Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Is this the Classic Rock interview for the Powerslave anniv? Old or new interviews?
Steve: POM was the best album we'd done up to that point.
Steve: People kept talking about pressure, and looking back I can see why. But the truth is I didn't feel any at the time.
Adrian: I never saw myself as a heavy-metal speed merchant. Definitely not a shredder. I grew up listening to blues rock, bands like Zeppelin and Purple. I loved rock guitar, but it had to have a melody.
Bruce: We both grew up loving Machine Head by Purple. So when Adrian and I first started writing together it was natural we would gravitate more to that kind of thing.
Harris had never really been into singles. He was into prog.
Steve: My priorities were simple. If I like it and the fans like it, that's all that ever matters to me. The critics can see what they like after that, it won't matter to me.
Steve: I don't write on the road. I prefer to be with the band in the studio.
Adrian: Me and Bruce wrote ''2 Minutes To Midnight'' in about 20 minutes. I could knock out stuff like that all day. But it didn't always fit into the kind of fantasy thing that Maiden had going for them. In the early days I needed Bruce to help me make things more how Maiden would want them. 2 Minutes is a perfect example of that.
Adrian: When Steve put ''Rime Of The Ancient Mariner'' forward I just knew we had to do it, because I'd never heard anyone do anything like it before. Steve was so fired up about it and convinced everyone else. It's so dramatic, how can you not like it.
Steve: WST tour was probably the best stage show we ever did. It felt sort of like we had got to the top of the mountain with that one.
Bruce: It was the best tour we ever did and it was the worst.
Bruce: I think this album is superior to the previous one. We took what was best in POM, while stressing the aggressive style of TNOTB. Powerslave is like the natural rounding off of POM and TNOTB, that whole era. I remember listening back to it and I thought: 'Um... this is great, but I don't know how much more we can do of records that sound in this kind of vein'''.
Steve: I still think Powerslave as a really, really strong album. I think there are 4 stand-out songs on there, all of which we did live. Of the other songs... there is some good ones. There's ''The Duellists'', which I still think is good, you know, its musically interesting. But if you put it against Rime or 2 Minutes... I mean, it's just no way. But they weren't filler songs or anything like that.
Steve: People kept talking about pressure, and looking back I can see why. But the truth is I didn't feel any at the time.
Adrian: I never saw myself as a heavy-metal speed merchant. Definitely not a shredder. I grew up listening to blues rock, bands like Zeppelin and Purple. I loved rock guitar, but it had to have a melody.
Bruce: We both grew up loving Machine Head by Purple. So when Adrian and I first started writing together it was natural we would gravitate more to that kind of thing.
Harris had never really been into singles. He was into prog.
Steve: My priorities were simple. If I like it and the fans like it, that's all that ever matters to me. The critics can see what they like after that, it won't matter to me.
Steve: I don't write on the road. I prefer to be with the band in the studio.
Adrian: Me and Bruce wrote ''2 Minutes To Midnight'' in about 20 minutes. I could knock out stuff like that all day. But it didn't always fit into the kind of fantasy thing that Maiden had going for them. In the early days I needed Bruce to help me make things more how Maiden would want them. 2 Minutes is a perfect example of that.
Adrian: When Steve put ''Rime Of The Ancient Mariner'' forward I just knew we had to do it, because I'd never heard anyone do anything like it before. Steve was so fired up about it and convinced everyone else. It's so dramatic, how can you not like it.
Steve: WST tour was probably the best stage show we ever did. It felt sort of like we had got to the top of the mountain with that one.
Bruce: It was the best tour we ever did and it was the worst.
Bruce: I think this album is superior to the previous one. We took what was best in POM, while stressing the aggressive style of TNOTB. Powerslave is like the natural rounding off of POM and TNOTB, that whole era. I remember listening back to it and I thought: 'Um... this is great, but I don't know how much more we can do of records that sound in this kind of vein'''.
Steve: I still think Powerslave as a really, really strong album. I think there are 4 stand-out songs on there, all of which we did live. Of the other songs... there is some good ones. There's ''The Duellists'', which I still think is good, you know, its musically interesting. But if you put it against Rime or 2 Minutes... I mean, it's just no way. But they weren't filler songs or anything like that.
