Iron Maiden Music Used To Punish Noisy Neighbors

[Dino Velvet]

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Iron Maiden Music Used To Punish Noisy Neighbors


An elderly couple blasted Iron Maiden in order to get revenge on their noisy neighbors.
A couple from Stockholm, Sweden became so annoyed by a whistling sound coming from their neighbor’s home that they decided to take matters into their own hands.
Authorities explained that the 81-year-old man and his 71-year-old wife aimed a stereo system at their neighbor’s house so they could blast Iron Maiden music (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/04/28/Elderly-couple-blasts-Iron-Maiden-in-neighbor-revenge/UPI-30831367161558/) at all hours of the night. The song of choice: Iron Maiden’s “Afraid to Shoot Strangers.”
Police were summoned to the couple’s house after the problem continued through the winter. The couple were known to blast the music until around four in the morning.
In addition to the stereo positioned on the balcony, authorities said they also discovered another music system in on a lower level of the home. This one was reportedly aimed towards the neighbor’s bedroom.
The elderly couple explained that the noise coming from their neighbor’s home had gotten so bad that they decided to fight back. Since Iron Maiden (http://www.inquisitr.com/tag/iron-maiden/) tends to make loud music, the husband and wife joined forces to blast the music from their house.
“We wanted to give a taste of their own medicine,” the husband explained. The wife added that she had resorted to taking sleeping pills in order to get a decent night’s sleep.
Having dealt with the loud Iron Maiden (http://www.inquisitr.com/571227/clive-burr-dies-former-iron-maiden-drummer-passes-at-56/) music all winter, the neighbor explained that the constant onslaught of heavy metal music had started to take its toll.
“The harassment has just carried on, I am completely broken down. How can I keep living here?” the couple’s neighbor explained.
For blasting the music from their home at all hours of the night, the elderly couple are now facing a charge of harassment (http://www.thelocal.se/47590/20130428/#.UX4s85NORC8).
What do you think about the husband and wife who used Iron Maiden to get revenge on their noisy neighbors?
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[fred41]

I know someone who did something similar using bagpipe music...It did the job very quickly..lol



The article never explained what the whistling noise was...I'm a bit disappointed.

[irvin66]

Nothing can compare with Iron Maiden you know!!!!! :D

[TSBootyLondon]

I can understand how it would drive you to the point of being demented to be honest especially if played over and over again through a demon system! I think if you were the one playing it you would have to put in ear plugs, not even Iron maiden could listen to their own music over and over again on repeat and that is not criticism on IR, even someone like David Bowie would have to agree with me on this!

[Prospero]

I would agree... blimey... what a horrible experience. Even one track of iron maiden would drive me through the roof.

[Stavros]

Brian Keenan, who was taken hostage in Beirut in the 1980s, said in his book about the experience, An Evil Cradling, that at one point in their ordeal, the guards played Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing at full blast I think for half an hour or more, again and again. I have never heard it or anything by Dire Straits but I guess it was akin to torture. Imagine being forced to listen to Michael Jackson, the Beach Boys, Elvis, David Bowie-Knife or Madonna -probably best to re-classify the experience as a crime against humanity.

[Prospero]

LOL at Stavros... all those people you name really are gentle easy listening compared to Iron Maiden. You sound like my old granddad who could never hear the difference between the Rolling Stones and joan Baez.

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing | NOT LIVE !!! | CD version !!! | Original w/ lyrics in description - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-J1wf2KHc)

[morim]

WOW.
Up the IRONS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dino Velvet]

LOL at Stavros... all those people you name really are gentle easy listening compared to Iron Maiden. You sound like my old granddad who could never hear the difference between the Rolling Stones and joan Baez.

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing | NOT LIVE !!! | CD version !!! | Original w/ lyrics in description - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-J1wf2KHc)

Cool beans, Grampa.

Grandpa's Guitars - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQ-Xg_MS3k)

[fred41]

LOL at Stavros... all those people you name really are gentle easy listening compared to Iron Maiden. You sound like my old granddad who could never hear the difference between the Rolling Stones and joan Baez.


