Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith
Adrian Frederick "H" Smithis an English guitarist, best known as a member of Iron Maiden, for whom he writes songs and performs live backing vocals on some tracks...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth27 February 1957
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We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.
The room is the most important thing about recording.
I've never been much for theory and scales.
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I think this immediately positions them to be in one of the top places for mobile media. The combined entity of the back-end platform and the premium content business is a powerful play. There's a powerful company that's being created here.
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From our vantage point, he definitely looked in, but the referee said he didn't make it in.
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To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.
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The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that.
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The real issue is does Chicago have the number of buyers that are willing to invest in a building like this.
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When you're used to seeing someone being coldly efficient on court and suddenly they go on stage and into your world - it's fascinating.
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We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.
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Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.
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A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
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The report card helps give us a focus, and it frames the dialogue for moving forward.
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I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.