From looking on social media at the band I truly realised the legacy that was left behind by the ex members. Several websites spoke in detail about all the ex members and even gave some brief information about what they have done outside of Iron Maiden. When adding up numbers, I came to the conclusion that there are 17 ex-members of the band (Including members who were only part of the band for a very short time, for example Tony Moore, a keyboardist for the band, however after a short time they realised they did not want the idea of a keyboardist in the band, so they fired him.
I decided to reach out again to Mike and Andy, two of the people who are key in the ex-Iron Maiden fanbase, who have kindly agreed to help in one way or another with the film, from helping getting in contact with some of the ex-members to being in the film themselves. My recent conversation with Andy involved talking about a specific ex member nicknamed 'Thunderstick', who wore a horror-style mask on stage, very similar to the masks a popular metal group called Slipknot where. I found it fascinating looking into the stage antics that Thunderstick got up to and the reasoning behind him eventually being sacked. He then went on to perform in another heavy metal band, Samson, playing a part in the band's first three albums. The band was fronted by future Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson, who is still in the band to this day, who has played a major role in the progression of the band and the metal genre.
Thunderstick performing.
Iron Maiden group shot, 1977
The above messages also mentioned that Dennis Willcock, one of the original vocalists and Terry Wapram, one of the original guitarists in the band, were interested in being in the documentary, which excites me and has motivated me further to look further into each aspect of the film (researching, obtaining archive footage, getting together a production pack etc).
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