Steve Harris Bass Gen 3 And How Iron Maiden Changed My Life🎸
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- Part 1 of the trilogy, my big three bass heros all have signature Fender bass Guitars as I go through my Steve Harris Fender Precision Bass. It's version 3 but that's just fine.
Hear the story of how Iron Maiden taught me how to believe in myself and gave my life direction.
As I set up the Steve Harris signature bass I got myself as a birthday present when i turned 51 I recall when I was 12 in 1982 I recall a time when all I wanted was to fit in so badly. That is the way I fit in too, so badly.
Everything as it so often does, worked out in the end.
#ironmaiden #steveharris #fenderbass #bassguitar
00:00 Introduction
01:12 The three different Iron Maiden Fender P basses
02:04 Steve Harris Rotosound strings
02:43 Back in 1982 there was this cool hat
03:51 Then one day the unthinkable happened
04:36 Iron Maiden sucks!
05:09 The hat was gone!
06:17 Hearing Iron Maiden for the first time
07:34 The den of bad asssery
09:41 A sad realization befalls me
11:38 My mom to the rescue
12:42 Something I couldn't explain started happening
13:06 When I listen to Iron Maiden I hear voices
14:27 The bass is back together
15:44 Play test
17:09 Now the end of the story
18:29 I bleed Iron Maiden red
19:22 An unexpected surprise from Alaska
22:56 Now I know who's voice I heard
23:29 If you need any further evidence of how awesome Iron Maiden is... - เพลง
Beautiful!! You must be roughly ages with me.Yeah,being 12 in the early 80s was not easy. Being into Heavy Metal could be dangerous at my school i can tell you! Nope.I never chocked up even slightly!
That’s good because I cried like a baby while I edited this thing!
I will always be grateful that I had metal in the 80s to act as my guide. From Ozzy telling me that maybe it’s not to late to learn how to love and forget how to hate all the way to Metallica letting me know that it’s ok to break away from your common fashion, see through your blurry sight.
This is part one in a three part series about my bass heros having fender signature basses. I hope you like Rush because up next is Geddy Lee.
Subdivisions!
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
conform or be cast out
Subdivisions!
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Conform or be cast oust
Any escape might help disprove the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to sooth the restless dreams of youth
@@REXYLAB Do i "like" Rush? Oh Yessiree i "love" Rush! Subdivisions speaks to me bigstyley! Go on bro! Lang mey yer lumb reek .
If you love rush not only catch the next video in this series but watch for a video in the future where I restore a DW Neil Peart snare drum damaged in a house fire.
Pics on my Instagram.
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" be cool or be cast out"
I'm gonna have to dig out Subdivisions in a moment, I do recall
The lyrics you printed, but I thought they substituted "conform" to "be cool" on one of the repeats.
Shit. I probably shouldn't have put my idiocy in print.
@@saltpeter7429 nonsense, I had somebody get on me for saying for instead of too.
Close enough.
Amazing story. Up those fucking irons!
Nice one Brad. Kinda made my morning!
You will never have a problem getting me to agree to up the fucking Irons!
All right! Shaping up to be a decent morning after all...
@@saltpeter7429 that’s what I like to hear!
@@REXYLAB We need all the soothsayers we can get !
Dude!!!
Love your Story!!!
True Metalheads have so much Love, Goodness, and Passion!
Thank you so much. Have you seen the gen 1 video yet?
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Maiden set me on my path and literally shaped my entire life. Only for me it was two years later with Powerslave. Started playing the drums, did that for 30+ years and now play bass in my 50s! Up the Irons! 🤘
It sounds like we had similar paths.
Take a look at this one and let me know what you think. There’s a surprise at the end, no peaking… it’s worth the wait.
Bass Guitar Saved My Life! Fender Steve Harris Gen 1 MIJ
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No matter what happens in life I always feel like everything will be just fine because Maiden has always been there, they are by far the greatest ever
I love everything you just said!
That's it I'm throwing on my number of the beast lp as soon as I'm done watching. Rock on my friend.
Now you’re talking!
Love a good story, like as if your customer is hanging out while you do your magic, great video.
Thanks man, I checked out your channel and I love what you do.
I subscribed to you as well!
