And Rock Begot Metal

All sorts of statesmen, athletes, novelists, actors, and scientists have been known to stage spoken-word presentations, telling an audience about their careers. These tell-all sessions often are fascinating. A coming instance PROMISES to be fascinating

Bruce Dickinson, the front man for Iron Maiden, has launched a tour to describe his career. Wood Nymph and I are hoping we'll get to see him.
 
Something worth knowing:

The name of a band can sound menacing, yet the band may still perform songs which are tender and sweet.

 
Here again is King Crimson, the jazz-rock fusion band which we mentioned before as promoting Prog(ressive) rock in the Seventies, thus making prog metal possible. This concert video from the Eighties reveals quite a different selection of instruments from what King Crimson used for their first two albums. Not all the same guys either. But it is possible for a REALLY GREAT ensemble to retain its creative SPIRIT even through big changes.


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Last night, we did see Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden at Denver's Paramount Theater. Note my prayer item about an evening being ruined. But the bad part came AFTER the show; Mister Dickinson was a blast. Eventually, we will get the story told.

I ought to give you at least a morsel. Mister Dickinson was dressed in black, with red boots. He had a big screen behind him to display photographs from his career. One of the first things he told us was: "Being born was my first struggle with authority."
 
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One step in getting over the upset after the show came today, when we saw this video overlapping the same band history which Mister Dickinson related. Nikko the drummer, who is shown in the video, shares Mister Dickinson's enjoyment of swordplay.

 
More to fill in until we get the intended narrative in order. This is a video of the band Mister Dickinson sang with before he joined the already-existing Iron Maiden.

 
All of the bands you indicate have at least contributed to the environment of artistic energy in which metal music thrives.
 
To resume our account of that Sunday evening, I rewind to when we were standing in line outside the Paramount Theater, which by the way is located not far from the Colorado Capitol Building.

We conversed with a man in the line just in front of us. He revealed that, at a Comicon years before, he had met Derek Riggs, the artist who designed Iron Maiden's mascot character "Eddie."

Once inside the Paramount, we found our seats in the balcony. I had sat in that same balcony eight years earlier, with my then-wife (now ex) to see the Canadian comedian Red Green. Conveniently, the balcony's lobby had its own easy-to-reach concession stand.
 
Early in the evening, Mister Dickinson displayed two photographs side by side. One was of himself as a boy, and he remarked that, he once used a blue crayon to draw a mustache on his face.

The other photo was of his great-uncle, who was a Royal Air Force pilot in World War Two,flying over the Mediterranean sea. This has been an inspiration for the young Bruce to take an interest in flying.

About the war campaign his great-uncle had been part of,he remarked:"The Germans wanted to redevelop the Island of Malta with high explosives.
 
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