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I'm trying to piece together how to play this song on bass guitar. This might be Harris's most fun, interesting and challenging performance of the entire reunion era.

Thanks for organizing this. Looking forward to voting, and seeing the results.

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I've (voluntarily) listened to that a few times. After 25 minutes, the song becomes trancelike. It's like The Simpsons bit where Sideshow Bob steps on the rakes over and over again. It's stupid, but they repeat it so many times, it somehow becomes funny again.

What stands out to me is this is Harris's most inspired, engaged bass playing since at least "Brave New World" (and probably even farther back). This album will be a lot more fun and challenging to learn how to play on bass compared to the last few.

A rough comparison: "One Shot At Glory" - one of their greatest songs, never played live before. Probably equivalent to Maiden playing "Alexander the Great" (and they started the show with it! Imagine a Maiden concert is about to start and you hear wind, then "My son ask for thyself...") "Rocka...

I like the stats but I don't think many of these songs (such as The Unbeliever, El Dorado, Isle of Avalon, If Eternity Should Fail and The Great Unknown) have anything that resembles a bass solo. Even a few of the songs with particularly complex and prominent bass parts (The Duellists, The...

You got it. It was a "final draft" in the sense that it was an updated version of "Invasion" (released on the Soundhouse Tapes in 1979).

Thanks for that. Let's try this again: Clue 1: a final draft

Well, that didn't last long. That's correct - "Virus" was released in 1996 and a computer virus was used in "Independence Day" (released that year) to defeat the aliens. Too specific for a first clue?

First time posting the clues, let's see how this goes. Clue 1: the year this song was released, humanity used it (at least, a variant of it) to defeat alien invaders

"All In Your Mind" Clue 1: A self-titled, multi-million selling debut album was released the same year as this Maiden track. This blockbuster album contains two Maiden song titles, but it's the more verbatim of them you're looking for. (Mariah Carey's self-titled, multi-platinum debut was also...

I'm really enjoying all of these album reviews. I don't agree with all of your points (what would be the fun in that?) but definitely appreciate the amount of thought/detail going into these.

Out of curiosity, has anyone learned how to play any British Lion songs on bass? At this point I've (more or less) figured out "This Is My God", "A World Without Heaven", "The Chosen Ones" and "Spitfire". For the most part, they're not very complex (generally on par with Maiden songs from the...

Hard to top the variety of King Crimson (featured here are wild jazz rock with apocalyptic lyrics, a soft beautiful jazzy ballad, an intense prog metal instrumental, and a complex but accessible, witty 80s pop song):

The overly-percussive note Harris plays at 3:06 in The Duellists - attacking the strings a bit too hard. It gives the song character.

Blaze Bayley just announced a "Tenth Dimension" tour in the UK and Europe in September and November: Not too familiar with this album (his 2nd). "Kill and Destroy" is a good energetic rocker and "Meant to Be" is one of his best songs - but not sure how well that'll translate live. Hopefully...

Really enjoying these Rush reviews, Jer. Over the holidays (coincidentally, before Peart's passing) I had started making an effort to go through their catalogue systematically (the three "Sector" box sets had been sitting around, gathering dust). Always good to get some detailed, thoughtful...

You got most of the ones on my list. A few others from 1970's prog bands: "Lizard" by King Crimson "Nine Feet Underground" by Caravan "Tarkus" by ELP "The Fountain of Lamneth" by Rush "Hamburger Concerto" by Focus "Eruption" by Focus "Supper's Ready" by Genesis The album "Third" by The Soft...

I had a great time at the British Lion show in Toronto in November 2018 with @harrisdevot, front and centre. I seem to be in the minority, but I actually enjoyed the debut album, and most of the songs were better live. The new material was mostly strong. I'll see if I can do any of the shows in...