Recent content by Eduardo Cabeza

Thanks for posting this @efekåseo_suomi I'm about to spend a week in London and I came across this excelent site. It has a dedicated East End Maiden map, and many other amazing reference sites. You can even look them up by terms like "crime" or "ethnicity"...

and the way the whole drum kit sounds! It's just so him. A monster.

Yes. But even if not as exposed, the drummer in rock and roll is so important to the band formula. Keith Moon was indispensable to The Who's sound —a trio concerning instruments—, but Pete Townshend always thought that he bashed out way too many drums and too crazily. When they used Kenney Jones...

Exactly my case if you exchange Oasis and REM with Ramones and Devo.

This is Adrian talking about Donington 1992: "But when I got there, I was nervous and I started drinking whiskey. So I was pretty buzzed by the time they started. I was standing at the side of the stage, watching them play all the songs I used to play. I burst out crying...". Knowing that, this...

I like everything about it, setlist included. That outstanding «Running Free» with Adrian –after drinking a couple of whiskeys–, Linford Christie’s camera… legendary stuff!

This is the one thing that keeps a ray of hope in me.

What a perfect show. That VHS tape stayed on my VCR for years.

Drums in Maiden are every bit as essential as in Rush or in any other rock-and-roll based band.

Dude, don't lose time on something so obvious as demonstrating that tempo is measurable. Everyone knows that. Many people also know that tempo can flow if done correctly, and that good drummers, like Nicko on «The Wicker Man», can surf tempo, breathing life into a song —not Simon's case though.

Exactly. End of the bleedy story.

I like this game.

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My example was only aimed at showing how double-sided @Vaenyr's argument was. His criticism was objective; ours wasn't.

Sadly, the pressure would never be that strong. I don't think any of the band members want to risk their position with a seismic discussion when Maiden is looking at mega-profitable plans ahead. Casual fans don't care about drums as much as vocals, so Simon will most probably stay until the...