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Iron Maiden: Nicko und der Trooper-Drumfill · STAR FM Rocktalk

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  Hey, hier ist der Kek und damit herzlich willkommen beim Starfm Rock Talk.
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  Hier bei uns, bei Starfm Maximum Rock, da geben sich die Rockstars die Klinke
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  in die Hand und wir holen sie natürlich direkt vors Mikrofon.
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  Ich habe mich mit Iron Maiden-Schlagzeuger Nico McBrain unterhalten.
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  Der ist ja seit zwei Jahren live nicht mehr mit dabei, aber immer noch Teil
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  der Band. Und was hat er in den letzten zwei Jahren gemacht?
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  Er hat seine Autobiografie geschrieben. Hello Boys and Girls heißt die.
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  Über die haben wir uns natürlich unterhalten. Aber er hat mir zum Beispiel auch
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  verraten, wie Ozzy Osbourne ihm mal das Leben gerettet hat.
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  Und ich habe ihn gefragt, ob er bei meiner Band Mechanic Tyrence als Schlagzeuger
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  einsteigen will. Ob er das gemacht hat, das hörst du jetzt hier in diesem Interview.
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  So Nico, thank you very much for taking the time. I'm really excited to talk to you today.
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  You too. And I guess you're excited as well, because your new book will be out in a month.
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  Hello Boys and Girls. I'm really looking forward to it.
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  Und du hast viele historien über die Jahre erzählt, in Interviews zu den Fans,
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  überall. Aber was hat endlich gedacht, dass du jetzt die richtige Zeit für die
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  ganze Geschichte geschrieben hast?
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  Ich habe diesen Buch angefangen, 15 Jahre zu schreiben. Ich hatte einen schützlichen Kapitel.
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  Und dann habe ich eine Brückwolle in 2015.
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  Wow.
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  I had to give the money back on the advance. There was a company out in New
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  York that published it, wanted to publish it.
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  So then I didn't do anything with the book.
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  And then when I'd left and retired from Maiden, from touring,
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  Rod, my manager, suggested I have enough time now to delve in and actually finish off this book.
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  So it really is down to my manager, Rod, for inspiring me to pick up the pen,
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  so to speak, and get right in again.
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  I did have a friend of mine called Ben Durz help me finish it off. So hats off to him, too.
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  And so, you know, he was right. Rod was right. I mean, I'm not touring with
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  the boys anymore. So I had enough time to delve into getting this book finished.
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  Also, HarperCollins haben die Publisher für mich gemacht und sie haben einen tollen Job so far.
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  Ich freue mich auf sehen Sie in über fünf oder sechs Wochen.
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  Der Buch wird sich called Hello Boys and Girls. Was macht ihr den Titel?
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  Warum war das die richtige Titel für Ihre Geschichte?
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  Ich habe ein paar catchphrases, die ich benutze über die Jahre.
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  Um but uh every time I would do interviews or go on a bit of camera doing stuff
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  to camera I go hello boys and girls and I thought that's very me um you know um,
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  Ja, ich war es, dass es, dass du es nicht mehr wissen, dass du,
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  was ich immer gesagt habe, oder nicht zu schabbt.
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  Es war es, dass ich es nicht mehr wissen. Ich war es, dass es die workinge Titel
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  ist, You Just Never Know, Do You?
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  Die Publishing-Haus wollte es gehen. Und dann, du hast du noch eine Titel?
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  Ich sagte, ja, Hallo, Boys und Girls. Und dann, du hast du, we like das.
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  So we swapped it out and I'm happy with either one of those.
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  So we call it Hello Boys and Girls. So there we are. That's it.
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  While writing the book and you were looking back at over 50 years as a musician,
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  you've been in bands before Iron Maiden, you've been with Trust,
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  amazing band, I love them.
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  Was there a period in your life that you suddenly saw different und nachdem
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  du es nachdem, als du es war, war es durch es.
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  Um, not so much. You know, I mean, everything I've been involved with in my
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  professional career musically has been pretty, pretty special.
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  You know, there's lovely stories about session work I did with various people and various albums.
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  Some didn't make the book stories But looking back I was not really thinking
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  Any differently From what I was feeling At the particular time With whomever
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  it was I was involved with You know.
