iron maiden on live from abbey road

[woodyng]

anybody see this show? i have been watching,seeing a lot of new artists/bands and really enjoying it. when i saw iron maiden listed,i thought "well i can skip that part",ended up watching them perform 3 songs,ALL of which were really good,sort of a heavy yet melodic neo-prog. i was especially suprised at the sound that the bassist was getting. supposedly he uses a real heavy set of rotosound flatwound strings, and he was playing a p-bass fingerstyle,and just getting a hellaciously wicked trebly crunchy sound. from a p-bass...with flatwound strings....fingerstlye.....i was blown away twice,buy how good the group was,and the sound of the bass .....preconceptions flew out the window!

[incubus2432]

Steve Harris is one of the best (IMO).

[phlemmy]

Maiden is my favorite band of all time and Steve Harris is a bass god who is relatively unknown outside of the metal world.

[nattiep]

Harris is a god. he gets an amazing sound out of that P bass, I know, but you forgot to mention how incredibly fast that man is. I play a lot of Maiden, and I need to take breaks after a few songs. Steve keeps on goin.

I think a big part of Steve's sound are the compressors. Just on Live After Death he had 3 compressors. No idea what his rig is now though.

[sloop_john_b]

I've seen Maiden live a bunch of times, and Steve was one of my first bass heroes. It may be a common thing in the bass world, but I originally learned the "root - V - octave" arpeggiation riff from him.

In fact, now that I think of it, I had all but decided I wanted to be a full-time guitar player and quit bass, but hearing "Invaders" and "Number of the Beast" for the first time helped me realize that bass could be really cool after all!