DiAnno Calls Blaze a "prick"

Posted by Real World from MaidenNorway.com on April 28, 2006 @ 15:43

In Maiden Norway.com's recent interview with Paul DiAnno, Paul is quoted as calling ex-Maiden vocalist Blaze Bayley a "prick" in reference to the song they sang together a while back. Here's the excerpt:

**MN: Yeah, if you got the chance again, would you go on stage with Iron Maiden?** PD: Why not? Yeah! I can’t see why not, there’s, there’s no... **MN: There’s no bad feelings or anything at all?** PD: No, no, I’m not Blaze Bailey, man! [laughs] No! No, not at all.

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 Blaze and Paul

**MN: Yeah you did a concert with Blaze Bailey once, didn’t you?** PD: That fuck. He came up to do one song and he couldn’t remember the words! He’s a prick, he’s another prick, my god! **MN: What song was it?** Paul Di'Anno and Blaze Bayley Di'Anno and Bayley Running Free PD: Running free! [looks stunned] How hard is that? I mean I fucking wrote the song, how hard is that? I’m no fucking musical genious. They went on about three o’clock in the afternoon, in Istanbul. We went on around about ten o’clock at night, and we said ”Yeah come on up and do a song”. Because they asked us all day long, ”Can we do a song, can we do a song”, yeah yeah. And then, fucking assholes, about... I don’t know, some time in the morning after asking us over and over and over, they said ”Naah, we don’t know this now because Blaze might be too busy, he’s got so many interviews”. At the hotell, everybody was doing interviews, yeah? And he sat there, he was sitting in this corner and no one was talking to him. We’d done fucking hundreds of interviews that day from Israeli TV, Syria, everywhere, we’d done everything. And he’s sitting there – doing nothing. So I’m like, why are you being a fucking superstar, you know? And when he came up on stage, all he could do was this [makes hand gestures and laughs]. Aaah the prick! No, no, I couldn’t be dealing with that, and I was really upset because my band was, ”Oh what is up with that?” [shakes head] I don’t wanna know. naaah, never mind.

Personally I dont think DiAnno is free from criticism himself with his endless tour featuring mostly Maiden songs, the re-releases and re-recordings of Maiden material - not to mention what seems to be a re-release of one of his own albums with simply a new title and new cover (the soon to be released "The Living Dead") and his constant badmouthing of other rock bands to the press but then maybe I'm just nitpicking.

For the record we will try and get either a video or an MP3 of this song online soon so you can draw your own opinions about whether Blaze is a prick.

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