Steve Harris says Iron Maiden didn’t deserve lone Grammy win
Again in 2011, Iron Maiden gained their first and solely Grammy, taking house Greatest Metallic Efficiency for the observe “El Dorado” from the 2010 album The Remaining Frontier. Nonetheless, bassist and founding member Steve Harris feels the award was undeserved — no less than for that tune.
In an interview with Miami New Occasions forward of the band’s upcoming “Legacy of the Beast” North American tour, Harris stated that the win was an honor — the band beat out songs by Korn, Megadeth, Lamb of God, and Slayer — however that they in all probability ought to have gained in one of many different years they have been nominated, versus that exact 12 months.
“To be sincere with you, I feel we ended up getting it for a tune which I believed was not one in every of our greatest ones,” Harris stated within the interview. “I didn’t assume we actually deserved it for that one, however possibly one of many others. So it was a bit off, actually.”
To recount the band’s Grammy historical past, Iron Maiden have been nominated 4 occasions within the Greatest Metallic Efficiency class, first in 1994 for a dwell model of “Worry of the Darkish”; in 2001 for Courageous New World spotlight “Wicker Man”; profitable in 2011 for “El Dorado”; and once more in 2013 for “Blood Brothers” off the En Vivo! dwell album. In 1994, they misplaced to Ozzy Osbourne’s No Extra Tears anthem “I Don’t Need to Change the World”; in 2001, to Deftones for “Elite”; and lastly, in 2013 to Halestorm for “Love Bites (So Do I)”.
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Elsewhere within the interview, Harris talked about his distinctive method to songwriting, explaining, “I discover it pure to write down on the bass, and lots of people discover that actually odd. It’s not the standard means, and it takes [the other members] out of their consolation zone. However that’s not a foul factor.”
Iron Maiden have touted their upcoming North American tour as their “greatest manufacturing but”. The trek kicks off subsequent week on July 18th in Dawn, Florida, and runs via late September.
