Iron Maiden Slays Rivals on U.K. Album Chart

Billboard.com ^ | August 23rd, 2010 | Paul Sexton

[wastedyears]

Not sure about their posting rules so I'll leave this as-is.

[Mr. Blonde]

Even though NPR isn’t supposed to be a popular thing here, they do an amazing job with music.

[a fool in paradise]

It’d be interesting to figure out how many rock and rollers were also pilots.

I’d add Dick Dale (surf guitarist), Deniz Tek (Radio Birdman), and Rob Lind (The Sonics) to that list.

I think Rob flew for United.

[a fool in paradise]

Looks like even in Oklahoma, The Flaming Lips don't make the rotation of new or old cuts.

Their current album is a reinterpretation of Dark Side of the Moon.

[Frantzie]

Rob Dickinson of Iron Maiden? It was a charter airline in Europe. I think charters between airport north of London to probably Spain. I think mainly 737’s. I think articles are still archived on UK Telegraph and other papers.

They are smart guys. Find another outlet then come back together to work. Some bands become a poisonous atmosphere. Pink Floyd and Roger Waters.

[a fool in paradise]

Rob Lind of the Sonics. I read online that he was also a fighter pilot in Vietnam.

Bruce Dickinson is in Iron Maiden. Both fly jet airliners.

The Sonics were 1960s garage punk, and have been labelled Tacoma/Seattle’s proto-grunge band.
http://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Sonic-Sonics/dp/B0000073YU/ref=pd_rhf_shvl_2

They were famously tributed in 1988 by bands that later would find fame in the 1990s as grunge came to the masses:
Girl Trouble
Mono Men
The Original Sins
Nomads
Game for Vultures
Surf Trio
Screaming Trees
The Cynics
Young Fresh Fellows
Thee Headcoats
Fallouts (with pre members of Ministry)
Marshmellow Overcoat
Pippi Eats Cherries
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper

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Kurt Cobain of Nirvana said in an interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette on CITR-FM, discussing drum sounds,”I, I have to admit... The Sonics recorded very, very cheaply on a two track you know, and they just used one microphone over the drums, and they got the most amazing drum sound I’ve ever heard. Still to this day, it’s still my favorite drum sound. It sounds like he’s hitting harder than anyone I’ve ever known.”

[Frantzie]

Cool. Recorded on a two track and got an amazing drum sound with one mic over the drums. I will have to check them out.

Allen Ravenstine - synthesizer, oboe, tapes. He was in Pere Ubu from Cleveland, Ohio who were contemporaries of Devo from Akron, OH. He became an airline pilot with Northwest.

[representativerepublic]

I believe Nico McBrain lives in Bradenton. Which infuriates me that they don’t play in Florida except for one show last year in Ft. Lauderdale that sold out in like two minutes. I think this new album will be their swan song. They better tour in Florida because I have never seen them live in the 28+ years I have listened to them.

Up the Irons!

[Grizzled Bear]

Metal Ping!

Thanks Wasted Years!

[Fred Hayek]

My view of the Iron Maiden crew is if they ever retire from rock, they should go back to school. To teach! The lyrics produced by that band gives the impression that their spare time reading is history and the classics.

Can anyone see Bruce Dickinson giving walking tours through battlefields in Flanders and France?

[death2tyrants]

I’ll be looking forward to hearing their new album. Their last one, A Matter of Life and Death, was top notch!

[mitch5501]

Saw them in '82 and '84 and have my ticket for the 2011 sound wave festival which they are headlining here in Adelaide.

Can't wait!

[nonliberal]

My contention for years is that there have only ever been four heavy metal bands:

Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Motorhead. Everyone else just copies them.