Telling cool stories while working on guitars! I believe you've finally found your niche. Well done, my friend.
Why thank you Mr. Awesome Possum! Next up, Rush!
And maybe one day restoring a colecovision.
Quite a lovely story. There was and is always something incredibly wholesome (yes wholesome), sincere and inspiring about Iron Maiden. Like you, their music got me through some rough and awkward times. Always makes me feel good. I absolutely hate turbulence when I fly and Aces High from Live After Death is always my goto. Thanks for sharing!
You might enjoy this one as well. The end is magical but wait for it, no peaking.
Bass Guitar Saved My Life! Fender Steve Harris Gen 1 MIJ
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Man this is great. I'm 31. Born in 90... So I missed it. All of it. But heavy metal has been my world my whole life. I LOVE hearing the stories of the good days from folks in your age range. I just like to imagine being there in the glory days, Hearing Maiden and all the others for the first time.
It was really something for sure.
But look on the bright side. I had to be born in 1970 to be the right age. So currently I am in my early 50s while you are in your early 30s.
That gives you plenty of time to create the next amazing wave of music that will inspire millions.
"Monsters Of Rock" at Donnington `88 was a bit special !
Okay, so this is one of the best TH-cam videos I've seen. Why? Because it resonates on such a deep frequency within me.
The Number of the Beast was the first album I ever bought...it changed my life too: My friends and I decided to learn to play because of it. Naturally, I determined to play bass because of Steve Harris and Geddy Lee.
My mother was also an accordion player however, sadly we did not have a healthy relationship and she did everything within her power to discourage me.
Nonetheless, I saved my school dinner money for many months and went hungry so that I could purchase a cheap and nasty Fender P copy second hand. I never looked back.
I could go on about my own journey and deeply personal struggles however, don't want to derail this comment section.
I just wanted you to know how much it appreciate your work!
Wow! I had no idea. Truly we are cut from the same cloth.
I am so glad you found my channel!
Also, my copy of your book shipped today from amazon. I did send you an email because I really want an autographed copy. I do not care how much it costs to make that happen, I’m happy to pay it.
If i watch your videos on the character development will it give anything away in the book? That is the only reason I have yet to watch them.
Absolutely love Iron Maiden. I was born in 1982, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The Number of The Beast album was released in 1982, and the music video for the title song was filmed at the City Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne. So in my mind, I'm the chosen one. Haha!
Also, for those who don't know, Steve Harris' West Ham bass is the same one he's had since the early 1980s, it started (if I remember correctly?) out as white, then black, blue, chequered(?) then the West Ham finish.
You must be the chosen one because I knew all that but I thought it started out black!
So cool how Maiden brings so many people together!
Super sweet!
Well being that you’re super sweet all I can say is it takes one to know one.
Wow, such a great story. And you are a great story teller!
Thank you so much. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
This is part one in my series “my three big bass heros all have a fender signature bass”.
I hope you like Rush because next up is Geddy Lee.
Great story!!
Thank you so much! There are two more coming in this series, I hope you subscribe.
Haha great story man...nice jog down memory lane....my friends older brother turned us onto Maiden with Piece of Mind....soon as he dropped the needle we were hooked....the rest is history....UP THE IRONS BROTHER!!!! 🤘🤘🤘
Anyone that loves Iron Maiden is just fine by me.
Looking forward to getting the other two Steve Harris basses. But as a bonus I have a red Ibanez Destroyer 2 and a black Ibanez roadster bass just like the ones Steve and Adrian played back in the day.
Up the Irons! Eddie and co. Changed my life, set me on a unique path.
If you get it there's no need for explanation, if it has to be explained...forget it.
I'm living in a van down by the river!
But the music is kickass dude.
I have an original double album " live after death" lp behind me on top of my amp as I type this. A few years ago my cat got pissed off that I didnt feed her on time (whatever, spoiled), and she went and took little chomps out of the extensive tour booklet and awesome inlay picture package that came with the record! Little teeth Mark's all over it. Crazy? I swear they know things. But the Ozzy DIARY OF A MADMAN Lp that sits right next to it went untouched. The perceived law of demonic attraction perhaps has vindicated Oz on this one occasion when pitted against Iron Maiden.
I too have that album and saw the show when they came to my hometown.
