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PODCAST: Episode 974 - "Iron Maiden - Burning Ambition" Documentary Review · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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What's up everybody? Late night Kifi, here goes
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cultman.com coming at you with another live stream.
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Music. I have had a crazy day.
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I think the garbage is about to get picked up outside my
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building like clockwork, so hopefully that won't be too
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distracting as you're about to hear the machinery of San
1:01
Francisco San Francisking behind me or in front of me.
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But I wanted to come on and do a live stream and struggling a
1:09
little bit with my mental health and I wanted to come on and do a
1:12
few live streams this week. There's some really cool stuff
1:15
to talk about. If you don't watch this live,
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maybe you can watch this on the replay or on our podcast.
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These shows are always podcasts at the end of the day.
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We do have a few people watching on YouTube.
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I appreciate you. It is late at night on the West
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Coast, which means it's late or early everywhere else in the
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world right now. But I wanted to come on and talk
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about the brand new Iron Maiden documentary, Burning Ambition.
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I thought it was really well done.
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I saw it about a week and a half ago, and I realize like not many
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people have had the chance to see it yet.
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So I wanted to make sure that I got to see it and bring you my
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real review right before everybody else.
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Mute myself for a minute while this commotion goes on outside
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the window. Yeah, I meant to get it done by
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now. And that's how it goes, folks.
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That's how it goes. But you know, if you're watching
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this live, I appreciate you. If you're here late at night,
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usually Tik Tok's always got some people on.
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YouTube's always got some people on late.
2:21
Brandon Machado, what up? What up?
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Some people are on TikTok at this hour.
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And my wonderful, amazing, gorgeous, beautiful fiance is
2:31
here way past her bedtime. But thank you, babe.
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I'll see you in about a day and a half, but I wanted to come on
2:38
and like I said, I wasn't feeling too well today and I
2:42
just wanted to make sure I got a couple of streams in this week.
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So the goal is I have a whole bunch of doctor's appointments
2:48
tomorrow just for some housekeeping.
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And then I'm going to Ichabod. Bain is also here.
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I have some doctor's appointments.
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I'm going to go see the Blood Incantation, All Gates Open
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documentaries, experience, and then I'm going to come home and
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probably eat dinner and then maybe do another stream.
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And there's some pretty banger albums coming out this week.
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I might want to do a review of at least one of them.
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But let's just talk quickly about Iron Maiden and the
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Burning Ambition documentary. Before I do that, a little bit
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of housekeeping. Recently I did a live stream on
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Jason Newsted's recent round of interviews.
3:27
Still a hey, Michael Licious is here and Buddha is my lot.
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I'm still a bucket list for me for Jason Eust that I would love
3:37
to get a chat with him, but he's been doing some phenomenal
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interview stuff lately. I'm really proud of him for
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speaking his truth always. Also this week, we had a brand
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new interview on our YouTube and podcast with King Ultra Mega,
3:51
including Bran Dollar of Mastodon and of course, the
3:55
founder of King Ultra Mega and Metal Allegiance, Mark Menge,
3:58
who we always have a good rapport, but Bran, just recently
4:03
they dropped King Ultra Mega, dropped their cover of Dead
4:05
Wishes. It was just Cornell's death of
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bursary, if you will. So a really deep, deep emotional
4:12
interview. I'm really proud of this one.
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I'm really honored to get a chance to talk to Bron and I
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hope eventually to talk to Mastodon someday formally.
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But I've hung out with the big guys.
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I've hung out with all the guys and I actually saw Mastodon
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before they were famous. Gigi fan is here.
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What up, What up Zozi as Zambi is here, I Zombie is here, Nami
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Queen lobby Jizz 001, I think also on the gram.
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So that interview came up and then in the morning, what's up
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Boo? In the morning our new interview
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with Sun Don't Shine is coming out and we've had a lot of
4:53
interviews with the guys from Sun Don't Shine, but this is
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really a first. Their debut album, full length
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album is out now, Birth to Death, and I talked to Kenny
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Hickey, you know him from Type O Negative.
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Q is here, What's up Q and Todd Strange, who I've met a bunch of
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times but never got to do an interview with.
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you're not only should you be listening to Sun Don't Shine
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because one of the best records this year so far, but Kenny
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Maiden and let's talk about burning ambition.
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So my wonderful fiance and I went to the movies here in San
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Francisco at the Metreon AMC. There were Thursday and Saturday
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showings. And I will tell you, the
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Thursday showings were all sold out, completely sold out.
