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Remembering The Classics With PAUL DI'ANNO · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I know everybody. I'm an absolute fucking menation of society and it's very hasty
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  back in your country again. Thank you, beautiful Paul. Thanks for joining
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  us so saty today. Brothers A right, So we just caught in two
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  days ago. I'm absolutely fucked. I forgot how long it takes to get
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  back over here. I'm absolutely dying. So yeah, we get it again
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  a little bit. But this is the question, when I long to go
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  back to Sydney. You still be family. Twenty six hour flying and I
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  feel like a piece of dogs anyway, all right, so far mate.
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  Now you're here touring Austray for a rundom shows starting January the sixteenth in Perth.
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  Then you had to Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, finishing Sydney on January
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  the twentieth. Mate, So are there's going to be your first shows for
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  the year. Not no mindy oh, can't keep up. We just done
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  a British tour, done a few European festivals. It's sucking in this wheelchair
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  because I'm I'm just got to get the video done. I'm start walking again.
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  But that's non existent. Why on the roads? You know, it's
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  just so hard to do but now after this we've got to go soon.
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  It's done here in Australia and going Astralia and South America and Chile, uh
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  by the way, Tina, and then I go back and then I'm taking
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  a couple of months off getting this together. Then I'm straight back. I'll
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  bucking still on birthday. Well, well I live most of the time and
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  I'm based in Brazil anyways, or back in England, so we're backing of
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  my birthdays. It's going to be a part give me the day I booking
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  in Now the shows you do an inarmaate like it's a straight run of five
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  shows in five days, Like how do you prepare yourself mental in did you
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  p for something like that so far from home, especially at the moment now
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  you're in a wheelchair. Enough matter. But now I just got used to
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  it. Really, I'm probably five days straight off to but maybe three and
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  then stop day off and that whatever. But it is what it is.
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  You just got to get on with it, you know. The only problem
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  I'm having is since I've come over here and I'll get this back in England
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  in the Europe and all that stuff with the with the allergies of the warm
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  weather. I've got it now I'm not got you know, hopefully we're geet
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  cleared up the next couple of days. But apart from that, it's just,
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  you know, it's the toughest part is not being on stage. It's
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  the toughest part. He's getting on airplanes and about and all that stuff.
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  And I said, I should be fucking walking over a year ago now,
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  but I'm doing myself in by kick going on to it because I can't elm
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  sitting un scratching me. It's better while since I'm sorry, man, what
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  work didn't Australian fans expect from your shows? We've finished it up. As
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  I said, it's a I've not been able to play love. This is
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  my first time back in say eight years, nine years now, because basically
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  can with this, but they want let me flying and some of the sexist
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  and all that ship. Uh So, basically what we're doing is saying a
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  big thank you and a fair well not from touring but doing nine Maiden stuff.
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  So this is the whole Maiden heavy shows. It's the songs for the
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  first two albums. We've been rather good, quite successful and quite surprised actually,
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  So we're doing that because I'm amazing. I've got to play the fucking
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  songs. You know, well Bruce song, I am mm hmmm quite right,
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  a fro you know. So that is doing stuff. So it was
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  just getting over there. I've lost ye can you hear about? So what
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  did you say? This shows you're doing. You're doing both made and my
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  maiden albums and the shows. That's what it is, nothing else. And
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  then next year we come out there should be coming out very soon. It's
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  like a greatst hits of mine, great hits whatever that means. But it's
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  like tracks from my battle Zone killers. Uh, the punk bandies like about
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  we put the white breads and stuff and no man, we've got a couple
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  of tracks of me. He's coming out on this album called The Book of
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  the Beast. So once that's done, Uh, then we've got the movie
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  coming out in a couple of months. Well, it's like a rocky momentary
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  we're doing. Uh. I went from New York and that's that's all coming
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  out. We've got all that stuff to do. Then I've gotta go back
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  in the rehearsals to learn all the stuff of mine, which I can't remember
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  any of it now. I'm not saying this to myself because we're looking at
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  you. I know you're going to fucking deliver the goods. But there's going
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  to be people out there that are going to say, he is in a
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  wheelchair, the show is not going to be that good. But said,
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  he's funds straight for us? Are you, yeah, fucking ship that you
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  need to come up what? I'll surprise myself sometimes because I didn't know had
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  difficulty it was going to be in a wheelchair. Everyone comes up and said
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  me how to do it? And I thought, well, I don't know,
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  because but I'm laughing in the hours of watching the Simps episode where Homers
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  Dirt is back and he's flat on the fucking trolley and he's singing like a
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  like you know, an opera singer, and IoT by me. This is
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  working for me. So what happens with stand up against ship, determination to
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  be pissed off with all sorts of you know, I'll work on I think
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  I've bought the things that kissed me off all through the week and be out
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  there and do it. You know, it's quite agressive good and if may
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  life, if may life can do it, you can fucking do it.
