Bruce : The Anthology DVD
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^Tuolla kietueella soitettiin muistaakseni Flight Of Icarus, The Prisoner ja Bing Your Daughter kappaleita melkein joka keikalla. Shite, Powerslaveakin pojat veivas useasti. Eli jos 104 minuutin setti on tulossa tuosta keikasta, niin kyllä siellä on Maidenin biisejäkin seassa.
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Eikös tuosta listasta puutu encoret? Muistaakseni heittivät Ukissa Powerslaven, 2 Minutes To Midnightin ja Flight Of Icaruksen. Saatan muistaa väärinkin, keikasta on aikaa sentään lähes 8 vuotta (ja olin myös hiukka maistissa...)Relic wrote:scorpions wrote: Scream For Me Brazil - Previously Unreleased 104 minute feature of Bruce performing in Sao Paulo, Brazil on his 2000 Tour.Mihin tässä nyt sitten voi uskoa, luultavasti (toivottavasti) tuo biisilista on vajaa, ja tuo 104 minuutin kesto oikea. Toisaalta tokihan tuo feature saattaa sisältää haastattelu ja backstage -materiaalia. Ainakaan kyseessä ei siis mikään käsivaralta kuvattu bootleg, vaan pro -tason video screen -materiaali.Edward Mannerheim wrote: "Scream For Me Brazil" track listing:
01. King In Crimson
02. Gates Of Urizen
03. Killing Floor
04. Book Of Thel
05. Tears Of The Dragon
06. Laughing In The Hiding Bush
07. Accident Of Birth
08. The Tower
09. Darkside Of Aquarius
10. The Road To Hell

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Toivon kyllä että tulisi suomeen vetäsee parin tunnin setin hittejänsä, mutta pahoin pelkään että aikaisintaan 2007 syksyllä miehellä on siihen aikaa.Jilona wrote:Mahtaakohan Bruce heittää soolokeikkaa tänä vuonna...?
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Ole edes iloinen, että olit siellä. Itse asuin silloin Turussa ja jäin pois silkkaa saamattomuuttani. Yksi pahimmista mokista mitä olen ikinä tehnyt ja vituttaa vieläkin. Toivottavasti Bruce vielä tulisi Suomeen sooloilemaan.Edward Mannerheim wrote:Eikös tuosta listasta puutu encoret? Muistaakseni heittivät Ukissa Powerslaven, 2 Minutes To Midnightin ja Flight Of Icaruksen. Saatan muistaa väärinkin, keikasta on aikaa sentään lähes 8 vuotta (ja olin myös hiukka maistissa...)Relic wrote:scorpions wrote: Scream For Me Brazil - Previously Unreleased 104 minute feature of Bruce performing in Sao Paulo, Brazil on his 2000 Tour.Mihin tässä nyt sitten voi uskoa, luultavasti (toivottavasti) tuo biisilista on vajaa, ja tuo 104 minuutin kesto oikea. Toisaalta tokihan tuo feature saattaa sisältää haastattelu ja backstage -materiaalia. Ainakaan kyseessä ei siis mikään käsivaralta kuvattu bootleg, vaan pro -tason video screen -materiaali.Edward Mannerheim wrote: "Scream For Me Brazil" track listing:
01. King In Crimson
02. Gates Of Urizen
03. Killing Floor
04. Book Of Thel
05. Tears Of The Dragon
06. Laughing In The Hiding Bush
07. Accident Of Birth
08. The Tower
09. Darkside Of Aquarius
10. The Road To Hell
What we do in life, echoes in eternity
Aivan totta.The_Air_Raid_Siren wrote:^Tuo nyt on vähän niin ja näin, koska se on alunperin Brucen oma biisi joka otettiin Maidenille. Mielestäni Brucen ja Maidenin versiot eivät mene yksi yhteen, korjatkaa jos olen väärässä.
