OK...I have the saddest Iron Maiden story EVER. When I was in Jr.High, Iron Maiden came to Atlanta for their Aces High tour. My friend and I concocted a typical juvenile scheme to fool the parents "I'm spending the night over there", while he told his parents "I'm spending the night with Josh". You get the picture. We paid my friends older brother to buy tickets and take us to the show and let us stay with him in his apartment. We mowed a LOT of lawns to get the money!!

So the night came, and we were soooo excited. EVERYTHING was going to plan. Neither of us had been to a concert, and I'm sure you can understand what 2 14 year olds were feeling! We get to the Omni in Atlanta and go ine...We were crazed with excitement-We felt sooo....rebellious. We both chipped in and bought a Iron Maiden black concert T of Eddie in his spitfire that we agreed to share-1 week me, 1 week him.

So the opening act plays. It was Ace Frehly from Kiss and his band outside kiss....he sucked and was booed off the stage after about 4 songs....no joke-26k people booing is quite a sound!

So we waited.....and waited....and waited....Chanting started and FINALLY one of the members came out on stage to announce that the lead singer had suffered blunt trauma about 30 minutes prior and that the concert was going to be cancelled and rescheduled. We were CRUSHED! It was almost a riot in the Omni..So much so that my friends brother really hustled us out as chairs were being ripped from their bolts and other projectiles began flying...

It was the worst...Just the worst. I never got a chance again to see Iron Maiden....