Adrian Smith and Janick Gers Interview 

that's why they work together so effortlessly. Without a similar quality we wouldn't have Iron Maiden back together and as they are today

I don't hate Janick, he seems to be a really great guy indeed, but I don't like his guitar playing - simple like that.

@T D The same feeling regarding Clive Burr and Nicko McBrain; Nicko is a good drummer, but Clive was a force of nature.

@@aparecidacida157 yeah because you are so good at playing guitar,,no,,you are an expert,,stfu moron... he plays with iron maiden and he is a bad guitarist? ..wtf are you talking about.. just shut up..keyboard expert

@@aparecidacida157 stfu keyboard expert...you are irrelevant

@@toni29 Please Mr. Polite, allow me to ask you a simple question... Do you know how to read? Do you???? So tell me where and when I said that Janick is a bad guitar player?????? I don't like his style of playing, that's all I've said about him - this is MY opinion! Can you understand this or do I have to draw it for you???????????

Completely agree

Biggest in Brasil.

The Legacy. Montségur. Out of the Silent Planet. Dream Of Mirrors. Be Quick Or Be Dead. The Alchemist. The Talisman. The Book of Souls. 10 of your songs with Maiden are that solid, you HAVE a legacy. (And royalties well-earned.)

One of my favorites lately!

Great song!!! Worked a lot of midshifts back in the day in the air traffic oceanic control room with my stack of Iron Maiden CD’s. We didn’t use radios for oceanic, we did a form of texting and a third party provider did the HF radio for long range. Iron Maiden mid-shifts were bad assness!!!

+Book of Souls, Ghost of the Navigator

The book of souls along with harris! Genius player

AND the legacy

I was a white spirit roadie even before you mate... Original band members where the white spirit founders... Colin Thompson and Trevor Andrews and Crash... Janick Gers and Roger Carey followed and Malcolm Pearson came later...

Exactly. If Janick is as crappy as the haters say he is, Steve wouldn't put up with it.

30+ years now haha! I can't believe this is a 10 year old comment

34 years now 😂😂😂

Rusty Kuntz definitely. The other songs are cool but Adrian’s are the best for sure

Never lnrw that, I thought he liked chicks. But I’m not judging great guitarist...

@@latentsea I think they just mean it was him coming into his own as a songwriter. That would be the better term. I'm pretty sure he's married and has a daughter. Then again, you never know....

latentsea He’s married with 3 children. He’s straight

agreed it’s a shame bruce didn’t care for the album

Mike Z he was better than Nicko in my opinion. Not to take anything away from Nicko.

Nicko is definitely my favorite but objectively, Clive is equal to Nicko!

Fuckin’-A right. Maiden is a family and Adrian’s feelings (and the rest of the band as well, quite notably) about Janick staying is 100% what Iron Maiden’s all about. They made their bones doing what THEY wanted to do. Janick and H being together is just another example of it.

same. I love the texture it brings and boundaries they push, and that's what really caused me to want to play metal

From a technical perspective Smith smokes Gers and Murray, and that's no offense to them... Gers is a great performer and an extremely nice guy, Murray is classic and Maiden would be done without him or Harris, also I must add that Murray plays more "sing'a'long" solos so that's why he's more recognizable... all in all the three of them has something to add to the band so that's great ;)

Steve Harris always wanted 3 guitarist's. Bruce says that in his book

I love what Gers said in the Rock In Rio DVD about the 3 guitars. One can play an open chord kinda crash, one can do staccato rhythm (with Steve's bass), and one can play a melody. I think on Dance of Death, Steve and the 3 guitarists did an amazing job of having each guitarist playing a different part, then coming together for an incredible 3 guitar melody/harmony, like in No More Lies.

Janick is the best live performer Adrian is the best songwriter Dave is the best soloist

the problem is is solos haha. Especially in place of Adrian's ones. I agree The Talisman and Dance of Death are great songs.

