking $11 beer with a $50 ticket listening to someone they think has cool album covers is a fun night. Maybe, there were too many teenage jag-offs there that heard one Iron Maiden song in their uncles truck 10 years ago and that's all they know. But, I felt slighted, I put all my energy into it but it's not as fun when no one else is.
Houston-save your money and go to the Jonas Brothers show next time....you sucked the life out of the Maiden show.
T'boo
Edit by SMX: I had to add those spoiler tags, mere moments after my warning in the other thread. Bye-bye, Ted.