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Ancient Mariner
Mosh, I couldn't find it so quickly.
Meanwhile, check all these interview transcripts from 1997.
http://strider.untergrund.net/toxicmag/toxichs1/articles/intsteve.htm
Various fans could ask questions to Steve and some answers are pretty interesting. Such as:
MARK: You took some time to come up with a new frontman. Obviously Maiden was due for a break, and you did have a lot of audition tapes to go through, but were you nervous at all that you had had too long a break as there was two and a half years between Fear of the Dark and The X Factor.
STEVE: Well we really wanted to come out with another album as soon as possible. The thing is that with the other changes of band members in the past, there has always been someone there waiting to come in, and we've been very lucky in that respect. For example, when Adrian left, Janick came down a week later, tried out and it worked out great, and we just carried on and went onto the studio straight away. But if it hadn't worked out, I suppose we would have had to have gone in and recorded the album with just Davey doing both guitar parts, which is possible. But with a singer it's different. You can't just go in and do an album. Also we wanted the person who came in to feel part of the band and be involved in the writing. So it took quite a long time to actually go through all the tapes that were sent in, get a shortlist, and audition. So once we decided on Blaze, it was a question of writing the album and then recording. The recording took a long time, about a year, which was not down to Blaze, but because we done nearly a double albums worth of material. Also the fact that we were working with a new producer all added up to the album taking a long time to make. It was a lot longer than we wanted, but we knew it was very important to take our time and get it right, so that when we go out we can be confident of being the best we can be which is what we always try to do. There's no point in rushing something like that. As far as we're concerned we did a really strong album, went out and did a really strong tour and we were happy with it so now it's a question of going in and doing another album. We've got an album and tour with Blaze under our belts and it's worked out great. Part of the worry when you've got a new member is that you never know if they are going to work out personally, but Blaze has worked out brilliant. I've got to be honest, he is a lot more fun to work with. He's one of the lads.
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PHILLIP: Has Iron Maiden ever been interested in working with other musicians to compose Maiden songs.
STEVE: II don't have any problem with that at all. If I thought that there was somebody that was a really strong songwriter and whose material would benefit the band, then I would definitely look at that possibility. I feel lucky in the way that we've always had strong songwriters in the band, so we haven't had to look elsewhere for material. So far no-one has come along with anything that we thought would enhance any of our stuff. But I certainly wouldn't rule it out because ultimately the lifeblood of any band is the songs, so it doesn't really matter who writes them in that respect.
Meanwhile, check all these interview transcripts from 1997.
http://strider.untergrund.net/toxicmag/toxichs1/articles/intsteve.htm
Various fans could ask questions to Steve and some answers are pretty interesting. Such as:
MARK: You took some time to come up with a new frontman. Obviously Maiden was due for a break, and you did have a lot of audition tapes to go through, but were you nervous at all that you had had too long a break as there was two and a half years between Fear of the Dark and The X Factor.
STEVE: Well we really wanted to come out with another album as soon as possible. The thing is that with the other changes of band members in the past, there has always been someone there waiting to come in, and we've been very lucky in that respect. For example, when Adrian left, Janick came down a week later, tried out and it worked out great, and we just carried on and went onto the studio straight away. But if it hadn't worked out, I suppose we would have had to have gone in and recorded the album with just Davey doing both guitar parts, which is possible. But with a singer it's different. You can't just go in and do an album. Also we wanted the person who came in to feel part of the band and be involved in the writing. So it took quite a long time to actually go through all the tapes that were sent in, get a shortlist, and audition. So once we decided on Blaze, it was a question of writing the album and then recording. The recording took a long time, about a year, which was not down to Blaze, but because we done nearly a double albums worth of material. Also the fact that we were working with a new producer all added up to the album taking a long time to make. It was a lot longer than we wanted, but we knew it was very important to take our time and get it right, so that when we go out we can be confident of being the best we can be which is what we always try to do. There's no point in rushing something like that. As far as we're concerned we did a really strong album, went out and did a really strong tour and we were happy with it so now it's a question of going in and doing another album. We've got an album and tour with Blaze under our belts and it's worked out great. Part of the worry when you've got a new member is that you never know if they are going to work out personally, but Blaze has worked out brilliant. I've got to be honest, he is a lot more fun to work with. He's one of the lads.
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PHILLIP: Has Iron Maiden ever been interested in working with other musicians to compose Maiden songs.
STEVE: II don't have any problem with that at all. If I thought that there was somebody that was a really strong songwriter and whose material would benefit the band, then I would definitely look at that possibility. I feel lucky in the way that we've always had strong songwriters in the band, so we haven't had to look elsewhere for material. So far no-one has come along with anything that we thought would enhance any of our stuff. But I certainly wouldn't rule it out because ultimately the lifeblood of any band is the songs, so it doesn't really matter who writes them in that respect.
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