{"id":1858,"date":"2012-08-13T21:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T01:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2012-08-13T21:36:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T01:36:19","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-225-the-metal-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/08\/13\/my-musical-evolution-part-225-the-metal-years\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 225 The Metal Years Strange World"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iron<\/a>I have long forgotten why\u00a0I skipped Killers<\/em> in my pursuit of Iron Maiden <\/em>albums. Maybe Wooden Nickel didn’t have it when I went o but it. Maybe I just thought the cover of Iron Maiden <\/em>looked cooler than Killers.<\/em> Perhaps I just wanted to get to their very first ablum and experience where it all began.<\/p>\n

I was surprised at first and maybe a little disappointed. Paul Di’Anno was the singer and not Bruce Dickinson. In case you haven’t heard them both, they are quite different. I was brriefly bummed that Bruce’s powerful vocals were absent. The guitars weren’t quite as polished either. I don’t mean that the guys couldn’t play them as well as on the later albums. I’m talking about the crafting of the sound. On the later works, their guitars have a great and distinctive quality in the tone and effects.<\/p>\n

I quickly grew to appreciate this incarnation of Iron Maiden<\/em>. Like Van Halen \/ Van Hagar, there are things to like about each. It wasn’t the Iron Maiden<\/em> I knew but it was still some good stuff even if it was for entirely different reasons.<\/p>\n

It was also around this time that I got my first real six string at the 5 and dime. Well the pawn shop really. I playe in until my fingers hurt really bad. i was awful and even if i was a great guitar player, that crappy guitar was a total piece of shit.\u00a0 I remember one of the first songs that I could play was Transylvania<\/em> from this album. I was moderately fast but repetitive so it wasn’t too bad to pick up. We’ll talk more about guitars and stuff inThe Roach Days Revisited.<\/p>\n

Prowler<\/em>
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