Mr Janick the greatest guitarrist of all time, its so wild and play with precision, Adrián play with mind and thecknique it's amazing, and dave, he's smartest guy, and full of humildity

I find his songs a tad repetitive and the same.. Steve Harris is the best thing that happened to Iron Maiden

That was my teenage years Friday night rock show Tommy's voice was amazing through the hi fi

I got an old Janick Gers interview on Metal Hammer magazine from 1990, and he said that "we are friends, and even we played football together the night before Adrian leave the band" and he said that he tried to tell Adrian to not leave Maiden. Remember that in 1990 Janick played on Bruce's solo album and all those guys knew each other. Plus you may remember the "Flight 666" movie, and the point where Adrian is talking about Janick.

God I don't

jonathandavisleftnostril 666 here's a fun fact...Adrian is the best guitarist and song writer of the 3. If you dislike Adrian you aren't a true Maiden fan

This "new lineup" has endured for nearly 22 years already.

@@tobywoodard7 Yes, exactly. It's no longer new, it's just the main lineup.

lol 🤣you need ears,clean up your ears

I'm with you. My comment was intended to be against the whole "Maiden does improper things with farm animals because, because, because Janick." Because he plays parts of solos once done by Dave (in particular) and I was saying how good the six piece lineup is. I would have to say Dance of Death and the whole Death on the Road and Rock in Rio set of albums showed the whole Maiden family was back (new and improved) The Final Frontier and Book of Souls and live albums were as good as anything from the vinyl lp days, the Jurassic period. Bruce playing piano on Empire of the Clouds was so epically metal I still play it in rotation.The question now becomes without Janick would it still be Maiden? (Because remember Adrian was the first to go back in those sad 90s when they were all putting out "side projects". Dave Murray may be the only one not to cut a solo album then.) And Senjitzu is just awesomeness cover to cover. Don't know how Steve keeps putting out albums that are nothing like what I thought i wanted but just what I needed. I am so looking forward to the show. October 17, 2022, Worcester, MA. 👍✌🤘🤘👌 (I know it sounds like a fanboy gush but it really is quality music.)

sameeee

couldn't agree more

Or more to the point he doesn't play Adrian's solos :P

I got admit it’s awesome when Janick and H play part of Adrians solo together live now:) I think they do that on the trooper and I love it.

I thought so at first, but then I realized we already heard those solos many times. Now Janick tried his own solo and it is good, too. I can listen to the older ones anytime I want.

Mauro Valencia love the guitar tone in that song.

One of the best Maiden songs ever !!!

nahh the length is perfect

Smith is infiitely better sorry, as a songwritter, performer and soloist, and he is super humble and he has a kick ass presence on stage

only Jesus knows

Dave Murray for president

Same here!!

@Celestial Dragoness 🤣

No, that’s Nicko.

Thank you! I thought I was the only one who thought that. They keep everyone else young hahah

I think it's lame, stop the ridiculous dacing and play better

@@mrchow5047 learn to spell dancing first

yeah its the Gallien-Krueger 250ML, I own one of them

noooooo better sounds in the 80snothing compares too the classic line up

who cares

ditto

because their untalented poser Metal punks nobody cares only Member who was a beast and really great was Joey RIP Joey 🤘

No he looks like Michael Berryman

Brighter Than Thousand Suns Solos owned they both

@@NgimaddogvsSalepBabi nope. Dickinson, , Smith, Harris

1990

Adrian doesnt left they fired him

@@Endo-uu8mo no they didn’t, paul and clive were fired. adrian left on his own will

@@Endo-uu8mo Adrian leaving the band is more complex. He didn’t leave or get fired. He and Steve were not seeing eye to eye on the musical direction they were taking and they mutually agreed that Adrian would leave. So he didn’t get fired but he didn’t really leave on his own either.

😂😂

Who is H? Is Steve Harris playing guitar solos I don't know about?

@@j_freed it’s adrian’s nickname