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Tääsä hienot synttäri onnittelut Jannelle!!
Piirakka naamaan päivänsankarille on tosiaan ollut Maidenilla perinteenä kautta aikainscorpions wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uAe2p5R ... n%20maiden
Tääsä hienot synttäri onnittelut Jannelle!!
. Tuo taitaa olla juuri siltä kerralta New Yorkista kun seuraavana päivänä Bruce liukastui siivoamatta jääneisiin kermavaahtoihin ja tipahti rumpujen päälle 
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Beavis & Butthead-jakso, jonka keskipaikkeilla hemmot arvioivat From Here To Eternityn videota.
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Bruce Dickinson - Delilah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP9GWmyz ... 0dickinson
Iron Maiden - Wildest Dreams (top of the pops)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffn-FXQUmCc&NR
Iron Maiden - Running Free (top of the pops)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPHOUgEd ... the%20pops
Iron Maiden - Revelations (Rock Am Ring 2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G6-7bN0 ... 0maiden%20
Bruce Dickinson - Delilah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP9GWmyz ... 0dickinson
Iron Maiden - Wildest Dreams (top of the pops)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffn-FXQUmCc&NR
Iron Maiden - Running Free (top of the pops)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPHOUgEd ... the%20pops
Iron Maiden - Revelations (Rock Am Ring 2003)
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Harmi vain että selvä playback.Stratocaster wrote:Oli kyllä mahtava veto! Yleisö tykkäsi, biisi helvetin hyvä ja meininki muutenkin katossa. HAIL ADRIAN!scorpions wrote:^Toi on kyllä kova veto Top of the popsissa villistä unelmista, vaikkei biisi niin loistakkaan.
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Tässä olisi vähän Rodin haastattelua kiinnostuneille!
The IMOC (Iron Maiden Fan Club) has managed to gather up some pretty interesting questions from the IRON MAIDEN fanbase around the world for manager Rod Smallwood. After some time, Rod has finally found the time to answer the remaining 15 out of a massive 20 questions. A few excerpts follow:
Question: Since you're on the road a lot with the guys, how does that affect your family and the life with them? Must be tough being apart for such an amount of time. I admire you and your business skills!
Rod: "The travelling and being away from the family isn't too bad. We don't tour now for the long periods we used to. I always go to the first few shows to ensure everything is working fine and looks good production-wise. We sometimes make adjustments to the set we play and the production during these first few shows as you don't always know what really works until you see/hear it, so l like to be there to supervise and have an input into that. From there on l will go out to most of the major gigs but of course the way we now tour they are nearly all major gigs. But we do keep to a sensible schedule as we don't want to burn out — every show is so important. In Europe we often fly back after the show going to the airport straight off stage so if we have say two gigs in Europe together l would for example leave home around 2 the day of the first show and be home say 2 in the morning the day after so the kids don't really notice l am gone especially if they are at school."
Question: As the manager of IRON MAIDEN what was one of your proudest moments of the band?
Rod: "It's obviously great to have No. 1 albums but l always get a much bigger kick out of the live end. In all this probably the proudest moment is unusual as it could have been so negative. This was when the band defied all the bullshit of turning off our PA and the wankers who were planted at the front to throw stuff at us at Ozzfest San Bernardino last year. Through all the interruptions the band stood their ground and ploughed on through the set despite all the distractions. All the crap just made them more and more angry and determined and the performance was immense, one of our best ever. I was also proud of the fans, the huge crowd who were also immense giving us incredible support and singing on, especially in 'Hallowed' after the power was cut one of the times. They were a credit to metal fans everywhere and showed what they thought of the pathetic antics by many leaving. Despite the frustration and bullshit there was no violence or stupid behaviour. l think the kids respected the fact that MAIDEN didn't want that and didn't want anyone hurt.
"Besides this, the most memorable shows are often the really big ones where a sea of people are getting off on the music. Normally l am on the mixing desk at our shows but at the big shows l go on stage so l can see the audience. It always makes me very proud to see the joy and commitment of so many fans. So l guess the top 3 of all these shows would be Donington 1988, Rock in Rio 2001 and Ullevi Stadium Gothenburg last year."
Question: What do you think the best lineup for IRON MAIDEN was?
Rod: "For me, the current lineup has to be the best as the music really does work with three guitars and it gives us such a big live sound. Also the chemistry within the band is really very good, everyone gets on well and have a lot of respect for each other's talents. All the key lineups had something different to offer but to me the band are at the peak of their powers right now. l thought we had a terrific band right from the beginning but l would never have thought in the early Eighties that we would reach our best 20 years later. l think the new album really demonstrates this. Not many bands manage a creative tour de force on their 14th studio album so far into their careers. It shows how much the band really want to do this."
6) From: WrathGirl666
Question: What was your reaction towards the b-side "Sheriff of Huddersfield"?
I was living in LA at the time and the band managed to have all my staff and all EMI put this together on the single without me knowing so it genuinely was a real surprise. The band all thought l should get back to the UK, which of course l later did having had a lot of fun in LA while being based there to beat up the label to break us in America, which we also managed to do (our label at that time Capitol was based there). l guess the single was an affectionate request for me to come home, though some of the other stuff is obviously libelous and legal action is still pending, although moments of revenge have appeared now and again over the years.
From: gor
Question: Will the smaller VHS releases be rereleased IN THEIR ENTIRETY? I am talking about Behind The Iron Curtain and 12 Wasted Years. Many fans want to have them on DVD as much as all the major VHS which are going to be transferred on DVD.
It is certainly our intention that these will both be used in the appropriate part of the history series along with a lot of other stuff too of course. We would expect to have part 2 available towards the end of next year.
9) From: CaMaiden
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10) From: The Artificer
Question: Hullo Rod: pleasure to talk to you. I live next to a village in Cheshire called ""Smallwood"" ). Anyway, my question is this: we all know the band like various sports and have hobbies like fishing, conjuring tricks and so on, but what does ROD do to chill out? What's your favourite pastime whilst trying to escape from the busy schedule of keeping those boys in order?
My family keeps me sane, my wife Kathy and four kids Tom 15, Ben 14, Laura 13 and Jake 9 - well, most of the time anyway. When l get chance l play golf occasionally (hopefully a few rounds with Nicko and Dave on tour) and every year l do a charity bike ride. These usually take about 10 days and so far l have undertaken these in Kenya, Russia, Egypt, China and Vietnam/Cambodia. It’s a real mental break and its great to see parts of the world we don't get to touring. Glad to say the band are generous sponsors!! My obsession is probably rugby. l used to play a lot but retired effectively when we really hit the road full on in the early eighties. I go to all the England home games and went to the World Cup final in Sydney in 03 - which of course we won!! Cricket is always a big interest too, especially being a Yorkshireman (had the great pleasure to spend time with Geoff Boycott last year - a great occasion!) Not much into football though much to Steve's bemusement - England world cup performance was as lame as l expected it to be. Bring on Martin Johnson!! Also an evening down the pub is always welcome of course but l was never much of a clubber. And like everyone else l probably spend too much time in the evening at home watching TV – some good current stuff is Boston Legal, Waking the Dead, CSI (but not Miami as they have that stupid girl in it) and especially My Name is Earl (if you haven’t seen it you have to check it out!). Looking forward to the new 24 DVD too.
