Iron Lurker
Ancient Mariner
I said the same to myself a few days ago reading this thread. Well done!
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
I really like the LP as a format, but the prices being charged these days are outrageous!
The 5LP box set for The Darkness Permission to Land 20th Anniversary is being sold for £129.99 at HMV. The 4CD+DVD box set is £59.99!!!
Iron Lurker
Ancient Mariner
I know, it's crazy. I bought tons of LPs in the 70s and 80s they were so relatively cheap then. I have no interest in vinyl today, I don't even have anything to play then on anyway
srfc
Ancient Mariner
Yep that ones shocking.
Literally, go on ebay, music magpie etc. at any stage over the last 20 years, and you can pick up that album and it's CD singles for 99p. I'm a fan of the Darkness, but that album was a huge success with mainstream people who promptly dumped it when the novelty wore off and is ridiculously easy to pick up now.
A box set seems to be charged at ridiculous prices no matter whether the content deserves it or not.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
I would argue the 4CD+DVD box set is not too expensive. The price of those plastic LPs these days on the other hand...
Ascendingthethrone
Ancient Mariner
My thoughts exactly. The price is outrageous and the quality control is iffy. I got a limited edition REM record shipped from the states for a bargain but there are pops that don’t come out from cleaning. Bloody ridiculous. CDs are so much more reliable.
Yax
Ancient Mariner
I avoid splatter/multicolor vinyl like the plague for just that reason. They are much more prone to have flawed grooves, where the vinyl protrudes very slightly in a spot. Ruined my Opeth box set.
srfc
Ancient Mariner
I might pick it up (it's €65 from the local shop here), a mate has the LP version, just waiting to hear if he reckons the live stuff is worth it. It's not a bad price in the grand scheme of things but I think it's about €15 more than it should be, maybe that's inflation these days.
Yax
Ancient Mariner
Fixed it. It has been proved a large chunk is a result of price gouging, as increased profits and revenue often far exceeds increased costs. And thus, the snow ball (overall inflation) keeps rolling, amassing even more snow and getting bigger and bigger.
Eggs in the US is a prime example.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
TheMercenary
Ancient Mariner
IRON MAIDEN's BRUCE DICKINSON Says His Cancer Battle Changed His View Of Life And Death
In a new interview with Sweden's SVT, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson spoke about his upcoming solo album "The Mandrake Project", which will be released on March 1 via BMG. Bruce Dickinson and his long-term co-writer and producer Roy "Z" Ramirez recorded the LP largely at Los Angeles's Doom...
blabbermouth.net
Well, at least here in the US the price of eggs and the price of the Senjutsu box set have both gone down. They're probably pretty comparable in price right now actually.Fixed it for you.
Ascendingthethrone
Ancient Mariner
Ascendingthethrone
Ancient Mariner
I thought there were only two track listings… are there many more than that?
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
IRON MAIDEN's BRUCE DICKINSON Says His Cancer Battle Changed His View Of Life And Death
In a new interview with Sweden's SVT, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson spoke about his upcoming solo album "The Mandrake Project", which will be released on March 1 via BMG. Bruce Dickinson and his long-term co-writer and producer Roy "Z" Ramirez recorded the LP largely at Los Angeles's Doom...
The very short interview can be watched here:
Ragnarök i fokus i Bruce Dickinsons nya soloprojekt
Iron Maiden-sångaren Bruce Dickinson släpper snart sitt sjunde album ”The Mandrake Project” – som också är namnet på en serieroman i tre delar, inspirerad av nordisk mytologi. – Jag hade kul med att försöka skapa en fantasivärld för skivan, säger sångaren.
www.svt.se
Thankfully, they never repeated their mistake again.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Comics and beer for fans in the Brooklyn area interested in those things:
www.instagram.com
Z2 on Instagram: "Loudwire Presents: Bruce Dickinson’s The Mandrake Live Q&A, hosted by @icenerveshatter ⛓️ Book Signing + Trooper Beer specials all night at St. Vitus in BrooklynLimited tickets available. Link in bio to purchase!"
3,138 likes, 47 comments - z2comics on January 9, 2024: "Loudwire Presents: Bruce Dickinson’s The Mandrake Live Q&A, hosted by @icenerveshatter ⛓️ Book Signing + Trooper Beer specials all night at St. Vitus in BrooklynLimited tickets available. Link in bio to purchase!".
www.instagram.com
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Bruce dickinson - 5 Jan 2024 - Classic Rock Magazine - Readly
A “mouthy little fucker” who got kicked out of boarding school, he went on to front the uk’s most successful heavy metal band, fence for his country, ho...
gb.readly.com
The new Classic Rock interview:
When I got back with Roy Z, we wrote [the album’s first single] Afterglow Of Ragnarok, I thought: I like the title, I like the chorus, it’s all good, but it’s got fuck all to do with the comic. But then I thought, it doesn’t matter, and the album is not a concept album, because that limits you, and you end up shoehorning in things to fit the concept.
At the end, you realise the Mandrake Project has conquered death, which raises all sorts of philosophical questions. At the heart of the comic is the question: is the universe scientific, or poetic?
