Replacing Nicko?

If Nicko couldn´t do 2025 tour, they will use a replacement drummer, because cancelling a whole tour just a few months before the start would be too much of a financial loss.

Also, as much as I love Nicko, he is just done... There is no way he can do the 80s catalogue justice one year from now. :(

His biggest problem after the stroke is not really the need to simplify the fills etc., but it´s sadly the most important thing for a drummer and that´s lack of groove. He sadly doesn´t have it anymore, because his limbs doesn´t work as they did pre-stroke.

The best example is the drum intro of "The Prisoner" where he plays the thing, but cannot find the right groove.
 
I would be disappointed if Iron Maiden went down in history as the nepotism band that chose the nephew over the most experienced and respected drummers.
 
Melony said:
I would be disappointed if Iron Maiden went down in history as the nepotism band that chose the nephew over the most experienced and respected drummers.
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What about Led Zeppelin?

Joe Lazarus may be Steve's nephew, but he'd be far from a nepo-pick. He plays Nicko's parts perfectly, and why would it be wrong to have someone who is already close and has a good chemistry with the band over some rando who barely knows them, or somebody more "experienced and respected" who wants to put their own stamp all over the music and not respect what came before?
 
Jer said:
They could pull a Mick Fleetwood and have Nicko on stage with the band, but a touring drummer behind the scenes playing everything you actually hear…
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Mick Fleetwood never did that. He used to have a percussionist backing him up onstage. That’s not a drummer. That’s a percussionist. Same as Ray Cooper used to back up Nigel Olsson and the other Elton John Band drummers.

Judas Priest however did have a second hidden drummer under the stage on the Fuel For Life (Turbo) tour.
 
BludBrutha said:
Mick Fleetwood never did that. He used to have a percussionist backing him up onstage. That’s not a drummer. That’s a percussionist. Same as Ray Cooper used to back up Nigel Olsson and the other Elton John Band drummers.
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Looks like a drummer to me.
 
Edington said:
What about Led Zeppelin?

Joe Lazarus may be Steve's nephew, but he'd be far from a nepo-pick. He plays Nicko's parts perfectly, and why would it be wrong to have someone who is already close and has a good chemistry with the band over some rando who barely knows them, or somebody more "experienced and respected" who wants to put their own stamp all over the music and not respect what came before?
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Good point, give the Laz a chance!
 
TAC said:
Is this true? I've never heard that before.
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I doubt it. They only sane move, had Holland been unfit, would have been to fire the guy and get one of the gazillion drummers ready to do the job.
 
No, not the nephew. Someone more spectacular for the best band in the world.
If there could only be good chemistry and respect for the style and legacy from a relative, pretty much all bands wouldn't work.
 
BludBrutha said:
Mick Fleetwood never did that. He used to have a percussionist backing him up onstage. That’s not a drummer. That’s a percussionist. Same as Ray Cooper used to back up Nigel Olsson and the other Elton John Band drummers.

Judas Priest however did have a second hidden drummer under the stage on the Fuel For Life (Turbo) tour.
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Why did priest have a second drummer?
 
Judging from the footage I have seen Joe Lazarus is a really good drummer.

If he is the right man to replace Nicko, if that ever becomes relevant, is hard to say, but he might. And I sort of think he is the one. Just a hunch.
 
Poto said:
Judging from the footage I have seen Joe Lazarus is a really good drummer.

If he is the right man to replace Nicko, if that ever becomes relevant, is hard to say, but he might. And I sort of think he is the one. Just a hunch
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The issue is whether Joe has the experience and the massive personality and confidence to pull it off at stadium and arena level. Locked into a band that plays like a freight train, Joe then has to drive it. He idolises them from a young age, and they are around twice his age.

It is not only a matter of technical competency (which he has). It is also about the intangibles. I doubt he'd freeze and fall apart on stage with maiden. Question I have is whether he can play with flair and confidence at the biggest level with unbearable pressure (including the pressure of expectation created by us lot, the legacies of Clive and Nicko, and the pressures of the biggest gigs of his life).

A lot to ask. He is a few years younger than me and is probably late 30s now. That's a lot of life lived with zero personal experience drumming for a truly top act.
 
Helmuth Von Moltke said:
The issue is whether Joe has the experience and the massive personality and confidence to pull it off at stadium and arena level. Locked into a band that plays like a freight train, Joe then has to drive it. He idolises them from a young age, and they are around twice his age.

It is not only a matter of technical competency (which he has). It is also about the intangibles. I doubt he'd freeze and fall apart on stage with maiden. Question I have is whether he can play with flair and confidence at the biggest level with unbearable pressure (including the pressure of expectation created by us lot, the legacies of Clive and Nicko, and the pressures of the biggest gigs of his life).

A lot to ask. He is a few years younger than me and is probably late 30s now. That's a lot of life lived with zero personal experience drumming for a truly top act.
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Very good points. Mikkey Dee, for example, would have a complety different tool box through his experience to deal with all of that.

And of course it would help that he is already respected and known and already has a lot of fans when announced as new Iron Maiden drummer.
Don't be naive , Steve.
 
DorotheaMe said:
Very good points. Mikkey Dee, for example, would have a complety different tool box through his experience to deal with all of that.

And of course it would help that he is already respected and known and already has a lot of fans when announced as new Iron Maiden drummer.
Don't be naive , Steve.
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If Steve is still sticking to his "must be British" stance that would leave out Mikkey Dee.
 
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