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Maybe I'm being too pendantic about this, but I'm pretty sure Bruce knows enough about music to be a bit more specific with his language. He could say it's about the register instead of saying key, since the latter includes everything from extreme low notes to piercing high notes; that's how keys work. Maybe he feels that if he pointed out the register being the issue, that it would sound more as if the blame is on him for not being able to sing Steve's insanely challenging vocal lines, while saying "it's the key of the song" shifts the blame (for lack of a better word). It's not really that important anyway. I love that song but Bruce is correct that it was borderline unsingeable when he was still in his 20's, let alone nowadays.
Not sure how Bruce can be simultaneously knowledgeable enough and too ignorant in this case. If he is versed enough in theory and terminology then he wouldn't talk about e-minor as a weird key, ergo he probably isn't very versed in theory and terminology. Pretty sure he once said he couldn't name the notes (the intervals or the notes, whatever he meant, in a given key) in a pentatonic scale.
I kinda disagree to when you compared QFF to Total Eclipse. Vocally & musically I think Total Eclipse is a million miles ahead of Quest for Fire. The last “Gone are the days, when men looked down” was sung super well and yeah it might seem quite unprecedented after the mid-section but I think it fits well.
That doesn't match the context of the interview question though. It was about which one was the most technically demanding song to sing in the studio.
Gotta agree to disagree. I absolutely despise the section you quoted and it singlehandedly ruined the song for me, making it one of the worst songs in Maiden's entire catalogue. I really dislike that part.
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Agreed. But he screwed that one up so much in the Hammersmith version that it's quite unlistenable.
Supposedly doing Atmos remixes of all of his previous solo albums, which will apparently include more substantive sonic changes to Balls, and possibly Skunkworks. In the case of Balls it will be to beef it up and make it sound closer to Roy's originally intended metal sound rather than whatever Shay Baby did to it, and in the case of Skunkworks it's not clear what exactly is being done beyond the Atmos support, though Bruce implied it would be heavier sounding. FWIW, Chris Dale has apparently heard some version of the Atmos remix of Skunkworks and prefers it to the original mix. Some more details here.
Not that I'm aware of.
This is it for me. I love Total Eclipse as a song, but even when I'm listening to the studio version, my brain likes to mentally torture me by switching over to my memory of how off he was singing that "gone are the days" section for no reason whatsoever.
Nothing set in stone yet, but my guess is during the next 12 months.
It’s not bad man. He nails the note on that.
This is exactly what is happening with me
Absolutely the same.