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Re: THE Iron Maiden Thread
« Reply #4410 on: June 17, 2014, 04:18:20 PM »
Wow, killer.
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« Reply #4411 on: June 17, 2014, 04:21:19 PM »
That double bass makes it killer! :lol
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« Reply #4412 on: June 17, 2014, 05:10:12 PM »
Yea the double bass rawks! I also love the great balls of fire thingy during the first verse.
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« Reply #4413 on: June 17, 2014, 09:11:39 PM »
That's just fucking brilliant   :biggrin:
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« Reply #4414 on: July 27, 2014, 02:14:44 PM »
Listening to Piece of Mind a lot lately . . . and I can't get over the fact that on most of the tunes, you can't hear the bass drum AT ALL. I mean, what the heck? TNOTB had a thunderous bass drum sound (Prisoner intro for example) but POM loses quite a bit of punch because of that deficiency.  Of course, whatever there was of it is buried under Nicko's OCD spamming of the ride cymbal. Great album anyway.
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Re: THE Iron Maiden Thread
« Reply #4415 on: July 27, 2014, 03:26:50 PM »
The mix is generally pretty bad.  Still a classic album though. 
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« Reply #4416 on: July 27, 2014, 03:32:34 PM »
My favorite Maiden album.
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Re: THE Iron Maiden Thread
« Reply #4417 on: July 30, 2014, 02:45:30 AM »
Iron Maiden fans start online petition to bring back original Eddie artist.

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/iron-maiden-bring-back-derek-riggs
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« Reply #4418 on: July 30, 2014, 04:35:30 AM »
Pass. The covers are fine without Riggs.
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« Reply #4419 on: July 30, 2014, 05:19:35 AM »
Quote from: Zydar on July 30, 2014, 02:45:30 AM
Iron Maiden fans start online petition to bring back original Eddie artist.

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/iron-maiden-bring-back-derek-riggs

No point when they aren't releasing albums.  I'd rather a petition for the band to get their asses in the studio.

Actually, a petition to use a different producer would be more productive, who gives a shit about the covers.
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Re: THE Iron Maiden Thread
« Reply #4420 on: July 30, 2014, 05:53:22 AM »
Quote from: wolfking on July 30, 2014, 05:19:35 AM
Quote from: Zydar on July 30, 2014, 02:45:30 AM
Iron Maiden fans start online petition to bring back original Eddie artist.

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/iron-maiden-bring-back-derek-riggs

No point when they aren't releasing albums.  I'd rather a petition for the band to get their asses in the studio.

Actually, a petition to use a different producer would be more productive, who gives a shit about the covers.
I do and have been since I first discovered IM. Looking at their covers and finding hidden messages and nuggetz was a big part of Maiden for me, atleast when I was younger. Looking at the SbiT vinyl while listening to the music was one of the reasons why Maiden stood out from other bands back in the day. That was something Derek Riggs did amazingly well.
When I look at the The Final Frontier cover for example it's just dead to me, nothing that makes it alive or adventures.

I also don't dig future Eddie, I just can't. Call it "caught in nostalgica" or whatever, that's just my opinion. Derek Riggs was immensly important back in the day. Unfourtunately buying albums and especially looking at the cover is a dying trend these days it seems, yes vinyls are a thing which is cool of course but not as big though as CDs and digital downloading.





Compared to this:



or this:



There's so much happening in the periphery. Kind of like how detailed Don Rosa would do it.
So I would love for Riggs to come back but I don't think that would ever happen.
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« Reply #4421 on: July 30, 2014, 06:01:14 AM »
Im also not a big fan of TFF cover or art work as well as DoD's, but I like AMoLaD and BNW's.  Those album covers are great IMO.  I understand people werent crazy about the new Eddie's, but I just see it as an evolution of Eddie just like the evolution of the music.

Id also rather see a petition for them to make more music or to tour more (and have more diverse set lists) as those to me are way more important than an artist who is not really needed since they arent releasing anything.
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« Reply #4422 on: July 30, 2014, 06:05:02 AM »
Or how about not petitioning about anything and just letting them do their thing?
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Re: THE Iron Maiden Thread
« Reply #4423 on: July 30, 2014, 06:10:19 AM »
Quote from: Scorpion on July 30, 2014, 06:05:02 AM
Or how about not petitioning about anything and just letting them do their thing?

Well yea that too. 
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« Reply #4424 on: July 30, 2014, 06:12:45 AM »
Quote from: Scorpion on July 30, 2014, 06:05:02 AM
Or how about not petitioning about anything and just letting them do their thing?
Sounds good to me. Of all the bands in the world, Iron Maiden is the one I trust the most. And I'm pretty sure they'll be heading to the studio this fall to work on new music. The cover will probably be fine, especially after AMOLAD and TFF, which are two of my favorite Maiden album covers.
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« Reply #4425 on: July 30, 2014, 06:13:33 AM »
Quote from: Scorpion on July 30, 2014, 06:05:02 AM
Or how about not petitioning about anything and just letting them do their thing?

Fucking this.

Seriously, I get that the older covers a a lot better than the newer ones, but a petition like this is fucking stupid.  Does anyone really think the band would give a shit anyway?  And if they did use Derek again, it would be because they chose to, not a stupid bunch of people having cry over it.

