Maiden...The Early Days

[paulbag]

Finally picked this dvd up. I'm really bummed though, cuz ever since they released Piece Of Mind I've been dying to see them perform Where Eagles Dare live. The Dortmund show opens with Santuary [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] I missed the Piece Of Mind tour cuz I was kinda young at the time, but saw them twice each on Powerslave, and Somewhere In Time. Also saw them on the latest breeze through last year. Maiden is definitely the single most influential band on my playing style. Nice to see Bruce and Adrian back. I kinda lost interest when those guys left. This dvd brings back some cool memories of my early learnings on guitar. Anyway...any of you other Maiden fans suggest their best releases after Fear Of The Dark? That was the last Maiden album I bought, owning everything up to that point. Heaviest only please! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Sparkytfl]

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I actually like the dance of death album. Listened to it last night. It is considerably different from the older stuff though. Rock in rio is great too.

[Number Of The Priest]

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Paul, the very recent show in Ullevi, Sweden, was televised across Europe and they played an all-Early-Days-related setlist, including "Where Eagles Dare". If you have a bittorent client, you can find Sunbane linking the torrent in this previous topic:

http://www.jcfonline.com/ubbthreads/...&Number=509222

Here's the torrent:

http://static.thepiratebay.org/downloadt...545.TPB.torrent

After "Fear Of The Dark", there are just four studio albums... two with Blaze as frontman and the most recent two after the return of Bruce/Adrian... so my recommendation is "Brave New World". Actually, that was my first Maiden album besides "Best Of The Beast" since I only started listening to them about four years ago.

I really do like "Dance Of Death" as well... but it took a while for it to grow on me.

The new "Death On The Road" live DVD should be released within ten days, or something like that. [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] I'll probably be forking my money over for that. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Back to "The Early Days"... I just love the Hammersmith show on that DVD. That version of "22 Acacia Avenue" is incredible and Clive's drum sound/technique kicks a large amount of ass. This Hammersmith show is extended in audio form on the "Eddie's Archive" 6-CD collection and is probably my favorite live Maiden performance other than the Ullevi torrent that I linked way above. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[paulbag]

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Sweet bro, thanks [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[Number Of The Priest]

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Lemme know if you need help setting up torrent-related crap also. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[skorb]

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yeah Maiden's my favorite metal band too, I used to play a number of their songs. I could not stand the Blaze albums, and my favorite member is Adrian, so I was not too keen on the releases without him. now that he and Bruce are back, so am I.

Brave New World is great, Dance of Death is good.

[JRE]

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I prefer Brave New World to Dance of Death.....but just by a hair.

[neilli]

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'Brave New World' is great, but to me 'Dance of Death' is so-so....the Blaze albums suck though - there's maybe 2 good songs on the first, and I don't even own the second (Virtual XI) and I own every other album they've done!

[VitaminG]

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I agree with everyone else's assessment of BNW/DOD. I too tuned out with Bruce & Adrian's departures, but was excited to pick up BNW when I saw that both were back.

DOD - I get tired of the repeated arpeggiated-power-chord figures they use on the slow bits on every furk'n song! I understand that's something they introduced during the Blaze years?

[Number Of The Priest]

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Arpeggiated power chords existed all the way back to "The Phantom Of The Opera"... "Keep your distance, walk away, don't take his bai-eeeee-ait! Don't you straaaaaaayyyyyyy!" [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] That part is fun to do Queen-style harmony vocals with. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]