Kevin the Caveman Likes a Drink
May 7:'You know the Iron Maiden album is great,' he slurs for the twentieth time. Time to take the Caveman back to his Finchley cave. I drive him home as he sings me the lyics to the new Maiden opus - I 'll put them up tomorrow....
May 9:
Woke up this morning to several messages from a happy (drunk) Kevin Shirley. They'd been left at 2am. The Caveman was letting me know he'd finished a new Iron Maiden extra track called The Hunt For Red October. It's about a submarine (really, I'd never have guessed) and it's forty-nine minutes long. It's sung in Russian and English. He then proceeds to sing me most of the lyrics, including the bits in Russian, in a Waltzing Matilda voice. 'I'm not allowed to post this on the Maiden site, I've been censored by the band's communist management. I recorded some of it in the bath - I used cold water so you get a real feel of being in the Bering Sea...' His message then cuts off...
I rang him this morning - he didn't pick up the phone. Wonder how he's feeling...
May 11:
It was a beautiful evening. Went up to the Gibson guitar shop in London to meet up with Jimmy Page and Kevin Shirley. We watched a band called the Flaming Monkeys. The drummer was outstanding, doing fast fills and tom tom work like the old surf record Wipe-out. Jimmy and I were impressed. Kevin was trying to show off, chatting to girls and his friend Dick in poor Russian. As the copious amount of wine he consumed kicked in he told me the Iron Maiden album is finished, and is great - he even offered to sing some lyrics and hum a few time changes. The band should hire him as their new PR.
May 13:
Notice The CAVEMAN is trying to do "Damage Limitation", as they say in America. I think he's been told off by a certain manager. As The CAVEMAN says, what does he (and Dick Carruthers, another expert on anything) know about Heavy Metal. I'll answer it for them - nothing... All I can say is The CAVEMAN likes a drink - I rest my case...
Kevin's website is now down. Maiden management's wrath ?
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A little pretentious to assume that Kevin's website is down due to Maiden management. It's not the first time his website has not been available, it certainly won't be the last.
A guy I was talking to mentioned that Iron Maiden tends to be epic and stuff, but not it one song. It got me thinking: What if this IS just a component in a super-epic album that's TEN DISCS LONG and each disc contains a song as amazing as The Hunt For Red October?