The average life expectancy of a spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain was an astonishing four weeks. yeah... 6 months and you are a god among man
That's not surprising. The same is true of infantryman. If you can survive the first couple of weeks in contact, you have become one of the wolves instead of the sheep. It's the whole point of Red Flag, Topgun, and MCAGCC Twenty-nine Palms.
Bruce has an operatic range. Considering he had throat cancer, he can still hold a note ,👍 Looking forward to seeing them this year. It's great to see how Maiden have gone from a niche NWOBHM band to being a British institution and being on postal stamps. Up the Irons! You're right. In school when teaching about WW2 and the Battle of Britain you could throw on Aces High. Or teaching about the Crimean War, you could throw on The Trooper. The kids would love it ,😄
@@MikaTarkela To each its own. I really like the story, the journey the song takea you on and the entire atmosphere around the performance and story. Makuasioita sano, makuasioita.
Loving the month of Maiden, with the month of June coming up, how about a month of Judas Priest. Rob Halford is another great singer to sink your teeth into. Cheers from Australia!
My all time favorite by Iron Maiden. The high adrenalin urgency of this song on every level is so perfect - IMO if anything is missing its a third verse. The song is over so fast!
I think the average life expectancy for an RAF pilot in the Battle Of Britain was something like four weeks, very brave men. This is one of my favourite Iron Maiden songs, and they all look so young in this video :-)
The average life expectancy of a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain was just four weeks. Despite this alarming figure, aspiring fighter pilots continued to join the RAF throughout the conflict, supporting the efforts of ground troops and defending their country.
I remember back in the early 80's when I was first getting into music. I had heard the band KISS back in the 70's and liked them though I only had 1 album (Rock and Roll Over) by them. I was mostly a fan of top 40 pop music. Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, The Eurythmics, Thomas Dolby, The Cars, The Police, etc. Stuff you would hear daily on the local radio station. I had been introduced to Def Leppard by 1982 or 1983.. whichever year the video for 'Rock of Ages' was released from their Pyromania album. By the end of 1985 into 1986 I was introduced to heavier music by Black Sabbath (with Dio on vocals), Motley Crue (Shout at the Devil album), Dio (The Last In Line album) and my tastes went from pop radio to rock/metal. Somewhere along the way I was also introduced to AC/DC with the Back In Black album, the Fly On The Wall album, and the Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap album. The reason for this wall of text is to explain that my musical exposure to metal was still in it's infancy.. so to speak.. when I encountered Iron Maiden.. and this song was the very first song from Maiden that I had ever heard. Bruce's vocals and the high-pace gallop of the music on the majority of the Powerslave album was pretty new to me. It combined the best elements of Sabbath, Dio, Crue, Def Leppard, and AC/DC. I was an instant fan and literally wore out as many Maiden cassette tapes as I wore out Dio tapes. This was all, of course, before I found Metallica with Master of Puppets, Megadeth with Peace Sells, Slayer with Reign in Blood, and Anthrax with Among the Living in 1986-1987. Somewhere in there after Iron Maiden I found Judas Priest with the Turbo Lover album and in 1988-1989 I found Mercyful Fate with the Melissa album and King Diamond with the Conspiracy album. It is always fun to travel back in time and relive the journey. I hope you enjoy yours.
Ken you should dive into the somewhere in time album ,you dont have to make a video about it just listen to the whole album on your free time... its a masterpiece
If you're ever in Miami, I recommend visiting Rock N' Roll Ribs. It's the drummer's restaurant where he performs live with local and famous musicians as often as he can. There are tons of videos of the performances on RUclips.
As Richard Burton says in The Longest Day, "The problem with being one of the few is that we keep getting fewer". The problem was new pilots. At the height of the Battle of Britain, pilots with as little as eight weeks' training were thrown into the heat of battle. Spitfires and Hurricanes were fitted with 303 machine guns. The German planes had large calibre cannons. The 303 went through ammunition quickly so a Spitfire would have about 30 seconds worth of ammunition on board. Inexperienced pilots would fire all their ammunition in one go whereas experienced pilots would fire in one or two second bursts. Without any ammunition, the new pilots became sitting ducks
One of the best books on the subject is Marcel Julian's "Battle of Britain". What the RAF and the people of England faced and eventually overcame against Germany is nothing short of miraculous, and a huge strategic blunder by Hitler.
