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Dead2009 said:
How did you find that? lol I made it and never really use it.
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Hello! I know what you mean when you see something you made ages ago and someone finds it. I made this image for a photoshopping contest in something like 2008. I had registered for the Seniors Forum and all I think I had posted at that point was an intro. One of the people there (that is now here) recognized my name and had a copy of the image and asked if it was me. It's not, but it looks like I did in 2008. My face, anyway. The photo is Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden, from their Somewhere Back In Time Tour 2008. I lost track of that image years ago, and I was in shock to see it posted on a forum I had just joined over a decade later.

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The original photo was huge (for that time) at 6k x 4k. After I photoshopped it, I cropped part of it and that is what you see here, albeit not in the original size. Whoever copied it did a terrible job of resizing the image, and now it's all blurry.

By the way, do you get people asking if you are a Grateful Dead fan? That was my first thought...
 
Axel Slingerland said:
Hello! I know what you mean when you see something you made ages ago and someone finds it. I made this image for a photoshopping contest in something like 2008. I had registered for the Seniors Forum and all I think I had posted at that point was an intro. One of the people there (that is now here) recognized my name and had a copy of the image and asked if it was me. It's not, but it looks like I did in 2008. My face, anyway. The photo is Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden, from their Somewhere Back In Time Tour 2008. I lost track of that image years ago, and I was in shock to see it posted on a forum I had just joined over a decade later.

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The original photo was huge (for that time) at 6k x 4k. After I photoshopped it, I cropped part of it and that is what you see here, albeit not in the original size. Whoever copied it did a terrible job of resizing the image, and now it's all blurry.

By the way, do you get people asking if you are a Grateful Dead fan? That was my first thought...
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Did you like Iron Maiden? Who was your favorite band of all?
 
Marie Mallory said:
Did you like Iron Maiden? Who was your favorite band of all?
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Yeah, I do. As far as playing music goes, I have been a Blues Rocker since I was 15. (Before that it was Bach, Mozart, Paganini, etc.) But as far as listening to music goes I like just about anything except twangy country, rap, hip hip, etc. The list of stuff I like is huge, but there's also a ton of stuff I don't. My favorite band is, of course, The Allman Brothers Band.

Over the years we spent on the road, I have a ton of memories that I hope I never forget. Since you asked if I like Maiden, here's one you might get a kick out of. Back in the "One Nighters Era" as we started calling it after about 15 years, we would take breaks from the road every now and then. Work-a-holic that I am, I would always get a job at a National Park Hotel as a Night Auditor. That kept me busy enough to let the band take a break, but also keep my accounting skills that I learned from my grandmother up to par.

So we were taking a few months off and I was working at the Defiance House Lodge in Bullfrog, Utah. I had worked for the same company in Page, Arizona a couple of times at Wahweap Lodge, but when I went back there were no openings, but they offered me the Senior Auditor position in Bullfrog. After I got there, I saw why they were having a hard time finding an Auditor. It's five hours by car to both Page, Arizona and Salt Lake City, Utah. And I didn't have a car. I quickly learn why people hate "Company Towns", I worked for them, I rented my trailer from them, I bought my food from them... I did have a nice back yard though!

I was in my trailer at about 9:00 AM on my "Saturday" that was actually a Tuesday, and everyone who lived anywhere near me was at work, and I could play as loud as I wanted to. I was practicing by playing along with Maiden's Piece of Mind album. (On CD, of course.) It was 100° outside so I had my front door open. I was doing what I usually did, play really fast stuff first to loosen up my fingers, and then run through our set list. As I was playing with the Maiden album, I noticed this teenage kid standing outside watching me play through the front door. I invited him to come in, and finished playing the album.

Afterwards we talked for awhile. He had the usual questions, how long I had been playing guitar, was I in a band, etc. Then he asked me "But aren't you a little old to be playing Iron Maiden?" I laughed so had my sides hurt. I asked him "You don't know very much about Maiden, do you?" He said "No, why?"

"Because all but one of them are all older than I am." :ROFLMAO: 🤘

 
Axel Slingerland said:
Yeah, I do. As far as playing music goes, I have been a Blues Rocker since I was 15. (Before that it was Bach, Mozart, Paganini, etc.) But as far as listening to music goes I like just about anything except twangy country, rap, hip hip, etc. The list of stuff I like is huge, but there's also a ton of stuff I don't. My favorite band is, of course, The Allman Brothers Band.

Over the years we spent on the road, I have a ton of memories that I hope I never forget. Since you asked if I like Maiden, here's one you might get a kick out of. Back in the "One Nighters Era" as we started calling it after about 15 years, we would take breaks from the road every now and then. Work-a-holic that I am, I would always get a job at a National Park Hotel as a Night Auditor. That kept me busy enough to let the band take a break, but also keep my accounting skills that I learned from my grandmother up to par.

So we were taking a few months off and I was working at the Defiance House Lodge in Bullfrog, Utah. I had worked for the same company in Page, Arizona a couple of times at Wahweap Lodge, but when I went back there were no openings, but they offered me the Senior Auditor position in Bullfrog. After I got there, I saw why they were having a hard time finding an Auditor. It's five hours by car to both Page, Arizona and Salt Lake City, Utah. And I didn't have a car. I quickly learn why people hate "Company Towns", I worked for them, I rented my trailer from them, I bought my food from them... I did have a nice back yard though!

I was in my trailer at about 9:00 AM on my "Saturday" that was actually a Tuesday, and everyone who lived anywhere near me was at work, and I could play as loud as I wanted to. I was practicing by playing along with Maiden's Piece of Mind album. (On CD, of course.) It was 100° outside so I had my front door open. I was doing what I usually did, play really fast stuff first to loosen up my fingers, and then run through our set list. As I was playing with the Maiden album, I noticed this teenage kid standing outside watching me play through the front door. I invited him to come in, and finished playing the album.

Afterwards we talked for awhile. He had the usual questions, how long I had been playing guitar, was I in a band, etc. Then he asked me "But aren't you a little old to be playing Iron Maiden?" I laughed so had my sides hurt. I asked him "You don't know very much about Maiden, do you?" He said "No, why?"

"Because all but one of them are all older than I am." :ROFLMAO: 🤘

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I always liked the Alman Brothers. Not so much Iron Maiden then again most of my days were motherhood, music was part time enjoyment. I still love music and listen to it daily.
I suppose the young man who didn't realize how old Iron Maiden was is like most young people, like us at their age, they just don't know or care, lol.
 
Exactly. Myself, i didn't just want to play blues rock, I wanted to know what it was about, what made it tick. But I find that is the case with a lot of performers. It's not just about playing the music, or acting in a movie or play, etc., it's also about the performance.
 
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