Adrian Smith Takes You Backstage with Iron Maiden

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith talks Maiden live shows from the props to the set list! He shares the songs he enjoys playing most, the ones that are a bit challenging, and how Maiden adapted the music to fit their three-guitar approach when Adrian and Bruce rejoined the band in 1999. Adrian recounts the circumstances that brought both he and Bruce back to Maiden, the band’s reaction to Bruce’s cancer scare, and what happened when Johnny Cash turned up at an Iron Maiden soundcheck!

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0:00.0	Hey man, how you doing? Chris, how are you, mate? It's always a pleasure to talk to you,
0:19.6	Mr. Smith. Here's the funny thing too, as we just jump right into this. You're actually
0:25.4	in Winnipeg right now, which is the coincidence of all coincidences. I'll be there in about
0:31.6	five hours, Chris. Okay, but you're you're playing there tonight, mate. That's right, yeah.
0:37.8	So how does it work? Do you guys just fly from town to town still? Yeah, yeah, no more
0:43.0	tour buses for us. Leave that for the time on tour buses. Yeah, leave that for the kids,
0:49.6	right? Yeah, yeah. It's pretty funny though. I don't know if you remember this. I've told you
0:54.9	the story before, but probably I think 1987 when you guys were in Winnipeg for, I guess it's
1:02.2	somewhere on time tour. My friend found out what hotel you guys were staying in and somehow I ended
1:09.3	up on the right floor and just started knocking on random doors and lo and behold, I knocked on yours.
1:17.7	And you answered, yeah, you answered, you had your hair, you actually weren't. Yeah,
1:23.9	if you consider with some punk kid knocking at your door, you had your hair wrapped up in a towel.
1:29.7	Oh, really? Yeah, and I said, can I take a picture with you? And you said, I just got out of the
1:34.0	shower. And then you close the door and I was like, what does that mean? Should I wait? Or what
1:44.6	should I do? Do you still have moments like that on the road where overzealous fans find out
1:53.7	where you guys are staying and try and knock on your doors or that's a lovely story. It's so
1:58.8	innocent. The trouble is now you get people, they find out what hotel you're in and they're
2:03.8	professional autograph hunters as you probably know yourself. Right. And they hijacked you as soon
2:10.6	as you sit for outside. Then you can tell them straight away because they just don't look like
2:15.0	fans. They've got bags and bags of memorabilia that they want you to sign so they can sell it.
2:20.6	And that is a thing that really ticks most of us off. Because the genuine fans like,
2:27.0	the kid that knocks on my door is kind of, is all right, but these people spoil it for it. Because
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