Iron Maiden, Dickinson: “I will give up before using registered bases”
While the Iron Maiden are preparing for the tour for the fifty career anniversary, which will stop in Italy Euganeo stadium of Padua Sunday 13 July 2025Bruce Dickinson has made it known that he would prefer to leave the band rather than reducing to use bases recorded in concerts. In a recent interview granted to “Classic Rock”, the singer said that, pscreaming that sooner or later he will have to stop, he and the group they will never compromise on the quality of live performances.
“Recently, a boy, our big fan, told me: ‘It is fantastic to see the Maiden still in business‘”, Dickinson explained before adding:
“I replied: ‘Yes, and we are really doing it!’
He then continued: “If it is not authentic, it is not Iron Maiden. The idea of transforming us into the ‘Disneyland Maiden’, using bases, some tricks … No! The Maiden must be one hundred percent real. And fucking fierce!”.
In the same interview, the guitarist Dave Murray said that the band should aim to “retire with dignity and grace” when the moment arrives, as the drummer Nicko McBrain did, who left the tours last year at the age of 72.
Bassist Steve Harris also spoke of the future of the Iron Maiden, saying: “Obviously we cannot go on forever. What we do on the stage is very physical. For how long we still be able to do it? I don’t really know. This question has been asked for twenty years”. He added: “You would like to think that your best friend would tell you, right? But I think we would understand it alone, if we were no longer up to it. And I like to think that we are still giving the best”.
According to Harris, in fact, the strength of the band is also in continuing to create new music: “I write continuously. I have so many ideas that it is ridiculous – absurd. I would not be able to complete them all even in three lives”. Dickinson echoed him and then joked: “God scandal us from making another album! But we are already busy until 2025, 2026 … so we’ll see how we will feel later”.
