I saw these guys on their Final Frontier World Tour in Belfast on Wednesday - what a night! I don't know where Bruce Dickinson gets his energy from, and his voice is just incredible. It was an excellent concert, although they didn't play Run To The Hills and left out The Trooper because of the political climate.

Best albums? Piece of Mind, Number of the Beast, Brave New World.

Best tracks? How long have you got?

Fantastic band, one of the best to ever come out of the UK.

Love all their material, true legends.

Thanks to my hubby I was lucky enough to meet Steve Harris (and one of his daughters Lauren) a few years back what a nice guy he is and an incredible musician as well.

Wonderful to hear his praise for one of his major influences (Geddy lee) of rush who are one of my all time fav bands.

Heres his oldest daughter Lauren

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agQoWhWIb38

They are epic. Saw them live on the Brave New World tour and they had so much energy.

Final Frontier isn't that great an album though.

I saw them at Nottingham and Birmingham last week, greatest band of all time. Favourite albums - Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Favourite tracks - Too many! Infinite Dreams is probably my favourite song of all time though.

Love some of the songs on that, but I don't think it holds together as an album as much as some of the other classic era Maiden.

My favourites are still the self titled one and Killers, can't beat Phantom of the Opera.

After that its Piece of Mind and Seventh Son.

Wish Paul Di'anno hadn't chucked it all away by stuffing all that coke up his nose. Would have loved another couple with him before Bruce arriving.

Paul Di'anno is a prat and messed a guitarist friend around big time

I remember a lot of people at the time hated Blaze Bayley taking over from Bruce especially as they found Wolfsbane to be lacking somewhat. I remember finding that attitude a little strange because not only was Wolfsbane pretty ok, but I really liked the X Factor (great when Bruce came back though. Brave New world, what an album).

My old band (stoner rock) used to play an instrumental version of Phantom of the Opera. Didn't sound too bad either I might add

Love the Irons. Sadly have never seen them live. I quite like the Di'anno stuff.But for me, personally I prefer the Number of the Beast through to Seventh Son. While I like some of the material after Son, it just doesn't it as well for me.
The Bayley era I ignore it's pretty dire to be honest.

Fav songs - to many to list....

Wasn't too keen on Seventh Son at first because we used to think Can I Play with Madness shouldn't have been played on the mainstream radio shows or top of the Pops (we were odd like that) however it really is a tremendous concept album.

Toss up between Piece of Mind and Somewhere in time for favourite.

Woah don't diss the Blaze era.

Blaze Bayley has one of the greatest voices in metal and the 2 albums he did with Maiden are both brilliant. People judge Blaze's stuff against Bruce's which isn't really fair given that both are different styles of singer.

I urge you all to go back and listen to X-Factor and Virtual XI, without the "this isn't Bruce Dickinson singing" attitude. Sign of the Cross is pretty awesome.

Also if you havn't heardit already, Blaze's first solo album after Iron Maiden, Silicon Messiah, is a lesson in how metal should sound! Thinking back the year 2000 bought us Brave New World,. Silicon Messiah and Halford - Ressurection. 3 great CD's.

I'm afraid I can't get into the Blaze-era albums, or for that matter most of the material with Paul D'Annio - Bruce Dickinson just is Iron Maiden in my book. A true one-of-a-kind talent, easily one of the greatest vocalists of all-time, in any genre.

And a great airline pilot too.

Lost my Maiden virginity at the Glasgow date. At one point I was about four rows from the front which was ****ing epic, even if I couldn't move nor see most the time. I couldn't have been more that 20 feet away from Steve Harris and he pointed his bass about 30 degrees to my right, although in my head It was right at me.

I was quite dissapointed when I spent £25 on a t-shirt and lost it though.

Brilliant band and Bruce is a true legend. Love them.

Best band on the planet, seen them in manchester the other week was epic and wasnt too far from the front

And adrian smith what a guitar player he is.

Funny one of my fave albums is No prayer for the dying many fans put that last, somewhere in time is brilliant shame bruce hates it and the songs have all but been forgotten.

'Caught Somewhere in Time' and 'Stranger in a Strange Land' are underrated classics from that album.

Saw them for the first time in Cardiff last Monday. Brilliant gig - probably the best one I've seen (even if I've only been to four in total). I was about 4 or 5 rows from the front.

Iron Maiden always seem to do 16 songs per gig and because they have well over 100, they're never going to please everyone, and I was satisfied with the setlist. It was spread well across most of their albums (I would've liked to have seen at least one from Somewhere in Time though) but many of my favourites were played including The Evil That Men Do and The Wicker Man, and you can imagine they get a bit bored of playing Run to the Hills every night, so I wasn't fussed about them excluding it.

My favourite albums are Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Brave New World and Somewhere in Time. Rock in Rio is also my favourite live album they've done.

I remember seeing Iron Maiden for the 1st time in 1980 supporting Judas Priest at the Southampton Gaumont (The Mayflower).

However it was the 2nd time I saw them at the 1980 Reading Rock Festival that won me over. They were by far the best band of that day (possibly of the whole weekend).

Saw Maiden for the second time last week, a great performance as always. Favourite albums are 'Powerslave' and 'Seventh Son of a Seventh Son'.

I saw them in Cardiff too - best I've seen them for a long time to be honest, a really great show and the set list wasn't as bad as I feared it might have been!!


First time i saw them was in 1981!

I believe it was their very first headlining UK tour, I saw them at the Colston Hall in Bristol and the ticket cost £3.50!!!!

Way too many favourite tracks to name but my favourite version of a song is the B-side of the Women In Uniform 12" singe, which has a live recording of Phantom Of The Opera from The Marquee.

I dont think Bruce hates it. But he doesnt have a single writing credit on it. Apparantly his ideas were not "Maiden" and so they were not taken further. It sparked the beginning of the end for Bruce in Maiden, eventually resulting in him leaving after the Fear of the Dark tour.

In my opinion the Blaze era songs are very good, and sound even better when Bruce sings them.

Went to see them for about the millionth time at the O2 on Friday night, awesome gig.

I went on Saturday night, easily one of my favourite gigs ever. I thought Dance of Death was the highlight, which surpised me! The big Eddie during Iron Maiden was incredible, too.

Yeah its in the iron maiden book, bruce had an acoustic guitar singing a few songs to mr Harris i dont think they went down too well lol

I know you're a huge Maiden fan, that's why I can't understand this. As far as I'm concerned the first two albums set the standard, and whilst they have had more success after, I don't think they ever matched those albums...I'm probably in a minority here though

I was lucky enough to be there right at the beginning, seeing them at the Ruskin Arms, The Bandwagon (Soundhouse), many times at the Marquee, on early tours like Metal For Muthas Tour and on the 'Heavy Metal Crusade' when they were the opening band for Saxon and Samson (with a singer called Bruce Dickinson, not sure what happened to him)

Although they were generic and displayed their obvious influences (Judas Priest etc) but with a bit of punk thrown in they were exciting and you knew they were going to be big..but for me, once they lost the punk/metal side and went over-dramatic and mystical I lost interest.