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Sitä ehtii käydä töissä ja heput ovat reippaasti jo tarjonneet tänne sisällöstäkin tietoa. Ja onkin sellainen sisältö, että kusen hunajaa kesäkuuhun asti. Ja sen jälkeen.
Kaiken tuon sisällön keskeltä kuitenkin taidan odottaa tuota Skunkworks-liveä. Näyttää toodella hyvältä ja siellä on God's Not Coming Back! Olisi sinne vielä Armchair Herokin mahtunut, mutta ei parane alkaa ahneeksi.
Ja se joka kansitaidetta mollasi rumaksi, niin sellaisia terveisiä, että mielipiteesi on toki oikeutettu, mutta siitäkin huolimatta se on täysin väärä.
Kansitaide on upea ja toivottavasti mukana seuraa jonkinlainen vihkonen joka seuraa samaa linjaa.
Mukavaa, ettei Bruce ole Mr. Blakea ihan unohtanut.
Kaiken tuon sisällön keskeltä kuitenkin taidan odottaa tuota Skunkworks-liveä. Näyttää toodella hyvältä ja siellä on God's Not Coming Back! Olisi sinne vielä Armchair Herokin mahtunut, mutta ei parane alkaa ahneeksi.
Ja se joka kansitaidetta mollasi rumaksi, niin sellaisia terveisiä, että mielipiteesi on toki oikeutettu, mutta siitäkin huolimatta se on täysin väärä.
Kansitaide on upea ja toivottavasti mukana seuraa jonkinlainen vihkonen joka seuraa samaa linjaa.
Mukavaa, ettei Bruce ole Mr. Blakea ihan unohtanut.
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Olen todellakin iloinen että olin todistamassa tapahtumaa!rocker wrote: Ole edes iloinen, että olit siellä. Itse asuin silloin Turussa ja jäin pois silkkaa saamattomuuttani. Yksi pahimmista mokista mitä olen ikinä tehnyt ja vituttaa vieläkin. Toivottavasti Bruce vielä tulisi Suomeen sooloilemaan.
Oli itse asiassa aika lähellä, että olisin itsekin missannut kyseisen keikan, mutta onneksi kaveri lähti kuskiksi, siitä hänelle suuri kiitos!!
Olishan se ollut helpompaa jos se keikka olisi ollut Turussa Kårenilla, mutta opiskelijanplantut päättivät toisin.

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Joo kyllä encoret puuttuu. Muistaakseni juuri nuo maiden-biisit soittivat myös tuolloin (nimim. jossain nähnyt settilistan joskus).Edward Mannerheim wrote:Eikös tuosta listasta puutu encoret? Muistaakseni heittivät Ukissa Powerslaven, 2 Minutes To Midnightin ja Flight Of Icaruksen. Saatan muistaa väärinkin, keikasta on aikaa sentään lähes 8 vuotta (ja olin myös hiukka maistissa...)Relic wrote:scorpions wrote: Scream For Me Brazil - Previously Unreleased 104 minute feature of Bruce performing in Sao Paulo, Brazil on his 2000 Tour.Mihin tässä nyt sitten voi uskoa, luultavasti (toivottavasti) tuo biisilista on vajaa, ja tuo 104 minuutin kesto oikea. Toisaalta tokihan tuo feature saattaa sisältää haastattelu ja backstage -materiaalia. Ainakaan kyseessä ei siis mikään käsivaralta kuvattu bootleg, vaan pro -tason video screen -materiaali.Edward Mannerheim wrote: "Scream For Me Brazil" track listing:
01. King In Crimson
02. Gates Of Urizen
03. Killing Floor
04. Book Of Thel
05. Tears Of The Dragon
06. Laughing In The Hiding Bush
07. Accident Of Birth
08. The Tower
09. Darkside Of Aquarius
10. The Road To Hell
Mutta käsittämätöntä tuossa on se, että siitä puuttuu myös kyseisen keikan avausbiisi Trumpets Of Jericho sekä kolmantena soitettu Chemical Wedding. Mistähän mahtaa johtua? Kai tuo kuitenkin on sama keikka kuin mikä CD:lle on taltioitu?
