Bruce Dickinson

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Excellent info, once again. Lira. you're quite a specialist! If I may ask, how did you come by it? The wiki info certainly lacks. Perhaps it's on one of the fan sites. To be honest, I haven't checked these in ages.
 
Wrong info about Paul White: He was the keyboard player, not the drummer. Sorry.

There is that very good old site about Bruce: http://www.bookofhours.net/bdwbn/early.htm, which explains early Dickinson's bands. There's even pictures from both Speed and Paul White's Speed. I think this is the best Bruce resource so far.

You can also note that on the Down the Road 7" cover, the Bruce picture is him holding the mic onstage. This is actually a Samson picture. The band picture doesn't feature Bruce.
 
The Bruce Dickinson Wellbeing Network (Book of Hours website) contains two cool remarks about the Skunkworks album, made by people who played with him:

What do you think of the Skunkworks album?
Chris Dale: "I'm really proud of it. I think it was a great chance for Bruce to show his voice in a different light. It's a shame it didn't sell better but it's also kind of cool to have played on the album that was to Bruce, what the Elder was to Kiss."

What do you think of his other works?
Roy Z: "Well, of course I really love what he does with Maiden. I liked Tattooed Millionaire when it came out. I worked at Tower records at the time and we used to play the heck out of that record. Everybody says 'Skunkworks' sounds Seattle but to me it sounds like Rush. There's a few songs on there that I really dig, I listen to it from time to time. The sounds are awesome, Jack Endino did a great job. It takes some balls to do that kind of album. I think, in a few years people are gonna like that album even more."
 
This could have been posted before (maybe even by myself) but I thought it could be nice to see (again).
The last song of Bruce's last performance with Samson before he went to Maiden. The image quality is not very good.

Bruce but the whole band (especially Samson and Gaynor) shine!
I think I see Clive Burr watching from the side of the stage. At least, the person in question has a very Burrish haircut. If it's not someone else, he stands on the right and you can see him best between 2.53-301.

Just before when one of those mindblowing solos is about the begin. Paul Samson, RIP!
 
From 3.32 you can see him again and probably also Adrian Smith on the right of him.
edit: And check Clive looking during the drum solo. :)

edit: full concert here, in slightly better quality:
And here some aftershow footage staring at 7th minute:
By that time, Bruce must have already had his infamous talk with Rod Smallwood.
You hear him saying "Don't worry about it". Even if that remark could have been made in a different context, then it's still interesting when you look at what happened a short time later.
 
Forostar said:
By that time, Bruce must have already had his infamous talk with Rod Smallwood.
You hear him saying "Don't worry about it". Even if that remark could have been made in a different context, then it's still interesting when you look at what happened a short time later.
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:blush: Infamous?? I'm not aware of it, can you enlighten me please??
 
That was the day and place Rod approached Bruce to get into Maiden and according to Bruce himself everybody must have seen their meeting.
 
I think I know the source for the 12th September date. As you may or may not know, Samson released the gig in 1990 as Reading '81. I happen to have that CD, and the liner notes quote a review from Sounds dated to 12. September 1981... however, the quote reads:

Samson were arguably the best band that Saturday proferred. If this seems a little sweeping then they were surely the most energetic, the most forceful, and the most entertaining, putting to shame many of the rock monsters who've casually wandered in and out of August's festival overkill period. Samson were like a band reborn. With vocalist Bruce Bruce in excellent, driving form there can be no doubts that the substitution of solid style for tacky gimmicks was a worthy one.

Robbi Millar​
Sounds Reading '81 Review​
September 12, 1981​
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Indeed! Here I just found the poster: 29 August it is:

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EDIT:
Link to bigger size, on nice site with text and photos!
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/reading-81.html
 
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