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I would be all over that, especially if there's more Listen with Nickos.

True. There's the Nicko interview from last year talking about how Steve more or less bent over backward to accommodate him--offering to drop songs he couldn't do anymore and telling Nicko to simplify his playing as he saw fit.

I agree, it was nice to see Blaze get some love, especially from an unexpected place--Dave, who said he really liked him and thought him a good singer. From the quote, it sounded like when Dave was talking about the balance between home and touring, he was largely referring to how it used to be...

Bruce about Remember Tomorrow: ''If ever Paul owned a song, it's that one. I can sing it, and have done. But I think we should leave it with Paul now.'' So, I've seen a good few people say Remember Tomorrow is almost a lock for RFYL (especially after Paul's passing), but if Bruce maintains this...

My guess agrees with the general consensus here: play as close to the recordings as possible. At present, he's just the live fill-in drummer, after all, not a member who has the clout to come in and start changing things up to suit his style. But, he's also Steve's buddy, so...I guess anything's...

This was in At the End of the Day, which is the biography of the Blaze Bayley Band, covering Blaze from the Wolfsbane days up until Promise & Terror. If I recall correctly, the roadie in charge of the stage monitors refused to change the monitor setup from the way Bruce liked it. For whatever...

Blaze has talked about it, and tuning down wasn't mentioned while he was in the band. He said he went in very confident with all the material they were doing, which I would interpret as even he wasn't thinking that the band should tune down for him. My guess is it was hugely down to his...

Not really musically weird, but I remember way back when I was in my teens listening to Maiden England (the Ecatombe bootleg, since I never owned the old CD version that came with the VHS), I kept wondering what the hell that clickety-clacking was through all the songs. Took me longer than I...

100% that is the case.

Let me preface this by saying yes, I know this means absolutely nothing. Yes, I was fishing for a scoop, and no, I'm not surprised no scoop was obtained. But kinda cool either way. Tl;dr - Nicko's wife posting on Insta about new projects the two of them have coming up. I commented that I was...

August 2026 seems a long time away to launch these remixes. The publication date of the article showed that it was put out this month (January), so very high probability that's accurate. At the same time, the actual interview may have been from last year, or Bruce misspoke and he meant August...

Nope, if I feel like listening to a whole Maiden album, I'll take FotD over PoM any day of the week (along with some other Golden Era albums). PoM has a fair few of Maiden's "classics," but I've always felt Side A and Side B were very lopsided as far as "these are the best songs on the album, so...

I too have thought No Prayer is a reaction to the boom of Guns 'N Roses. I mentioned this elsewhere, but it's possible Slash's public statements about going onstage with ridiculous icebergs maybe caused the band to rethink their overly theatrical approach. The sound was raw and dirty, Bruce is...

Really wish they would've swapped Sea of Madness for Heaven Can Wait on TFP tour, since no high quality recording exists of it played live. Closest I've found is Paris '86--it sounds great, apart from the fact the whole show has this high-pitched ringing over the top of it that makes it just...

I just listened to the Hammersmith songs the other day, and performance-wise--especially in regards to little extra vocal flourishes Bruce put on them--it was head and shoulders better than he was in Long Beach. I hadn't heard those versions in awhile, and I'm just thinking, "okay, that's the...

I've only met Dio once when I was doing security at a record store signing--he was kind and humble in that setting, so I couldn't say (or haven't heard anything) about a big ego, which is probably Bruce's reasoning for not downtuning. It's very odd, since he obviously knows he can't...

I've always been in the camp wishing they'd offer Blaze an opening slot. Steve's talked often about how grateful he is to Blaze for helping keep the band alive through the difficult '90s, well...as is the rule with writers: show, don't tell, Steve. And yes, having Blaze as an opener would make...

I'm no drummer so I can't say for sure, but I would imagine Nicko's still capable of playing at least the simplified level he did on Virtual XI. And since he's still keeping on with Titanium Tart, he's not going to get rusty anytime soon. Sure, drumming-wise, it'd a step down from what we're...

I dunno...I came away from Knight (and I've played through it about...3-4 times) feeling like it was way about Joker than the actual primary villains (Arkham Knight and Scarecrow). The Riddler stuff, especially the races were really tiresome this time around. The car traversal was great, and I...

I do wonder if Bruce was thinking ahead when he started talking about using his touring band to record future album(s), if he figured his working relationship with Roy was over by the time the tour was about to start. He may have started talking about this before Roy left the tour, but my...