Iron Maiden, "El Dorado"

Posted by Luminator (A) on September 1, 2020 at 18:04:18

When I was a sophomore (1986/87), I got my first girlfriend, CT. CT wasn't just smart, she was a super nerd. Because of her honors and AP classes, her GPA was north of 4.0. She would get the near-perfect standardized test scores. She had the neat handwriting, and use grammatically correct syntax. Although she could have had any number of them, she didn't like the Nerd Herd guys.

According to CT, she started crushing on me, when Steve Winwood's Back In The High Life came out. But she thought it was cute, when I listened to and wrote about a variety of popular music. And that included Iron Maiden's mediocre Somewhere In Time. She didn't like the guitar synths, and thought that "Alexander The Great" didn't live up to the standard set by Maiden's "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner." Still, she liked the artwork, and approved of the light gray SIT Iron Maiden shirt I'd eventually get.

In 2010, I started working at Stanford University. CT lived relatively close by, in Los Altos. So we spent a day, reconnecting. She was so good at whatever biotech field she was in, her employer paid her, to go to grad school, and become a lawyer, to protect intellectual property. Yup, CT is a Silicon Valley multi-millionaire.

I went with CT, to get her first manicure. Sigh, instead of getting something colorful and glamorous, she just went with clear/white. Well, what do expect from a super nerd? At her place, she said that she had no kids. She was single, but I am not sure if that means she was never married. All the while, we listened to Iron Maiden's then-new album, The Final Frontier. It was long and ambitious. Interestingly, it was primarily recorded at Compass Point Studios, in the Bahamas, where they had recoded much of their 1980s material. Sound-wise, The Final Frontier would have been right at home, in the mid-80s -- a good thing.

CT liked "El Dorado," and made a lame nerdy joke that instead of looking for El Dorado, I could have found gold in her. We don't know if Iron Maiden found gold, but "El Dorado," which is about the financial crisis, went on to win a Grammy for Best Metal Performance.

--Lummy The Loch Monster

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Topic - Iron Maiden, "El Dorado" - Luminator 18:04:18 09/01/20 (0)

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