What do you know about Iron Maiden; well it was a medieval torture device that gave you quite a prick!
Call me old and ancient... but a little bird told me Iron Maiden played, I just had to laugh. Don't get me wrong I was a big Maiden fan back when my hair was down to my ass. Some of my fond memories of this band was being hungover at someone’s party, and my drunk metal buddies asking me hey tonight is Iron Maiden do you want to go see them. I didn't think twice... I said oh hell yeah, still being hungover from the night before at a total animal house party. So do I like Iron Maiden yes! Maiden seems to be the only band that my high school history teachers could spend an entire lecture talking about. Why? If you were a Maiden fan or know what this band is about you, understand that most of Bruce Dickens lyrics are taking from history events incorporated with METAL! Which seem to be at the time most of what 80s metal bands tried to capture. Iron Maiden not only had the sound but the show... and I mean the show! After sitting around in my bedroom as a kid staring for hours at the album covers you couldn't help but fantasize about Eddie, that evil rotting corpse thing with that shit-eating grin wanting to kill every normal human, preist and parent in the evolution of history, he was the pop icon for evil. Hey, All I gotta` say is "I was there", I saw the Power Slave Tour. This tour kicked more ass than anything I have ever seen. Ok so I didn't go to the show the other night, but then again I really didn't want to ruin the fond memories I had of this band. Iron Maiden is still one of the true Metal Arena Rock bands of the 80s and they in my mind will always hold the title for amazing concerts and over the top stage presence. Hey you should already know who this band is, need I say more.
If you would like a suggestion... These are the albums that count in my opinion:
1. 1980 Iron Maiden 2. 1981 Killers 3. 1982 The Number of the Beast 4. 1983 Piece of Mind 5. 1984 Power Slave 6. 1986 Somewhere in Time
Here is a look back at the Powerslave Tour for you hipsters. This is not the original tour but it's in HD and looks I would say a lot better than what I saw back in 1984 stoned.
*We Think We Might Actually Know what Good Music Is.
*Dallas needs a blog that doesn't bash shit all the time!
*Because if we don't who the fuck will?
*Cause we enjoy pain, straight up purple nurpels.
*Cause it gets El Macho the ladies (Macho: "No it doesn't"), and MŮDI already has a hot lady.
*William Shatner's toupee told us in a dream.
*My mother beat me with a slinky
*I huffed too much glue in the 80s
*We apparently like the city we live in called Dallas
*Did I say we like music?
WHAT IS FEVER?
Before you cooled out, before your flashes were hot, before you disqoed, and well before the days of the hipster rsvp, there was FEVER.
FEVER was started many moons ago at The Cavern by DJ MŮDI with a shitty Peavy PA system, one home stereo bass speaker (that would cut off when it got too hot), and a laptop that crashed two years later. DJ MŮDI can say that he was one of the first DJs in Dallas to play his sets through his laptop before the hipster revolution caught on to this. MŮDI decided to change the name of the night up to UP! because the owner didn't like FEVER. After one year UP! became FEVER again, and the rest is history. Well, almost. We haven't even touched on Macho yet.
DJ MŮDI kept it going for about 1 year before bringing on his partner DJ EL MACHO. He invited Macho in for a guest appearance in the summer of 2005, and a remarkable partnership was born. Soon people caught wind, and the duo was moved to Fridays. MŮDI and Macho left The Cavern for Fallout Lounge in the summer of 2006 for a three year run of legendary nights which put Fallout Lounge on the map. MŮDI & Macho decided it was time to shift gears in July of 2009, and brought the night to a close. But like Brett Favre, they just don't know when to say "enough is enough". So, FEVER returned for a short run at a spot in Oak Cliff called Tradewinds Social Club. While the FEVER name might disappear, you can be sure that MŮDI and Macho will still be seen around town playing music that people like to hear.
