Azas
At the Eternity's End
Painful to watch. The Alchemist - one of my all time favorites.
Painful to watch. The Alchemist - one of my all time favorites.
Yax
Ancient Mariner
Rather decent, actually. The low mid sound buildup isn't very pretty though. I think this vocal take would have sounded much better on a concert stage, with a band and adequate sound.
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Absolutely - for the latter, but it's OK performance considering the age and context (didn't he say the worst time to sing is after a lot of talking)
The notes are spot on. I mean my pitch recognition is not that special but intervals don't lie, that's a correct rendition of Alchemist voice melody. Regarding timbre, well, to connect what I said above I think Bruce is intentionally stretching out his capabilities while trying to sing a cappella every night after a speech tour.
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After watching some of these clips, I'm starting to think, it's not so good idea to sing a capella
wat? That Stranger was fucking great, it even had a bit of his early 90s voice for a moment there.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
This is by no means a bad performance. ''The Alchemist'' has tricky verses and chorus. I wouldn't worry about Bruce's voice, I mean he sings without warming up his voice and after 2 hours of talking. Live on a concert stage will sound better for sure.
Awesome chorus and solo (''Stargazer'' vibe). It's never been played live, right?
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
That’d better be the case!
TheTalisman
Ancient Mariner
I think that it should have been in the set in 2008 and 2009, that was a foregone opportunity.
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PhantomOfTheOpera
Ancient Mariner
Indeed, that would be nice to get back into Maiden setlist.
I tried searching for this video from youtube couple days ago (when found about it) but as then couldn't find any for it, so I couldn't naturally post the video.
Im really digging these videos where Bruce performs bits of songs acapella, too bad he didn't yet sing any when I saw the book tour..
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GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
You get a card at the venue and you can write your question on it. Bruce selects which ones to answer during the interval.
Jer
A window to the west, a blazing star above
This. There were a number of question boxes throughout the lobby. You write down your name and your question. I submitted 3 cards and he picked the one I hoped he would pick.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Please tell me that this wasn't the first time you had heard the story about Nicko and his instructor flying to France to pick up Bruce and his mate following a fencing competition. It is as old as the hills!
Glad to hear you had fun.
Flaming Blimp Crash
Ancient Mariner
"That's not supposed to happen, right?"
"Nah, nah, thass not supposed to fuckin' 'appen."
"Nah, nah, thass not supposed to fuckin' 'appen."
Ruflux
Ancient Mariner
Admittedly it's a great story and I bet most of the audience isn't familiar with it but it's pretty funny he's still telling it after he already put it in his book and was already sharing it every night in 2019, probably even earlier.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
That was much better than most of his recent efforts at singing on his one man show (not trying to go high probably helped).
Jer
A window to the west, a blazing star above
Probably the only live rendition of “Eternal” that we’ll ever hear, too.
He sounded pretty good on “Revelations” at the Minneapolis show: