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SixesAlltheway said:
I remember writing the fan club a letter shortly after the release of The X-Factor with questions and I also sent some drawings I made of Eddie ...I was just a teenager remember :D And I got a response back from Keith Wilfort answering my questions. Thanking me for the letter and the drawings and he included an autographed picture of the band with Blaze and a entry form to became a FC member :)
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Really cool, how personal the fanclub treatment was back then. I waited years with becoming a member. About 4 years ago or something.
 
Forostar said:
Really cool, how personal the fanclub treatment was back then. I waited years with becoming a member. About 4 years ago or something.
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Absolutely. Yeah I don't know how much that is "in" nowadays. I mean with online fan clubs and forums and what not. I don't know how much mail they actually get nowadays :)
 
Ariana said:
Yes, but between those two I also heard the rest. :)
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Me too. After I got A Real Live One I got everything they had released up until that point...Fear of The Dark and Seventh Son I bought on a holiday to Greece, so they also have special meaning in my collection.

We're also the same age, well I'm two years younger so it is not really surprising we discover Maiden roughly around the same time with X-Factor :D
 
Even though I find FOTD one of Maiden's least good albums nowadays, I still feel I appreciate it way more than most (if not all) other members. I think there's a good atmosphere going on, and it really feels like an album.

If interested, more ramblings on the album here: http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/general-album-ratings.15457/page-2#post-163970

And my mini "essay" on the highly unpopular track The Apparition here:
http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/the-apparition.4286/page-2#post-300645

Ariana said:
Yes, but between those two I also heard the rest. :)
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I heard almost all other albums before FOTD came out, although NOTB and No Prayer were probably a bit later still.
 
After FOTD, I heard Iron Maiden, Killers, NOTB, then some random, totally unofficial Best of-collection, which someone lent me, and then the other albums in random order.
 
Ariana, if I may ask... what lead you exactly to hearing (or even owning?) FOTD first?
I heard it because it came out, but I was already into Maiden for about 6 months, and heard lots of albums before that.

You didn't hear a whole album before that. Was it:
A: hearing one or a few other Maiden songs?
B: seeing one or a few video clips (Be Quick or Be Dead and/or older)?
C: having some enthusiastic person playing you this record?
D: seeing the interesting artwork in the cd store
E: reading a review
F: seeing LAD video or another video release like 12 Wasted Years or The First 10 Years or another?
G: something else (if so, what was it?). :)
 
Hmm, that's an interesting question. I saw Fear of the Dark on MTV and I loved it. I may have heard other Maiden songs before that, but I don't remember this.
It was a classmate of mine who had the album and I asked her if I could borrow it. But she didn't in fact recommend it to me. She said: "I don't think you'll like it." By that time, I was a major Metallica buff. :D I heard it and I loved it. I played it non-stop for weeks. I remember it very clearly - doing a huge jigsaw puzzle on the floor of my bedroom, singing along. The thing is I really loved FOTD and I thought nothing could beat that. Then I heard the first three albums and changed my mind. :)
 
Adrian Smith with Jeff Waters of Annihilator. No more, no less.

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Forostar said:
Even though I find FOTD one of Maiden's least good albums nowadays, I still feel I appreciate it way more than most (if not all) other members.
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Most. ;)
Same for No Prayer For The Dying.

1990-1993 is my 2nd favorite era of the band, 1st one is 1999 -now.
Not in terms of music per ce, but general attitude, lyrics, aesthetics etc
 
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