Doc Ascension

and aren't you worried that no-one moans at us saying that be are just blatant Maiden copy-ists!! Perhaps we really do muder the songs that much!

You, also, seem to be an idiot.

You are an idiot.

Well this is a bit pointless posting here Scorge but nevermind - we shall be doing a farewell, one last murder of all things maiden! Soon, from the ashes, shall arise a new band however! Me and Gregor (Metal Militia!) shall be on guitarwork, with scorgie as the skin basher! It shall be mostly our own stuff that will be played - a kinda Iron Maiden does Power Metal type thing i guess thats the best way to describe it! We will also work with the odd Blind Guardian / HammerFall cover too so be prepared Aberdeen! \m/

Hammerfall this year? You seriously think they would go to the whole trouble of rehearsing and organising and travel and equip, etc - just for ONE show this year! Wait til 2005 dude, they may even have the new album out and be touring with it! Gamma Ray, Sonata Arctica and CoB are the order of the day! Plus i'm off to see Nightwish in Bradford too!! Cant wait!

Ibanez... Well now that I've got my new guitar (Ibanez RG1570LZB) I can now confirm that Ibanez, BY far kicks everyone's ass!! My one is a prestige model (well theres not many L-H models anyways!) and the build quality is just phenomenal. It was made in Japan as opposed to Korea (I think this is where the other Ibanez'sa re made) and boy do those Japs know how to make a guitar! Plays like an absolute dream and the set-up was pretty much perfect straight from the factory. The bridge on it is also damn good, its not a Floyd Rose Orig, or a Schaler but I tell you it SHITS all over 99% of the Floyd Rose Licenced bridges out there (Jackson im looking at you!). Finally, a picture: (I'm in love with this colour "Zinc Blue", much prefered over the Black!)

two words.... AVE IT!!!!

By FAR.... Blind Guardian - "...And Then There Was Silence" This is truly an epic, tells the story of Homer's Illiad (the Trojan War). It is a piece of musical genius!

I wouldn't say they were root, just better off getting the Ibanez above.

Aahrhhhgghhh !!! noooO!!! Luckily, I had it on mp3 on me puter and burned a copy for me car. If there ever is one available though, dont forget me!!

Ditto!!!

Thats a shame.... such a waste of a good drummer! As you can tell I'm not too keen on the whole Paradise Lost thing - I even fell asleep when we had to sit through them at Bloodstock '03 while waiting for Nightwish!!

no way dudes... Transformers or GI Joe ALL the way!!!

I dont have it!! But i did once... I donated it to you guys at Maiden at the SECC in hopes of them hearing it... don't suppose I could have another

Just incase you fancy some Maiden-esque support on the night, don't forget about us! We would gladly aid the launch of another Atom CD PS. Go kick some ass with this one!!

back to brown - then leave it to go au naturelle !! ps... get a huge handlebars tash to go with it - that would be truly inspiring!

Does that mean we can use "Maiden Taiwan - back by popular demand (Joe Atom!)" on posters/promo material? hehe

IF you go for something other than Ibanez, make sure you spend a little more cash and get a proper Floyd Rose Original trem. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT get a Floyd Rose Licenced Trem...this will be the bane of your guitar playing life. My bro has a Jackson with a Floyd Rose Licenced bridge and its like it was thrown together with some crap shovel in the depths of some Korean slave labour camp! The quality of the metal is shit, rusted all to shit, and it has been such a pain in the ass changing strings, etc, with its shoddy construction. He's going to get it fixed, possibly get a new trem system put in (a real Floyd Rose!) and thats not something you really want to do... Ibanez stopped calling their Trem systems Floyd Rose Licenced a year or 2 ago because FR demanded too much money. So now what you have is a pretty damn good trem system - see here... http://www.ibanez.co.jp/world/product_news/pages/prestige2004/area_e/rg.html Anyway you get the idea, the moral of the story is beware of Floyd Rose Licenced bridges! -Doc

Yeah we hope!! Hopefully we'll be back on the scene soon, building up to the launch of some oringial Taiwanese material!

Strats for me ... are over-rated. That might just be the most blasphemous thing i've said being a hardcore Maiden fan but - I don't like them. I'd take the Ibanez any day mate, and I'd never look back!

Could be some sort of built-in guitar / synth set up with all those switches and the batteries. Nice looking guitar though, def worth more than 50 i'd say.

Enter Maiden Taiwan stage left! lol :D:D

Ibanez without even thinking twice... Edge Pro bridge is really quite good - better than the shitty Floyd Rose Licenced ones. Wizard neck - imho is the way all guitar necks should be! Its soo comfy and lightning quick too. Is that one of the Prestige Ibanez RG's or not?? If not ... go for a Prestige one I'd say - the most expensive you can afford (I myself am getting the RG1570ZBL - yep thats L for Lefty freak!) which is the only one i can get Left Handed but it is a fantastic guitar... absolutely incredible. But then i'm not a big fan of ESP to be honest... especially the LTD's. Short answer - Ibanez

Yes very probably, but it has not been discussed or anything! We will still be doing Maiden songs aswell, even if the amount that we do reduced somewhat, but we can't just go on doing Maiden covers forever! So short answer, yes, unless anyone is particularly fond of the name Maiden Taiwan which I cant imagine being the case!

True!! Wait til you hear the stuff i'm conjuring up for Maiden Taiwan's burst into the world with original material!! Its defiantely not Iron Maiden, but it's not Rhapsody either - it's a big mix of all the stuff i listen to I think. Well we can wait and see how it goes down I guess!