{"id":1845,"date":"2012-08-13T20:34:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T00:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2012-08-13T20:34:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T00:34:15","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/08\/13\/my-musical-evolution-part-223\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 223 The Metal Years Piece Of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iron<\/a>Having really gone mad for for Iron Maiden’s Powerslave. <\/em> I went back to Wooden Nickel and bought a couple more Iron Maiden <\/em>albums. Working my way backward through time, my next stop was Piece OF Mind<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The music had the same high energy and subject matter that I hoped it would.\u00a0 Iron Maiden <\/em>was well on their way to becoming my favorite metal act. I loved the two guitar setup, I was intrigued by Eddie<\/em> the skeletal mascot, even the stylized logo was something that I thought was cool. I thought it cool that their songs all seemed to be 6 or 7 minutes long at least, with extensive solos and orchestral progressions.<\/p>\n

The fact that they chose to write their songs about mythology, history and classical literature appealed to the scholarly side of me. Iron Maiden<\/em> was the renaissance man’s metal.<\/p>\n

I saw the video for Flight Of Icarus<\/em> on MTV at Brian’s house months prior, not really knowing who Iron Maiden <\/em> was at the time. As I recall, none of my metal friends seemed to like Iron Maiden <\/em>as much as I did.<\/p>\n

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Where Eagles Dare<\/em>
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