24. Interesting Band Stories (Iron Maiden)
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This article is from the Iron Maiden FAQ, by Vartan Narinian vsn@pobox.com and Steve Payne Sirpapa@aol.com with numerous contributions by others.
24. Interesting Band Stories (Iron Maiden)
* When the group went down to Nassau, Bahamas in early 1983, they earned some
nicknames. H was Melvin (the name for his alter-ego, basically whenever he
was *drunk*!), Dave was Nobby, Nicko was Boomer (because of his really foul
farts), Bruce was Conan The Librarian.
* Also in Nassau, the boys almost ran out of money. Credit cards were full,
and no cash on hand, and taking forever to cable money over from England.
So they put their faith in manager Rod Smallwood, and he walked down to
the casino with $50, and came back with $300, 6 nights in a row. :)
* The drum intro to Where Eagles Dare is another interesting story. This was
done right after Nicko entered the band in Dec '82/Jan '83, and when they
had begun recording Piece Of Mind. Steve Harris mentioned to Nicko that
they needed some kind of drum intro. Nicko was still kind of nervous,
etc., but he stayed in working almost all day on a drum intro for Where
Eagles Dare. At the end of the day, he had a little 6-7 second thing,
that entailed hitting basically every piece of his drum kit, going from
small tom to big tom, like a kind of ending to a song - and then jumped
into the chorus. The next day, Nicko played it for Steve and Steve said
"no...no...no...nothing like that...just something simple like rat-tat-
tat-tat....rat-tat-tat-tat (you get the idea)". (Steve apparently tried
to play something on Nicko's kit, but he's about as good as that as his
grandmother would be...) Nicko said "oh...you mean like this?" and played
it. "That's it!" replied Steve. What you hear on the LP is what it was
in the end.
* After a concert on October 13, 1979 at the Umist in Manchester, England,
Dave Murray apparently hit on (or did something to!) enough girls, and
pissed off enough boyfriends/guys, etc., that the next week there was
actually an article in SOUNDS magazine threatening to kick his ass! The
article read:
"I would just like to warn Dave Murray the lead guitarist of Iron Maiden
that if he steps foot inside Manchester again I will personally pummell his
brains in, cos he's ruined what I thought was an ace relationship with my
girlfriend. And may I point out that no matter how much she rubs his name
in my face I still think Deb Brown of Wythenshawe is the best yet.
--- Jealous Dave"
What a loser! :-)
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