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Blaze Bayley on Iron Maiden, depression and what keeps him going

Blaze Bayley is open to working with Iron Maiden again - and has ideas of how he'd love to do it
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Blaze says he wishes ''Justice Of The Peace'' had been on the album. ''Those three songs, it would've been great to have more time to mix them and put them on the record.''

On whether he thinks Maiden will ever release a concert video from his era - ''No, there's very little footage of that era. I've moved something like six times since then, so most of what I'd kept has just disappeared or got lost. If you look at Visions Of The Beast, I've got six songs on there. That's probably as close as we're going to get. Actually, what we do have is Chile. I'm famous for losing my temper there.''

''If there was a project where they'd want the two voices, I'd be absolutely fine. Why would I be against that?! It'd be fun! My dream was to do a gig where Paul, Bruce and me could share a stage. For fans, it'd be absolute madness. At the same time, if I wrote something where I thought, 'This could do with Bruce', I'd ask him, same as anybody else.''

''As an artist, there are things I want to do. With Circle Of Stone, I felt I really managed to express a lot of the passion and darkness, using my voice in a way that I hadn't before.''
 
Kalata said:
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Blaze Bayley on Iron Maiden, depression and what keeps him going

Blaze Bayley is open to working with Iron Maiden again - and has ideas of how he'd love to do it
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

Blaze says he wishes ''Justice Of The Peace'' had been on the album. ''Those three songs, it would've been great to have more time to mix them and put them on the record.''

On whether he thinks Maiden will ever release a concert video from his era - ''No, there's very little footage of that era. I've moved something like six times since then, so most of what I'd kept has just disappeared or got lost. If you look at Visions Of The Beast, I've got six songs on there. That's probably as close as we're going to get. Actually, what we do have is Chile. I'm famous for losing my temper there.''

''If there was a project where they'd want the two voices, I'd be absolutely fine. Why would I be against that?! It'd be fun! My dream was to do a gig where Paul, Bruce and me could share a stage. For fans, it'd be absolute madness. At the same time, if I wrote something where I thought, 'This could do with Bruce', I'd ask him, same as anybody else.''

''As an artist, there are things I want to do. With Circle Of Stone, I felt I really managed to express a lot of the passion and darkness, using my voice in a way that I hadn't before.''
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There is more shows in youtube than blaze has. Bulgaria 1995 excelent proshot, curitiba 98 another tv broadcast and a few bootlegs
 
dickinson1978 said:
Yes is not the best singer for sure. But look how he performed with wolfsbane. A total different frontman
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Well, I think he stated that he also believes he is not a natural singer or something like that. I met him back in the day, Sep 1998 if I remember correctly. Such a genuine guy!
 
dickinson1978 said:
Found this yesterday i didnt listen to wolfsbane but he was totally a different frontman with them

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Seeing this, you can see why Steve wanted him, because here he's commanding the audience in a different way from Bruce, but equally effective, IMO. Magnetic presence onstage, and yet when he began performing with Maiden, that presence...poof. Nowhere to be found. Only Blaze can answer for sure, but it lends credence to my theory he never figured out what his identity was within the fold.

On one hand, I get it. Maiden's music doesn't call for this sort of crazy, flailing presence, especially when you're touring Maiden's darkest and perhaps most energetically restrained album to date. That, I think, would confuse anyone as to what you were supposed to do up there. That, and the vocals themselves were probably much more challenging than his Wolfsbane stuff, not to mention remembering the lyrics (which we know he had trouble with here and there on The X Factour. It all points to the likelihood that a lot of his focus was just getting through the shows and screwing up as little as possible.
 
CA Bryers said:
Seeing this, you can see why Steve wanted him, because here he's commanding the audience in a different way from Bruce, but equally effective, IMO. Magnetic presence onstage, and yet when he began performing with Maiden, that presence...poof. Nowhere to be found. Only Blaze can answer for sure, but it lends credence to my theory he never figured out what his identity was within the fold.

On one hand, I get it. Maiden's music doesn't call for this sort of crazy, flailing presence, especially when you're touring Maiden's darkest and perhaps most energetically restrained album to date. That, I think, would confuse anyone as to what you were supposed to do up there. That, and the vocals themselves were probably much more challenging than his Wolfsbane stuff, not to mention remembering the lyrics (which we know he had trouble with here and there on The X Factour. It all points to the likelihood that a lot of his focus was just getting through the shows and screwing up as little as possible.
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No offence, but he sounds awful, and his stage presence reminds me of some high school boy or something.
 
CA Bryers said:
Seeing this, you can see why Steve wanted him, because here he's commanding the audience in a different way from Bruce, but equally effective, IMO. Magnetic presence onstage, and yet when he began performing with Maiden, that presence...poof. Nowhere to be found. Only Blaze can answer for sure, but it lends credence to my theory he never figured out what his identity was within the fold.

On one hand, I get it. Maiden's music doesn't call for this sort of crazy, flailing presence, especially when you're touring Maiden's darkest and perhaps most energetically restrained album to date. That, I think, would confuse anyone as to what you were supposed to do up there. That, and the vocals themselves were probably much more challenging than his Wolfsbane stuff, not to mention remembering the lyrics (which we know he had trouble with here and there on The X Factour. It all points to the likelihood that a lot of his focus was just getting through the shows and screwing up as little as possible.
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Had to be difficult to replace Bruce and tour with maiden
 
CA Bryers said:
Seeing this, you can see why Steve wanted him, because here he's commanding the audience in a different way from Bruce, but equally effective, IMO. Magnetic presence onstage, and yet when he began performing with Maiden, that presence...poof. Nowhere to be found. Only Blaze can answer for sure, but it lends credence to my theory he never figured out what his identity was within the fold.
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Agreed, also Steve should have allowed Blaze to unleash his energy onstage with Maiden in 1994 when he was fresh. I still find it astonishing that Blaze got the job in December 1993 and then didn’t play a show with Maiden for nearly two years.

