Bruce Dickinson

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Melony said:
Interviewers were instructed not to ask Bruce about Roy. I think this applied to all interviews.
Or can anyone find an interview where the interviewer did ask about it (after the partnership ended)?
Normally, an interviewer would consider that a topic worth covering.
I believe there were private/personal issues involved, not just disagreements about tours or recordings.
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Yes, Prickinson sounds personal.
what is lunch meat? Has that anything to do with Bruce?
 
This is next level wrong on his part...
we don't know the whole story, it's probably personal (not started by Bruce, I think he should blame only himself), but Bruce made the right decision. Just look at this. The chemistry of his new band is great. TMP is one of the most unimpressive and disappointing albums in terms of guitar playing (3-4 interesting parts, imo). Who would have thought that such a fallout would happen between them. Maybe his work on the remixes was also very slow, but his comments burned all the bridges, before and after.
 
Kalata said:
This is next level wrong on his part...
we don't know the whole story, it's probably personal (not started by Bruce, I think he should blame only himself), but Bruce made the right decision. Just look at this. The chemistry of his new band is great. TMP is one of the most unimpressive and disappointing albums in terms of guitar playing (3-4 interesting parts, imo). Who would have thought that such a fallout would happen between them. Maybe his work on the remixes was also very slow, but his comments burned all the bridges, before and after.
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If you do not have a clue about what happened how can you categorically say it was not started by Bruce???
 
I personally would love to know what really happened. It is a shame that it has put an end to the partnership that created The Chemical Wedding, one of the best metal albums of the 90s and an all time favourite of mine (one of my desert island discs).
 
My guess is something like this: before the Mandrake tour, Bruce felt it was too risky to go on the road with just one guitarist who might struggle or not be fully up to it. He had a conversation with Roy about it, and Roy didn’t take it well. Maybe Bruce even mentioned bringing in another guitarist - or a few options.

From there, things escalated. The discussion got heated, and Roy might have brought up everything he’d done for Bruce over the years - something along the lines of: “I helped you create your best albums, and then you left me for years for that band.”

At that point, the situation spiraled, and it became clear that continuing to work together might be unstable or difficult. So Bruce chose the nuclear option: putting together a new band, with several members he had already known for a long time.

Just speculation - an uneducated guess.
 
You have to keep in mind that it’s not usual to realize so close to a tour that a lineup wouldn’t work or is too risky.
Why wasn’t this noticed sooner then?
There were interviews about “The Mandrake Project” where Bruce still referred to Roy as “like a brother,” and also with Roy himself, where he talked about the album and the tour.
So everything was still fine at that point.
 
Maybe Roy kept things together and acted like a grown-up for a long time - and then one day just did something completely ridiculous. Like, Bruce walks into the studio and finds him standing on one leg like a stork, in his underwear, hysterically laughing to a Sonata blasting from the speakers.
Maybe that was the moment it all became too risky, you know.
 
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