Tailgunner88
Invader
Fuck me that was great, going home with setlist and picks
PhantomOfTheOpera
Ancient Mariner
What a fucking great show, I enjoyed it a lot and eventually I got to the front row.
It was evident that Bruce enjoyed performing the songs and glad we got that ole-ole-brucee-brucee chant going around.
Definitely one of the best shows I have ever seen.
It was evident that Bruce enjoyed performing the songs and glad we got that ole-ole-brucee-brucee chant going around.
Definitely one of the best shows I have ever seen.
PhantomOfTheOpera
Ancient Mariner
The folks I talked with after the show said that this was quite crowded and alive audience to what the shows on weeks usually are.
I was affraid that we get cold and quiet audience but this was somewhat similar vibe to Maiden-shows. Atleast I got pretty, pretty good impression.
I was affraid that we get cold and quiet audience but this was somewhat similar vibe to Maiden-shows. Atleast I got pretty, pretty good impression.
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Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
I think the only worthy title track is Eternity. Or Shadow. Resurrection Men needs more parts for this. Do you like it live better? Bruce's vocals are better.
Many Doors is a perfect single-oriented song, but I think the two singles (heavy and melodic, and a very different song on purpose as a single) made more of an impression.
I wouldn't say so. At least for half of it.The same could be said for most of the album
Expected I would say.
That's great, but I still don't know why Road To Hell is a song for rotation.What...a....show!
Bruce was in fantastic shape and the band too.
We got Darkside Of Aquarius instead of Road To Hell!
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
A cameraman can be seen during the soundcheck. Is the entire tour being documented? Should we expect a documentary to go along with the live video? Interesting.
This is a curious combination - Pooch's live sound is great, while the other guy mixed TMP...
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
No Roy Z? The plot thickens!
He'd better start playing footie with Steve soon...
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Btw, some daylight official footage:
Bruce Dickinson on Instagram: "Sweden Rock was unreal!! We’re so excited to bring #TheMandrakeProjectTour to Stockholm tonight : @officialduketv"
5,847 likes, 82 comments - brucedickinsonhq on June 11, 2024: "Sweden Rock was unreal!! We’re so excited to bring #TheMandrakeProjectTour to Stockholm tonight : @officialduketv".www.instagram.com
It seems that Duke TV are responsible for recording the live footage. Didn't Leana Dolci work for them at some point doing interviews?
Duke TV
Rock / Metal - Interviews - Live Facebook - Twitter - Instagram: @OfficialDukeTV Subtitles: Français, Deutsch, Español, Italiano, ÑÑÑÑкий www.duke.tv
www.youtube.com
laurenz00h
Prowler
Agreed, a fantastic show. Bruce was constantly blowing his nose, quite visibly on the background, but vocally he was on fire. I have never witnessed such an enthusiastic crowd in Finland, and I got a laugh from the olé-chants: it is beyond silly to have a Finnish audience chanting olé, but I must admit it that the loud and unified chant took me Back quite a bit, Bruce was in awe as well.What...a....show!
Bruce was in fantastic shape and the band too.
We got Darkside Of Aquarius instead of Road To Hell!
Highlights: witnessing The Chemical Wedding songs live. Those songs have an ethereal quality of their own and transformed me into another dimension. Seeing those songs performed live affirmed my love for that album as perhaps The finest piece of music Bruce Dickinson has ever performed. The beginning of The show, accident-laughing was immensely powerful, so were The new songs: Rain on The Graves was made to be played live. Tears was an emotional high for me, as it was for another (assumedly) Finnish gentleman who wept like a baby during the song.
If I have to nitpick, Frankenstein was bit of a moodkiller, albeit a well deserved break for Bruce. Another killjoy was Bruce's ill placed comment about "the (Russian) fascist from the East" right after The hypnotic Blakean masterpiece that is The Alchemist. Talk about a fall from bliss. Not that I disagree with his sentiment, on the contrary, I just considered it a faux pas which dampened my enjoyment of Darkside of Aquarius and Navigate, I'm afraid. Book of Thel on the other hand was a massive return to form and probably my favorite performance of the evening.
All in all, a gig of The year, potentially a decade. Hope to catch Dickinson live again!
Edit. Unfortunately missed Mindy and all, c'est la vie... Hope you had and will have a great time in Finland!
Vaenyr
Ancient Mariner
Personally? No, I still despise it. Bruce sounds absolutely awful on every version that I've heard and I simply fundamentally dislike that section. The melody, the chord choices, the endless straining. As I said, one of the worst things I've ever heard from Bruce or Maiden.
