Nicko McBrain appears in the French magazine Batterie issue 27/September 2006

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Nicko McBrain appears in the French magazine Batterie issue 27 September 2006.



The magazine features a short interview with the drummer where he answers several general questions.


Here’s a short summary:

Nicko explains he never really took drum lessons and learnt by listening other guys playing.

The drummer says he loves drum clinics and will keep on doing these especially when the audience is young (?).

When asked if he was still practising alone despite his huge experience, Nicko says he practiced alone these last 6 months, not because he needed but because he likes that  :yey:.

Interestingly, Nicko explains that Steve wanted a double pedal bass drum on “Lord of Light” (excuse my very poor English for the technical expression in music…) but Nicko didn’t have the time to train before the song would be recorded in the studio so he said to Harris "I can’t play it now, if you want this then go a get another drummer to play it". Finally Nicko managed to play the song the way he wanted and Harris forgot his initial idea.

General considerations follow all along the rest of the interview. Note that Nicko says his favourite song on the new album is “Lord of Light”.

The paper features the structure of Nicko’s drum kit and I post it here as I can imagine it is interesting for many of you ;).


I may post the whole paper later by updating this topic. -_-
 
JackKnife said:
Note that Nicko says his favourite song on the new album is “Lord of Light”.
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Ironic, for such a believing Christian to like a song about Lucifer!  :D
 
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Maverick said:
Now, get back to your Petri dish!  :D
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Hahaha Excellent  :yey:
...but isn't your answer some sort of cultural reference too  ;)
 
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JackKnife said:
...but isn't your answer some sort of cultural reference too  ;)
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As a microbiologist, I am familiar with all sorts of cultures.  ;)

Anyway, the song is about Lucifer. Or do you know any other light bringer? (yes, I know, he was also once called Prometheus  :innocent:)
 
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Maverick said:
Anyway, the song is about Lucifer.
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Actually I have to trust you because I still don't have the new album. I've got to wait till the end of the afternoon to go and pick it up.  :blueangel:
 
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Thanks JackKnife ! It's up on the news page.

Cheers
 
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Maverick said:
Anyway, the song is about Lucifer.
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Actually, it's quite probable, as he's mentioned in the lyrics... :innocent:
 
It's interesting that they didn't do that drumkit graphic very accurately. Nicko used eight toms for the recording of AMOLAD (and possibly on tour, didn't see the kit) and his cymbals aren't all Signature series...
 
He Who Must Not Be Named said:
Ironic, for such a believing Christian to like a song about Lucifer!  :D
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I think Nicko knows something about the song that those outside the band don't.  The Lord of Light isn't Lucifer.  The song mention's Lucifer, but points out that he was just an angel led astray.  Because he was led astray, he's not the one we're supposed to give our lives to.  We're also encouraged to give our sins to the Lord of Light.  All of this is consistent with the message of Christ.  In fact, it's pretty much the message that most people call "the gospel."  If you give up your sins and give yourself to the Lord, you will be set free.  That's probably why Nicko likes it so much imo :)  

The Pilgrim also has Christian themes, as does For the Greater Good of God.  I like the last song because it shows that God and religion are not one and the same.  Bruce says, "Religion has a lot to answer for."  Indeed it does.  Things done in God's name, however, rarely have anything whatsoever to do with God.  They often have more to do with human greed, violence and a desire to justify these things by claiming God's blessing...wrongly.  The actions of Christ on the cross, dying out of love to set us free from sin are contrasted to the actions of religious zealots who wrongly claim his blessing on their atrocities.

Many people don't know this but Bruce has an extensive history with Christ, and with religion.  His religious experience was so bad, however, that he began to doubt God.  His experience is very similar to Blackie Lawless of Wasp, and to my own.  I've arrived at the conclusion, like Blackie, that religion is man-made, and often extremely oppressive, judgmental, violent etc.  God, on the other hand is love, and I understand that this love was revealed to us in the person of Christ.  When I understand this, I have no problem giving my life to the Lord of Life, and being set free.  

Christ, after all, was accused of having a demon by the religious leaders of his day, and it was these leaders that wanted his death because he refused to recognize they represented God...because they didn't.  They were judgmental, and hyprocritical like too many religious institutions are today.

