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Also, I think it has been mentioned before, but guitar sound on Piece Of Mind is arse. Particulary Adrian's. Worst sounding guitars out of the classic albums.

A friend of mine started winding pickups. I have this 2024 Candy Apple Red Fender Player Strat that I bought for my 30th birthday and I wasn't too crazy about the pickups and wanted a custom traditional Strat set, so he made me one. I wanted a Fender fat 50's style neck pickup and a very...

Single coil size. If we go by only what each pickup is, it would be a mess, since all of Dave's Strats are technicaly HHH currently.

I think it was in his story from last year. When we learned that the California Series Strat is also a swimming pool route, unlike the SSS route of the production series guitars. It's possible that he swapped pickguards the California Series Strat and the Birthday Strat. Edit: It's in the...

Actually was. After Cali series was converted to HSH, it went back to Hot Rails.

It's a white Fender CS Strat that was comissioned by Colin for Dave at the end of 2016 and has his birthdate as the serial number. Main guitar in 2017.

Yup. Original Andy Hicks, Jason Smith 70s, CS run Andy Hicks, Cali Series. IIRC the cream FR Classic and the Les Paul are still out there. The birthday Strat is gone.

And this is where they nailed it with A Matter Of Life And Death. Amazing sounding album IMO. That live-in-studio feel wasn't captured since on that level, despite them trying ever since (and is impossible due to their age now and lackluster arrangments of songs in recent years).

There are some better sounding and some worse sounding albums, but the original mix and master of Dance Of Death are basically a war crime. The album is brickwalled to death. Little to no dynamics. The fact that masterpiece songs like Dance Of Death and Paschendale have almost the same dynamic...

Iron Maiden, the self-influencing band. Who influences the influencer? (S. P. Harris, 2015)

Book Of Thel is easier. The Tower too. He struggled with Darkside very much and has been dropped during the last leg.

No way in hell he is still able to sing Trumpets of Jericho. He was borderline struggling with it in 1998. Also, those two require baritone guitars with drop A.

2 months at max. I don't think they were in studio for longer period since the reunion.

Rehearsals could be 2 weeks. Besides that, his band can rehearse in the meantime and Bruce joins during the last week. That's not a factor. We know that Maiden changed the drummer and didn't bother rehearsing for more than 2.5 weeks.

I'd say a realistic sequence of events would be... December 2026: 1st Bruce solo single released March 2027: Bruce's album released March-April 2027: Iron Maiden #18 recording End of May - mid July 2027: Bruce solo European tour Late september 2027: 1st single from IM #18 released, album and...