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  In terms of endearment For everything from Streetwalkers To Pat Travers To McKitty,
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  To Trust That was a couple of years Of fantastic,
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  They were such a great band und sie sind so talented, als war McKitty.
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  Ich meine, Donovan McKitty war ein unglaublicher Gitarre player.
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  Und er hat Charlie Tumahai, der used to be a Bebop Deluxe, his bass player.
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  Maui Lad, ein fantastisch bass player. Ich habe immer ein Privileged zu spielen,
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  mit einem tollen Bass-Glager, um mich zu spielen, um mich zu spielen.
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  Und das ist mein Partner, mit dem Rhythm Section.
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  So ich habe ein viel gelernt von all die anderen Spieler,
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  that I've worked with over these years and John Plotel was the bass player with Streetwalkers,
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  so looking back when I was writing these stories, you know, there wasn't anything
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  that I thought, oh, you know no, I'm not going to write about that or this was
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  a bad period so I basically approached everything,
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  as honestly as I could and, you know,
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  the feelings that I had about the earlier days Es ist nicht alles,
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  in meinem Herz, ich kann nicht sagen, dass es eine Unterschiede zwischen dem,
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  dem ich dann fühle mich und dem ich jetzt fühle mich.
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  You already mentioned your catchphrases, you're known as the funny guy in the
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  band, you're known for being a great storyteller with a sense of humor,
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  but in a band like Iron Maiden, which is a very well-documented band with a
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  very well-documented history, like I think Burning Ambition,
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  the movie just came out this year, last year? Yeah, it came out in May, yeah.
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  So, how did you decide, well, this story has to be in the book,
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  or maybe this story has been told so often that I don't have to put it in the book?
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  I didn't have that in the back of my mind when I was writing the book.
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  You know, I wrote it as my story. There were some stories that I was asked to
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  not put in the book, some stories that I was asked not to put in the book,
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  which I said I'm going to put in the book.
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  Aber there were a lot of stories when you write an autobiography.
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  The publishing company turned around and go there's too many words we've got to edit,
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  this that and the other, this has got to go or whatever, so I had that in the
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  back of my mind and I thought well there's certain stories I'd like to make
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  sure were going to be covered,
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  like the Aussie stories and early life with streetwalkers and you know.
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  Going through my professional career. But there was a lot that wasn't actually
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  made, you know, that was edited out of the book, you know. But that's okay.
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  What is left behind is still the story of my life. It's just that it might not
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  be chronologically precise.
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  You know, like one story that I had in would have led on to another story gets nixed, you know.
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  So it's just the way that publishing houses work. Und, you know,
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  you can only write so many words or else you've got, like, a war and peace novel, you know.
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  So, yeah, and so I just went and wrote it as it was. It got edited.
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  There was a lot of mumbo-jumbo going on in it and a lot of flotsam and jets
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  and that to get taken out.
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  But I'm generally very satisfied with it.
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  I did the audio version a couple of weeks back, about three weeks ago, finished that.
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  So I told that story my story in my voice so that's cool So you also read the audiobook yourself?
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  Yes Oh that's very cool Yeah it's going to be cool.
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  Was there ever a moment you know I imagine you sitting at home writing your
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  book and you have a story where you're like I'm not quite sure if this happened
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  the way I remember Did you ever,
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  ring up Steve or Bruce Did it really happen that way?
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  No, I did not phone anybody up.
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  In fact, there was a discrepancy that my manager actually got wrong.
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  He insisted that when I did my first gig in England with Maiden, I had a suit on.
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  Und er hat gesagt, es war eine Silversuit. Und ich sagte, nein, nein, es war später.
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  Die Suits story kam später, Rod. Und er hat gesagt, oh, nein.
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  Er hat gesagt, ich habe mir erzählt, dass du über das. Und ich habe gesagt, okay.
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  Aber ich habe nicht angefangen, die Suits, bis die Power Slave Tour zu haben.
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  Wenn ich nach L.A. habe ich eine Suitschacht, H.Q. es war.
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  Sie haben diese incredible Suits. Und ich habe einen Bauen, It was my first trip to LA We're Maiden.
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  Well I say the first trip We've been there before But this was when I found
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  Sue So Rod was wrong there,
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  And you know I obviously ran a lot of the story by Rod To get the historical
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  Make sure that you know This was right Do I remember that that venue there,
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  Was an arena And not a club You know that sort of thing So.
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  Some of the stories Rod wanted to censor,
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  And I eventually had to say to him, mate, look, you know, this is my story.
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  This is my memory of these stories. Now, maybe I've got it wrong.
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  But if that's the case, I will be put right later on. But at the minute,
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  I'm not going to take this particular story out because you don't like it, you know.
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  So, you know, that's the only collaboration with one of the band,
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  if you like, associated with the band that we had.
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  I didn't speak to any of the guys and go, well, did this really happen?
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  I've got a pretty good memory for stuff. You know how it is though,
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  Danny, that when you have something that's happened 20 years ago and we're talking
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  about it together, that's something that you and I happened,
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  you might go, well, I don't remember it like that.
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  Don't you remember so-and-so and so-and-so and you go, oh yeah, I can get that.
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  I get it, but for Aber für die Art, wie ich das Buch geschrieben habe,
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  ist es mein Erinnern. Und wenn es nicht richtig ist, wie für instance,
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  der klassisch Beispiel war, wenn Ozzy Osbourne kam und sagte mir,
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  er hat mein Leben geholfen.
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  Und ich war, ich war, ich war, ich bin ein Moment.
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  Ich habe nicht vergessen. Er hat gesagt, ich würde, ich würde, weil du so drunk bist.
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  Ich glaube, ich wusste nicht, Ozzy würde die Geschichte von meinem Zimmern besuchen,
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  nach 875, wenn Streetwalkers mit ihnen und machte ein paar shows auf einem der Tour.
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  Und wir hatten eine Party in meinem Zimmern, und Ozzy turned auf und ich dachte,
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  da ist no way erinnert sich, und er kam, und er hat uppers in einen Pocket,
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  down as in the oven you want to go up or you want to go down and he's dropping
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  all these tablets over the floor,
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  anyway when I saw him back in 2004 or 2005 we were doing this,
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  it was a charity called Walter Aid I drew me with a drum kit and stuff and the
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  caricature of myself he did something else on a shirt and it was the launch of this particular.
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  T-shirt Artworked by a bunch of different Aussie und ich sind zusammen Und ich dachte,
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  ich will never remember this Und ich sat mit ihm und ich sagte,
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  ja, do you remember Die Party we had in Ich denke wir in Finnland somewhere,
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  Und du kamst Und du warst mich, ja, du warst mich Ich hatte ein big trenchcoat
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  Und ich hatte einen Huppen in den einen Puckett Und ich sagte, du,
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  remember?
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  Und er sagte, ja, du warst mich Wir hatten eine gute Party Und dann sagte,
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  du remember mich saving your life,
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  And I went, you what? And this is no word of a lie. And he told me we were coming
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  back on the ferry from Calais back to England. And it was a stormy night.
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  And he said, we were really out of it. And I met you. I saw you on the back of the boat.
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  And they had the railing. And you were about to fall over. And I grabbed you.
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  I don't remember that. I do remember being on a boat coming back from Calais. But.
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  You know, it was one of those blind drunk moments. And I said to him, well, thanks for that.
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  So Aussie saved my life, you know. And I believe him because he remembered,
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  which I didn't think he would, the night of the party that we had in my room with Streetwalkers.
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  I see that. That's a great story. I haven't heard that before, actually. Yeah. Yeah.
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  It's in the book. You haven't read it, have you? Yeah, I really look forward
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  for the book, exactly for stories like that.
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  Do you think there will be stories, or is there any particular story in the
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  book where you're curious about what the other band members will say about the story?
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  Not really, no. I mean...
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  I don't know how Steve will feel about my side of the story about Blaze,
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  the Blaze years that we had.
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  I have very, very fond memories with Blaze.
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  We were like, you know, I was like his Salagate Granddad when he was,
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  I mean, I've been the oldest guy in the band.
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  And he and I used to hang around a lot together and go to dinner and whatnot.
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  Und ich lief ihn. Und es hat nicht gett, dass es ein sehr gut ein paar Jahre auf der Virtue 11.
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  Er hat nicht angefangen, sehr gut. Und ich bin ehrlich mit Ihnen,
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  wir haben nicht die Songs in die Lower-Key.
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  Die Songs, wie Hallowed und Songs, und Rothschild und Things,
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  that we were doing with him.
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  Evil That Men Do and stuff like that they were,
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  songs that needed to be down a level so I got to in one hand I'm sort of very
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  sad about the way he performed some of those songs and my feeling of,
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  I want to leave the band I don't want to be doing this it's not fair to the
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  fans so on and so forth and,
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  I think maybe Steve vielleicht sieht es ein bisschen anders und nicht glücklich sein.
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  Ich denke, das wäre das Problem. Aber wenn es eine Antwort auf deine Frage gibt,
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  das wäre eine der Dinge in dem Buch, die vielleicht Steve würde sagen würden,
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  ich glaube, ich glaube, es nicht so gut, Nick.
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  Das ist eine Möglichkeit, aber ich glaube, es wird es nicht so gut.
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  Und es ist die Wahrheit, wie ich es so gut erinnere.
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  Und was ich fühlte, was ich durchfühlt, persönlich in meinen Gefühlen, ist, was...
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  Ja, das ist sehr interessant, eigentlich. Ich habe auch von Bruce's Biografie
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  gelesen. Und zu vergleichen die verschiedenen Beziehungen zwischen den Band-Members
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  wird ein sehr interessantes Ding, ich glaube. Aber,
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  du hast nicht nur den Buch gelesen, du hast auch auf Tour mit dem Buch.
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  Du hast die Störungen aufsichtbar. Was können die Leute von einem Abend mit
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  Nico erwarten, so that they won't simply get from just reading the book?
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  Well, they get to see this in person, you know, the good-looking bloke from
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  the band. I mean, that's got to be worth summing, isn't it, just to come up and say, oh, no.
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  You're going to get the stories as.
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  You know, we're going to, I don't know, we've not really worked out a program as such.
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  I do know this, the second half is going to be two halves, two 45-minute sets.
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  The second set, I'm going to take a leaf out of Bruce's book What he did on
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  his speaking tour Which is going to get little,
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  index cards and pens on the chairs And people are going to write a question,
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  Whether it's related to the book or not, it doesn't matter They're going to
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  ask me a question, write it down on a piece of paper Put their names down, stick it in a hat,
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  Second half, I'm going to be pulling You know, this is my intention Is to pull
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  a question out the hat If I don't like it, I'll throw it away, whatever.
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  No, you know, and open the floor up to questions and answers.
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  But the first half we're thinking it'll probably be, I'm going to have a host
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  with me. So there'll be two of us on stage probably.
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  We may change that, but that's how we're thinking of it at the minute. And then.
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  They'll either, you know, groom me into reading a chapter oder fragen eine Frage
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  über den Buch, in einem bestimmten Kapitel, und ich will es lügen.
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  Und, you know, ich könnte nicht ad-lib,
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  oder verwendet die script, wenn ich die Audio mache. Aber ich kann das live machen.
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  Und ich kann dir aus, und erzähle noch eine Story das berührt zu einer Story.
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  Ich weiß nicht, wie wir es tun tun, wirklich, zu ehrlich sagen.
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  Die zweite half wird, wie ich gesagt, Fragen und Antworten von Leuten,
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  die schreiben, und wir werden Spaß mit dem.
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  Probably, es wird mehr Storytime mit Nico, wie Legs Under the Table,
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  reading stories from the book yeah,
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  you spend most of your life on stage with a huge drum kit right in front of
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  you which is like a barrier between you and the audience maybe and,
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  I don't think that you are but are you a little bit nervous so to not have a
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  drum kit between you and the audience so to be like in the front,
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  no mate I'm actually less nervous about it because I'm not having to play a drum kit, you know.
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  No, I mean, my drums are my domain. That's where I've lived for 50 years professionally,
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  and actually more than that. But, you know, when I get behind my drum set, I know I'm in control.
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  Out front, in front of people without a drum kit, I'm not in control, but,
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  I'm used to public speaking and being, you know, being that,
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  comedian for the band und ein bisschen von der Reisens ich nicht von Interviews
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  war weil ich würde in der Rabbit Hole und ich würde nicht kommen auf für einen
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  anderen 10 Minuten und dann die Frage würde ich mir beantwortet. Was war die Frage?
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  Das war die Frage. Das war die Frage. Aber.
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  I'm happy to be able to be involved with a speaking tour like this because it
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  gives me a chance to meet probably, I'm hoping there'll be a mixture in the
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  audience, not just of Iron Maiden fans.
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  Not just Nico fans.
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  I would like to see families of people or, you know, mums and dads have gone
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  out and bought the book and go, oh, this bloke's quite interesting.
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  Oh, he's doing a speaking tour. We're going to have a word, you know,
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  going to see what it's all about.
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  Ich hoffe, dass es eine Cross-Section von audiences gibt, und nicht nur Maiden-Fans wird.
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  Ich bin nicht sagen, dass das ein Problem ist, sondern es wäre schön,
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  dass es andere Leute nicht nur Fans von der Band gibt.
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  Das wäre interessant, würde ich nicht? Können Sie sich mehr mehr Tours machen, wenn es das mal geht?
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  Also, beyond die Booktour, die Spoken Word-Tour für sich?
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  Ja, ich habe ein Freund von mir, der hat sich auf Bruce'n Tours geführt,
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  und Bruce hat das, die Speaking Tour, nicht nur seine Book Tours.
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  Er ist ein Entrepreneur, so er hat sich viel mehr zu sprechen.
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  Er hat sich ein bisschen mehr zu sprechen. Er hat sich ein bisschen mehr zu
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  sprechen, und er arbeitet an massive aeroplane und stuff like das.
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  Plus, er hat seine Erfahrung als Kommerer Pilot zu sprechen,
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  so es gibt viel mehr Interesse in dem, was Bruce wird darüber sprechen,
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  an diesen Sachen sprechen.
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  Ich würde sagen, hier ist der Drummer von Iron Maiden, die Geschichte zu erzählen.
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  Ich weiß nicht, ob das funktioniert, ob die Leute wollen, ob sie gut Geld aus
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  der Pocken wollen, oder sie sehen etwas wie das.
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  Wer weiß, wir finden, nachdem wir die Tour haben, und sagen,
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  wenn es funktioniert, würde ich
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  gerne das machen. Ja, weil ich jetzt semi-retired bin. Ja, warum nicht?
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  So, nachdem die Tour ist fertig und alles Arbeit ist, und,
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  du hast endlich Zeit, um ein bisschen relaxieren, So to say,
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  how does an ordinary week in the life of Nico McBride actually look like when
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  your life isn't built around touring with Iron Maiden anymore?
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  Well, I get up in the morning. When I wake up, it's not easy,
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  about 7.30, 8 o'clock, I'll get up, feed the cat, feed my sniffly puppies.
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  Sit down, answer me e-mails or have a look on me e-mails and then I go and sit.
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  And watch a lot of Netflix or Prime Video. I like a lot of these series that have come out.
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  And I watch a bit of telly and then I don't play golf anymore because I've got a bit of a bad back.
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  So if I do go out, I play nine holes and that's about it for me nowadays.
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  Und dann ich muss nach dem Restaurant gehen, sehen was was going on down there und,
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  you know, kick mein Head in the door und I eat too many Ribs at the minute so
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  I've got a bit of a pouch going on so,
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  you know, that's a typical day for me, a typical week,
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  you know, I'm just relaxing more and I've learnt,
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  from taking a step back from the band, I'm enjoying being at home but I also
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  miss the band und mein Bruder ist so bad. Ich wirklich miss sie alle.
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  Ich kenne mich in touch mit und ich sende texts.
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  Janik ist immer mir texten. Ich habe ich mit Steve vorhin gesprochen.
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  Ich habe ich mit Bruce für ein paar Wochen gesprochen. Wir sind in touch.
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  Ich habe mit Adrian ein paar Wochen später. Wir sind sehr in touch mit uns.
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  Die einzige, die ich in den letzten paar Wochen gesprochen habe ist, Davey.
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  Ich habe ihn mit ihm gesprochen.
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  So I keep, obviously with the book coming out, I'm in touch with,
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  still in touch with Roller Lott and Dave Schatz at our office and Delphine Nizette.
