Blaze Bayley

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I can only judge Blaze by the single time I saw him live with Maiden and that was in a small club in 1996. He was struggling real bad. He lost his voice at the end of the set and literally croaked his way through the encore.

At the time I really didn't care for the X Factor album (have grown to like it more but still not a fan of the Blaze era.) Couple that with Maiden playing a small club, Classic Metal in general shoved back into obscurity (esp. in the USA), and the worst Maiden gig I've seen I left the show very bummed out and thinking that was it for Maiden.

Blaze is a great guy and great to his fans. I'm sure he's better with his solo work but I've only heard a few songs. I just never cared for his voice/style and I guess that will never change. :confused:
 
Iron Lurker said:
I can only judge Blaze by the single time I saw him live with Maiden and that was in a small club in 1996. He was struggling real bad. He lost his voice at the end of the set and literally croaked his way through the encore.

At the time I really didn't care for the X Factor album (have grown to like it more but still not a fan of the Blaze era.) Couple that with Maiden playing a small club, Classic Metal in general shoved back into obscurity (esp. in the USA), and the worst Maiden gig I've seen I left the show very bummed out and thinking that was it for Maiden.

Blaze is a great guy and great to his fans. I'm sure he's better with his solo work but I've only heard a few songs. I just never cared for his voice/style and I guess that will never change. :confused:
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He sings now better than when he was in maiden. And yes that was my first iron maiden show and same thinking. That was not what i used to see on the videos
 
Iron Lurker said:
I can only judge Blaze by the single time I saw him live with Maiden and that was in a small club in 1996. He was struggling real bad. He lost his voice at the end of the set and literally croaked his way through the encore.

At the time I really didn't care for the X Factor album (have grown to like it more but still not a fan of the Blaze era.) Couple that with Maiden playing a small club, Classic Metal in general shoved back into obscurity (esp. in the USA), and the worst Maiden gig I've seen I left the show very bummed out and thinking that was it for Maiden.

Blaze is a great guy and great to his fans. I'm sure he's better with his solo work but I've only heard a few songs. I just never cared for his voice/style and I guess that will never change. :confused:
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He was a lot better in 95 and 98 than 96
 
Vaenyr said:
I think if Maiden sat down to have an open and honest discussion back then, about the strengths and weaknesses of Blaze, about how rigid they want to stay, downtuning or changing arrangements and so on, the Blaze era might've been more fondly remembered nowadays. Not saying that they'd necessarily been more successfull, but maybe the consensus on him would be somewhat more positive.
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100% agree. I would think after a few rehearsals before the tour, the range issue would've been apparent, but nobody said anything, I guess. Had they worked to the strengths of his voice and downtuned, yeah, I think we would've had a total hidden gem era through and through. There are plenty of videos of Blaze singing Bruce era songs in the correct key for his voice, and he sounds really good, IMO. We could've had an era of very different and darker Bruce era renditions on top of the two albums that have steadily grown in acceptance--The X Factor has, at least. I still hope more will come around to Virtual XI as time goes on.


SixesAlltheway said:
My opinion on this is that you don't lose anything by trying. I think the chances of him picking someone he doesn't know to write it is pretty slim unless he reads your stuff after you contact him and he *really* likes it. I also think that if you do it - you kinda have to do it as a labor of love and not expect super much in return.
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Agreed. If I do drop him a line, I'm not getting my hopes up that I'll even hear back. It's more about offering help since I'm able and have a window of time coming up, and yeah, I'd send him some ebooks of mine for him to try out and see if I'd be the right fit.


dickinson1978 said:
I have one bootleg that he forget tbe lyrics and start mumblinh the song
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Ah yes, The Eternal Flame bootleg (or one of the variations). A few verses of Fortunes of War that went horribly awry.
 
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