Why don't you have MP3s at your site?
Have you been watching the news?  Even as far back as 1998 The
Chilean F.C. Iron Maiden site got in trouble for having MP3s.  
No one seems to care about Real Audio files because they are 
inferior in quality.  I know what you are thinking, why not just 
put out low quality MP3s?  Because the big guys see the MP3 
extension and don't ask what the quality level is.  I have always 
supported Iron Maiden by buying album after album and will always
do so.  I also always download the album before it hits the stores.
This stuff is out there and you can find it, but I won't put it here.

Why the name Madien Florida?
I updated the name to Strange New World of Iron Maiden after Brave 
New World came out. I wanted a shorter and more distinctive name 
for the site now and Maiden Florida came to mind. This site was 
created in Pensacola, Florida in 1996 and has been run from Tampa,
Florida since 1997.  This is also an attempt to let Maiden know 
that they have fans in Florida, a place which they have not toured 
in over 10 years.  Even Metallica made an appearance in Orlando
for the Summer Sanitarium tour.  The name is a play on Maiden Japan 
and Maiden England which are, of course, plays on "maid in Japan" 
and "maid in England."  To add to this, no site was calling itself
Maiden Florida and maidenflorida.com was available.  I will not 
abandon the names Strange World Of Iron Maiden or Strange New World 
Of Iron Maiden.  There are a lot of memories attached to those names 
for me. It's just that MaidenFlorida.com will be the address of the 
site and I will refer to it most of the time as Maiden Florida or 
Maiden Florida (AKA Strange New World Of Iron Maiden).

Why haven't all the pages been updated?
Good question.  I have become very busy in the last few years.  I have
tried to keep as current as I can, but a few things have gotten left
behind.  Most notably the album reviews have not been updated since
March 1998.  I will eventually update everything (even the stuff I 
missed last time).

Where is the old message board and open forum?
The old message board was written in HTMLScript, now known as MIVA.
This was popular before PHP became big, but has pretty much been 
abandoned by every server unless you pay big $$$.  Yahoo took over 
Simplenet and made every effort to get that old MIVA stuff off its 
servers.  The prices where just too high for what little I was getting 
out of it.  I moved all my Kimberlin.org sites to my new Kimberlin.net 
site at WWW-Hosting.net.  I had to start over with a PHP message board 
which has become the standard board almost everywhere I look.  Sorry 
about the old board. I have archived it and hope one day to figure out 
a way to put the messages back up for all to read.  This board is much 
better but does require registration.  I looked far and wide and this 
was the best alternative to the old board I could find.  This all goes 
for the Open Forum as well.  

Why the name Strange World Of Iron Maiden?
It comes from hearing the Soundhouse version of Strange World from
Best Of The Beast. I thought that they should have released it as
a single (with the Soundhouse versions of Prowler, Invasion, and 
Iron Maiden as B-sides).  The reason for the "Of Iron Maiden" part
of the name is so that there would be no confusion: This is an Iron 
Maiden fan page.

What was the Nuremburg Rock House?
It was a club in Nuremburg, Germany where they played a lot of Iron
Maiden.  It is no longer around and I decided to name the sounds 
section after it.  The sounds section is also dedicated to the Green
Goose in Nuremburg.  I also have to mention Eddie's bar in 
Santa Barbara De Nexe, Portugal.  Their is an excellent article on it
in the 3rd issue of Neighbour Of The Beast. I plan to go there someday.  

How do you record your Real Audio/Real Media Files?
My new Real Media clips are VERY LARGE.
  
They can be played with RealPlayer 8 and above (including G2 and RealOne).

My old encoder is no longer working, so I could not create the RealPlayer 5.0

compatible files that I have used in the past (1998-2000).

Click on the links below to get the clips.


Ripped Recorded (2003-current):
RM (RealMedia) files created with Helix(tm) Producer Basic 9.0.1 from RealNetworks®



Ripped (1999-2000):
RA (RealAudio) files created with RealEncoder (32-bit) Version 5.1




Recorded (1998-1999):
Straight from the CD or tape if I have it. I use a double ended 1/8 in.
stereo jack to connect the output from the player to the input on the
computer. The software I used was theReal Audio Encoder, available at 
http://www.real.com .

(1998): Two of the RA's were recorded directly from MP3s:
I used the double-ended 1/8th inch stereo connector that I connected from my
Line Out the sound card to the Line In.  Then I syncronised the playing of
the  MPEG file with the recording of the RA.  The software I used was
MP3Player, available at http://kimberlin.simplenet.com/MustHave/, and the
Real Audio Encoder, available at http://www.real.com .



Why did you move your page from Geocities to 
Simplenet?
2 main reasons. 1) I like to use FTP to transfer files to and 
from web pages. 2) I have more resources such as unlimited disk 
space and the htmlscript scripting language which have enabled
me to put more active content on the pages.  If you want to
see an example I was not the first to move from geocities to
simplenet.  Chilean F.C.
who moved from www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/1553/index.html to 
iron.simplenet.com in 1998 (links no longer valid).

How long have you been a Maiden fan?
Since my last part of my tenth grade year (1990).  I bought 
Live After Death and then I become a fan.  Within a year, Iron
Maiden was my favorite group and has been every since
(sorry Motley Crue).

Do you have any unusual Maiden items?

 I have a tape from the Nightmare on Elm Street soundtrack that
contains the original version of "Bring Your Daughter To The 
Slaughter" by Bruce Dickinson (That's right, Bruce did the song 1
whole year before it became a Maiden song and his version sounds 
more Maiden than the Maiden version) I plan to post part of it 
online later in RA format.
 A 1996 Christmas Bulb.
 3 of The Next Ten Years CD's (One of which has Phantom Of
The Opera from Live After Death)
 All of the 1995 Castle Dual CD sets.
 A bootleg from the No Prayer Tour called "Save Your Prayers"
 Several of the Albums on vinyl
 A CD Compilation of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal which 
contains an early version of "Sanctuary" and "Vise Versa" from 
Sampson (a band Bruce Dickinson was in before Maiden)


 Do you like Blaze?
Yes. Iron Maiden has this uncanny way of finding vocalists who
sound like thier predacesors when they do live songs.  You can 
agree of disagree with this, but it's just the way I think they
sound. Check out the sounds page for some of the new songs in 
the Virtual Xi section and to hear Blaze singing classic Iron 
Maiden songs in the Live After Bruce section.


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