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This is a great listen.

He sometimes used some HSS floyded mexican strats to throw around, or even break them like Download 2007.

H changes his main guitar every 10 years or so, so the green Jackson could be retired. It's a free game basically. Smith-Kotzen tour will give some answers as Adrian uses his Maiden guitars for Euro gigs.

Then, it was just a stock CBS Strat, that got sold soon afterwards.

I'd say that the '64 was acquired during the World Piece tour and it had stock Strat electronics. It got Kahlered before World Slavery Tour.

The third one. That one was a Squier, also sold to Matt's guitar shop recently. It was Kahlered, as was the 1964 at the time (now it's Floyded since the early 90's). The first one seems like a stock Strat of the late CBS-era. Considering how Dave looks there, this could've been before he...

Picture #1 is the Kossoff Strat with the black pickguard. Other 3 photos are a rosewood 1979 CBS Strat was Kossoff's backup and was sold to Matt's Guitar shop recently. The Jason Smith Custom Shop Strat seems to be loosely based on this guitar, but with Floyd and an extra fret...

Rime is one of the songs in the set he plays the best IMO.

Humbuckers are currently 2 bridge JBs. JB Jr. In the middle.

Well, I think that we can agree on the fact that Infinite Dreams will likely never be performed again. Shortlisted twice, rehearsed once and dropped both times.

It could've been a factor, as Infinite Dreams is littered with Nicko-isms. It's what forums do best - speculation. But even this is one of the reasons, I think there were more and bigger ones, mainly in the vocal department.

I agree to disagree with this. Same thing could then be said about Neil Peart, John Bonham and Keith Moon. Heck, even more with Ringo Starr and Charlie Watts. The only famous drummer that I can think of that does not fall into this "just another drummer" criterea is Danny Carey. A drummer...

Couldn't disagree more. Nicko being a jazz-funk influenced drummer is a major factor in Maiden's sound. As someone who played with multiple drummers, it's incredible how much the drummer changes the feel of the song. Infinite Dreams is one of the songs where Nicko's groove really comes out...

I think this time it is the groove. It's a very specific heavy Nicko style song. Maybe it just didn't work with Simon.

Sea Of Madness likely wasn't rehearsed for The Future Past. I'd say LOTLDR was considered, but never rehearsed due to Nicko's condition.

Yeah, but I forgot to add that the new 50th Jackson would take the place of the green Jackson on Killers, Powerslave, 2 Minutes, Seventh Son and Wasted Years, while one of the Lados (likely the black one) would do the rest of standard tuned songs.

The man behind Dave's main guitar:

I think the most likely scenario is that he'll retire the green Jackson. One Lado will remain used as a standard-tuned guitar IMO. The drop-D prototypes will remain and DT300 will still be used on 2-3 drop D songs. That's my prediction. Also, I think one Lado will go on the Smith-Kotzen tour...

Well, Adrian usually switches main guitar every 10 years or so. The green Jackson will be 10 years old next year, so I think it's time for a switch. Another possibility is that he will retire the drop D prototypes which are in rotation since 2008. We'll see.