Unfortunately… I helped a guy light his joint that was super wasted and he was so grateful he offered me a hit. I only took one toke but it was laced with something and I wound up not remembering the show at all.
When I got the vhs I could remember little bits of it but that night is still a mystery.
@@REXYLAB when I was a teenager I recall smoking some weed laced with " dust". Room spinning around me, puking all over the place. Not such a great idea huh? Lol. Lesson learned, keep it REAL simple. I loved your tribute to my favorite band of all time, for me it was an older brother thing. Being 5 years older, I thought he was the coolest guy in the world, hair almost down to his ass, heavy metal and smoking pot out of beer cans. He had posters of Eddie in our shared bedroom and they scared the heck out of me! All it took. I was a little Ozzy nut, so when I heard Maiden I recognized the classical influence on some of the lead guitar passages. I didnt know then what I was identifying with, I just knew that I heard a similar brilliant beautiful melodocism. That's where it's at.
Was I your older brother? Because that sounds like me after my transformation from dorky little kid being pushed around to a hair farmer that took no shit.
Iron Maiden definitely introduced me to a much larger world. My parents sure hated it, so much so that the copy of Number of the Beast getting broken and standing up for myself got me taken away by the police at my parents request. They got a state appointed counselor and everything to try to “fix” me. It was quite an ordeal but it wound up with me getting to play bass.
Perhaps that would make a good video some day.
Yeah, lesson learned about smoking weed with strangers at concerts. I don’t do anything when seeing someone I love.
Next one is already edited and ready to be posted, it’s on Rush. Then after that is the first player Fender ever made a signature bass for. I hope you subscribe so you don’t miss any of it.
@@REXYLAB I will definitely subscribe, my good man. And... I was a ward of the state, ie removed to juvenile placement facilities at the age of 13. My hippie hypocrite mother would say " you smell like smoke. I hate that evil " chauvinist" metal music you are listening to".
A simple " fuck off" and here come the cops. For real, used the police to try and tame me. Oh well.
Live and learn. I dont think metal music was a negative influence in my life, no one wanted to look at the broken and malignant home I was coming up in, so it was a big redirect: blame heavy metal.
I earned my stripes though, not innocent. I ended up working with delinquent youth in one of the same facilities that I had been sent to. Tried helping the kids, thought my first hand experience and empathy would be useful but, nope, same busted backwards system it was 30 years ago.
Life is good.
Got my own family now.
Grateful to God.
Look forward to the Rush episode!
Ok, maybe I wasn’t your older brother. Maybe I was you!
My granola eating beatnik parents didn’t believe in spanking but they sure believed in using the system to discipline me.
Lazy fuckers.
I believe that metal music from the 80s created lots of self reliant, incredibly self reliant people.
You don’t learn life lessons from kajagoogoo.
You must be the same age as me!
I have some weird stories, psychic stuff to do with bands too.
BTW, the neck shouldn't be straight at all unless the strings are off and you are stoning the frets. Strings oscillate in an oval pattern so there is supposed to be a bow in the neck, all stringed instruments have this thoug on guitar it is subtle.
If you are in your early 50s then yes, I’m 52.
About the neck, it’s a common misconception about needing relief, it can be straight. That’s just one of those things spread by guitar magazines first and the internet now. I used to believe it myself but it’s not true, straight is fine if you like it straight in most cases, and I like my neck straight.
I see , the graphics are like you are wearing a big Can of Copenhagen with a brim , lol , I like it
The funny thing is that all my friends wound up dipping but I never did.
Thought the stuff was super gross! Especially Copenhagen.
@@REXYLAB I chewed for a bunch of years and gave it Up over 30 years ago and it was gross , have you ever heard the Copenhagen Song by Robert Earl Keen ? Give it a listen , Take Care
I’ll look it up now.
Great story friend.
Did you become a commercial diver at The Ocean Corporation in Houston?
Thanks, I went o D. I. T. In Seattle.
@@REXYLAB Ah okay, cool. I'm in Galveston. Had a friend that was an instructor at the Ocean Corp.
@@j.d.leslie8458 there are only a hand full of schools so I could have easily gone there.
@@REXYLAB Yes, when you said you were diving in the gulf I thought of the Houston school.