Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!shelby!csli!weyand From: weyand@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Weyand) Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal Subject: Re: Satanism and Fools... Message-ID: <11767@csli.Stanford.EDU> Date: 18 Jan 90 06:14:38 GMT References: <10602@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>, Sender: weyand@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Weyand) Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 38 js8q+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Joseph Swick, Jr.) writes: >Stupendous Man writes: >>There are plenty of bands out there that >>are great. I've gone over all of Iron Maiden's work and have few >>objections as well as the progressive bands like Fates Warning. >Just curious - how about that bozo that was there before Bruce >Dickinson ? I can't even remember his name and I haven't Rich? Di'anno or something close to that I think. I didn't think he was a bozo I thought his vocals were great! They really made the band I thought. >listened to a whole lot of early IM but I hear that he was getting a bit >too serious about satanism and that's one of the reasons he got >the boot. Did any of this infiltrate their work? Maiden heads - Is any of my >information on target at all? I don't recall any satanism in their early work. It may have been the case that he was serious about satanism and got the boot because of it, I don't know one way or the other about that, but regardless I don't think it affected their work. Come to think of it I recall a couple lines from the "Killers" album that went "Devil's got hold of my soul he won't let me be" ... "Devil's got hold of my soul he's driving me mad" from the song Prodigal Son (Great song!!). I would interpret this as anti-satanic. Chris Weyand weyand@csli.Stanford.Edu