Bruce Dickinson

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Kalata said:
That's good to hear. Can you share the picture?
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I can't. It was a "Story" and it has been erased during the night by Facebook. Stories last only 24 hours. And as it was a private post on a private page, so it wouldn't be normal for me to post a status that someone, even if it's Roy Z, posted in private not in public. If it has been public, I could have done that, but in private it's even more complicated. ;)
 
GhostofCain said:
What was your most embarrassing moment?
I once threw up on the shoes of one of my vocal heroes, the Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan. He sent me home in a taxi with a towel.

Don’t you love it when you learn something new? :D
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Well, it is a funny anecdote and an an embarrassing moment. I doubt the average Guardian reader who isn't a Maiden fan would know about it.
 
dmort93 said:
Well, it is a funny anecdote and an an embarrassing moment. I doubt the average Guardian reader who isn't a Maiden fan would know about it.
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After so many years of telling the same story all over again, I bet even the readers of The New European or The Socialist have heard it more than once!
 
Some 2024 tour stats:

Songs played at every show (47 shows):
Accident of Birth, Abduction, Afterglow Of Ragnarok, The Chemical Wedding, The Alchemist

Songs not played at 1 show:
Resurrection Men, Rain On the Graves

Played 45 times:
Tears Of The Dragon

Played 42 times:
Frankenstein (Edgar Winter cover)

Played 41 times:
Laughing In The Hiding Bush, The Tower

Played 37 times:
Book Of Thel

Played 35 times:
Darkside Of Aquarius

Played 32 times:
Navigate The Seas Of The Sun

Played 21 times:
Road To Hell

Played 20 times:
Many Doors To Hell

Played 19 times:
Jerusalem

Played 16 times:
Faith

Played 6 times:
Gods Of War, Gates Of Urizen (the only song that the band sounded meh on)

Played 4 times:
Starchildren

Played once:
All The Young Dudes (Mott The Hoople cover), Alexander The Great (IM cover, partial)

23 different songs were performed during the course of the tour.
 
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matic22 said:
Some Euro tour stats:

Songs played at every show (47 shows):
Accident of Birth, Abduction, Afterglow Of Ragnarok, The Chemical Wedding, The Alchemist

Songs not played at 1 show:
Resurrection Men, Rain On the Graves

Played 45 times:
Tears Of The Dragon

Played 42 times:
Frankenstein (Edgar Winter cover)

Played 41 times:
Laughing In The Hiding Bush, The Tower

Played 37 times:
Book Of Thel

Played 35 times:
Darkside Of Aquarius

Played 32 times:
Navigate The Seas Of The Sun

Played 21 times:
Road To Hell

Played 20 times:
Many Doors To Hell

Played 19 times:
Jerusalem

Played 16 times:
Faith

Played 6 times:
Gods Of War, Gates Of Urizen (the only song that the band sounded meh on)

Played 4 times:
Starchildren

Played once:
All The Young Dudes (Mott The Hoople cover), Alexander The Great (IM cover, partial)

23 different songs were performed during the course of the tour.
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All the songs from the rehearsals list I guess. I expect at least over 5 different songs played during the 2nd leg next year. From the new album too. I think Bruce will want to tour solo almost every year from now on (''a bit more of that in the future''), ofc not when he will write the next album.
 
Vaenyr said:
Taylor for example has been rather aggressive about releasing multiple variants of her albums with different packaging and exclusive bonus tracks and a large part of her fandom is eating it up. I'm not the biggest fan of stuff like that to be honest.
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As far as I understand it Swift got screwed over. Her catalogue was sold against her wishes to another person, so she fought back by re-recording, at a very high quality, her catalogue and effectively making her original catalogue next to worthless for the buyer.
It wasn't a cash grab, it was her sticking it to "the man" and taking control of her catalogue.

What is Taylor Swift’s dispute with her old label?​

But Swift’s behind-the-scenes moves became front-page news when Big Machine sold to private-equity group Ithaca Holdings, an entity owned by powerhouse music manager Scooter Braun. He then sold her masters to another company, Shamrock Holdings, for a reported $300 million in 2019. On a business level, Braun’s move was smart: Swift’s master recordings reap profits whenever the songs are streamed or bought. On the personal front, it was contentious: Swift claims Braun, who manages stars like Kanye West and Justin Bieber, has repeatedly bullied her, and so she slammed the sale publicly and promised to rerecord those original six albums, this time with the masters under her own control. Anyone who hits play on an old version of Swift’s early songs right now will still pay into the bank of Braun.
 
TheMercenary said:
I can't. It was a "Story" and it has been erased during the night by Facebook. Stories last only 24 hours. And as it was a private post on a private page, so it wouldn't be normal for me to post a status that someone, even if it's Roy Z, posted in private not in public. If it has been public, I could have done that, but in private it's even more complicated. ;)
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I think we can share it because he also shared it in his Instagram as a story and as a post. (He deleted the post soon afterwards, there were very nice comments by tanya and mistheria) And it's not a negative thing, indeed very positive and hopeful for the future.
Yes, I took the screenshot :)
 

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MindlessPieces said:
As far as I understand it Swift got screwed over. Her catalogue was sold against her wishes to another person, so she fought back by re-recording, at a very high quality, her catalogue and effectively making her original catalogue next to worthless for the buyer.
It wasn't a cash grab, it was her sticking it to "the man" and taking control of her catalogue.

What is Taylor Swift’s dispute with her old label?​

But Swift’s behind-the-scenes moves became front-page news when Big Machine sold to private-equity group Ithaca Holdings, an entity owned by powerhouse music manager Scooter Braun. He then sold her masters to another company, Shamrock Holdings, for a reported $300 million in 2019. On a business level, Braun’s move was smart: Swift’s master recordings reap profits whenever the songs are streamed or bought. On the personal front, it was contentious: Swift claims Braun, who manages stars like Kanye West and Justin Bieber, has repeatedly bullied her, and so she slammed the sale publicly and promised to rerecord those original six albums, this time with the masters under her own control. Anyone who hits play on an old version of Swift’s early songs right now will still pay into the bank of Braun.
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This is not the part I was referencing. Her re-recording her old albums to have the full rights to her own music is totally valid and I have no issue with that. That's an ongoing project that started years ago. I was referring to her release campaign for the last year or so, where she released multiple variants of the same album with different covers and each of them having a unique bonus track, artificially boosting her numbers by getting the die hard swifties to purchase the same album multiple times. She had a little feud with Billie Eilish, where the latter got to #1 and Taylor released another new version of an album to push Billie back from the first place.
 
Isn't that just the old Bring Your Daugher to the Slaughter strategy but applied to an album? Multiple formats, extra b-side on the 12", as a bonus also released on Christmas Eve so they could finally get a chart-topping single since the Maiden diehards would buy it in multiple formats at a time when nobody else was really putting anything out.
 
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