Comments on: Iron Maiden vocalist still pissed at Sharon Osbourne over Ozzfest 2005

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Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:41:17 +0000

[…] Sabbath mocht niet van Sharon Osbourne, hetgeen Maiden-zanger Bruce Dickinson - ook al eens het slachtoffer van Sharon Osbourne’s onsympathieke omgangsvormen - later op hetzelfde podium de opmerking […]

By: Robert M

Robert M — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:39:22 +0000

I for one would side with Maiden on this one - on all counts. (1) If Sharon’s complaint was true - that doesnt excuse her childish actions - she is far from childhood and shouldnt act like one. (2) How many bands run over their timeslots and dont get treated that way? There are more professional ways of dealing with it - and I guarantee you some of those are even in the contracts (3) I for one am glad that they (Iron Maiden) enjoy us the fans being there, up front, and being able to afford it. Their shows are affordable, and whenever possible, have General Admission (ie: pit areas, etc) as well as relatively cheap ticket prices with the difference between nose bleed and up front being $10-15. (4) I am glad that they are not just very VOCAL about it, but follow their words with ACTIONS (it’s not just being verbal for the sake of publicity… they add an extra DVD for Death on Tour - 3 total, demand it gets released for the same as their last 2 disk DVD set - a whopping $18… they sell their newest and probably best CD for $10 - add $2 for a bonus DVD - add $5 for a limited edition t-shirt. They sell their tickets for $35-50, scream and demand for GA seating - and get it for us - and then still put on a show that’ll leave new bands full of 20 year olds struggling to keep up with Maiden’s energy).

They treat us right, they bitch about us not being treated right and try to change it, and they say what they think - and even if we dont agree with all of what they say - we always know it’s from their hearts… and it’s always what they mean and never an act. They keep it real.

By: Vince Williams

Vince Williams — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:16:30 +0000

You’re right TD, Ozzy could really wail at one time, but I have to admit that I was so blitzed (does anybody else still say that?) at every Sabbath concert I made (and every other one in the ’70’s for that matter) that I can’t remember. I do remember that some of the high notes he hit hurt my ears, but oh, what an ecstasy of pain.

Rolling Stone called Led Zeppelin the heaviest band of all time, and maybe they were, but nothing was ever heavier for me than Iron Man. “Has he lost his mind? Is he blind or can he see?”…I thought he was singing just for me.

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:11:49 +0000

Dickingson is a nice guy, I met him a while ago backstage at a show in montreal, and I’ll be seeing them in 2 months when they come back for their new show.. “A matter of life and death”. Ozzy, is well, ozzy. there’s not much to say about him and his wife, except that they are reputated to be total jerks.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:18:49 +0000

You ever hear Ozzy sing the Sabbath song Gypsy live, Vince? I got chills listening to that song. He could really, really wail at one time.

By: Vince Williams

Vince Williams — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:18:02 +0000

Nah, Ozzie could never bring back the magic of Black Sabbath’s first two albums, Black Sabbath and Paranoid. The darkness and occult overtones might have been tongue-in-cheek, but I promise you this listener, who was 15 or 16 when the Black Sabbath album came out in 1970, took it all quite seriously. Even though I can’t listen to it now, it could be a bit scary then when I dropped a 250 microgram dose of white lightening and slapped on the headphones.

My parents thought I was doing homework, but I was traversing the nether regions of the universe and writing ‘really heavy poetry, man’. (The word ‘heavy’ was high praise indeed, in those days). I still kept my grades up, though. I even submitted an essay I wrote on acid tripping in English Lit and got an A on it. That was the most meaningful A I ever got.