Former
IRON MAIDEN frontman
Paul Di'Anno recently gave an interview to the Belgian fan site
PaulDiAnno.be about his upcoming projects and his thoughts on
MAIDEN's musical progression over the years. Several exceprts from the interview follow:
Q: How do you feel
MAIDEN would of progressed had you never left the band?
Paul Di'Anno: "That's a difficult question as I was never able to see into the future. However, I reckon they would have maybe had a harder more aggresive approach if I were still in the band.
Bruce [
Dickinson] is an amazing singer, but he never had the hard aggresive metal/punk madness that I have.
Q: Would you like to participate in any future
MAIDEN tours?
Paul Di'Anno: "Yes, I would like to make one final tour before we are all too old or one of us dies."
Q: [Former
MAIDEN guitarist]
Dennis Stratton is touring with
Jesse Cox (ex-
TYGERS OF PAN TANG) and
Al Atkins (ex-
JUDAS PRIEST) and are only playing songs from
MAIDEN,
TYGERS and
PRIEST. Some people bashing you of for being "a
MAIDEN tribute" while those three can do whatever they want without being criticized. Any opinion on this?
Paul Di'Anno: "Firstly I do not consider
Dennis is worth talking about, as he is a telephone engineer, and often works at weekends in East London pubs (just for extra money) playing
Robbie Williams and
Kylie pop shit songs, and that is not metal, so he should have stopped pretending 20 years ago and stayed with his telephone job and stayed away from metal. Secondly, I really do not think anyone really cares or gives a shit about
Dennis, and I am surprised he is even remembered by anyone, especially as his playing was pretty bad and very old-fashioned the last time I saw him play some years ago and quite frankly he was never really into metal as he was always a pop guitarist really.
"People can think what they like about me, so long as I am still here and playing to many many metal fans all over the world."
Read the complete interview
here.