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And I heard that that was the case in a lot of other cities.
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And then for the Saturday show, our theater wasn't completely
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full, but it certainly had a nice little crowd and they were
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very vocal and enjoyed the movie, as you would expect
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metalheads to do. Whenever there's one of these
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things like Fathom Events showing a Metallica concert or I
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remember going to the the movie theater on the Lower East Side
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of New York City, you see Day of the Guisano when Slipknot did
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their big Mexican concert film. That was insane.
9:04
I saw the Black Sabbath of final concert back from 2013 video.
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They're waiting to hear news about the back to the beginning.
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I think it's a rights thing. Kratos 666-9996 is here.
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What's up? Miss Parsley is here.
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Jimenez is here. Thanks for being here.
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I appreciate everybody for showing up and showing love.
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And we had a nice little crowd for this hour of the night, even
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folks watching on Facebook. I appreciate you.
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I appreciate you. It's nice to see people here.
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So Iron Maiden, right? We saw the dock.
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We we had spent some time in the city.
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We got a great lunch. And Oh my God, that that Spanish
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bread may not recover from that experience.
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But anyway, went to City Lights Books as you do in San
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Francisco. We're having a lovely weekend in
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town. And we went to see Burning
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Ambition. And I'll talk a little bit in a
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bit in in a few about how the band is trying to actually
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distance themselves from the documentary.
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But they them and their management authorized and paid
10:09
for this documentary to be made. So it's weird to see them
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separate themselves from it. Malcolm Venville is the director
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and it was written by David Teague.
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And I think when you're doing a documentary, the writer is also
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sort of a forecaster, if you will, about like how the films
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are made. But it was a pretty incredible
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overall experience. I'll start there.
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It told the whole history of the band and visa vie their impact
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on the world. Iron Maiden you, If you wanted
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to say that Iron Man is his greatest metal band ever, most
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people wouldn't fight you. Or some people will say Black
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Sabbath. Some folks will say Metallica,
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Megadeth, Slayer, Maiden, Shirley.
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On the Mount Rushmore of metal bands, they did not pay less
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attention to any era of the band, despite the fact that the
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main lineup of the band has been together, was together for 45
11:08
years. The most, you know, the most
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notable lineup, if you will. And I love that they told the
11:14
story from the very beginning, not quite in the early childhood
11:19
detail that the Led Zeppelin documentary did, becoming Led
11:23
Zeppelin, but enough, you know, enough of, you know, where Iron
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Maiden comes from, how they form, what drove them to make
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the music they make. And really, it kind of begins
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and ends, as always, with Steve Harris.
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Steve founded the band in 1975. This year is or 19.
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Yeah, 1976. This is the OR.
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Last year was the 50th anniversary of Iron Maiden.
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It's now into this year. They're touring on the Run For
11:50
Your Lives 50th anniversary tour.
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You know, it was always Steve's vision ultimately, and it's
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still is Steve's vision. He's written most of their
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songs, got the most writing credits in the band.
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He's written quite a good deal of their lyrics, the direction
12:04
of the music. And then as time has gone on,
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other, you know, Adrian Smith, Dave Murray, Bruce Dickinson,
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other people have had a hand in the writing, but it's really
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mostly Steve. And, and you can kind of see
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Steve's kind of driven direction is what led the band to be
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uncompromising and so successful and why they are so big beyond
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their music. Iron Maiden is a movement.
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Iron Maiden is a vibe. Iron Maiden is a phenomenon.
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And people who know about Iron Maiden just know Eddie Dead, the
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zombie mascot of the band. They just know Iron Maiden.
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They know them. The film has a bunch of people
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talking about the history of the band, not just the band members
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themselves. A lot of stuff from Rod
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Smallwood, their manager all these years.
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Actor Javier Bardem, who seems to show up everywhere lately, is
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a humongous metalhead and loves Iron Maiden.
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You know, Lars Ulrich was in there.
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I think people would be surprised at how glowingly he
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talked about the band. Metallic and Maiden have had
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rivalries forever, but there's a lot of mutual respect there.
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Chuck D talked about how he became aware of Iron Maiden and
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how important they were to him. Just their artwork and, and
13:21
Derek Riggs his artwork as, you know, just a huge fan of their
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and their shirts and how he became conscious of them as an
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important force in music when he was just getting into early hip
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hop and, and, you know, really just kind of becoming a
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professional artist himself. And, and by the way, Chuck D is,
13:40
you know, kind of has an art career.
