The Trooper or Weekend Warrior?

Yeah, Revelations is very nice to play on bass. By the way, did you know that they have NEVER played Invaders live? I think they should, it's a great song...

i just did a search on that and i came up with:

"Iron Maiden have only played Invaders live one time, and that was in Auckland, NZ 1992"

it's a guitar tabs site.....if you want to look, here's the site:

http://www.guitaretab.com/i/iron-maiden/8818.html

Oh, sorry, remembered wrong... By the way, I got the information from a guitar tab site too, maybe even the same tab

Yeah, Bring You Daughter... is one of my favourites too, no matter that the single got straight to number one in the UK... Can I Play With Madness is very good too.

Yeah, that's SO true. I think that Die With Your Boots on should be the hit, not The Trooper. But I might not like what most people like and they needed some hits back then so I kinda understand why they chose what they chose to release as singles.

I agree with you, they have no songs that would be much better than the others. There are only a few that are always better than the others. We also have only one rock station here but they play Maiden songs at least a few times every day so if you listen to the radio, you'll hear Trooper and Run to the Hills every single day...

I think I have to agree with you And I've checked his solo albums, they are very great. And welcome to MyLot!

Clansman! Nice to see someone likes Blaze-songs too

Yes, you're right! Maiden hasn't got ANY bad songs

Yeah, I love Killers! It's so cool to play with bass Even Blaze isn't a bad singer, his voice just wasn't the best for Maiden...

That's true. A song has to be good to be a hit but I like some non-hits more. Maybe I'm a little different from the Maiden fans who made The Trooper so big hit... If I could have decided, the hit would have been Die With Your Boots On But the hits are all hits for a reason, the only album I think has the wrong choices for singles is Killers. I think the singles should have been Killers and Wrathchild instead of Purgatory and Twilight Zone (not in the original album but I still count it as a single from Killers). Nothing wrong with those songs, though.

And I think I know why you don't like the bass in Fear of the Dark. On that album (at least on the tour) Steve used a different bass: it had a rosewood freatboard instead of the regular all-maple neck. It might have been a little different in some other way too but that's the only thing that comes to my mind.

Yeah. He pretty much used another bass guitar. I could still remember when I first listened to Die with your Boots on. I thought Flight of Icarus was my favorite song on that album. Then I listened to Die with your boots on and thought that's my favorite track until I heard The trooper. My favorite track changed as I listened to the rest of the album until I thought To tame a Land was my favorite track. Then I realized all the songs on the album are just great!

Up the irons!

Happens to me too sometimes with some new bands, also when I first heard Maiden

I have exactly the same problem