• @[email protected]
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    The PhD is apparently only honorary. I was curious because it’d be nuts to be an undergrad learning music theory from Bruce Fucking Dickinson.

    Everything else seems to check out. He also performed in Sarajevo during the siege in 94 which is pretty fucking badass.

  • @adam_y
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    It’s 1994. The Bosnian-Serbian conflict is still raging. Some cool dude from the UN peace keepers thinks it would be good to have a concert.

    He contacts Bruce Dickinson and says, “wanna play a much needed gig in a warzone?”

    Bruce says, “yes”.

    Here’s the documentary.

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6481232/

    • JoJo
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      Just read through a few articles of this stuff, holy shit, this man actually did it, in an active warzone, with constant threat of snipers

  • @[email protected]
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    Oh yeah?

    I’m TheFriar and not only am I the lead editor and content writer of this account I’m also:

    • An arachnophobe
    • A GED-haver
    • First chair flautist in the Royal Inn Suites Orchestra
    • a screenwriter
    • A US Men’s national Team watcher (casual)
    • a fence appreciator and connoisseur
    • a PhD in the Get Down Sciences
    • a life survivor (so far)

    So…

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    Was he not also that guy who thought Brexit was a super great idea and then was ever so slightly miffed when he found out it would make touring much more difficult for Iron Maiden?

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    I’m reminded of Christopher Lee, who’s awesomeness on the silver screen (and in Metal) was only the tip of his iceberg of accomplishments.

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      Finding out about Charlemagne blew me away. Christopher Lee was so much more badass than I knew.

  • @Etterra
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    Yeah but Iron Maiden is the important one.

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    Well yeah, all that is apparently true.

    But am I the only one that reads his last name out loud and wonders what the fuck?

      • @over_clox
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        Let’s say it out loud for everyone to hear/read…

        Dick in son.

        Just let that process for a minute, while we also study Hancock…

        • @TheTetrapod
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          I just don’t understand why you think this is so absurd. It’s a fairly common last name. Emily springs to mind.

          • @qarbone
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            36 months ago

            I have to assume the OP is low-tier bait or 9 years old and is realky grappling with their first forays into innuendo

    • @adam_y
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      But am I the only one that reads his last name out loud and wonders what the fuck?

      Apparently so.