IRON MAIDEN Drummer on Owning A Restaurant: 'I'm Really Enjoying It'
January 11, 2010Hart Baur of MiamiHerald.com 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.
MiamiHerald.com: This started with a backyard cookout?
McBrain: "Rick Baum [Nicko's close friend, guitarist, and restaurateur] and I used to have the rib cook-offs all the time. Rick always made the best ribs and I always tried to find out how he made them and he wouldn't tell me for years his secret. So he finally told me how he made them, and I prepped it with him, and added some English ingredients and they were so good our friends said you guys ought to open a restaurant. We looked at each other and thought, that ain't a bad idea! Rock N Roll Ribs!"
MiamiHerald.com: How did it move from there?
McBrain: "Over the years, we gradually got things together. Rick went shopping around the area and we found this wonderful establishment — it's very small and it suits us as we didn't want to go too big. We just wanted to get as many people as we could interested in enjoying our food."
MiamiHerald.com: Compare playing with IRON MAIDEN and owning a restaurant.
McBrain: "It's tough. You know, playing drums for IRON MAIDEN two hours a night, that's a stretch. But here I go home at the end of the day after being here almost 12 hours and I'm absolutely shagged."
MiamiHerald.com: Enjoying the experience?
McBrain: "I'm really enjoying it as I'm getting to meet a lot of people, and it's not just IRON MAIDEN fans. It's people form the local area, and we had a guy drive from Melbourne the other day. It's a long way.
"The ambience of a restaurant is very important. You won't hear BARRY MANILOW in here; you won't hear ROD STEWART, KISS or GUNS N' ROSES, sorry boys and girls. All you will here is classical, beautiful metal."
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Rock 'N' Roll Ribs
4651 State Rd. 7 (US441)
Coral Springs, FL 33073
954-346-RIBZ (7429)
[email protected]
www.rocknrollribs.com
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