Paul Di Anno Talks Trash About Iron Maiden

Heh. He's mad it's a money machine and he's not getting much.

MetalFRO wrote:

^^

I don't know, I realize it's Steve Harris' ship, but DiAnno always sort of struck me as a kind of jerk. Maybe I'm not well educated enough on the subject, but I always felt that after Killers, the band had nowhere to go w/ Paul at the vocal helm, which is why Bruce's entrance into the band marked such a pivotal point for them. Granted, the punk feel of the 1st 2 records is great, but Maiden really has been a technical band from the start, despite some of the more simplistic numbers they've done here & there. I suppose I'd be mad if I were in his shoes, but what has he done post-Maiden that has been truly worth looking into?

Battlezone, those discs are great.

DeathCult wrote:

MetalFRO wrote:

^^

I don't know, I realize it's Steve Harris' ship, but DiAnno always sort of struck me as a kind of jerk. Maybe I'm not well educated enough on the subject, but I always felt that after Killers, the band had nowhere to go w/ Paul at the vocal helm, which is why Bruce's entrance into the band marked such a pivotal point for them. Granted, the punk feel of the 1st 2 records is great, but Maiden really has been a technical band from the start, despite some of the more simplistic numbers they've done here & there. I suppose I'd be mad if I were in his shoes, but what has he done post-Maiden that has been truly worth looking into?

Battlezone, those discs are great.

I agree with this 100%

MetalFRO wrote:

^^

I don't know, I realize it's Steve Harris' ship, but DiAnno always sort of struck me as a kind of jerk. Maybe I'm not well educated enough on the subject, but I always felt that after Killers, the band had nowhere to go w/ Paul at the vocal helm, which is why Bruce's entrance into the band marked such a pivotal point for them. Granted, the punk feel of the 1st 2 records is great, but Maiden really has been a technical band from the start, despite some of the more simplistic numbers they've done here & there. I suppose I'd be mad if I were in his shoes, but what has he done post-Maiden that has been truly worth looking into?

nah, bro - Nothing to do with education. You just were not around to be there or even get the blowback from the Di'Anno albums. Notice every one on the other side is at least 35. haha. Just old goats sticking with their heritage, so to speak.

AND DC - I was totally gonna say Battlezone. We are truly of one mind. MF - If you can find the Battlezone stuff, grab it. Or pm me for a cdr.

Another vote from our favorite new member - Onkel Ben [from Onkel Sax]

UNCLE SAXON wrote:

MetalFRO wrote:

^^

I don't know, I realize it's Steve Harris' ship, but DiAnno always sort of struck me as a kind of jerk. Maybe I'm not well educated enough on the subject, but I always felt that after Killers, the band had nowhere to go w/ Paul at the vocal helm, which is why Bruce's entrance into the band marked such a pivotal point for them. Granted, the punk feel of the 1st 2 records is great, but Maiden really has been a technical band from the start, despite some of the more simplistic numbers they've done here & there. I suppose I'd be mad if I were in his shoes, but what has he done post-Maiden that has been truly worth looking into?

nah, bro - Nothing to do with education. You just were not around to be there or even get the blowback from the Di'Anno albums. Notice every one on the other side is at least 35. haha. Just old goats sticking with their heritage, so to speak.

AND DC - I was totally gonna say Battlezone. We are truly of one mind. MF - If you can find the Battlezone stuff, grab it. Or pm me for a cdr.

Excellent, the uni mind of metal!

DeathCult wrote:

UNCLE SAXON wrote:

MetalFRO wrote:

^^

I don't know, I realize it's Steve Harris' ship, but DiAnno always sort of struck me as a kind of jerk. Maybe I'm not well educated enough on the subject, but I always felt that after Killers, the band had nowhere to go w/ Paul at the vocal helm, which is why Bruce's entrance into the band marked such a pivotal point for them. Granted, the punk feel of the 1st 2 records is great, but Maiden really has been a technical band from the start, despite some of the more simplistic numbers they've done here & there. I suppose I'd be mad if I were in his shoes, but what has he done post-Maiden that has been truly worth looking into?

nah, bro - Nothing to do with education. You just were not around to be there or even get the blowback from the Di'Anno albums. Notice every one on the other side is at least 35. haha. Just old goats sticking with their heritage, so to speak.

