Bruce Dickinson

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Why not? Some situations need to be addressed immediately. Incidents during concerts are such momens. And in the heat of the moment, I don't think anyone else would do this much better.
 
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Why not? Some situations need to be addressed immediately. Incidents during concerts are such momens. And in the heat of the moment, I don't think anyone else would do this much better.
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Most concert incidents that would require such immediate, heat of the moment reaction are people texting, which is hardly a rant-worthy matter.
 
Bruce has insulted unrelated third parties on his rants in the past. I have no problem with him calling out douches in the crowd, but I have a problem with him bashing unrelated people in front of his crowd.
 
I read the intervews and I have one question. Who managed Bruce during Accident period. Because if it was Sanctuary (e.g. somebody tied with Sanctuary), this shots towards Maiden could very well be the beginning of Rod Smallwood's master plan of creating the hype before 1999 reunion.
 
He stayed with Sanctuary management the whole period he was out of Maiden.

Neither he or Maiden could get a deal with a major label in the U.S during this period, they were both signed to CMC international.
 
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It strikes me how people out here are solely looking at Bruce when talking about "shots" or being open. Just his shots? Let's not forget that Steve openly complained about Bruce when interviewed, during Bruce's farewell tour (1993). Bruce explained his side very well in that interview Talisman posted.

Did Bruce say anything that's not correct? Even if he did, it looks like he fired back, and I'm not sure if he would have said anything if he weren't the target first. As I've said, sometimes it's good to be open, defending yourself is one of the best reasons.

By the way, after all these years, I yet have to hear footage that backs Steve up when he says he couldn't hear Bruce.
 
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Of course it was weird for Bruce to do a last tour. Well explained by him, wrongly judged (or said) by Steve.

Folk or "acoustic" can be very different from Country and Western (God, I hate these two genres). Bruce and Steve have a shared love for Jethro Tull, so use of acousic guitars in Maiden's music might rather be influenced by that kind of style (or just "folk"). Acoustic passages did skip into Maiden's music on later albums, but if Bruce wanted an entire album (without electronic guitars), I can imagine that Steve and others didn't want that. Still, to say that Bruce wanted to do that for the money is an illogical accusation. Bruce needs to do different things to stay highly inspired and motivated. Ingesting new ingredients in music is one of them. If it's just about the money, then the Skunkworks album was more like a risk than a fair chance of this album doing better than a metal record.
 
edit: no prob!

You have a point that the genre he tried was popular. (Still, a risk because people associate him with metal).
 
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Don't have a source but my understanding was that the record company was pretty happy with Bring Your Daughter and wanted him to do a whole solo album while Maiden was taking a break. This was before Adrian even left I think.
 
The original Bring your daugher was done late 89 I think? He talks a bit about this on that "listen with Bruce" track on disc 2 of his Best of album.

The record company offered Bruce a record deal based on that song, and he also toured UK, mainland Europe and US before No prayer for the dying were released.
 
Bruce started using a more raw vocal approach with the recordings of Charlotte the Harlot and Prowler 88 versions, and he wanted to do more of that on his first solo album. Tattooed millionaire was written and recorded before No prayer for the dying, the recordings took only two weeks.

Tattooed millionaire is not a serious album, it was meant to be a fun rock'n roll record, other than Born in 58. Balls to Picasso is totally different.

A real live one/ a real dead one features no overdubs (at least very little compared to Live after death). I think Bruce don't like them either, I remember he said something like he didn't consider them official live albums during the release of Rock in Rio..
 
Is it sacrilege for my to say I don't own a live album other than Live After Death and I couldn't tell you the track listing for Live/Dead?
 
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