Bullet for My Valentine says opening for Iron Maiden and Guns N Roses tours was "bad"

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Bullet for My Valentine says opening for Iron Maiden and Guns N Roses tours was "bad"

This was in an interview with Metal Sucks. It seems that Moose needs to understand many people think Bullet sucks anyhow no matter who they open for.

MetalSucks: What was that like opening for a band that you grew up listening to?
Moose: Definitely for the four of us it was just completely awesome. But then, I just wish… their fans would just give the support act a fighting chance, you know? As soon as we’d go up, they’d have chants, MAIDEN chants. It just sucks really, why they didn’t give us a chance. We were there to support, and we were big fans anyway, so when they were chanting "MAIDEN," we wanted to see MAIDEN just as bad, you know?
MetalSucks: In a lot of ways it probably doesn’t matter who is opening for MAIDEN.
Moose: It doesn’t matter at all.
MetalSucks: Basically the same thing happened for you guys here in America when you did those dates with Axl Rose.
Moose: Which one?
MetalSucks: In New York, with GUNS N’ ROSES.
Moose: Oh yeah, we’d done the European dates with him, and then the New York dates went on sale and sold out in like 5 minutes, 15 minutes, and we weren’t even announced on the bill. So it was kind of the same thing. But that wasn’t as bad as IRON MAIDEN.
MetalSucks: It wasn’t as bad?
Moose: No, it wasn’t that bad!
MetalSucks: I was at one of those shows, it was pretty bad!
Moose: I mean, in New York it wasn’t good, but if you’d seen us on the MAIDEN shows, it was BAD!
MetalSucks: Do you take that personally or do you just do your best and move on?
Moose: Even if we played great, no one would give us five minutes. I’d just like them to give us a chance. But I guess that’s the way they are, that’s the way they’ll always be.

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