Rhapsody Blog's Jennifer Guyre has issued an interview with RON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain. The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: How have your goals as a band changed in light of your achievements?

A: "Oh lord, well, the goals now are to go make a new record and make the best album we can and go out and tour the album and have the best time. It's wide open. We love to play our music the way we play it together; we're very selfish like that. We don't have any obligations to go out and make another record to anybody. Our record company are finished with our contract; we're doing it because we want to. And our fans want us to go out - they don't want us to stop neither. If we want to stop playing, if Steve turned around to me tomorrow and said, 'Nick, you know what? I don't know if I want to go and do another record', we won't then, will we? And that's the way it is.

So no rest on our laurels; we've gotta come up with the goods, and if we don't then I guess we wouldn't go out. But nothing's really changed in this band for the 26 years I've been with them. And I've known these guys before I actually joined 'em, and they ain't changed. I mean, they get a little bit grumpy as they get older [laughs] ... but the thing is, if an idea is put to us and we know that we can do it to the best of our ability and we can do it physically, we will go for it. We would not ever sit back. I mean, am I the same drummer I was 20 years ago? F*ck no, I'm not, of course I'm not! I'm 57 f*cking years old for crying out loud! I told the guys, 'If I can't do this gig and drive this band', - which is my job, I'm the engine driver of Iron Maiden - 'if I'm f*cking slack alice one night, this band ain't going anywhere, it ain't gonna work'. I just pray and hope that the good lord gives me my strength and my stamina. My mind is going, it is - I've got to be honest. What did I just say? [Laughs] But no, we can go out and still rock the house, but you've got to give it 100-plus percent every night, and if we couldn't do it we wouldn't do it, so who knows what's on the horizon."

Read the full interview at this location.