Your earliest memory of Maiden

[Wrathchild]

'Twas 1983 when I wandered into my school library and saw Piece of Mind in the selection of tapes available to borrow. I was six going on seven and developed an instant fascination with the cover. I thought the music itself would be even scarier, so I went home with some Split Enz instead .

(That same library also had copies of KISS Unmasked and Fireball by Deep Purple, which a friend of mine cautioned me not to borrow because it was "horrible". Oh ye of little taste.)

Three years later I'd changed schools and discovered that the "cool kids" in my Year 5 class were all into Maiden. I remembered this band that terrified yet intrigued me and decided to work up the courage to investigate further. I went to the new public library to see which albums they had, put myself on the list for Live After Death and Somewhere In Time, waited a couple of weeks for them to arrive and slotted them into the Toshiba tape deck I got for my tenth birthday. Ah, happy days...

The rest, as they say, is history. I also remember a review of SIT and Motorhead's Orgasmatron in the January '87 issue of Countdown Magazine. The writer seemed to prefer Lemmy and co. He said something like "at least Motorhead have a tune you can listen and whistle to, even if it does have screaming guitars all over it."

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[spawn]

After Best Of The Beast came out and I bought it, thought Blaze Bayley was the main singer for that band and only liked Sign Of The Cross at first and didnt bother with the rest

 

[Goreripper]

When "The Number of the Beast" was released, EMI did a TV ad campaign packaged with Deep Purple's "Deepest Purple" album and a couple of times a day I'd see this ad with this long-haired guy wearing studded armbands, screaming. I was 12, and that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

 

[KoichCPA]

'Twas 1983 when I wandered into my school library and saw Piece of Mind in the selection of tapes available to borrow. I was six going on seven and developed an instant fascination with the cover. I thought the music itself would be even scarier, so I went home with some Split Enz instead .

I wasn't even born then.

 

[Goreripper]

Split Enz was the first band I got into.

 

[KoichCPA]

Def Leppard- Hysteria in 88 was my first album.

Then Alice Cooper- Poison and Bon Jovi- New Jersey 89

I rocked as a kid, I even thought Maiden sucked back then too.

 

[Goreripper]

You bought 'Hysteria' when you were 4? How did you afford it?

 

[KoichCPA]

I got it for my birthday.

 

[Goreripper]

"You cheated", says the guy with over 1000 promo CDs.

 

[KoichCPA]

It's not cheating when you're 4.

 

[Lord Tim]

Yeah, that's what I said to the judge last week but they still charged me!

 

[KoichCPA]

I will be your, I will be your, I'll be your
Rocket yeah satellite of love
Rocket yeah satellite of love
Rocket yeah satellite of love
Rocket baby! C'mon, I'll be your satellite of love

 

[Southy]

ZFirst Maiden memoruy is when the Seventh son poster in a older cousins room scared me...and made me wanna listen

 

[serenesorrow]

My Dad and his friends listening to Maiden on vinyl and tape when I was really young.
The cover of Number of the Beast is always one that comes into mind... so I'd call that my first Maiden memory.
First purchase was Beast of the Beast though.

 

[Spiff]

Erm... it would be when Mark got a hold of Live After Death back in 1986. I didn't think much of it at first but it grew on me.

Eighteen years ago this year!! Holy moly!

 

[phlogiston]

Looking through magazines and the ads for T-Shirts by mail order you used to be able to get. Maybe you can still get them, I don't know. The Maiden ones were cool, but I didn't understand what they were about.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I don't have a 'first memory' as such, but I remember being fascinated by the cover art for years. When I first saw Bill & Ted, I thought the Iron Maiden jokes were hilarious (despite not having heard them). My first memory of HEARING them, I was recommended "Number Of The Beast" and 'Deth's "Peace Sell's" (also my first time hearing 'Deth...) by someone after telling them I was getting into some Metallica, Sepultura, Slayer, etc. I picked up NOTB and PS from a second hand shop. I laughed my arse off the first time I listened to NOTB, being my first real experience with tr00 metal vocals, and I found myself listening to Peace Sells alot more. I ended up getting into it eventually though. The second album I got was "Fear Of The Dark", I picked it up from the same second hand shop, to listen to in the car on the way to the footy in Geelong one time.

 

[Shannow]

I remember this song that occasionally came on the radio

"Fly on your wings, like an eagle...etc"

Thought it was pretty cool, but never found out who performed it.

Then my borther's mate came around with "7th son", and I was hooked.

Started getting earlier stuff, and then all of a sudden Acacia Avenue, Hallowed, NOTB etc all just sort of clicked into place.

 

[Bucko]

A compliation Album called "Heavy" came ou in 82 , I had left school the year earlier. Anyhow MAIDEN'S NOTB was on it .. so i went to the local Newsagent ( who was , still is the local record store) and ordered NOTB on tape ... a couple of weeks later it was there . After that I got Killers on Vinyl no thats wrong I got "Killers "first cause it had a cover of "wOMEN IN uNIFORM" SKHOOKS you know... How in the HELL they had that in BOURKE I do not know to this day............

 

[lord667]

First Maiden memory is from when I was 6 years old, dancing around the living room with my pyjama top open and singing Number Of The Beast. Also when I was ten years old at Catholic school, I wore a Run To The Hills t-shirt on non-uniform day. One of the real Catholics told me that my shirt was unacceptable. I asked him why, and (pointing at Satan) he said, "you can see that guy's belly-button".