Adrian Smith

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Fun rock? Ok, maybe. To me this is just totally forgettable and interchangeable.

My favourite take is that this stuff means that Adrian is working on new Maiden songs using his brilliant ideas. :D
 
Wow, this song gets a lot of very negative comments on the Iron Maiden Facebook page. That is really atypical. Everything in connection with Maiden is normally praised and liked there.
(But I understand them...)
 
DorotheaMe said:
Wow, this song gets a lot of very negative comments on the Iron Maiden Facebook page. That is really atypical. Everything in connection with Maiden is normally praised and liked there.
(But I understand them...)
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Maiden fans like metal, so it's not something that unusual. Surprising? Well, yeah, their first album was well-received.
Robert.M. said:
Get a few things sorted out, Adrian, write songs for the new Maiden album and then maybe some good ideas will come to you solo again.
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Adrian's ideas for his solo project and Maiden are very different. His solo in the song could have been used for a Maiden song, I guess.
 
07-SMS:A1L said:
I really hope they tour the album.
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Why wouldn't they?
Melony said:
The last solo efforts of Maiden members have rather made me keep my fingers crossed for further Iron Maiden albums even more.
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Yes, the hunger for something new and creative. But it's always like that with Maiden. Interesting ideas from Bruce and playing/riffs from Adrian (always a pleasure to listen to his melodic approach).
 
To those who say Adrian should only write for Maiden, the obvious question is why haven't Maiden recorded (to our knowledge) an album since 2019, albeit not released till 2021? Steve said last year there were no plans.

Adrian has released two and a half albums now with Richie, Bruce released the Mandrake Project and Steve is apparently still writing the 3rd BL album.

I think we would all prefer a new Maiden album, but given the lack of one, I don't think you can blame any of them for keeping busy. And if they made an album which was a direct rip off of Maiden would that make anyone happy anyway? So yeah making records with different people and trying different things will always provoke a mixed reaction, and that is fine.

I find it hard to believe every Beatles fan is a huge fan of Ringos solo work for instance,,,,,
 
Great second single. Both Black Light and White Noise has to be in a setlist in future tours. I know Wasted Years has been in the set for a while, but the Smith/Kotzen material is so strong so they could do a more obscure Maiden song. Gangland?
 
On first listen to it I thought it was decent, don't know what the drummer is doing in the chorus though, groove completely falls out of the song
 
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It seems there are no videos from the Smith/Kotzen acoustic event. I read somewhere that they played some new and old songs. Also, Adrian said that Roy Z is a virtuoso who taught him a lot. And he was blown away by the AOB demo and they made great albums, iirc. He had never heard of Drop D before he met him.

I'm curious to know if they've discussed the potential tour for their new album. If it's not this year, but early next year (maybe British Lion too?), then that doesn't bode well for a Maiden album.
 
Arrgh, you just ruined my morning (no, just kidding, post your thoughts of course). A Smith/Kotzen tour (don't like this collab at all) instead of a new Maiden album? :scared:

How does this site work where you can start petitions?
 
Kalata said:
He had never heard of Drop D before he met him.
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Adrian has been listening to a lot of Kings X before Accident Of Birth, who mainly play in drop D half step down. Also a few songs on the 1st Psycho Motel album are in drop D.

So, I'm pretty sure this info is wrong. The Freak tuning and the Mollosian guitar (baritone drop A) are a different story, tho.
 
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