when i get round to getting a bass what maiden song should i learn first?

going to work, post tomorrow sometime. bye all.

[QUOTE=sack-man]when i get round to getting a bass what maiden song should i learn first?[/QUOTE]

Great songs to play on Bass are: Revealations, The Trooper, Run To The Hills, POTO (Triplets are a bugger), Flight of Icarus, Infinite Dreams and Heaven Can Wait.

Heaven Can Wait was the first song I learned on Bass, it's really easy, 'cept for the solo bit...

phantom of the opera is fun to play on drums......and so is aces high

im writing a song in guitar pro is has a maiden feel to it, i think its pretty cool.

Ill send anyone the midi if they want to hear.

btw maiden rules! I also find it hilarious how bad the singing is on Children of Bodoms maiden covers, but the instruments are still good (I love their solo on Aces High)

when my band play aces high i think it sounds good on the bass

All Maiden Bass is good :thumb:

[QUOTE=GurS]In Rock in Rio, H says "If you party non stop for five months, you'll be dead". That's what Burr did. He went out and partied everynight on the beast on the road tour, and supposedly he even played one gig with a bucket next to the snare coz he kept throwing up. It had such an effect on him that he and the band wisely split ways - he had no control over himself and if he would have stayed in maiden he would have gone the way of Kieth Moon.

And while I feel that Nicko IS the better drummer, clive came up with more inventive drum beats, that I can't argue.[/QUOTE]

Hehe, thanks ! So it was mostly because of his drinking problem. Too bad, I think Clive was the man. I can't stop listening to early Maiden. He's got so much of drive. Yes, if he stayed, we wouldn't have Nicko today. I admit, Nicko is a fantastic drummer. I'm no drummer so I simply can't say which one of them is more technical, but I'll never agree that Nicko ever had so much of drive and energy in his playing as Clive did. :thumb:

Anyway, we've got Nicko. And he's the best drummer to fit Maiden :wave:

I don't think you can really compare Clive to Nicko. They have different sounds.

[QUOTE=ashman]All Maiden Bass is good :thumb:[/QUOTE]

'kin yeah! :thumb:

i never knew you was an bassist.. i thought you played guitar...

[QUOTE=Eddie-the-Trooper]'kin yeah! :thumb:

i never knew you was an bassist.. i thought you played guitar...[/QUOTE]

I do dabble in the Black art that is known as Bass... :lol:

I've been playing Bass for about a year and a half. I mainly play Guitar, but Bass is starting to be my true love. Infinite dreams is my favourite by far. :thumb:

i bought rock in rio just half an hour ago, but i dont think im going to watch it till christmas break

By the way, I was just curious, are all maiden members pure english??? or some of them are scottish, irish or someone else??? :thumb:

I can't remember, I think so. I think Janick has some other stuff in there somehere.

^ah yea, I think he has Polish roots or something like that

[QUOTE=btoto]^ah yea, I think he has Polish roots or something like that[/QUOTE]

I can't actually find anything about it, been searching for about 30 minutes and nothing. I know Steve is 100% British and so is H.

I just found out that the FOTD Album cover was done by another guy instead of Derek Riggs... :O

*Bump'd*

Where is everyone nowadays?

janicks parents were immigrants to the UK after WWII i think. janick grew up about 35 miles from me apparently, in wallsend (newcastle)

nowadays im sitting around at home doing absoloutley nothing, as its school holidays. although in 2 weeks i can start having driving lessons :thumb:

driving, eh? fun. i got my provisional but haven't been bothered to find a teacher yet

Janick sounds somewhat Scandinavian, but I haven't looked this up so I wouldn't know. I'm basically going on my knowledge of names.

[QUOTE=Eddie-the-Trooper]my favorite Maiden songs to play on Bass: Phantom and Rime.. they are purely AWSOME songs.. and great fun to play...,...(wow...dejavu...)[/QUOTE]

I don't think i'll ever get bored of playing POTO. Rime is cool too but its so long, good workout though.

[QUOTE=rik]I don't think i'll ever get bored of playing POTO. Rime is cool too but its so long, good workout though.[/QUOTE]

I could never play Rime like Steve, my fingers would just die...

[QUOTE=ashman]I could never play Rime like Steve, my fingers would just die...[/QUOTE]

like steve is pretty hard, but my fingers survive the song... i wish i was better... my guitarist is nuts.. he thinks im better than geddy Lee... :amaze: :lol:

Ha. Rush live = best thing ever.

one time i met iron maiden and we went to the democratic national convention with our lazor uzis and shot up all those pussys!! SERIOUSLY IT HAPPENED and then i banged 28 thousand girls at the same time!! IT HAPPENED SERIOUSLY and they were all hot!!!

[QUOTE=88_Fingers_Joe]Ha. Rush live = best thing ever.[/QUOTE]

oh yeah! "Rush in Rio" is one of the best music DVD's i have ever seen... Steve and Geddy Lee are my gods...

[QUOTE=EscalatorToAlgeria]one time i met iron maiden and we went to the democratic national convention with our lazor uzis and shot up all those pussys!! SERIOUSLY IT HAPPENED and then i banged 28 thousand girls at the same time!! IT HAPPENED SERIOUSLY and they were all hot!!![/QUOTE]

Sounds like fun...

wow that guy has issues

Serious issues! Like paranoid dilusionary schitzophrenia!

[QUOTE=GurS]driving, eh? fun. i got my provisional but haven't been bothered to find a teacher yet[/QUOTE]
at my works xmas party the other night i ended up with my driving teacher-to-be sitting on my lap :confused: i wonder how long my car's stereo will stand up to maiden being played at incredibly high volumes...
(btw my driving teacher is a woman)

[QUOTE=EvErLaSt]Serious issues! Like paranoid dilusionary schitzophrenia![/QUOTE]
too right......why the hell did he waste time saying that rubbish story?

Why are you wasting time wondering where he left thoose wasted years? :confused: Why dont you all realise we live in the golden years?

[QUOTE=ThrashMaster27]Janick sounds somewhat Scandinavian, but I haven't looked this up so I wouldn't know. I'm basically going on my knowledge of names.[/QUOTE]

Im Norwegian myself, and i dont know ANYONE who are called anything like Janick... it doesnt even sound swedish or Finnish... my bet is that its from poland, where janick actualy have family from :p

Have you heard that story when the guys were touring somewhere in Europe, they got news that Number Of The Beast reach #1 and after 10 minutes the "new rockstars" were pushing their bus which got stuck in snow. haha :thumb:

[QUOTE=sack-man]at my works xmas party the other night i ended up with my driving teacher-to-be sitting on my lap :confused: i wonder how long my car's stereo will stand up to maiden being played at incredibly high volumes...
(btw my driving teacher is a woman)[/QUOTE]


Yeah sure, he's a woman... :naughty:

[QUOTE=jadedS.B.CA21]Whats their best CD? I want to buy one.[/QUOTE]

I think that Dance of Death and Number of the beast is the two best cd's from maiden. Buy em'(recommended)

^No ! The very first album (Iron Maiden), Powerslave, Number Of The Beast are the best IMO. I like The X-Factor too.

Faaaaaaaaallin Doooooooooooown

how old
 

How old is Nicko McBrian?

^I don't know. Not older than 45 I guess

[QUOTE=btoto]^I don't know. Not older than 45 I guess[/QUOTE]

Michael (Nicko) McBrain - Born June 5, 1954.

So that makes him 50 :thumb:

Maiden Authority strikes again...