British Lion - Steve Harris solo project

[Jiscariot]

So, Mr. Harris has decided he needs his own band to do his own stuff and is releasing his first solo album in a few weeks... uh... this is not a joke, but still the question arises, doesn't he already have a band? Granted, he is not the boss of that band and anyways, they are not THAT big and not a lot of people listen to them and they don't fly around the world in their own airplane to do sell-out shows in countries that didn't exist before said band of which he is not the boss came there, but still... why does Steve Harris need his own band?

[The Strategos]

Re: British Lion - Steve Harris solo project I have to agree entirely! It seems very strange. Maybe the whole album will just be bass?

[Jiscariot]

Re: British Lion - Steve Harris solo project Well, according to [url=http://www.steveharrisbritishlion.com/, there are other musicians playing other instruments involved. But who knows. However, I can't really picture Maiden playing a song called "Us Against The World"... that's too on the nose, even for them.

[NTNR]

Re: British Lion - Steve Harris solo project I'm pretty excited about it. It would appear Maiden isn't holding his fancy these days and with everything they've done this past decade I'm not surprised.

[chicagometalhead]

From everything I've read (I have yet to listen to it) it's very much a classic rock album, so I think it's him just wanting to do something different. As far as Steve not being the boss of the band, that isn't true at all. Maiden is his band. Sure, the other members contribute but everything goes through him.

[The Strategos]

Yeah, all you have to do is scan the song credits and anyway all the bands members say he is.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Jiscariot's post made me laugh, that bloke needs to get back on here as for this project, not sold on it, surely Steve would be better off investing his time in fixing Maiden as opposed to doing some side project that will be treated as failing because it can't be as big as Maiden? unless this is Steve saying Maiden has become a lost cause so far as musical progression is concerned and so letting it die peacefully

[chicagometalhead]

Jiscariot's post made me laugh, that bloke needs to get back on here as for this project, not sold on it, surely Steve would be better off investing his time in fixing Maiden as opposed to doing some side project that will be treated as failing because it can't be as big as Maiden? unless this is Steve saying Maiden has become a lost cause so far as musical progression is concerned and so letting it die peacefully

You've got some major hate for modern Maiden, don't you? I still like their recent stuff except for Dance of Death. It's certainly not as good as the 80s stuff, but actually I feel they're progressing more through this era than the others. The thing with this project though is I don't think he's doing it for financial reasons; he simply just wants to play some classic rock, though I think he needed a better singer for this.

[RelentlessOblivion]

yes I do have a massive dislike for modern Maiden and I'm the first to admit it, other then AMOLAD they have not produced any quality albums, the odd song here and there like Paschendale (DoD) and The Talisman (TFF) but otherwise completely forgettable, Maiden could learn from Angel Witch's most recent studio album and go heavy, almost doom-like and do well but I don't think they can continue treading their current path and produce anything but mediocre albums

[The Strategos]

Oh, I reall wouldn't want Maiden to go doom. That would be so sellout. They've always veered towards power to me and that is generally how I see them, pretty camp and rollicking awesome. Nothing wrong with doom but leave it to the masters.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Angel Witch were a NWOBHM band that started the same time as Maiden (though they were a little faster and heavier) and you still get the NWOBHM vibe on their latest album As Above, So Below, the album is just a little slower and heavier, I'm not saying Maiden should become a full on doom band but if they slow things down a little, play a little heavier and keep that Maiden melody it might suit the direction I think they're trying to go

[The Strategos]

It might work but I guess I'd still be sorry :/.

[RelentlessOblivion]

just to highlight what I mean Angel Witch back in the day

Angel Witch now

by the way if you like the latter the album is pretty easy to come by, their old stuff though is seriously cult as shit and almost impossible to find on anything but vinyl

[The Strategos]

I see what you are saying. On the other hand, both those songs souded really quite similar so there wasn't a whole lot of the stylistic change which I think Maiden would need.

[RelentlessOblivion]

perhaps, but I don't think what Maiden are doing now is working for them, I personally wish they'd experimented more with the sound from AMOLAD and that songwriting, that's still among my favourite Maiden albums

[The Strategos]

Yes, it is a very good album. However, it is a little downbeat for Maiden for my tastes. Nevertheless, it is good so it may be the way forwards.

[NTNR]

I never knew Steve would let me down as much as he has with every Maiden album from this past decade but British Lion should've been called British Twat. It's just melodic hard rock done is the most cliched, generic, and painfully pointless way ever. Way to suck it up Harris.

[The Strategos]

Just listened to Judas. Wow, that is so burnt out creatively.

[NTNR]

I've heard enough of that album to know I want my 10-15 minutes back, that's for damn sure.

[The Strategos]

A Moleman from out the Simpsons wisely concluded when he though of making a similar demand "Ah, I'd probably just waste them".

[RelentlessOblivion]

I'm not touching this album, I've heard one full track and half of another and that was more then enough to convince me this is not worth paying for, or accepting as a gift, seriously if someone I knew gave me this album as a present I'd unfriend their ass.

[NTNR]

I'm not touching this album' date=' I've heard one full track and half of another and that was more then enough to convince me this is not worth paying for, or accepting as a gift, seriously if someone I knew gave me this album as a present I'd unfriend their ass.[/quote'] Ya, not a good album.

[deathstorm]

has anyone check out adrian smith's side project primal rock rebillion

[NTNR]

No, but he's a great song writer/guitarist. I've been meaning to check his stuff with Urchin out as well as the stuff he did with Michael Kiske.