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M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold recently commented via their Myspace blog about the band’s current tour with Iron Maiden.
We just started the tour with Maiden and I hear a lot of you guys are getting really worked up about the shows… Now just so you’re clear, when we took this tour we knew it was going to be hard and we knew that Iron Maiden fans were very dedicated people. So when we heard a “Sevenfold” chant before we hit the stage we knew it would cause a stir with the crowd, but it made us proud and really got us excited about our fans over in Italy.
Everything’s not all peaches and cream over there though.
We heard horror stories about opening for “Maiden.” Everything from standing backwards on stage so that the trash coming from the audience didn’t hit you in the face to having bottles filled with piss thrown at your head… So when you go to these shows don’t get upset if people don’t understand just yet what Avenged Sevenfold is all about. We are not a straight up metal band that is catering to their audience, we do our own thing and thats why we have so many dedicated fans.
Don’t you not-catered-to audience worry though, they’re putting a positive spin on the situation.
So the point is we are having a great time at the shows, and you should too. Don’t get all upset about a couple bottles being thrown, next year half those kids may have A7X on their IPOD and we could be their new favorite band. Like I said, we knew what we were signing up for and we are glad so many of you are supporting us through this tour. You are some passionate motherfuckers! See ya’ll soon!
I wonder what the ratio of bottles of piss thrown at their heads to new fans is.
10:0
precisely.
“next year half those kids may have A7X on their IPOD and we could be their new favorite band”
ummm…..”kids” are not going to be at iron maiden concerts, but its nice to see that m shadows is trying to be positive.
I don’t know Evan. Maybe the “vintage” band tshirt craze will bleed over into kids actually listening to the band.
This story reminds of the show when Project 86 played with Queensryche. Schwab tells the story in one of his books. It was pretty funny.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure those are 40 year old men throwing bottles. Although, I did go to Ozzfest one of the first years Black Sabbath played again, and a bunch of old biker looking dudes sat patiently through Marilyn Manson and Slipknot and then went nuts when Sabbath hit the stage. (I will say thought that some idiot put Crazytown on the main stage and they got heckled bigtime by some Zakk Wylde fans.)