Quick search suggests that life expectancy was about four weeks, which was an improvement over the First World War. One advantage the British pilots had is that if they were shot down and weren't hurt too badly, they could get right back up into the fight. It wasn't uncommon for a pilot to be shot down in the morning and be back up in another plane by mid-afternoon. As terrible as it was, I think I'd pick being a fighter pilot over flying in a bomber.
This is probably the most beloved fighter pilot Iron Maiden song. I prefer "Where Eagles Dare" and I was ecstatic when they played it live on their 2018 tour.
Rolling, turning, diving, doing it again! Damn I love Iron Maiden even more now. I actually watch Doug Helvering on his channel as he does the daily Doug since he's a classic music composer and then I start understanding the keys and other things of the music component.
Iron Maiden are a "live band" but the majority you've reacted to have been studio versions, and tracks that have been reacted to over and over! 'Infinite Dreams' live at the Birmingham N.E.C 1988 is an amazing live performance, faultless vocals from Bruce, faultless guitar and drums, it deserves a reaction yet nobody (as far as i know) has reacted to it!
as a teen i was really stoked to see bruce wearing the tshirt of our local rock station. next tour he came back tio town wearing a competitors shirt and ranted about kgon going pop :D
I loved my Aces high concert tee! This song was early morning prep kitchen music back in my handsome days. Hah! I'm going through your library of reactions to Maiden and if you haven't checked out "Revelations" yet, I highly recommend it.
When Bruce Bruce as he went by in his previous band Samson entered Iron Maiden I was already a fan having seen them with Paul Di'anno open for Judas Priest in 1981 at the Palladium in NYC on their Killers tour. I then saw the two bands co-headlining tour in 1982 at Madison Sq Garden and although I always loved Rob Halford Dickenson and Maiden blew Priest away. They've been my favorite band since although I haven't really been into their last few albums, they always bring it live every time. I saw them at MSG on their last appearance in the area and Bruce even with the cancer scare never sounded better. I love music, particularly metal and great vocalist. Now my knowledge of being a trained vocalist is limited I know one when I hear one.
You should really really really listen to Helloween, latest tours after 2017 "Helloween" or "Keeper Of The Seven Keys" or "How Many Tears" They "invented" power metal and before imploding for various reasons in 1989, they were about to become as big as Iron Maiden
She might go down as the best metal singer ever. I say this as a former metal singer. I don't know if I'll ever be able to sing like that again. It's good to see someone carrying the torch.
In high school (back in the 80’s), I got permission to hand out the lyrics and play the song Alexander the Great in my history class. I got at A+ on that test just because of Iron Maiden. (And I would like to think I changed some teachers from thinking all heavy metal is “satanic”. Lol. I did the same in my english class with Iron Maiden’s, “Ryme of the Ancient Mariner.” My teachers loved it! Any way to teach kids….something! I love them to this day and history!
I wore a Sacred Reich Crimes against humanity shirt to school back then, It had the lyrics printed on the back. My teacher liked the message it sent and wanted to know more about the band
Glad you did the video and not a live version. I love Bruce but he has a really hard time pulling this one off live. Anyone with good links to live versions leave them here please.
@@levesd3722 Not for very long. His vocals on the Seventh Son album are better and more powerful than any that he had done before (just check out the isolated vocal track of Seventh Son the song, holy moly...) and as I said earlier his voice was at its very best from 1997 (Accident of Birth) - 2011 (En Vivo). He has never sounded better than in those years.
Many of the very young pilots were so green, they were lost in their first few missions. The issue was they were being rushed into battle with only about 10-12 hours on Hurricanes or Spitfires (plus some hours on trainers). If you made it past your first dozen missions or so, your chances of surviving improved.
