Nicko McBrain: ”Bruce Dickinson laulaa tällä hetkellä paremmin kuin koskaan”

Englantilainen heavy metal -legenda Iron Maiden kiertää parhaillaan Yhdysvaltoja mittavan kiertueen merkeissä. Yhtyeen rumpali Nicko McBrain on antanut hiljatain kiertueen yhteydessä Trunk Nationille haastattelun, jossa on pohtinut yhtyeen tulevaisuuden suunnitelmia. Nicko on haastattelussa todennut yhtyeen aikovan vielä soittaa keikkoja pitkään sillä bändillä on yhä suuri palo soittaa keikkoja ympäri maailmaa. Mies on haastattelussa kehunut myös bändin laulajan Bruce Dickinsonin äänenkäyttöä nykyään käytyään läpi taistelun syöpää vastaan. Nickon mukaan Bruce laulaa tällä hetkellä paremmin kuin koskaan uransa aikana:

”Obviously, through the treatment, [Bruce’s] main concern was saliva glands — he kind of lost a lot of the function in percentage, percentile of his… [He was suffering from a] dry mouth,” Nicko explained. ”So what we did was, to overcome that, we’ve got certain areas on the stage that are disguised where he’s got water bottles in ’em, so he can have a quick… hydrate his mouth. But what happened was the more he started singing, the more he could deal with that. And to be very honest with you, I think his singing is stronger now than it’s ever been. I mean, that album, the vocals he put on ’The Book Of Souls’ are just frighteningly good, and that was with a golfball-sized tumor on the back of his tongue. So after all this wonderful… Not ’wonderful’ treatment — it’s the worst thing in the world to have that chemo and radiology and stuff.”

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”The thing that amazed me about Bruce was he bounced back so quickly. I mean, the doctor said, first week of May [of 2015], he went to see his oncologist and they were gonna see how he was doing and was it in relapse or was it in remission and they got the good news. But they said now the problem with your body is it’s gonna be fighting all the stuff that’s been going on with it for the last two or three months. The doc said [it would take] a year [to recover]. [But] Bruce [went], ’No, I’ll be done… We’ll be ready to start rehearsals in January [2016].’ So he came back after seven months of just relaxing and taking it easy and doing what you do. He went on supplements and stuff like that and he’s really looked after himself, he really studied it, and he’s come back [stronger than ever].”