with all the drama on the official maiden board

[TinMan666]

... people bitching about the support act etc etc

is anyone else tempted to start posting "hey, at least you ungrateful bastards will be getting a tour" type comments again?

 

[spawn]

Bah, it just reminds me why I hate metalheads. Fools, the lot of them.
(Except for the people on this board naturally, but you guys already know of your own greatness surely? )

They ought to be bloody thanking Sum41 for having the balls to say how much they love Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, especially considering how its not "cool" to do so. God forbid any Sum41 fans hear Iron Maiden and go buy their records. Everyone has to start somewhere.

 

[spawn]

Oh, and a "hey at least you ungrateful bastards will be getting a tour!" too.

 

[ShaneBarnes1982]

I just think the fans are angry because bringing Sum 41 on tour with them, doesn't do anything for the metal community per se. People there to see Sum 41, will probably leave after they're finished. That is if they would go to see Sum 41 for however long they will be playing. Sum 41 fans... well the girl fans anyway will just say oh they playing with Iron Maiden, I don't like them, and the guys with the girls will leave too. Introducing no new fans to the genre!

I hope that makes sense, i've been writing this message off and on for the last 10 minutes!

 

[spawn]

I dont think you gove the Sum41 fans enough credit, they all know how much the band loves Iron Maiden so they will probably stick around to see them, particularly as im sure the guys in Sum41 will tell them to do so when they leave the stage

 

[ShaneBarnes1982]

Yeah, I know. It is actually pretty common for a punk fan to like Iron Maiden, I know lots of people who are like that. but im just saying, Im sure fans would rather Iron Maiden take a metal band on tour with them, and then expose that metal band to the Iron Maiden tour goers.

 

[Soul of a new Machine]

I know many of my friends who knew nothing about metal at all except for korn-bizkit and tought pain for pleasure was the coolest song on the last Sum41 album They started asking me questions about maiden after that

 

[ShaneBarnes1982]

I'm certainly not ratting on Sum 41, I've got their first albums at my house somewhere! I love their metal tunes! I want to hear the ones on the new album, but Im not forking out the money for the album that is only good for 5 minutes for me. But ah well, more power to them for touring with a band they idolize! Im sure we'd all love to be in their shoes!

 

[Goreripper]

It's actually kind of ironic that Iron Maiden is influencing punk bands these days.

 

[Spiff]

Seeing these popular bands citing Maiden etc as huge influences always raises the question of why they don't play metal... but I think that even though I'm a huge metal fan, if I was in a band it wouldn't be metal... actually, if I sang professionally then it would probably be of the Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin style, because that suits my vocal range and I love the music.

Not that anyone raised this point, but I felt like saying it anyway.

 

[ShaneBarnes1982]

I think a main reason punk bands who are influenced by metal bands like Iron Maiden, are punk bands, because they think they can't right a metal song like Iron Maiden, so they stick to the simpler stuff.

 

[phlogiston]

You know, many of the bands cited as influences to Maiden, as well as a lot of the other "influential" metal bands weren't exactly metal either. They're only influences people. If everyone decided to play the same music as the people a generation before, we'd still be hitting hollow skulls with thighbones.

Although reading back, I think I may have hit rant mode too early. It's only been one post, after all. Please disregard this post and come back when there's more "non-metal being influenced by metal is disgraceful" posts.

 

[Gavin]

Maybe they play the music they do becaus they like it, and it is selling millions of albums

 

[spawn]

Its the groupies. Thats why they do it.

 

[Goreripper]

Originally posted by Spiff
Seeing these popular bands citing Maiden etc as huge influences always raises the question of why they don't play metal... but I think that even though I'm a huge metal fan, if I was in a band it wouldn't be metal... actually, if I sang professionally then it would probably be of the Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin style, because that suits my vocal range and I love the music.

I reckon that's great. You could go on GMA and sing "That's Amore" wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt. How fucking cool would that be?

 

[Spiff]

Well, if Moony doesn't give Maiden free publicity during her time as the new Princess of Pop then I guess it'll be up to me.

 

[weetbix]

What - you gonna give maiden free publicity during your time as the new Princess of Pop?

 

[KoichCPA]

some random person walked past me today and told me to get a haircut.

thats all.

 

[phlogiston]

That happened to a friend of mine once. They got into a standup argument about it.

 

[KoichCPA]

I just looked at the dude and laughed, I laughed cos it was obvious he was going to dance to some techno when he got home. People like him are considered normal, how is that normal,listening to a repetative beat for an extended period of time whilst you shaking you body in a standing up epileptic fit.

thats not normal,