I imagine this is what other people hear when they listen to Virtual XI
Could you elaborate on this, if you don't mind? Why would such a comment dampen your enjoyment for two songs? Particularly if you agree with the sentiment?
laurenz00h
Prowler
I don't want to go into too much detail, especially in a political sense, but it's all in the context. For me concerts are an escape. Therefore I don't think Bruce's concert was the right time or place for such a topical remark, especially in contrast with the music and the concert as a whole.Futhermore, I don't find other people's plight cheerful topic. Just my Two cents and all that jazz, that's all I'm going to say on this matter, if that's alright.Personally? No, I still despise it. Bruce sounds absolutely awful on every version that I've heard and I simply fundamentally dislike that section. The melody, the chord choices, the endless straining. As I said, one of the worst things I've ever heard from Bruce or Maiden.
I imagine this is what other people hear when they listen to Virtual XI
Could you elaborate on this, if you don't mind? Why would such a comment dampen your enjoyment for two songs? Particularly if you agree with the sentiment?
MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
That's a pity yes....I drank vesi instead of olut.
I noticed one guy with an Eddie rips up world shirt and red cap but guess it wasn´t you?
laurenz00h
Prowler
Sure it wasn't Koskenkorva? I had a red hoodie, so alas, wasn't me.That's a pity yes....I drank vesi instead of olut.
I noticed one guy with an Eddie rips up world shirt and red cap but guess it wasn´t you?
What do you reckon, is Rain on The Graves a better live song than Blaze's Ten seconds? That's a tough one.
Interview Bruce Dickinson (BD)
Deaf Forever (DF) 03/2024
Remark: I only translated parts with new info but included the "Sonata" part because he here for the first time mentions just "a friend".
My translation
DF: Your last solo album, "Tyranny Of Souls", was also strong - but weaker than the two outstanding predecessors. At least it doesn't have the same long-term effect.
BD: "I think that too. "The Mandrake Project" is the better album."
DF: I can't find a weak song on it.
BD: "Great, then we'll stop the interview here, and I can go home! (laughs)"
DF: I'm completely serious. An album full of hits! My current favorite is "Rain On The Graves".
"Ah, interesting. That just happens to be the new single. We're recording a video for it."
If this was a Maiden single, it would be the strongest in 20 years!
"I think I know what you mean by that, but my solo stuff is not a Maiden song.
They're two different ball games. Solo I take the reins, whereas with Maiden, I have to deal with Eddie, Rod Smallwood and Steve Harris.
(laughs). And Steve does things the way we know how. 60, 70 percent of Maiden is always down to him.
Sure, all Maiden fans know that. And especially the last two albums have been well received by almost everyone, "Senjutsu"
even better than "Book Of Souls".
"Yes, "Senjutsu" is slightly ahead, for me too. The sound is better. "Writing On The Wall" was a good single in my opinion, and "Hell On Earth" works wonderfully, especially live. I would also like to include "The Parchment" in the live set, but unfortunately that won't happen. Yes, "Senjutsu" is a strong album album - but different from "The Mandrake Project"."
...
Deaf Forever (DF) 03/2024
Remark: I only translated parts with new info but included the "Sonata" part because he here for the first time mentions just "a friend".
My translation
DF: Your last solo album, "Tyranny Of Souls", was also strong - but weaker than the two outstanding predecessors. At least it doesn't have the same long-term effect.
BD: "I think that too. "The Mandrake Project" is the better album."
DF: I can't find a weak song on it.
BD: "Great, then we'll stop the interview here, and I can go home! (laughs)"
DF: I'm completely serious. An album full of hits! My current favorite is "Rain On The Graves".
"Ah, interesting. That just happens to be the new single. We're recording a video for it."
If this was a Maiden single, it would be the strongest in 20 years!
"I think I know what you mean by that, but my solo stuff is not a Maiden song.
They're two different ball games. Solo I take the reins, whereas with Maiden, I have to deal with Eddie, Rod Smallwood and Steve Harris.
(laughs). And Steve does things the way we know how. 60, 70 percent of Maiden is always down to him.
Sure, all Maiden fans know that. And especially the last two albums have been well received by almost everyone, "Senjutsu"
even better than "Book Of Souls".
"Yes, "Senjutsu" is slightly ahead, for me too. The sound is better. "Writing On The Wall" was a good single in my opinion, and "Hell On Earth" works wonderfully, especially live. I would also like to include "The Parchment" in the live set, but unfortunately that won't happen. Yes, "Senjutsu" is a strong album album - but different from "The Mandrake Project"."
...
The closing track of the album, a rather extraordinary song. There hasn't been anything like this on your solo albums so far.
"Exactly. It's a strange song with an unusual build-up ..."
