T'auras pas besoin de nécroposter, il va pas descendre ce topic.

Où avais-je la tête, c'était pourtant évident !

The first of the IRON MAIDEN studio updates from producer Kevin Shirley has been posted on the IronMaidenOnlineClub.com forums (accessible to registered members only). An excerpt from the report follows:

"After our first week of knuckling down and beginning to cut basic tracks, we had a very interesting second week. We've cut 10 long songs for the new album, as well as four songs for B sides, which show quite an interesting side to the band. Don't worry, there's nothing like the 'interesting-or-maybe-not' B sides which were all that were left over for the Dance of Death singles. These are great cover versions with a terrific and humourous spirit!

"Anyhoo, the spirit in the band is as high as I've ever seen. Wing Commander Biggles (as I call Bruce [Dickinson]) is running around like a chicken with its head cut off, singing every take live, like it was his last — 'Arry, or Steve [Harris] is sounding better than I've ever heard since I began producing the band, galloping along very strongly — and the material is definitely the 'groovingest' in a decade. The songs are very progressive, with catchy choruses and I have to confess to being VERY optimistic about the material."

IRON MAIDEN recently confirmed a full European leg of their world tour for this coming winter 2006. The trek will start in Scandinavia on November 9 and will include new album material which will be released prior to the tour. They are currently considering album artwork and the production for the tour, which of course will be in true MAIDEN tradition with spectacular stage production and massive sound and lights ... and, of course, Eddie!!

Là-d'dans, ia un mot qui me plaît, mais alors grave de grave...

Excellent !!

J'étais sur que ça te ferait réagir.

Mais j'ai peur de ce genre de déclaration. Progressif pour lui ça veut dire répéter le refrain 35 fois ?

de vrais morceaux inédits en face B ? voila une bonne nouvelle, qu'ils reprennent leurs bonnes vieilles habitudes

sinon, pour le reste, comme c'est MAIDEN qui paie Shirley , il ne peut pas vraiment etre objectif ... difficile donc de juger sur ce genre de commentaires .. wait and see

Non, Ultima, ça c'est récursif, et ils utiliseraient jamais ce mot je crois.

De tout façon ce genre de commentaire c'est toujours pareil : ça va être leur meilleur album, gnagnagna...

Non ce qui est interessant c'est les B-Side, j'espère qu'il y aura de bonnes covers. Depuis virtual XI c'est vraiment la misère niveau B-SIde, hors que Maiden était plutôt bon de ce côté là.

Je suis d'accord avec toi, à part quelques bons titres live, les Face-B étaient plutôt dispensables.
J'espère que l'album ne sera pas trop progressif quand même (j'aime pas trop ce style!).
Le mot "progressif" me fait trop penser à soli de synthé Bontempi dans tous les sens...

Ta réflexion me fait trop penser que tu n'as pas dû écouter les bons albums...

Surtout que dans le cadre de MAIDEN le Progressif va au pire se limiter au style de SSOASS: dans le genre, pour moi, on ne peut pas ni faire mieux (je veux dire beaucoup plus Prog), ni espérer plus.

Alors ça va!!!!!

Mais en ce qui concerne les "bons" albums dont tu parles, j'en sais rien mais je n'aime absolument pas le progressif.

Si tu veux me faire changer d'avis, conseille-moi quelques bons albums.

Merci

Le VANDEN PLAS qui va sortir, tiens ! Pour moi c'est un excellent album de Prog-Metal, très accessible et hyper mélodique.

Quelques photos de l'enregistrement (y'a pas grand chose hein) et quelques mots de Shirley ici:
http://www.cavemanproductions.com/IMDiary.html

Oh les pauvre vieux ! ils enregistrent leur dernier album dans une maison de retraite ..

Tu n'es pas très convaincant, j'aime plus trop Vanden Plas.
En fait c'est pas ça qui va me faire aimer ce style


En plus il est pas encore sorti, si ça se trouve c'est une daube!!!!

Laisse tomber, en effet.

c'est pas forcement génant ça qu'il soit pas encore sorti

Pour moi, oui!!!

progressif......j'ai peur

Diary of an album - part 2

It's another Friday, and time for another weekly update on the progress of the album. Thanks for all the e-mails, lads - but really,I'd prefer it if you got your girlfriends to write too! ;-)

Back to work. Monday saw me alone in the studio, going through the tracks and picking the performances, editing and fixing up the few blatant stinkers where necessary. Nicko has left the building, for the sunny shores of Miami, Flahdah - and kindly left us all with his stinkin' lurgy, so there's much coughing and sputtering around the console!

Tuesday, all the lads came in and I played them rough mixes of all the basic tracks, and they're sounding incredible (even Adrian was thrilled!) - then we went through who's doing what guitar solos where, where the Three Amigos are playing harmony melodies, where keys would play melody and pad - and the album is a terrific Iron Maiden album - full of trademark gallops and canters, hard rocking choruses - perhaps a little more tough prog riffing spirited about than on record lately, and definitely a couple of well grounded groovers in there too. Long melodic intros abound and the rocker that's probably the single, is as tough as it gets on radio. There's one about a famous eccentric and novelist, who's memorabilia is sensitively distributed throughout the studio for inspiration. It turns out that Janick is a bit of an avid collector and an anorak about this fellow, and he isn't Pawtucket Pat!! We call the song, The Rime Of Billy Bunter!

Wing Commander Biggles has been absent all week - flying sorties to Egypt and Sierra Leone.

'Arry been in a fine mood as his beloved West Ham are through to the quarter finals of the F.A. Cup, although we did have a loud and heated argument about a guitar harmony (it wasn't a debate) - he insists he's right, but I know I am! I pedantically threw out "I've studied classical composition" to which he maturely countered with "well, I don't give a toss as I've studied rockabilly!" Anyway, you had to be there and the moment will forever be shrouded in the mists of time....but most importantly the harmonies came out AMAZING, and I know I'm right! If he needs to say otherwise, he can do the damn diary! Well, we all want the best record possible - and then some! Here are some pictures of his rig - and the bass on this album is the best sounding it's been in years - not that he's doing anything different - but I certainly have! It's definitely going to be the best Maiden record since the great Martin Birch left the dark and dingy control room for greene r fairways. That's genius.......

As I mentioned, the Three Amigos were in yesterday, doing guitar melodies on a couple of songs - their lilting tones playing along the sing-a-long tunes that only 'Arry can write, and Davey put a solo over one that just lifted it into the stratosphere - with a Celtic lilt to get Steven Hawkins doing the jig! Today, I'm just waiting for Davey, who's going to do some more soloing, and we're moving along with him (not that he's in a rush), as his family are all in Hawaii and he must be looking forward to spending time with them, before the Maiden trucks roll out for the tour at year's end!

Anyhoo, that's it for this week - there's actually not that much to say - because that's what making a record is. The same slog and grind day after day. I only do it, because i can't do anything else!! If I raise the seat on my bicycle, I invariably strip the thread - even though I always have. My dad used to yell at me about being more sensitive, but I just don't know when to stop.........

Gotta give a shout out to me boys - both great engineers! That's newbie Alexon the left, and Drew, whos worked with me on Maiden's Dance Of Death, Death On The Road, and the Live After Death surround mixes, as well as the Led Zeppelin DVD, How The West was Won, Silvertide mixes and many more!

Until later...........KS