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Iron Maiden

Великобритания

Heavy Metal

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24 апр 2025 :	BRUCE DICKINSON Says He Was 'Pleasantly Shocked' By IRON MAIDEN's First Rehearsal With New Drummer SIMON DAWSON
12 апр 2025 :	IRON MAIDEN To Begin Rehearsing With New Drummer SIMON DAWSON 'In A Couple Of Weeks': 'It Should Be Great', Says ADRIAN SMITH
20 мар 2025 :	ALICE COOPER Says IRON MAIDEN Should Be Inducted Into ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME: 'They Have Their Own Army Out There'
19 мар 2025 :	IRON MAIDEN's Aviationtag Celebrates History Of Band's Chartered 'Ed Force One' Plane
17 мар 2025 :	Official IRON MAIDEN Documentary Coming This Fall
15 мар 2025 :	IRON MAIDEN – Limited Edition Trooper Warrior Pack, The Ultimate Collector Set Available For Pre-Order
12 мар 2025 :	BRUCE DICKINSON Considered Quitting IRON MAIDEN In 2015 – “I Would Have Offered To Help Them Find Another Singer”
10 мар 2025 :	IRON MAIDEN: 'Infinite Dreams - The Official Visual History' Book Due In The Fall
23 фев 2025 :	IRON MAIDEN's DAVE MURRAY: 'We Will All Know' When It's Time To Retire
10 фев 2025 :	BRUCE DICKINSON Rules Out Using Backing Tracks At IRON MAIDEN Concerts: 'If It's Not Real, It's Not MAIDEN'
7 фев 2025 :	NICKO MCBRAIN Opens Up About Decision To Retire From Touring With IRON MAIDEN: 'I Wish I Could Still Play With The Guys'
4 янв 2025 :	BRUCE DICKINSON On IRON MAIDEN's 2025 Tour: 'We're Gonna Be Doing Stuff We've Never, Ever Done Before'
23 дек 2024 :	IRON MAIDEN’s ADRIAN SMITH Remembers Meeting DAVE MURRAY – “We Were The Only Kids In Our Neighborhood With Long Hair”
19 дек 2024 :	IRON MAIDEN's STEVE HARRIS: 'It's Amazing That This Band's Been Going For 50 Years'
13 дек 2024 :	IRON MAIDEN Guitarist ADRIAN SMITH On Writing "Wasted Years" - "If STEVE HARRIS Hadn't Heard It By Accident, I Would Never Have Played It To Him"
12 дек 2024 :	IRON MAIDEN Shares Video Recap Of 'The Future Past Tour'
11 дек 2024 :	CHRIS JERICHO Says NICKO MCBRAIN Has 'Earned His Right To Step Down' From Touring With IRON MAIDEN
11 дек 2024 :	IRON MAIDEN Pays Tribute To NICKO MCBRAIN In New Video Recapping His Final Concert
8 дек 2024 :	Watch: BRUCE DICKINSON Pays Emotional Tribute To NICKO MCBRAIN At Drummer's Final Concert With IRON MAIDEN
8 дек 2024 :
7 дек 2024 :	IRON MAIDEN's NICKO MCBRAIN Announces Retirement From Touring: Tonight Will Be 'My Final Gig' With The Band
3 дек 2024 :	IRON MAIDEN's 'Legacy Of The Beast' Mobile Game Is Coming To A Close
6 ноя 2024 :	BRUCE DICKINSON Was Willing To Help IRON MAIDEN Find 'A Great Replacement' If He Couldn't Sing Following His Cancer Diagnosis
3 ноя 2024 :	See IRON MAIDEN Perform In Philadelphia During Fall 2024 'The Future Past' Tour
2 ноя 2024 :	IRON MAIDEN's The Future Past World Tour Lands In Toronto; Fan-Filmed Video Of Entire Show Streaming
31 окт 2024 :	IRON MAIDEN’s Debut Album Hitting UK Charts For The First Time Following Death Of PAUL DI’ANNO

29 май 2020

ADRIAN SMITH On IRON MAIDEN's Three-Guitar Formation: 'If We Had Three YNGWIE MALMSTEENs, There Would Have Been A Fight After Five Minutes'

Chris Jericho of "Talk Is Jericho" recently conducted an interview with guitarist Adrian Smith of British metal legends IRON MAIDEN. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

On the "energy" that is often found at an IRON MAIDEN concert:

Adrian: "It's a different energy now because it's a much warmer — I remember in the '80s, it was a much more aggressive kind of vibe, touring with [JUDAS] PRIEST and SCORPIONS. The audience had a real crackle of danger about it, I think because young people are pretty out of it. There was a little bit of trouble here and there. Now, people are a lot older. Obviously, we're not going to be around forever. We're still rocking out pretty well, but you could feel the people, I suppose people wonder how we keep doing it. We're doing it at a pretty high level, I think, still, because we don't play every single night. We play two, three shows a week. We try to put the same energy into them, especially Bruce [Dickinson, vocals], who is pretty amazing. It's a different kind of energy now. I'd hate to say 'nostalgic' because we're still making new music, which is what I think is the lifeblood of the band, doing new music."

