February 23, 2008
Up the irons
Posted by pete at February 23, 2008 7:03 PM
Just when I started to think my Heavy Metal Wife Joni had forsake me for someone younger and with more appropriately feathered hair, she sends an e-mail informing me Iron Maiden will be bringing their Somewhere Back in Time World Tour to Houston on May 22:
This tour revisits the band's history by focusing almost entirely on their classic 80's period in both choice of songs played and the stage set, which is based around the legendary Egyptian Production of that 'Powerslave Tour' as portrayed on the Live After Death DVD. This will arguably be the most elaborate and spectacular show the band have ever presented. Furthermore the band intends to bring along for this summer leg of the tour the colossal mummy of Eddie, as featured on the Live After Death DVD, along with various other elements of the show that would not fit on their 757 on the first leg of this tour...
Up for a road trip, Tim?
And before anyone asks, I will not "bring my daughter to the slaughter." I did, however, serenade her this afternoon with a medley consisting of - among others - "The Trooper," "Flight of Icarus," "Fear of the Dark," and "Wasted Years." To The Wife's growing annoyance.
wow, Maiden……I still have sweatbands and guitar picks from the first time I saw them down in the Summit eons ago. Have fun Pete! I’ll try to catch them up here in the Northeast
Hey, you blogrolled me! Thanks, that’s WAY cool. I’ll blogroll you next time I’m in my webshell.
As to heavy metal, alas and alack, all my power chordin’ love is for Blue Oyster Cult. Now, if BOC goes on tour again, I will… I will… probably sit at home with my wife and three step kids thinking wistfully about when I was young and free and the Late Great Jeff Webb wasn’t dead yet and he’d drive all day from New Jersey to Syracuse just so we could go over to the Lost Horizon and take in a show together. Yeah. Yeah. THAT’s what I’ll do.
Anyway, thanks again for the linkage.