Iron Maidenin Nicko McBrain: ”Olemme aina tehneet loistavia albumeita”
Englantilaisen heavy metallin legendan Iron Maidenin rumpali Nick McBrain on antanut hiljattain haastattelun romanialaiselle Rock FM -nimiselle radio-ohjelmalle bändin ollessa keikalla Romaniassa. Nickolta on haastattelussa kysytty miksi yhtye päätyi soittamaan niin paljon materiaalia uudelta ”The Book Of Souls” -albumiltaan livenä ja Nicko on haastattelussa todennut, että koska albumi on hänen mielestään niin kova. Nicko on haastattelussa myös todennut, että toivoisi bändin soittaman levyn joskus kokonaisuudessaan läpi. Voit lukea miehen ajatuksia Iron Maidenin tuotannosta sekä tuoreesta albumista tästä:
”We’ve always made great records, and I always say, ’Oh, this is the best thing we’ve ever done.’ [And people complain about it] ’Oh, you said that about [2010’s] ’The Final Frontier’.’Well, yeah, it’s one of the best records I’ve made with the band — until the new one, the next one. Now if it’s not, then there’s a problem. But I don’t say that because it’s something to say.
”My feeling is that when you make a masterpiece like ’The Book Of Souls’, I said to Steve [Harris, IRON MAIDEN bassist], ’We should do the lot. We should play every song off that record.’ And, obviously, that would have been a bit of a push, ’cause it’s ninety-two minutes long. That’s your show gone, just your record; you can’t [play] anything [else] like ’Iron Maiden’, ’Hallowed’, ’Number Of The Beast’… maybe ’Run To The Hills’ or whatever. But it was a silly suggestion that was blown out. But the point being, it’s such a great album, and, yeah, why not do six songs off it?
Artikkeli jatkuu mainoksen jälkeen Mainos päättyy”The beautiful thing is, you’ve got longevity. The band’s been around over thirty-five, thirty-six years plus… right? Forty years in 2019, so that’s a long, long span with a lot of songs that have been written, and a lot of favorites that people have. And, unfortunately, we physically can’t play a three- or four-hour se, which still wouldn’t cover everything that everybody would wanna hear. So we have to be a little bit selfish in our motivation what we wanna play live, what makes us tick, what makes us feel happy when we go on stage and do these older songs.
”[People complain], ’You always do that one. You always do that.’ ’Cause we like it. We love playing ’Number Of The Beast’. We love playing… Oh, well, ’Iron Maiden’ will always, always close the set, no matter what.
”So, yeah, it’s a great problem to have, if you wanna call it a problem.”
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