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Concert Review: Bruce Dickinson The Guvernment Toronto ON September 21, 1997

Joel's Rating System
***** Fuckin' excellent
**** Awesome
*** Ah, Ah (shake hands)
** Find something else
* Destroy the Advertisement
If you are a fan of Iron Maiden, you would surely enjoy this concert. Reunited with ex-Maiden guitarist, Adrian Smith, Bruce
shows that there is life after Maiden. It was the Toronto date from his "Accident at Birth" tour and it was amazing. There were
very few people there, which made it more enjoyable (hardly any pot smoking!). There was an opening band and they were
pretty good, if I remember the name I will e-mail it to Ryan). One of the disappointments was that Geezer, Geezer Butler's
band didn't show-it is really hard to miss one quarter of Black Sabbath, if you believe that Black Sabbath are the gods of metal.
Anyway, I digress, they played songs from his solo albums and we were treated to two classic Maiden songs. When they
played "2 Minutes to Midnight" and "The Flight of Icarus", we were all chanting the lyrics it was definetly a moment. I
recommend this concert to anyone who is a Maiden fan and/or likes classic metal from Europe. **** (four for the lack of
Geezer)
Joel Aubin