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Out of the Silent Planet, the multiple layers of vocals made it a very "studio sounding" song, Bruce could not recreate that with just one voice live.

- Janick gives an account of performing for PlayClassics! audiences. ;)

Bruce played a clean guitar on Revelations on the Powerslave tour, so that they could replicate one part more accurately. Janick has always played that part in later years though.

From 2011 and onwards, Dave Murray has played the intro lead melody to Blood Brothers with his distorted lead tone, instead of using a clean tone. Compare En Vivo and Live Chapters version with studio and Rock in Rio for example. He did the same last year.

Adrian Smith added a short guitar solo to Journeyman when it was performed live (it can be heard on Death on the Road).

Sign of the Cross has never had any clean guitars, except during the intro and the interlude with the choir vocals, when performed live. That gives some parts a totally different sound.

Janick is sounding really good, taking those first lead melodies in Hell on Earth. Then at the end, it is him and Adrian combined. Maybe a tour like this will fuel the Janick bashing a little bit more again though, like The Early Days Tour and Somewhere Back in Time Tour, but there's room for...

The band that wrote the songs on Silicon Messiah (and Tenth Dimension) can be seen performing in this video. Blaze (and some fans) seem to have forgotten their contributions in recent years though, with making up a story about that the prime Silicon Messiah material consisted of some lost...

With Blaze: Sign of the Cross, Lord of the Flies, Man on the Edge, Fortunes of War, The Aftermath, Blood on the World's Hand, The Edge of Darkness. The last 3 never were not performed on the Virtual XI tour, while Fortunes of War was played at the first few gigs, then dropped. With Bruce: Sign...

It is mentioned in Blaze's biography that Nicko played some recordings captured from the soundboard on the Virtual XI tour to Steve (Blaze had a couple of very rough performances on that tour, due to the demanding song set and some times hectic concert schedule). That, in combination with Rod...

Good audio. I really like Dave's new Stratocaster btw, it's a bit reminiscent of his 80's ESP Strat, which he used on Maiden England.

Janick played his parts very well on that one. That sounded excellent. He even added some pinch harmonics at 3:18 - 3:19.

- Andy Sneap, in 2011. This makes it clear that Sneap had an active role in shaping the songs together with Blaze and the rest of the band, including the vocal melodies. He wasn't just recording and mixing the stuff passively...

The only things that would have been similar are some of the lyrical themes, inspired by the movie "Gattaca" released in 1997. Blaze wrote the lyrics in Reach for the Horizon, The Launch and Stare at the Sun roughly based on that. Otherwise than that, not much really. It's an insult to Andy...

I actually got into Lynch's music thanks to watching the Sweet & Lynch - The Wish video when it came out in 2014. I also remember reading that the first time that they met in person was to take some promo shots and to record that video.

Production is a bit to heavy for Blaze I think (guitars and bass have basically the same sound as the Bermudez brothers own death metal band, Underthreat). Blaze's vocals maybe are a bit strained at times too, but they are still good albums with lots of strong songs. I listen to them from time...