In a new conversation with Andrew McKaysmith of the “Scars And Guitars” podcast, Iron Maiden’s bassist Steve Harris was asked if they thought about “tuning down half a step or even a step” during the Blaze Bayley era, since the band had to accommodate with Bayley’s baritone voice, which was in stark contrast to Bruce Dickinson’s higher range:

“Um, not really, no. Maybe on some things, in retrospect, we could have done. But no, we didn’t really think about it. It wasn’t, really, till we got out and played live that we realized there was a couple of things… The weird thing is that (Blaze) was really confident when we were rehearsing.

”And then a couple of times on a couple of songs, then we get out live and there was maybe an issue or two here and there, but in general, he handled it really well. But it is what it is. I suppose in retrospect you can do all kinds of things, but Blaze, he helped keep the band alive for that period. So we owe him a lot.”