11) From: Another Life
Question: Do you have any tatoo?
No l don't personally have any tattoos. l can appreciate some amazing artwork on people but its not for me. cant stand pain!! As you probably know Steve has a Trooper on his forearm and some others, Davey has some and Nicko has some cool oriental stuff but Bruce, H and Jan are bare like me.
12) From: Kevmisterg Question: What do you think the best line up for Iron Maiden was?
For me the current line up has to be the best as the music really does work with 3 guitars and it gives us such a big live sound. Also the chemistry within the band is really very good, everyone gets on well and have a lot of respect for each other's talents. All the key line ups had something different to offer but to me the band are at the peak of their powers right now. l thought we had a terrific band right from the beginning but l would never have thought in the early eighties that we would reach our best 20 years later. l think the new album really demonstrates this. Not many bands manage a creative tour de force on their 14th studio album so far into their careers. it shows how much the band really want to do this.
13) From: Suse
Question: Which was your most emotional moment with the band?
In 1988 we headlined Monsters of Rock at Castle Donington on the Seventh Son Tour. We had never played it before despite an offer every year. l wanted to wait until we could really make it something special. Kiss supported us which was great as we supported them in Europe in 1980 and got on really well with them. Also Dave Lee Roth, Megadeth and Guns n Roses so we put together a pretty good bill. Advance tickets were at a record breaking 75,000 the morning of the show and it was a glorious day. Incredibly over 30,000 more people turned up to get tickets on the day, so many that the promoter actually ran out of tickets and started using raffle tickets!! Everything was going well until later in the day when l was told that two young fans had tragically been killed when they fell in the crowd towards the front of the stage. Since then there have been many changes to the barriers and safety aspects of big shows but sadly these were not in existence at that time. l considered whether or not to tell the band but decided against it as it would serve no purpose and make it immensely difficult for them to play with their hearts in it which would let down an awful lot of fans. So l ensured there was no access to the band so they could not hear about this. The show was a major triumph. It was the first of our really big shows and l will never forget standing on stage seeing a huge sea of raised arms. Afterwards l went in the dressing room and understandably they were on a real high. Of course when l told them what happened to these 2 poor kids they were devastated. it was very emotional indeed. whenever we look back we think of those kids.
14) From: metal monkey
Question: Getting ready to head out and headline shows around the world, how do you go about selecting support bands, if any? Is that something the Maiden boys decide, a management decision, solely on the venue/fest? I would like to add that Maiden was awesome in Columbus, OH Aug 2 for Ozzfest. I was in the front rows, thank you so much for playing there.
For our own shows the band and myself decide who supports us often following proposals from our agent John Jackson . Of course l do try to use bands l am working with. Bullet for my Valentine are touring America with us - they joined Sanctuary a few months ago and l assist their manager Craig wherever l can. Trivium on the other hand l am not involved in. l became aware of them last year and approached them to do the European Tour as l thought they would be a band our fans would like to see and who would have had some success prior to the tour - which of course they have. We try to get great new bands and both of these l think are exceptional bands who will be flying the metal flag high for many years to come. We prefer to give relatively new bands a break rather than using ones who have been around a while and generally have had a shot. i think it gives fans value for money too and its great when fans of these bands in future years recall the first time they saw them was with Iron Maiden. Over the years many of our supports became hugely successful, like Metallica who did some Spanish shows with us, Motely Crue who toured Europe with us, Slayer who have played a number of times ,Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot who we took round America many years ago or Funeral for a Friend a couple of years ago. The list is endless after so many tours!
For festivals the promoter puts the bill together but we have approval of all the acts on our stage that day. We generally go along with them as most promoters do know what they are doing but if we think they dont fit musically we ask them to be changed. We try to be generous on this and its not often we would ask for a band to be removed as it can be a bit insulting to the poor band.
15) From: Really Ancient Marnr
Question: How difficult is it to manage Maiden's publicity with the image and beliefs they have. They shun publicity and the vast majority of TV networks and radio stations seem to be delighted with this as it gives them every opportunity to ignore the phenomenon that is Iron Maiden. As their manager does that get frustrating and difficult at times.
Yes l guess we don’t suffer from over-exposure!! I sit sown with the band and they let me know how many days l can have and l work out the best International schedule l can. This time it was 4 days plus 3 for video and photos!! But between them they covered about 120 interviews. They like recording and touring but after so many years of having to do it they hate doing videos, photos and interviews. We concentrate on the rock press as that’s what the fans read and it is fair that they know what is going on and what the band think of a new album, say. We don’t do profile press for the sake of publicity – no life style stuff, no reality shows and the like – and believe me we get a lot of offers. Usually it is not that we are ignored just we would rather use the time talking about the music than what we had for dinner and where Bruce is flying to next.
16) From: The Underdog
Question: Hi Rod! We all know 'Arry's the big boss in Maiden, but a lot of times you also have your say. Have there been times when you have had a serious conflict with Steve about something? Can you give us any examples?
We both have strong views so we are always arguing!!! Too many to mention!! In the end though we both want what is best for the band and generally whoever keeps going longest wins – out of sheer will power and belief. One lasted about 8 hours about Steve producing X-Factor as l thought he was taking too much on and wouldn’t be objecitive. I lost!!
17) From: mrpjambo
Question: How has the industry changed over the years & do you think that Maiden could have achieved the level success that they have if they had been starting out today?
Its changed massively. From a seven inch vinyl single and 12 inch album plus tour and a couple of T shirts to cd, dvd, video, online sales, all the web stuff etc etc bloody etc. There seems to be more interest in profile than content and the label talk is about “where to position an artist”. Bloody 'ell, position them on stage. There is just such a vast amount to deal with now it takes much of the fun away. If l was thinking about management now l would not do it – it’s a business now, a lot of the fun has gone. But a great band will always find success – l would hope.
18) From: Cads666
Question: Your house is about to swallowed up by the rising sea levels... you can take with you (apart from your family and pets!): What would you pick before losing them to Davey Jones' locker?
