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After more than four decades the Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain decided to leave the band. He first joined the group in 1982 after Clive Burr was fired, and since then was part of all the band's releases. In the beginning of 2023 he suffered a minor stroke that left the right side of his body paralyzed and he had the chance to recover more than 70% of the movements, but as he said in interviews during this year, there were some songs he couldn't play the same way anymore. Last saturday he announced that Maiden's final 2024 show, which happened in São Paulo, Brazil, would be his final one with the band. His final song with the group live was the classic "Wasted Years". To replaced him, the group picked Simon Dawson, who is for 12 years already, a member of Steve Harris' side project British Lion. He is also known as a session drummer and also played with the British Pop/New Wave band The Outfield. See the videos and setlist of Nicko McBrain's final show with Iron Maiden Caught Somewhere in Time Stranger in a Strange Land The Writing on the Wall Days of Future Past The Time Machine The Prisoner Death of the Celts Can I Play With Madness Heaven Can Wait Alexander the Great Fear of the Dark Iron Maiden Hell on Earth The Trooper Wasted Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VxufJ8pqR0&pp=ygUbaXJvbiBtYWlkZW4gc8OjbyBwYXVsbyAyMDI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhN3gWoBWiY&pp=ygUhaXJvbiBtYWlkZW4gc8OjbyBwYXVsbyBkZWNlbWJlciA3 50th anniversary tour dates (2025) May 27 Budapest, HUNGARY – Budapest Aréna 31 Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC – Letnany Airport June 1 – Bratislava, SLOVAKIA – TIPOS Arena 5 – Trondheim, NORWAY – Trondheim Rocks (Festival) 7 – Stavanger, NORWAY – SR-Bank Arena 9 – Copenhagen, DENMARK – Royal Arena 12 – Stockholm, SWEDEN – 3Arena 13 – Stockholm, SWEDEN – 3Arena 16 – Helsinki, FINLAND – Olympic Stadium 21 – Birmingham, ENGLAND – Utilita Arena 22 – Manchester, ENGLAND – Co-op Live 25 – Dublin, IRELAND – Malahide Castle 28 – London, ENGLAND – London Stadium 30 – Glasgow, SCOTLAND – OVO Hydro July 3 – Belfort, FRANCE – Eurockéennes Festival 5 – Madrid, SPAIN – Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano 6 – Lisbon, PORTUGAL – MEO Arena 9 – Zurich, SWITZERLAND – Hallenstadion 11 – Gelsenkirchen, GERMANY – Veltins-Arena 13 – Padova, ITALY – Stadio Euganeo 15 – Bremen, GERMANY – Bürgerweide 17 – Vienna, AUSTRIA – Ernst Happel Stadium 19 – Paris, FRANCE – Paris La Défense Arena 23 – Arnhem, NETHERLANDS – GelreDome 25 – Frankfurt, GERMANY – Deutsche Bank Park 26 – Stuttgart, GERMANY – Cannstatter Wasen 29 – Berlin, GERMANY – Waldbühne August 2 – Warsaw – POLAND – PGE Narodowy 2025)  The post Videos and setlist of Nicko McBrain’s final show with Iron Maiden appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

The drummer Nicko McBrain joined Iron Maiden back in 1982 after Clive Burr was fired and since then was part of all the band's releases. In the beginning of 2023 he suffered a minor stroke that left the right side of his body paralyzed but he was able to recover about 70% of the movements and improve more to be able to tour again with the Heavy Metal band. But during this past year the musician revealed there were some songs he couldn't play anymore the way he used to. Now, one day after the band's final 2024 show, Nicko announced that he decided to leave the band. Maiden announced that Simon Dawson, who has been the drummer of British Lion, Steve Harris' side-project, for the last 12 years, will be their new drummer. He is known for being a praised session drummer and already was a touring member of the British Pop Rock/New Wave group The Outfield. Read the Iron Maiden announcement of the new drummer Simon Dawson "As The Future Past Tour concludes after 81 shows to over 1.4 million fans, from Ljubljana to the Coachella Valley and from Western Australia to Sao Paulo, Iron Maiden are delighted to announce that stepping in behind the kit for 2025 is a name familiar to many of our fans – Simon Dawson, a former session drummer and Steve’s rhythm section partner of the past 12 years with British Lion." "A native of Suffolk, England, Simon first teamed up with Steve Harris back in 2012. He debuted on three tracks on the first British Lion album and all of the second critically acclaimed ‘The Burning’, plus the many subsequent tours in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, New Zealand &, most recently, both Mexico and South America. Iron Maiden celebrate their 50th Anniversary next year with The Run For Your Lives Tour starting in Budapest on May 27th," Iron Maiden said. About leaving the band, Nicko McBrain said: "After much consideration, it is with both sorrow and joy, I announce my decision to take a step back from the grind of the extensive touring lifestyle. Today, Sat, Dec 7th, Sao Paulo will be my final gig with Iron Maiden. I wish the band much success moving forward. I will, however, remain firmly part of the Iron Maiden family working on a variety of projects, my long time managers, Rod Smallwood and Andy Taylor, have in mind for me. I’ll also be working on a variety of different personal projects and focusing on my existing businesses and ventures, including The British Drum Company, Nicko McBrain’s Drum One, Titanium Tart, and of course, Rock-N-Roll Ribs! What can I say? Touring with Maiden the last 42 years has been an incredible journey! To my devoted fan base, you made it all worthwhile and I love you! To my devoted wife, Rebecca, you made it infinitely easier and I love you! To my kids, Justin and Nicholas, thank you for understanding the absences and I love you! To my friends that are always there for me, I love you! To my bandmates, you made it a dream come true and I love you! I look into the future with much excitement and great hope! I’ll be seeing you soon, may God bless you all, and, of course, “Up the Irons!” Nicko McBrain said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrm5KavmvyUThe post Iron Maiden reveals the drummer who will replace Nicko McBrain appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

