Iron Maiden Piece of Mind - Adrian Smith Breaks His Silence

[@mikez7669]

I saw Maiden on this tour but it was Fastway and Coney Hatch that opened. I still have the shirt from the snow. I saw them on the next two tours as well.

[@chadwick634]

Thanks for covering, excellent release

[@terrypikaart4394]

I had all his albums, listened to him a lot!.

[@josephconway1968]

I agree with you 100%. It was a great way to deal with teenage emotions. A release is the perfect description! I wish I could've seen that tour I love Piece Of Mind, Fastway's debut. I was 15 in June of '83. So we are from the same time period. Really like your channel. My son is 32 and I got him into a lot of the music you and I grew up with. Him and I have had great conversations about music from that time. I'm pretty sure if I sat down with you, we'd have just as good talks as well.

[@chadwick634]

Yes, definitely had friends who turned me onto punk like Suicidal, DRI, Exploited, Huusker Du and liked it…especially ST, amazing blend of punk and metal which still stands tall to this day.

[@Mark-hn5bm]

This tour was the one and only time I saw Maiden. . One of the first several concerts of my life. I was a 17 year old and It was October of 1983 @ MSG.The opening band was Quiet Riot. Definitely blurred memories but certainly A sizzling show. Excellent video

[@g-pa-Rok-n-Tok]

I got to see this tour. What a solid lineup! Awesome gig! 🤘

[@mht525]

Always Great content. Eddie. I was raised on punk, listened to Maiden, while skate punk and thrash music developed. ✌️🤘🇦🇺

[@mickeygklug]

I remember thinking “Die With Your Boots On” had kind of a punk edge to it. This record blew my mind when it came out that summer. I was 15. I still love “Die With Your Boots On,” “Still Life”, “Revelations”, along with most of this album-except Quest for Fire, which was pretty lame, IMHO. And yes, the punk/metal crossover existed at that time. The punks and the metal-heads were the outcasts of the school back then. We’d play tapes to each other on boomboxes in the cafeteria and stuff.

[@Batlizard74]

I loved the lyrics in Maiden songs. Especially POM and Powerslave. They were one of my favorite bands back then. It’s been all downhill since Somewhere in Time imo. I like a few songs and still love Wasted Years. I’ve listened and bought a few of their albums since, but something happened. Saw them live a few years ago and they were great. But, musically, not so good.

[@Charles-e8e9m]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@Charles-e8e9m]

It's pissing rain outside ,burp.eef,eef.

[@Charles-e8e9m]

Yessir I was checking into the green (apples)bout that time and desired appreciation effect was turn up volume and Steve Harris take it away!

[@Charles-e8e9m]

You know,bass was so cool ,you know.

[@sonicmojo]

I was 13 years old when Peace of Mind came out man I loved that album so much. Maiden remains one of my favorite bands of all time. Right around that time I also expanded into a lot of punk and indie rock, like Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, The Replacements, R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Dinosaur jr., Loud Fast Rules aka, "Soul Asylum" ... they were so awesome, way ahead of their time. Before that whole "Runaway Train" crap... And before Dave Pirner began dating Winona Ryder. Im still pretty peeved about that since she was supposed to have hooked up with me instead! But i digress. Lmao 😂😂😂

[@joeyd3324]

Remember the poster that came in this album..?

[@youtoo2233]

Yep, they're all sitting at the table with the brain in the middle

[@delorangeade]

Adrian Smith has always come across as pretty laid back and cool. Of course he went on to write a song, Wasted Years, that was about the loneliness of life on the road. I think there is some footage on YT of Iron Maiden on this tour, maybe in Texas? I think America has often failed to understand what the British see as humorous, and that we tend to be irreverent and self-deprecating even when it comes to serious subjects. There was a spectrum of attitudes between punk and heavy metal fans, ranging from outright disdain and rejection of the other, to an acceptance of both, gut most tended to fall towards one or other end of the range, The New Wave of British Heavy Metal cams a few years after punk, so the kids who were into bands like Iron Maiden and Saxon tended to be younger and nerdier. It was never close to being the epitome of cool to be a rock fan. Punk for the most part was over and done by that time, so as a more general music fan you tended to enjoy what was around at the time and not get caught up in the tribalism.

[@Charles-e8e9m]

I like music

[@Charles-e8e9m]

As much as I like dokken, which is alot,for every lightning strikes there were five so many tears.

[@Charles-e8e9m]

I like iron maiden

[@bcardamone]

Had zero interest in punk. Closest I came was purchasing Plasmatics Metal Priestess. Had never heard of them and then saw them on… Drumroll…Solid Gold. They played black leather monster for Andy Gibb and I think Marilyn Mccoo lol. Anyway, I was totally hooked on the main guitar riff of that song and I ended up buying that album and played the hell out of it.

[@joeyd3324]

to any guitar player, lyrics are secondary...lol

[@mirko1382]

One of my favorite bands is a Japanese metal band called Flatbacker who had a punk tinge to their sound. There were/ are some crossover bands like the Plasmatics, and Suicidal Tendencies that straddle the line between metal & punk, though most fans in each genre wouldn't cross that line. For me I'm more of a metalhead, but if I heard a cool punk song, I wouldn't snub it.

[@audiomover]

Flatbacker! They were the precursors to EZO who had one of the best heavy metal debut albums in the 1980s.

[@mirko1382]

@@audiomover Yes. It's a great album, however, if you ever heard Flatbacker, they were heavier. I've always felt that they became too Americanized and "softer" than their first 2 albums they did as Flatbacker. EZO was an underrated band. Masaki Yamada would join Loudness in 91 and would record another 5 killer albums.