Many know him as either that guy who works for Saul in Breaking Bad or from his Netflix comedy special Paper Tiger, but what many don’t realise is that comedian Bill Burr is apparently a metalhead.
On the latest edition of his Monday Morning podcast, Burr was gushing about seeing the Irons at their latest LA gig.
“I don’t think the band has ever sounded better. They absolutely fucking blew me away. Bruce Dickinson’s (singer) voice was incredible” he remarked.
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He went on to praise wholesome drummer Nicko McBrain who he noted was the reason he took up drums himself.
“You should see the guy’s drum kit. His drum kits are works of art. It looks like it’s made out of stained glass when it’s underneath the lights.”
McBrain’s current kit contains homeage to all the different records Maiden has recorded throughout their career – a detail not lost on Burr.
“Each one of his toms…[had] did a different motif of all the different Eddies throughout the years, all the different album covers. Despite all the albums that they have, [Nicko] seems to have just as many toms going around his kit. I can not say enough about how great the band sounded.”
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Burr went on to talk about the band’s famous live record Live After Death, noting how it wasa source of nostalgia for him.
” I watched that ‘Live After Death‘ VHS tape a million times … I watched ‘Live After Death‘ for so fucking long that it became a catchphrase between me and all my siblings, of Bruce Dickinson saying, ‘Scream for me, Long Beach!’”
“When we saw them Saturday night, Bruce Dickinson was going, ‘Scream for me, Los Angeles!’ Me and [my sister] just looked at each other like, ‘Oh my god. he’s saying the thing that we watched!’”
Listen to the full episode below.