On whether the band is more likely to give each other space when making decisions, especially band leader and bassist Steve Harris:

Adrian: "Yeah, you definitely get older and a bit wiser. You get a bit more aware of other people as you get older, generally, and how they feel about things. I think it's a just natural thing. Yeah, there's a little bit more compromising in what we do, but I think we sort of the buy into the ethos of the band. We all got a much clearer idea of what it's all about, especially since I was out of the band for nine years. I came back with a different perspective. I can see it from an outsider's point of view. Whereas in the '80s, it was just album-tour-album-tour, there was no life outside of the band. It was difficult to get perspective."

On whether he was part of a "package deal" with Dickinson to rejoin MAIDEN in 1999:

Adrian: "Bruce surprised me sort of in the mid-'90s and he had written some songs with [producer/musician] Roy Z for his album with Roy. It wasn't his first solo album; [it was] around the 'Accident Of Birth' time [1997]. I really liked what they were doing. I just chucked my lot in with them and contributed a few songs and it went on from there to the next sort of three, four, five years. Then they wanted Bruce to come back. Blaze [Bayley] was fired from the band. I was playing with Bruce, then there was something in the air about me coming back, I thought, 'Maybe I'll do just one tour or come on for half the set.' [Laughs] I don't know. By that time, if you had asked me ten years before, I'd said, 'No. Probably never do it.' Things change. You get older and wiser. I thought it might be nice just to round it off. But, again, Steve, he does come out with some whacky ideas that at first, you think they're not going to work, so he suggested to guys, 'Why don't we have three guitars?' You can imagine what the room was like when he said that. [Laughs] Probably Dave [Murray] and Janick [Gers] looked at each other, like, 'What? 'LYNYRD MAIDEN.' But I joined up and we went down to Portugal to write some songs and I had the song 'The Wicker Man', I had the riff, and someone said, 'Has anyone got any new ideas?' I started playing that and then away we went. We never looked back."

On MAIDEN making the transition from a two-guitar to a three-guitar band in 1999:

Adrian: "Well, put it this way: If we had three Yngwie Malmsteens or three Ritchie Blackmores, there would have been a fight after about five minutes. But because Dave is one of my oldest friends — we've worked together for years — we know the score. Janick is a lovely guy. But I have to say Jan wasn't going to change what he was going to play. He's just very set in his ways. I sensed that immediately, so I started looking at different ways of doing things. I've been playing with drop-D tuning in Bruce's band, so I got used to that. When we first joined up, we played 'Wrathchild', I played it in drop-D tuning. 'Run To The Hills' was in D, so again, I tuned it down. It gave it a slightly different sound. I was bringing that in, playing lower octaves on the harmonies and stuff like that. I played a lot of stuff totally different than what I did when I was in the band before, which is quite interesting."

On Dickinson's 2014 battle with throat cancer:

Adrian: "It was awful. We got a phone call just before Christmas. Poor Bruce had this thing he had to deal with, but I don't know — I just had the feeling he would come through it because he's positive. I hardly ever heard him feel so sorry for himself or be negative. It's one of his strengths, although I can't possibly imagine what he went through. I thought he was going to be okay. And the foremost thing, we just wanted him to get better, then let it take its course. If we carried on, so be it. He's come back and he's absolutely throwing himself into the band again. The show, a lot of the stuff, he had a big hand in a lot of the props and the actual show aspect, apart from the singing. He's really brought out that theatrical side that he's got. He's absolutely loving it. He's like a kid in a sweet shop. With this set, musically, the set, it's really a lot of fun to play. The whole production has peaked on this tour even though we're at the veteran stage now. Certainly from my point of view, I never get complacent about it. I'm always trying to push myself a bit."

On whether he's in awe of the massive scope of MAIDEN's current live show:

Adrian: "Maybe when I'm older, I'll be sitting in my armchair and reflecting on it. I guess the songs they evoke sort of these feelings. They're pretty dramatic. That's the only way I could put it. They're just great fun to play live and I think the audience sort of gets into that as well. Yeah, certainly you do go through a lot of themes and playing a guitar solo with a spitfire [airplane] two feet from your head is quite a thrill, I tell you."

Last December, rumors spread that IRON MAIDEN had already completed work on a new studio album.

The British heavy metal legends haven't released any fresh music since 2015's "The Book Of Souls" LP, which was recorded in late 2014 in Paris, France with longtime producer Kevin "Caveman" Shirley.

