Metal Mania

Metal Mania

With a Mind-blowing statistic of a hundred and eighty nine shows in three hundred and twenty-two days, already under its belt, Iron maiden's world slavery tour had already made its entry into the record books even before it touched down at california's mammoth long beach arena.riding the peak of their awesome powers.iron maiden,s high-velocity act was captured on tape and later released as the classic live after death opus.it also made bruce dicinson's extortions of "scream for me long beach".an integral part of every heavy-metal fan's every day lexicon.

They were there ostensibly as the support act for german metallers sodom but by the time the night was over, it was max cavalera,Andreas kisser,paulo jr.and igor cavalera that walked away feeling like headlines.unleasing all their pentup fury at the marquee crowd,sapultura hit the board running and max hurled himself headlong inot the pit.losing his shoes in the process and having had to walk back to his hotel bare feet.that night at the marquee ,a future classic found its own two feet...

Firmly cementing his credentials as a truman of the masses,pearl jam's eddie vedder spent much of the time leading up to the show hanging out with fans outside the borderline and handing out free pearl jam merchandise to the five hundred odd fans who could not be admitted insided owing to the vanue being chock-full alraedy.once the houselights went down and pearl jam began the performence,vedder tapped into huge amounts of adrenalin,surfing the crowd with enviable zeal and hanging from cealiing fans and clambering atop stages curtains, belting out classics like'evenflow'and'jeremy'all the while.such was the force of that show that pearl jam never could play small club venues for quite some time.