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He has an art book out now of all his sketches from around the
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world is what he does in his spare time.
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He's got a history of hip hop out.
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So, you know, very fun to see Chuck pop up in the Iron Maiden
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documentary and they talk about the early days of the band and
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you know, they're early members and their earliest, you know,
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kind of formations. And there's a lot of love talked
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about Paul Diano, who passed away a year ago and just passed
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the one year anniversary of Paul passing.
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And you know, he's really important to the story of Iron
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Man. There is no Iron Maiden with
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Dickinson without Paul. And I know that there's like
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sort of there's some fans that only love the Paul stuff,
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believe it or not still. And there's people who think
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that, you know, Maiden just became so much bigger and better
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with Bruce because he was so bombastic and his range was
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incredible as a heavy metal singer.
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But Paul, when we did Iron Maiden on our earlier edition of
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the other podcast, I have the Glitch in the Musical podcast,
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we were astounded at Paul's really range and talent.
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Those first few albums. He took a lot of vocal chances.
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He was really at a time when traditional Hard Rock,
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especially classic rock and progressive rock, which Iron
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Maiden loves, but they dabbled in Prague.
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But much later when all the punk bands came along, Paul was kind
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of a punk. He was one of them.
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Or at least he looked very punky with his studs in his leather
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and his tude. And he was really essential for
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Iron Maiden crossing over and not being like, fuck these guys,
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these fogies, you know, these, these old guard people.
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They were welcomed as the new guard and came along right
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behind Judas Priest kind of right around the first Maiden
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album. Priest is becoming their full
15:32
form of a a real classic heavy metal band.
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The new wave of British heavy metal is coined in a magazine
15:39
article in 1978. Coincidentally, when Maiden
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comes around and you know, the film spends a lot of time on the
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early days of the band and the early lineup and the different
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drummers and guitarists who came through.
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But those first 2 Maiden records, the self-titled Iron
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Maiden album and Killers are are just phenomenal.
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And I know that maybe there are experts who will say that
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Maiden's court records are not even, you know, they're uneven,
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like a few absolute bangers, a couple of other good songs and
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some weak ones. That's most bands of that era.
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Most bands are, as Nick Cameron of Glacial Musical would say,
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3030 Thirty. But I think it's important to
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note that Maiden really was one of the first true heavy metal
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bands. They made heavy metal music for
16:26
heavy metal fans, and they really helped start a movement.
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Sabbath really did not embrace being metal until later, even
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though they were clearly metal. There are a lot of bands that
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are almost metal. There are a lot of songs that
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are metal ish in the history of Hard Rock and classic rock, but
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they're not metal bands until Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and
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Iron Maiden. And Maiden is absolutely in that
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Holy Trinity, especially before the American bands take hold and
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thrash metal becomes a thing. So then they go into the Bruce
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era, they get Bruce, they get they get the drummer from Samson
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Les Banks who then comes in and then Bruce comes in and you
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know, it really opens up the range of the bands and the run
17:11
of albums that Iron Maiden has, including Paul's albums.
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Those first 7 or 8 Iron Maiden noms are tremendous and they had
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a bunch of singles that are not album songs like Twilight Zone
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and things like that that were humongous before they were on
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albums or compilations or whatever, Aces High, things like
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that, that became singles. The band was wildly successful
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and humongous right out of the gate.
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Started in small clubs, people maybe weren't aware and then
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they just became a global phenomenon over time.
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And obviously with Bruce, they grew and grew, you know, number
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of the Beast, Power Slave, Somewhere in time, Peace of
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Mind. These are iconic albums.
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You know, some of their later stuff that live after Death is
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one of the greatest live albums in the 80s.
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It's a banger. I'm a big fan.
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I still like Fear of the Dark, which was the last album with
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Bruce and you know, they, it was kind of warts and all, you know,
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the good and the bad kind of the Bruce versus Steve and Adrian
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and Dave versus Bruce and Steve. And you know, Nico comes in and
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he really, he's also so physical and you know, Les is a great
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drummer, but you know, Nico is so physical as a drummer.
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He really put them over the top. He was able to support that over
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the top music with his playing ability, which, you know, you
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got to show respect, ultimate respect to.