Would love to see you react to some Maneskin, Italian rock band who just won Eurovision. They have this throwback rock sound that sounds incredible. Don’t just do the Eurovision song though as they have put out some awesome stuff. Covers aside they produce their own stuff with the lead singer doing the lyrics which themselves are something not to mention their music videos which are works of art. They have incredible energy, it’s infectious, the lead singer has a Freddie Mercury vibe about him which you might appreciate, he looks and sounds awesome.
If we look at all of the allied aircrew who flew in the Battle of Britain, there were 2,927 (2,353 of which were Britons), and 510 were killed (407 Britons). The BoB is regarded as lasting between July 10th and October 31st of 1940, for just over 16 weeks. While the “average life expectancy” may be 4 weeks, as I’ve seen in some sources, it’s handy to remember that the people who were shot down just a few days in REALLY skew the averages. Which is to take nothing from the extraordinary bravery and skill of the pilots who fought it. It’s a damn good thing those Spitfires had such powerful engines and advanced wing structures, to help get those men’s enormous brass balls into the sky.
This is actually the studio version of this song. The live footage was made for this video and is probably not in front of an audience. Having said that, this song sounds almost identical live.
"Aces High" One of the best quintessential Maiden songs. When I saw them in 2018 on their Legacy of the Beast tour, they opened with this and it was grand, epic, phenomenal and down right nostalgic. It is disgusting that once again, Maiden has been snubbed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
3:40 I can tell a story about German fighter pilots that an elderly gentleman who worked at an air base in the post office during World War II told me. Towards the end of the war, more and more fighter pilots were sent here to intercept the Allied bombers on their way to Berlin. He said that one day he received a letter that the pilot had arrived and the next day or the day after that he sent a letter to the pilot's family saying that he had died. And that countless times. Most of the pilots here died within the first three days of arrival.
Yeah, my favourite Iron Maiden song. The freeze frame on Bruce looked really funny. If you want funny faces from Nicko, you won't even have to stop the video - it's 24/7 ... XD.
There is a meme on the internet about Iron Maiden that has some truth to it in a round about way it goes something like this "What if Iron Maiden was created by teachers to get kids to learn about history and literature". A great many of their songs are based on either historical events or works of literature.
When I was 14 Inwas asked to be the singer for some mates at school. I apparently was chosen because the guitarist had heard me singing Aces High and nail the final scream. I joined the band and 2 weeks later my voice broke and I ended up a bass baritone. Still can't hit that final note anymore.
This is not related to the video but I remember you reacting to a video with a Wall Of Death in it, and you had no idea what it was. It's quite an old video so I'm posting a comment here hoping that you'll have more chance to see it if it's on your latest video. This as well as circle pits and traditional moshing are traditions in a lot of Metal subgenres. Just as the music itself is cathartic, taking part in those crowd movements is cathartic as well, no one gets hurt and usually if someone falls down everyone around him/her will be here to pick him/her back up! The reason I'm saying all this is that I know this wouldn't be a vocal reaction but it would make an awesome bonus reaction if you watched a Wall Of Death / Circle Pit compilation on RUclips! ahah
Speaking of mandatory high school study, I did my senior book report on Rime of the Ancient Mariner without reading the poem at all. Got a B just from my interpretation of the lyrics :)
As a drummer...speaking for myself only of course...If I don't hear the vocals I can get lost easily. I've never used monitors in any of the garage bands I was in, BUT, during rehearsals if I didn't hear the vocals I got lost on occasion. UP THE IRONS!!!
@Ken, I would love to see you look at some newer stuff. Check out The Red and the Black or Tears of a Clown (about Robin Williams) from Book of Souls (their most recent album). There are good live versions from Wacken Open Air in 2016 or 17.
