Iron Maiden Legendary Guitar Player Adrian Smith visits Matt’s Guitar Shop ! Amazing Blues Playing! 

Wasted years is a masterpiece !

I think the Somewhere in Time album was heavily influenced by Smith. Really modal and different to the other albums. Seventh Son is still my favourite, but I feel Smith really took control of the direction of SIT and put his stamp on it. Sea of Madness solo is 👌

@@shredx81 agreed pal, both those albums dare I say are a step up from previous efforts, tbh, I lost interest in Maiden when Smith left, I personally felt the following songs/albums suffered without him, I know it's a team effort but he is integral for me, The Writings on the wall solo, say no more!!! Cheers

​@@getchapull4370 I think TWOTW solo is one of his best.

@@getchapull4370 100%.. I also think Bruce's best solo work was heavily influenced by Adrian.

Immediate Kossoff ......

He is the best n

Same as Roger Daltry 😎👍

Why the hell anyone loves fishing is beyond me though, but maybe I’m just not enlightened yet.

@@lb9029 for a lot of folk that grew up poor, it’s putting food on the table. I can’t see Roger Daltry struggling to feed the family these days though 🙄💰💸💵💶💴💰. It tends to be more relaxing than golf ….🤔

@@billyaitken7461 I mean, yeah, fishing for food I get. Fishing for entertainment is what I don’t understand

Indeed! A very Down to earth guy

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I find Adrian stands out from all the Maiden chaps as he seems to constantly evolve in his playing. Listen to many of his solos in the last tour, check-out RU-vid videos and you'll see what I mean. His solos from old songs sound fresh, full of feel, immediate, anchored in the present moment. There is an evolution in his playing that I don't hear from the other chaps. I guess playing the blues is part of Adrian's evolution and it makes him sound fresh. I can definitely hear the blues influence in his Maiden solos.

I sure don't care for the Smith kozen. I can take only so much of the blues.

But on the other hand, I love him in maiden. Always have.

@@metalEric69I was never a blues fan too, and don't resonate at all with that Kozen guy, but I can see the blues influence in Adrian's playing in his Maiden solos, especially during the last tour like I said earlier. His older solos seems to have even more feel than they previously had, and I think the blues is part of that.

He's always been the bluesier player in Maiden.. Murray sounds totally different.. Equally great but very diff style

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Indeed a special moment! Thank you for the kind comments

By the time Adrian was done, Iron Maiden’s best music was done too 🫣😖🥲, great music back then.😎🤘

@@billyaitken7461”done”!? Lol

Yeaahh His my favorite number one greatest rockk n roll

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Adrian turning 70, man TIME FLIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is born 1957👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@@garycooper3066 My original post was referring to the age of the guitar that Adrian and the person he was talking to was discussing. They both incorrectly added the years of the age of the guitar wrong. The guitar is a 1955, we are in the year 2024, which means that the guitar is obviously 69 years old at this point in time. Cheers.

Blues mostly and often is boring, but i know the influences on rock and metal and many genres, but most blues isn’t my taste! But i listen to all good stuff for me from any genre generally!

Blues is utterly boring. Agree.

@@osamaqtaitatBlues Was The Beginning of EVERYTHING ! Where do You Think the YOUNG Elvis Got “His” Stuff ? And I KNOW There Were Other Artists in the Beginning I’ve LIVED Rock Since 1956 and Didn’t Stop During ANY Era Always Been Listening to “New” Players: “Before Elvis There Was Nothing.” - John Lennon

@@rabarebraAh, R U for Real 😳 ? Maiden and Priest are Hardly “Special” ! Now if You Want to Talk About the ORIGINAL Sabbath OR Zeppelin and I’ll Even Go With Metallica ! Plus are You Aware “Helter Skelter” IS Considered the FIRST Metal Tune ? Man, You’re LOCKED INTO One Type of Music Go Listen to Some Disco SAME Mindset, LMAO 🤣 😂😮

Yeah that was way better than Maiden has been for 15 years.

Still remember a Guitar World or Guitar Player from the early ‘80s with them on the cover. Still going strong four decades later. Seeing ‘em next year! 🤘

Plenty from me

They got plenty of respect... Hundreds of bands were inspired by Maiden. Even Satriani was gushing over the Dave & Adrian duo.

​@@paulrockatansky77yeahhh...i agree

The best

Haha! That’s good then! 😂

Real legend and class act yes!

They all started out that way

@@airtechmech6681Your Reply is an INSULT to Both the Les Paul and Great Players Presuming Simply the Person Who Commented “Amazing” is Unaware When He Could Be Talking TONE !

NOT too Many Who Aren’t !

Yeah!!

Indeed

Because he knows that he have to go and play Maiden stuff later in the evening.Which must be a drag.

His guitar does the smiling for him. Adrian rocks👍👍

Oh yeah!

Yes! Mais elle va bien!

Paris

And me because they ain’t gotta patch on Saxon or priest in decades

@@JamesEvans-uh7nu lol are you serious Saxon and preist basically release the same old stuff every album where as maiden push boundaries get real

It was just a standard 12 bar blues run.

@@MercilessGuitar151Well the overall feel was very reminiscent of Pride and Joy.

Not enough cash,

Nutcase..

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Something tells me he's in the market for a 50's era LP like a burst or custom like this one.

Doesn't need one. I play half the time without picks for different techniques and style of music. Try it out. You'll improve your overall skill if you use fingerstyle picking.