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And then they talk about the fallout, like the band was
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starting to drift apart. And Bruce kind of told them at
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like halfway through a tour in 90, two or three, he was
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quitting. I'm doing a solo album and I'm
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leading the band. And, you know, they were angry
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and they were mad. And, you know, it really put a
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strain on things with Steve. And then they talked a lot about
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the Blaze era and Blazes interviewed.
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And he was like, I'm grateful for the chance to be in Maiden.
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Most of the fans embrace me. Some of them didn't.
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It's not, it's not Blaze's fault entirely that the material was,
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you know, diminishing and not as up to the classic material.
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Although some of that stuff is still great and the Klansman is
19:22
still played a lot and on tours and Blaze, you know, took it
19:28
right in the face from fans. There was a lot of people mad
19:30
and Bruce took it in the fan. I think Bruce didn't think maybe
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clearly like how big a star he thought he was versus how good
19:38
his solo albums are. I think those first few Bruce
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solo albums are terrific. Yo, Tito, what's up?
19:43
Good to see you, brother. I'm here talking about the Iron
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Maiden documentary late at night on the West Coast.
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You are up early on the East Coast.
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So yeah, man, really tremendous job.
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They gave a lot of respect to Blaze.
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And then it was kind of. You know, hey, we're not doing
20:01
so great. We went from doing arenas to
20:03
theaters to clubs again. And you know, Bruce wasn't doing
20:06
as well, even though he did some tremendous stuff.
20:09
I highly recommend you check out the Bruce Dickinson documentary
20:14
where he went to Bosnia Herzegovina and played a concert
20:19
in a war zone. I mean, it'd be the equivalent
20:21
of going to Gaza right now and putting on a concert.
20:25
And he put himself in the lion's mouth.
20:26
They were at risk of getting killed constantly and they put
20:29
on a tremendous show. That documentary is really
20:32
great. I saw that working a graveyard
20:34
shift got you, brother. That was really great.
20:36
A couple of years ago. I think I want to say on me,
20:39
right around the pandemic, that movie came out.
20:41
But Bruce comes back in and basically it's been 2526 years,
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27 years since Bruce came back in.
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Fun fact, my band Grunt was featured in the Metal Maniacs
20:53
issue where they announced Bruce's return to the band.
20:56
It was also really no social media, barely any social media
20:59
back then, just YouTube and websites.
21:02
And so our band was featured, my demo and our was reviewed and
21:06
you were featured at the back pages of Metal Maniacs with
21:10
Bruce Dickinson on the cover. I think I still have a copy
21:12
somewhere. If not, I need to pick one up
21:15
because I'm in it my very mean looking Karl Hart hoodie days.
21:21
But anyway, then they take us up through now up through the last
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few years. You know, I'll talk about Nico
21:30
stepping down and Simon Dawson coming in, which we did a whole
21:34
live stream about last year when that got announced.
21:37
You know, the band has tried to put some distance between them
21:39
and the documentary, which to me is confusing because like, OK,
21:45
people get, you know, like you've, you gave the director
21:49
the final edit. They're going to put out what
21:52
they saw and heard and the story that was told to them.
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They're going to retell. And so if you don't have the
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final edit and cut on the film, it's going to come out unbiased,
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which I think is the best that's actually documented.
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Documentary film is about telling the truth and telling an
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independent idea, not some, you know, whitewashed storytelling.
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So I thought it was really cool that it was warts and all, and
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that Bruce and Steve were mad at each other and they had to all
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get in the room and get on a call and be like, what do you
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think about Bruce coming back in?
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Well, you know, took a little thawing out of the, of the
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freeze of the two of them to make it work.
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And I guess they don't like I, I mean, I couldn't think of what
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else they wouldn't want told. And that would be it.
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The, the rift between the band, the how it how it split, how
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they came back. Maybe they didn't want that out
22:43
there. But to me, that's what makes it
22:45
great. It's one of the things that
22:47
makes it great. I know that Dennis Stratton, the
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first one of the first Iron Maiden guitar players who was on
22:55
the debut Iron Maiden album before he left, complained that
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there's not enough mentions of him.
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Dude, you're on one album. I appreciate that he's on that
23:04
first album, but he's not essential to the story of Iron
23:08
Maiden and being in it. You know, Steve was like Steve
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and Rod Small would go for like, I don't know how we feel about
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this, but I thought it was great.
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I thought it was really well done.
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I think when it finally comes to on demand, fans should go see
23:24
this. If you love Iron Maiden, if you
23:25
love metal, you definitely want to see this.
