Friday, December 02, 2016

December 2 - Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

I told you all yesterday was easy... The link was the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who inspired Iron Maiden to write The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner for 1984's Powerslave album. Watch the advent calendar score board for current standings...

This is one of the songs I love. It is a long song, but the movements are weaved perfectly together by Steve Harris' bass. It is a masterful exercise in storytelling if you ask me, and one of the highlights on the Powerslave album. And the production of this song is awesome.

Speaking of production, Iron Maiden long worked with a producer whom I first am aware of having worked as an engineer for an old British blues band that eventually got reborn as more of a pop band. To make it easy on you, I will say that the band is named from the rhythm section (drummer and bassist), and that they reinvented themselves as a pretty slick sounding pop/rock band, which also is what they are most known as. The song I am after was released as a single with part 1 as the a side and part 2 as the b side, but it was originally left off the album it ended up on. Who is the producer/engineer, what is the band, what is the song, and what year and album did it appear on?


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