shNITPICKER 1 - METAL FURY on Maiden's Powerslave

What could be more pleasing than to be a besserwisser, a pedant that turns everyone not completely obsessed with music off with his minute details and especially the analyses emerging from these essential facts? Let's see if this will catch fire and encourage people to share their observations - i.e. to nag furiously. Also, if some or all of my details aren't correct, feel free to correct them in your comments.

You claim there are mistakes in MY band's booklets?? Well, you feel lucky punk? Go 'head n proove it, you no good blogger! Let's see who calls the shots around here!

Iron Maiden's 1998 remaster series is all in all nicely done. To my ears, the tracks are remastered well and, as these discs are enhanced, they contain goodies like the studiovideos (even if the resolution isn't very good by current standards), "exclusive" photos and pictures of Eddie and a bit of ye good old yada yada on the tour and recording. It's a pity these features can only be accessed via a specific program, but still, considering these were made in 1998, they work quite nicely.

Check out that small photo on the extreme right. It's an enormous, shameful mistake. Have a pair of binoculars and you can actually spot the error.

The booklets are quite generous, offering lyrics and plenty of pictures. My favourite is probably the Piece of Mind as it includes a funny pic about a brain-burger eating Eddie. Furthermore, there is even a picture (with the caption "Bruce gets arrested") of a model from the infamous gig in Indianapolis, 7th of August 1983, where Dickinson tore the top of a model during 22 Acacia Avenue and (almost) got sued... but that's another story.

So Adrian Smith wore this t-shirt during World Slavery tour? Well, that gives much more meaning to Clairvoyant and Prophecy, I guess...

However, there are some photos that aren't corrected. Powerslave booklet, for instance, includes several photos where you can either see icebergs on the stage or Adrian Smith is dressed on a shirt, that did not yet exist in 1984-1985 (obviously taken from the Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour in 88-89).

Well... Okay, sir blogger. Just shoot us.

My biggest beef, however, is the starter mark on the title track, Powerslave. Yes, the intros to a song are often redundant waste of time, however, in this case the intro isn't that long and - more importantly - it includes that cool drum fill Nicko kickstarts the song with. IT HAS TO BE THERE YOU IDIOTS! Who chose the move this marker, as it in the previous versions had always been at the start of the intro??? It is a very little detail, but if I want to listen to my favourite song from Maiden, I'd appreciate some idiot did not SCREW IT UP!