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  She's amazing.
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  I've got a great crew behind me that's still the maiden family,
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  if you like, the Phantom Music people.
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  And they've worked so strongly with HarperCollins, who published my book for me.
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  Und ich freue mich zu sehen in ein paar Wochen wenn ich nach England und ich
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  denke, mein erstes Gig ist in Frankfurt.
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  I'm not sure of the date. It's next month sometime.
• 24:27
  Yeah. It's funny that you mentioned your restaurant because I told yesterday
• 24:31
  a friend of mine that I will have the interview with you and he's a huge Iron Maiden fan as well.
• 24:35
  And he said, tell him I was at his restaurant and tell him I had the best coleslaw
• 24:40
  in my whole life there. Oh, brilliant. Oh, fantastic.
• 24:44
  You know what? Yeah, so many people love our food and I love supplying it.
• 24:51
  The opportunity of that I mean we
• 24:53
  don't make money there I'm an employment exchange and I'm happy with that,
• 24:58
  And I'm happy that I have something Other than the other Peripheral stuff To
• 25:04
  keep me occupied And I've got my dear friend and partner Mitch Tan and his wife
• 25:09
  Ivy They kind of run it for me,
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  They do the day to day graft And keep the accounts,
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  I'm just a face Although I'm handsome.
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  Ich bin der Face behind es und ich liebe es. Sie sind toll, aber es ist zu wissen,
• 25:25
  dass Ihr Freund der Kohl's ist. Es ist speziell für unsere Restaurant. Wir machen es in-house.
• 25:32
  Ich will sagen, ich denke, er ist waiting, dass ich ihn texte.
• 25:37
  Oh, es war ein great interview. Er ist auf Kohl's, eigentlich.
• 25:41
  Du hast auch gesagt, dass du immer in touch mit den anderen,
• 25:46
  Band und du bist ein Band You're just not touring anymore with them and you
• 25:52
  recently said that you'd be delighted to play on another Our Maiden album,
• 25:57
  provided the material wasn't too,
• 26:02
  well, you could play it physically, let's say that way.
• 26:05
  Have you spoken to Steve about it, like, hey, let's write some songs that I
• 26:11
  can play or is that something for the future? Because they're on tour. No.
• 26:18
  It's a moot point right now. There's no, I spoke to Steve last week.
• 26:22
  I didn't broach the fact that he had doing that. And when I saw him in the restaurant,
• 26:26
  he came to my restaurant in March, February, March, earlier this year.
• 26:30
  And we sat and had a good chat. And I said to him, you know,
• 26:34
  are you going to, you know, you've got like some time off next year.
• 26:39
  Are you going to think about doing a new record? And he went,
• 26:42
  no, I haven't thought about it, Nick.
• 26:44
  So having said that doesn't mean to say there may not be an album It's just
• 26:50
  that he's not prepared yet as then to think about doing a record I know Bruce would like to do one,
• 27:00
  But you've got to bear in mind, Danny If they make an album,
• 27:06
  right, you've got to go out and tour it,
• 27:10
  So, there's another couple of years down the line to, first of all,
• 27:14
  you've got to get the album made, get it made and put in this,
• 27:19
  you know, distributed and all that, and then that's more time,
• 27:22
  more time, then you've got to go tour it.
• 27:25
  Not to say the fact that they don't want to go out and tour,
• 27:27
  but, you know, we're all getting long in the tooth now.
• 27:31
  And, you know, these are high-energy shows. I'm not saying that they're going
• 27:35
  to retire, but here's the thing, you know, if you do another record,
• 27:37
  you're going to have to go out and tour it.
• 27:40
  Und das ist eine Welttour, über zwei Jahre.
• 27:45
  Das ist in meiner Sicht. Ich denke, ist das was sie von einem Album zu machen?
• 27:54
  Ich weiß nicht. Aber jetzt, es ist kein Plan für ein Rekord.
• 27:57
  Aber wenn ich das mache, würde ich ein paar Songs machen.
• 28:02
  Ja, warum nicht? Would it be, from a musician's point of view,
• 28:08
  would you, like finding a different way to play, actually, would it be like
• 28:13
  an interesting creative challenge for you or more like a limitation?
