Listen with Nicko
Jul. 25th, 2009 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnSince the turn of the millennium Iron Maiden have been drifting into a comfortable kind of senility, as you might well expect seeing as their youngest member is now 52 years old. Their bonus tracks and B-sides have always had something of a sense of humour to them, including things like a "tribute" song to their manager, detailing what an overweight lazy Yorkshireman he is. More recently the trend has been more towards sprawling experimental tracks with names like More Tea Vicar and Pass the Jam - and also this, which I first heard the other week...
Drumming lunatic Nicko McBrain stumbling through the vocals of Age of Innocence without the benefit of knowing the tune. Highlights include him singing the guitar solos that haven't yet been recorded, inventing lyrics when he loses his place, and eventually collapsing entirely and just providing commentary for the rest of the song.
(I've linked it to start 1:20 through because that's where it starts getting really good, and also because the prior photographs include horrific uncensored imagery of him in trunks.)
Drumming lunatic Nicko McBrain stumbling through the vocals of Age of Innocence without the benefit of knowing the tune. Highlights include him singing the guitar solos that haven't yet been recorded, inventing lyrics when he loses his place, and eventually collapsing entirely and just providing commentary for the rest of the song.
(I've linked it to start 1:20 through because that's where it starts getting really good, and also because the prior photographs include horrific uncensored imagery of him in trunks.)
