Blaze Bayley

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Ascendingthethrone said:
Bruce’s voice was changed noticeably by cancer.
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Kalata said:
With what happened to Bruce's voice.
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It goes back earlier than the cancer - the change has been much more gradual.
naranja said:
Said it before but there was no shame in Dio singing in E flat. No idea why Bruce doesn't
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Kalata said:
For Bruce it's important that he still has the high notes and is consistent.
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CA Bryers said:
... a big ego, which is probably Bruce's reasoning for not downtuning.
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I'm tempted to try to sum this up as: Blaze wants to make the best use of the instrument he's got now, but Bruce is desperately trying to hang on to the instrument he had 40 years ago. I'm aware that this is probably far too simplistic but it conveys the essence of what I think I'm observing ...

You remember how Bruce said he felt like an "angry wasp" in the small venues he was playing as a solo artist in the '90s? I think that may be the root of it - that he has some sort of innate need to keep proving that he can still fill those big venues. On the studio recordings the nuance is still there but when he steps out onto a stage it's like his mission is to pin the entire audience to the back wall. Which does not much matter when you are actually there, but listening to some of the more recent live albums (like "Nights of the Dead") I just think "whoa, what happened?"

Regarding his refusal to have the songs transposed to a lower pitch (which is what I think you all mean by "downtuning"), I think he may be worried that if he ceases to keep his range "stretched" then it may close down even more, and I can understand that concern. But even when I first saw them live (in 2013 on Maiden England) I noticed that he would sometimes rearrange the tunes slightly to avoid attempting the very high notes. I thought that that was actually quite clever and sensible.
 
How he talks about it in interviews I suspect that Bruce is still a very competitive person plays a huge role. Recently I for example read how Wolf Hofffmann praised his singer Mac Tornillo a top singer because he can still sing all the songs unchanged without transposition - then Bruce would no longer be in this top category!
 
Terry1958 said:
How he talks about it in interviews I suspect that Bruce is still a very competitive person plays a huge role. Recently I for example read how Wolf Hofffmann praised his singer Mac Tornillo a top singer because he can still sing all the songs unchanged without transposition - then Bruce would no longer be in this top category!
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Most people who sing the songs in the original key can - the question is if they can do it with sustained quality and reasonable effort. The answer to that question is often "no". And Bruce is a rather loud singer, while Tornillo sings in speech-level and does not do full-voice singing. It's like, yeah, the guy on a motorbike will ride faster than the guy on the bicycle. Doesn't make for a good comparison though or make the sheer speed more impressive.

So essentially: Stupid pride is stupid pride.
 
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That is my point: Feelings like that (pride/competitiveness) often don't go away because of such a rational explanation that you could of course find.
 
Now we know why Bruce couldn't go to the christmas market with Leana and she had to copy in his face on the photo ;):

He had to prepare for this TV show: :bigsmile:

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Oh boy, I really hope Bruce hasn't done this, but it does feel like the sort of thing he might do.
 
DorotheaMe said:
Would those who saw him live recently say that he has recovered well from the heart attack and seems in good shape?
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Thank you for your opinions on this question. At least some halfway good news in connection with the health crises among Maiden members/former members.
 
Saw his Iron Maiden 30th anniversary tour last year. He is doing a special Iron Maiden set this year again. Hoping for fewer Virtual XI songs this time around, they almost played the full thing. Futureal, Clansman and Educated Fool would still be great. It's been a while since he did Blood on the Worlds Hands, The Aftermath and Edge of Darkness so hoping those will be back in the set. Some Bruce era songs would be okay too, hoping for Afraid to Shoot Strangers.
 
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Always loving Blaze with Maiden setlists but I also wanna see him more with his own solo and with Wolfsbane in a proper tour.
Wolfsbane Save the World album is so underrated. And it's not on streaming platforms, I don't get it. It's as good as the early Wolfsbane albums.
 
Brigantium said:
I prefer his solo stuff. It was good to hear his Maiden material, but it's not actually Maiden. He's got some very good post Maiden material.
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Blaze is one of the solo artists I want to hear songs from his other bands (mainly Maiden) in the sets. Ofc his own solo material should be dominant, he has a good catalog. Why? Because Maiden won't play them.
 
Just got an email about the Silicon Messiah 25th anniversary vinyl. Although it’s cool to see it out on coloured vinyl, it is missing the bonus tracks from the 15th anniversary edition. Even though I am a bit of a sucker for coloured vinyl, I think I’ll give it a pass. It’s cool to see the album on cassette as part of one of the bundles.
 
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