If the reports of a new MAIDEN album are true, it will mark the band's 17th studio effort and the sixth to be produced by Shirley, who has worked with MAIDEN for the past two decades.

ADRIAN SMITH On IRON MAIDEN

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29 май 2020

Svarg_1349

В Мейден конечно все одинаково круты, но мой самый любимый гитарист это Дейв, а любимый вокалист Ди'Анно.

29 май 2020

antoner

При всём уважении,и даже при сакрально-мистическо-комической встречи мной Яника в чужой стране в церкви перед первым моим посещением концерта группы,я считаю что только Смит и Мюррей,только эта гитарная связка самая лучшая

30 май 2020

artyom

antoner, а можно поподробней историю встречи с Яником?)

30 май 2020

ufx

Да зачем вообще столько дрочеров грифа в одной группе? Одного вообще хватает. И клавишника. Хоффман из accept вон тоже биржу труда для них устроил. Да и в хэллоине такая же тема.

30 май 2020

Dem0niac

Как всегда - пример адекватных и доброжелательных воззрений. Мейдены совершенно уникальны в этом, редчайший случай.

30 май 2020

ufx

Кстати, давно у самого стива интервью не брали.

30 май 2020

hansi_hrb

ну в отличии от яника, смит крутецкий композитор. А яник наверное просто человек хороший и исполнитель.

30 май 2020

ufx

>>>>>смит крутецкий композитор
А мейден-это разве не театр одного актёра? Там кому-то ещё разрешено писать музыку?

30 май 2020

Dem0niac

ufx, посмотрите авторство песен. Там тот же Смит неплохо отметился и Дикинсон.
По крайней мере, в поздний период.

30 май 2020

Hellg

Смит написал 3 композиции из 8 с моего самого любимого у них альбома, Somewhere in Time. И мою самую любимую у Мэйден песню - Wasted Years.
Ему уже за это памятник можно ставить.

30 май 2020

kiol1

Третья гитара просто балласт. Никакого влияния на звук.

30 май 2020

ElectricRetard

Да хоспаде. В случае Мейденов 3 гитары это круто в том плане, что они все ужились и всем в кайф выступать. Там нахер не нужно от каждого какое-то доминирование видеть. Я напомню, у Within Temptation в официальном составе 3 гитары. Вот там реально хуй пойми зачем.

30 май 2020

father

ufx, вроде как только первые два написаны почти целиком одним Харрисом, а дальше сочиняли все, кто мог сочинять.

30 май 2020

ufx

>>>>Я напомню, у Within Temptation в официальном составе 3 гитары.

А не 2 гитары и клавиши?

Просто мужа Шерон мы не считаем. Он теперь домохозяйка. Если только сочиняет. А в живом составе 2 гитары. Хотя и 2 лишние. Там же дж-дж сплошные.

31 май 2020

Rus

Харрис всегда говорил, что сочиняет песни один. Если в авторстве указан еще кто-то другой кроме него, то , как он сам заявлял, скорее всего он в этой песне только лирику написал. Так как музыку там пишут все, кроме Нико, а лирику только Харрис и Диккинсон.

31 май 2020

gravitgroove

Rus, так и есть.
Мотив всегда обрастает оранжировками и дополнительными иедями: те же соло - заслуга остальных инструменталистов. Но Смит заметно стал вливать свои композиторские идеи начиная с Powerslave, сильно раскрышись, как вы знаете, на Somewhere in time (его увлечение АОР и прогом в 80-е). Те же мудро положенные гитарные синтизаторы и клавиши - его инициатива, если так можно выразится.
В плане того, кто из них лучший гитарист - очень сложно сделать выбор лично для меня, ибо каждый из них в определенный момент написал свои яркие и запоминающиеся мелодии: Мюррей мощно доминировал от первого до 3го альбома; на 4м Смит сравнялся с ним в хуках (одно его соло в "The Trooper" что стоит) возрастая с вышеупомянутого Powerslave по самый свой уход: Яник Герс тоже очень сильный и стильный мелодист: с ним музыка Maiden как никогда преобрела келтский колорит и стала более "мистическо" темной. Ну а по технике все как и прежде: Мюррей играет свои шустрые психоделические легато, порой немного небрежно, Смит - самый аккуратный, четкий и неторопливый, с сильным влиянием блюза, Герс - самый скоростной и стильно небрежный, что делает его соло так же крутыми. Само собой это для каждого по-разному и дело личного вкуса.

1 июн 2020

Kaval

Дэннис Стрэттон тоже хороший гитарист был. Его соло из Phantom of the Opera никто (ни Смит, ни Герс) толково потом переделать не смог. Если копнуть ещё глубже, то был интересный гитарист и Тони Парсонс. Великолепно играл лид-партию в Innocent Exile. На альбоме совсем не то.

А вот Яник очень интересно исполнял соляк в Wasted Years после ухода Эдриана. Советую послушать.