1 CD – Dark Side of the Moon (sorry l was a hippy!)
1 Book - Bill Bryon – A Short History of Nearly Everything – it would take me years to take it all on board but it is truly fascinating, Check out the section on particle physics – mind blowing (ok stop now – ed)
1 Film - Hard, The Godfather maybe. l never get bored with it, Apocolypse Now?
1 Item from your wardrobe – Don’t care
19) From: The Hammer of Thor
Question: What were the reasons that made you decide to become the manager of Maiden?
The songs, the playing and how they looked the audience (all 30 of 'em first time) right in the eye. The commitment!!
20) From: robert the clansman
Question: Hello to you Rod,
My question have you / band had to cancel a gig because of the weather, I am thinking back to Dynamo 2000 that was a crazy day.
I don’t recall ever doing that. If we did it would be safety reasons. I remember Dynamo though, l was on the mixing desk. Never saw so much rain and the lightning right behind the stage was immense.
AS THIS WAS LATE COMING TOGETHER HERE ARE A FEW EXTRA SHORT ONES!!
21) From: smokester
Question: Which album cover artwork is your favourite??
POWERSLAVE
22) From: aculard
Question: What to you has been your most favourite tour and most favourite album and why?
Album – the new one of course!! When you hear it you will know why. If not Piece of Mind Tour – Powerslave – it was just so spectacular and breathtaking with all the Egyptian imagery. Our old lighting guy Dave Lights put it together and it was inspired. One day we may take it out again!!!
23) From: Wetlandsorc
Question: What becomes of all the various Eddie props you've toured with over the years?
Mostly in Steve’s garden – if not our infamous warehouse – storage for the wild and wonderful.
24) From: meeshie
Question: Hello, Rod. Have you spoken to Patrick McGoohan since ""The Number of the Beast"" album or was that it?
That was it – great series!!
That’s it!!! Phones going again!!!!
Thanks to the IMOC and every contributor there for getting this out of Mr Smallwood!
UP THE IRONS!!!
The IMOC (Iron Maiden Fan Club) has managed to gather up some pretty interesting questions from the IRON MAIDEN fanbase around the world for manager Rod Smallwood. After some time, Rod has finally found the time to answer the remaining 15 out of a massive 20 questions. A few excerpts follow:
Question: Since you're on the road a lot with the guys, how does that affect your family and the life with them? Must be tough being apart for such an amount of time. I admire you and your business skills!
Rod: "The travelling and being away from the family isn't too bad. We don't tour now for the long periods we used to. I always go to the first few shows to ensure everything is working fine and looks good production-wise. We sometimes make adjustments to the set we play and the production during these first few shows as you don't always know what really works until you see/hear it, so l like to be there to supervise and have an input into that. From there on l will go out to most of the major gigs but of course the way we now tour they are nearly all major gigs. But we do keep to a sensible schedule as we don't want to burn out — every show is so important. In Europe we often fly back after the show going to the airport straight off stage so if we have say two gigs in Europe together l would for example leave home around 2 the day of the first show and be home say 2 in the morning the day after so the kids don't really notice l am gone especially if they are at school."
Question: As the manager of IRON MAIDEN what was one of your proudest moments of the band?
Rod: "It's obviously great to have No. 1 albums but l always get a much bigger kick out of the live end. In all this probably the proudest moment is unusual as it could have been so negative. This was when the band defied all the bullshit of turning off our PA and the wankers who were planted at the front to throw stuff at us at Ozzfest San Bernardino last year. Through all the interruptions the band stood their ground and ploughed on through the set despite all the distractions. All the crap just made them more and more angry and determined and the performance was immense, one of our best ever. I was also proud of the fans, the huge crowd who were also immense giving us incredible support and singing on, especially in 'Hallowed' after the power was cut one of the times. They were a credit to metal fans everywhere and showed what they thought of the pathetic antics by many leaving. Despite the frustration and bullshit there was no violence or stupid behaviour. l think the kids respected the fact that MAIDEN didn't want that and didn't want anyone hurt.
"Besides this, the most memorable shows are often the really big ones where a sea of people are getting off on the music. Normally l am on the mixing desk at our shows but at the big shows l go on stage so l can see the audience. It always makes me very proud to see the joy and commitment of so many fans. So l guess the top 3 of all these shows would be Donington 1988, Rock in Rio 2001 and Ullevi Stadium Gothenburg last year."
Question: What do you think the best lineup for IRON MAIDEN was?
Rod: "For me, the current lineup has to be the best as the music really does work with three guitars and it gives us such a big live sound. Also the chemistry within the band is really very good, everyone gets on well and have a lot of respect for each other's talents. All the key lineups had something different to offer but to me the band are at the peak of their powers right now. l thought we had a terrific band right from the beginning but l would never have thought in the early Eighties that we would reach our best 20 years later. l think the new album really demonstrates this. Not many bands manage a creative tour de force on their 14th studio album so far into their careers. It shows how much the band really want to do this."
6) From: WrathGirl666
Question: What was your reaction towards the b-side "Sheriff of Huddersfield"?
I was living in LA at the time and the band managed to have all my staff and all EMI put this together on the single without me knowing so it genuinely was a real surprise. The band all thought l should get back to the UK, which of course l later did having had a lot of fun in LA while being based there to beat up the label to break us in America, which we also managed to do (our label at that time Capitol was based there). l guess the single was an affectionate request for me to come home, though some of the other stuff is obviously libelous and legal action is still pending, although moments of revenge have appeared now and again over the years.
From: gorQuestion: Will the smaller VHS releases be rereleased IN THEIR ENTIRETY? I am talking about Behind The Iron Curtain and 12 Wasted Years. Many fans want to have them on DVD as much as all the major VHS which are going to be transferred on DVD.
It is certainly our intention that these will both be used in the appropriate part of the history series along with a lot of other stuff too of course. We would expect to have part 2 available towards the end of next year.
9) From: CaMaiden
Q
10) From: The Artificer
Question: Hullo Rod: pleasure to talk to you. I live next to a village in Cheshire called ""Smallwood"" ). Anyway, my question is this: we all know the band like various sports and have hobbies like fishing, conjuring tricks and so on, but what does ROD do to chill out? What's your favourite pastime whilst trying to escape from the busy schedule of keeping those boys in order?