Request: I'd love to see/hear your reaction/thoughts on pretty much any song by "System of a Down", but you'd probably have a lot of input for their songs "sugar", "war" or "toxicity". Thanks and love the channel :)
Nice choice, one of my top Maiden songs (having been in the RAF I am bias) Some of the new pilots didn't make it more than one or two sorties and had only hours of flight time in a hurricane or spitfire.
The average life expectancy of a spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain was an astonishing four weeks.
yeah... 6 months and you are a god among man
Still beats tail gunners. The average life expectancy of a tail gunner was 2 minutes, when it hit the fan.
I'm not buying it
That's not surprising. The same is true of infantryman. If you can survive the first couple of weeks in contact, you have become one of the wolves instead of the sheep.
It's the whole point of Red Flag, Topgun, and MCAGCC Twenty-nine Palms.
@@onearthonelegion Look it up then.
Average life expectancy of a soldier in The Battle of Stalingrad was 24 hours.
Bruce's diction is absolutely amazing. His ability to enunciate through this very fast song so that every word can be understood is wonderful.
More like Bruce Dictionson
Well, it's his native language, what do you expect?
The breath control on this man! Recognize that he is jumping and running around the stage in super tight jeans too!!
They open their recent tour with this song. With a full size inflatable Spitfire hanging and turning above them.
Oh yes I saw it with my own eyes! So so cool!
Yeah, that was sooo awesome. Gave me chills everywhere
Every tour in the last years was opened with this song 😂😂
ROLLING
SCRAMBLING
Yup. Saw them in 2018 on their Legacy of the Beast tour and it was epic.
Flight of Icarus... one of Bruce's best screams of all time.
not just Bruce's, but one of the best rock screams of all time. He holds that note for ever.
Check out the Truth Surge cover of that one. He did a great job
Nice, can't wait for Infinite Dreams!
The pace and tempo of this song always put me into the mind of one of these pilots. One of my favorite maiden songs of all time.
Bruce has an operatic range. Considering he had throat cancer, he can still hold a note ,👍 Looking forward to seeing them this year. It's great to see how Maiden have gone from a niche NWOBHM band to being a British institution and being on postal stamps. Up the Irons!
You're right. In school when teaching about WW2 and the Battle of Britain you could throw on Aces High. Or teaching about the Crimean War, you could throw on The Trooper. The kids would love it ,😄
Do Rime of the Ancient Mariner, mate! :)
This!
Live After Death version.
Heck yeah. Dudes a vocalist's favorite vocalist in many cases.
I don't get the hype around that song. It is probably the only song I don't like from Iron Maiden :)
@@MikaTarkela To each its own.
I really like the story, the journey the song takea you on and the entire atmosphere around the performance and story.
Makuasioita sano, makuasioita.
Loving the month of Maiden, with the month of June coming up, how about a month of Judas Priest. Rob Halford is another great singer to sink your teeth into. Cheers from Australia!
This ☝🏻️💯
Seen Maiden 4 times,worth every penny,they are fantastic live!
My all time favorite by Iron Maiden. The high adrenalin urgency of this song on every level is so perfect - IMO if anything is missing its a third verse. The song is over so fast!
Metal with a history lesson. Love it
I think the average life expectancy for an RAF pilot in the Battle Of Britain was something like four weeks, very brave men. This is one of my favourite Iron Maiden songs, and they all look so young in this video :-)
Yeah, young and beautiful. Especially BrucieL
Bruce Dickinson - Tears of the dragon
I think, this is his best work ever.
Nah! Omega
It is one of his best songs for sure. Would be nice to see a reaction to it.
Yesss! Live version form 2005 is incredible!!
ruclips.net/video/z7UhZZLD1vY/видео.html
Yes, the Live Version from Tribuzy Concert!
Definitely Tears of the Dragon live from São Paulo 1999
The average life expectancy of a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain was just four weeks. Despite this alarming figure, aspiring fighter pilots continued to join the RAF throughout the conflict, supporting the efforts of ground troops and defending their country.