Because it doesn't explode in the way you would expect. The long guitar solo at the end is also very special.
"That's true. Roy came from the movies, where he saw "lmmortal Beloved" by Gail Altman, a movie about Beethoven, felt totally
inspired and sampled the beginning of the "Moonlight Sonata", tinkered with it a bit, added a drum machine, added ambient parts
and played it to me later. That was over 20 years ago, and I didn't know what to do with it at first.
And then it was also 10 minutes long. When I then sang to it spontaneously, without any written lyrics, it suddenly worked - and what you hear on the album now is 80% the result of the very first take."
I would have assumed the opposite, because your vocals are so strong overall. Even better than on the last Maiden albums,
I think.
"Maybe that's because I can work very spontaneously with Roy. When I'm feeling good
and am in the right mood, then sometimes the words just come out of me. With "Sonata" I was completely unprepared, and parts of the
vocals are even slightly off in terms of timing - but it just fit. So we hardly had to change anything. I just stood in the darkened room and sang what I felt. The shifted timing in the verses was because I didn't know what words I would sing next. Ultimately, it's these little "glitches" that make the magic of the piece. Something like that cannot be repeated later. I had to come up with a spontaneous story that suited Roy's music
- and the result surprised us both. In the end, there was still plenty of room for a guitar solo. When I was first time back in the USA after the corona break, I asked Roy for a tape with all our ideas that I could listen to in the car.
That's when I heard "Sonata" for the first time in almost 20 years and thought it was a very original song.
But I wasn't sure whether it would fit on our next album - until a friend of mine heard it and immediately loved it. It turned out to be a good closer to the album. The next-to-last song "Shadow of the Gods" would have been a good, perhaps more logical ending. But then there's "Sonata" as a surprise."
"Exactly. It's a strange song with an unusual build-up ..."
Because it doesn't explode in the way you would expect. The long guitar solo at the end is also very special.
"That's true. Roy came from the movies, where he saw "lmmortal Beloved" by Gail Altman, a movie about Beethoven, felt totally
inspired and sampled the beginning of the "Moonlight Sonata", tinkered with it a bit, added a drum machine, added ambient parts
and played it to me later. That was over 20 years ago, and I didn't know what to do with it at first.
And then it was also 10 minutes long. When I then sang to it spontaneously, without any written lyrics, it suddenly worked - and what you hear on the album now is 80% the result of the very first take."
I would have assumed the opposite, because your vocals are so strong overall. Even better than on the last Maiden albums,
I think.
"Maybe that's because I can work very spontaneously with Roy. When I'm feeling good
and am in the right mood, then sometimes the words just come out of me. With "Sonata" I was completely unprepared, and parts of the
vocals are even slightly off in terms of timing - but it just fit. So we hardly had to change anything. I just stood in the darkened room and sang what I felt. The shifted timing in the verses was because I didn't know what words I would sing next. Ultimately, it's these little "glitches" that make the magic of the piece. Something like that cannot be repeated later. I had to come up with a spontaneous story that suited Roy's music
- and the result surprised us both. In the end, there was still plenty of room for a guitar solo. When I was first time back in the USA after the corona break, I asked Roy for a tape with all our ideas that I could listen to in the car.
That's when I heard "Sonata" for the first time in almost 20 years and thought it was a very original song.
But I wasn't sure whether it would fit on our next album - until a friend of mine heard it and immediately loved it. It turned out to be a good closer to the album. The next-to-last song "Shadow of the Gods" would have been a good, perhaps more logical ending. But then there's "Sonata" as a surprise."
Randalf
Ancient Mariner
The same person has also captured stuff for the screen. E.g the footage of the crowd is shown during Chemical Wedding and during Frankenstein the band footage is in the spotlight.
So my guess is that they're just part of the tour personnel, but who knows...
Road to Hell is brilliant, but I suppose it just comes down to the set having room for only so many songs... Can't have everything, I suppose.
Feeling lucky that I witnessed Road to Hell in Oslo and Aquarius in Helsinki, along with The Book of Thel!
...
What else would you like to do in life?
What haven't you gotten around to yet?
"I want to tour America, Australia and Japan with my solo band - and there will also be another album from Roy and me. We still have too many ideas and demos that need to be elaborated.
However I'd need a few years off for that!"
GÖTZ KÜHNEMUND
What else would you like to do in life?
What haven't you gotten around to yet?
"I want to tour America, Australia and Japan with my solo band - and there will also be another album from Roy and me. We still have too many ideas and demos that need to be elaborated.
However I'd need a few years off for that!"
GÖTZ KÜHNEMUND
Meliegree
Evening The Odds.
God dammit! Next 10 - 15 years till new album release?
