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The drummer Nicko McBrain (72) joined Iron Maiden in 1982, replacing Clive Burr, who played with the band on their first three albums. He was a crucial part of the band during the past four decades and continues even after suffering a stroke last January 2023. He only revealed that months after the health issue and said that he was partially paralyzed for a while but intensive physical therapy regained his mobility. In an interview with The Washington Tattoo podcast (Transcribed by Blabbermouth), he gave more details of his stroke and recalled how it happened. Nicko McBrain recalls the details of his stroke "It happened on January the 19th last year. I was actually having cataract surgery that day. And I guess there was a lot of stress and angst, with somebody messing with your peepers. And I was getting them both done at the same time. In the old days, I'd do one at a time just in case it didn't work. You'd be walking around blind in one eye, not both. And I had it on good authority that's the only reason they don't like to do, even today, both at the same time. But I had confidence in the surgeon, with the way they do it nowadays. And I said, 'Oh, can I get done both at the same time?' 'Yeah, no problem.'" Anyway. So I remember I was watching some tennis on the telly. I was up at six o'clock in the morning, which is unusual for me, 'cause I get up about 7:00, 7:30 nowadays. And I got up and I was a little bit anxious. And I lazed on the chaise lounge, and I went to sleep. About eight o'clock I thought, 'I'm gonna have a nap. I feel really tired.' And I woke up about 45 minutes later, and I'd had this stroke. And I thought it was pins and needles, but I couldn't feel the pins and needles. I picked my arm up, going, 'What's going on here?'" "And I could feel [the arm] but nothing was happening… And I let my arm go and it just dropped, and I'm, like, 'Oh, shit. Something ain't right.' And it didn't paralyze my leg, although my leg was wobbly. Which is a good thing, because my foot still worked. At least one saving grace — God gave me my right foot. It's not quite as good as it was, but… Anyway, I went to the doctors, or they took me to the hospital. I had a whole team of people work around me." He continued: "It was like I was a superstar. And they didn't even know who I was. That's the sort of treatment that everybody gets when they have a stroke and they go to the Boca Baptist Hospital, [Baptist Health] Boca [Raton] Regional [Hospital]. They have a crew of, like, 12 people around you instantly, no matter who you are. And so after the MRI — they did a CT scan, then I went to an MRI. And [when] I came out, [Marc A] Swerdloff, my neurologist doctor, he had a plethora of students around him, and he had about six kids, young 'uns — I call them kids; they're probably all in their 20s or 30s." "Anyway, he goes, you've had a stroke, Mr. McBrain, I went, 'Yeah, tell me something I don't know.' And he laughed. And he said, 'It's a TIA.' I said, 'Okay, so it's not a major stroke.' He said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'We've got this drug called TNK [tenecteplase],' which, what it stands for I've no idea. And he said it's a clot buster, and it prevents any further damage being done to your brain that may have or that has already occurred." "He said, 'But there's a risk.' And I said, 'What's the risk?' He said, 'You could die.' I went, 'Okay. So what's the percentage of failure from people [treated with intravenous tenecteplase]?' It [was] seven to nine percent. He says, 'So if you have it, we have to put you in intensive care for 24 hours and monitor you every hour.' And I went, 'Well, okay, let's have it.' He says, 'Sign here.' And I'm right-handed, so I had to put a cross. And he said, 'Just make out as much as you can.' I sort of squiggled my name on a line." Nicko McBrain continued: "He gave it to me outside the MRI. About three hours later, I'm upstairs. And finally, I could move my thumb a little bit — the first thing I could move. I was in for two nights, and the day after I got out, I went for therapy, and I had three physiotherapies a week and OT, occupational therapy. My scapula had dropped and apparently my face was down here, although I could talk. So the only thing I had was a paralysis." "The first three months of a stroke is where you have the most recovery. After that, the next three months, it's a little less and then the three months after that, and so on and so forth. I'm over — almost a year and a half now, but it will be next week. What's the date? Yeah, 10 days' time. So I'm still not back to where I wanna be. I've probably got… I can't do, I can't do… So if this is a tempo, I can't do a 16-note roll going into 32nd-note rolls anymore. What happens is I can play eighth notes, like that kind of groove." "I can do doubles, but when I try and play that 16th at that speed, instead of going up and down, it wobbles from left to right, when I start playing fast, when I try to play fast. So I've had to adjust my fills now. I mean, I don't play 'The Trooper' fill anymore because I can't get it… It's the speed of it. I can do everything slow, but I've had to make sure that as long as I can keep the groove of the song, which is normally…" Nicko McBrain said. The post Nicko McBrain recalls the details of his stroke appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

Grunge appeared in the late 80s and became bigger in the early 90s, changing the whole Rock and Roll landscape and also taking the spotlight out of Heavy Metal music. Many artists even consider that it was Grunge that killed Metal music at the time and made the radio, the music business and MTV change their focus to these new groups. Although they were directly affected by that, many Metal musicians actually liked those bands and the Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine really liked Stone Temple Pilots. As he recalled in an interview with The Big Takeover, he heard them and then invited them to be Megadeth's opening act. He even had the chance to give them an important advice. Dave Mustaine recalls the advice he gave to Stone Temple Pilots In the interview he was asked if he usually gives advice to groups who open for Megadeth and said that only when being asked or when he sees something he likes. So he recalled the advice he gave to Stone Temple Pilots back in the 90s. "Mostly if they ask. I don’t give free advice because that’s kind of like playing God. If they ask me I’ll say stuff. Or if there’s something I really like that they’re doing, I’ll talk to them about it and say, 'I really like this.' I remember Stone Temple Pilots when they first came out, they had that record Core (1992). I heard that first record and I thought, 'Shit, these guys are good!' So we took them out. First show, I watched them and they didn’t do very good. I went up them and I said, 'Guys, can you give me your set list?'" He continued: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhu-OyHqZM "And I looked at all their songs, and I made a proper set list. So they had a super hot opening. And the only other thing I told Scott Weiland, 'What is this song right here?' And he goes, 'Oh, it’s an instrumental.' I said, 'So why are you standing out on the stage? During that part, go off to the side of the stage. Let the musicians who are doing an instrumental be showcased. You’re the frontman. People are going to look at you almost all night anyway.' So that was the only advice I ever gave them." "(...) Yeah, it did (The advice worked)! You know what happened? I was so mad at myself for doing that because that tour only went on about another week. Because after that, we got word that they had exploded and they were leaving the tour to go on a bigger tour. I thought, 'Fuck, Dave, you shouldn’t have said anything!' (laughs)," Dave Mustaine said. Stone Temple Pilots was formed in San Diego, California back in 1989 and released their first album "Core" in 1992. The band was originally formed by Dean DeLeo (Guitar), Robert DeLeo (Bass), Eric Kretz (Drums) and Scott Weiland (Vocals). That original line-up came to an end in 2015 when Weiland passed away. Nowadays they have Jeff Gutt as the vocalist.The post Dave Mustaine recalls the advice he gave to Stone Temple Pilots appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

The guitarist and singer Dave Mustaine wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth and faced a lot of difficulties in his life before becoming a successful Rock star. When he finally thought he could make it, he was fired from Metallica and saw his ex-band getting bigger while he was trying to do the same with his own new band: Megadeth. A couple of years later he finally had the chance to also form one of the most influential Thrash Metal bands of all time, None of that would have happened if he wasn't determined to be successful and as he recalled in an interview with The Big Takeover, he had no plan B. Dave Mustaine talks about how determined he was to be successful "In my heart, I had hoped that I could continue playing for as long as I live. The question was, how long was I going to live? We were all in this [L.A.] scene at the time that everybody was living super fast and dangerous. People like Vince Neil getting in a car crash and the drummer for Hanoi Rocks losing his life, that whole period around then — everybody was just dangerous. We had to get away from that. All I wanted to do was just play my guitar." "I didn't want to hang. I was not one of those guys that would go over to people's houses and party all night. If I was doing anything, I would do it by myself in the house and play guitar. Not that I was alone in my house, but you know. For me, I didn't have a Plan B. And I didn't want to have a Plan B because my Plan A was