Adrian Smith

Jer said:
Would people be interested in doing a ranking of every song in Adrian's solo discography similar to what's going on with Bruce's solo work in this thread? If enough folks are up for it, I would be happy to run it.

My thought is that I'd include every album track and B-side from solo bands where Adrian wrote or co-wrote most of the songs, and then from collaborations where he only co-wrote a minority of songs I'd only include the songs that he actually co-wrote, and not the ones he only played on.

His Urchin work is a tough situation, because to my knowledge none of it had a wide release, but there's apparently quite a bit of it out there now, just in very limited release form. Since it's hard to dig up most of it, even on YouTube, I'm tempted to leave it out entirely and focus on A.S.A.P. and beyond. Let me know what you think.

The song list I'm considering using is in the spoiler tag below:

A.S.A.P. - Silver & Gold
  • The Lion
  • Silver And Gold
  • Down The Wire
  • You Could Be A King
  • After The Storm
  • Misunderstood
  • Kid Gone Astray
  • Fallen Heroes
  • Wishing Your Life Away
  • Blood On The Ocean
Psycho Motel - State Of Mind
  • Sins Of Your Father
  • World's On Fire
  • Psycho Motel
  • Western Shore
  • Rage
  • Killing Time
  • Time Is A Hunter
  • Money To Burn
  • City Of Light
  • Excuse Me
Psycho Motel - Welcome To The World
  • The Last Chain
  • A Quarter To Heaven
  • Rain
  • Believe
  • With You Again
  • Into The Black
  • No Loss To Me
  • Underground
  • Welcome To The World
  • Something Real
  • Innocence
  • I'm Alive
  • Hypocrisy
Primal Rock Rebellion - Awoken Broken
  • No Friendly Neighbour
  • No Place Like Home
  • I See Lights
  • Bright As A Fire
  • Savage World
  • Tortured Tone
  • White Sheet Robes
  • As Tears Come Falling From The Sky
  • Awoken Broken
  • Search For Bliss
  • Snake Ladders
  • Mirror And The Moon
Collaborations with Bruce Dickinson
  • Road To Hell
  • Welcome To The Pit
  • The Ghost Of Cain
  • Killing Floor
  • Machine Men
  • Return Of The King
Collaborations with Michael Kiske & Kai Hansen
  • The Calling
  • New Horizons
B-sides
  • Blood Brothers (A.S.A.P. version)
  • Fighting Man
  • When She's Gone
  • School Days
  • Last Goodbye
  • (Can't) Wait
  • Just Like A Woman
  • Scientist
  • Mooncusser

If you're interested, let me know if anything's missing or if you disagree with the choices.
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This would give me the incentive to go through it at long last. I’m in, so long as you’ve got a good amount of time to let voters listen to the entire thing. :)
 
I don’t think there are many songs I’d rate any higher than a 5.

Incidentally I came across Silver and Gold yesterday at a thrift store for $2. :eek: Pretty mediocre stuff but it has its moments, namely the title track.
 
matic22 said:
Javier Bardem was again at the 02. Here is H and Natalie with him. He seems a big fan of Maiden and a friend of Nat and H.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmaxuQXBuCo/?taken-by=nathalie_d_smith
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He was right at the soundboard desk area on Saturday, 5 metres from where I was standing, singing the lyrics like a maniac (he was really into Where Eagles Dare) and air-drumming or moving his arms in pure Bruce Dickinson style. :lol:

He has always been a metalhead, but I did not know he was so much into Maiden.

Austin Dickinson was impressed!

https://mobile.twitter.com/Austin_AsLions/status/1028613106723893248
 
Intro: ''Walking On Glass'' guitar solo
1.The Lion
2.Reach Out
3.She's A Roller
4.Back In The Village
5.Silver and Gold
6.Countdown
7.Hooks In You
8.2 Minutes To Midnight
9.When She's Gone (the best Adrian song !)
10.Wasted Years
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encores:

11.Juanita
12.That Girl
13.Stranger In A Strange Land

honorable mentions: See Me Through, City Of Dreams.... | Imagine a concert like that - just wow ! :applause:
 
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I think he's simply paraphrasing something H himself once said, is he not? i.e. he was totally out of the music business over those years & barely picked up his guitar.
 
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