Talk about a strange start. The bike accident doesn’t even explain all of it. Blaze could have had a small showcase performance that was heavier on the Paul era classics soon after getting the gig, it would have helped his confidence and probably helped Maiden in the studio.

Also, his bike accident wasn’t event the reason the mythical Blaze warm up dates with maiden were cancelled in early 94:

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Thread 'The tour that never happened: Iron Maiden Live On Stage 1994'

Iron Maiden supposedly planned a tour in early 1994. The Iron Maiden Commentary lists the following dates (http://www.ironmaidencommentary.com/?url=tour10_xfactor/dates10_xfactor&lang=eng&link=tours):

02 Feb 1994 Prague - Czech Republic
Date unknown, city unknown, 1994 - Hungary
Date unknown, city unknown, 1994 - Hungary
Date unknown, city unknown,1994 - Romania

The setlist would probably be based on the A Real Live One/Dead One setlist as both Doogie White and Blaze Bayley has stated that this was the basis for the auditions that happened in the autumn of 1993 (In a 2005 interview...
 
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Gk1 said:
No offence, but he sounds awful, and his stage presence reminds me of some high school boy or something.
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His stage presence fit the band he was fronting, IMO. You can say his onstage antics were amateurish, but from the video, he has the crowd in the palm of his hand. I can't say he ever accomplished this with Maiden.

As for his vocals, again, he's very unrefined like the band he's fronting. I don't mind this unhinged style while fronting Wolfsbane. Wouldn't have worked with Maiden. While I do love his era of Maiden, I've long said he was too green vocally for the job. Steve thought otherwise, or thought he could build him into the singer he wanted. Blaze himself has said numerous times he learned a lot about his voice through working with Steve.
 
GhostofCain said:
You have to bear in mind that Steve was probably comparing this with “I don’t give a shit” 1993 Bruce Dickinson…
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Not arguing with that at all. I felt Steve wanted a loyal singer who also liked football and was British. Not necessarily the best option for the end result, but a dedicated member nonetheless.
 
Helmuth Von Moltke said:
Agreed, also Steve should have allowed Blaze to unleash his energy onstage with Maiden in 1994 when he was fresh. I still find it astonishing that Blaze got the job in December 1993 and then didn’t play a show with Maiden for nearly two years.

Talk about a strange start. The bike accident doesn’t even explain all of it. Blaze could have had a small showcase performance that was heavier on the Paul era classics soon after getting the gig, it would have helped his confidence and probably helped Maiden in the studio.

Also, his bike accident wasn’t event the reason the mythical Blaze warm up dates with maiden were cancelled in early 94:

efekåseo_suomi

Thread 'The tour that never happened: Iron Maiden Live On Stage 1994'

Iron Maiden supposedly planned a tour in early 1994. The Iron Maiden Commentary lists the following dates (http://www.ironmaidencommentary.com/?url=tour10_xfactor/dates10_xfactor&lang=eng&link=tours):

02 Feb 1994 Prague - Czech Republic
Date unknown, city unknown, 1994 - Hungary
Date unknown, city unknown, 1994 - Hungary
Date unknown, city unknown,1994 - Romania

The setlist would probably be based on the A Real Live One/Dead One setlist as both Doogie White and Blaze Bayley has stated that this was the basis for the auditions that happened in the autumn of 1993 (In a 2005 interview...
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They would have been barely a month after Blaze got the gig, I suspect that Maiden probably just decided there wasn't any rush
 
srfc said:
They would have been barely a month after Blaze got the gig, I suspect that Maiden probably just decided there wasn't any rush
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blaze got the job aftter auditoning and then a tour was prepared like the bruce farewell tour with al that songs and a few changes but he broke his leg in a motocyrcle accident....and you know with all that shitty declarations of the 666 being on the odometer of the bike.
 
dickinson1978 said:
Oh you explained it before i havent read it. But he almost lost his leg so i suppose steve went to start writting the xfactor.
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I think the bike accident was in Sept 1994? The other thread suggests this. Either way, you change vocalists and do not line up warm up dates with them - I think that’s consequential and a poor decision by Steve. I think it contributed to screwing Blaze’s confidence right at the start.

Whereas Steve said (in late 1995) he felt back in 1982 maiden were more obscure and could disappear to Bologna to warm Bruce up on stage. I bet NOTB benefited from them having played on stage before the studio sessions.
 
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Helmuth Von Moltke said:
I think the bike accident was in Sept 1994? The other thread suggests this. Either way, you change vocalists and do not line up warm up dates with them - I think that’s consequential and a poor decision by Steve. I think it contributed to screwing Blaze’s confidence right at the start.

Whereas Steve said (in late 1995) he felt back in 1982 maiden were more obscure and could disappear to Bologna to warm Bruce up on stage. I bet NOTB benefited from them having played on stage before the studio sessions.
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This could all well be true and may have had a marked effect on Blaze but also, if he was truly cut out for the gig he would have come into form eventually. Personally, I think the job was too big for him both as a singer and a frontman.

If Steve deserves blame for anything then it's hiring him in the first place.

For the record, I like Blaze and I am glad for him that he had the opportunity.
 
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