Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows Gives Update From Iron Maiden Tour
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Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows has posted an upbeat update from the Iron Maiden tour:
"We just started the tour with Maiden and I hear a lot of you guys are getting really worked up about the shows. Lets start with Norway, it was our first time there and we were blown away by the support we received. We can't wait to come back on this tour with Maiden in a few weeks and see you all again.
"As for Italy, it was our first time opening up directly for Maiden. Now just so you're clear, when we took this tour we knew it was going to be hard and we knew that Iron Maiden fans were very dedicated people. So when we heard a "Sevenfold" chant before we hit the stage we knew it would cause a stir with the crowd, but it made us proud and really got us excited about our fans over in Italy. We heard horror stories about opening for "Maiden." Everything from standing backwards on stage so that the trash coming
from the audience didn't hit you in the face to having bottles filled with piss thrown at your head. So after the show we felt pretty good about everything since we got to play for a lot of people and we got to see how many great fans we had there representing. So when you go to these shows don't get upset if people don't understand just yet what Avenged Sevenfold is all about. We are not a straight up metal band that is catering to their audience, we do our own thing and thats why we have so many dedicated fans.
"We did this same thing 2 years ago with Metallica, the difference then was that we had 40k kids a night with their arms crossed and not many fans. Now we are feeling the love from you guys and the one thing this tour is proving to us is that we need to come back and headline for you all after this is over.
"So the point is we are having a great time at the shows, and you should too. Don't get all upset about a couple bottles being thrown, next year half those kids may have A7X on their IPOD and we could be their new favorite band. Like I said, we knew what we were signing up for and we are glad so many of you are supporting us through this tour. You are some passionate motherfuckers! See ya'll soon!"
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5. writes:
Not sure about Decorah, but I got flooded out of my home in Palo, IA. It's going to run $35K to get back to where I started. So far I've got: $14.6K from "insurance", $298 from Red Cross, $500 from Tzu Chi (a Buddhist charity), $300 from co-workers, ??? from FEMA, and ??? from Metal Underground, heehee!!
Flood's suck! Early on when I thought I would lose everything except what I managed to load up in my truck, I had never felt so free. When I realized that I only lost the basement, I found out how easy it is to become a slave to your house. Now I have to repair, replace, refinish, ect. to the tune of maybe $20K.
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7. writes:
Hey...whats with all the Iowans around here...?
I didnt realize that you two were from Iowa also.... Terminater and DeathInEye are also from Iowa.. what a small f^ckin world...!!!
Hey, thats enough for a band.....so whose gonna be the drummer...??
Necropolis - lucky for me, I live far enough from the river, that I didnt get any damage whatsoever...!! I have some friends that have to redo their entire basements... drywall and carpeting..!! Oddly enough, they werent even able to have flood insurance.., so they can only rely on donations and FEMA.... so we know what that will amount to...
ZT - glad to know things are goin good...!!
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14. writes:
if anyone noticed cd stores think a7x is metal, therefor they put there CDs in the metal section. So I always take there CDs out and put them in the rock section. Only in Europe have I found their CDs in the right section. So everyone should do the same as me and take a7x outof our music and into its real genre
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18. writes:
i once found a killswitch engage cd in front of a number of the beast cd. needless to say i took the killswitch cd and buried it behind celine dion's greatest hits.
its surprising, but nice to see quite a few fellow iowans here. what do think about these band names godlike: cornhusker deth, hawkeye deth, tractor deth, obese motherf***er deth or illegal soy beaner?
bolt thrower - that sucks to hear man. hopefully the damage doesnt run you up that much, but you gotta pay what you gotta pay. good luck with that.
now playing: judas priest - painkiller (live with the ripper on vocals -- f*** yeah!!)
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1. godlike writes:
holy sh^t.... another chatroom..??
This band sucks more than a Dyson..!!