Why I LOVE Adrian Smith's Solo on Bruce Dickinson's King In Crimson (With Playthrough)
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2023
- Covering Adrian's fantastic solo from this great song, along with an explanation of why I like it so much.
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This album is really great
You damn right !
This album is a masterpiece.🤘
It's easily the 5th best maiden album, and it's not a maiden album
Both solos by Adrian and Roy are absolutely fantastic on this song. SO MUCH feeling!! They are among my favorites ever!
I love all of Adrian's solos, he was on fire on that album though
Oh yes. That solo. To me, that like Adrian saying, "That's pretty good, Roy. Now let me show you it's it's done.".
I love this album, one of my favourites. A dark conceptual work full of excellent musical moments and performances.
Amazing as always!! Adrian and Bruce have a brilliant partnership. We can see that to this day.
Looking forward to the new album!
@@LicksOfTheBeastHey Nico, a wee question for you mate, do you think that the new Dave Murray white strat will be available soon as the new signature?????🏴🏴🏴
I love how he plays it live with the higher octave. The version on Scream For Me Brazil blew me away when I heard it the first time
This album is pure fire 🔥
I have to say I really love the Scream For Me live version
To me this is the best Bruce's solo song. And Adrian is so tasty on this solo.
For my money, this album is just about as good as anything Maiden has done. Roy Z is a killer producer, and this album sounds so dark and heavy. That band was killer - everything about it... definitely a unique gem. One of my top albums of all time, and particularly the song Book of Thel, which is one of my all-time fav metal songs. Great job on the solo here - I love when you take the time to explain the how and why... it's really helping me gain a better understanding of what makes this music so effing good. Cheers!
That's awesome!! Glad to know it's helpful 😃
And I agree - I absolutely LOVE Book Of Thel!!
Great record, but I’ve always preferred AOB by a fairly wide margin.
@@LicksOfTheBeast Any chance of a BoT playthrough? =)
Totally agree. An incredible album, and AOB that opening track!
Why I LOVE Adrian Smith's Solo on Bruce Dickinson's King In Crimson? For the same reson that I love the LPs, Accident of Birth, Chemical Wedding and Tyranny of Souls. They are perfect...
great video! Adrian is really underrated as a guitarist. Great points about his singing influencing his melodies. When I saw the title of this video, I could immediately remember the melody of this solo. Love Adrian's work.
I just love Adrian's solos on ANYTHING
Excellent album!🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
The Mandrake Project... can't wait!
Regardless of all the amazing Knowledge that you pass on to us, your love and loyalty to Iron Maiden is rather remarkable!
In case they have not yet done so, the band itself should show some sort of acknowledgement for your loyalty, study and concern about Iron Maiden musicians, songs, and history.
I am very proud of you and wish I could ever see you and your band play live someday. And if your bass player would let me use his guitar to play just one song by your side, it would be a great honour to me!
Warm greetings from Lisboa, Portugal.
🤘🇵🇹🤘
Superb playing. Adrian really is my favourite metal guitarist of all time!
You finally did it! Probably my favourite non Maiden Adrian solo. Love this one and its one of the few of his I'm confident I have down pretty decently.
I bought that album when it came out. It is an incredible album and one of the best albums, period.
AoB and CW: Bruce's masterpieces from the 90s
One of my favorite Adrian solos! Criminally underrated in my opinion, so good to see it get the spotlight it deserves.
It’s the perfect accompaniment to Roy Z’s insane speed.
Some of his best playing is on chemical wedding and accident of birth. Man of sorrows, omega, road to hell, and I love his solo on return of the king. Despite being a bonus track, that song is brilliant.
A true master stroke to get him on those two albums, and I firmly believe Adrian wouldn’t be the guitar player he is now without them.
he really improved and tried lot of interesting stuff while he was out of maiden, and he applied that when he came back, which is amazing
His time playing along Roy Z served him well... Adrian has always been very smart about surrounding himself with players that were better than him, and has always grown so much as a result. Murray, Roy Z, Kotzen... Gotta admire that!
