Bruce Dickinson

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I thought Bruce's last album had been well received. From what I've just read in the last few pages, it seems I was wrong.
I've tried it again recently, and I just can't figure out how he released such a patchy thing and genuinely thought it was great.
 
harrisdevot said:
I thought Bruce's last album had been well received. From what I've just read in the last few pages, it seems I was wrong.
I've tried it again recently, and I just can't figure out how he released such a patchy thing and genuinely thought it was great.
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There are some champions of it, for sure. Overall I think the majority of Bruce fans are just happy to hear anything new after such a long wait.

Personally, I think a lot of it is mediocre at best and that overlong demo at the end is absolute trash.
 
harrisdevot said:
I thought Bruce's last album had been well received. From what I've just read in the last few pages, it seems I was wrong.

I've tried it again recently, and I just can't figure out how he released such a patchy thing and genuinely thought it was great.
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Well received by the majority of the fans, not here it seems. Huge expectations. Maybe a let-down after such a long wait for some, but definitely it's not a bad or weak album, the quality ideas are there. I can't believe he released an album which feels unfinished (to say), with questionable producing sounds here and there. I'm very grateful for the new material and some of it (at least half imo) is as strong as his old stuff. Overall, he delivered with the vocal ideas, the playing brings it down. Some things are experimental, he is not worried to create such stuff.
Metal with two guitars is better than with one. Also, these are ideas from past years, I wonder what brand new material he could write now (the two new ones for this album are cool and interesting), but he has a lot of old demos and ideas to use. Most of the fans, most likely Maiden's Reunion ones as well, expected classic and heavier metal approach plus faster material, not BTP 2.0. Some of it feels fresh, some when you compare probably not, but it's all good and solid imo. Like always with his solo albums, but after all these years, he tries different things and the old material can't be beaten. Such different (and varied; I wouldn't say patchy, the songs are almost equal imo, although we know Bruce works fast, which is odd when you think about it) albums always feel special, like BTP and Skunkworks. At least for me, very good album that hasn't reached its full potential, unfortunately, although probably the result would have been ''almost'' the same. It also feels like ''proggy'' Bruce solo. As he said, he wants something different now.
 
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harrisdevot said:
I thought Bruce's last album had been well received. From what I've just read in the last few pages, it seems I was wrong.
I've tried it again recently, and I just can't figure out how he released such a patchy thing and genuinely thought it was great.
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Most of it is absolute crap. A massive let-down, especially after such a long wait.

Let’s hope the next one is better (not a high bar to clear).
 
Kalata said:
Some news from a new interview with Bruce (*not the full interview):
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More curious bits from the full MI Conversation interview, officially released now:

  • He may play Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter, he asked the audience if they want to hear it. But not on the Maiden tour, on his solo tour. A spoiler? That was a thought for him at the moment though.
  • He listened to a Chicago song the other day and loved it. He also listened to Yes' And You And I, which he thinks is a great song, and he asked Mistheria to come up with a synth sounds like in the intro of it to have on his new album. Then they listened to it for 20 minutes in the studio.
  • With Maiden they have a rule now, 4 shows a week, if they do 2 back to back (which Bruce prefers to 1 show and then travel day), they get 2 days off. He also said they are much better live now than in the mid-80's, but the demand they put on themselves now is far more than in the 80's. He also mentioned the equipment is better now.
He explained how he warms up his voice before a tour. It's interesting.


More Maiden songs on his solo tour would be odd, even as rotating songs.
 
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Kalata said:
More curious bits from the full MI Conversation interview, officially released now:

  • He may play Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter, he asked the audience if they want to hear it. But not on the Maiden tour, on his solo tour. A spoiler? That was a thought for him at the moment though.
  • He listened to a Chicago song the other day and loved it. He also listened to Scorpions' You And I, which he thinks is a great song, and he asked Mistheria to come up with a synth sounds like in the intro of it to have on his new album. Then they listened to it for 20 minutes in the studio.
  • With Maiden they have a rule now, 4 shows a week, if they do 2 back to back (which Bruce prefers to 1 show and then travel day), they get 2 days off. He also said they are much better live now than in the mid-80's, but the demand they put on themselves now is far more than in the 80's. He also mentioned the equipment is better now.

He explained how he warms up his voice before a tour. It's interesting.


More Maiden songs on his solo tour would be odd, even as rotating songs.
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I thought that "it will either blow your mind, or make you want to shoot yourself" was the real high point :lol:

Nice to hear him putting in a good word for Di'Anno as well - good one Bruce :ok:
 

New short and good interview with Bruce.

- it's important for him the playing to has emotion, not the technical aspect.
- he is not inspired by what he did 40 years ago, but by what he does now. Although it is great and he is sometimes pleasantly surprised and sometimes wonder how he came up or sang a certain part in the songs. He tries not to be overly critical.
- it's a solo career, but he wants to have a band, being the boss is lower for him. He loves his current solo band.
- he always look for people/musicians who can understand the song, what serves the song, what it's trying to do. Bass players are always such people, Dave Moreno too (who even suggested playing a song on the new album a bit slower). Which is rare for drummers according to him.

Fun fact: he didn't know Roy didn't record Rain On The Graves' solo, he brought Chris himself. Wow, how?
 
Poto said:
Shadow of the Gods and Many Doors To Hell are great tracks. Some are good, and some disappointing.
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I actually have grown less fond of Shadow of the Gods. I find myself anyways listening to more of Chemical & Tyranny now. Mandrake doesn’t have the “hook” these albums have.
 
harrisdevot said:
I thought Bruce's last album had been well received. From what I've just read in the last few pages, it seems I was wrong.
I've tried it again recently, and I just can't figure out how he released such a patchy thing and genuinely thought it was great.
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Well among fans you could say the reception was negative to mixed. Among critics, the album was well received.
 
redandtheblack92 said:
I find myself anyways listening to more of Chemical & Tyranny now. Mandrake doesn’t have the “hook” these albums have.
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If I characterize TMP by anything, it's the hooks (vocals, parts). As a whole album listen it works like all of his old stuff, the flow is good, although the last 3 songs are very slow.
 
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