Tuo Brucen dvd tulee olemaan pakkohankinta, noi live matskut ja haastikset kiinnostaa. Promovideoita en niinkään henk.koht jaksa katsoa koska ne on jo nähty. Hemmetin hienolta vaikuttaa kansitaide ja paketin sisältö.
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Ihanaa Leijonat Ihanaa ! Osa nähty ja osaa ei, nyt saa kaiken samassa paketissa. Pakko-ostos, ei kahta sanaa. Pääsee Dive Dive Live-vhs ansaitsemaansa lepoon. Nyt saavat kaikki nähdä, kuinka Bruce ottaa niskalenkin innokkaasta kuulijasta Black Nightin aikana. Ja paljon muuta.
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Tulipa nyt oikein nostalgia mieleen, kun katsoin koneelta Tattooed Millionaire-videon.
Sain Tattooed Millionaire kasetin syntymäpäivälahjaksi silloin josssakin vaiheessa vuotta 1990 ja muistan hyvin kun näin ensimmäistä kertaa tuon kyseinen videon. Hemmetin hyvä oikeesti että tohon pakettiin on laitettu nuo promo-videot mukaan, pääsee fiilistelemään.
Ja taisi olla täällä puhetta tuosta Skunkworks-levyn aikaisesta keikasta, voi olla luvassa aika hyvä keikka. On tuo kokoonpano sinänsä ehkä tehnyt parhaimman albumikokonaisuuden mitä Brucelta on tullut, Skunkworks ei ole todellakaan vuosien varrella huonontunut tai laimentunut. Kestänyt todella hyvin. Onhan nuo kaikki Brucen soolot kovia levyjä, ei sen puoleen.
Tulis jo tuo dvd, kele!
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Sain Tattooed Millionaire kasetin syntymäpäivälahjaksi silloin josssakin vaiheessa vuotta 1990 ja muistan hyvin kun näin ensimmäistä kertaa tuon kyseinen videon. Hemmetin hyvä oikeesti että tohon pakettiin on laitettu nuo promo-videot mukaan, pääsee fiilistelemään.
Ja taisi olla täällä puhetta tuosta Skunkworks-levyn aikaisesta keikasta, voi olla luvassa aika hyvä keikka. On tuo kokoonpano sinänsä ehkä tehnyt parhaimman albumikokonaisuuden mitä Brucelta on tullut, Skunkworks ei ole todellakaan vuosien varrella huonontunut tai laimentunut. Kestänyt todella hyvin. Onhan nuo kaikki Brucen soolot kovia levyjä, ei sen puoleen.
Tulis jo tuo dvd, kele!
(enemmän sanoja, vähemmän sisältöä tässä viestissä

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24.4.1999 Vinhedo Sao Paulo, Alder Club, Brazil:
Trumpets Of Jericho
King In Crimson
Chemical Wedding
Gates Of Urizen
Killing Floor
Book of Thel
Tears Of The Dragon
Laughing In The Hiding Bush
Accident Of Birth
The Tower
Darkside Of Aquarius
Powerslave
Jerusalem
Two Minutes To Midnight
Road To Hell
Tämä näyttäisi olevan se bootleg, johon tuossa viitataan. Toivottavasti nyt nähtäisiin tälläinen versio, eikä 10 kappaleen tynkää. Jos ei nyt noita Maiden-viisuja, niin Jericho saisi ainakin olla mukana. Sen näkee sitten.
Trumpets Of Jericho
King In Crimson
Chemical Wedding
Gates Of Urizen
Killing Floor
Book of Thel
Tears Of The Dragon
Laughing In The Hiding Bush
Accident Of Birth
The Tower
Darkside Of Aquarius
Powerslave
Jerusalem
Two Minutes To Midnight
Road To Hell
Tämä näyttäisi olevan se bootleg, johon tuossa viitataan. Toivottavasti nyt nähtäisiin tälläinen versio, eikä 10 kappaleen tynkää. Jos ei nyt noita Maiden-viisuja, niin Jericho saisi ainakin olla mukana. Sen näkee sitten.
