Classic Rock (Phil Collins lives, run for the hills)

Protein Junkie said:
Ah the days of buying Sounds and NME every Thursday as a teenager in the late 70s.
Used to hang on every word written in the former.
I have one album of each of those bands. I do think both of them have highlights - Photograph and Number of the Beast especiallly.
Iron Maiden have a very loyal fan base and I remember trekking to the famous Ruskin Arms to witness DJ Neal Kay back in the day.
Great times my friend.
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I have quite a lot of albums by both bands although I resisted their "charms" for quite a long time. Saw them as support acts several times including Leps supporting Ozzy in a field in New England and Maiden opening for UFO in Long Beach in 1981 when on holiday. We were backstage for UFO / Maiden thanks to Sounds journalist (the sadly late) Pete Makowski and photographer Ross Halfin who were on tour with UFO.

Leps finally won me over with Hysteria. Only started buying Maiden albums in last ten years; don't love them but they do what they do well. Actually going to see them next year, which will be first time for a long time and first time I've bought a ticket to see them headline although I think I went to Donngton when they were top of the bill but they weren't the reason for going.

I'll see Leppard a few days before Maiden. If you had told me 40 years ago I'd see those two bands headlining shows now, I'd have laughed at you.

Also saw Billy Squier in New York on that 1981 trip - again courtesy of the boys from Sounds.
 
Yeah, I’m also off to see Maiden; I won’t bother seeing them in a field anymore but the chance to see them in a “relatively small” indoor arena is warranted I think. Their last couple of albums still have a few great tracks. Some love for their early days on here, which I get, but if they hadn’t evolved, and were still following the Di’Anno route, they’d have become a parody long before now.
 
For anybody interested, there's a Genesis tribute act on at Manchester Academy 3, tomorrow night. They're called Visible Touch.
I saw them just before the first lockdown, recreating the 1980 DUKE tour, and they were superb. Very faithful to the songs, and the singer even sounds Collinsesque. Musicianship is fantastic.

I'm hoping to go, but there's a train strike the following day, and I might be bollocksed for the last train home to Warrington. Just hoping it isn't cancelled
 
MCFCTrick said:
I recall Sound's (and later Kerrang! editor) Geoff Barton raving about Iron Maiden and Def Leppard in his reviews of their early singles. I bought one of them, Running Free. Honestly couldn't see what the fuss was about it.
Never became a fan at all, but now when I hear them on the radio, I far prefer the stuff with Paul DiAnno singing, to the aptly nicknamed 'Foghorn' that is Bruce Dickinson.

But they have a loyal fanbase, and can still sell out arena tours, so what do I know, lol.
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I always felt Barton was a bit too full of himself. Seemed to big up Def Leppard very early on and championed them - but when they released "Hello America" and became the first of the NWOBHM bands to gain a foothold in the States, he changed and accused them of selling out (not realising you had to tour constantly in the States to break through nationally). That lead to them being greeted with cans and bottles at Reading in 1981 on their return to their homeland and they struggled to gain acceptance in the UK until Hysteria in 1987 - whilst of course they had been massive in the States since 83's Pyromania.
 
Protein Junkie said:
I will have to do a favourite Guitarist thread soon.
I don’t dispute his skill I could never get into that Rainbow/Purple sound.
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Always thought they needed better production (sorry Martin Birch). Long Live Rock n Roll has a really muddy, almost muffled sound. Rising was better. Blackmore's problem was that he never knew when he had a good band and kept sacking/forcing out his band members when he thought he could find better. By the time of Down to Earth it was almost AOR.
 
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