Maiden in the Metroplex this Friday!

**SmoovD** · 08-13-2012, 07:12 PM

This Friday Maiden is making a stop in North Texas. Hopefully it won't be 108 degrees for the show. Anyone else planning on attending?

**cb91710** · 08-13-2012, 07:15 PM

I'm jelly

Saw them in 2007 or maybe 2008 at Irvine Meadows (cough Verizon Amphitheater cough I hate that) and it was an awesome show.
Saw Rush there on Snakes and Arrows and it too was an awesome show.

**JaDo** · 08-13-2012, 07:20 PM

Not really my favorite style of music, but I always thought they had such cool album covers and artwork. The heat has been pretty brutal here. Hopefully, it doesn't make the crowd too crazy

**CyberJCM** · 08-14-2012, 01:07 PM

**PFP_Dad** · 08-14-2012, 01:10 PM

I'm more of a Billy Bob's kind of guy, but I have heard we're due for a temperature drop for Friday and Saturday. Best of Luck.

**COHunter** · 08-14-2012, 01:13 PM

They were here last night!!! Unfortunately no tickets for me... although my office backs to the ampitheatre they played at, probably could have hung out in the parking garage and listened for free!!! Stupid responsibilities...

**acesn8s** · 08-15-2012, 09:10 AM

I was just listening to Heaven Can Wait on the morning commute. Up the Irons!

**SmoovD** · 08-15-2012, 10:29 AM

Even if metal/hard rock isn't your thing, Maiden puts on a great show. The entertainment level is set pretty high and they normally deliver.

**cb91710** · 08-15-2012, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by SmoovD

Even if metal/hard rock isn't your thing, Maiden puts on a great show. The entertainment level is set pretty high and they normally deliver.

Indeed. What I love about Maiden is they pull off the same sound live that they have on record.
Having 3 guitars certainly helps, but Bruce still has it.

**Welch's Grape** · 08-16-2012, 11:07 AM

I'll be there!!!!!! My awesome girlfriend suprised me with a pit ticket. She had been working a deal with my buddy since my birthday back in April. I'm so excited, they put on the greatest show. I'm not very familiar with the opening band this time. Last time they had Dream Theatre with them and they also put on a really good show.

**jpakstis** · 08-16-2012, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by JaDo

Not really my favorite style of music, but I always thought they had such cool album covers and artwork. The heat has been pretty brutal here. Hopefully, it doesn't make the crowd too crazy

They were one of my favorites as a teenager. I've "calmed" down since then, but when they did that "Live After Death" show a couple of years ago, I had to go. I used to listen to the original "Live After Death" tape when mowing the lawn; it was the perfect music because it was loud and long and our lawn mower was loud and slow!

The other great thing about that show (all they did was essentially "replay" their Powerslave tour from '86) was that everyone broke the rule of "don't wear a t-shirt of the band you're going to see." I also wore a fake mustache to look badass!

**showard** · 08-16-2012, 01:17 PM

And on the other end of the spectrum, my band is opening for Ray Price this Saturday.

**SmoovD** · 08-16-2012, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by showard

And on the other end of the spectrum, my band is opening for Ray Price this Saturday.

That is very cool. I can also dig me a little Ray Price shuffle every now and again.

**DMT** · 08-16-2012, 03:14 PM

I'd love to be going to a Maiden gig, it's been too long since I've seen them play. Eddie Rips Up Dublin was one of the best gigs I went to, nothing has ever compared to standing standing there and getting to hear the best songs their first 4 albums had to offer getting belted out live. A funny thing actually happened on the way home frm the gig. Around that time, metal culture was in the middle of a resurgence so long hair and metal fashion had become more common. As with any "new" social group we got some bad reactions especially from a group we call skangers (see description below) who liked to partake in recreational assaults on metal fans. On the way back from the gig, the bus was packed with maiden fans and there happened to be one skanger amongst us sitting there going between being agitated and brooding with a face on him like a smacked arse. When his stop came up he he stood at the door and shouted at the top of his voice "F**k everyone here wearing black, f**k everyone with long hair, and f**k Eddie!" He then stepped off the bus into a crowd of maiden fans and was promptly demolished. Kinda reminds me of when Captain Rhodes got ripped up in day of the dead.

Skanger - A type of delinquent whose hobbies include antisocial behaviour, assault, petty crime, and teen pregnancy. Males usually sport a bum-fluff moustache and an emperor Nero hairstyle and always have their name reduced to an abbreviation ending with O such as Anto, Deco or Berno making communication difficult in a crowd of male skangers. Their natural habitat is any corner at the side of any road in any town although they can also be found hanging around outside off licences in great numbers.

Females generally have a quiff or shoulder-length hair dripping of grease; a complexion akin to that of the surface of the moon and are mostly called Lizbehhh (Elizabeth) Naahilly (Nathalie) or Terraaayseee (Tracy). Accessories include a compulsory buggy for their compulsory child.

Skangers usually have a strict dress code of Nike, Reebok or Adidas tracksuits and trainers and a Burberry cap with the peak titled up at a 40 degree angle. This is true of both male and female skangers. Additional uniform items include a 'smoke' (cigarette) probably scabbed from some poor sod they've just accosted; bling of various types but mostly a gold neck chain (male) and Large hooped earrings (female) and massive sovereign rings (both)

Other recognisable traits include a loud over-exaggerated Dublin accent, practised at great length to increase their 'hardness' within the pack; and a tendency to say 'knawmean' every 2.8 seconds among other words such as 'staaary', 'bud' and 'ye fuggin wankohhh'; as well as aggressive body posture mimicking primate behaviour especially when spoken to by any member of the public about anything. To make themselves look cool while riding there mopeds, they tend not to wear helmets, instead they rest them on the top of their heads in such a way that ensures that should they crash the top half of their skulls will be split off.

**showard** · 08-16-2012, 03:21 PM

My musical tastes run all over the place. I wore out Maiden's Number of the Beast (Run to the Hills, Baby!) On cassette and promptly replaced it with the CD. My Ipod is an exercise in multiple personality disorder spanning most every decade of recorded music.

**SmoovD** · 08-17-2012, 06:20 PM

C&C just left the stage. Time for Maiden.

Up the Irons!

**DMT** · 08-18-2012, 01:38 PM

Come on let us have it , set list, best song, stand out moments!!!!

**SmoovD** · 08-18-2012, 02:16 PM

The show was excellent. The lads were in fine form, per usual. The set list was great, focused on the classic years up through Fear of the Dark. I really enjoyed The Prisoner, Wasted Years and the entire encore. They absolutely smoked Running Free. They even dressed Eddie as Gen. Custer...awesome show.

Set List:
1. intro tune- Doctor Doctor (UFO)
2. Moonchild
3. Can I Play With Madness
4. The Prisoner
5. 2 Minutes to Midnight
6. Afraid to Shoot Strangers
7. The Trooper
8. The Number of the Beast
9. Phantom of the Opera
10. Run to the Hills
11. Wasted Years
12. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
13. The Clairvoyant
14. Fear of the Dark
15. Iron Maiden
16. Encore:
17. Churchill’s Speech
18. Aces High
19. The Evil That Men Do
20. Running Free
21. Outro tune Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (Monty Python)