Diplomat
Ancient Mariner
That's the reason why I design my own Maiden shirts.
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Diplomat
Ancient Mariner
Little improvement and back of the shirt.
If band/management felt the need to celebrate the 40'th anniversary of the album and sell a new shirt, they could have done it something like this. I'm sure fans wouldn't feel cheated. It's just that the people who get paid to do it, should at least try a little harder for their paycheck.
If band/management felt the need to celebrate the 40'th anniversary of the album and sell a new shirt, they could have done it something like this. I'm sure fans wouldn't feel cheated. It's just that the people who get paid to do it, should at least try a little harder for their paycheck.
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Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Adrian is just pure class. I like how he said he thinks Nicko was the best player in the band (''it would never be the same, very distinctive style, we love him, he's incredible and he'll always be a part of the band''). He also added that Maiden's choice of band members is always if they know them, and that a personality is also important. They needed new fresh face in 1990, he needed to grow as a musician (mentioned again that he wanted to continue in the style of the 2 previous albums, that he hadn't written stuff, that he thought he would just play a couple of songs during the Reunion, and that he learned a lot from Roy). Steve really wanted him back in the band. He enjoys to tour less months since around 2008.
Don't know if this has been posted here already but it showed up on my Yahoo home page:
An Oral History of Iron Maiden's Iconic Mascot Eddie the 'Ed
An Oral History of Iron Maiden's Iconic Mascot Eddie the 'Ed
Starblind
Ancient Mariner
yeah, i don't like to wear most of my old shirts too and always searching for the ideal tshirt. we share what we see on internet on the Tour Merch, Event Shirts topic. check it out
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Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Besides SIT walk-on Eddie, the Trooper one is also a favorite of Steve. Adrian has had mixed feelings about the walk-ons over the years.
Bruce's favorite covers are Powerslave and Seventh Son.
Derek was inspired by a 70s comic book for TNOTB.
Btw, the recent new Metal Hammer interview with Steve and Bruce is online:
“There was a real sense of excitement. We had a point to prove: this is the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world." How Iron Maiden went from East End outcasts to the world's most loved heavy metal band
Iron Maiden legends Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris look back at 50 years of heavy metal history
More curious bits:
Steve: It was amazing. Literally within three or four gigs we had a following. We were doing things differently to other bands. We were playing a lot of original material. We had 11 original songs right from the beginning. You’d go to the pubs and see bands doing the same covers, because that’s what people wanted. We’d do covers of stuff that wasn’t well known. We never did what people wanted.
Steve: I don’t really pay much attention to anniversaries. You don’t look backwards, you look forwards.
Steve: Piece Of Mind was a favorite of mine for a long time. And then Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son took over for a while. And then we made A Matter Of Life And Death, which was a great album. But even if you take our worst album, and there’s always a debate about that, it’s a pretty good standard.
Steve: I’ll be honest, at the time I thought, ‘I don’t know how this is going to go,' If they’d come back for the wrong reasons, it wouldn’t have lasted very long. It worked out alright, yeah. When the six of us get together, there’s a magic that happens that you can’t put into words. The whole thing, it’s just very powerful.
Steve: We don’t think we’re redundant. You might, but we don’t. If we think we’re redundant, we’ll stop. Why would you carry on if you did? Bottom line is we enjoy it. And people can see that. If you’re going out there and not enjoying it, they can see through it.
Bruce: When I listened to Killers, the title track, it reminded me of discovering Deep Purple when I was 15 years old, except updated. It had the same energy. Everything was on the front edge, really pushing forwards.
The first time you do something in your life isn’t always the best, but it’s certainly the most memorable.
Bruce: We knew were onto something special. It was done fast - five weeks, start to finish. We were pinching ourselves, going, ‘Did we really just do Run To The Hills?
Bruce (about FOTD era): We’re going to do our own thing and bugger the world.
I had this nagging feeling that it was a bit too easy, that we weren’t challenging ourselves. I wasn’t unhappy. It was more, like, ‘Are we too comfortable? Do we need to be uncomfortable?