all that mattered. And I wasn't going to take no for an answer. Growing up homeless, and growing up a poor kid, does something to you." He continued: "So yeah, being a poor kid and going from house to house to house, and wearing hand-me-down clothes all the time, and living in a car for as long as I did, that changed me. And that's what I think drove me to want to be successful because I didn't want to be that guy. I didn't want to be stuck in a situation of being homeless and living in a car. I was not going to settle for that." "So that's why I worked as hard as I did. Some people will say I was callous with the [Megadeth] lineup changes and stuff like that, but with every one of the lineup changes we had, there was a really legitimate reason that we made a change," Dave Mustaine said. Mustaine is the only member of the band who was part of all the releases. Right now, the band is also formed by Dirk Verbeuren (Drums - Since 2016), James LoMenzo (Bass - Since 2022) and Teemu Mäntysaari (Guitar - Since 2023). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcPRqduJiwk&pp=ygUNbWVnYWRldGggMjAyNA%3D%3DThe post Dave Mustaine talks about how determined he was to be successful appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

The Queen co-founder and guitarist Brian May is certainly one of the most influential musicians of all time not only for his songwriting contribution to music but also for unique guitar tone and playing. He simply built his own guitar, the "Red Special", with his late father when he was a young kid and plays the instrument using a coin instead of a pick. Those characteristics combined with his talent makes May a unique guitarist. Over the decades he talked about many of his peers and even said who was, in his opinion, a guitarist who is incomparable. The guitarist that Brian May said is incomparable Brian May was elected back in 2020 by the readers of Total Guitar magazine the best guitarist of all time. Although he was happy about that, the Queen member talked about many other guitarists who in his opinion should be above him in the poll. One of them was his late friend, the legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen. In his opinion, the Dutch guitarist was incomparable. "Eddie is incomparable. He stands there as one of the pillars of the development of electric guitar technique. He’s a wonderful guy. And you know, it’s funny, during lockdown, you start to look at your life again. One of my regrets is that certain people, I think, I’ve let slip away." “I haven’t talked to Eddie for a long time and I really regret that. I’d like to change that because he’s a fantastic guy, not just a great performer but an incredible spirit. The spirit, it’s blinding, and again, you could never get fed up of listening to that." He continued: “Eddie can pick up any guitar and I remember this from the Star Fleet Project sessions. It doesn’t matter what guitar it is, he will make it sound like him! I watched him pick up a bass when we were doing a demo and he made that sound like Eddie Van Halen. It’s just astounding what he can do with those fingers,” Brian May said. As mentioned by May, the "Star Fleet Project" was a solo EP released by him with many special guests, including Eddie, back in 1983. It had only three songs and besides May and Eddie, also played on the EP Phil Chen, Alan Gratzer, Fred Mandel and Roger Taylor. May was shocked when he first heard Eddie Van Halen playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lC54X5Gc1Q&pp=ygUZZWRkaWUgdmFuIGhhbGVuIGJyaWFuIG1heQ%3D%3D Eddie Van Halen passed away in 2020 at the age of 65 and shortly after that Brian May talked in an interview with BBC Radio 1 about him. He said he was shocked the first time he saw the Dutch guitarist playing and that there was nothing so shocking since Hendrix. “There hadn’t been anything so shocking since Jimi Hendrix. I saw Van Halen support Black Sabbath. Tony Iommi was a very good friend, even by that time and the pair of us watched Eddie Van Halen do his stuff. We shook our heads and kind of went, ‘Whoa!’ [Chuckles]” “It was just glorious, almost too glorious to take in. To see this guy romping around a guitar like a kitten, you know. Just running and taking it to places undreamed of. I love his playing – I always will.” Brian May also lamented Eddie's passing, saying: “(I am) Completely gutted to hear the sad news. This wonderful man was way too young to be taken. What a talent, what a legacy. Probably the most original and dazzling rock guitarist in History." “I think of him as a boy, an innocent prodigy. Always full of joy, always modest and those truly magical fingers opened a door to a new kind of playing. I treasure the moments we shared. His passing leaves a giant hole in my heart. RIP Ed Van Halen,” Brian May said.The post The guitarist that Brian May said is incomparable appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.