{"id":659313,"date":"2026-10-28T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659313\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:06:13","slug":"it-was-a-tough-time-nicko-mcbrain-on-iron-maidens-blaze-bayley-era-and-how-the-band-shouldve-helped-him-out-ultimate-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659313\/","title":{"rendered":"'It Was a Tough Time': Nicko McBrain on Iron Maiden's Blaze Bayley Era, and How the Band Should've 'Helped Him Out' – Ultimate Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘It Was a Tough Time’: Nicko McBrain on Iron Maiden’s Blaze Bayley Era, and How the Band Should’ve ‘Helped Him Out’<\/a>  Ultimate Guitar\u201cI think we really should have helped him out by transposing the key of the songs for him. But we didn\u2019t, and it was a tough time\u201d: Drummer Nicko McBrain admits that Iron Maiden didn\u2019t do enough for singer Blaze Bayley when he replaced Bruce Dickinson<\/a>  MusicRadarNICKO MCBRAIN believes IRON MAIDEN should have tuned down for BLAZE BAYLEY<\/a>  Arrow Lords of MetalNicko McBrain says Iron Maiden should have lowered songs for Blaze Bayley<\/a>  ChaoszineNICKO MCBRAIN Believes IRON MAIDEN Should Have Tuned Down At Least Half A Step To Accommodate BLAZE BAYLEY’s Singing Voice<\/a>  BLABBERMOUTH.NET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘It Was a Tough Time’: Nicko McBrain on Iron Maiden’s Blaze Bayley Era, and How the Band Should’ve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[195588,25769,146,85,19035,46,409,65926,207205],"class_list":["post-659313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-blaze-bayley","tag-bruce-dickinson","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-iron-maiden","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-nicko-mcbrain","tag-steve-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}