After living in Indonesia and Netherlands, the Van Halen family moved to the United States in 1962 and since Alex and Eddie Van Halen were kids their parents encouraged them to become musicians. Their father, Jan van Halen, was a Dutch jazz pianist, clarinettist and saxophonist player but was not a famous musician. He not only had the chance to see the success of his two sons with the band that had their surname, he also played in one song the group recorded. The Van Halen song that Eddie and Alex’s father played in This full circle moment happened in 1982 on Van Halen's fifth studio album "Diver Down". He played clarinet in the cover of "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now", a song from 1924, written by Milton Ager, with lyrics by Jack Yellen. Alex Van Halen, who is now promoting the book "Brothers", telling their story and the story of the band, recalled in an interview with Rolling Stone that moment with his father. "He was so nervous, man. The beauty of it was that we were all just equals in the studio playing." What Eddie said about the session with his father Jan Van Halen passed away almost the same age as his son Eddie would die a few decades later. Jan died in 1986 at the age of 66 and Eddie Van Halen sadly passed away in 2020 at the age of 65. As Van Halen News Desk reported, the legendary guitar player once recalled what it was like to play with his father in the studio. “It’s so funny, because I couldn’t play the song for you right now. I had to read because there were so many chords, I just couldn’t remember it. So here’s my father to the left of me, sitting on a chair with a music stand in front of him, and I’m sitting next to him with sheet music in a stand. Mike was there, too, playing like an acoustic guitar bass." "The kind they have in Mexican restaurants where they come up, play in front of your face, and aggravate you. We had a great time. It looked like an old ’30s or ’40s session. I used some thick Gibson hollowbody with f-holes. My father hadn’t played in a long time because he had lost his left-hand middle finger about ten years ago." "He was nervous, and we told him, ‘Jan, just have a good time. We make mistakes! That’s what makes it real.’ I love what he did, but he was thinking back ten years ago when he was smokin’, playing jazz and stuff. He played exactly what we wanted,” Eddie Van Halen said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxqcWhym9U&pp=ygUWYmlnIGJhZCBiaWxsIHZhbiBoYWxlbg%3D%3DThe post The Van Halen song that Alex and Eddie’s father played on appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

The Who was formed by Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, John Entwistle and Pete Townshend in London, England back in 1964 and during the past six decades the band released 12 studio albums and more than 50 singles. It's a lot of songs and obviously, even the band members might not like them all. The vocalist Roger Daltrey, for example, thinks there is a track that the group shouldn't have recorded. The song Roger Daltrey thinks The Who shouldn’t have recorded The Who is one of the best-selling bands of all time, with an estimated amount of more than 100 million records sold worldwide and still is one of the most influential ones from the past decades. In an interview with Uncut in 2015, Roger Daltrey talked about some of the songs the group released. He revealed that he thinks the track "Dogs", shouldn't have been recorded. The song was released as a single in 1968 and was compared to The Small Faces' "Lazy Sunday". "Dogs’? Oh… [buries face in hands]… shit! That’s just bizarre. Actually, I’ll tell you what it is, it’s just Pete’s tribute to Ronnie Lane. He was such a lovely geezer, Ronnie, they were great guys, The Faces, all of them. But I think it’d have been better if Pete had just given the song to Ronnie in the first place. As a Who record, it was all a bit frivolous for me,” Roger Daltrey said. Besides the four classic Who members, that track also had Chris Morphet playing the harmonica and singing the backing vocals. He was a friend of Townshend and was the one who inspired the lyrics for the song. Morphet was fascinated by greyhound racing, so it inspired Pete to write that track. Two dogs are mentioned in the lyrics: Camira Flash and Yellow Printer, who raced at the 1968 English Greyhound Derby. The track was not successful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeOF_jjRMng&pp=ygUMdGhlIHdobyBkb2dz The song reached number 25 on the United Kingdom Singles Chart, lower than most of their singles at the time. The B-side was the song "Call Me Lightning" According to Setlist FM statistics that song was not even played live by the band. The song always had mixed reviews, with many people like Roger Daltrey, who never liked the song, but there were also some critics who called it underrated. In 1969, one year after "Dogs" was released, The Who released the hit "Pinball Wizard" as a single. The b-side was a track called "Dogs (Part Two)", but it has no connection with the first song. It was an instrumental track credited to the drummer Keith Moon. Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are the only members of the band who were part of all their releases. The original drummer Keith Moon tragically passed away in 1978 at the age of 32 and the bassist John Entwistle died in 2002 at the age of 57. The post The song Roger Daltrey thinks The Who shouldn’t have recorded appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.