Ive loved Iron Maiden since I first heard them, when I was 13. You, unbelievably, make me appreciate them even more😀
Have a listen to the Shock Tactics album by Samson. Earth Mother and Bloodlust are my all time favorite Bruce Dickinson songs.
I remember back in the early 80's when I was first getting into music. I had heard the band KISS back in the 70's and liked them though I only had 1 album (Rock and Roll Over) by them. I was mostly a fan of top 40 pop music. Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, The Eurythmics, Thomas Dolby, The Cars, The Police, etc. Stuff you would hear daily on the local radio station. I had been introduced to Def Leppard by 1982 or 1983.. whichever year the video for 'Rock of Ages' was released from their Pyromania album. By the end of 1985 into 1986 I was introduced to heavier music by Black Sabbath (with Dio on vocals), Motley Crue (Shout at the Devil album), Dio (The Last In Line album) and my tastes went from pop radio to rock/metal. Somewhere along the way I was also introduced to AC/DC with the Back In Black album, the Fly On The Wall album, and the Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap album.
The reason for this wall of text is to explain that my musical exposure to metal was still in it's infancy.. so to speak.. when I encountered Iron Maiden.. and this song was the very first song from Maiden that I had ever heard. Bruce's vocals and the high-pace gallop of the music on the majority of the Powerslave album was pretty new to me. It combined the best elements of Sabbath, Dio, Crue, Def Leppard, and AC/DC. I was an instant fan and literally wore out as many Maiden cassette tapes as I wore out Dio tapes.
This was all, of course, before I found Metallica with Master of Puppets, Megadeth with Peace Sells, Slayer with Reign in Blood, and Anthrax with Among the Living in 1986-1987.
Somewhere in there after Iron Maiden I found Judas Priest with the Turbo Lover album and in 1988-1989 I found Mercyful Fate with the Melissa album and King Diamond with the Conspiracy album.
It is always fun to travel back in time and relive the journey. I hope you enjoy yours.
I am a little older than you. My journey took the opposite route; from harder to softer music. The joy was (and still is) the same, though.
The intro speech by Winston Churchill might be the GOAT.
Would love to get tour take on their song Revelations. So criminally neglected by reactors.
Agreed! This is probably my favorite Maiden song, Up the Irons!
Its nearly always the 10 same songs!
Their harmonizing guitars always amaze me. Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner Live in NJ, The Clansman and Fear Of The Dark Live in Rio.
"Yet another reason Bruce Almighty Dickinson is a vocal GOD" More specifically He is THE vocal GOD!!!!!!!!!!! UP THE IRONS!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
That first Aces High at 3:31 still gives me good bumps after 30 years.
Thems Maiden boys ..always got me scowls from grandpa..Fly to liiiive,..Aaacesss Hiiighh!! Glorious!
I love this song. Bruce sings in a way that make you think that you're in the cockpit.
Ken you should dive into the somewhere in time album ,you dont have to make a video about it just listen to the whole album on your free time... its a masterpiece
I had that poster in my room in high school. Love that album.
Great reaction Ken! Now it's time for the Talisman, live from El Vivo, please?! One of the best Bruce performances
Yeah man. Whats the hold up? You’ve done enough of the classics already.
Best concert opener! In the last tour they had a WW2 replica plane on stage for this song, which they opened the concerts with! Amazing stuff!
Bruce is still singing this song with flawless skill! Amazing!
Hope you get to "flight of Icarus" before the month of maiden ends 👍
If you're ever in Miami, I recommend visiting Rock N' Roll Ribs. It's the drummer's restaurant where he performs live with local and famous musicians as often as he can. There are tons of videos of the performances on RUclips.
Hey ken...thankyou for the honest reaction...i'm very happy and impatiently waiting for the next maiden reactions
As Richard Burton says in The Longest Day, "The problem with being one of the few is that we keep getting fewer". The problem was new pilots. At the height of the Battle of Britain, pilots with as little as eight weeks' training were thrown into the heat of battle. Spitfires and Hurricanes were fitted with 303 machine guns. The German planes had large calibre cannons. The 303 went through ammunition quickly so a Spitfire would have about 30 seconds worth of ammunition on board. Inexperienced pilots would fire all their ammunition in one go whereas experienced pilots would fire in one or two second bursts. Without any ammunition, the new pilots became sitting ducks
Aces High is my favourite Maiden tune and you are so respectful, I love it. Great react!