My family keeps me sane, my wife Kathy and four kids Tom 15, Ben 14, Laura 13 and Jake 9 - well, most of the time anyway. When l get chance l play golf occasionally (hopefully a few rounds with Nicko and Dave on tour) and every year l do a charity bike ride. These usually take about 10 days and so far l have undertaken these in Kenya, Russia, Egypt, China and Vietnam/Cambodia. It’s a real mental break and its great to see parts of the world we don't get to touring. Glad to say the band are generous sponsors!! My obsession is probably rugby. l used to play a lot but retired effectively when we really hit the road full on in the early eighties. I go to all the England home games and went to the World Cup final in Sydney in 03 - which of course we won!! Cricket is always a big interest too, especially being a Yorkshireman (had the great pleasure to spend time with Geoff Boycott last year - a great occasion!) Not much into football though much to Steve's bemusement - England world cup performance was as lame as l expected it to be. Bring on Martin Johnson!! Also an evening down the pub is always welcome of course but l was never much of a clubber. And like everyone else l probably spend too much time in the evening at home watching TV – some good current stuff is Boston Legal, Waking the Dead, CSI (but not Miami as they have that stupid girl in it) and especially My Name is Earl (if you haven’t seen it you have to check it out!). Looking forward to the new 24 DVD too.
11) From: Another Life
Question: Do you have any tatoo?
No l don't personally have any tattoos. l can appreciate some amazing artwork on people but its not for me. cant stand pain!! As you probably know Steve has a Trooper on his forearm and some others, Davey has some and Nicko has some cool oriental stuff but Bruce, H and Jan are bare like me.
12) From: Kevmisterg Question: What do you think the best line up for Iron Maiden was?
For me the current line up has to be the best as the music really does work with 3 guitars and it gives us such a big live sound. Also the chemistry within the band is really very good, everyone gets on well and have a lot of respect for each other's talents. All the key line ups had something different to offer but to me the band are at the peak of their powers right now. l thought we had a terrific band right from the beginning but l would never have thought in the early eighties that we would reach our best 20 years later. l think the new album really demonstrates this. Not many bands manage a creative tour de force on their 14th studio album so far into their careers. it shows how much the band really want to do this.
13) From: Suse
Question: Which was your most emotional moment with the band?
In 1988 we headlined Monsters of Rock at Castle Donington on the Seventh Son Tour. We had never played it before despite an offer every year. l wanted to wait until we could really make it something special. Kiss supported us which was great as we supported them in Europe in 1980 and got on really well with them. Also Dave Lee Roth, Megadeth and Guns n Roses so we put together a pretty good bill. Advance tickets were at a record breaking 75,000 the morning of the show and it was a glorious day. Incredibly over 30,000 more people turned up to get tickets on the day, so many that the promoter actually ran out of tickets and started using raffle tickets!! Everything was going well until later in the day when l was told that two young fans had tragically been killed when they fell in the crowd towards the front of the stage. Since then there have been many changes to the barriers and safety aspects of big shows but sadly these were not in existence at that time. l considered whether or not to tell the band but decided against it as it would serve no purpose and make it immensely difficult for them to play with their hearts in it which would let down an awful lot of fans. So l ensured there was no access to the band so they could not hear about this. The show was a major triumph. It was the first of our really big shows and l will never forget standing on stage seeing a huge sea of raised arms. Afterwards l went in the dressing room and understandably they were on a real high. Of course when l told them what happened to these 2 poor kids they were devastated. it was very emotional indeed. whenever we look back we think of those kids.
14) From: metal monkey
Question: Getting ready to head out and headline shows around the world, how do you go about selecting support bands, if any? Is that something the Maiden boys decide, a management decision, solely on the venue/fest? I would like to add that Maiden was awesome in Columbus, OH Aug 2 for Ozzfest. I was in the front rows, thank you so much for playing there.
For our own shows the band and myself decide who supports us often following proposals from our agent John Jackson . Of course l do try to use bands l am working with. Bullet for my Valentine are touring America with us - they joined Sanctuary a few months ago and l assist their manager Craig wherever l can. Trivium on the other hand l am not involved in. l became aware of them last year and approached them to do the European Tour as l thought they would be a band our fans would like to see and who would have had some success prior to the tour - which of course they have. We try to get great new bands and both of these l think are exceptional bands who will be flying the metal flag high for many years to come. We prefer to give relatively new bands a break rather than using ones who have been around a while and generally have had a shot. i think it gives fans value for money too and its great when fans of these bands in future years recall the first time they saw them was with Iron Maiden. Over the years many of our supports became hugely successful, like Metallica who did some Spanish shows with us, Motely Crue who toured Europe with us, Slayer who have played a number of times ,Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot who we took round America many years ago or Funeral for a Friend a couple of years ago. The list is endless after so many tours!
For festivals the promoter puts the bill together but we have approval of all the acts on our stage that day. We generally go along with them as most promoters do know what they are doing but if we think they dont fit musically we ask them to be changed. We try to be generous on this and its not often we would ask for a band to be removed as it can be a bit insulting to the poor band.
15) From: Really Ancient Marnr
Question: How difficult is it to manage Maiden's publicity with the image and beliefs they have. They shun publicity and the vast majority of TV networks and radio stations seem to be delighted with this as it gives them every opportunity to ignore the phenomenon that is Iron Maiden. As their manager does that get frustrating and difficult at times.
Yes l guess we don’t suffer from over-exposure!! I sit sown with the band and they let me know how many days l can have and l work out the best International schedule l can. This time it was 4 days plus 3 for video and photos!! But between them they covered about 120 interviews. They like recording and touring but after so many years of having to do it they hate doing videos, photos and interviews. We concentrate on the rock press as that’s what the fans read and it is fair that they know what is going on and what the band think of a new album, say. We don’t do profile press for the sake of publicity – no life style stuff, no reality shows and the like – and believe me we get a lot of offers. Usually it is not that we are ignored just we would rather use the time talking about the music than what we had for dinner and where Bruce is flying to next.
16) From: The Underdog
Question: Hi Rod! We all know 'Arry's the big boss in Maiden, but a lot of times you also have your say. Have there been times when you have had a serious conflict with Steve about something? Can you give us any examples?
We both have strong views so we are always arguing!!! Too many to mention!! In the end though we both want what is best for the band and generally whoever keeps going longest wins – out of sheer will power and belief. One lasted about 8 hours about Steve producing X-Factor as l thought he was taking too much on and wouldn’t be objecitive. I lost!!
17) From: mrpjambo
Question: How has the industry changed over the years & do you think that Maiden could have achieved the level success that they have if they had been starting out today?
Its changed massively. From a seven inch vinyl single and 12 inch album plus tour and a couple of T shirts to cd, dvd, video, online sales, all the web stuff etc etc bloody etc. There seems to be more interest in profile than content and the label talk is about “where to position an artist”. Bloody 'ell, position them on stage. There is just such a vast amount to deal with now it takes much of the fun away. If l was thinking about management now l would not do it – it’s a business now, a lot of the fun has gone. But a great band will always find success – l would hope.
18) From: Cads666
Question: Your house is about to swallowed up by the rising sea levels... you can take with you (apart from your family and pets!): What would you pick before losing them to Davey Jones' locker?