Your attention to detail never fails, that's pretty much the perfect cover. Hats off! Maybe we can get the title track later on :)
This solo is one of those that out is to think how huge is the inspiration and feeling of these guys when writing these masterpieces.
And you Nico, fantastic as always!!!
Thanks for this video. Keep rocking, take care. 🤘🏻😀🤘🏻
Thanks bro! 🤜🤛
Always loved that solo !! King in Crimson is a master piece song! Both Chemical Wedding and Accident of Birth are great albums.. Adrian Is a Guitar God
I’m really glad you did a breakdown on this one Nico! I’ve always particularly liked this solo and love the tone that Adrian has when playing it on the Scream For Me Brazil live album. Such a great complimentary solo section along with Roy Z!
Great solo from a awesome album. The live version is stunning...It was the second track of the live set list, joined at the end of Trumpets of Jericho, both tracks playing in Drop A. Heavy stuff. Cheers
Beautiful execution Nico. Adrian is the most genius guitarist in heavy metal. Adrian and Roy... perfect duo!!
There is great guitar work on all Bruce’s solo albums.
Great stuff as ever, Nico! With all the fantastic coverage of Adrian’s guitar work, and praise of his singing, it’s beginning to sound like we need a complete run-through by you of his 1989 album, ‘A.S.A.P.’, which I find myself listening to pretty much every month 😁
Great album! Worth getting even just for the first two songs alone!
@@LicksOfTheBeast yeah you need to do something on this album. Some really great solos on that record, absolutely in style of this Seventh Son efforts, but placed in AOR songs. Crazy but it works.
Is this album on streaming platforms? I only found low quality cd rips on CZcams
@@ariskaraiskos8079 as far as I know it isn't. I got it on CD on ebay 10 years ago and it was quite expensive.
I still have the vinyl. Amazing album
Nailed it Nico, Nice work!
this song lives rent free in me cellphone, love everything about it, from the dark lyrics, and bruce's singing to the heavy guitars and amazing solos.
it's one of my favorites from the album, together with killing floor and book of thel, though my all time favorite adrian solo is "man of sorrows", gives me goosebumps
Same for me with the last 3 Bruce solo albums overall 😂
Awesome! More Accident of Birth and Chemical Wedding content!
Great Nico !
Yeah,nice...
Awesome ! Once again, you nailed it ! And I love this album so much ! Thanks so much for sharing your passion and knowledge. We all love it so much ! Keep on rocking ! 🤘
Me too! It's a ridiculously good record 🤘🤘
@@LicksOfTheBeast One that is still seen as an important record in the rich metal discography. One of the best albums of the year 1998.
Awesome! Great introduction and fantastic performance!
Many thanks and much appreciated, as always!
Chemical Wedding album is Bruces Solo Seventh Son album.
The guitar work in Chemical Wedding is amazing! Roy Z is also a great guitarist and quite underated in my opinion.
Curious… have you ever delved into his Psycho Motel or ASAP stuff?
Just noticed the Iron Maiden Lego.
On Scream for me Brazil it sounds even better
Please publish a couple of videos of full songs of you and your band ("Iron Maiden Canada"?) playing live.
It's great to watch you play.
Actually, a video with a full concert footage would be most appreciated, my friend.
Please consider doing it sometime...
Regards
I cant wait for you to touch on Primal Rock Rebellion
Hey Nico, I have a hard time being able to tell because of the lighting, but would you say the body of your Smith Jackson is more cream than white? I recently picked up a USA model myself and it’s very cream colored. I’m not sure if it bothers me or not yet lol. I was looking at old footage of Adrian playing his and it seems over the years his has also started to become more of a cream color.
Hey, sorry for the late reply 😞
It's not bright white...but I wouldn't say it's quite cream white either. The pickguard is white white so you can get a good idea of the color of the guitar in comparison.
