Iron Maiden and New Country Songs

The worldwide success of Iron Maiden is breathtaking. Never the darlings of MTV, is rarely the recipients of heavy radio airplay and rarely the attention of New Country Songs the mainstream press, the standard bearer of the NWOBHM still have the conscience of the heavy metal fans around the world won.

Well, almost anywhere. But this is only because they did not fly there. In his own plan.

And we're not talking about some small corporate jets here. Flight 666, the band's last tour and the DVD that accompanies the band and the brand to buy a Boeing 757 (Ed Force One), singer Bruce Dickinson from the date of the tour flew in dates. Not bad for a sextet of guys metal workers.

(And yes, Bruce Dickinson, a pilot with a commercial license.)

However, there are some parts of Africa, hoppers were not what the band hopes to fix soon, perhaps in support of its release in August, The Final Frontier. Up to now  Christmas Songs  the American leg, have only the first of the next single record "El Dorado", a thinly veiled critique of New Country Songs the mentality behind the financial crisis on both sides of the pond. Fans can take any number of conclusions on the Sci-Fi artwork and tracklist, but after founding bassist and songwriter Steve Harris, there is no overall theme.

It 'a great show for a new album, including support for the new Giger-esque Eddie. Harris said, before going on stage in Saskatoon (Western Canada) on the upcoming recording, songwriting, and their loyal fans.

Saskatoon sounds nothing like me. Is there somewhere that Iron Maiden has not played?

Yes, there are certainly many places we have not yet played all over the world, believe it or not. We have not played in China, we'd love to play there. South Korea, places New Country Songs Sun Malayasia, Hong Kong. All kinds of places, really. But we have traveled the globe many times, and we thoroughly enjoy. It 'nice to come from somewhere and go to new places.

How was the tour?

It 'was really good so far, really good. The first  Wedding songs week is always the hardest, physically, spiritually. But certainly now, it is always better (laughs).

Iron Maiden named all their favorite Christmas Songs

I have to say that doing this interview was somewhat like having a dream, a dream where at any moment someone is going wake you up. Here I was, backstage at opening night of the first reunion show with Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith back in the Maiden fold. However it was not a dream, as I had the once in a lifetime chance, to sit down and interview two of Christmas Songs  my boyhood heroes, Steve Harris and Dave Murray of Iron Maiden. As the camera was rolling, I remained amazing calm despite the nervousness I felt.

GB - What is it like having Bruce and Adrian back in the band?

SH - It's great! Working really well. It feels really natural. We're all a bit nervous about the first gig but apart from that its feels great.

DM - As soon as Bruce came down and started singing with the band and Adrian as well started playing it was obvious musically it was going to work. Actually we made the decision before we played together. We just got together and said Bruce is going to  join Christmas Songs , Adrian is going to join, lets go down to the pub (laughs) and that was it.

SH - A feeling of deja vu.

GB- What's it like having the three guitar line up?

SH- It means some of the solos you would double them up and put one just in front of the other. It's a good effect! There is some of our earlier material where we did have three guitars on the album. We can actually do that now. It sounds really full, really good.

DM - We can incorporate the three guitar part harmonies which is really good because sometimes we have left the three part off an album just because we couldn't equate it live. This time we are actually doubling up on some of the solos which is very good so, its made it more interesting. It's made it dam heavier (laughs).

GB - Are the songs on your latest best of CD, "Ed Hunter", which were chosen by fans pretty much what you were expecting?

SH- There was a few there that we weren't quite sure about Christmas Songs . "Iron Maiden" was the one that had the most votes, which surprised me. I suppose Wedding songs you take it for granted, as its been in the set since whenever. We didn't expect that one to be voted so highly, There was a few we couldn't put in like a couple off the last album and the album before that which was too long. That was quite high but there is a pretty fair representation of what they voted for, but its good and the rest we're doing in the set. There is like twenty songs on the entire CD Rom and I think we're doing eighteen out of the twenty songs or something like that.

GB - When can we expect a new album from the band?
SH - It won't be out till next year so we won't start recording till November, as we got shows in Europe in September right till the beginning of October. As soon as we finish New Country Songs that we'll start doing some more writing and stuff from the new album. We start recording the beginning of November and hopefully we will have it out for May or June of next year and then go on a world tour for eight or nine months.
DM - At the moment this is the Ed Hunter world tour based on the game and everything that's out. This set recreates that. The stage set is huge we're using and next year we'll have the new album and everything will reflect that, with possibly an even bigger set than we got at them moment.

GB - With the avant of new technology how do you feel about people downloading you music and even videos now off the Internet?

SH - I think it's great, obviously the fact that it's coming very close the fact that you can already download different songs and stuff like that. I think that we are going to do various stuff like record live shows or put odd songs on the net so that people can download and say "Oh I was there two nights ago, I was there" I think technology's great if you can utilize it in the right way. It's good to be able to use all that stuff. I know I for one love all that stuff anyway. I love getting on the net and messing around. I think it's the way to go, its what people are into, its what we're into.

DM - We totally embrace that whole thing on the Internet. The Iron Maiden web site is just jammed packed full of stuff you can spend hours on there. There is different areas to go to so we're totally trying to keep at the forefront of it, like using special effects on the web site because we have to keep up with it and you can download stuff off of the web site. Obviously there is some sites there with a bootleg sort of vibe but you know it's a bigger picture now. You got a whole planet to go for.