One of the best books on the subject is Marcel Julian's "Battle of Britain". What the RAF and the people of England faced and eventually overcame against Germany is nothing short of miraculous, and a huge strategic blunder by Hitler.
Quick search suggests that life expectancy was about four weeks, which was an improvement over the First World War. One advantage the British pilots had is that if they were shot down and weren't hurt too badly, they could get right back up into the fight. It wasn't uncommon for a pilot to be shot down in the morning and be back up in another plane by mid-afternoon. As terrible as it was, I think I'd pick being a fighter pilot over flying in a bomber.
Possibly my favourite Maiden song.
Perfect reaction. Yes I agree, Maiden should be a fun teaching tool for history. Well done!
more iron maiden please
The Clansman i would definitely recommend that
This is probably the most beloved fighter pilot Iron Maiden song. I prefer "Where Eagles Dare" and I was ecstatic when they played it live on their 2018 tour.
Rolling, turning, diving, doing it again! Damn I love Iron Maiden even more now. I actually watch Doug Helvering on his channel as he does the daily Doug since he's a classic music composer and then I start understanding the keys and other things of the music component.
One of my favourite riffs ever
Iron Maiden are a "live band" but the majority you've reacted to have been studio versions, and tracks that have been reacted to over and over! 'Infinite Dreams' live at the Birmingham N.E.C 1988 is an amazing live performance, faultless vocals from Bruce, faultless guitar and drums, it deserves a reaction yet nobody (as far as i know) has reacted to it!
Love these reactions, Don´t Stop doing metal, have been a subscriber since you didnt even have 20,000 subs
as a teen i was really stoked to see bruce wearing the tshirt of our local rock station.
next tour he came back tio town wearing a competitors shirt and ranted about kgon going pop :D
I loved my Aces high concert tee! This song was early morning prep kitchen music back in my handsome days. Hah! I'm going through your library of reactions to Maiden and if you haven't checked out "Revelations" yet, I highly recommend it.
When Bruce Bruce as he went by in his previous band Samson entered Iron Maiden I was already a fan having seen them with Paul Di'anno open for Judas Priest in 1981 at the Palladium in NYC on their Killers tour. I then saw the two bands co-headlining tour in 1982 at Madison Sq Garden and although I always loved Rob Halford Dickenson and Maiden blew Priest away. They've been my favorite band since although I haven't really been into their last few albums, they always bring it live every time. I saw them at MSG on their last appearance in the area and Bruce even with the cancer scare never sounded better. I love music, particularly metal and great vocalist. Now my knowledge of being a trained vocalist is limited I know one when I hear one.
You should really really really listen to Helloween, latest tours after 2017
"Helloween" or "Keeper Of The Seven Keys" or "How Many Tears"
They "invented" power metal and before imploding for various reasons in 1989, they were about to become as big as Iron Maiden
Can confirm that the average life expectancy of a Battle of Britain pilot was 4 weeks. Some only had about 10hrs of flying time under their belts
you really have to react to rime of the ancient mariner studio
Bruce's KGON shirt. Oregon radio baby. Back in the day when music was actually music.
loved, just loved, one of my fave song
Do Children of the Damned and 22 Acacia Avenue. Bruce is THE metal singer.
While Dio was alive he wasn’t THE metal singer
She might go down as the best metal singer ever. I say this as a former metal singer. I don't know if I'll ever be able to sing like that again. It's good to see someone carrying the torch.
Yaaay! More Iron Maiden. Thank you ❤
That last effort of octave by Bruce was beautiful....great end to a great song!
Great reaction! Please do more than a month of Iron Maiden! They have so many good songs!