Interestingly enough,if you compare Iron Maiden to present day Metal....it's relatively gentle too. I've always considered them a story driven band...their lyrics are often based on classic novels and movies. The band really hit big at the beginning of the 80's, even though they were formed earlier - that's when they really developed their signature sound. They put on terrific shows back then...Bruce Dickinson works the stage like a Broadway ham...and the sets were often impressive too.
This is the song mentioned in the article...listen to it...it's not really that heavy. It's all relative:
Iron Maiden - Afraid To Shoot Strangers - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxu4Y1zUGrw)

[fred41]

lol...some of the comments under the YouTube video mention the Swedish couple.

[robertlouis]

I would agree... blimey... what a horrible experience. Even one track of iron maiden would drive me through the roof.

Yep, it's punishment by any definition.

But I have to agree with Fred too.

Iron Maiden is like Chopin at his most delicate in comparison to some of the ear-bleeding shredded cacophony that our dear chum Dino occasionally exposes us to. :ignore::hide-1:

[Dino Velvet]

Interestingly enough,if you compare Iron Maiden to present day Metal....it's relatively gentle too. I've always considered them a story driven band...their lyrics are often based on classic novels and movies. The band really hit big at the beginning of the 80's, even though they were formed earlier - that's when they really developed their signature sound. They put on terrific shows back then...Bruce Dickinson works the stage like a Broadway ham...and the sets were often impressive too.
This is the song mentioned in the article...listen to it...it's not really that heavy. It's all relative:
Iron Maiden - Afraid To Shoot Strangers - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxu4Y1zUGrw)

I have this DVD and really like it.

Iron Maiden - Death On The Road (Full concert) HQ - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-HAG-DFHPQ)

[fred41]

I have this DVD and really like it.


Thanks Dino...gonna fire up my little iolite when I watch this later this week.

[theone1982]

Have you got the new DVD that just came out two weeks ago, Dino? It's pretty sweet, it has a lot of stuff from Seventh Son, which I think is a hugely underrated album.

[Dino Velvet]

Have you got the new DVD that just came out two weeks ago, Dino? It's pretty sweet, it has a lot of stuff from Seventh Son, which I think is a hugely underrated album.

You mean Maiden England? Yep. Got that. I think I have all Maiden DVDs. They always put together quite a set with lots of extras. I've thoroughly enjoyed all 3 parts of The History Of Iron Maiden from the Bonus Features too.

Amazon.com: Maiden England: Iron Maiden, Steve Harris, Andy Mathews, Julian Caidan, Jim Yukich, Julian Doyla, Toby Phillips: Movies & TV@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51k2xutxwOL.@@AMEPARAM@@51k2xutxwOL (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BF2RTO2/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

[TempestTS]

I remember when I was in college I had a neighbor upstairs that would throw wild sports parties all night.

Revenge was when I put Slayer on the stereo and cranked it up all the way - clicked auto repeat and left for the weekend with a little note that I was happy to provide music for their party. When I came back 3 days later it was still going and I never had a problem with them again.

Angel of Deeeeaaaatttthhh!

[Dino Velvet]

I remember when I was in college I had a neighbor upstairs that would throw wild sports parties all night.

Revenge was when I put Slayer on the stereo and cranked it up all the way - clicked auto repeat and left for the weekend with a little note that I was happy to provide music for their party. When I came back 3 days later it was still going and I never had a problem with them again.

Angel of Deeeeaaaatttthhh!

I like turning up Hell Awaits to drown out all the soulless electronica crapola that comes from the people next door. Decade Of Aggression version.

slayer decade of aggression hell awaits - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg_xG15KJRU)

[ImpulZ]

iron maiden is epic

[Dino Velvet]

Good song from the Death On The Road DVD.

Iron Maiden - Paschendale (Death On The Road DVD) HD - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33A8QrXNK9g)

[irvin66]

iron maiden is epic
:iagree:

[Dino Velvet]

My favorite Maiden song in a classic performance.

Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name (Beast Over Hammersmith) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFD-yRD2e8g)

[Stavros]

LOL at Stavros... all those people you name really are gentle easy listening compared to Iron Maiden. You sound like my old granddad who could never hear the difference between the Rolling Stones and joan Baez.

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing | NOT LIVE !!! | CD version !!! | Original w/ lyrics in description - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-J1wf2KHc)

Ho ho. Well now I know what it sounds like, a singer aping Bob Dylan and not doing very well, music sans imagination. Punishment indeed. I probably thought it was something raucous. Anyway, grandad, I am sure you recall one of the first 'heavy metal' bands, Iron Butterfly and their version of God Rest You Merry Gentlemen...?

And if there was once Iron Butterly, then Iron Maiden, are there now Iron Grannies?

ps -Who claims to be the first heavy metal band?

IRON BUTTERFLY - IN A GADDA DA VIDA - 1968 (ORIGINAL FULL VERSION) CD SOUND & 3D VIDEO - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4)

[morim]

Clive Burr, who was the drummer in the first three albums (the best imo) has recently passed.
R.I.P.

[Dino Velvet]

Ho ho. Well now I know what it sounds like, a singer aping Bob Dylan and not doing very well, music sans imagination. Punishment indeed. I probably thought it was something raucous. Anyway, grandad, I am sure you recall one of the first 'heavy metal' bands, Iron Butterfly and their version of God Rest You Merry Gentlemen...?

And if there was once Iron Butterly, then Iron Maiden, are there now Iron Grannies?

ps -Who claims to be the first heavy metal band?

IRON BUTTERFLY - IN A GADDA DA VIDA - 1968 (ORIGINAL FULL VERSION) CD SOUND & 3D VIDEO - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4)

Black Sabbath are the Godfathers Of Metal. They aren't considered a Metal band but all Metal is spawned from them.

I'm not sure when bands started referring to themselves as Heavy Metal but seemed around the time of the NWOBHM(New Wave of British Heavy Metal) with acts such as Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

Stavros, people have different tastes but you know I respect your opinion and defend the fact that you are very open minded. As different as we are I always enjoy when we find a film we both enjoy and are enthusiastic about.

[theone1982]

[QUOTE=Dino Velvet;1317800]Black Sabbath are the Godfathers Of Metal. They aren't considered a Metal band but all Metal is spawned from them.

I'm not sure when bands started referring to themselves as Heavy Metal but seemed around the time of the NWOBHM(New Wave of British Heavy Metal) with acts such as Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

I'm pretty sure the reference of heavy metal was first heard in Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild, but I'm not sure when the genre began to be referred to as heavy metal.

[Stavros]

Black Sabbath are the Godfathers Of Metal. They aren't considered a Metal band but all Metal is spawned from them.

I'm not sure when bands started referring to themselves as Heavy Metal but seemed around the time of the NWOBHM(New Wave of British Heavy Metal) with acts such as Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

Stavros, people have different tastes but you know I respect your opinion and defend the fact that you are very open minded. As different as we are I always enjoy when we find a film we both enjoy and are enthusiastic about.

That is an amazing table, Dino, but it does raise the question was original Heavy Metal just another term for Very Loud? I saw Arthur Brown at the Sunbury Festival in 1968 but would not consider his 'band' heavy metal, same with Cream whom I saw I think four times between 1967 and their farewell concert at the Albert Hall. On the basis of your own table, where are Jefferson Airplane and The Doors? My memory of those days identifies Led Zeppelin as the first band whose sound was being described (promoted?) as being different from other bands. I think the problem is that you had the R&B and Blues revival in the 1960s which morphed with 'psychedelic rock' -Pink Floyd, Soft Machine for example- and the avoidance of it in something raw and loud is where Led Zeppelin came in, but many bands were Very Loud at the time. The arguments on it will never end. But Slade? Heavy Metal? Maybe in their early days. And could The Rolling Stones be the original heavy metal band, distinct from The Beatlles by their more raucous live performances? The John Dillinger Escape Plan is a novel name for a band....