AND DC - I was totally gonna say Battlezone. We are truly of one mind. MF - If you can find the Battlezone stuff, grab it. Or pm me for a cdr.

Excellent, the uni mind of metal!

You old farts!

DallasBlack wrote:

DeathCult wrote:

UNCLE SAXON wrote:

MetalFRO wrote:

^^

I don't know, I realize it's Steve Harris' ship, but DiAnno always sort of struck me as a kind of jerk. Maybe I'm not well educated enough on the subject, but I always felt that after Killers, the band had nowhere to go w/ Paul at the vocal helm, which is why Bruce's entrance into the band marked such a pivotal point for them. Granted, the punk feel of the 1st 2 records is great, but Maiden really has been a technical band from the start, despite some of the more simplistic numbers they've done here & there. I suppose I'd be mad if I were in his shoes, but what has he done post-Maiden that has been truly worth looking into?

nah, bro - Nothing to do with education. You just were not around to be there or even get the blowback from the Di'Anno albums. Notice every one on the other side is at least 35. haha. Just old goats sticking with their heritage, so to speak.

AND DC - I was totally gonna say Battlezone. We are truly of one mind. MF - If you can find the Battlezone stuff, grab it. Or pm me for a cdr.

Excellent, the uni mind of metal!

You old farts!

I am actually not old............ although some of the music I listen to makes it seem that way (not to say that i don't listen to recent music)

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

Theres also a video that was posted in the thread I put up. If you watch it he doesnt seem like the way it was written. It comes off very harsh reading it but if you watch his answer it doesnt seem like hes as angry as it was written.

That's interesting. He never struck me as bitter. I like Steve Harris' songwriting on those first two albums however.

DeathCult wrote:

Excellent, the uni mind of metal!

Hell, I've gotten to the point where I have to check the mirror in the morning to make sure I'm not you.

detuned wrote:

DeathCult wrote:

Excellent, the uni mind of metal!

Hell, I've gotten to the point where I have to check the mirror in the morning to make sure I'm not you.

Yeah, it has gotten that far huh?

DiAnno is da man! Not only Battlezone, but check out the Killers albums. Great stuff.

And while it might seem like he's pissed and holding a grudge, I doubt
if that's the case. It sounds to me like he's just sick of people
bringing up his time in Maiden and the asinine rumor mongering that
goes along with it. I'd be tired of it if I were in his shoes.

akeldama wrote:

Former IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di'Anno took part in a press conference last month during his solo tour of Argentina. When asked about the rumors that his drug use had something to do with his split with IRON MAIDEN, Di'Anno responded, "Where the Smurf do you people get this from? I left IRON MAIDEN because they were going too heavy metal, and IRON MAIDEN is a money-making machine, and I don't give a Smurf about it. It was not about drugs; it was nothing like that. Me and Steve [Harris]... I [wrote] the song 'Killers', Steve had [what he thought] were better songs. I thought his songs were smurf poo. Nothing to do with drugs; nothing whatsoever. Check your facts or otherwise this interview is over... I hate that! I smurfing hate that! Because people... You say something but you don't know. Well, I'm telling you. IRON MAIDEN is Steve Harris' band. It doesn't matter about anybody else — whether it's Dave Murray, Clive [Burr], me... it's Steve Harris' band and all it is is money, money, money, money — nobody else counts. And I wrote fn' 20-times better songs than his, but I only got one song on the 'Killers' album because it's Steve's — he must have this. Fn' Adolf Hitler. I'm not interested. So there you go. But you need to take drugs when you're with IRON MAIDEN because they're so smurfing boring. And the only drugs were aspirin, because Steve [making hand gesture as if someone is speaking into his ear]... Fn' headache."

I hope paul dies.