Steve Harris (musician)
Stephen Percival Harris ( born March 12, 1956 in Leytonstone, London, England) is co-founder, bassist and songwriter of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He is now the only remaining original member of the band.
Life
Prior to his music career Harris played football in the youth team of West Ham United, where he was considered a promising talent, but then decided yet for the music. Harris taught himself the bass playing at the age of 17 years himself and was influenced by several musicians, including Chris Squire, Mike Rutherford, Geddy Lee, Andy Fraser and John Entwistle.
After working as an architectural draftsman in London, he started his career as a musician in the band Influence, which later renamed to Gypsy's Kiss. Later, he joined the band Smiler in which all the band members a lot older than he is Steve Harris left smiler, as the other band members clearly made him that they were not interested in a bass player really, the unusual amount of use on stage showed and wrote songs. Then Harris founded on 25 December 1975, a own band, later named Iron Maiden was and still is called so. Over time, the band has become one of the most influential groups in Heavy Metal.
Harris is the father of six children, his daughter, Lauren Harris has also launched a music career and stepped on, among other things as a support for the A Matter of Life and Death Tour 2006, and A Matter of the Beast Tour 2007 by Iron Maiden.
Style
Steve Harris enjoys high reputation in the metal scene for his fast and complex game. Steve Harris plays a Fender Precision Bass. The Fender company has launched its own signature model for him. Unusually for a metal bass player is the use of flatwound strings instead of the usual Roundwounds. Harris suggests this with your fingers, not with a pick on. His bass he reinforced with a Trace Elliot preamp, a C-1 audio FR707 power amp and Marshall 4x12 "boxes.
Solo album
On September 24, 2012 Steve Harris published his first solo album British Lion.
Others
"Up the Hammers" or "Up the Irons " - these are the sayings of the followers of West Ham United - "Up the Irons " has established itself in the meantime as a greeting inside the Iron Maiden fan club. He wears today the Maiden performances sweatbands with the banner of United and also have the Iron Maiden soccer jerseys, where Iron Maiden competes at charity tournaments with its own team, very similar to those of West Ham United. His passion for the club is also documented on the back of Somewhere in Time covers.