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A "Burn" performance clip from "Celebrating Jon Lord - At The Royal Albert Hall" featuring Glenn Hughes and Bruce Dickinson.

:eek: The scream from Bruce at 1:38!!! I've NEVER heard him do anything like that before! WOW!!!

 
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This is cool, I would like to listen to some of these

Deal struck to re-broadcast all 52 rock shows originally aired on BBC Radio 6 Music – starts this weekend
TeamRock Radio is to broadcast 52 rock shows hosted by Bruce Dickinson which originally aired on BBC Radio 6 Music.

Starting this weekend, the Bruce Dickinson Rock Show will be broadcast at 6am on Saturdays and Sundays, while all 52 episodes will eventually be available on demand at teamrock.com

The first six episodes will be available on demand from this Saturday (December 6).

TeamRock has reached an agreement with the BBC to re-broadcast the shows, hosted by the Iron Maiden frontman for eight years up until 2010. It featured interviews with iconic rock artists as well as some of the best classic rock music.

TeamRock's head of radio, Moose, says: “Bruce Dickinson is an icon within the rock community and these programmes will be much sought after by our listeners. They will add to the enormous breadth of output we have at TeamRock Radio and what’s more, they can hear them on demand. What a great gift for rock fans the world over."

John Myers, chairman of TeamRock, adds: “I am delighted that we have come to a deal where these programmes can he heard once again on the air and also on teamrock.com, the home of rock music worldwide.”

TeamRock.com also owns a portfolio of rock magazines, including Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, Blues, Prog and AOR and has just launched a new membership model,TeamRock+. You can tune into TeamRock Radio via DAB, online at teamrock.comand on the TuneIn app.
 
Mixed feelings about this. He wasn't allowed to continue the show and now they are "delighted". Change of personnel?
 
Nice way for specialist radio shows to go after broadcast, being bought up and put on a website for ever more.
 
That's one thing I really regret is not seeing a Bruce solo show. I didn't really discover his solo stuff till about 10 years ago or so. I still have that anthology dvd I haven't watched yet.
 
Just dug out Accident of Birth again. Man this is such a excellent record!!! I had forgotten on how great it was.
I have always preferred Chemical Wedding, but this album is also brilliant.
 
I dreamt last night that I spent a day with Bruce in his house. He was pottering around and talking about getting into acting. You heard it here first!
 
The first time I read I caught myself having Dio flashbacks and fearing the worst. Thank goodness he seems to have pulled through ok. I hope he makes a full recovery but given the location of the tumor I think we should count ourselves grateful for all the years of insane singing he has brought us. Even if he recovered and was able to, he might not want to sing anymore. Which is fine, he's given us so much already. *raises a glass*
 
Interesting (seen on the official Maiden forum, posted by (our own?) GhostofCain ? ): Tony Platt says he pointed Maiden towards Bruce:
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You joined Zomba as a producer and began working with heavier bands like Iron Maiden and Samson.

I did "Foreigner 4" with Mutt and we were halfway through "Foreigner 4" and the guys at Zomba asked if I would like them to manage me and start getting producer gigs for me. For me that was a great thing because although I'd done little bits of production in the past, nobody had ever really supported me. Zomba were the biggest producer managing company in the world at that point and I thought, "Wow. This is great." So that was really nice to be able to be going into doing those things in that way. The first gig Zomba got me was to remix Samson tracks when Bruce Dickinson was in Samson. So I mixed those and that relationship with Bruce and Samson built up and they were very much a parallel band with Iron Maiden. They were friendly rivals I think would be a good way of putting it. Clive Burr had been in Samson before he was in Iron Maiden so the personnel swapping was quite common.

You did "Phantom of the Opera" with Iron Maiden?

Another one of the producers on the roster was Martin Birch and he was scheduled to work with Iron Maiden on their next album but they were contractually recorded to another single and deliver three songs or something to EMI. Martin was caught up doing a Whitesnake album and he couldn't get away to do it. Because they had to get this recording done, Ralph Simon [one of the owners] said, "Would you fancy doing it and helping out?" So I said, "Well, yeah. That would be fine."

Was it a challenge working with Iron Maiden?

It was tough; the Iron Maiden thing was tough. It wouldn't have been a gig I would have chosen because it wasn't really mind kind of music. Samson were much more in the ZZ Top mould and I was much more into that. I was aware of the fact Bruce's voice was just astonishing. My problem with the Iron Maiden setup was they were already playing this metal at 900 miles an hour with all the instruments in the middle octave and the voice in the middle octave as well.

When all the instruments and the vocals are in the same register, that makes recording and mixing difficult, right?

My big fight at the time during the recording of those tracks was to try and get the voice to be using notes a little higher. It was difficult because Paul Di'Anno didn't have the range to do that. I think I was very instrumental in continually saying, "You need a singer like Bruce" and not really thinking they would take me completely at my word on that and go and get him.

You were kind of writing history.

It was amusing really because there was one day I went into the studio at Battery and there was a very embarrassed Bruce doing some test vocals over Iron Maiden tracks. That was the point at which they were kind of enticing him across.
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Other, older "news", also pointed out by GhostofCain:
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Now here is a bit of trivia I did not know. Bruce Dickinson did record backing vocals for the Krokus album "One Vice at a Time" (released in 1982):

http://krokusonline.seven49.net/en/f...tters/2007.htm

Krokus took the pressure in stride and delivered the best album of their careers to that point. The band recorded the album at the famous Battery Studios in London with veteran producer Tony Platt manning the controls. Storace fondly recalls working at the legendary studio. "This was the second album we recorded in London, England. The other album we recorded there was "Hardware", which we had recorded in the Roundhouse in Camden Town. It was particularly great for me to be recording on home ground again. I drove up from South London every day and joined in the flow of things. LD, or "Little Dave" Glover, our US tour manager and our manager Butch Stone`s right hand man, flew in and stayed with the band during the whole recording period. As usual, we started the recordings by laying down the rhythm section foundations to all the songs. When the rhythm guitars were done we started with my lead vocals, even before any guitar solos were finished. Tony Platt, our producer, engaged Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) to do some backing vocals to add color, and in order to cover up the heavy Swiss accent from the Swiss/German boys, which at that early stage was slightly too overpowering. Mutt Lange also happened to be mixing AC/DC`s "For Those About to Rock" in Battery Studios at that time and often popped in for a listening break with his old assistant Tony while I was singing."

Storace recounts his time with Dickinson in the studio. "Bruce was cool. Unfortunately, we only got to chat for a while. He was stressed to leave right after the session but we met some time later on a flight to New York. Surprisingly, Bruce boarded the plane dressed in a Sherlock Holmes outfit and came and sat next to me for the whole flight - strange but true. Later on, Iron Maiden and Krokus met up on the road and we even played some big venues together."

I think I can hear Bruce's vocals at least on the chorus of 'Rock'n'roll', the last song of the album:

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I haven't really heard Bruce. For those who want to check, good luck.
 
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