Queen and Iron Maiden

Dr Magus wrote:

I'm a big fan of Iron Maiden. Not many bands have a frontman who also flies the band around the world in a 747. Doens't get any more rock'n'roll than that!

Not many bands have a guitarist who has a doctorate in astronomy!

And it wasn't a 747! And the truth is that while Bruce flew the band he was a flight crew member who shared the duties with a more senior pilot!

Vocal harmony wrote:

Dr Magus wrote:

I'm a big fan of Iron Maiden. Not many bands have a frontman who also flies the band around the world in a 747. Doens't get any more rock'n'roll than that!

Not many bands have a guitarist who has a doctorate in astronomy!

And it wasn't a 747! And the truth is that while Bruce flew the band he was a flight crew member who shared the duties with a more senior pilot!

Fair enough but Bruce is still a dude. He was also a fencer and could quite easily carve a Z in Brian's chest before Brian could even take his clogs off.

Holly2003 wrote:

Vocal harmony wrote:

Dr Magus wrote:

I'm a big fan of Iron Maiden. Not many bands have a frontman who also flies the band around the world in a 747. Doens't get any more rock'n'roll than that!

Not many bands have a guitarist who has a doctorate in astronomy!

And it wasn't a 747! And the truth is that while Bruce flew the band he was a flight crew member who shared the duties with a more senior pilot!

Fair enough but Bruce is still a dude. He was also a fencer and could quite easily carve a Z in Brian's chest before Brian could even take his clogs off.

Yeah. ...but without the sword, Brian could always just hold him at arm's length (*not that they'd fight or have any reason to at all)

matt z wrote:

Holly2003 wrote:

Vocal harmony wrote:

Dr Magus wrote:

I'm a big fan of Iron Maiden. Not many bands have a frontman who also flies the band around the world in a 747. Doens't get any more rock'n'roll than that!

Not many bands have a guitarist who has a doctorate in astronomy!

And it wasn't a 747! And the truth is that while Bruce flew the band he was a flight crew member who shared the duties with a more senior pilot!

Fair enough but Bruce is still a dude. He was also a fencer and could quite easily carve a Z in Brian's chest before Brian could even take his clogs off.

Yeah. ...but without the sword, Brian could always just hold him at arm's length (*not that they'd fight or have any reason to at all)

I find your premise that Bruce would not have a sword with him at all times to be quite improbable.

Holly2003 wrote:

matt z wrote:

Holly2003 wrote:

Vocal harmony wrote:

Dr Magus wrote:

I'm a big fan of Iron Maiden. Not many bands have a frontman who also flies the band around the world in a 747. Doens't get any more rock'n'roll than that!

Not many bands have a guitarist who has a doctorate in astronomy!

And it wasn't a 747! And the truth is that while Bruce flew the band he was a flight crew member who shared the duties with a more senior pilot!

Fair enough but Bruce is still a dude. He was also a fencer and could quite easily carve a Z in Brian's chest before Brian could even take his clogs off.

Yeah. ...but without the sword, Brian could always just hold him at arm's length (*not that they'd fight or have any reason to at all)

I find your premise that Bruce would not have a sword with him at all times to be quite improbable.

This I believe to be true, however not only is Brian 18 feet taller than Mr Dickinson he also has the weighty neck of his guitar with which to club Bruce over the head with thus rendering him even slightly shorter than he would already appear!

Rock n'Roll is a tough life!

Partial to a bit of Maiden. But I do like to keep all those metallers out of my Queen sphere.

Dim wrote:

Sanctury borrows the Keep yourself alive riff.

Think you mean the Ogre Battle riff.

I love Maiden myself but in fairness, there was already a lot of heavy rock bands there and Freddie wasn't all about heavy rock - even though that was part of his life (big fan of Zeppelin, Hendrix, Rory Gallagher etc).

Metallica, Def Leppard and Guns N Roses were all arguably bigger than Maiden worldwide at the time and Extreme were a relatively new band but very obviously influenced by Queen.

Brian and Rog said they had to turn some artists down, I would love to have seen that list.
I was surprised that the Quo weren't there really, given how friendly they were with Queen.