Iron Maiden News, Links, and Interviews

Forostar said:
No bad eh?

Steve is down to earth.
Bruce is quick like the wind (and is interested in aviation)
Adrian's solos are bright and piecing like ice
Dave's playing is fluent as water
Janick's stage presence and passion are like fire
Nicko plays with wood. Option B: Nicko has a wooden head.
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It wasn't bad, yes.
 
Uhh...

Steve is the Nucleus
Nicko is the Mitochondria
Dave is the Cytoplasm
Adrian is the Golgi Apparatus
Janick is the Ribosomes
Bruce is the Cell Membrane

Just take my word for it. (I know almost nothing about biology and had to look up most of these terms...)
 
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Nicko is the eggs
Steve is the yeast
Bruce is the flour
Dave is the milk
Adrian is the baking power
Janick is the chocolate chip
 
Ok, this is horrid, offtopic, and I want news links or interviews here.
 
Black Bart said:
For those who missed it last year, an interesting album-by-album run-through by the band:
http://teamrock.com/feature/2015-09-04/iron-maiden-album-by-album-in-their-own-words
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Just seeing this for the first time. Most interesting quote was Nicko's reference to Phil Collins in the same breath as Neil Peart when discussing the drum riff that opens "Where Eagles Dare." My uncle was a professional drummer, and I recall having a discussion some years ago in which he said Phil Collins was a drummer that other drummers really admired, a "monster." (And then came "Sussudio"...) Nicko's comment appears to confirm that view.
 
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For anyone interested, here is a link to some nice old photos from Reading Festival, 1982.

I really love looking at these old festivals. Contains various photo galleries, set lists, recollections etc, :)

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/reading-82-photogallery.html


Edit: Some nice pics in the recollections section also (bottom of the home page)
There is also some Maiden on the Reading 1980 page, plus White Spirit (featuring Janick), in the galleries and also recollections. This is a great site....every year of Reading Festival :)
 
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Cornfed Hick said:
Just seeing this for the first time. Most interesting quote was Nicko's reference to Phil Collins in the same breath as Neil Peart when discussing the drum riff that opens "Where Eagles Dare." My uncle was a professional drummer, and I recall having a discussion some years ago in which he said Phil Collins was a drummer that other drummers really admired, a "monster." (And then came "Sussudio"...) Nicko's comment appears to confirm that view.
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Phil Collins was definitely up there with Peart at one point, check out his drumming on Cinema Show.

Unlike Peart, once he started to move into a more commercial sound he stopped writing interesting drum parts. I like to think of Peart as a drummer with really great cymbal work, while Phil Collins was a master on the snare.
 
We don't discuss new issues of fan club mag here, but there is a good interview with Masa Ito, of Burrn, which helps to understand how Maiden got such a big following very early in Japan.
 
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