1 CD – Dark Side of the Moon (sorry l was a hippy!)
1 Book - Bill Bryon – A Short History of Nearly Everything – it would take me years to take it all on board but it is truly fascinating, Check out the section on particle physics – mind blowing (ok stop now – ed)
1 Film - Hard, The Godfather maybe. l never get bored with it, Apocolypse Now?
1 Item from your wardrobe – Don’t care
19) From: The Hammer of Thor
Question: What were the reasons that made you decide to become the manager of Maiden?
The songs, the playing and how they looked the audience (all 30 of 'em first time) right in the eye. The commitment!!
20) From: robert the clansman
Question: Hello to you Rod,
My question have you / band had to cancel a gig because of the weather, I am thinking back to Dynamo 2000 that was a crazy day.
I don’t recall ever doing that. If we did it would be safety reasons. I remember Dynamo though, l was on the mixing desk. Never saw so much rain and the lightning right behind the stage was immense.
AS THIS WAS LATE COMING TOGETHER HERE ARE A FEW EXTRA SHORT ONES!!
21) From: smokester
Question: Which album cover artwork is your favourite??
POWERSLAVE
22) From: aculard
Question: What to you has been your most favourite tour and most favourite album and why?
Album – the new one of course!! When you hear it you will know why. If not Piece of Mind Tour – Powerslave – it was just so spectacular and breathtaking with all the Egyptian imagery. Our old lighting guy Dave Lights put it together and it was inspired. One day we may take it out again!!!
23) From: Wetlandsorc
Question: What becomes of all the various Eddie props you've toured with over the years?
Mostly in Steve’s garden – if not our infamous warehouse – storage for the wild and wonderful.
24) From: meeshie
Question: Hello, Rod. Have you spoken to Patrick McGoohan since ""The Number of the Beast"" album or was that it?
That was it – great series!!
That’s it!!! Phones going again!!!!
Thanks to the IMOC and every contributor there for getting this out of Mr Smallwood!
UP THE IRONS!!!
Tupla!
Tässä asiassa olisi kyllä Rod saanut voittaa, hmm X-Factor kunnon saundeilla.
Question: Hi Rod! We all know 'Arry's the big boss in Maiden, but a lot of times you also have your say. Have there been times when you have had a serious conflict with Steve about something? Can you give us any examples?
We both have strong views so we are always arguing!!! Too many to mention!! In the end though we both want what is best for the band and generally whoever keeps going longest wins – out of sheer will power and belief. One lasted about 8 hours about Steve producing X-Factor as l thought he was taking too much on and wouldn’t be objecitive. I lost!!
Ai ai tämä kun toteutuisi...
Question: What to you has been your most favourite tour and most favourite album and why?
Album – the new one of course!! When you hear it you will know why. If not Piece of Mind Tour – Powerslave – it was just so spectacular and breathtaking with all the Egyptian imagery. Our old lighting guy Dave Lights put it together and it was inspired. One day we may take it out again!!!
Tässä asiassa olisi kyllä Rod saanut voittaa, hmm X-Factor kunnon saundeilla.
Question: Hi Rod! We all know 'Arry's the big boss in Maiden, but a lot of times you also have your say. Have there been times when you have had a serious conflict with Steve about something? Can you give us any examples?
We both have strong views so we are always arguing!!! Too many to mention!! In the end though we both want what is best for the band and generally whoever keeps going longest wins – out of sheer will power and belief. One lasted about 8 hours about Steve producing X-Factor as l thought he was taking too much on and wouldn’t be objecitive. I lost!!
Ai ai tämä kun toteutuisi...
Question: What to you has been your most favourite tour and most favourite album and why?
Album – the new one of course!! When you hear it you will know why. If not Piece of Mind Tour – Powerslave – it was just so spectacular and breathtaking with all the Egyptian imagery. Our old lighting guy Dave Lights put it together and it was inspired. One day we may take it out again!!!
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Here is an interview that was made on June 28th with Adrian and Dave by spanish journalist Héctor Prat. Enjoy!
Adrian Smith and Dave Murray. Exclusive interview in London. www.rafabasa.com
With a single listening of A Matter Of Life And Death, i wanted congratullate by the album, although I have not found it easy to listen, as it does not catch you at first. He is very dangerous, progressive and experimental. Do you feel the same?
Adrian Smith: Yes, you have said the exact words. It is an different album from which people expect from us. There is much to discover in the first listening, which is not easy to assimilate. We are very proud of it. We wanted to work in something in which we were really interested, and with "A Matter Of Life And Death" we achieved it.
The best way for you would have been to published another "The Number Of The Beast", even another "Brave New World".
Adrian Smith: Yes, without a doubt it would be the easy way. With this new album without a doubt we showed a new IRON MAIDEN, with hardly accessible songs, strongly progressive.
Dave Murray: You know, people grows, changes. I find interesting to be a progressive, complicated group. The songs are not easy to play, everything is a challenge for me as a musician. Of course, as it happens to many albums, it is difficult to assimilate it on the first listening, but as you get introduced to the melodies you'll end up enjoying it.
Adrian Smith: Although it seems a complicated album, is a full hymns disc, i hope that be memorable. I can imagine the audience singing it straight away.
Speaking of the straight way, do you think that it will be easy to export all the sound, mood and instrumentation straigh away, will be easy to interpret? And sincerely do you see people singing and jumping?
Dave Murray: Yes, it is something inherent to Maiden fans. Still and thus I do not believe that it will be the typical concert where people become crazy and end up with a pain on the neck, but but I believe that the performance will be more powerful, dramatic, and of course we will be there for making that people enjoy the maximum of it.
In "A Matter Of Life And Death" there are few songs that can be played on the radio, or which can attract new fans. One of these would be "Different World". Which is the song you feel more proud and which one you think that will be sung by the audience from the start?
Adrian Smith: Yes, "Different World" is the song more easily accessible, and surely the one that more will be sung in direct. I cannot say a song of which i feel proud, because I feel proud of many of them, like "Out Of The Shadows", "The Legacy" or "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Bregg", powerful and with unusual chords.
Dave Murray: It is a varied album, with more direct parts, and their more complex and progressive parts, ballads... We are very proud of the whole the album.
Indeed with "Out Of The Shadows", and in special its instrumental part, you have been able to surprise to me as i thought that no longer you would be able to do it. If you were looking to surprise, you did it.
Dave Murray: Yes, it happened so while we were recording, which thus you have liked?
Adrian Smith: Are you talking about the instrumental part that we play in the middle of the song?
Yes, exactly. It is completely different from what i listened in Maiden up 'til now.
Dave Murray: Yes! There are many things in this album that you don't expect of IRON MAIDEN. That's what makes the album very interesting, which causes that on the first listening it can explode in your head.
On the album we discovered a new dimension in the sound and the way of composing of IRON MAIDEN. Do you think that still you have something to learn like musicians?
