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I tend to agree. I think Bruce firing up his solo career again is, pardon the pun, the writing on the wall. Certain members of Maiden might be ready to end it, whether that's Dave, Nicko, or whoever, and Bruce isn't ready to stop completely. My best guess would be a couple years of the...

I remember that being asked in one of the numerous interviews he's done in recent months on YouTube. He said the significance of those years would be revealed as the 12-issue comic played out.

Having just listened to it, yeah, the crumbly ending feels very unrehearsed. I like that Tanya joined in, but the placement felt off and a bit uncertain, like, "do I come in now? Eh, fuck it, here goes."

The outro I was mostly joking about. Almost guarantee that part's staying gone.

Same. I'm not a solo guy at all, so I barely noticed there was a lack of solos on TMP. On an unrelated note, just watched halfway through Night 2 at the Whiskey, and noticed they tagged on the original minute-plus Keith Olsen version intro to Tears of the Dragon. I'd say that's a decent hint...

Ahhhh...it's been a good few years since I saw the advert, so memory's apparently getting a bit fuzzy. Makes a lot of sense as to why he just up and ditched the wig, then.

I still maintain that on Legacy 3, Maiden should have swapped out the recording of "Doctor, Doctor" for the recording of "Senjutsu." Then again, I've always had an issue with the title track. Plodding, overlong, all build-up and zero take-off. Use that as the pre-show track to set the mood of...

When I saw Bruce added an instrumental, my first thought was that he was accepting maybe a rest in mid-set would be a good idea to keep his voice strong during the second half. Of course, it could be just that he wanted to noodle with the theramin. If it's the former, however, I wonder if that...

I lean toward the thought that Bruce probably should have just axed the concept component when Steve stole 'If Eternity Should Fail.' There are only a handful of songs that are tied to the original concept on the album, so it just feels like scraps leftover from a concept that never came to full...

I think so too, especially when someone brought up "The Breeding House" in a recent Q&A, and Bruce replied by saying he'd have to redo it, and don't give him any ideas (or something close to that). And I wouldn't have a problem with another Mandrake style compilation. In this climate, where it...

Bruce's solo career is one big reason why I was 75% disappointed that the Maiden reunion happened, 25% glad. I typically get disproportionately more excited when Bruce has a solo album coming out than when Maiden do, especially nowadays since its such a rarity. In '98, Bruce was creatively at...

While I've gone from liking the album to loving it despite its faults, this is the part that I'm hung up on too. While it is a new solo album, it's almost more a compilation of stuff that's been shuffling around for years and years, with a few brand new tracks sprinkled in. It's not a...

I find it curious that so much of the AI Eddie art I've seen leans so heavily on the Book of Souls design. Might be just one...ahem..."artist" churning those ones out, so that could be why.

I really don't think Nicko's a factor in the "will he, won't he" for the next album (if there is one), although he was supposedly grumpy about coming in to do Senjutsu. He performed a herculean task to get up to 80% post-stroke, and continued to up that percentage throughout the second leg of...

Agreed. I don't think I've gone a week without listening to it, and the first couple weeks it was about 3x each week. No, of course it's not as solid as some previous albums, and I think you'd have to be an idiot to go in expecting it to beat Chemical Wedding or maybe even AoB. But it's got some...

I really, really was rooting for him back in those days. I was so eager to hear how he'd sound on the Bruce material, and didn't know that much about singing at the time so it didn't occur to me that he might not be capable of the Bruce stuff. Fortunately, the first bootleg I got my hands on...

This is it for me. I love Total Eclipse as a song, but even when I'm listening to the studio version, my brain likes to mentally torture me by switching over to my memory of how off he was singing that "gone are the days" section for no reason whatsoever.

Certainly not this year (apart from with Maiden in October). He's said he wants to tour North America next year, but whether he just hits the major markets or does a fairly more comprehensive tour will decide whether I see him or not. Minneapolis is sometimes and sometimes not considered one of...

I thought I read from a few sources back in the day about Bruce not being credited on NotB was due to his Samson contract, that he couldn't write anything outside of the band for a set amount of time (which expired after NotB released). He's dropped hints since that he did write some on NotB...

Thanks for the response--I wasn't sure about those actual early credits, and yeah, having Rod come in and say if you're not in the band, you're not getting credited does sound like a Rod thing to say. I do remember Wilcock trying to get something going awhile back, but interesting to hear how it...