Opening for Maiden Doesn't Always Bring Success

on February 25, 2005 @ 22:04

The former Zwan drummer Jimmy Chamberlain has voiced that opening for Maiden back in 2003 wasn't the right thing to do.

Here's the Contact Music article:

CHAMBERLAIN: 'ZWAN WERE IN THE WRONG PLACE'

Former ZWAN drummer JIMMY CHAMBERLAIN blames the band's fall from grace on their failure to capture a faithful following.

Chamberlain - also a member of defunct outfit SMASHING PUMPKINS - admits Zwan's decision to support heavy rockers IRON MAIDEN confused fans of their commercially-themed album MARY STAR OF THE SEA.

He believes fans were further alienated by musical differences within the band - which ultimately led to their split after just two years together.

Chamberlain says, "Zwan had run its course. I don't want to bag on anybody in the band, but I think we all had different aspirations and different ideas of success.

"No-one was lazy or wrong, but people got p**sed off and opened their mouths. I don't think opening for Iron Maiden was the right place for Zwan and I think we maybe missed the mark on the record we released."

25/02/2005 20:30

Zwan did cover 'The Number Of The Beast' on one of their singles, Honesty. The cover, not sung by the ex-Smashing Pumpkins singer, but rather by Matt Sweeney, is featured on the movie Spun.

Source: ContactMusic.com

3 Comments

Anonymous said:

I also never really understood what they were trying to do with the "Murderdolls" ...

#608, February 26, 2005 @ 00:21

Anonymous said:

QUOTE(Maidenaustria @ Feb 26 2005, 12:21 AM)

I also never really understood what they were trying to do with the "Murderdolls" ...

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Well maybe they were trying to put an end to that band also lol[1].gif

I wish...

#609, February 26, 2005 @ 13:04

Anonymous said:

Maidenzone has a little piece about the 'Number of the Beast' cover from Zwan that was featured on the movie Spun.

They brought to attention this link. It's a flash page about the movie and the background music is the Zwan version of the famous Maiden song !!

So, for those who still haven't heard that cover, go there.

Warning, the website contains some "offensive material":

http://www.spunthemovie.com/spun/s/freaknew.html

Cheers

#610, March 3, 2005 @ 09:27

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Opening for Maiden Doesn't Always Bring Success

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