Blaze Bayley

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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 Sneap, Steve Wray, John Slater, Rob Naylor and Jeff Singer to pretend that Blaze wrote and arranged those tracks on his own.
 
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"You once stated in an interview that you consider Blaze Bayley's first album your personal favorite.

"Yeah Blaze is such a lovely guy and I always got along really well with him. He really was the underdog in Maiden and really wasn't given a fair chance because Steve Harris was writing all the stuff in the same keys as if he was writing for Dickinson. With Blaze, what we did was stand back and listened to the strengths in his voice. We'd start with the choruses and work our way down rather than starting in a key he's just starting to manage to hit, and working up to a chorus that he was not going to hit. So it was common sense really to do it that way. No one was kind of giving him the time of day back then so it was nice to be involved, and be part of that. I think he was the scapegoat for Maiden as it was never going to work because whoever was going to replace Dickinson, was in for a rough ride. It was a bit of a shame really. "
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- 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.
 
MindRuler said:
Repeated the chorus a couple of times more I guess.
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Actually, I think the song would have had the same repetition (+1?). How many repetitions are there, 7? The song is almost 8 minutes long. The instrumental section could have been a bit longer. The intro is 2 minutes long. Blaze and the others probably wrote those songs with a Maiden vibe in mind.
rideon77 said:
Imagine a third album with Blaze with Stare At The Sun, Born As A Stranger, The Brave, The Mercenary, Brave New World, Blood Brothers etc.....Epic
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Didn't Bruce wrote the lyrics for Brave New World?
TheTalisman said:
- 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.
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I don't think all the songs Steve wrote or co-wrote have difficult choruses for Blaze's voice. I mean - Flies, Fortunes Of War, Aftermath, Judgement Of Heaven, Futureal, Angel & Gambler, When Two Worlds Collide, Eyes Of A Stranger. He had problems with the old songs.
 

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 Maiden tracks, that he penned by himself... :facepalm:
 
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TheTalisman said:

The band that wrote the songs on Silicon Messiah (and Tenth Dimension) can be seen performing in this video.

Blaze (and some fans) seem have forgotten their contributions in recent years though, with making up a story about that the prime Silicon Messiah material consisted of some lost Maiden tracks, that he penned by himself... :facepalm:
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Is ANYBODY saying that? All he said was that he had a handful of song ideas that he'd worked on that he was going to present to the band for Blaze album #3, but those ideas went on Silicon Messiah instead. Blaze writes lyrics and vocal melodies. That's about it, from all that I've read. Obviously if Blaze #3 had happened, those songs would sound wildly different if Steve and the others had gotten their hands on them. The jokes above that there would simply be more repetition were clearly jokes. I got that, at least, but I guess others didn't.
 
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