No Flight of Icarus?? why??

I don't know, it just seems unreasonable to believe that any of them would just plainly admit which song he hates. It's one thing to name a favourite to play, but telling the whole world that you dislike a song that many fans love... I'm not sure Rod Smallwood would have been happy to hear that. :D
 
Yax said:
Correct, Sweden Rock Magazine Iron Maiden special from 2006, when they were doing press at the recording studio for AMOLAD.
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All the way in 2006? Wow. Time flies. Do you happen to know the exact quote? Google's doing nothing for me.
 
From the top of my head (Not feeling like diving through my rather large stack of Sweden Rock Magazine issues), the interviewer had asked Steve about which album he liked the least. It was NPFTD, he felt it had some strong songs but maybe not strong enough. He asked Nicko and Jan the same thing when he interviewed them (interviewed the pair at the same time). Jan asked the interviewer if he had any kids and was like "which one do you love the least?", pointing at the difficulty of rating your own achievements that you are proud of. The interviewer mentioned Steve's response, which had Nicko's eyes widened (as they probably have an agreement as to not talk about least liked albums and whatnot) going "DID STEVE NOW? (By the way. Always been wondering, when quoting, should I have exlamation marks, punctuation, questionmarks etc after or before the quotation mark?). Well, I don't really have a least favorite album, but I do have a least favorite song. And it's The Flight of Icarus. It's my first single with the band but it is still my least favorite. Or it is at least today, I've probably changed my mind tomorrow! *laughs*".
 
I would love to see this song back in the setlist at some point, but realistically if it did not happen on the Early Days Tour or SBIT, it is probably not going to happen.
 
That went from 1:10 - 4:45, which puts it at 3:35. 15 seconds faster than the studio version.. not massively faster, and didn't feel that much faster to me either, the bit that felt most sped up was the "In the name of god my father i'll fly" (to me at least).

H isn't with him for that one, and we know (and I don't have a problem with) H likes to keep things fairly rigid and true to the studios, he doesn't adjust his solo's - hell he even plans them out :p

I guess it really depends just how much faster steve wants to do it...
 
There's a few measures more in the intro and the end chord is way longer as well.
So definitely one of the fastest versions.
 
The reason y 30 yrs. later I am a iron maiden fan today! I just logged in here and my first post. UP THE IRONS!
 
Ever since this thread was started, there's been this little thing constantly bugging me - I knew I had seen Steve saying somewhere that he wished the song had been recorded faster in the studio but I couldn't remember where that was. Well, I found it - it's actually on the Iron Maiden Commentary, where Steve is quoted saying "Looking back on it now we feel we could have played it at the faster speed on the album". I'm glad I can get that thing off my mind now. :)
 
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