Iron Maiden Stage Mishaps Collection

Luisma said:
No, there isn't (I searched the web for a long time to see if I could find it while writing the book. however, Bruce comments about the incident in a bootleg from the day after and there's this:

"The gig was going really well, we weren't too rusty after a few days off and the travel, and then... There is yours truly playing along to Hallowed, when there is a great crash and half my drumset gets scattered by a flying Bruce... And not in a plane this time.

Bruce was sprinting along the top walkway which runs right behind my kit when he slipped on what we later found to be some residual cream from Janick's pie-ing on his birthday at the last show. At first we thought it was really serious. Janick was cradling his neck as though it was broken. Steve hadn't heard all this with all the din on stage and was looking round furiously at Janick as of course he had stopped playing! But Bruce is tough as old boots, he soon got up and just carried on. After the show we had a doctor come and check him out. He strapped him up pretty heavily but thankfully he was fine. And even more importantly so was my kit!!!!" (Excerpt of Nicko in LA – February 1, 2004)
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"Fucking hell! No! What's going on!? Who's in charge!?" - Steve, probably.
 
Kalata said:
Adrian smash the microphone with his guitar at the end of TNOTB solo, Lisbon 2013 (around 3:35 minutes)

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As much as H is my favourite guitarist, not just in Maiden but of all guitarists - he does tend to get pretty angry, especially on more recent tours.. Often you can tell if something's up, (tempo etc) or something, but this video he shreds an epic NOTB solo and no mistakes that I can hear, band sounds fine, and the last note he loses it and swings his SG into the mic stand and walks off.. What happened I wonder?
 
2M2M said:
As much as H is my favourite guitarist, not just in Maiden but of all guitarists - he does tend to get pretty angry, especially on more recent tours.. Often you can tell if something's up, (tempo etc) or something, but this video he shreds an epic NOTB solo and no mistakes that I can hear, band sounds fine, and the last note he loses it and swings his SG into the mic stand and walks off.. What happened I wonder?
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That's a perfectionist for you. Another indicator about Adrian's perfectionism is the video from last year's rehearsals, when he was in rehearsal studio by himself with Sean and Nathalie, perfecting the gain level for TWOTW intro riff.

Also, a lot of frustration can be atrributed to in-ear monitoring, which can't be heard.
 
2M2M said:
As much as H is my favourite guitarist, not just in Maiden but of all guitarists - he does tend to get pretty angry, especially on more recent tours.. Often you can tell if something's up, (tempo etc) or something, but this video he shreds an epic NOTB solo and no mistakes that I can hear, band sounds fine, and the last note he loses it and swings his SG into the mic stand and walks off.. What happened I wonder?
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Also, there were 2 more instances like this in the recent years. In 2018, he threw his main green Jackson at the ground in Munich (end of Wicker Man). Also in 2018, he smashed the headstock of the original #1 maple board Jackson at the end of Iron Maiden in Freiburg.
 
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