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  Yeah, he would have done right going back in to it, like you
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  first started performing in nineteen seventy eight with Iron Maiden, So what do you
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  remember about your early days as a vocalist all because ah, I mean I
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  grew up in the punk here a year and even before that, you know,
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  with the David Bowie and you know, t Recks and all that stuff.
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  I was able to ship my bedroom and I couldn't sound like I'll mimic
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  them pretty well, you know, really really well. And then when the
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  punk thing came out, fucking maybe maybe I can sing you know what I'm
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  doing it and it goes he didn't really matter who punching fuck up anyway,
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  So there you go, and the boys came on from there, and this
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  is getting better, getting older, you know, it's still you know,
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  I said that I bothered myself now and I'm saying that that was probably saying
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  like, fucking what far when we go out of stage, like I forgot.
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  Of course I've recording. The two albums been made and you left in
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  nineteen eighty one, mate, So well, you would have been young and
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  impressional back then. Made like we're a bit disillusioned with the music industry.
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  After En and his army maiden. No, No, I've always be I've
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  got that trusting these fucking people that you know, like, I know I
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  shouldn't say that, but yeah, you've got to look at it and us
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  and them. Yeah, I've never been too, you know, even the
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  second management and stuff like that. You should keep a separation there, you
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  know what I mean. Uh, well, I'll see what's going on and
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  there I'm under no illusions and stuff like that. As I said, I've
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  got no regretsing you know, me and maidens will fit part in ways because
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  that's what that's one. You know, you move on lessons learned. Even
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  though it's sounds like a lot of booms about back and doing this again.
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  But I'm disillusioned with the way things aren't musically now because kids are sitting in
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  their own with a computer and they're not getting the experience. The really experience
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  is getting out of fucking road playing every ship in the world, and that's
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  what we call can you do? You know, And that's how you get
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  it up, you know, and get on with this. So yeah,
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  that's it, but that's that's that makes it a bit pissed off, and
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  our kids all nowadays all believes that they're entitled to be fucking rock stars.
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  You ain't decided to fuck all making out does and work, you know damn
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  straight. Since then, you've front of many bands including I can't even say
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  God Magarget you're praying and says killers, Who how have you grown musically over
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  that journey with all those bands? What how did you grow growing musically over
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  that journey better? That's sure, but that listen, some of these things,
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  I just did it just to fucking get a bit of money in here.
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  And then like the God God thing to get the supergroup yeah, which
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  we found later on put together by something radio personally called Jonathan King back in
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  and in the sixties he had to hit the one Gone to the Moon,
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  Uh, and you know po he went to Perrison and everything, you know,
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  the things you want him and Rod Argent, who've got this thing together
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  when and I replaced they covered that singer. Yeah, And the original band
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  was John and twistl on bas Cozy Powell on drums, uh and a cup
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  of under like sort of well known fucking you know, big musicians. And
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  he's asked something like about eighty million fucking pounds to sign this supergrouth and all
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  got dwindled down. So I haven't placed covered our U. We've got Neil
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  Murray and from White Snake came into play place, Clay Burr on drums,
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  Yanny Girls on guitar, and uh from that Paper on guitar as well,
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  which is pretty awesome. But they were said there was writing his sons,
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  we bought their sons crap. So you know, that was just the project.
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  Someone wasn't that bobbed about, you know either way. All the other
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  stuff, you know, like the stuff they doubled Dennis and all that.
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  That is my old managing trying to be as clever come putting everything together.
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  And it's not me but the only stuff I'll take it right. With battle
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  Zone and with Killers, the same sort of band, you know, we
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  just sort of changed the name a little bit of contractful reasons and that.
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  Yeah, quite good. Sure, And you've been referred to as a heavy
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  metal icon with the heart of a punk rock rebel, like was you agree
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  over that? Yeah? Pretty much basically just like crashing with heavy metal head.
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  Yeah. I don't ask this question of many people, mate, but
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  you're probably one of the few people in the world qualified to answer it.
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  So what would you put as your top three commandments of heavy metal? It's
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  not three commandments of heavy metal. Ah, don't suck up, keep the
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  trying for the people who playing money for the tickets to come and see you.
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  H That that's one of one. That's that's the one number one for
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  me. I can't stand that. You know, like, you come into
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  a show and now can I have an all? You know, I can't
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  do that. You know. I respect people who you know you can come
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  and seeing it's amazing. Uh, treat them all with respect that It's all
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  about respecting that, you know what I mean. I know some people do
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  it and be ip ship and all that. I think, shut up because
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  I'm not involved in that. You know, I signed are anyway. You
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  know. That's another thing I really don't like. But my commandments are pretty
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  much, try and do the best you can every night. Uh. Be
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  respectful to the audience as well. Don't go to slave in the world.
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  Uh, and just do the best you can. Yeah, alright's all drugs,
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  but you can you can. I will thank your time, mate.
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  I know you hungover from last night, so I appreciate it. This course
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  kicks off on January sixteenth in Perth. I'm gonna come along in the prison,
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  show mate, so it'll be good to catch up. Revere. Good
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  oh good, excellent time.