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GhostofCain said:
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“Bruce Dickinson’s manager cancelled it”: Arjen Lucassen’s big album error

Arjen Lucassen collaborated on one song with Bruce Dickinson too. There could have been so much more until he did something stupid
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Star One was originally going to be a Bruce solo album (12 heavy songs), his own solo album without Roy in the early 2000s? That's odd, or Roy would have been involved too. Space Metal material is very nice, I'd like to hear it with Bruce.
 
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MindRuler said:
I remember an interview with Arjen in the dutch magazine Aardschok about it; Arjen revealed he mailed Bruce about the matter and he was disappointed Bruce didn´t want to be in any future Ayreon project anymore. He ended that mail with the Prisoner reference " I´m not a number, I´m a free man".
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Didn't Arjen also say at some point that Bruce did not send him the original demos back?
 
Russell Allen (Symphony X) once told me how the first time he met Bruce he was all excited and fanboying and Bruce just told him he was pissed at him because he wanted to sing Dawn of a Million Souls but Russell got it instead.

I think Bruce was supposed to sing it, but maybe that's the demo incident you're all discussing? So Arjen was like, "well, I'll ask Russell!"
 
MrK said:
Russell Allen (Symphony X) once told me how the first time he met Bruce he was all excited and fanboying and Bruce just told him he was pissed at him because he wanted to sing Dawn of a Million Souls but Russell got it instead.

I think Bruce was supposed to sing it, but maybe that's the demo incident you're all discussing? So Arjen was like, "well, I'll ask Russell!"
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No, Arjen and Bruce were working on the aborted album right after Universal Migrator part 1 and part 2 had been released.
 
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Kalata said:
Star One was originally going to be a Bruce solo album (12 heavy songs), his own solo album without Roy in the early 2000s? That's odd, or Roy would have been involved too. Space Metal material is very nice, I'd like to hear it with Bruce.
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I guess it depends on what Arjen means by "solo album." Back when this story first broke ages ago, I always remember it being referred to as a "project" that was going to be a collaboration between Arjen and Bruce. If it was going to be considered a full-blown solo album, I don't know how much that would have affected the Roy/Bruce thing. Since Roy was likely a bit saner back then, I imagine he'd have considered it a one-off and resumed working after the collab had run its course--because that's what Arjen does, is work with multitudes of musicians, not really exclusively with one.

This, unfortunately is the reason I'm STILL waiting for a follow-up to my favorite project Arjen's ever done, which is The Gentle Storm collab between himself and Anneke van Giersbergen.

Man, though. Bruce had a weird few years there. Almost reuniting with Samson in what...1999, then reuniting with Maiden, which in turn pissed Paul Samson off. Then the Ayreon thing almost becomes an album, and also instantly falls apart.
 
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