• 28:17
  No, it's a challenge because I had to do that for two years.
• 28:21
  You know, from when I had the stroke in 23, I went off and did two tours with
• 28:25
  the band, you know, and I had to compromise some of the songs,
• 28:30
  like for the classic would be the intro to Trooper.
• 28:35
  I couldn't play that feel. My hand just wouldn't allow me to do the speed of that drum feel.
• 28:42
  So I had to compromise. I did more triplets. So, you know.
• 28:48
  Just taking a feel from in the song, in the verse song, I actually put that feel at the intro.
• 28:55
  Es war nicht der ich die übrige, übrige, die da.
• 29:01
  Es war nicht der Klassik Niko drum für den bestimmten Song. Und andere anderen.
• 29:09
  Ich musste es kompromise.
• 29:11
  Und ich musste eine andere Art.
• 29:15
  Und die Band war okay sie waren sehr supportive und sie waren so,
• 29:20
  wir haben nicht wirklich viel Unterschied, aber du bist immer gut,
• 29:23
  du bist immer noch gut, du bist immer noch,
• 29:26
  Aber diese neue Tour, ich einfach nicht mehr kann, dass ich viele von diesen Songs spielen wollte.
• 29:32
  Und das hat mir geholfen in meiner Entscheidung zu eigentlich nehmen,
• 29:37
  weil ich einfach nicht spielen konnte. Ich konnte nur Murders in the Room. Das war die Eröffnung.
• 29:49
  Talking über die Sachen zu spielen, wenn du jetzt an alten Maiden hörst,
• 29:55
  Can you listen to it as music or is there like the drummer in you that says,
• 29:58
  well, I should have played the drum fill differently?
• 30:02
  No, I've never really looked at our records. I look at it as a whole.
• 30:09
  I mean, once I've done my performance, that's it. I don't go back and think,
• 30:13
  oh, I wish I'd have played that particular part in this particular fill or on
• 30:18
  an offbeat, you know, like a different drum part.
• 30:22
  Ich bin sehr glücklich mit alles Denn wenn du ein Stück von Musik und du recordst,
• 30:27
  es, du wirst du auf es und das ist es, ein und fertig und du weitergehen Aber
• 30:31
  nach zurück und nach Revisiten etwas, das ich auf habe,
• 30:35
  ich sehr rarely gesagt habe Ich wünsche mir das, ich wollte das,
• 30:40
  das bestimmte Film Aber nein, nein,
• 30:43
  die Antwort auf die Frage ist Nein Wir,
• 30:48
  haben nicht viel Zeit Ich komme zu einer der letzten questions and,
• 30:52
  I was really happy to read that interview with you because you recently picked
• 30:55
  A Matter of Life and Death as your,
• 30:57
  favorite Iron Maiden album which for me is one of the most underrated albums
• 31:02
  in the whole discography,
• 31:04
  I have some sort of nostalgia for it because it was the first Iron Maiden record
• 31:08
  that came out when I got into Iron Maiden and it was the first record I bought
• 31:12
  for myself so I was listening to it like every day for months and,
• 31:18
  what I wanted to know is like,
• 31:21
  Warum macht dieses Album dein Lieblings-Version aus Our Maiden?
• 31:24
  Warum wählst du besonders dieses Album?
• 31:27
  Ja, es ist wirklich schwer.
• 31:31
  Ich denke, dass alle von Our Maiden Albums, dass ich auf jeden Fall,
• 31:35
  die drei Albums vor meinem Zeitpunkt, waren beeindruckend.
• 31:40
  Für eine oder andere. Aber es ist einfach eine magische Werte,
• 31:44
  wenn wir diesen Album gemacht haben.
• 31:46
  Es war einfach etwas über die Stimme in der room, Kevin Shirley,
• 31:52
  he's important and then of course we took that record and when we finished it,
• 32:00
  and we thought what don't we play live,
• 32:04
  it was like every track is a monster track,
• 32:10
  and that was what initiated the decision was not to leave anything off that
• 32:16
  album because they're all great songs so we'd do the whole thing und es ist
• 32:20
  die erste und einzige Zeit wir haben einen Album gespielt in der ganzen Welt.
