AlSymerz

Whatever. I hope you enjoy it. I hope you hate it.

You spent days a week or so back going on with others about how current Maiden is not for you and how you don't like Bruce. if that's not forming an opinion I don't know what is. My recommendation is don't listen to them, you gave FF a try and it wasn't your thing, Book Of Souls wont be either.

For me it is, but I don't expect you to like either side, partly because you've already formed an opinion of current Maiden but also because it's not 3 minute rinse and repeat songs.

Well it would have to be disc 1 for you because disc 2 contains an 18 min song. But that song is also one of the best songs Iron Maiden/Bruce has ever written. It also contains the shortest song on the album which they wrote about Robin Williams. However disc one also has a 13 min song on it so I'd suggest you don't bother listening to it at all.

I could probably listen to FF more if it was an instrumental. But then again I'm not sure I could listen to an 80 min instrumental. Fuck what a conflict! My favourite post 90's is Book Of Souls, even if it does go for 3 weeks

Final Frontier is the album that I think drags and definitely my least listened to Maiden album. Maiden - Book Of Souls

Not a bad album in their entire collection! Classics all of them!

Maiden - The Final Frontier

I'm surprised they ask for a CC number and not a money order or bank cheque!

Spent the morning trying to find a supplier of some Aussie native plants. What I wanted isn't rare and the family of said plant has hundreds of varieties available in just about every garden shop but the specific plant I want is hard to get. I've managed to find three places in Australia selling the exact thing. One place is overpriced and not getting my business but of the two others they are both "mail order only". I can't remember the last time I mail ordered something, it would have to be at least the 90's if not the 80's. Would probably have been some band t-shirt or something like that where the form was cut out of the back of a magazine and the details "clearly printed" in the space provided. I haven't got a magazine this time but I do have a link to a Word Document file which I can print out, fill out with with a pen using block letters, include my credit card details and then put in the mail and send the letter away. No email, no web store, no ecomm, although thanks to modern technology I can fax the form to them. I'm tempted to get my old fax out just to make it fill like old times!

Been busy. Had the Psychos playing in the car but haven't had much chance to just sit down and do nothing but listen to music. And there is 17 studio albums

Maiden - Matter Of Life And Death

Quantity not quality

The latest album is slightly better because they got a new singer (he actually took over from Ripper in Ripper's cover band when Ripper joined JP, although that's not a glowing reference). The 4th album still isn't great anything but it is better.

If you're a follower of players then you'll possibly recognise Gregies bass in Wreck-Defy. Many claim he was one of Testament's best bass players and he did go on to play with Melbourne band Meshiaak for a brief time. But he's one of those players that never seems to find himself a permanent band. He's been in Wreck-Defy now since their second album, they seem a bit disjointed and they seem to struggle to keep players. I don't think the new vocalist has quite settled in yet but he's probably got more potential than the guy they had on the first two albums

The smaller your hands the bigger what's in them! You've mentioned all the good parts. Maiden - Dance Of Death

We don't all have a miniature to play with.

Just another reason to put off something else in favour of doing something interesting.

I agree, but they haven't released a bad album in their history! And the cover is a bitch to do as a 2000 piece jigsaw.

Maiden - Brave New World

Pete broke the band up earlier this year due to his 'busy schedule" but he's decided to reform again with Vincent, Brown and Werner

Terrorizer are coming back in a few months so someone can ask the band if they want to be known as metal when they arrive.

Exactly

I'm the opposite. I use my phone for next to nothing, mainly given to the fact that mobile reception is so shit around here. But we have unlimited home internet, 5 GB on the phones and we pay $85 per month. Which is about $45 too much considering what the telcos in this country make.

Only city boys walk around cow shit. Well I did wake up the following day with a sore jaw, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.