Adrian Smith: Of course, we are always learning. He is interesting to play new things, to write more complex material. I never liked progressive rock when i was young. When you create your own style it beams with more direct groups like Thin Lizzy. But to write complex music is easier, there are no rules, i believe that is more complicated to obtain a specific riff, that hooks, rocker without ending up being very pop.
You are saying that it is easier to compose a progressive album of long songs than one with direct and catchy songs?
Adrian Smith: Yes. When i was young, as I have commented to you, i listened groups like Thin Lizzy or UFO. They influenced me to try and write accessible songs and easier to listen to them. But this way you feel froze, very forced to do it when composing. Now I write on the opposite way completely, letting the music flow, without barriers, which makes easier and natural.
You have never composed a song together. There are no songs in " A Matter Of Life And Death" in which they have taken part more than one guitarist. Is always the guitarist of the turn and Steve Harris, then with Bruce Dickinson in some occasions. There is some explanation for this?
Adrian Smith: Yes, we have tried to sit and write together, but always we end up playing blues or things of the sort.
Dave Murray: (Laughter). Yes, it is certain.
Adrian Smith: Is complicated. However with Steve and Bruce always there is a kind of tension, to finish things quickly and well done. Dave and I get on very well, and we like to chat a lot. With Janick it is not possible either because he is too relaxed.
Perhaps too calm like composing with him.
Adrian Smith: Yes (laughter), too much.
Dave Murray: It goes very well to work with Steve or Bruce. Sometimes the voices come with a new melody. With Adrian, we play guitar together very well, but at the time of composing at the moment we will follow thus, although one never knows that it will wait to us in the future.
Adrian Smith: If you look to the past, in the history, you will see as this way to compose is often repeated, as for example it happened to Led Zeppelin. It is always easier to work with a guitarist and the singer, is the most classic way to compose. When the guitarist composes, he urges the vocalist to sing, to create a melody.
And how it was to record so complex songs almost in a single take, with the group playing together and in direct in the studio? It seems a method more applicable to albums like "The Number Of The Beast".
Dave Murray: From our first album we like to record as if we were playing live. We like the visual contact in the studio. This is the way as it would have always be recorded. Music nowadays has much dependency on computers. We of course used it, but not in the recording process, we made it in the traditional way. In fact for us now it would be very complicated to record separately, sat each one in a single room. When you record a song you have it to interpret together. The songs need this movement, not a metronome.
This way to record is reflected on the final result of the album? Can you distinguish when an album has been recorded with the musicians separately?
Dave Murray: Yes, of course it is possible to distinguish when the instruments have been recorded separately and packed. In IRON MAIDEN however the recording is 'old school' (laughter).
About Kevin Shirley. He is responsible for your new musical direction?
Adrian Smith: Yes, partly I believe that yes. To work with him is different. He works much with the technology but at the same time he likes that the group play its music, in an organic, natural way. And he likes to quickly obtain the results, until the point of the impatience. He gets a great sound in an almost spontaneous way. We are not a group of great productions. Well, "A Matter Of Life And Death" yes it can sound like a super-production, but if you look back and listen what we did with Martin Birch, you will see that it sounds very direct and present. We used neither metronomes or big machines. Much of the music of the eighty now sounds old fashioned, basically because it abused clichés. However, much of what we did twenty years back as what we can play nowadays on the scene will be never sound out of place.
Speaking of the sound of the productions of Martín Birch, you know that there are many fans that misses it. What would you say to them? After listening "A Matter Of Life And Death" I doubt that you reconquer them.
Dave Murray: They would have to give it a try. You cannot try to sound like the eighty all life. Obvious those albums sounded more direct, were more easily assimilable. Now the productions are more elaborated, we want to have a 2006 sound. With Kevin Shirley we have another identity, we sound fresh, and we took advantage of the technology of nowadays.
Still and thus you are conscious that many followers of the group (at least old followers) dislike the course undertaken by the band, of the new productions, the new album covers...
Adrian Smith: Yes, fans of heavy, specially those of Maiden have very diverse and enthusiastic opinions.
Love 'em or hate 'em.
Dave Murray: Exact! There is no average term.
Adrian Smith: It is normal that these things happen when you are successful.
Still and thus you know that your fans defends you almost with as much force as your detractors criticize to you.
Dave Murray: Yes, without a doubt they are the best ones. But really we did not pay much attention to the critics.
They are your gasoline nowadays? You have a great standard of life, a superb status within music. You do not need more money to live calmly. It is by them who you take this risk? Because "A Matter Of Life And Death" is a dangerous album. What is your motivation to follow ahead?
Adrian Smith: For us is very rewarding to be in a position in which we sell all the tickets of our concerts, but also is motivating to record the album that you want to record and the way that you want. To really do what you want, this is the best position that one can be. We like to raise us the scene, to work hard. This is our gasoline, the motivation in itself.
A simple question but I must do. What hides behind the title "A Matter Of Life And Death"?
(I still stare Dave Murray that does not respond to me)
You do not know the answer (i ask Dave Murray)?
Dave Murray: Yes, yes, i was thinking about the answer....(laughs)
Adrian Smith: I asnwer this for you (laughs). The album deals with many subjects: war, religion, conflicts, all these things. We do not want to get anybody depressed, but when we compose music the letters flowed by themselves. A matter of life or death (laughter).
Dave Murray: There are some who says that behind the title hides the soccer (laughs).
Adrian Smith: Yes! Everything comes around because there was a trainer of Liverpool, Bill Shankly, that said "soccer once is not a question of life or death, is more important that it". It could certainly have connection, yes.
Dave Murray: Certainly it is a great title, gathers perfectly what hides the content of the album: war, religion... But are many more things that are a question of life or death also. The title can be applied to many situations of life...., of death... or of matter (laughter)
We can wait for a stage scenario in the "Paschendale" style on the "Dance Of Death" tour?
Adrian Smith: It would be great either, it would fit very well with the new subjects.
Because listening to the new album, with its long compositions and instrumental moments, it seems obligatory to accompany it a great stage scene, of a great assembly a-la-Maiden.
Dave Murray: Completely in agreement. In fact we are planning a great show, great, great spectacle. We don't know yet what scene is definitively going to be , but we will emphasize much visually. Surely that will be explosive, people will return to house with the eyes like plates.
And covered in blood.
Dave Murray: (laughs) Completely.
In reference to the set list, we can wait for few surprises, i imagine. For that enough the tour of "Early Days".
Adrian Smith: You talk about playing old songs?
Yes, but not typical that of always.
Adrian Smith: Yes, the tour of "Early Days" was made partly for that reason. But surely we will play old material. Right now we do not know which will be those songs, but i'm sure that an idea is already made. In all ways, and obviously, the concert will be based on "A Matter Of Life And Death".
