Questions for older fans

chaosapiant

chaosapiant

Ancient Marinade
I've been a fan since 1988, though I was 8 years old then.  I'm 30 now.  I didn't get to experience Maiden when albums like NOTB were new, and when I was 8, I certainly didn't understand why I liked them so much.  SSOASS was the first album I ever heard by them, and it blew me away.  Since I am essentially reliant on the internet for all my news and goings on, how did you older fans deal with things that you experienced?  What was it like when Paul left, or when the follow up to Powerslave had guitar synths?  How did you get your news?
 
chaosapiant said:
I've been a fan since 1988, though I was 8 years old then.  I'm 30 now.  I didn't get to experience Maiden when albums like NOTB were new, and when I was 8, I certainly didn't understand why I liked them so much.  SSOASS was the first album I ever heard by them, and it blew me away.  Since I am essentially reliant on the internet for all my news and goings on, how did you older fans deal with things that you experienced?  What was it like when Paul left, or when the follow up to Powerslave had guitar synths?  How did you get your news?
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As far as getting info... word of mouth, college radio (89.5 WSOU), tape trading- lots of underground publications involving tape trading, make me a copy of this and i'll make you a copy of that. When i got Number of the Beast i was blown away! The big question for me was can this guy Dickinson pull this off live. Well Jun 29th, 1982 i got my answer and the answer was  :okok:
 
I was introduced to Piece Of Mind as an 8 year old in 1983.  It was totally life changing at that point as I didn't know music like that existed.  It was the end of my days of listening to Men At Work and Loverboy etc.  I was way into music already but I became a full fledged little metal head.  Most of the info I got was from Hit Parader and Circus magazine that I'd buy with my allowance.  Both were true metal magazines at the time, and always featured Maiden.  I also got info from friends older bothers who always seemed to know everything.  Headbangers ball came later and that was helpful for keeping me informed as well.
wsoul1 said:
As far as getting info... word of mouth, college radio (89.5 WSOU), tape trading- lots of underground publications involving tape trading, make me a copy of this and i'll make you a copy of that. When i got Number of the Beast i was blown away! The big question for me was can this guy Dickinson pull this off live. Well Jun 29th, 1982 i got my answer and the answer was  :okok:
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One of my friends brothers had a good buddy who was a tape trader, once I got older we became friends.  He actually became one of the most well known traders with one of the largest collections in the US.  He was responible for recording a ton of famous Kiss, U2, Kings X, Queensryche and Pearl Jam bootlegs.  He was killed in the Rhode Island Great White fire and I have no clue what happened to his collection, which had thousands upon thousands of cassette and DAT boots.  But I'd go over to his place and he'd play me Maiden boots and have all sorts of info, and he had a massive rock magazine collection.  The guy was like a walking encyclopedia of rock.
 
Twarkle said:
One of my friends brothers had a good buddy who was a tape trader, once I got older we became friends.  He actually became one of the most well known traders with one of the largest collections in the US.  He was responible for recording a ton of famous Kiss, U2, Kings X, Queensryche and Pearl Jam bootlegs.  He was killed in the Rhode Island Great White fire and I have no clue what happened to his collection, which had thousands upon thousands of cassette and DAT boots.  But I'd go over to his place and he'd play me Maiden boots and have all sorts of info, and he had a massive rock magazine collection.  The guy was like a walking encyclopedia of rock.
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Sorry about your friend. I miss the days of good metal mags.
 
I have an older friend like that, well, older than me.  Not into boots and stuff, but he always seemed to know what was going with the band, and I idolized him.  To pay him back for all the kind ness he did a 12 year old me, I took him with my wife and I to our first Maiden show back in July.  I remember the day he told me that Bruce was leaving, and I was crushed.  
 
I first became a Maiden fan in the end of 1983 and the first album i bought was POM. I was quite shocked with the....cooked brain the photo with the band!!! :lol:

Anyway the first "new" Maiden album that i bought was Powerslave , at the day it was released in my country (Greece). At that time i already owned all of Maiden's discography and i was blown away with Powerslave, i thought it was their best album ever. I still remeber listening to the fast part of powerslave (the song) after the calm part in the middle like 1000 times !! Everybody was praising Powerslave and , as i wrote in another topic, it was the last unanimously praised IM album.

