Simon Dawson is the new drummer

[CA Bryers]

Do you think Simon should/will play on a new album if there is one?

I was hopeful Nicko would drum on a possible future album, even with his lessened abilities. Now, I'm kind of hoping playing with Simon reinvigorates their creative juices a bit and drives them to want to make a new album. So far, Steve's been pretty noncommittal on the possibility of a new album. No disrespect to Nicko, he had a great 41 years, but I'd be interested to see what Simon would come up with on a new Maiden album.

 

[onurb]

I was hopeful Nicko would drum on a possible future album, even with his lessened abilities. Now, I'm kind of hoping playing with Simon reinvigorates their creative juices a bit and drives them to want to make a new album. So far, Steve's been pretty noncommittal on the possibility of a new album. No disrespect to Nicko, he had a great 41 years, but I'd be interested to see what Simon would come up with on a new Maiden album.

Maybe they end up doing something more straightforward, like a lot of people demands for decades, now that the "he sound like clive sometimes" hype has been built.

 

[OutwardFeller]

Nicko is definitely not in recording form. Actually you could hear him struggle with groove even on Senjutsu, which is quite weird as he was in killer form on LOTB 2019, his last truly good performing year.