{"id":428839,"date":"2025-09-16T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428839\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:12:10","slug":"watch-members-of-iron-maiden-and-tool-jam-at-a-family-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428839\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch members of Iron Maiden and Tool jam at a family wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members of Iron Maiden<\/a> and Tool<\/a> got together for a short jam at a family wedding recently \u2013 watch footage of the moment below.<\/p>\n

Last week (September 12), Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith\u2019s daughter Natasha got married in Tuscany, Italy. While details of the ceremony remain private, someone who was present captured footage of Smith taking to the stage following the exchanging of vows to perform a couple of songs.<\/p>\n

Joining him onstage were longtime Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain \u2013 who retired from touring last year<\/a> \u2013 and Tool bassist Justin Chancellor. Smith was also on vocal duty. The footage shared on social media show the trio jamming to the Jeff Beck classic \u2018Going Down\u2019. It is currently unclear if the trio performed anything else.<\/p>\n

Watch Iron Maiden\u2019s Adrian Smith and Nicko McBrain team up with Tool\u2019s Justin Chancellor cover Jeff Beck below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The wedding jam session marks the first time that Nicko McBrain has performed in public since retiring from touring in December last year<\/a>.\u00a0The drummer joined the Iron Maiden line\u2013up back in 1982, replacing Clive Burr, and played on all of their albums since 1983\u2019s \u2018Piece Of Mind\u2019.<\/p>\n

McBrain\u2019s retirement came as he suffered a minor stroke, or transient ischaemic attack, in January 2023<\/a>\u00a0which left him partially paralysed on his right side from the shoulder down.<\/p>\n

Following his stroke, McBrain underwent 10 weeks of \u201cintensive therapy\u201d in an effort to get back to full strength, and within months he was ready to start rehearsals with the rest of the band, ahead of their \u2018The Future Past\u2019 tour. He did admit earlier last year, however, that there were some songs that he \u201ccan\u2019t play\u201d in the way he had previously done<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McBrain played his final show with Iron Maiden in Sao Paulo, Brazil on December 8, closing out the set with \u2018Wasted Years\u2019<\/a>. The band have since confirmed that Nicko has not left the band, and will continue to record drums with the band<\/a> for any upcoming material they have planned.<\/p>\n

Simon Dawson was then confirmed as the replacement for McBrain<\/a>. Prior to taking over from McBrain, Dawson played in British Lion, the hard rock project of Iron Maiden founder Steve Harris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of Iron Maiden and Tool got together for a short jam at a family wedding recently \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,3981,269,453,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-428839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-metal","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-rock","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115213916181512916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}