Bayley-era Maiden vs. Martin-era Black Sabbath vs. Ripper-era Judas Priest?

[Sth2112]

The Ripper and Blaze era are both very interesting. Poor production but somewhat good songs on the Blaze albums, especially The X factor. The Ripper albums, one pretty good album and one poor, and also two very good live albums/video! So guess I vote the Ripper era.

Never heard the Martin albums. Maybe a couple of songs on some parties long time ago

 

[dickinson1978]

Ive never listen to headless cross. I should give a try. Apart from ozzy and dio i listened to the ian gilian album. Not bad

 

[TheTalisman]

A couple of points here: Roy Z is a producer, not much of a mixer, though popular belief is that he mixed CW and AoB. He has mixed very few works, (and Halford, Priest and Dickinson aren't any of those - though Z might have mixed the unofficial, lawsuit-release, Live in London Halford gig) and on the odd occassions that he has mixed albums, he has been co-credited alongside the main mixing engineer.

An example of a Roy Z mixed album (Malmsteen was the producer). Tim Ripper Owens on vocals. It's a professional sounding mix, but not top level quality.

 

[Yax]

An example of a Roy Z mixed album (Malmsteen was the producer). Tim Ripper Owens on vocals. It's a professional sounding mix, but not top level quality.

It is pretty bad tbh, for a professional product mixed with an SSL but I think that is the result of a Harris/Shirley type of relationship. The vocals are razor thin which sounds like a typical thing Ymgwie would want.

 

[dickinson1978]

I wonder if there's a world where Tony Martin ends up the new Iron Maiden singer and Blaze Bayley the new Black Sabbath singer. That would have been wild.

I can imagine blaze singing black sabbath songs.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

I can imagine blaze singing black sabbath songs.

 

[MindRuler]

Blaze had to read the lyrics???