• 32:25
  Und das war so eine gute Zeit. Die Tour war großartig und,
• 32:31
  Lord of Light war definitiv ein Highlight track für mich.
• 32:38
  You know, it's just the culmination of how I felt when I was in the studio making
• 32:44
  that record with the guys and the fact that we took it from the studio and we
• 32:48
  went to and performed the whole thing live.
• 32:51
  It was just immense. And that's why I chose that album as my favorite all-time maiden album.
• 32:57
  But then I go back to Book of Souls and I look at Book of Souls and I think,
• 33:01
  you know, the songs on there, you know, the title track is just immense.
• 33:08
  You know, Red and the Black, oh, you know, Tears of a Clown.
• 33:11
  Oh, you can't bet. And of course you've got Empire of the Clowns.
• 33:17
  You know, so in terms of asking, I have to say Matter of Life and Death just
• 33:23
  because it spoke to me in a different way because of the way we recorded it,
• 33:27
  the time that we had in the studio.
• 33:30
  We've always enjoyed ourselves in the studio, by the way, but that was something,
• 33:34
  magical about that album, you know. Und es hat sich in der Live-Entirität,
• 33:43
  wenn wir aus und tourten es kamen. Das ist mein Favourite. Also für die letzte
• 33:48
  Frage, und das ist die Frage, dass ich auf die Ende der Interview stellen werde,
• 33:54
  so ich muss noch ein weiterer Song spielen.
• 33:56
  Ist es eine Maiden-Song, die du denkst, ist die beste Repräsentation von dir als Drummer?
• 34:02
  Oh blimey, just take your pick mate.
• 34:08
  I would have to say Hallowed Be Thy Name live versions Any of my live versions
• 34:14
  of Hallowed It's my favourite song that Steve has ever written Next to When
• 34:20
  the Wild Wind Blows That's another one of my favourite songs,
• 34:26
  I say favourite These are just by preference This one I prefer more than the
• 34:32
  other They're all great songs,
• 34:35
  Everything that Steve Harris writes Is just immense Hell on Earth,
• 34:39
  what a song that is The Parchment, that's my favourite song Of Asenjutsu,
• 34:45
  But Hell I Be Thy Name Life That song possesses me And I always play it quite
• 34:51
  quick It's nowhere near the tempo That they recorded it at Off of a piece of Number of the Beast But.
• 35:01
  Live is just a magic about that song. The whole solo section is layered,
• 35:06
  you know, there's three solo sections of guitars that just, I just go and it possesses me.
• 35:13
  Anyway, that's my favorite live version of Halo.
• 35:16
  All right. So I will play that song probably in the Dortmund version of 2003, I guess.
• 35:22
  Very, very important live album for me as well. Oh, yeah. So,
• 35:26
  we're done with the interview. Thank you very much.
• 35:29
  I think we've got some minutes left. I just want to take the chance.
• 35:33
  And thank you for all the music, because you've probably heard that a lot,
• 35:37
  but Our Maiden really influenced me a lot.
• 35:41
  Wenn mein Vater mir das Video in England gab, war das der Grund,
• 35:45
  warum ich eine Gitarre genommen habe.
• 35:46
  Ich bin ein Bass Player in einer Band. Und zu einer Band ist so ein tolles Ding
• 35:51
  und so eine große Rolle in meinem Leben.
• 35:53
  Und ohne Our Maiden, ich würde das nicht haben. Vielen Dank für das.
• 35:57
  Danke. Danny, das beste Accolade ist, wenn du so wie dich, wie sich dein Vater hat dich in der Band.
• 36:04
  Und du hast eine Gitarre, eine Bass Gitarre.
• 36:08
  Wonderful, Mr. Steve Harris You can't go wrong listening to him And you know,
• 36:13
  that's wonderful And it's endearing Because that's inspired you to become a musician,
• 36:19
  And live a dream As well You're doing your radio stuff as well But.
• 36:26
  You've got the thrill Of getting out there and playing in front of people It's magic Isn't it mate?
• 36:31
  It's the best thing Absolutely.
• 36:36
  Also we're looking for a new drummer so if you're free hey mate,
• 36:39
  you know you pay my FRO, I'll be there alright yeah, thank you very much for
• 36:48
  your time, it was amazing I will never forget this day in my life.