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The TB Trivial Pursuit Thread
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Durring the tour for AMOLAD Bruce said that the backdrop they used for The Longest Day was the first backdrop they used without Eddie on it, this is not true, the first backdrop without Eddie on it was the backdrop they used for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner durring the Somewhere In Time tour.
The last known incident of Iron Maiden playing as a 5 piece was during the Ed Hunter tour when Adrian took two gigs off because his dad had died.
The lyrics that Paul sang for Killers during the Live at the Rainbow VHS were made up in the dressing room before the gig.
"hirple" is a verb defined as "moving with a gait between walking and crawling", or limping.
"curple" is an old noun referring to (the saddle thong across) a horse's posteriors. Also a verb.
"turple", said of animals, means to "fall down and die". A variant of "topple".
"besperple" used to mean "to spatter with", e.g. blood.
Admittedly, none of these are exactly current.
EDIT: For "orange", Leonard Cohen famously came up with "door hinge". There's also the botanical term "sporange". "Oranger" still stands, however, unless you want to stretch it and propose "door hinger".
Theres a little bit of history behind the guitar,says veteran Iron Maiden guitarist Dave Murray of the 1957 Strat he used to produce the wailing sounds heard on each of Iron Maidens first eight albums. It used to belong to Paul Kossoff of Free. I bought it in 1976, a year after he died. I saw it advertised in an English magazine called Melody Maker, and I went down and checked it out. I got the serial numbers to make sure that it was his guitar!
He used that guitar on a lot of Free. I actually saw him many years ago using it during a Free performance of My Brother Jake on an English television show called Top of the Pops. They were one of my favorite bands, and I had to have that guitar because it belonged to Kossoff.
I paid about $1,400 for it, which in 1976 was quite a bit of money. But I didnt care. I just sold everything I had so I could get it. And I used it from then on. It just felt like I was holding a piece of magic, because he used this guitar
Aside from replacing the original Fender pickups with DiMarzio humbuckers (to fatten up the sound a bit), Murray did nothing to alter the maple-neck, black-and-white guitar. I used it on tour, he continues. It was my main guitar, and I played everything with it: lead and rhythm, clean stuff, heavy stuff. It was real versatile.
Nevertheless, Murray gave his trusty Stratocaster an honorable discharge from active duty several years ago. I used to guard it with my life, he says. But it did start to get a little knocks in it just from general wear and tear. So I decided to retire it. Its sitting in my mothers house now, though I do pick it up now and again.
http://gear-monkey.com/blog/featured-bands/iron-maiden-dave-murrays-1957-fender-stratocaster-electric-guitar/
He used that guitar on a lot of Free. I actually saw him many years ago using it during a Free performance of My Brother Jake on an English television show called Top of the Pops. They were one of my favorite bands, and I had to have that guitar because it belonged to Kossoff.
I paid about $1,400 for it, which in 1976 was quite a bit of money. But I didnt care. I just sold everything I had so I could get it. And I used it from then on. It just felt like I was holding a piece of magic, because he used this guitar
Aside from replacing the original Fender pickups with DiMarzio humbuckers (to fatten up the sound a bit), Murray did nothing to alter the maple-neck, black-and-white guitar. I used it on tour, he continues. It was my main guitar, and I played everything with it: lead and rhythm, clean stuff, heavy stuff. It was real versatile.
Nevertheless, Murray gave his trusty Stratocaster an honorable discharge from active duty several years ago. I used to guard it with my life, he says. But it did start to get a little knocks in it just from general wear and tear. So I decided to retire it. Its sitting in my mothers house now, though I do pick it up now and again.
http://gear-monkey.com/blog/featured-bands/iron-maiden-dave-murrays-1957-fender-stratocaster-electric-guitar/