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Vitun hienoa, viimeinkin jotain infoa! Melkein kaikki noi promot onkin jo nähty, mut toi livematsku.
Tulee oleen varmaan kallis paketti, mut vitun väliä, maksaisin jo pelkästään tosta tokasta levystä vaikka huntin. Jee!

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BRUCE DICKINSON – ANTHOLOGY BIOGRAPHY
The name of Bruce Dickinson’s requires absolutely no introduction to rock fans of any age. One of the most imitated vocalists of all time, the Worksop-born, adopted Londoner has played a significant role in around 50 million record sales and performed thousands of sold-out concerts across the globe during a career that began at the tail end of the 1970s and shows no sign whatsoever of running out of steam – quite the opposite, in fact.
Dickinson is still the proverbial human whirlwind of activity, having made his mark both as the frontman of the legendary Iron Maiden and as a longstanding solo artist, with a catalogue that includes six studio albums of his own plus several concert releases. And away from being an artist, Bruce is also well known as a BBC deejay, broadcaster, airline pilot, sword-fencing expert, novelist, family man and voice of modern music.
In 2005 – some six years, two studio albums and several world tours after his Iron Maiden homecoming – Dickinson took a hard-earned vacation to release ‘Tyranny Of Souls’, a robust, thoughtful and warmly-received solo set that Britain’s Classic Rock magazine called “superbly consistent metal with a modern twist.” Kerrang! magazine went one further by hailing the 10-song disc as “the glorious sound of a heavy metal master in full flight”.
Now comes ‘Bruce Dickinson, Anthology’, a triple-DVD anthology summation of a rich, varied and fulsome solo career. It unites 1991’s ‘Dive Dive Live’ and 1997’s ‘Skunkworks Live’ live sets with ‘Scream For Me Brazil’, a previously unreleased hour-long film shot in Sao Paulo in 2000. Also included are all 14 of the singer’s promotional videos (including ‘Tattooed Millionaire’, ‘Tears Of The Dragon’, ‘Shoot All The Clowns’, ‘Back From The Edge’, ‘Killing Floor’, ‘The Tower’, ‘Chemical Wedding’ and ‘The Road To Hell’), most of which the singer storyboarded or produced himself. Other extras include the long-deleted and now extremely rare movie ‘Biceps Of Steel’, filmed with the band Samson in 1981 by Sex Pistols director Julien Temple, making this thorough and comprehensive visual collection nothing less than a treasure trove for Dickinson devotees everywhere.
Bruce’s aversion to clichés and love of fun makes the three-DVD set well worth investigating. One of the first hard rockers to cut his hair, he has always expressed horror at the idea of simply regurgitating the past at every turn. Dickinson refuses to be trotted out on TV chat shows as one of metal’s token intellectuals (“That’s just demeaning to everybody else,” he explains. “All I can do is try to be me”), but he has nevertheless emerged as one of the genre’s few genuine forward-thinkers.
Having joined his first group of real note, Samson, during the summer of 1979 following a spell at London’s Queen Mary College, he remained with them for two albums until presented with the opportunity to replace Paul Di’Anno in New Wave Of British Heavy Metal rivals Iron Maiden. Then, taking a break from a string of huge-selling albums, Bruce grabbed at an offer to write a song for the soundtrack to the fifth Nightmare On Elm Street movie, The Dream Child, in 1990.
The song concerned was ‘Bring Your Daughter… To The Slaughter’, which later became a UK No.1 single for Iron Maiden. Enthused by this achievement, Dickinson wondered he could maintain this impact. A full-length solo album called ‘Tattooed Millionaire’ offered an unequivocal ‘yes’ to that question; the debut spawned not only three Top 50 singles but also a tour that reached both sides of the Atlantic.