After the tour of "Dance Of Death" you announced that you would not return to make great tours, that would only play in great venues or summer festivals. Nevertheless you embark on another tour through theaters, shorter than usual, yes. Is this your way of dealing things with more calm?
Adrian Smith: Yes, definitively. In the past we made tours of 12 or 13 months. After 6 months almost you do not know nor where you ggoing to play, everything becomes very automatic. With this type of tour which we undertake we enjoyed every second, each concert is intense, precious. With time you realise that you prefer the quality over quantity.
Personal commentary: thanks to come to Barcelona.
Dave Murray: Right! We played in Barcelona! Will you coming to see us?
Of course, for the fifth time.
Dave Murray: Then we see ourselves there (laughs).
What you can say of the features of the singles b-sides? I have understood that they will be basically cover versions.
Adrian Smith: Yes, they are a tribute to the groups that have influenced us in the 70's. Simply they are some songs recorded very quickly.
Like all the album. Problems with schedule or desire to finish?
Dave Murray: It happened this way. It has been a natural process, the way in which we have played the songs in the studio. It is not that we have set out to go fast, we never said ourselves "come on, hurry up, hurry up". We simply have been very concentrated and fresh, and things came out like this. Kevin Shirley also has collaborated with its mixings, have been a multitude of factors that have favored to all come out so fast one and well. A luck.
There are constants rumors about your separation. In fact several radios already have commented that you will separate after this tour. Some message to calm down your followers?
Dave Murray: Commentaries as such are always heard . It seems that there are people wishing that we split up. No, we have a new album in the market, a tour, festivals... I am wishing to go out on tour to show this album, will be a great celebration. We are not going to hang the guitars still. We have some years left ahead, we will become old men still running on the scene (laughs).
I hope it last, thanks for your time.
Thank you, we see ourselves in Barcelona.
Here is an interview that was made on June 28th with Adrian and Dave by spanish journalist Héctor Prat. Enjoy!
Adrian Smith and Dave Murray. Exclusive interview in London. www.rafabasa.com
With a single listening of A Matter Of Life And Death, i wanted congratullate by the album, although I have not found it easy to listen, as it does not catch you at first. He is very dangerous, progressive and experimental. Do you feel the same?
Adrian Smith: Yes, you have said the exact words. It is an different album from which people expect from us. There is much to discover in the first listening, which is not easy to assimilate. We are very proud of it. We wanted to work in something in which we were really interested, and with "A Matter Of Life And Death" we achieved it.
The best way for you would have been to published another "The Number Of The Beast", even another "Brave New World".
Adrian Smith: Yes, without a doubt it would be the easy way. With this new album without a doubt we showed a new IRON MAIDEN, with hardly accessible songs, strongly progressive.
Dave Murray: You know, people grows, changes. I find interesting to be a progressive, complicated group. The songs are not easy to play, everything is a challenge for me as a musician. Of course, as it happens to many albums, it is difficult to assimilate it on the first listening, but as you get introduced to the melodies you'll end up enjoying it.
Adrian Smith: Although it seems a complicated album, is a full hymns disc, i hope that be memorable. I can imagine the audience singing it straight away.
Speaking of the straight way, do you think that it will be easy to export all the sound, mood and instrumentation straigh away, will be easy to interpret? And sincerely do you see people singing and jumping?
Dave Murray: Yes, it is something inherent to Maiden fans. Still and thus I do not believe that it will be the typical concert where people become crazy and end up with a pain on the neck, but but I believe that the performance will be more powerful, dramatic, and of course we will be there for making that people enjoy the maximum of it.
In "A Matter Of Life And Death" there are few songs that can be played on the radio, or which can attract new fans. One of these would be "Different World". Which is the song you feel more proud and which one you think that will be sung by the audience from the start?
Adrian Smith: Yes, "Different World" is the song more easily accessible, and surely the one that more will be sung in direct. I cannot say a song of which i feel proud, because I feel proud of many of them, like "Out Of The Shadows", "The Legacy" or "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Bregg", powerful and with unusual chords.
Dave Murray: It is a varied album, with more direct parts, and their more complex and progressive parts, ballads... We are very proud of the whole the album.
Indeed with "Out Of The Shadows", and in special its instrumental part, you have been able to surprise to me as i thought that no longer you would be able to do it. If you were looking to surprise, you did it.
Dave Murray: Yes, it happened so while we were recording, which thus you have liked?
Adrian Smith: Are you talking about the instrumental part that we play in the middle of the song?
Yes, exactly. It is completely different from what i listened in Maiden up 'til now.
Dave Murray: Yes! There are many things in this album that you don't expect of IRON MAIDEN. That's what makes the album very interesting, which causes that on the first listening it can explode in your head.
On the album we discovered a new dimension in the sound and the way of composing of IRON MAIDEN. Do you think that still you have something to learn like musicians?
Adrian Smith: Of course, we are always learning. He is interesting to play new things, to write more complex material. I never liked progressive rock when i was young. When you create your own style it beams with more direct groups like Thin Lizzy. But to write complex music is easier, there are no rules, i believe that is more complicated to obtain a specific riff, that hooks, rocker without ending up being very pop.
You are saying that it is easier to compose a progressive album of long songs than one with direct and catchy songs?
Adrian Smith: Yes. When i was young, as I have commented to you, i listened groups like Thin Lizzy or UFO. They influenced me to try and write accessible songs and easier to listen to them. But this way you feel froze, very forced to do it when composing. Now I write on the opposite way completely, letting the music flow, without barriers, which makes easier and natural.
You have never composed a song together. There are no songs in " A Matter Of Life And Death" in which they have taken part more than one guitarist. Is always the guitarist of the turn and Steve Harris, then with Bruce Dickinson in some occasions. There is some explanation for this?
Adrian Smith: Yes, we have tried to sit and write together, but always we end up playing blues or things of the sort.
Dave Murray: (Laughter). Yes, it is certain.
Adrian Smith: Is complicated. However with Steve and Bruce always there is a kind of tension, to finish things quickly and well done. Dave and I get on very well, and we like to chat a lot. With Janick it is not possible either because he is too relaxed.
Perhaps too calm like composing with him.
Adrian Smith: Yes (laughter), too much.
Dave Murray: It goes very well to work with Steve or Bruce. Sometimes the voices come with a new melody. With Adrian, we play guitar together very well, but at the time of composing at the moment we will follow thus, although one never knows that it will wait to us in the future.
Adrian Smith: If you look to the past, in the history, you will see as this way to compose is often repeated, as for example it happened to Led Zeppelin. It is always easier to work with a guitarist and the singer, is the most classic way to compose. When the guitarist composes, he urges the vocalist to sing, to create a melody.
