Blaze Bayley

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Wow, thank you very much, Zare!
It's definitely something else to see Blaze from back when he could have made it big. It really looks like he was on the springboard right there... too bad he slipped out and never got up again.
 
Perun said:
Wow, thank you very much, Zare!
It's definitely something else to see Blaze from back when he could have made it big. It really looks like he was on the springboard right there... too bad he slipped out and never got up again.
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Yes. This. Deciding to tour with Paul Di'Anno is effectively like handing in your resignation and admitting defeat.
 
What made you think that :D but no...not really. I don't have anything against any ex-members personally. I just don't like to see them fall so low. When they have to cling to a few successful years in their lives and ride someone else's success and milk it financially. I am specifically talking more about Di'Anno here....But I fear Blaze has also fallen into this a bit...Especially now that he has decided to tour with Paul.

Get over it. Move on. Do something else. I personally would...but maybe that is just me ;)
 
No, but I am hard pressed thinking of any other major rock or metal band where ex members have stuck around in the periphery of the band as much as ex-Maiden members has with Maiden. I guess it must be something in our fan base, that sense of "family" everyone keeps talking about ....But I still find it incredibly annoying at the same time.

I would have no problem if they were out there living on their own material and gaining their own fans, preferably cutting ties altogether with Maiden because that would be the right thing to do creatively from a musical point of view, show that you actually have something to say on your own ...Bruce Dickinson did that, Blaze looked like he could have done that back in 2001 like Perun pointed out in his post. What I don't like is when they leech on the fact that once they were part of something great...
 
Well, Blaze for the most part has done his own material (with a few Maiden (and Wolfsbane) covers in the set, but again, 80-90% his own material). It's always seemed to me that he's very much about the fans, and that may well be why he's doing this tour. And, Di'Anno has stated intention to retire soon, so it's not as though this partnership will be long-term.

Personally, I'm a little disappointed that Maiden (seemingly) never asked Blaze to open for them. It would have been a much-needed boost for him, and it would be awesome to see Blaze and Maiden on the same bill.

My point is, if you are familiar enough with Blaze's post-Maiden work, I'm not sure how you could possibly interpret anything he does as leeching on the fact that he is a former member of Iron Maiden. I mean, he plays Maiden covers, but think about Dio playing Sabbath and Rainbow songs long after he was no longer a member of those bands. I'm sure no one would accuse RJD of leeching on the fact that he used to be in Black Sabbath. The only other way I could figure, given Blaze's entire career post-Maiden (this tour is the first time he had ever done anything IM-centric), that you could construe him leeching on his Maiden past, is putting his name on his band. But that's really something that just made sense in some ways, since he was always the only member of any of his numerous bands with any name recognition.

I don't think there's anything leech-like at all about doing ONE Maiden-centric tour. Di'Anno is a different story, he has pretty much been living in 1980-81 for quite a while now (with a few exceptions). But Blaze is essentially taking a break from promoting his own career (I believe he just finished an acoustic tour before starting this with Di'Anno) to celebrate TXF and VXI (which, by the way, are great albums that I don't see regarded by the actual Iron Maiden to have even existed).
 
Living off your name alone and doing cover songs must be creative suicide - you don't see, say, Chris Poland or Marty Friedman from Megadeth, performing acoustic Deth tunes in small clubs y'know :D Only Maiden fans could support such a thing! :p
 
Not sure if you are aware (or even interested) but Blaze still plays tons of own material. Paul made tons of own material as well, though I see he indeed likes to play lots of Maiden stuff live as well.

But, I don't think many people complain when they are out there. From personal experience, I can say that is it awesome to see a member playing songs he originally did on record. At the same time, I know Paul made one of the best albums (Killers - Murder One, 1992) ever made by any (ex-)member of Iron Maiden. I'd be thrilled to see him playing own work.

So you can stand on the sideline, complain about someone, without knowing how it is, how it feels to be part of something, or one can be there and experience it's quite cool.

More valid criticism is imo the fact that Paul's voice is totally fucked up. His shows suffer because of that.
 
@425 - As said, it was mostly minded on Paul. I was just reacting to Blaze's decision to go on tour with Di'Anno knowing first of all what kind of guy Di'Anno is and secondly how that image will rub off on Blaze - Being on the same tour bill as the Di'Anno Maiden cover band circus lumps Blaze into that category as well, I'll say it is a very risky move to make...
 
I can understand that, but I think it's pretty clear, given Paul's impending retirement, that this will be a one-time thing. I'm sure Blaze will go back to playing largely his own material after this tour.
 
He did it before, and it's not the only tour he's been doing these years. He did lots of small tours on his own as well.
 
I hope he (Blaze) gets a full band together again. Then I would go see him, also just because he seems like a very nice bloke. But yeah get a full band together again and play metal. I, personally, do not think this acoustic business fits either him or his voice no matter how good intentions :)
 
SixesAlltheway said:
I hope he (Blaze) gets a full band together again. Then I would go see him, also just because he seems like a very nice bloke. But yeah get a full band together again and play metal. I, personally, do not think this acoustic business fits either him or his voice no matter how good intentions :)
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He does have tour dates up on his site so he already has a full band.
 
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