I chuck everything in Steve’s direction. That’s how it works. Then he turns around and says: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no…” These days we tend to write more in the studio, though, so I come up with stuff specifically for Maiden. Me and Adrian write a lot together. Steve might take a couple of ideas from Janick and then he’ll disappear into his little hole in the ground for two to three weeks. Then he’ll suddenly emerge and go: I think I’ve got one. That was how we did Senjutsu, which is a cracking Maiden album.
Yeah, they were. But I also great take pride in being able to voice Steve’s riffs. There’s not many people that can do it. I could never figure out why he wrote such bloody difficult words, though. Then we were chatting one day and it came out – the words follow the bass and drums. I tried to explain to him early on:“Look, Steve, I’m going to lose my front teeth trying to sing this.” But Steve has compromised over the years. I never thought I’d be able to sing Alexander The Great when I first heard it, but that worked out fine.
I wouldn’t have changed that [leaving Maiden in 1993], but I would have done it better. I would have had more of a plan. I realised Iron Maiden were doing its thing and there was nothing anybody could do to change its trajectory. At the time, I was sitting there making what ended up being Balls To Picasso, and I realised that I didn’t have much clue what to do outside of Iron Maiden.
About Tattooed Millionaire: It was a bunch of rock’n’roll clichés done quite well. People liked it – which I respect – but if I wanted to do something that was going to be the start of a solo career I wouldn’t have done Tattooed Millionaire.
Skunkworks was a cracking album, but they weren’t really a focused rock band. I heard the demos they were coming up with, and said: “It’s not really my thing, is it. But that band got me out of my comfort zone, and I learned a lot about singing, too.
Accident Of Birth was a lot of fun to make and it turned everything around for me. The Chemical Wedding was the big one, artistically. That’s when I realised if Iam going to do anything, I need to go deep – deep into the emotion and deep into the heart of it.
I want to come back, Steve, because, in the words of my mates, ‘the world needs Iron Maiden’, and secondly I think we can make amazing music. What I said was: “We will sweep away the past by doing an amazing future.” I also told them that we are not to just do ‘greatest hits’ albums, we are going to do a new album and it will be fucking great. And it was. Brave New World really delivered. So suddenly we’re off to the races again.
Really, I’ve been doing the same thing all along – telling stories. If I’m singing, Iam telling a story. If Iam doing a comic, it’s storytelling. I finally realised this is what I do. I love the musical part of it, but I’ve got to have a story before I’m there.
At the end, you realise the Mandrake Project has conquered death, which raises all sorts of philosophical questions. At the heart of the comic is the question: is the universe scientific, or poetic?
I chuck everything in Steve’s direction. That’s how it works. Then he turns around and says: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no…” These days we tend to write more in the studio, though, so I come up with stuff specifically for Maiden. Me and Adrian write a lot together. Steve might take a couple of ideas from Janick and then he’ll disappear into his little hole in the ground for two to three weeks. Then he’ll suddenly emerge and go: I think I’ve got one. That was how we did Senjutsu, which is a cracking Maiden album.
Yeah, they were. But I also great take pride in being able to voice Steve’s riffs. There’s not many people that can do it. I could never figure out why he wrote such bloody difficult words, though. Then we were chatting one day and it came out – the words follow the bass and drums. I tried to explain to him early on:“Look, Steve, I’m going to lose my front teeth trying to sing this.” But Steve has compromised over the years. I never thought I’d be able to sing Alexander The Great when I first heard it, but that worked out fine.
I wouldn’t have changed that [leaving Maiden in 1993], but I would have done it better. I would have had more of a plan. I realised Iron Maiden were doing its thing and there was nothing anybody could do to change its trajectory. At the time, I was sitting there making what ended up being Balls To Picasso, and I realised that I didn’t have much clue what to do outside of Iron Maiden.
About Tattooed Millionaire: It was a bunch of rock’n’roll clichés done quite well. People liked it – which I respect – but if I wanted to do something that was going to be the start of a solo career I wouldn’t have done Tattooed Millionaire.
Skunkworks was a cracking album, but they weren’t really a focused rock band. I heard the demos they were coming up with, and said: “It’s not really my thing, is it. But that band got me out of my comfort zone, and I learned a lot about singing, too.
Accident Of Birth was a lot of fun to make and it turned everything around for me. The Chemical Wedding was the big one, artistically. That’s when I realised if Iam going to do anything, I need to go deep – deep into the emotion and deep into the heart of it.
I want to come back, Steve, because, in the words of my mates, ‘the world needs Iron Maiden’, and secondly I think we can make amazing music. What I said was: “We will sweep away the past by doing an amazing future.” I also told them that we are not to just do ‘greatest hits’ albums, we are going to do a new album and it will be fucking great. And it was. Brave New World really delivered. So suddenly we’re off to the races again.
Really, I’ve been doing the same thing all along – telling stories. If I’m singing, Iam telling a story. If Iam doing a comic, it’s storytelling. I finally realised this is what I do. I love the musical part of it, but I’ve got to have a story before I’m there.
This is also worth noting -> Dickinson’s forthcoming tour will also see him play highlights from his solo records to audiences as far afield as South America (“These people have been waiting years to see this stuff live”). Then there’s a new Iron Maiden album to be made, after his trip to Australia to, hopefully, improve his digeridoo playing.!!!!!!
The promo photos (with The Future Past costume, maybe part of the booklet or of the new video?) are giving me BTP vibe:
