Bruce Dickinson

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A bit offtopic / general pondering, but hopefully now that return to the life as an active solo artist after over two decades is completed, I hope Bruce has More Balls To... take risks setlist wise. For starters, 2-3 Skunkworks tunes is a must and for Hesus sake, play something from TM and anything other than Tears of a Dragon from the aforementioned Balls! Wouldn't say no ter a healthy representation from Tyranny as well, since the original tour for that album was minoscule if not non-existant.
 
Blood On The World´s Hand said:
A bit offtopic / general pondering, but hopefully now that return to the life as an active solo artist after over two decades is completed, I hope Bruce has More Balls To... take risks setlist wise. For starters, 2-3 Skunkworks tunes is a must and for Hesus sake, play something from TM and anything other than Tears of a Dragon from the aforementioned Balls! Wouldn't say no ter a healthy representation from Tyranny as well, since the original tour for that album was minoscule if not non-existant.
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If they continue the rotation (I think they will). I feel the new album could have a bigger representation in the set than last time. Some more and different songs from TOS, BTP (Cyclops), SW, TM ('58) and probably TCW or AOB are to be expected (let's see about TMP), some as rotation. The stage will be the same.
 
matic22 said:
Judgement day... The title of the song.

Also, the reissues of the albums could be very problematic royalties-wise, especially with albums containing re-recorded parts. I think there could be something behind this.

That said, it could simply be one of Roy's drunken rages again. It happened before and will likely happen again.
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If there is a lawsuit, I don't think it is about royalties That should be clear.

Maybe it is more plausible that there was a contract regarding participation in the tour, and after the big falling out, the contract was suddenly no longer valid for Roy. Maybe he is fighting back against that.
 
Kalata said:
This is next level wrong on his part...
we don't know the whole story, it's probably personal (not started by Bruce, I think he should blame only himself), but Bruce made the right decision. Just look at this. The chemistry of his new band is great. TMP is one of the most unimpressive and disappointing albums in terms of guitar playing (3-4 interesting parts, imo). Who would have thought that such a fallout would happen between them. Maybe his work on the remixes was also very slow, but his comments burned all the bridges, before and after.
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This is one of the keys to the mystery. TMP has six Dickinson/Z credits and they clearly tried to pick up the songwriting partnership that flourished from the 1990s till 2005. But in my view, TMP is something of a musical flop and missed my expectations for musical excellence by a very long way (a few good songs are on it but they aren't really guitar driven). It is reasonable to think the magic chemistry of the musical partnership is gone ...
 
I also think it’s one of Bruce’s weaker solo albums. But even so, I don’t understand why that’s supposed to solve the mystery.
Because Bruce talked enthusiastically about the album the whole time - and about his collaboration with Roy (at least at first) - when in reality he was thinking the whole time, “My goodness, what a weak album; if only I knew how to get rid of Roy”?
 
Hendrike said:
I also think it’s one of Bruce’s weaker solo albums. But even so, I don’t understand why that’s supposed to solve the mystery.
Because Bruce talked enthusiastically about the album the whole time - and about his collaboration with Roy (at least at first) - when in reality he was thinking the whole time, “My goodness, what a weak album; if only I knew how to get rid of Roy”?
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It could be the worst. Just 2 or 3 songs and not as the same level than aob or cw.
 
I don't think there's ever been any "magic" from Roy Z's side of the equation. He writes very good metal in the style of already established bands, records it well and had a finger on the zeitgeist for what younger bands were doing in the 90s in a way Maiden didn't, but I don't think he ever brought anything original to the table.

He got lucky with metal's best singer having some good ideas for lyrical themes etc. on AOB and CW. Ideas weren't so good on the albums since he was back in Maiden. Roy hasn't really done anything of note since Resurrection, so I think he's having a laugh getting into a row with Bruce, when he should be happy that Bruce wanted to throw him a bone in the first place.
 
srfc said:
I don't think there's ever been any "magic" from Roy Z's side of the equation. He writes very good metal in the style of already established bands, records it well and had a finger on the zeitgeist for what younger bands were doing in the 90s in a way Maiden didn't, but I don't think he ever brought anything original to the table.

He got lucky with metal's best singer having some good ideas for lyrical themes etc. on AOB and CW. Ideas weren't so good on the albums since he was back in Maiden. Roy hasn't really done anything of note since Resurrection, so I think he's having a laugh getting into a row with Bruce, when he should be happy that Bruce wanted to throw him a bone in the first place.
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He was also on Balls to picasso i think. But yes i dont think he was the one who brought all that good songs. Lets see what the new line up can bring. But i have to say that performing the old song live felt a bit "light" and now bruce is 26-29 years older....
 
Diesel 11 said:
I think y’all are kinda underrating Roy a bit. The man came up with the majority of the riffs across AOB and TCW, and if it wasn’t for him Bruce would not have been inspired to build upon them.
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They're good riffs and music, no doubt about that. I didn't mean to give the impression that there was anything wrong with them.
 
Hendrike said:
I also think it’s one of Bruce’s weaker solo albums. But even so, I don’t understand why that’s supposed to solve the mystery.
Because Bruce talked enthusiastically about the album the whole time - and about his collaboration with Roy (at least at first) - when in reality he was thinking the whole time, “My goodness, what a weak album; if only I knew how to get rid of Roy”?
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Bruce can sell you toilet roll if he needs to... I learned that in 1999 when he started to over enthuse about the Ed Hunter PC game!
 
srfc said:
I don't think there's ever been any "magic" from Roy Z's side of the equation.
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I would disagree, remember back to the late 90s, it took something special to modernise the classic metal sound back then. There is an overflow of that style now, but not back then, so credit to Roy Z for being able to do it in a musical climate that didn't favour that sound at all.

He played a big role in revitalising Bruce's and Rob Halford's metal careers after their respective failed forays into experimental material. Across AOB, CW and Resurrection by Halford, it is hard to imagine Roy Z was a passive prop in the studio on all three albums. And that they arose from the genius of other people only... Roy Z has nine co-write credits on Resurrection alone and while that album is not exceptional now, I remember back in 2000 there were so few major acts operating in that style at that level of quality.
 
Helmuth Von Moltke said:
I would disagree, remember back to the late 90s, it took something special to modernise the classic metal sound back then. There is an overflow of that style now, but not back then, so credit to Roy Z for being able to do it in a musical climate that didn't favour that sound at all.

He played a big role in revitalising Bruce's and Rob Halford's metal careers after their respective failed forays into experimental material. Across AOB, CW and Resurrection by Halford, it is hard to imagine Roy Z was a passive prop in the studio on all three albums. And that they arose from the genius of other people only... Roy Z has nine co-write credits on Resurrection alone and while that album is not exceptional now, I remember back in 2000 there were so few major acts operating in that style at that level of quality.
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Quoted for truth.
 
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