[irvin66]

Dino what about Rammstein....? :D

Rammstein - Rosenrot (Official Video) HD - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz66xYVtST0)

Rammstein - Feuer Frei (Terminator 2 remix) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_3xOmtyBg)

[irvin66]

what about AC / DC. Perhaps there is something wrong with my eyes, where they end up on the list do you think, Dino?

ACDC - War Machine (Official Music Video) - HD - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOhMIKYfFH0)

[Prospero]

Stavros - great grandpa - I do recall the name iron Butterfly, but I've never heard them. I suspect some of the very earliest "heavy metal bands" were groups like that or Blue Cheer. None of them my type of music. All about playing very loud.

FYI the lead guitarist of Dire Straits Mark Knopfler has recorded with Bob Dylan on many occasions since that first album was released.

[Prospero]

Dylan and Knopfler on guitar from the Slow Train Coming album

slow train coming - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRduVv56SmQ)

http://www.mojvideo.com/video-bob-dylan-slow-train-coming/8e5ed8673b29afa29b7a

[Stavros]

The thread is about head-banging heavy metal, Prospero, not your clip of music as an alternative to nodding off.

[Dino Velvet]

That is an amazing table, Dino, but it does raise the question was original Heavy Metal just another term for Very Loud? I saw Arthur Brown at the Sunbury Festival in 1968 but would not consider his 'band' heavy metal, same with Cream whom I saw I think four times between 1967 and their farewell concert at the Albert Hall. On the basis of your own table, where are Jefferson Airplane and The Doors? My memory of those days identifies Led Zeppelin as the first band whose sound was being described (promoted?) as being different from other bands. I think the problem is that you had the R&B and Blues revival in the 1960s which morphed with 'psychedelic rock' -Pink Floyd, Soft Machine for example- and the avoidance of it in something raw and loud is where Led Zeppelin came in, but many bands were Very Loud at the time. The arguments on it will never end. But Slade? Heavy Metal? Maybe in their early days. And could The Rolling Stones be the original heavy metal band, distinct from The Beatlles by their more raucous live performances? The John Dillinger Escape Plan is a novel name for a band....

Tables are like lists. Always incomplete. A lot of stuff in the 1970s was just called hard rock. I don't know how to label Cream, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd other than they're lumped in nowadays as Classic Rock.

I'm jealous of you getting to see those Cream shows. Those memories last forever.

[Prospero]

Stavros I posted that clip for you to hear what Dylan and knopfler sound like. Sorry if it sent you to sleep old chap. As for head banging. Yep I do get the main thrust

[Dino Velvet]

As for head banging. Yep I do get the main thrust

You still talking about music here or one of your escort reviews?

[Prospero]

Music. Which I am surprised our old codger pal is knowledgable about. My best gig from those days was Cream and Hendrix on the same bill. For me nothing in guitar driven rock can ever match Hendrix in primal power. He took it into another dimension.

[Prospero]

And by the way I made a film with Bruce Dickinson a few years back.... Focusing on his musical prowess and skill as a fencer

[Prospero]

Does metal fuel aggression or reflect it?

[Stavros]

And by the way I made a film with Bruce Dickinson a few years back.... Focusing on his musical prowess and skill as a fencer

Isn't he the guy in striped suits who presents antiques programmes on tv?

Anyway I am listening to music from the Nutcracker -no, not heavy metal...ouf!

[Dino Velvet]

And by the way I made a film with Bruce Dickinson a few years back.... Focusing on his musical prowess and skill as a fencer

What was Dickinson like? Did he talk about planes too? He sounds like a mongoose with a foil as a fencer.

[Stavros]

Music. Which I am surprised our old codger pal is knowledgable about. My best gig from those days was Cream and Hendrix on the same bill. For me nothing in guitar driven rock can ever match Hendrix in primal power. He took it into another dimension.

