Iron Maiden @ The Forum

Bruce is back!
The Troopers
All I have to say is that the show rocked in a major way. It was metal-head central last night at the Forum and as expected the music kicked ass. It wasnt too easy to get there and we definitely thought we might be late, but thankfully we got there in plenty of time. Traffic sucked big time on the drive over and once we got inside, the seats were really really hard to find. In combination with the retard usher who was completely useless, these stoner metal head bozos were sitting in out seats and gave us a hard time when we told them they were in the wrong seats. They eventually moved and then passed out from being to wasted for almost the duration of the show. Then Iron Maiden came on. Maiden opened up with Aces High and played a bunch of the favorites. For me, the hi-light of the show was when a huge Eddie puppet (or was it a guy on stilts in a costume?) a la "Somewhere In Time Eddie" walked across the stage with a huge lazer gun and then put on a Kobe Lakers jersey. The funny thing is that the crowd started to boo the Lakers since most metal heads seem to hate sports. Either way it was a sight to be seen and I thouroughly enjoyed it. Fear of The Dark was another awesome song they played last night. They cut the lights and everyone sang along and broke out their bics and zippos (as shown below). The mosh pit was pretty insane throughout the entire show and there appeared to be some serious bruisers wrecking shop down there. Finally they closed the show with "Hallowed Be Thy Name" (which is probably my favorite song by them due to Toy Machine's Welcome to Hell video) and also anounced some new US Tour Dates (which I will definitely be going to). All in all it was a great time and I cant wait to see them again in May. Here is another cell phone pic I snapped during the show, but I cant remember what song this was during. Fear Of The DarkRock On!