I liked both SIT and SSOASS when they were released but i didn't love them. I own an extremely rare LP version of SIT that has the english words of the song titles in the back cover written with....Greek letters !!!! :lol: :lol: .That was how EMI Greece first released the album !!! I accepted them as good IM albums (i worship them now) at that time which is something that difinately didn't happen with NPFTD which i hated (and still do). I still remember the shock after listening to "Holy Smoke" for the first time on the radio, i thought "WTH is this POS ??" The funny thing is that the hype at that time was that Maiden were realeasing an ultra-heavy album, something like a new version of KIllers !!
 
chaosapiant said:
I have an older friend like that, well, older than me.  Not into boots and stuff, but he always seemed to know what was going with the band, and I idolized him.  To pay him back for all the kind ness he did a 12 year old me, I took him with my wife and I to our first Maiden show back in July.  I remember the day he told me that Bruce was leaving, and I was crushed.  
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Oh man the day I was at a friends house and another friend came running in yelling "Bruce is leaving, Bruce is leaving"! was crushing.  I was like, "what do you mean Bruce is leaving?  Where's he going?  He's not leaving.  It's probably just a rumor.  He can't be leaving".  My 18 year old brain simply couldn't comprehend life without Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden.  It had never even crossed my mind that it was possible.  After that I was less shocked when band members left bands I liked.  It was always like, "oh well, it's not as bad as Bruce leaving Maiden".
 
Twarkle said:
Oh man the day I was at a friends house and another friend came running in yelling "Bruce is leaving, Bruce is leaving"! was crushing.  I was like, "what do you mean Bruce is leaving?  Where's he going?  He's not leaving.  It's probably just a rumor.  He can't be leaving".  My 18 year old brain simply couldn't comprehend life without Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden.  It had never even crossed my mind that it was possible.  After that I was less shocked when band members left bands I liked.  It was always like, "oh well, it's not as bad as Bruce leaving Maiden".
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Agreed!  Granted, at the time there was a slight rumor that Michael Kiske was joining, and I thought he was fabulous as well.  Since i was only 15 when X Factor came out, I was a lot more open minded about the change.  I didn't really "grow up" with Bruce, so it was easier when the transition occured.
 
I was a fan from around 89 and when Bruce left I did too, didn't start listening again until about 3 years ago, I never liked Wolfsbane so for me Maiden without Bruce wasn't Maiden, and I still haven't heard all of VXI
 
Rikstewart said:
I was a fan from around 89 and when Bruce left I did too, didn't start listening again until about 3 years ago, I never liked Wolfsbane so for me Maiden without Bruce wasn't Maiden, and I still haven't heard all of VXI
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While I can except that the difference is shocking, Maiden is more than just a vocalist, and X Factor is, imo, one of their best albums ever.  But to each their own, no worries!
 
As interesting as that would have been, I think it would have made the mid 90s album much worse.
 
It's funny that despite the fact that Maiden says they always wanted a British singer to replace Bruce and their biography says the choice came down to Blaze and someone else (I can't remember, was it Doogie White?)  That the guy they were trying to get was James LaBrie of Dream Theater.  James has spoken about it in interviews, and Mike Portnoy talked about in the Images and Words DT biography how Steve and Rod kept showing up at DT shows in 1993 trying to get James, and DT's management kept trying to keep Rod and Steve away from him.  In the end James said he felt he was flattered but wanted to give it a shot with DT. I can't remember if they made him a formal offer or gave up.  He obviously never auditioned.

I also think the entire Maiden Run To The Hills biography is a bit of a fluff piece in general.

I was a big Kiske fan, but he says there was never any truth to the rumors and they were all started by fans.  Of course he says lot things so who knows.  He was already anti-metal at that point and very outspoken about it.
 
johnglen said:
Oh how i wish Kiske had joined Maiden (this rumor first appeared after SSOASS).
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I remember that rumour but it was just that. Maiden stated quite publicly that they wanted a British singer to replace Bruce which is why they short-listed the likes of Blaze, Doggie White, etc.

chaosapiant said:
What was it like when Paul left....
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I remember reading an article in Sounds at the time saying that Paul Di Anno is to be replaced by Bruce (this was not too soon after Reading Festival in '81). I was actually gutted and did not want him to go at all and all I knew of Bruce was a tape of "Earth Mother". I was, to be honest, not overly sure about his voice but thought he could be good.

Anyway, fast forward half a dozen months and I'm sitting in my room recording Friday Rock Show (as I would always) and Tommy Vance gave his normal "Tonight, we have....." and then I heard those words "new stuff from Iron Maiden". So, I got a little excited and then on came the first track. It started of with a drum intro and then in came the guitars. "This sounds like...." - then the voice - "it's Bruce, it's Maiden." As such, I was a little out of control at that point.

The track was "Run to the Hills", obviously.
 
When Albie was having that experience with Run to the Hills my dad was having his first date with my mom's twin sister.
 
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