Looks really good, I can say that much 😁
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I asked Roy Z on Twitter about how they played Trumpets Of Jericho and King In Crimson live and he said that it was Dropped D tuning with a pitch shifter to take them down to A.
Live when? 1999? I believe Roy was using a custom Les Paul for Trumpets, King and Chemical and for the drop D stuff he was using a Flying V. Maybe this was the case for Adrian, cause he was playing his Jackson V for both the Drop A and Drop D stuff.
That makes sense - it's the same approach I used to record the rhythm guitars for this video 😄
@@warhead5809 In April of 2016 I asked him on Twitter: "Were you using a pitch shifter for parts of King In Crimson/Trumpets of Jericho on the live album Scream For Me Brazil?" and he replied: "yes! boss octaver" with some lightning bolt and guitar emojis. I assumed Drop D as it would be easiest to have a guitar set up like that before applying the pitch shift.
@@LicksOfTheBeast Cool! In April of 2016 I asked him on Twitter: "Were you using a pitch shifter for parts of King In Crimson/Trumpets of Jericho on the live album Scream For Me Brazil?" and he replied: "yes! boss octaver" with some lightning bolt and guitar emojis. I assumed Drop D as it would be easiest to have a guitar set up like that before applying the pitch shift.
@@NBTKDA Interesting... does not make sense to me, but fair enough.
Amazing album, amazing song, and amazing job on your part as always. 👏👏👌
I'd love to hear your opinion and analysis on Reach out. I feel like Maiden should write more songs where Bruce and Adrian sing together (and not just backing vocals from H). I think it would be awesome.
Also, if you'd consider doing Psycho Motel's With you again whit Dave I'd be so happy and grateful. That's such a beautiful song.
And if I maybe so bold I'd also like to hear your opinion about and hear you play some Whitespirit and any of Janick's Gillan stuff one day.
There's just so much good stuff these guys did and still do and hopefully keep doing in the future.
I wish there was a full Netflix series or some such where you go over all of it from the very beginning. 😀 I could watch that till the end of time, seriously.👌
Have a nice day and a super week next week and thank you for all the brilliant work you do! 🙏🙏👌👌👏👏👏🤘🎶👋
1000 thanks!!
I always loved how Adrian and Bruce sound together on Reach Out! Adrian's delivery is perfect for that melody and Bruce's powerful voice really elevates it to a whole other level. While I absolutely love it on a personal level, I don't know if it would be universally well received on a Maiden album 🤔
I actually covered that With You Again solo some 3 years ago on Instagram... I didn't even have this channel yet! But I might revisit it at some point as it's a great moment in their history for so many reasons 😊
A Licks Of The Beast Netflix series? Now THAT would be pretty sweet, wouldn't it? 😄🤘🤘
@@LicksOfTheBeast Thank you!🙏 I think Adrian's singing could fit in well with anything they'd come up with, it doesn't have to be something similar to Reach out( even though it is a great song). I understand what you're saying though. But you know what I never understood? Why didn't Bruce and Adrian write songs where they sing together on Bruce's solo albums or Adrian's. I think that could have been fantastic as well. What do you think about that?
And yes, a Licks of the Beast Netflix series would be sweet! 🤘🤘👌
Sharing a lead vocal on a Bruce solo album? It's not something that is traditionally done on a solo album, unless maybe it's someone not in the band...so I don't see it happening. But would it sound good? Hell yeah!
@@LicksOfTheBeast Thanks for the answer! And you are right, it would have been awesome. Cheers! 👋
Adrian was a great counterpoint to Roy Z's shredding style, just as Adrian has always been the perfect counterpoint to Dave's looser, more Ritchie Blackmore-styled solos.
I remember an old interview where either Steve or Dave was saying Adrian had to learn to be a lead player when he joined Iron Maiden, that he wasn't really in that role with Urchin. I dunno, personally, since I don't know anything about Urchin - other than I think I saw a video with Adrian playing rhythm and singing lead vocals.
However, if true, it does maybe explain how Adrian developed such a structured, vocal-styled lead technique.