@@garycastronova7939 I wasn't looking for guitar lessons, and how do you know I dont? Can you play 250 BPM without a pick?

​@@ScoobieSwisher7413I've totally never had a problem doing artificial squeals with and without a pick pretty, luckily for me, effortlessly, like once you can, lol you just can.. But for fast runs and full out, my full on fastest licks,I gotta have a pick.. Preferably at least a 1.14 tortex.. But definitely not a thin floppy thing haha..I used to break the tips off of the old fender medium picks.. Now I'm stuck on the tortex purple 1.14, reg size with the jazz 3 tip

@@jasonmorris3533 I use Tortex orange pics, I'm a heavy rhythm player on a 7 string tuned down a half step.

@@ScoobieSwisher7413 gotta have that turtle for sure lol.. The faster I got, the heavier and heavier my picks got too..I don't even know how anyone can use a floppy pick and play really fast precision runs

Check out Nico's Licks of the Beast RU-vid channel. He's just done a review of a Lado similar to the one that Adrian used

@@michaeldean7220 I have one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--AlVe4EN3rA.htmlsi=BNdHHHdvZsv0Zj-U

I've been wondering that for a while too. Adrian's Lado guitars, and Steve's bass too (Harris had a blue Lado) were used during the Powerslave era, but have not been seen for a long time now. BTW, Powerslave will turn 40 YEARS Sept 3rd 2024, 40 FREAKING YEARS!!!! I still vividly remember September 3rd 1984, driving downtown with friends, heading to our favourite record store to buy Powerslave on the day of its release. I remember hearing an "Egyptian sounding" guitar riff when I entered the store, turns out it was the song "Flash Of The Blade" from Powerslave. Good old days!!! And I still have that vinyl record to this day.

@@benderocks788 I hoped on the legacy tour they’d come out for a song or 2 to my disappointment they didn’t

​@@yeahwhatevermikeKind of like Rush playing Xanadu with the double-necks. I was expecting that from Rush in their last tours and they finally did it. In the case of the Powerslave-era Lado guitars/basses, maybe someone close to the Maiden camp could ask one of the chaps if they still have them Lados, and let them know it be nice to bring them out again for a song or two. Adrian had a nice one, the black one in the Aces High video. And I think he had a grey one too but I'm not sure as this memory dates back to about 40 years ago, and it's kind of blur in my mind as these years were filled with "smoke" for some reason 🤣

Brad Whitford is an AMAZING Guitarist With Far too Much Class to Let Joe Perry’s EGO Get to Him ! I Was Working the Boston Rock Scene When Very First Arrived and There Were Many Times You Could Catch Them FREE or Just the Standard $2.00 Cover Charge Then ! Whitford NEVER Argued While Playing But Perry Did Even at a Live Boston Garden Show I Was at After “Dream On” Took Off; Tyler & Perry Argued Live On Stage Over the PA for ALL Present to Hear….

C’était une soirée privée 😂

Indeed, he was in admiration in front of Paul Kossoff’s guitar for a few minutes, though he quickly knew what to play 😂

That’s why he does his solo

I grew out of Maiden in the 80s Bruce gets on my nerves

@@samright4661 okay.. That's great to hear..

@@samright4661 he said much the same about you which is why he left in 93.....ALL YOUR FAULT SEE!

@@jonybeam21 Well his solo music is so much more interesting. Bruce Dickson gets on my nerves! Adrian is very talented

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@@osamaqtaitat He did in 1990, then came back, after Dickinson pleading for also let Smith in when Maiden "begged" Dickinson to join again, after the awful club-based concerts in the mid 90's with that awful singer they had.

@@rabarebra yeah, i know the departure thing! But I don’t understand what he means!

@@osamaqtaitat How can you not understand? He means that Adrian left in 1990 to play blues. That's when he quit being a band member in Iron Maiden. Adrian had a reunion with Maiden in 1998/1999 along with Dickinson.

Ohh, so you could do better? Write a song like Wasted Years then....

@@ned1621 That's the video I mean. And what about Wasted Years?

Saying that, he is amazing guitar player, love his style of playing

He has spent half of his career playing and recording with Les Pauls

@@ManuelGonzalez-tv2obExactly, have these people never seen Live After Death from 1985??

@@bjrnsjohnsen1278 seems they haven't. His deluxe goldtop has been his main axe since the early days. Still using it in the studio and playing it live along with a black classic. On the other hand, Dave Murray looks weird with a Gibson for sure 🤣

he is a guitar legend your not

Who gives? Is he even known as a real blues player? No, he just likes it and plays it for himself.

Really? 😅😅 I love when people chime in and look like fools- haha! He played it fine and you can hear his fret hand articulating the unique harmonics associated with playing that type of Blues . So, either you’re clueless on all this or you haven’t developed your hearing enough, yet.

🤣you’re clueless dude! So many damn songs that have that same Texas blues shuffle of pride and joy! SRV isn’t the first to write a song with that shuffle and isn’t the last. Adrian was literally just improvising a blues shuffle

not true...

There is always an argumentative twat on here

You are pathetic... Judging a legend in his 70's while fucking around after some wine.

Dude, age comes for everyone. He`s still a legend and he wrote some of the best riffs in the entire heavy metal history. WTF

The worse critic sits on th side.... would love 2 see you play

You're kidding, right?

@@lovecraftmusic8717 In his 70s? You've got that wrong.