As the founder of Iron Maiden, one of the biggest and most celebrated heavy metal bands of all time, it’s fair to say that Steve Harris has little left to prove. The West Ham United fanatic however, isn’t one to rest on his laurels, and launching British Lion in 2012, the bassist returned to his pre-premier league roots, swapping Maiden’s Ed Force One 747, for the confines of life in a far less glamourous tour bus. Taking to the road with British Lion again on an extended twenty-seven date 2016 tour, we caught up with Steve on the final date in Belfast, to talk about the band, life on the road, and his famed ‘Hammers’ Fender Precision bass.
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With almost four decades spent fronting both Warlock and her own solo band, Doro is the undisputed metal queen. Making waves in the '80s with the celebrated metal act, Ms Pesch was the fist woman onstage at the Monsters of Rock Festival in the U.K., a fact she still finds hard to believe even today. Taking to the stage at Stonedead Festival, we sat down with Doro for a chat about her current work, plans for the future, the messy court case that ended Warlock, and working with Gene Simmons. Burning the witches; Eamon O'Neill. Don Dokken reveals that his guitar playing days for good in this interview that went viral in 2020. Ice also talks about ‘Lost Songs’; “it definitely brought back a lot of memories, that’s for sure”, and plans for a new Dokken album. He also talks about his recovery from surgery, working with The Scorpions, what tore Dokken apart in 1990, and how Metallica kicked their ass! AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd talks to us about such seminal works as ‘Back In Black’, ‘Highway To Hell’, and ‘Let There Be Rock’. Parting ways with AC/DC for the second time in 2015 after a well-publicised brush with the law, Phil also chats about his solo band. “I played next to Malcolm Young for close to forty years, mate - I know how a guitar’s supposed to go”, he reasons. Paul Di'Anno talks about the health woes that left him confined to a wheelchair. Recorded in December 2019, he reveals that he may have been knocked down, but he's not out, but with the same gritty determination that has seen him through thus far, he's looking to the future and a return to live action. In the mean time, he has a new album; 'Hell over Waltrop - Live in Germany'. We sat down with the former Iron Maiden front man for a chat about the disc, his early days with Maiden, and reconnecting with Steve Harris. 202 and 2021 brought testing times for Steve Lukather. As well as legal troubles with Toto, the loss of dear friend Eddie Van Halen is something he’s still reeling from at the time of taping. “The world lost a guitar hero; I lost my friend”, he reveals, candidly. Despite this however, the guitarist and singer is in upbeat form, as attested on his radiant new solo release ‘I Found the Sun Again’. “I’ve had a wild ride, man. I can’t be mad at nothing”, he declares, in positively defiant form. Chatting the solo album, Toto’s final days and future, his friendship with EVH and more, we sat down for an extended audience with the one they call Luke. Uploaded for the first time ever, the audio from eonmusic's 2020 viural interview with Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith. Recorded for the release of his book 'Monsters of River & Rock', the guitarist talks to eonmusic about his greatest solos, the passing of Martin Birch, Recording 'Killers', the Def Leppard Question, and the failure of ASaP. In our May 2024 chat with Scott Gorham, the Thin Lizzy legend talks to eonmusic about his art, Thin Lizzy history, why Adrian Smith should have been the singer in '90s Iron Maiden, and why Grunge killed 21 Guns. Hellfest 2024 exclusive; Queens of the Stone Age main man Josh Homie tells eonmusic about his band's rise. From the press conference at Hellfest in France, on 28th June 2024. In 2021 eonmusic spoke to Rick Allen about his artwork, and much more. Talking about his early drumming style, some Leppard rarities, what Steve Clark and Pete Willis brought to the band, and the tragic accident which took his left arm, parts of this interview were included in the official Def Leppard book 'Definitely: The Official Story of Def Leppard'. |
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