No more lies, Dance of death, Wasted Years - this need to happen, please (live , modern versions )
In high school (back in the 80’s), I got permission to hand out the lyrics and play the song Alexander the Great in my history class. I got at A+ on that test just because of Iron Maiden. (And I would like to think I changed some teachers from thinking all heavy metal is “satanic”. Lol. I did the same in my english class with Iron Maiden’s, “Ryme of the Ancient Mariner.” My teachers loved it! Any way to teach kids….something! I love them to this day and history!
I wore a Sacred Reich Crimes against humanity shirt to school back then, It had the lyrics printed on the back. My teacher liked the message it sent and wanted to know more about the band
@@GodWeenSatan I love teachers like that! Open minded.
Read Jack Higgins book Flight of eagles. About two brothers. One flys in the RAF, the other for the luftwaffe. Great book and this song kicks it!
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Flight 666 performance is excellent- need more live Bruce!
Glad you did the video and not a live version. I love Bruce but he has a really hard time pulling this one off live. Anyone with good links to live versions leave them here please.
This is Bruce Dickinson at the ABSOLUTE HEIGHT of his powers as a vocalist.
It was on Chemical Wedding ;)
@@Maverral That was a masterpiece because of fantastic production. Bruce was at his peak until 1984.
@@levesd3722 1997-2011 is peack Dickinson. Also, 1984 was way too early for studio magic, this is Bruce singing all the way.
@@TheGreatestVoice1958 It was early but the World Slavery Tour damaged his voice.
@@levesd3722 Not for very long. His vocals on the Seventh Son album are better and more powerful than any that he had done before (just check out the isolated vocal track of Seventh Son the song, holy moly...) and as I said earlier his voice was at its very best from 1997 (Accident of Birth) - 2011 (En Vivo). He has never sounded better than in those years.
Many of the very young pilots were so green, they were lost in their first few missions. The issue was they were being rushed into battle with only about 10-12 hours on Hurricanes or Spitfires (plus some hours on trainers). If you made it past your first dozen missions or so, your chances of surviving improved.
i love that intro so much, even as an american the patriotism gives me chills every time.
American pilots also volunteered and served in the RAF before the US entered the war, many were killed in action
nice reacts! wasted years and fear of the dark, two lncredible songs of maiden for your next reacts. regards from 🇨🇭
Would love to see you react to some Maneskin, Italian rock band who just won Eurovision.
They have this throwback rock sound that sounds incredible.
Don’t just do the Eurovision song though as they have put out some awesome stuff.
Covers aside they produce their own stuff with the lead singer doing the lyrics which themselves are something not to mention their music videos which are works of art.
They have incredible energy, it’s infectious, the lead singer has a Freddie Mercury vibe about him which you might appreciate, he looks and sounds awesome.
If we look at all of the allied aircrew who flew in the Battle of Britain, there were 2,927 (2,353 of which were Britons), and 510 were killed (407 Britons). The BoB is regarded as lasting between July 10th and October 31st of 1940, for just over 16 weeks. While the “average life expectancy” may be 4 weeks, as I’ve seen in some sources, it’s handy to remember that the people who were shot down just a few days in REALLY skew the averages.
Which is to take nothing from the extraordinary bravery and skill of the pilots who fought it. It’s a damn good thing those Spitfires had such powerful engines and advanced wing structures, to help get those men’s enormous brass balls into the sky.
This is actually the studio version of this song. The live footage was made for this video and is probably not in front of an audience. Having said that, this song sounds almost identical live.
One month is not enough.
Good reaction... please do some more maiden. Anything is great. Up the Irons
"Aces High" One of the best quintessential Maiden songs. When I saw them in 2018 on their Legacy of the Beast tour, they opened with this and it was grand, epic, phenomenal and down right nostalgic. It is disgusting that once again, Maiden has been snubbed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Powerslave, powerslave, powerslave, powerslave.....
