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 Nickname: Conan the Librarian Raised: In Worksop Notts, England. Influences: Deep Purple's "In rock". Actions of Bruce 1 / 2: Maiden plays Allentown, PA. The song "Mission From 'Arry" was recorded post-gig this night. Seems that during the beginning of Nicko's drum solo, Steve's bass quit, so he told a roadie ("Bill"), to go and tell Nicko to try and extend his solo. Trouble was, the guy wasn't his drum roadie and didn't really know how to go about telling him, so he ended up waving his arms like a demented windmill and trying to yell over the noise. All that happened was that Nicko missed the message but got distracted enough to mess up his solo. After the gig, he clocked the guy, which prompted a huge 1/2 hour long argument between him and Steve. After most of that was over, Bruce went in with his Walkman, and started stirring it up again. Steve spotted the Walkman and said "some cunt's recording this", whereupon Nicko went to jump on the Walkman and smash it. Fine, except Bruce had a bunch of ideas and lyrics on the other side of the cassette for Powerslave, so he intercepted and clocked Nicko one. Now you'll see this as a b-side to 2 Minutes To Midnight, with writing credits to "Harris/McBrain, and engineered by Bruce Dickinson." Actions of Harris 2 / 2: This stemmed from a concert on August 15th, 1983 on the Piece Of Mind tour at Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, NY. A lawsuit stemmed from this concert where some girl was doing sensual dancing on stage. The original article reads like this: "Title: MODEL FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST ROCK GROUP." "A 22-year old Buffalo model who claims a member of the heavy-metal rock group IRON MAIDEN ripped off the top of her bathing suit when she appeared on stage at a recent concert filed a $350,000 lawsuit Wednesday against the band, its singer and its management firm. Attorney Arnold Lieberman, who filed the suit on behalf of model Suzzette Kolaga, said the incident occured during Iron Maiden's concert before about 7,000 fans in Memorial Auditorium on Aug. 15. He said legal papers will be served on the band when it appears in Rochester today [09/01/83] for a scheduled concert. The suit, filed in State Supreme Court, seeks $150,000 in general damages against the English band, singer Bruce Dickenson and the management firm, American Talent International of New York, plus $200,000 in punitive damages against Dickenson. Ms. Kolaga, a professional fashion model, won a local "Ms. Heavy Metal" contest, and because of that was invited onstage during the performance to crack a whip and dance around Dickenson. The suit alleges that Dickenson, without consent, warning or provocation, pushed and assualted her and tore the top of her bathing suit. Dickenson "willfully, wantonly and shamelessly" exposed her to the crowd attending the concert, the suit contends, thereby holding her up to "scorn, shame and extreme embarrassment" and seriously damaging her "personal and professional reputation." Ms. Kolaga wore a one-piece bathing suit with a plunging neck-line, thigh- high leather boots and leather gloves, with a chain and handcuffs dangling from a leather belt. Mr. Lieberman said she has asked not to talk to reporters because she is "still mildly hysterical" over the incident. Mr. Lieberman said she is only working part-time because she is still upset." Note: It was the paper that spelled Bruce's last name "Dickenson", not me. Equipment: 4 Fender Precision bass guitars with mirrored scratchplates, bad ass 11 bridges and Seymour Duncan custom SPB1 pick-ups 4 Sony WRT 27 wireless transmitters 2 Raycom/Sony WRR 37 receivers Peter Cornish custom switching system Trace Elliot GP12X pre-amps 1 DBX 160 compressor 2 C-1 audio FR707 amplifiers 8 Custom Marshall 4x12" cabinets fitted with EVM 12L speakers 3 Korg WT-12 tuners Rotosound jazz bass flat wound strings Spares: Electronic preamps, Carver PM 1-5 and PM1200 power amps Albums recorded with Iron Maiden: Number of the beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere in time, Seventh son of a seventh son, No prayer for the dying, Afraid of the dark | ||||||||||||