And how it was to record so complex songs almost in a single take, with the group playing together and in direct in the studio? It seems a method more applicable to albums like "The Number Of The Beast".
Dave Murray: From our first album we like to record as if we were playing live. We like the visual contact in the studio. This is the way as it would have always be recorded. Music nowadays has much dependency on computers. We of course used it, but not in the recording process, we made it in the traditional way. In fact for us now it would be very complicated to record separately, sat each one in a single room. When you record a song you have it to interpret together. The songs need this movement, not a metronome.
This way to record is reflected on the final result of the album? Can you distinguish when an album has been recorded with the musicians separately?
Dave Murray: Yes, of course it is possible to distinguish when the instruments have been recorded separately and packed. In IRON MAIDEN however the recording is 'old school' (laughter).
About Kevin Shirley. He is responsible for your new musical direction?
Adrian Smith: Yes, partly I believe that yes. To work with him is different. He works much with the technology but at the same time he likes that the group play its music, in an organic, natural way. And he likes to quickly obtain the results, until the point of the impatience. He gets a great sound in an almost spontaneous way. We are not a group of great productions. Well, "A Matter Of Life And Death" yes it can sound like a super-production, but if you look back and listen what we did with Martin Birch, you will see that it sounds very direct and present. We used neither metronomes or big machines. Much of the music of the eighty now sounds old fashioned, basically because it abused clichés. However, much of what we did twenty years back as what we can play nowadays on the scene will be never sound out of place.
Speaking of the sound of the productions of Martín Birch, you know that there are many fans that misses it. What would you say to them? After listening "A Matter Of Life And Death" I doubt that you reconquer them.
Dave Murray: They would have to give it a try. You cannot try to sound like the eighty all life. Obvious those albums sounded more direct, were more easily assimilable. Now the productions are more elaborated, we want to have a 2006 sound. With Kevin Shirley we have another identity, we sound fresh, and we took advantage of the technology of nowadays.
Still and thus you are conscious that many followers of the group (at least old followers) dislike the course undertaken by the band, of the new productions, the new album covers...
Adrian Smith: Yes, fans of heavy, specially those of Maiden have very diverse and enthusiastic opinions.
Love 'em or hate 'em.
Dave Murray: Exact! There is no average term.
Adrian Smith: It is normal that these things happen when you are successful.
Still and thus you know that your fans defends you almost with as much force as your detractors criticize to you.
Dave Murray: Yes, without a doubt they are the best ones. But really we did not pay much attention to the critics.
They are your gasoline nowadays? You have a great standard of life, a superb status within music. You do not need more money to live calmly. It is by them who you take this risk? Because "A Matter Of Life And Death" is a dangerous album. What is your motivation to follow ahead?
Adrian Smith: For us is very rewarding to be in a position in which we sell all the tickets of our concerts, but also is motivating to record the album that you want to record and the way that you want. To really do what you want, this is the best position that one can be. We like to raise us the scene, to work hard. This is our gasoline, the motivation in itself.
A simple question but I must do. What hides behind the title "A Matter Of Life And Death"?
(I still stare Dave Murray that does not respond to me)
You do not know the answer (i ask Dave Murray)?
Dave Murray: Yes, yes, i was thinking about the answer....(laughs)
Adrian Smith: I asnwer this for you (laughs). The album deals with many subjects: war, religion, conflicts, all these things. We do not want to get anybody depressed, but when we compose music the letters flowed by themselves. A matter of life or death (laughter).
Dave Murray: There are some who says that behind the title hides the soccer (laughs).
Adrian Smith: Yes! Everything comes around because there was a trainer of Liverpool, Bill Shankly, that said "soccer once is not a question of life or death, is more important that it". It could certainly have connection, yes.
Dave Murray: Certainly it is a great title, gathers perfectly what hides the content of the album: war, religion... But are many more things that are a question of life or death also. The title can be applied to many situations of life...., of death... or of matter (laughter)
We can wait for a stage scenario in the "Paschendale" style on the "Dance Of Death" tour?
Adrian Smith: It would be great either, it would fit very well with the new subjects.
Because listening to the new album, with its long compositions and instrumental moments, it seems obligatory to accompany it a great stage scene, of a great assembly a-la-Maiden.
Dave Murray: Completely in agreement. In fact we are planning a great show, great, great spectacle. We don't know yet what scene is definitively going to be , but we will emphasize much visually. Surely that will be explosive, people will return to house with the eyes like plates.
And covered in blood.
Dave Murray: (laughs) Completely.
In reference to the set list, we can wait for few surprises, i imagine. For that enough the tour of "Early Days".
Adrian Smith: You talk about playing old songs?
Yes, but not typical that of always.
Adrian Smith: Yes, the tour of "Early Days" was made partly for that reason. But surely we will play old material. Right now we do not know which will be those songs, but i'm sure that an idea is already made. In all ways, and obviously, the concert will be based on "A Matter Of Life And Death".
After the tour of "Dance Of Death" you announced that you would not return to make great tours, that would only play in great venues or summer festivals. Nevertheless you embark on another tour through theaters, shorter than usual, yes. Is this your way of dealing things with more calm?
Adrian Smith: Yes, definitively. In the past we made tours of 12 or 13 months. After 6 months almost you do not know nor where you ggoing to play, everything becomes very automatic. With this type of tour which we undertake we enjoyed every second, each concert is intense, precious. With time you realise that you prefer the quality over quantity.
Personal commentary: thanks to come to Barcelona.
Dave Murray: Right! We played in Barcelona! Will you coming to see us?
Of course, for the fifth time.
Dave Murray: Then we see ourselves there (laughs).
What you can say of the features of the singles b-sides? I have understood that they will be basically cover versions.
Adrian Smith: Yes, they are a tribute to the groups that have influenced us in the 70's. Simply they are some songs recorded very quickly.
Like all the album. Problems with schedule or desire to finish?
Dave Murray: It happened this way. It has been a natural process, the way in which we have played the songs in the studio. It is not that we have set out to go fast, we never said ourselves "come on, hurry up, hurry up". We simply have been very concentrated and fresh, and things came out like this. Kevin Shirley also has collaborated with its mixings, have been a multitude of factors that have favored to all come out so fast one and well. A luck.
There are constants rumors about your separation. In fact several radios already have commented that you will separate after this tour. Some message to calm down your followers?
Dave Murray: Commentaries as such are always heard . It seems that there are people wishing that we split up. No, we have a new album in the market, a tour, festivals... I am wishing to go out on tour to show this album, will be a great celebration. We are not going to hang the guitars still. We have some years left ahead, we will become old men still running on the scene (laughs).
I hope it last, thanks for your time.
Thank you, we see ourselves in Barcelona.
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