Dickinson would not choose to depart Iron Maiden until four years later, by which time he had made the first of three attempts to record a second solo set, the avant-garde ‘Balls To Picasso’. First Chris Tsangarides (the man behind the console for ‘Tattooed Millionaire’) and then Keith Olsen of Whitesnake and Foreigner fame had been hired to produce the sessions, though eventually Bruce opted to scrap just everything that had been put down on tape.
At this point, having taken what he has since called “a leap of faith” to quit one of the world’s biggest bands, Dickinson’s solo fortunes looked bleak. “I went to the accountant to see how many pennies were left in the piggy bank,” he later recalled, “the answer was not many at all.” Meeting guitarist/producer Roy Z proved to be a stroke of incredible good fortune, the newcomer and his Los Angeles-based band Tribe Of Gypsies helping with a third and definitive take of ‘Balls To Picasso’. Fusing together Bruce’s fascination with Peter Gabriel and the Tribe’s Latino-based rhythms, the album’s dark and sinister eeriness challenged the parameters of what could be done with metal in the year of 1994. It was too experimental for mass appeal but became a cult favourite.
Still set on ruffling feathers, Dickinson assembled an entirely new band of hungry young musicians around him for his third solo album, ‘Skunkworks’ in 1996. Firmly opposed to trading on his past, this four-piece unit adopted the same name (Skunkworks being a top secret research and development vision of Lockheed Aviation that had developed the Stealth Bomber plane) and after carving out an identity on the road – a visit was even made to war-torn Bosnia – Skunkworks took the shocking step of flying in Nirvana producer Jack Endino from Seattle for the sessions.
“I wanted to know where I still fitted in or whether I was just come old fossil,” Bruce explained, with his usual honesty. “It was really brutal stuff. So I took a flamethrower to my life and started again.” Welcomed as “a tour de force of modern metal”, Kerrang! likened the contents of ‘Skunkworks’ to Soundgarden, Therapy? and Rush.
With hard rock hitting the doldrums in 1997, the wheel of fortune was drawing Bruce back to where he’d begun. “I realise it would have been completely politically incorrect of me to do a totally balls-out record again,” he laughs. “That had to be a good thing – so I went ahead and did it.” Persuading his former Iron Maiden colleague Adrian Smith to join him on guitar, the pair hooked up with producer Roy Z for ‘Accident Of Birth’, an incendiary back-to-roots album that tapped into all the pair’s original strengths, but also demonstrated fluency, melody and power – not to mention lyrical flair – of its own.
On an incredible creative upsurge, 1998’s ‘The Chemical Wedding’ continued Dickinson and Smith’s renaissance, outselling its predecessor by two to one and pulling in yet more rave reviews. The album’s unusual subject matter of occult science, alchemy and the mystical poems of William Blake was accentuated by the narration skills of legendary singer Arthur Brown, Adrian and Roy Z using bass strings on their guitars to achieve optimum low-end thud-factor.
His path once again aligned with that of Iron Maiden, Dickinson rejoined the band along with Adrian Smith in 1999, following a string of six sold-out solo concerts before a total of 25,000 vociferous South American fans. Originally shot as a bootleg, the footage of the Sao Paolo date is a must-see feature of the ‘Bruce Dickinson, Anthology’ DVD package.
Equally revealing is a special filmed press kit interview from the aforemtnioned ‘Tyranny Of Souls’ album, which represented Dickinson’s first solo release in seven years when released in May 2005. It sees Bruce discussing the record’s concept and birth, plus his pivotal working relationship with Roy Z, who by now had also become Judas Priest’s producer.
Filmed in Dickinson’s early performing days with the band Samson at the Rainbow Theatre in London, the ‘Biceps Of Steel’ segment is a tongue in cheek adaptation of the story of Samson And Delilah. It was originally shown in cinemas as a support feature to Hazel O’Connor’s Breaking Glass movie in 1980, and has rarely been seen since.
