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Yes, that was most likely the reason: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/275760.stm "Tuesday, February 9, 1999 Published at 11:39 GMT" I also remember reading somewhere that they payed everything during the duration of the bond, and that the band now receives yearly royalties again on the old...

I agree. Steve Wray and John Slater certainly wrote some good melodies and riffs for Blaze. Blaze and Steve Wray, Bang Your Head Festival, Germany, 2004.

Life and Death performed in 2004 with an orchestra.

It's just a small group of the audience that have such devotion as you describe, and it's the same for any arena rock band. My point is that they could get away with doing 4 Virtual XI songs, as long as the rest of the set are mainly of classics. The name of the tour and the marketing matters...

I went to see Maiden dressed in a Blaze t-shirt in 2022, with no reactions at all. If it had been in 1999, some people had booed me, or perhaps even wanted to fight with me. It's so long ago now, that most people going to a show are not aware of that they had another singer. They are just...

They wouldn't get booed of the stage, as most of the audience would probably just believe they are performing songs from the latest release, or from an upcoming album. 90 % of the audience haven't heard a single track from Virtual XI.

With a better production it would have been a solid album. As it is now, live versions of the songs, mixed by Martin Birch, used as b-sides on the Fear of the dark singles, sound much better.

B-side, live recording.

As Live As It Gets tour FM broadcast:

Silicon Messiah tour pics: Rob Naylor (bass) and Steve Wray (guitar). At Camden Underworld, London, december 2000, Steve Harris came on stage for "Man on the Edge" and played with a bass and amp belonging to the support band. More tour pics in this video:

Quite a cool map at 59:12 (Powerslave pyramid and tomb) and at 1:44:12 (Somewhere in Time bar).

I was wrong. Watched a live video now and Smith was playing his SG.

This is from 2006, guitar.com.

I didn't really like the Dirkschneider version, but the original is a very good track though: A good ending to the album. It doesn't sound out of place at all.

3.7 million views at the moment. Lots of other positive comments as well! Youtube and Spotify alghorithms save the day for Blaze :ok:

The Doctor Doctor cover is pushed by the Spotify algorithm, and it was added in 2022. Soon, the only other Blaze-era tracks with more streams will be The Clansman, Sign of the Cross, Futureal and Man on The Edge.

Watching this video, I can understand why they decided to go with Blaze. Then it didn't work out, for a lot of reasons, but I can see why Steve thought he would be a good fit. This article sums it upp well: https://www.metaltalk.net/chris_dale_wolfsbane_london.php