Adrian, Janick and Dave's guitars and Steve's basses
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
From the DOD tour? Cool.
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dickinson1978
Ancient Mariner
What happened to steve's blue bass from LAD. I think i read somewhere that is the same as the white one with the west ham shield
Ascendingthethrone
Ancient Mariner
It’s the same instrument.
sea_of_madness_667
Nomad
That’s not the same acoustic guitar from DOD tour, the Taylor from DOD tour had a pickguard and dot inlays, I think the one from Smith/Kotzen is a 914ce, the one from DOD tour is a 414ce
Edit: Sorry, I just realized that you were talking about the Hummingbird and not the Taylor.
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matic22
Ancient Mariner
Dave played a hummingbird not H.
2M2M
Invader
The new Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams visual history book will have "photographs of the band’s instruments past and present" - hopefully they show some gear that may have not been so well documented yet... Hopefully a double page spread dedicated to the Holy Goldtop
If this picture is anything to go by, this will be awesome!
If this picture is anything to go by, this will be awesome!
matic22
Ancient Mariner
BTW, I hate they have written "Dean V", while it's clearly a Baby ML. Dave played a Dean V on World Piece Tour.
sea_of_madness_667
Nomad
And they also wrote that the Ibanez Destroyer is “Sunburst”. Maybe they confused it with Dave’s Destroyer, which was sunburst, Adrian’s is clearly Candy Apple Red.
matic22
Ancient Mariner
Yeah. The sunburst Destroyer was played by Dave during Beast On The Road and the Dean V during World Piece Tour.
sea_of_madness_667
Nomad
matic22
Ancient Mariner
Janick's White Spirit Strat. Pre Hot Rails.
sea_of_madness_667
Nomad
Wow, nice to see Dave play it, thank you for replying!!
matic22
Ancient Mariner
Yes. IIRC he broke that one while climbing the truss with Gillan at Donnington.
sea_of_madness_667
Nomad
Does anyone know if Dave and Steve had ever played in Drop-D live? I know that H uses drop D in some songs and Janick too (Time Machine for example), but I don’t know if Dave and Steve had ever played in drop D too, anyone knows?
P.S: What songs do Adrian and Janick play/played in drop-d?
P.S: What songs do Adrian and Janick play/played in drop-d?
2M2M
Invader
Bruce has said in the past that "If Eternity Should Fail" is the first & only Maiden song written in Drop D (as opposed to songs where H and maybe Jan have performed in Drop D). I would guess maybe Steve did Drop D for that maybe on the record, maybe live?
None others that I can think of.
While I'm (and many others) very impressed that Bruce can handle playing songs still in standard tuning, I did always wonder if Maiden would ever tour with Eb tuning. On the records I'm sure standard could remain fine for Bruce, but for live shows maybe Eb would just give everything a slightly heavier feel. But I also agree that even half a step down and you would possibly lose the magic of some tracks. I know a lot of (or all?) Smith/Kotzen material is in Eb generally, and Bruce's solo stuff is in lower tunings too.
2M2M
Invader
I don't know much about which tracks Jan plays in Drop D.
but Adrian's performed at least the following tracks in Drop D at some point (some have gone back to standard)
- Trooper
- Number of the Beast
- Wrathchild
- Fear of the Dark (one of my favourite parts of this is on En Vivo live, in the second 'verse' - after first loud chorus - you can really hear H digging in with a beastly rhythm pattern, in drop D - sounds incredible)
- If Eternity Should Fail
- Run to the Hills
- Hallowed be thy Name (great Isolated version of this on YT, maybe from Rock in Rio?)
- Rainmaker
off the top of my head that's definitely some - I'm sure others will add to this list
matic22
Ancient Mariner
Only Jan and H have ever played in drop D with Maiden. Adrian on quite a bit of songs (it varies through the years) and Jan on IESF and Time Machine.