Bruce (about returning to Maiden): Because I want to play big gigs again and I think we’ll be great. There was a real sense of excitement. We had a point to prove: that this is the greatest fucking rock’n’roll band in the world, so let’s go out there and do it.
Bruce: I suppose it’s because we’ve consistently refused to do anything which doesn’t deviate from our identity for the sake of five minutes of fame here, five minutes of fame there. We’ve never done that. Maiden’s music transcends cultures. There is a purity and honesty to it. There’s always been a certain amount of derision and jealousy from people who decry us: ‘Oh, it’s just fantasy, it’s just escapism, it’s just entertainment. As if that’s some kind of crime, to entertain people. But for people who love Maiden, it really does help them to come into our world. Yes, we sing songs about monsters and the dark side of things, but we sing uplifting songs, we sing about history and achievements. There’s quite a strong morality in our songs – things like loyalty, truth, self-sacrifice and willingness to fight in the face of oppression.
Bruce: We’re still here, we’re still doing it and we’re still doing it well.
Steve: I don’t really pay much attention to anniversaries. You don’t look backwards, you look forwards.
Steve: Piece Of Mind was a favorite of mine for a long time. And then Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son took over for a while. And then we made A Matter Of Life And Death, which was a great album. But even if you take our worst album, and there’s always a debate about that, it’s a pretty good standard.
Steve: I’ll be honest, at the time I thought, ‘I don’t know how this is going to go,' If they’d come back for the wrong reasons, it wouldn’t have lasted very long. It worked out alright, yeah. When the six of us get together, there’s a magic that happens that you can’t put into words. The whole thing, it’s just very powerful.
Steve: We don’t think we’re redundant. You might, but we don’t. If we think we’re redundant, we’ll stop. Why would you carry on if you did? Bottom line is we enjoy it. And people can see that. If you’re going out there and not enjoying it, they can see through it.
Bruce: When I listened to Killers, the title track, it reminded me of discovering Deep Purple when I was 15 years old, except updated. It had the same energy. Everything was on the front edge, really pushing forwards.
The first time you do something in your life isn’t always the best, but it’s certainly the most memorable.
Bruce: We knew were onto something special. It was done fast - five weeks, start to finish. We were pinching ourselves, going, ‘Did we really just do Run To The Hills?
Bruce (about FOTD era): We’re going to do our own thing and bugger the world.
I had this nagging feeling that it was a bit too easy, that we weren’t challenging ourselves. I wasn’t unhappy. It was more, like, ‘Are we too comfortable? Do we need to be uncomfortable?
Bruce (about returning to Maiden): Because I want to play big gigs again and I think we’ll be great. There was a real sense of excitement. We had a point to prove: that this is the greatest fucking rock’n’roll band in the world, so let’s go out there and do it.
Bruce: I suppose it’s because we’ve consistently refused to do anything which doesn’t deviate from our identity for the sake of five minutes of fame here, five minutes of fame there. We’ve never done that. Maiden’s music transcends cultures. There is a purity and honesty to it. There’s always been a certain amount of derision and jealousy from people who decry us: ‘Oh, it’s just fantasy, it’s just escapism, it’s just entertainment. As if that’s some kind of crime, to entertain people. But for people who love Maiden, it really does help them to come into our world. Yes, we sing songs about monsters and the dark side of things, but we sing uplifting songs, we sing about history and achievements. There’s quite a strong morality in our songs – things like loyalty, truth, self-sacrifice and willingness to fight in the face of oppression.
Bruce: We’re still here, we’re still doing it and we’re still doing it well.
Bruce: One day we will stop. But we don’t know when, we don’t know where. And even if we did, we wouldn’t tell you.
Ruflux
Ancient Marinade
See him saying Aces High was a bit much as an encore in some interview, months after he'd hyped the whole thing up to high heaven as the best ever show they did. Still waiting for that country album.Bruce throwing Steve under the bus for the Dance of Death cover
You can always rely on Bruce to claim he agrees with the general opinion fans have after the fact.