Surely Maiden fans would understand now that the band doesn't give a fuck and does every thing their way, no compromise.  It's been that way since 76, nothings gonna change now.
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« Reply #4426 on: July 30, 2014, 07:06:35 AM »
I couldn't care less about a petition and Maiden will certainly not care about it. If DR is invited back by the band I would be happy of course but I don't see that ever happen.
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« Reply #4427 on: July 30, 2014, 07:20:13 AM »
Quote from: MrBoom_shack-a-lack on July 30, 2014, 07:06:35 AM
I couldn't care less about a petition and Maiden will certainly not care about it. If DR is invited back by the band I would be happy of course but I don't see that ever happen.

No, I don't think so either.  If for some reason they collaborated again, it would indeed be great.
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« Reply #4428 on: July 30, 2014, 08:28:23 AM »
Quote from: Scorpion on July 30, 2014, 06:05:02 AM
Or how about not petitioning about anything and just letting them do their thing?

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Re: THE Iron Maiden Thread
« Reply #4429 on: July 31, 2014, 08:03:57 PM »
Quote from: wolfking on July 30, 2014, 05:19:35 AM
Actually, a petition to use a different producer would be more productive, who gives a shit about the covers.
Meh. As long as Steve is in the band, the albums are going to have shit production.
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Re: THE Iron Maiden Thread
« Reply #4430 on: July 31, 2014, 09:05:16 PM »
Maybe a petition to remix Piece of Mind?
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Re: THE Iron Maiden Thread
« Reply #4431 on: August 11, 2014, 05:40:43 AM »
Uhm, I was going to post something stupid like: didn´t Riggs die in ´88 or something, but he´s alive and well, even has a facebook page!

Some work of his:

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Re: THE Iron Maiden Thread
« Reply #4432 on: August 11, 2014, 07:09:51 AM »
'modern' Riggs' stuff is pretty terrible.
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« Reply #4433 on: August 11, 2014, 07:35:39 AM »
Didn't Riggs stop working for Maiden because he felt the band (read Rod Smallwood) was ripping him off? He was under contract to IM, and when that ended, the band suggested he submit stuff unpaid, and they'd only pay him if they used it. He walked.

He's done loads of stuff for then since - the most recent being the Flight 666 poster where Eddie is ripping the top of the plane - but they've never used it as the "black and white photo collage" look was obviously better(?).



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« Reply #4434 on: August 11, 2014, 03:15:00 PM »
Yeah I think that, coupled with the unrealistic time frames he was given to complete the art, was why he left.  I read somewhere that sometimes he apparently had to carry wet paintings in taxi's to take to Rod at his beck and call. 

I just realised how the artwork to TFF is almost like a reimagining of the FOTD artwork.  Hm.  Well 'reimagining' might be a stretch.  I think its just Eddie's position on the cover.
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« Reply #4435 on: August 11, 2014, 05:04:49 PM »
Quote from: sneakyblueberry on August 11, 2014, 07:09:51 AM
'modern' Riggs' stuff is pretty terrible.

I thought the same thing.
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« Reply #4436 on: August 11, 2014, 05:07:24 PM »
Quote from: sneakyblueberry on August 11, 2014, 03:15:00 PM
I just realised how the artwork to TFF is almost like a reimagining of the FOTD artwork.  Hm.  Well 'reimagining' might be a stretch.  I think its just Eddie's position on the cover.
Both were painted by Melvyn Grant. That might be part of it.

Riggs was apparently treated pretty poorly by Maiden's management. He is not nice to them on his website.

The story behind the Flight 666 painting is that Maiden would only pay him if they ended up using it, Riggs was not ok with that and didn't give it to them to use. That painting is actually unfinished, after he got that offer he stopped working on it.
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Re: THE Iron Maiden Thread
« Reply #4437 on: August 11, 2014, 06:33:29 PM »
Quote from: Mosh on August 11, 2014, 05:07:24 PM
Quote from: sneakyblueberry on August 11, 2014, 03:15:00 PM
I just realised how the artwork to TFF is almost like a reimagining of the FOTD artwork.  Hm.  Well 'reimagining' might be a stretch.  I think its just Eddie's position on the cover.
Both were painted by Melvyn Grant. That might be part of it.

Ah yes, of course.
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« Reply #4438 on: August 12, 2014, 09:41:24 AM »
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« Reply #4439 on: August 26, 2014, 02:10:14 PM »
For those that are interested, Iron Maiden are releasing vinyl reissues this fall.

https://bravewords.com/news/iron-maiden-classic-80s-vinyl-reissues-on-the-way-details-revealed

Look awesome, especially the singles series. Love the Collector's Box.

Personally, I'm not interested.. But it looks like a great collection.
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« Reply #4440 on: August 26, 2014, 02:13:17 PM »
I saw that on facebook this morning.  Looks cool for collectors and I agree, the singles look really cool.  I am also not interested because I do not collect such things or even listen to vinyl anyway. 
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« Reply #4441 on: August 26, 2014, 09:29:06 PM »
Lego Iron Maiden!

Rock in Rio version of "The Wicker Man" gets the Lego treatment  ;D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKWhtmkM2eA
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« Reply #4442 on: August 26, 2014, 09:43:30 PM »
Quote from: WebRaider on August 26, 2014, 09:29:06 PM
Lego Iron Maiden!

Rock in Rio version of "The Wicker Man" gets the Lego treatment  ;D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKWhtmkM2eA

Wow, this is simply unreal!!
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« Reply #4443 on: August 27, 2014, 12:14:40 AM »
That was awesome!!
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« Reply #4444 on: August 27, 2014, 03:25:04 AM »
 :metal Love that he nails the jumps Bruce does. I saw on his page that he started this project about 6 years ago.  :lol
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