Bruce Dickinson says: “It’s fantastic to share all of this stuff with my fans. These DVDs contain rare material that people either won’t know exists or have been unable to buy. The Samson video has changed hands for absurd amounts of money, and although we spent loads of time and had and lots and lots of fun making the promos, because MTV didn’t show them many of won’t have been seen. It was high time they were all chucked together in one package.”
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BRUCE DICKINSON – ANTHOLOGY BIOGRAPHY
The name of Bruce Dickinson’s requires absolutely no introduction to rock fans of any age. One of the most imitated vocalists of all time, the Worksop-born, adopted Londoner has played a significant role in around 50 million record sales and performed thousands of sold-out concerts across the globe during a career that began at the tail end of the 1970s and shows no sign whatsoever of running out of steam – quite the opposite, in fact.
Dickinson is still the proverbial human whirlwind of activity, having made his mark both as the frontman of the legendary Iron Maiden and as a longstanding solo artist, with a catalogue that includes six studio albums of his own plus several concert releases. And away from being an artist, Bruce is also well known as a BBC deejay, broadcaster, airline pilot, sword-fencing expert, novelist, family man and voice of modern music.
In 2005 – some six years, two studio albums and several world tours after his Iron Maiden homecoming – Dickinson took a hard-earned vacation to release ‘Tyranny Of Souls’, a robust, thoughtful and warmly-received solo set that Britain’s Classic Rock magazine called “superbly consistent metal with a modern twist.” Kerrang! magazine went one further by hailing the 10-song disc as “the glorious sound of a heavy metal master in full flight”.
Now comes ‘Bruce Dickinson, Anthology’, a triple-DVD anthology summation of a rich, varied and fulsome solo career. It unites 1991’s ‘Dive Dive Live’ and 1997’s ‘Skunkworks Live’ live sets with ‘Scream For Me Brazil’, a previously unreleased hour-long film shot in Sao Paulo in 2000. Also included are all 14 of the singer’s promotional videos (including ‘Tattooed Millionaire’, ‘Tears Of The Dragon’, ‘Shoot All The Clowns’, ‘Back From The Edge’, ‘Killing Floor’, ‘The Tower’, ‘Chemical Wedding’ and ‘The Road To Hell’), most of which the singer storyboarded or produced himself. Other extras include the long-deleted and now extremely rare movie ‘Biceps Of Steel’, filmed with the band Samson in 1981 by Sex Pistols director Julien Temple, making this thorough and comprehensive visual collection nothing less than a treasure trove for Dickinson devotees everywhere.
Bruce’s aversion to clichés and love of fun makes the three-DVD set well worth investigating. One of the first hard rockers to cut his hair, he has always expressed horror at the idea of simply regurgitating the past at every turn. Dickinson refuses to be trotted out on TV chat shows as one of metal’s token intellectuals (“That’s just demeaning to everybody else,” he explains. “All I can do is try to be me”), but he has nevertheless emerged as one of the genre’s few genuine forward-thinkers.
Having joined his first group of real note, Samson, during the summer of 1979 following a spell at London’s Queen Mary College, he remained with them for two albums until presented with the opportunity to replace Paul Di’Anno in New Wave Of British Heavy Metal rivals Iron Maiden. Then, taking a break from a string of huge-selling albums, Bruce grabbed at an offer to write a song for the soundtrack to the fifth Nightmare On Elm Street movie, The Dream Child, in 1990.
The song concerned was ‘Bring Your Daughter… To The Slaughter’, which later became a UK No.1 single for Iron Maiden. Enthused by this achievement, Dickinson wondered he could maintain this impact. A full-length solo album called ‘Tattooed Millionaire’ offered an unequivocal ‘yes’ to that question; the debut spawned not only three Top 50 singles but also a tour that reached both sides of the Atlantic.
Dickinson would not choose to depart Iron Maiden until four years later, by which time he had made the first of three attempts to record a second solo set, the avant-garde ‘Balls To Picasso’. First Chris Tsangarides (the man behind the console for ‘Tattooed Millionaire’) and then Keith Olsen of Whitesnake and Foreigner fame had been hired to produce the sessions, though eventually Bruce opted to scrap just everything that had been put down on tape.
