The Maidens in Algona last night

darthrya

darthrya

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Jul 31, 2004
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Great gig last night! Joe, the merchandise guy, let me borrow his wide-lens camera to film the gig. With his second camera, my wife filmed clips of just Heather for future promotional material. Unfortunately, I gave Joe one of my two tapes instead of the clips of just Heather that my wife took. Hopefully I can get that tape from Joe soon.

Anyway, my wife and I spotted Aja and talked to her a bit before the show. One of the first things she pointed out was the Sootie on Linda's kit that Jenna gave the band. :headbang: Aja also brought over the new axewoman, Heather, so I could meet her. Then the two of them started talking about how well they synch up as bandmates, but also a goofy story of synching up conversations with each other in their sleep. :lol:

Problem Child from Washington, an AC/DC band, opened up. They were awesome! The vocalist and lead guitarists played their roles very well, and I honestly felt like I was at a small gig of the real band's early years. The guy playing Angus was in the full schoolboy uniform, and he opened the show by walking out into the crowd and mooning everyone. The guy playing Bon Scott had the singing voice down very well, and he even spoke like him, too, inbetween songs. He also had Brian Johnson's strut. What I thought was really cool was that the bassist and rhythm guitarist acted just like the real ones by staying in one spot the whole show and just moving up a bit forward to get to the mic to sing backing vocals. They left the spotlight on Angus and Bon/Brian just like in a real gig. The drummer was a fill-in, and I think he did an excellent job. If you know the songs well, you can tell he didn't have the drums perfect, but he did ad lib just fine. :kickass:

Now, for the Maidens. Next post...
 
The Maidens came on next after a very explosive set list from Problem Child. There was a drunk guy really making an ass of himself during Problem Child's set, but security didn't bounce him for some reason. He continued on during the Maidens, but he eventually got booted. Aja also humilated some rude fan elbowing his way up to the front. I thought that was cool. Aja told me after the gig that she could see him cower away at the back. :lol: Some other guy tried the same stunt where I was. Thankfully, a good samaritan kept him from interrupting my filming too much. He kept yelling for Wanda (poor Wanda seems to get harrassed all too much by drunk male fans) and he shoved his boot on stage in front of me. I yanked it right off with my free hand. My wife also gave him an elbow in the ribs. :lol:

Now, that wasn't a good indicator of the gig. Those jerks were only a blip on the screen of what was a great gig. And, I mean great! I was impressed that they chose as an intro song Maiden's version of Doctor, Doctor with Blaze. I love the Blaze material!

Now, I won't give the set list here because I can't remember it perfectly and I don't want to spoil it for anyone. But, I will share that Heather fit in very well playing the licks with style like you'd expect Adrian to. Also, I think she added a bit of a Janick flair by dancing around. IMO, that was especially cool. :kickass: There were different tall Eddies showing up which I think make for a great experience. I really liked how Heather and Wanda shared a mic for backing vocals. I did get some good shots of Heather, Wanda, and Sara playing right next to each other in unison. That always looks cool.

I know the band didn't get much sleep on the way over to Washington, but I couldn't tell at all with the way they played on stage. They had the normal fired-up energy you expect from one of their gigs. In fact, I think the show pumped them up quite a bit. After the show, Linda kept drumming the table at the meet n' greet/merchandise section and Aja had so many stories to tell. She talked a lot about ghosts on the road and in the studio. I always find stories like that fascinating. Sara was all over the place, clearly still pumped after an energetic gig. Wanda, like ususal, was crowded with a lot of guy fans wanting to talk her. :lol: Heather was a bit more subdued, still taking the experience in, but she definitely looked more alive after the gig than she did before it when my wife spotted her napping at a table. My wife kept going on about how she thinks Heather looks a lot like one of the resident doctors on House M.D., and I think she has a valid point. :p

Well, that's it for now. I'll add more details when I think of them.

Thanks for the great gig ladies!
 
darthrya said:
My wife kept going on about how she thinks Heather looks a lot like one of the resident doctors on House M.D., and I think she has a valid point. :p
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You know I can see that now but didn't think of it before. :lol:

Jim
 
Friday night my buddy Losfer Words and I got to check out the Maidens' show in the big city of Algona, WA. The place was packed and the show was a lot of fun. As Darthrya mentioned, there was one guy acting like a jackass and he ended up being escorted out of the place. I couldn't see what he was doing but he was about 5 feet in front of us.

Anyway, the show was great. Problem Child is a great AC/DC tribute, especially on the Bon Scott era stuff. The singer does sound eerily like Bon Scott!

