My First Iron Maiden concert experience

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Mysterio

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I just saw them at the Winnipeg, Manitoba show.  It was sold out and it was intense.  My buddy thought that Steve Harris was slowing down.  I did not really see that.  Bruce was in strong powerful voice.  Nothing went wrong.  Lots of women were there as well.  It was really intense and no one was sitting down.  Nobody went to get drinks or washroom breaks once Maiden was on.  Lots of people I knew went.

I want to thank the members hear for encouraging me to get more familiar with Maiden.  It helps when I was recognized all the songs.  My buddy Mark thought that they should have encluded AMOLAD songs as well.

Also.  Is there a song that BD says Go and Maiden starts to charge sonically.  He also says that Metallica's early stuff is influenced by Maiden.  Eddie Came out twice and that was a highlight.  I thougght that they played more of the familiar Maiden hits in the first 10 songs.  It would have been nice to hear it spread around a bit more. 
Fear of the Dark
closed the show.  All the fans were pumped. 

Mysterio
 
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You're probably not aware, but we have strict spoiler rules for tours.  I'm editing your post.  Don't let it happen again.

PS, RW, can you fix it so the spoiler tags show up in Safari 3.11?
 
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Mysterio said:
Also.  Is there a song that BD says Go and Maiden starts to charge sonically. 
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Revelations.

Edit by SMX ... come on GuineaPig, you know better than to post that without spoiler tags. He obviously heard the song at the concert, so giving the answer is a spoiler.
 
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LooseCannon said:
PS, RW, can you fix it so the spoiler tags show up in Safari 3.11?
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If Safari isn't respecting the spoiler tags, then that means Safari isn't conforming to the same CSS standards that all the other browsers conform to. So unless RW works for Apple on the Safari development team - no, he can't.
 
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GuineaPig said:
Revelations.

Edit by SMX ... come on GuineaPig, you know better than to post that without spoiler tags. He obviously heard the song at the concert, so giving the answer is a spoiler.
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This is weird... quoting my own post.

But no, I don't think he was talking about that, because Bruce only does it on the studio version.  I think he was just wondering.
 
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SinisterMinisterX said:
If Safari isn't respecting the spoiler tags, then that means Safari isn't conforming to the same CSS standards that all the other browsers conform to. So unless RW works for Apple on the Safari development team - no, he can't.
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Excellent.  I will leave this feedback at the designers page then.
 
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Being a Windows guy, I obviously don't use Safari. But from what I've heard...

a. Safari has generally been at least a year - and more often two - behind the major browsers in terms of standards compliance and features. The last time I was doing web work professionally was about 2 years ago, and it was horribly behind then.

b. However, the newer versions of Safari are reputed to have improved dramatically since I last saw it. I thought I had heard they were compliant now. They must have missed some minor thing.
 
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I just got tired of how long it was taking Firefox to access pages.  The Safari for Windows Beta has been notably faster than it.  And aside from some minor quirks (the spoiler tags), it works fine.  No problem with anything else.
 
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Mysterio said:
  He also says that Metallica's early stuff is influenced by Maiden.
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Well, it is quite obvious. The thrash wave in San Francisco was very inspired by the NWOBHM in general and early Iron Maiden was an important part of the NWOBHM. Many think that Maiden stepped out of this wave with Piece of Mind, but at the time this was released, Metallica were already around. So it is reasonable to think that Metallica were inspired by Di'Anno era Maiden (and perhaps also The Number of the Beast). Metallica have also covered Remember Tomorrow. I find the cover quite good (but not even close to the original, which is my second favorite song on Iron Maiden).

By the way, am I the only one who thinks the part of "The Four Horsemen" starting at 3:30 seems influenced by Phantom of the Opera? At least it sounds very Maiden-inspired.
 
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Eddies Wingman said:
By the way, am I the only one who thinks the part of "The Four Horsemen" starting at 3:30 seems influenced by Phantom of the Opera? At least it sounds very Maiden-inspired.
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You know the funny thing is I thought the bass in Powerslave during the mellow parts was similar to The Four Horsemen bass during the mellow parts, yet the Metallica song came out in 1983, a year before Maiden's album.  There is no suggestion that Maiden copied Metallica here at all.
 
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Metallica have also covered Remember Tomorrow. I find the cover quite good (but not even close to the original, which is my second favorite song on Iron Maiden).
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Have you heard Opeths cover of this I think It's better then the orginal and bruce's version to they do a great job!
 
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Yeah, I've heard Opeth's cover and it eats Metallica's version for breakfast. But that might be because Mikael Åkerfeldt is one of the greatest singers in the entire metal genre ... both a very nice singing voice and really powerful growling if he likes to. But the Opeth cover is lacking in one thing; they don't have Dave Murray  :P

@Genghis: Listened to Powerslave and Horsemen now. I don't really think those bass parts are that similar. Only similarity I noticed right away was that the bass was pretty much in the foreground on both. However 'Arry does some hammer-ons here and there, and generally plays a quite melodic bass line. In Horsemen, Cliff first plays some two-note chords (the dap-dap-daaa, dap-dap-daaa sequence) and then an ascending scale before the guitar solo kicks in for real.
 
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I've been a Maiden fan since I picked up the first album when I was about 13 years old (Had to get it just for the cover art) and really got into the band when Dickenson joined.  But I've never been to a concert...until last Tuesday, June 17 @ Camden, NJ!

Maiden kicked my ass.  I sat in the 8th row, just left of center stage and brought my 12 year old son, who's also a fan.

The only downside was that a guy (who I'd estimate to be in his early 50's) directly in front of me was smoking pot and passing it down to his wife (who was in her 40's).  Hey, I don't mind people having a good time but I've got my kid there, y'know?  They also had their daughter (in her late 20's) who was drunk out of her mind and kept falling backwards over the seats.  I caught her a few times but got tired of it and started to just let her fall.  The pot wasn't so bad but then the wife and daughter started lighting up regular cigarettes.  The smoke was bothering my son and another kid we were with to the point of distraction.  That still wasn't so bad, but then the guy lit up a cigar.  Enough already!  All in a no smoking venue.

Ah well, the show was still awesome.
 
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding this from your statements, but were there only seating places at Camden?  Or were you two just unlucky to get those places?
 
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Invader said:
Maybe I'm misunderstanding this from your statements, but were there only seating places at Camden?  Or were you two just unlucky to get those places?
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Invader, I don't understand your questions.  Camden has a "pit" right in front of the stage where people stand, then stadium style seating, then an outdoor lawn section.  My seats in the 8th row were great, we could actually feel the heat from the fire blasts on stage.  I can't imagine how it felt for the band.  The only thing unlucky about the seats was that they were behind the smokey family.  Security wouldn't let people stand in the aisles so and there weren't any other seats available so we had to stay where we were.
 
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The only thing unlucky about the seats was that they were behind the smokey family.
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I'm sure between songs at some point, Bruce started complaining about not being able to breathe and how does the audience expect him to sing while under assault from the evil marijuana plant.
 
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I still don't blame him...look what happened to so many famous voices by age 50.  I don't think it matters, smoke is smoke and it's going to fuck up his voice.
 
I still don't blame him...look what happened to so many famous voices by age 50.  I don't think it matters, smoke is smoke and it's going to fuck up his voice.
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That's true, but after 30+ years of him playing to live audiences I know he knows that he will encounter cigarette smoke at the least and almost certainly pot smoke.
 
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