Bruce Dickinson at Metal-Rules.com
There's a good Sweden Rock festival review at Metal-Rules.com, some great pics as well.Bruce Dickinson
After a while it was a turn of Bruce Dickinson and his band. A lot of things have happened during a last couple of years for Bruce Dickinson. Iron Maiden "re-union", Brave New World album and two world tours with Maiden. So now it was time to do some solo stuff again when Iron Maiden is in hiatus for a while.
Bruce had gathered the entire new line-up for the summer tour as his last solo tour he did back in ยด99 featured for example Adrian Smith. The current line up of the solo touring band consisted of former Skunkworks players Alex Dickson on guitar and Chris Dale on bass, Pete Freezin (Almighty, ex-Alice Cooper) on the second guitar and drummer Robin Guy. Actually all of these guys have a band together in England called Sacktrick now. The whole set was started surprisingly with a new tune called "Silver Wings" which is from new Best Of album. More followed: "Back From The Edge" from often underrated "Skunkworks" album and more stuff from new Best Of .. "Broken". Compared to his last couple of tours it was very refreshing to hear some stuff from every single record he's done by now. Also the "have to play" Iron Maiden songs were also something not being so usual ones on the Maiden gig like: "Revelations", "Powerslave", "The Prisoner" and "Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter". Some of those songs Maiden hasn't been played in years! But as for Bruce's clothing, the man appeared to have escaped from some asylum because of his stress free dressing which looked very non-metal! Maybe because of his outlook it wasn't so shocking to hear them playing Tom Jones cover song in the end of the set. Overall it was a very strong performance with Bruce's endless and never-ending high energy and stage charisma and definitely a lot of surprises here.
source: [url=http://www.metal-rules.com/concerts/swedenrock2002.htm]http://www.metal-rules.com/concerts/swedenrock2002.htm[/url]
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