The Maidens rocked as usual. The mix was good also. Best of all, we finally got a chance to meet all the Maidens after the show. I bought the Japanese import CD and all the girls graciousy signed it. We chatted a bit with Aja about her other work. I'll be checking it out.

By the way, Heather is a great addition to the band and a great guitarist!

Thanks for a great show (as always)! :kickass:

LG
 
Awesome show in Algona and I made the long drive to Idaho to catch that show also. Both kicked some MAJOR ASS!!! I finally got the opportunity to be up front stage right in front of MM and that was awesome! In Idaho I was up front center to stage left and I got up close and noticed that for sure Heather was the right choice for the job!

Heather even pulled an Angus and did a little floor work and that was pretty damn cool!

Except for the trouble makers in Algona and me about to get pushed onto the stage because of it and the possible trouble makers in Idaho, I have 3 words...AWESOME WICKED IMMORTALIZED :headbang:
 
I have to give a shout out to Alan, it was nice meeting you this weekend. Can't wait to see some of those photos.
 
It was an incredible show. It's been a few years and a few line-up changes since I've seen them live, but I have to say each and every one on the band were absolutely incredible. The new guitarist was a damn firecracker... what a performer... she brought alot of energy and as a guitarist myself I can really appreciate how well she plays.

These aren't very good quality, coming from a camera phone, but here's a couple shots from the show.

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damn ruffians trying to punk - yeah, our photographer gets center front row! alan, i don't know how you can focus with your camera while there's bedlam going on behind you. the one guy in washington, after he got yelled at, tried to disguise himself with a cute sweater afterwards. hahhah!
 
Ahhahaha! Sara I wish I woulda seen that! Was it a pretty pink one???

So good to see you all again!!!! We always feel so much at home in WA. We had such a great time- even with the 2 pushy guys thinking they could just shove their way in front of people and start elbowing them out of the way.
All they succeed in doing is bring out the Bruce in me!!!! :err: :heh:
 
Aja, I guess we should thank them for bringing out the Bruce in you, cuz you rocked! It was great talking to you after the show about your other projects too. Hope to see you guys (gals) back up this way soon!

LG

:)
 
Air Raid Siren said:
Ahhahaha! Sara I wish I woulda seen that! Was it a pretty pink one???

So good to see you all again!!!! We always feel so much at home in WA. We had such a great time- even with the 2 pushy guys thinking they could just shove their way in front of people and start elbowing them out of the way.
All they succeed in doing is bring out the Bruce in me!!!! :err: :heh:
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I think you need to take your Bruce Lee Chickinson role to the next level and start throwing chops at offending jerks. :lol:

Between you doing that and my wife (all 110 pounds of her) elbowing that one drunk jerk grabbing the mic away from the vocalist of Problem Child and later trying to rush onstage to get up close and personal with Wanda, I think all crowds in the future will be better behaved. :kickass:
 
darthrya said:
Between you doing that and my wife (all 110 pounds of her) elbowing that one drunk jerk grabbing the mic away from the vocalist of Problem Child and later trying to rush onstage to get up close and personal with Wanda, I think all crowds in the future will be better behaved. :kickass:
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Looks like I'll have to teach Wanda how to properly use that skull peeler on her headstock. :lol:

Jim
 
Swan said:
Yeah, we have Polite idiots over here.:lol:
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I was amazed that two guys wanted to pound the crap out of me for being in the front. Not becasue I was taking pictures but because I was in the front and THEY wanted to be there. And when I told both I was there at the leisure of the band they amazingly, had the same reply, "I don't give a f@$k if you are with teh band! I've waited all week to party with the band and I want to be hwere you're standing!" The guy in Algona didn't even back down at 1st when Aja told him to let me go and when Mark initially told him to let go! He finally did and slunk back in the crowd. Sara was itchin' to pound his melon. She's always watchin' out for me :headbang: Funny, of the hundreds of shows I have shot I never get grief from anyone, in fact the opposite but 99% of the time shooting the gals I get grief from at least one jerk. Last time they were here I got my nose broke by some bloke how wanted to be in front of Aja and kept hitting at my camera and when I told him he did wanna be swatting at 2 1/2 grand worth of camera said FU and hit me in the nose. I nailed him as hard as I could with an elbow and dropped him and security tossed him. I saw Sara getting ready to take off her guitar before he disappeared. LOL I think she was gonna autograph his face with her waffle stompers! :lol: I don't mind too much... shooting other shows are usually boring.. women pinching my butt and stuffing their phone numbers in my shirt. usually there is a barricaide and I'm in front of it. :heh:
 
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