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We did a little hiking in the mountains near Mt. Shasta in California this past weekend. In today’s photo (covering about 180 degrees) you can see Castle Lake, Heart Lake (lower left corner partially obscured by trees), Black Butte, and (on the far right) Castle Crags.
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden during "Phantom Of The Opera"
The setlist at Shoreline (and I think for the entire 2012 Maiden England tour) was:
Moonchild
Can I Play With Madness
The Prisoner
2 Minutes to Midnight
Afraid to Shoot Strangers
The Trooper
The Number of the Beast
Phantom of the Opera
Run to the Hills
Wasted Years
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
The Clairvoyant
Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden
Encore:
Aces High
The Evil That Men Do
Running Free
A very good setlist in my opinion, but if I was in charge I would have changed the last two out for “22 Acacia Avenue” and “Hallowed Be Thy Name.”
Steve Harris of Iron Maiden
Back in the 1982 – 1987 time frame I practically worshiped Iron Maiden–and Steve Harris in particular. The first chance I had to see them live was at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1985 at the ripe old age of 16. I saw them four times in the following two years while they toured in support of their Powerslave and Somewhere in Time albums. But, as I mentioned on my other blog, I only had the opportunity to witness Iron Maiden one other time (Brave New World tour) in the past 25 years… until this past Friday night when I made the drive down to the Shoreline Amphitheatre for a really fun evening.
Iron Maiden is currently doing a throwback tour to their Seventh Son of a Seventh Son days which is fantastic for me as I didn’t see that tour. They are calling it the Maiden England World Tour, the same name given to their video from the similar tour back in the late 1980s.
I’ll post some more photos from the show over the next few days.
Today’s photo was taken on my trip to Newport Beach, California back in April. I took it from the same location as this one about an hour and a half later.
San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge
Happy 75th birthday to the Golden Gate Bridge (金門橋) earlier this week. I went over this bridge at least a hundred times with Japanese tourists back in the early 1990s when I was tour guiding in San Francisco. Those were some good times…
The Tigers didn’t exactly cut Lou Gehrig when they let go of Brandon Inge a couple weeks ago. However, Inge hit his fourth homer for the A’s this past weekend and knocked in four runs for the fourth time in five games, a feat matched by only the Iron Horse (Gehrig).
The day after Inge joined Gehrig’s elite company he could be seen chatting with Tigers third base coach (and former manager of the White Sox and Pirates), Gene Lamont, between innings as he warmed up. I wish I could have heard what they were saying.
I practically lived at the Oakland Coliseum from 1980 until 1986. Saturday’s game was only my third time back since 1986 and first time in well over a decade. It still feels like home.