Speaking to SiriusXM‘s Eddie Trunk earlier this week, Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris said about Tipton:
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“He’d come to see us play with BRITISH LION [Steve‘s side project] a couple of years ago in Birmingham and we had a good chat then, and he seemed pretty good, to be honest. But I think it’s been up and down with it over the years and it’s just probably got to the point now where he can’t really carry on, which is really sad. But maybe he’ll be… I don’t know if he’ll be out performing [with the band again]. He’s indicated he might be able to do a couple of songs here and there.”
Harris also spoke about MAIDEN‘s longevity and once again reiterated his stance that the band has absolutely no plans of retiring. Asked if he thought when he first formed MAIDEN more than four decades ago that the group would still be around this many years later, the bassist responded: “No, not at all. I mean, you don’t think that far in back then — you just think about the next album and the next tour. So that’s how we’ve been carrying on, really. I’ve been asked that question so many times since 20 years ago: ‘How long are you gonna carry on for?’ I don’t know. We’ll carry on as long as we can. These days, I suppose, you’ve gotta look at everybody’s health and there’s things that might be out of our hands [that might determine] as to whether we carry on or not. But if we can physically carry on, we’ll carry on [for a long time].”