#029 - Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith, Monsters of River and Rock

Korda - The Thinking Tackle Podcast

Korda Developments Ltd

Hobbies, Leisure

4.8 • 565 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Adrian Smith is the lead guitarist with the heavy metal band, Iron Maiden. The group has sold over 100 million albums and played over 2000 live shows. Away from the high octane demands of his music career, he is a compulsive angler and enjoys targeting fish of all species. He has recently released his book titled "Monsters of River and Rock". The book gives a delightful insight into the world of heavy metal music, combined with the tranquillity and thrill of being an obsessive fishing enthusiast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Thinking Tackle podcast. If you like this show, then please be sure to subscribe
0:13.4	so you don't miss our latest episodes. And please leave a review too, as we would love to hear
0:18.6	from you. Now, today's guest isn't just an angler.
0:22.2	He's also a member of one of the biggest heavy metal bands of all time. Along with a highly
0:26.9	successful music career, he's also a compulsive angler with a host of specimen-sized fish under
0:32.4	its bout, including carp to over £40. As you can imagine, our guest has lived a life
0:38.0	and there's no shortage of fishing and music experiences to share with us all today.
0:42.7	I'm hugely grateful to welcome onto the podcast.
0:46.0	I am Maidens, Adrian Smith.
0:50.7	The Thinking Tackle Podcast.
1:00.6	It's fishing. The Thinking Tackle podcast We were fishing a couple of weeks ago on Norton Disney.
1:03.4	We were supposed to go to Gigantica for his 50th birthday.
1:06.0	And we couldn't go.
1:08.2	So we all went to Norton Disney instead.
1:28.1	And you think, you know, you've got a complex with Lexington, which is just crammed with fish. Yeah. And we had the whole complex for the week. So most of us were like coming and going doing a few nights. He stayed there from the Sunday. Really? He was there on the Friday when I went. And he's still like, oh, he had some trout pellets out. And he said, oh, look out there. You can see they're just bleeding on me at the moment.
1:28.5	Wow.
1:29.5	He was just super.
1:30.5	He's mad for it still.
1:44.5	It still just goes all the time. That's great. Yeah, he is super passionate. Yeah. I wonder what that would be like to just be able to maintain that sort of enthusiasm, actually. Wow, yeah. I mean, I felt mine if usually hasn'ting off a little bit because uh well did that i was
1:47.2	obsessed with this big tints for about 10 years and not having that uh motivation is i really miss it
1:53.6	you know it's nothing i i don't have a target so you know you need something to drive you along a
1:59.4	little bit yeah i do i do a little bit. Yeah, I do. I do a little bit.
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