Classical Composer Reacts to The Trooper and Cross-Eyed Mary (Iron Maiden) | The Daily Doug (Ep 316)
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- Опубліковано 23 січ 2022
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In this special #MaidenMonday edition of #TheDailyDoug, I'm listening to 'both sides' of Iron Maiden's The Trooper. The song is from their 1983 album Piece of Mind. And, The B side of this single is Cross-Eyed Mary, Iron Maiden's cover of the classic song by Jethro Tull. We're celebrating out 1-year anniversary of doing music reaction videos this week, and we couldn't let the week go by without listening to some music by Iron Maiden. Up the Irons!
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UP THE IRONS!!!
Cross Eyed Mary is a good example of how to make a cover song. It's got the Maiden sound all over it, while still being recognizable as the original.
Maiden fans are a loyal and devoted lot.
Iron Maiden fans are an incredibly dedicated and loving group of metal heads. We love Maiden and anybody else that also loves Maiden or discovers them. So awesome that Doug is paying tribute and honoring how Maiden fans embraced his channel. You deserve it for spreading their music! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
For me, one of the things that has always "sold" this song was Steve Harris' galloping bass line...makes it so easy to imagine the charge of cavalry.
You absolutely need to do "Flight of Icarus" and "Where Eagles Dare." And yes, "Flight of Icarus" IS about the Greek myth.
They’d been playing The Trooper about 30 years by this point. But they play it with an energy like they’re a new band with something to prove. Bruce sounds fantastic. Just nailing it.
Iron Maiden has always said Jethro Tull was a huge inspiration for their music. Happy to hear this cover for the first time.
Hey Doug. Just wanted to say I'm so happy for your success over the past year and looking forward to what 2022 brings. Thanks!
"The Trooper" is Maiden's adaptation of the poem "Charge of the Light Brigade", about an episode in the Crimean War of the 1850's. "Cross Eyed Mary" is about a teen hooker.
Kickass...By the way, there is also a version of Maiden's Revelations (from Piece of mind) covered by Jethro Tull with Bruce on vocals. A must listen!
Piece of mind is an underrated album with no particular weak points. I recommend you to listen to Revelations from this album. Still life is also worth listening.
I first heard Bruce Dickinson on a college metal station back in 1980. He was with a group called Samson and they also covered Cross-eyed Mary. He transformed Iron Maiden the moment he arrived.
BTW, talking about "Piece of Mind" and being the first album with Nicko McBrain, you should check the first song in this album, kind of an statement from the new drummer...
I was in bootcamp when this album came out and it was about the same time as DIO's Holy Diver.
They always play The Trooper so fast live. So fast to almost stumble over, but of course never stumbling over. Even that reflects the atmosphere of the song.
I listened to this in 1983 when it came out, at one of the most scary times of the cold war. The Soviets had shot down KAL-007, killing a US congressman. In my high school "current history" class, they brought a holocaust survivor, and those films of the concentration camps were terrifying. As tense as all of that was, it was even worse - The Soviets went to DEFCON1 based on a false alarm, and the fact that we didn't get barbecued in my senior year was due to Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel who managed to stop it.
Yo estuve ahí...en vivo!!! Fue un concierto fantastico, increible!!! Salte todo el concierto!! En Santiago...saludos desde Chile!!!
Thanks Doug for the shout out to us Maiden fans that started you on this journey one year ago, much success to another year and Up the Irons.
Congrats, Doug! So glad to have been a part of this incredible journey. You have witnessed the majesty of Maiden, and the loyalty of their fans! Keep 'em comin'!