In the late 90s sometime, when Adrian was in Bruce's band, Bruce once said that he didn't think Adrian had ever played a note he hadn't planned out in advance 😄. But again, that's why his style compliments someone like Dave Murray so well, a guy who does a fair bit of improvising.
Oh I agree 100%!! Being a vocalist and having that mindset is definitely one of Adrian's strong points. He was also able to develop a pretty good technical level fairly quickly (some of those early licks could be deceptively tricky!) and of course being able to pick things up from whomever he may be working with, be it Murray, Roy Z, or Kotzen, just keeps him growing as a player!
@@LicksOfTheBeast Definitely. Sometimes we, as players, don’t realize how tricky something is until we actually try to learn and play it.
Of course, the Iron Maiden guys could’ve been referring more to Adrian’s then-new role as a featured dual lead “guitar hero” player vs what he’d been in Urchin - not necessarily meaning that Adrian had to “learn” how to play leads when he joined IM. ✌🏻
I think Steve meant that lead playing didn't come to him as naturally as it did for someone like Dave, who could just play over anything without even having to think about it - and actually come out with some really cool lines!
Adrian needed to think about things more, but the results were already pretty impressive! I always point to his solo in Killers as an early example of how creative he could be in his lead playing. That is not at all an easy rhythm to solo over, yet he pulled off this really memorable solo that fits so perfectly with that part!
@@LicksOfTheBeast Did you ever see/read the Adrian interview from many years ago where he talked about Roy Z watching him play in Bruce's band? And Roy told Adrian, "You have terrible technique." And Adrian replied with something like, "Whoa, now, wait a minute here..." 😄
But what Adrain was describing in the interview was complimentary to Roy, how in their time together he learned some of the more modern metal playstyles from Z, particularly the all-picked shred stuff, I think.
To Adrian's credit, however, he didn't let it define or change him going forward from there. He didn't attempt to become a shred guy. It was just another tool in his box that was (and is) used very sparingly, like that last picked run in The Wicker Man solo.
great analysis! i am happy that this channel was kept for only maiden related topics, and as for andrians solo.... now we all know why Bruce's solo records are not the same without him :/ he was a perfect match with roy, as he is with dave, up the irons!
Tyranny of Souls is also brilliant, even without Adrian.
@@davel7791 it's a nice album, but I wouldn't call it brilliant like the previous two 😕
@@ariskaraiskos8079 I would. It’s just as good.
Drop A? I had no idea they tuned down that much for this song.
Yuuuuup. Well as someone said on here, it's Drop D with a pitch shifter to bring it down to A. I used the same approach to record the backing guitars here. 😊
Nico, we might not be able to see Iron Maiden live again, I really hope they can release one last album and a farewell world tour after but It is looking grim with Nickos stroke and all. It sucks to see your heroes getting older
CW is a masterpiece!!!
For nostalgia value alone; what about the solo in Silver & Gold....
Love it!
The live version on Scream for me Brazil is much better in my opinion.
Generally I think Adrian widened his horizon during his time with RoyZ a lot, good for us he got into Bruce's Band.
I prefer the album version, but I do like the live one quite a bit too! H definitely improved a fair bit from working with Roy Z!
Drop A? Never heard of that tuning, even. I was under the impression that entire album was Drop D!
Yup! Quite a few heavier bands use tunings like that actually.
What about the 1st solo?
Winter album
My fav B Dickinson song is Jerusalem, what about yours chat?
I think Adrian added a bass string to his guitar to record this album
Ciao Nico, great solo! Adrian's performance is the only thing I like of that album as he gave it both soul and melody. Overall, Chemical Wedding is too Roy Z-oriented, it reminds me Subhuman Race by Skid Row. Not my cup of tea!
I find Tyranny of Souls more like that - even though I like it very much! Chemical Wedding I think has a fair bit of Adrian's hand compositionally.
Now do book of thel 😊
On a time Maiden was just doing CRAP, Bruce and Adrian were putting out AMAZING Records.