So, I'm into God, but hate organized religion.  I love heavy metal and Iron Maiden.  I think this is one of Maiden's best albums by far. Up the Irons!
 
interesting first post! At first I thought this was another pointless bump advertising some blog but this one has substance and an interesting look at the Religion aspect of A Matter of Life and Death as well as bringing in a new tidbit about Bruce that I certainly did not know about. Have a Praise! :ok:

Now as for your post, let me start by saying I am in fact a Christian. I too, hate organized religion pretty much for the same reason as you, but I believe in God and his teachings in the bible. That being said I'm not sure that all parts of the Bible are 100% accurate. Most of the Old Testament is teachings and proverbs handed down by many generations. Since the New Testament is mostly letters and actual accounts of experiences by real people, I find it easier to believe. Satan and hell itself isn't described to much extent in the New Testament making it hard to know exactly what the concept of Satan is. That is why when you tell a Christian who doesn't understand outside religion that Satan is the Lord of Light, they won't believe you as most people associate Satan with darkness. It is interesting to note that Satanism is a very peaceful, earth loving religion. The problem with it is that the deity is a symbol of evil. When people fall into this trap of peace and being of the earth (this is visited in Isle Of Avalon) they see Satanism as the correct way to go but in the end they are cast out to hell, according to the bible. Just like Lucifer who, legend has it, tried to find a universe better than the one that existed and rebelled against God to gain that.

The Lord Of Light is Lucifer. Give your life and be good to the earth and in return the earth will be good to you, free your soul from the grasp of God and you will be rewarded. Or so Lucifer says.
 
Isle of Avalon is a reflection of Celtic beliefs and has little, to nothing, to do with Christianity; Steve's written a gorgeous song espousing how ancient Celts believed the world worked.

I completely disagree with the statement that people outside Christianity won't believe that Lucifier is the Lord of Light. Anyone who is familiar with the legends Christianity is based on (specifically the post-Biblical incorporation of Satan into Christian mythos) is familiar with the concept that Lucifer is NOT Satan, but instead refers to the Morning Star, AKA, Venus (lucem ferre, quite literally, light-bearer, the Dawn Star that heralds the arrival of morning). Stars were believed by pre-Judeo people of the Middle-East to be divine; that Venus dipped below the horizon from time to time suggested that the divine body of that star-point was falling and rising. This is similar to other Mediterranean religions; indeed, the names of the planets as we now call them are taken from Roman gods, Romans believing those moving bodies were the gods themselves. This was simply transferred into Judeo-Christian myth when Romanticised after the (probably fictional or exaggerated) crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the spreading of Christianity by Saul of Tarsus.

In other words, if you are educated at all, you know the origin of the myth.

Edit: It should be FURTHER noted that Lucifer and Satan are not, Biblically, the same d00d. Lucifer in the Bible is only referred to Isaiah and Peter prominently; in one, the name is given to a King of Babylon likened to a fallen angel, and in the other, used to refer to Venus explicitly. The cohabitation of the names Lucifer and Satan do not occur until well after the editing of the Bible was complete, sometime in the 2nd century AD, and the Bible itself NEVER exclusively names Lucifer as the Adversary (to whom other names, such as Belial, Beelzebub, Satan, etc were given).

So, you could really...have a lot of fun with what this song is about.

Of course, as Maverick has pointed out in his fantastic commentary on this track, the song does follow the Lucifer-as-Satan legend.
 
LooseCannon said:
Isle of Avalon is a reflection of Celtic beliefs and has little, to nothing, to do with Christianity; Steve's written a gorgeous song espousing how ancient Celts believed the world worked.
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Right. I find Celtic beliefs, as far as the earth goes, being similar to what Satanists believe.  I'll reply to the rest tomorrow, I need to go to bed now.
 
The Knife Master said:
Right. I find Celtic beliefs, as far as the earth goes, being similar to what Satanists believe.  I'll reply to the rest tomorrow, I need to go to bed now.
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No. No no no no no no.

No.

Also, I edited my above post.
 
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