At this point, having taken what he has since called “a leap of faith” to quit one of the world’s biggest bands, Dickinson’s solo fortunes looked bleak. “I went to the accountant to see how many pennies were left in the piggy bank,” he later recalled, “the answer was not many at all.” Meeting guitarist/producer Roy Z proved to be a stroke of incredible good fortune, the newcomer and his Los Angeles-based band Tribe Of Gypsies helping with a third and definitive take of ‘Balls To Picasso’. Fusing together Bruce’s fascination with Peter Gabriel and the Tribe’s Latino-based rhythms, the album’s dark and sinister eeriness challenged the parameters of what could be done with metal in the year of 1994. It was too experimental for mass appeal but became a cult favourite.
Still set on ruffling feathers, Dickinson assembled an entirely new band of hungry young musicians around him for his third solo album, ‘Skunkworks’ in 1996. Firmly opposed to trading on his past, this four-piece unit adopted the same name (Skunkworks being a top secret research and development vision of Lockheed Aviation that had developed the Stealth Bomber plane) and after carving out an identity on the road – a visit was even made to war-torn Bosnia – Skunkworks took the shocking step of flying in Nirvana producer Jack Endino from Seattle for the sessions.
“I wanted to know where I still fitted in or whether I was just come old fossil,” Bruce explained, with his usual honesty. “It was really brutal stuff. So I took a flamethrower to my life and started again.” Welcomed as “a tour de force of modern metal”, Kerrang! likened the contents of ‘Skunkworks’ to Soundgarden, Therapy? and Rush.
With hard rock hitting the doldrums in 1997, the wheel of fortune was drawing Bruce back to where he’d begun. “I realise it would have been completely politically incorrect of me to do a totally balls-out record again,” he laughs. “That had to be a good thing – so I went ahead and did it.” Persuading his former Iron Maiden colleague Adrian Smith to join him on guitar, the pair hooked up with producer Roy Z for ‘Accident Of Birth’, an incendiary back-to-roots album that tapped into all the pair’s original strengths, but also demonstrated fluency, melody and power – not to mention lyrical flair – of its own.
On an incredible creative upsurge, 1998’s ‘The Chemical Wedding’ continued Dickinson and Smith’s renaissance, outselling its predecessor by two to one and pulling in yet more rave reviews. The album’s unusual subject matter of occult science, alchemy and the mystical poems of William Blake was accentuated by the narration skills of legendary singer Arthur Brown, Adrian and Roy Z using bass strings on their guitars to achieve optimum low-end thud-factor.
His path once again aligned with that of Iron Maiden, Dickinson rejoined the band along with Adrian Smith in 1999, following a string of six sold-out solo concerts before a total of 25,000 vociferous South American fans. Originally shot as a bootleg, the footage of the Sao Paolo date is a must-see feature of the ‘Bruce Dickinson, Anthology’ DVD package.
Equally revealing is a special filmed press kit interview from the aforemtnioned ‘Tyranny Of Souls’ album, which represented Dickinson’s first solo release in seven years when released in May 2005. It sees Bruce discussing the record’s concept and birth, plus his pivotal working relationship with Roy Z, who by now had also become Judas Priest’s producer.
Filmed in Dickinson’s early performing days with the band Samson at the Rainbow Theatre in London, the ‘Biceps Of Steel’ segment is a tongue in cheek adaptation of the story of Samson And Delilah. It was originally shown in cinemas as a support feature to Hazel O’Connor’s Breaking Glass movie in 1980, and has rarely been seen since.
Bruce Dickinson says: “It’s fantastic to share all of this stuff with my fans. These DVDs contain rare material that people either won’t know exists or have been unable to buy. The Samson video has changed hands for absurd amounts of money, and although we spent loads of time and had and lots and lots of fun making the promos, because MTV didn’t show them many of won’t have been seen. It was high time they were all chucked together in one package.”
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