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Hey Suzanne, what's up? I see you are there, maybe
23:30
watching two on Facebook. Here's a great picture of Bruce
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on the last Iron Maiden tour a year and a half ago by Omar.
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They are. You know, Nico stepped down.
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He had the stroke. He really had.
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We didn't know anything about it until after he had come through
23:47
it. But he really almost lost his
23:49
ability to play drums. Tito knows.
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So, you know, Tito's a drummer, how hard it would be to have,
23:54
like, a debilitating stroke. And drumming is so physical and
23:58
taxing and you need your whole body and your whole essence to
24:02
play drums. Even if you're in a, you know, a
24:04
Dune band, you need so much work physically to play drums.
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And he had to learn how to re drum.
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And maybe felt like on the last tour that he played on, he was
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sort of just barely covering the parts and he wasn't as good
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anymore. I saw a Maiden a couple of years
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ago and I didn't think they were at all slipping, but maybe like
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he played enough that you didn't notice.
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I know people now we have the Internet, you can rewatch videos
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over and over about how good or not good Lars is.
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Whatever. We don't suffer any large
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slander here at Ghost Code, Man. Not to me.
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Not not, not other than what he deserves.
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Not extra slander. But you know, that was tough.
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And they moved on with Simon Dawson from Bruce's solo band at
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times. And they've been apparently very
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solid and good. You know, they're on this Run
24:58
for Your Lives tour around the world.
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They're coming to the States this summer and fall with
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Megadeth and Anthrax. On certain dates for Anthrax,
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but Megadeth on every day. I'd love to get to one of these
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shows. I don't know how much longer
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we're going to have. Iron Maiden.
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They did do, and they have an Iron Maiden kind of festival
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now, like a convention that's going to take place every year
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in England and maybe they're going to play that convention
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and eventually I could see them dropping down and just doing
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that. Nikko has a book coming out.
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I thought the Bruce book was very good.
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Adrian's book. Adrian Smith's book was not
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good. Despite what a personable and
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great person he is and great guitar player and a great
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performer. I thought his book was pretty
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lame. Nikko's book, which is going to
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be deeply personal and talk about a lot about his stroke.
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Hello, boys and girls. Which he used to say from the
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stage at the end of every show when he threw out his wristbands
25:52
and his jock and stuff, which is like, imagine if you get hit in
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the face with his sweaty ball jock strap thing.
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But that's coming out in October.
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So I'm very looking. You know, one of the most
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anticipated rock memoirs to come out this year along with Kim
26:09
Dial of Soundgarden. And you know, Nico is still
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playing. He has Iron Maiden cover band,
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Titanium Tart. He's got his ribs placed in
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Florida. I love Iron Maiden and I know I
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love Nico. I don't know if I want to go to
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Florida just to get ribs, but Tito, maybe you can help me out
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with that. Tell me if you've ever been
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there. But yeah, man, I highly
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recommend seeing this thing. It's got a great cast.
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A lot of people tell the story of Maiden.
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I don't think it's like washed over.
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I think it's pretty great. IMDb has this.
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Technically it's 7.6 out of 19 reviews just in case you care
26:47
about such things. And on Rotten Tomatoes it's 83
26:53
on the tomato meter and 95% on the popcorn meter. 12 reviews on
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the tomato tomato meter, which I think is like professional
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reviewers, and 95% of fans. So that's 250 plus verified
27:09
ratings. Tremendous job of putting 50
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years of Iron Maiden love and lore into a documentary and
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again, I got the opportunity to see it, so I wanted to share it
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with all of you just in case I it has not been yet announced
27:27
for streaming and on demand and for purchase I'm sure it will
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be. Let me know in the comments if
27:32
you're interested in seeing this or you don't care about band
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biographies. Let me know what other stuff
27:37
you'd like me to review and share with you.
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I'm back tomorrow night with another live stream, probably an
27:44
album review of an album coming out this Friday and a pretty
27:46
notable one for metal. And of course, every Thursday I
27:51
do my live stream, the weekly Ritual, the rock and Metal news
27:55
show. Once again, if you're here for
27:57
the first time and you like what you saw, like and subscribe.
27:59
If not, that's cool, drop some comments, whether you what you
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don't like. I read them all, I take them all
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in and I make notes. That's it for me y'all have a
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good day. I will be back later today I
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guess in about 1617 hours. 18 hours.
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Peace have a good night. Up the irons forever maiden have
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a good one. Good night.