Iron Maiden June 14

**Bugbear** · 18th June 10, 03:46 PM

Eek!! No one told me...

Hmmm, just found out my niece was at the same sho as you, Hawk.

**Nighthawk** · 18th June 10, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by Bugbear

Eek!! No one told me...

Hmmm, just found out my niece was at the same sho as you, Hawk.

Nice! Too bad I didn't know!

**Bugbear** · 18th June 10, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

Nice! Too bad I didn't know!

Exactly what I was thinking.

**Nighthawk** · 18th June 10, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by Bugbear

Exactly what I was thinking.

She would have had fun hanging out with us. (Was that sarcasm?

)

**Bugbear** · 18th June 10, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

She would have had fun hanging out with us. (Was that sarcasm?

)

Would have fit right in. Child of the Mosh; inked with face metal.

**NorCalPiper** · 21st June 10, 11:03 AM

OK...I have the saddest Iron Maiden story EVER. When I was in Jr.High, Iron Maiden came to Atlanta for their Aces High tour. My friend and I concocted a typical juvenile scheme to fool the parents "I'm spending the night over there", while he told his parents "I'm spending the night with Josh". You get the picture. We paid my friends older brother to buy tickets and take us to the show and let us stay with him in his apartment. We mowed a LOT of lawns to get the money!!

So the night came, and we were soooo excited. EVERYTHING was going to plan. Neither of us had been to a concert, and I'm sure you can understand what 2 14 year olds were feeling! We get to the Omni in Atlanta and go ine...We were crazed with excitement-We felt sooo....rebellious. We both chipped in and bought a Iron Maiden black concert T of Eddie in his spitfire that we agreed to share-1 week me, 1 week him.

So the opening act plays. It was Ace Frehly from Kiss and his band outside kiss....he sucked and was booed off the stage after about 4 songs....no joke-26k people booing is quite a sound!

So we waited.....and waited....and waited....Chanting started and FINALLY one of the members came out on stage to announce that the lead singer had suffered blunt trauma about 30 minutes prior and that the concert was going to be cancelled and rescheduled. We were CRUSHED! It was almost a riot in the Omni..So much so that my friends brother really hustled us out as chairs were being ripped from their bolts and other projectiles began flying...

It was the worst...Just the worst. I never got a chance again to see Iron Maiden....

**Nighthawk** · 22nd June 10, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by NorCalPiper

OK...I have the saddest Iron Maiden story EVER. When I was in Jr.High, Iron Maiden came to Atlanta for their Aces High tour. My friend and I concocted a typical juvenile scheme to fool the parents "I'm spending the night over there", while he told his parents "I'm spending the night with Josh". You get the picture. We paid my friends older brother to buy tickets and take us to the show and let us stay with him in his apartment. We mowed a LOT of lawns to get the money!!

So the night came, and we were soooo excited. EVERYTHING was going to plan. Neither of us had been to a concert, and I'm sure you can understand what 2 14 year olds were feeling! We get to the Omni in Atlanta and go ine...We were crazed with excitement-We felt sooo....rebellious. We both chipped in and bought a Iron Maiden black concert T of Eddie in his spitfire that we agreed to share-1 week me, 1 week him.

So the opening act plays. It was Ace Frehly from Kiss and his band outside kiss....he sucked and was booed off the stage after about 4 songs....no joke-26k people booing is quite a sound!

So we waited.....and waited....and waited....Chanting started and FINALLY one of the members came out on stage to announce that the lead singer had suffered blunt trauma about 30 minutes prior and that the concert was going to be cancelled and rescheduled. We were CRUSHED! It was almost a riot in the Omni..So much so that my friends brother really hustled us out as chairs were being ripped from their bolts and other projectiles began flying...

It was the worst...Just the worst. I never got a chance again to see Iron Maiden....

Oh... That sucks!! When I saw Maiden in 1987, Twisted Sister were opening for them (I think!) and their singer ended up in the hospital as well. Maiden played like an extra half hour to make up for the lack of an opening band.