IRON MAIDEN Drummer Talks Rock N Roll Ribs

July 21, 2010

Karen Bliss of AOL's Noisecreep recently conducted an interview with IRON MAIDEN's Nicko McBrain about the drummer's newly opened restaurant in Coral Srings, Florida, Rock N Roll Ribs. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On the quality of the restaurant's ribs:

"Steve Gadd, our tour manager, he's not a big rib lover. He came to the restaurant twice and both times he had a rack of ribs. The first time he said, 'I've never had anything so succulent.' The meats falls off the bone. We, as English people, are brought up to eat with knives and forks, but you can pick the rib up and just tap the meat off and use your fingers."

On his clientele:

"It's not just MAIDEN fans that come in. We do get a lot of pilgrimages, people come in and look at all the stuff on the walls, but most people that come in always come out satisfied. And it's not major expensive. A rack of ribs is $16, and you get a pound and a quarter to a pound and a half of ribs."

On how the idea for the restaurant stemmed from a barbecue sauce recipe he "wormed" out of his friend Rick Baum, and then "embellished it" with his own ingredients:

"He actually turned around and said, 'What you done to my sauce?' I said, 'Why?' He said, 'It's better than mine.' He won't say that today. He denies it [laughs]. When I cooked ribs, he'd cook ribs and all our friends said, 'You need to open a restaurant; these are the best ribs we've ever had.' So we started thinking abut it, and two years later ..."

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