IRON MAIDEN: 'Infinite Dreams - The Official Visual History' Book Due In The Fall

My first Maiden show was on the X-factour at the Brixton academy in London. Cracking night as I was a big fan of the support band that night, My Dying Bride.

Can’t remember much about the stage set up but I do remember Blaze being rooted to the same spot all night just fist pumping while singing. Not much stage presence but I thought he sounded pretty good, even in the older tracks.
 
Prowler said:
Oh, Blaze here sounds worse than I remembered. Listen to the Clairvoyant chorus (20mins in). Absolutely horrendous. At least it won't be an audiobook.
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Blaze sounded good in the songs from The X Factor, but when he tried Maiden classics from Bruce's Era, it was the drama.
 
AncientMariner_Essex said:
My first Maiden show was on the X-factour at the Brixton academy in London. Cracking night as I was a big fan of the support band that night, My Dying Bride.

Can’t remember much about the stage set up but I do remember Blaze being rooted to the same spot all night just fist pumping while singing. Not much stage presence but I thought he sounded pretty good, even in the older tracks.
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Ooh, jealous you got to see that combo for the X Factour. Over in the States, we got Fear Factory, which I was into as well, but MDB would've been amazing. A couple years later, I did get to see them do their only US tour opening for Dio with a 5-song set promoting Like Gods of the Sun. Left after those 5 songs, and Aaron was just standing in the lobby by himself, so we talked to him for about 45 minutes.
 
Prowler said:
I don't know how many pages there are. Personally I don't think that the Blaze era will be more than 5 pages altogether. The golden era will be more than half of the whole book, for sure and then I guess reunion era will have many pages.
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They are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a setlist featuring songs from their 80s heyday and Fear of the Dark. They seem to see their 90s work as a mere footnote in their history.
 
Prowler said:
Oh, Blaze here sounds worse than I remembered. Listen to the Clairvoyant chorus (20mins in). Absolutely horrendous. At least it won't be an audiobook.
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That Bulgaria show wasn't a great Blaze showing. He did better on most of the material than that on shows in Italy and France 1995.




 
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naranja said:
That Bulgaria show wasn't great. He did better than that on shows in Italy and France 1995.




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I mean, if we wanna go down that route of comparing incredibly lackluster performances to find the singular gem, I'm pretty sure San Diego '98 takes the cake. And even that solely because Blaze is breaching on pulling off the impossible and singing an entire song way out of his register, and he's so goddamn close to being in key for some of those phrases it really deserves some sort of recognition.
 
Ruflux said:
I mean, if we wanna go down that route of comparing incredibly lackluster performances to find the singular gem, I'm pretty sure San Diego '98 takes the cake. And even that solely because Blaze is breaching on pulling off the impossible and singing an entire song way out of his register, and he's so goddamn close to being in key for some of those phrases it really deserves some sort of recognition.
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1:35 in..if they tuned down Blaze would have sounded absolutely badass on this song. He actually still sounds pretty damn decent here, especially for being so far out of his range.

I'm convinced that during his audition process his voice hadn't yet got worn out by singing out of his range night after night and so probably sounded great
 
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I don’t know how many times we have to drag up these recordings of Blaze being out of his depth. He took the job in the world’s greatest metal band (wouldn’t you if you were offered it?) and they did bugger all to accommodate his vocal range. You can’t slag someone off for doing their best in a shitty situation.

Anyway, back on topic. I will pop into Waterstones this week to have a look at the book and decide whether to get it or wait for the price to drop. It will probably be the latter.
 
Just in case anyone is interested, Bruce will be signing copies of the book at Waterstones Piccadilly in London:

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BRUCE DICKINSON To Sign Copies Of 'Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams - The Official Visual History' At London Event

IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson will sign copies of "Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams - The Official Visual History" at Waterstones' flagship shop in Piccadilly, central London, United Kingdom, on Tuesday, October 14 at 6:30 p.m. Book your ticket here. All tickets sold will include a copy of the...
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Tickets were available at:


but the event has sold out.
 
I wasn't that fussed when they announced this, but looking at pictures of it and seeing the feedback from other fans I think this is going to be a great book.
 
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