Hmm, was that the Spalding Festival in 1967? I can't recall Cream and Hendrix on the same bill except for this one below. I saw Cream at the Windsor Festival in 1967 which opened with I think the first gig by Fleetwood Mac, then John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - at that time Jimmy Page had replaced Peter Green as main guitarist for Mayall. Amazing thing was that even when these bands were playing you could hear the bass thundering in the night from Chicken Shack who were in one of the tents on the periphery.

Amazing line-up of acts anyway:

http://1.2.3.12/bmi/1.bp.blogspot.com/-AwKl_mBp-k0/T7-2PyeMG8I/AAAAAAAAFbs/CuwTnAUCI98/s400/spalding67.JPG

[Dino Velvet]

Stavros and Prospero, what were the first concerts you went to? Mine was in 1981 Black Sabbath Mob Rules Tour. I really enjoy both of your stories.

[Stavros]

I was wrong about Jimmy Page, Mick Taylor succeeded Peter Green in Mayall's Bluesbreakers, after that he joined the Stones.

My earliest live music -as for the heavy stuff goes -well, I saw a local band at a school fete in 1965, they were loud and that was my first experience of rock music. Then it must be 1967 but although it was a concert (see below), after that it was either music festivals or clubs in London like the Marquee, although there were other venues like student unions of colleges, the Saville Theatre in London, and also pubs were hugely important venues for bands, rock, folk and Jazz -there were more Jazz venues and players then than there seems to be now.
I had to check and can't recall Cream very well at the concert, memorable for the abomination also known as the Beach Boys who were inferior to most of the preceding acts, of which the most memorable were The Troggs, also because a woman screaming I love You Reg!! at the top of her voice had to be restrained by security who were afraid she was going to leap from the second or third tier onto the stage to be with her idol....Troggs wore purple satin shirts...


BEACH BOYS New Music Express Poll-Winners All-Stars Concert, staged at the Empire Pool, London [now Wembley Arena] on Sunday May 7th, 1967. The show featured a headlining set from the Beach Boys, who were at the height of their popularity in the UK following the success of 'Pet Sounds' and 'Good Vibrations', having beaten the Beatles into second place in the 'World's Most Popular Group' category. Other artists on the bill included Cream, Spencer Davis Group, Georgie Fame, Paul Jones, The Move, Alan Price, Cliff Richard, Small Faces, Dusty Springfield, Cat Stevens, The Troggs and The Tremeloes.
http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=453761

[Dino Velvet]

I was wrong about Jimmy Page, Mick Taylor succeeded Peter Green in Mayall's Bluesbreakers, after that he joined the Stones.

My earliest live music -as for the heavy stuff goes -well, I saw a local band at a school fete in 1965, they were loud and that was my first experience of rock music. Then it must be 1967 but although it was a concert (see below), after that it was either music festivals or clubs in London like the Marquee, although there were other venues like student unions of colleges, the Saville Theatre in London, and also pubs were hugely important venues for bands, rock, folk and Jazz -there were more Jazz venues and players then than there seems to be now.
I had to check and can't recall Cream very well at the concert, memorable for the abomination also known as the Beach Boys who were inferior to most of the preceding acts, of which the most memorable were The Troggs, also because a woman screaming I love You Reg!! at the top of her voice had to be restrained by security who were afraid she was going to leap from the second or third tier onto the stage to be with her idol....Troggs wore purple satin shirts...


BEACH BOYS New Music Express Poll-Winners All-Stars Concert, staged at the Empire Pool, London [now Wembley Arena] on Sunday May 7th, 1967. The show featured a headlining set from the Beach Boys, who were at the height of their popularity in the UK following the success of 'Pet Sounds' and 'Good Vibrations', having beaten the Beatles into second place in the 'World's Most Popular Group' category. Other artists on the bill included Cream, Spencer Davis Group, Georgie Fame, Paul Jones, The Move, Alan Price, Cliff Richard, Small Faces, Dusty Springfield, Cat Stevens, The Troggs and The Tremeloes.
http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=453761


Thanks for sharing that. I was never much for The Beach Boys or any kind of surfer songs either. I actually don't swim well so maybe that has something to do with it.