🤘😎🤘
3:40 I can tell a story about German fighter pilots that an elderly gentleman who worked at an air base in the post office during World War II told me. Towards the end of the war, more and more fighter pilots were sent here to intercept the Allied bombers on their way to Berlin. He said that one day he received a letter that the pilot had arrived and the next day or the day after that he sent a letter to the pilot's family saying that he had died. And that countless times. Most of the pilots here died within the first three days of arrival.
Maiden classic! Anotherbhigh energy song for sure, the Winston Churchill intro always gets the blood pumping for us Brits 😁
Yeah, my favourite Iron Maiden song. The freeze frame on Bruce looked really funny. If you want funny faces from Nicko, you won't even have to stop the video - it's 24/7 ... XD.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner....best one is the live version from Flight 666 album...3 guitars, insane...theatrical...unique
Here is one link:
ruclips.net/video/2AmrIydnXIs/видео.html
...and, btw, it is based on an English long poem from Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner
Nope, the best live version is off Live After Death.
This was my theme song as a teenager. (In the insanity of my youth my life's ambition was to be a fighter pilot.)
There is a meme on the internet about Iron Maiden that has some truth to it in a round about way it goes something like this "What if Iron Maiden was created by teachers to get kids to learn about history and literature". A great many of their songs are based on either historical events or works of literature.
When I was 14 Inwas asked to be the singer for some mates at school.
I apparently was chosen because the guitarist had heard me singing Aces High and nail the final scream. I joined the band and 2 weeks later my voice broke and I ended up a bass baritone.
Still can't hit that final note anymore.
outro always giving me the chills
This is not related to the video but I remember you reacting to a video with a Wall Of Death in it, and you had no idea what it was. It's quite an old video so I'm posting a comment here hoping that you'll have more chance to see it if it's on your latest video. This as well as circle pits and traditional moshing are traditions in a lot of Metal subgenres.
Just as the music itself is cathartic, taking part in those crowd movements is cathartic as well, no one gets hurt and usually if someone falls down everyone around him/her will be here to pick him/her back up!
The reason I'm saying all this is that I know this wouldn't be a vocal reaction but it would make an awesome bonus reaction if you watched a Wall Of Death / Circle Pit compilation on RUclips! ahah
Speaking of mandatory high school study, I did my senior book report on Rime of the Ancient Mariner without reading the poem at all. Got a B just from my interpretation of the lyrics :)
Full of energy
Come on, let go! I can see you holding back... if you want to head bang, then fully head bang 🤘
As a drummer...speaking for myself only of course...If I don't hear the vocals I can get lost easily. I've never used monitors in any of the garage bands I was in, BUT, during rehearsals if I didn't hear the vocals I got lost on occasion.
UP THE IRONS!!!
I recommend ‘losfer words’ . Great vocals
Plz dont stop reacting to Iron maiden! Is the greatest band ever walked at earth!!!
"The Only Right Way To Start A Show"
Starring: Iron Maiden.
Bruce is a history teacher !
@Ken, I would love to see you look at some newer stuff. Check out The Red and the Black or Tears of a Clown (about Robin Williams) from Book of Souls (their most recent album). There are good live versions from Wacken Open Air in 2016 or 17.
'Power slave' was the first cassette l ever purchased at the age of 12. Yes I'm old. 😂
Request: I'd love to see/hear your reaction/thoughts on pretty much any song by "System of a Down", but you'd probably have a lot of input for their songs "sugar", "war" or "toxicity". Thanks and love the channel :)
Bruce's song that he had to song for his audition into the band is remember tomorrow. I reckon this'd be a good one for you.
Nice choice, one of my top Maiden songs (having been in the RAF I am bias) Some of the new pilots didn't make it more than one or two sorties and had only hours of flight time in a hurricane or spitfire.
this song is so impressive vocally, i can't imagine ever singing this
Caught Somewhere In Time by them 🤘🤘🤘🤟🏻🤟🏻🤘🤘🤟🏻🤘🤘
Iron Maiden - Music that breeds heroes
Banger,classic!