Should Maiden include an instrumental song in their next album?

As long as there is another album, which the band has said there will be...I'd be interested in an instrumental song.  Most instrumentals I either love or find very boring.
 
Yes, chances are slim. Pretty slim. Last time they mentioned an instrumental was the time of SiT recording sessions, and that turned out as instrumental part of Alexander The Great.

Nowadays they use those instrumental ideas and Steve incorporates them into longer prog pieces. So, if somebody comes with Genghis Khan type of demo, it's probably going to end in a complex song arrangement. They don't do 3-4 min standard songs or instrumentals any more because the way Steve arranges songs is quite different than it was 30 years ago.

So, only chance to get an instumental would be that someone comes with really strong material late in recording sessions, with no more verse riffs / ideas or lyrics left to arrange it in standard song. It could happen, but probably won't.

Today most of their album is done like this : Adrian comes with music, Bruce with lyrics, Steve arranges and fills in bits and pieces of both. So it's really a matter of the whole songwriting process scheme that leaves little room for stray instrumentals. And that process is really successful, i don't think they're about to tweak it.

Oh, and i'd like one instumental on next album. Possibly mid tempo Floydish piece type :)
 
Zare said:
Yes, chances are slim. Pretty slim. Last time they mentioned an instrumental was the time of SiT recording sessions, and that turned out as instrumental part of Alexander The Great.

Nowadays they use those instrumental ideas and Steve incorporates them into longer prog pieces. So, if somebody comes with Genghis Khan type of demo, it's probably going to end in a complex song arrangement. They don't do 3-4 min standard songs or instrumentals any more because the way Steve arranges songs is quite different than it was 30 years ago.

So, only chance to get an instumental would be that someone comes with really strong material late in recording sessions, with no more verse riffs / ideas or lyrics left to arrange it in standard song. It could happen, but probably won't.

Today most of their album is done like this : Adrian comes with music, Bruce with lyrics, Steve arranges and fills in bits and pieces of both. So it's really a matter of the whole songwriting process scheme that leaves little room for stray instrumentals. And that process is really successful, i don't think they're about to tweak it.

Oh, and i'd like one instumental on next album. Possibly mid tempo Floydish piece type :)
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Chances are you're 100% right. In fact, come to think of it, it would be good if they set out to write an instrumental song, but not the kind of song that could be fit into another one as an instrumental section. Kinda like what you mentioned, something "crazy"... nobody (I think) expected them to come up with a sci-fi, drum-machine driven, almost psychedelic song like "Satellite 15...". Something like that, at least in style.
 
Yes, the only way i see it is Adrian coming with full instrumental demo that Steve thinks it's good enough as-is, for the band to record it into instrumentation only track.
As Steve said in TFF Mission Debrief, Adrian comes with full demos while others tend to bring pieces (riffs / melodies) for Steve to arrange as he sees fit.
 
Adrian said (I believe around 10 or 11 years ago) that he wanted to record and release an instrumental (solo) album. Still not done. Maybe he is still saving his instrumental gems for that and not for Maiden.
 
He might be waiting for Maiden to retire, When you said 10-11 I thought early 90's. I'm still getting used to 2001 being 11 years ago. I think both Bruce and H are expecting Steve to retire fairly soon as they have been waiting to do solo projects.
 
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