Today, Fender debuts their limited edition series of Iron Maiden 50th Anniversary guitars. How often do you get a genre-defining band like Iron Maiden? Not often. How often does such a band hit fifty years driving the evolution of their genre? Even less. With a couple of highly personalized models straight from the band, the Limited Edition Iron Maiden 50th Anniversary Collection is a welcomed tribute to one of Great Britain's fastest, heaviest, and most influential acts.
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Two of the band's longest-standing members, Dave Murray and Steve Harris have commonly turned to Fender guitars to define the sound of their music. The Fender Iron Maiden 50th Anniversary Collection welcomes two such models with customized visions from Murray and Harris. With features encapsulating vintage-minded yet player-forward priorities, these two models express quite a bit of what the band has become famous for across five decades.
The Dave Murray Stratocaster features a memorable Fender build with important specifications for its voice and playability. Classic Fender features like an alder body and rosewood fingerboard align with more modern specifications like a compound fingerboard radius for hitting all the blisteringly fast riffs that have become synonymous with Iron Maiden. Stepping forward from its speedy fingerboard, this Dave Murray model features a suite of fiery Seymour Duncan pickups – two humbuckers and a single-coil – to provide all the power the band requires. These electronics are backed up by another classic of the heavy metal genre – Floyd Rose hardware. Onboard, a Floyd Rose locking tremolo bridge and nut step up to the plate for sturdy intonation at every step.
Supporting the band's theatrical performances and breakneck speed requires some real great bass playing. Luckily, the Steve Harris Precision Bass is readymade for just the occasion. The Steve Harris Precision Bass features unique Fender features like a satin-finished two-piece maple body and "U"-shaped maple neck for a definitively different feel in hand and over the shoulder. These deviations pair with classic Fender specs like a P Bass split single-coil pickup and a mirror P Bass pickguard primed for the stage.
