January 27, 2004

Maiden
Iron Maiden straddled the line between coolness and unintentional self parody well enough that some of my high school classmates used their (ridiculous) lyrics as senior yearbook quotes. What can I say? It was the late 1980's. So, then, what could be better than having a busy day at work interrupted the most wonderfully appropriate of all possible news about an aborted Iron Maiden show:

Iron Maiden offered its sympathy to fans whose concert experience was ruined by a beer over the weekend. Iron Maiden manager Ron Smallwood said on the band's Web site "some idiot" on the mezzanine of their show in New York "thought it was a good idea to chuck his beer into the air rather than down his throat."

The beer landed below on the mixing board. It blew out several channels and kept the band from playing any encores. Smallwood said the band felt "gutted" about the incident and he thanked fans for being understanding. He added, "And to the idiot who caused this, I do hope you learned a lesson."
That's the article in its entirety, although if you insist that I've made this up I encourage you to look at a corroborating source. Thanks, Todd.
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