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Iron Maiden

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17 мар 2025 :	Official IRON MAIDEN Documentary Coming This Fall
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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'
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11 дек 2024 :	IRON MAIDEN Pays Tribute To NICKO MCBRAIN In New Video Recapping His Final Concert
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8 дек 2024 :
7 дек 2024 :	IRON MAIDEN's NICKO MCBRAIN Announces Retirement From Touring: Tonight Will Be 'My Final Gig' With The Band
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9 окт 2017

Former IRON MAIDEN Guitarist Says Band's Debut Could Have Ended Up Sounding Like QUEEN

Issue No. 4 of the newly launched Rock Candy magazine features an exclusive candid interview with former IRON MAIDEN guitarist Dennis Stratton in which he reveals how the band's debut could have ended up sounding like QUEEN.

Stratton told Rock Candy that the first IRON MAIDEN album could easily have been a much more sophisticated recording than the warts-and-all, New Wave Of British Heavy Metal classic we all know and love. And Stratton also reveals that it was only the band's manager, Rod Smallwood, who put a stop to the plan.

Released in April of 1980, "Iron Maiden" became a benchmark recording for a new style of metal that was harder, leaner and faster than the music being made by the stadium filling rockers of the '70s. Songs like "Phantom Of The Opera", "Running Free" and the title track have since achieved legendary status. But Stratton, now performing with LIONHEART, told Rock Candy that it could all have been very different.

"I took 'Phantom of The Opera', which was always a great song at its core, and added a load of harmony guitars and falsetto vocals to our basic recording," he explains. "The engineer helped me layer the sounds, adding track after track, and when we played it back it sounded like QUEEN. I thought it was fantastic. But when we were listening back to the track Rod Smallwood came up behind me in the control room. I didn't know he was there and at the end of the song he said, 'You can get rid of all that. It sounds like fucking QUEEN.' So it never made the cut. I'd still love to do a big, massive production of that song one day. I know it would be great."

Stratton was a member of MAIDEN for less than a year, but he nonetheless made a vital contribution to that classic first album.

"Rod didn't like the music I was listening to," says Stratton. "I'd be in my hotel room on tour listening to some David Coverdale or a bit of EAGLES or some George Benson and Rod would go potty. He said, 'If anyone heard you listening to that kind of music…' But how can you listen to MOTÖRHEAD twenty-four hours a day? You'd be deaf!"

Read the whole of this revealing article in Issue 4 of Rock Candy, available for purchase online at this location.

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Гопник.

>Но как можно слушать MOTÖRHEAD 24 часа в сутки? Ты ж сдохнешь!
Тащемта люто плюсую, но и радоваться, что твоя музыка выходит похожей на очень известного исполнителя, это тож не очень.

9 окт 2017

ironbaback

Совпадение . У Dennis Stratton сегодня днюха 59 лет.

9 окт 2017

gravitgroove

по-моему эту историю не знает лишь тот, кто начал слушать IM совсем недавно. Стреттон эту тему последние лет 30 в каждом интервью муссирует, но прилично хайпануть на этом так и не выходит у него.

9 окт 2017

decided

посмотрел на фотку, думал это вокалист из группы Nazareth )))

9 окт 2017

HELLECTOR

Тебе же ниже фото-подсказка, это гитарист Металлики!

9 окт 2017

grgr

///Но как можно слушать MOTÖRHEAD 24 часа в сутки? Ты ж сдохнешь!

Это про любого исполнителя можно сказать, в т.ч. про Мэйден.

9 окт 2017

Orgik

smallwood - звучит дико смешно, если вы понимаете о чём я... зря он послушал чувака с такой фамилией.

9 окт 2017

RomV

"Тебе надо от всего этого избавиться. Всё звучит как грёбаный QUEEN"
Отличная фраза, я б тоже так сказал. Плюсую Роду. Род знал что делать!

9 окт 2017

Kaval

Хотя что-то в бэках Стрэттона квиновское всё же было. Много фальцета есть на дебютнике Мэйдэнов. В той же Phantom of the Opera, Running Free.

9 окт 2017

flagofhate

Да Квины в семидесятых звучали помощней ранних Мэйденов! До 82-го года конечно)

10 окт 2017

Flashback

Включаем Praying Mantis образца 91 и дальше - вот музыка, которая по кайфу Стреттону. Мне тоже нравиться, но сравнивать с Мейденами, даже как то неудобно.