the Iron Maiden method of songwriting

[Kalata]

I think Steve could consider Adrian's opinion a little more when it comes to production.

Yeah, but I wouldn't call Smith/Kotzen's production that different, to give a recent example. And Adrian was pleased with the latest album sound.

edit: here's what Adrian said about TBOS production (and about Bruce's vocals, he suggests some things to him):

''Some of the albums we’ve done in the past were a little bit under polished for me, to be honest. I like power and heaviness but I also like a little bit of delay on the vocals, stuff like that. I have to twist Kevin’s arm and sometimes we bump heads a little bit, but I’m really happy with the way that this album sounds. It’s the right blend of the rawness of the performance but with a bit of polish…and that was probably because I was bending his ear about it every five minutes [LAUGHS]''.

''It’s just his attitude really. He’ll never lower the fence, he’ll always just keep running until he can jump over it. He’ll keep battering it and battering it. I’ve suggested changing keys to songs on occasion but he’d rather just keep it up and go for the notes and he can still absolutely do it. It’s amazing, really''.

When did they actually stop recording section by section and went for recording live? Like what was the last album they recorded the old way? Did that change with Shirley joinig in the production?

It started with BNW album, iirc. I remember in the VXI epk documentary Nicko said that his parts were recorded first.

 

[TaaviMaiden]

I am not sure because I don't like Smith/Kotzen and avoid listening too closeley.
Regarding Senjutsu, I of course believe he liked it overall but but we don't know the details. He would hardly say publicly when promoting a new album that he thinks this or that should have been improved.

 

[dickinson1978]

I think you can see something in a AMOLAD dox