DiAnno Calls Blaze a "prick"
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.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.
14 Comments
Sounds like Paul has checked into the Psyco Motel!
Yes, blaze sounds horrendous on this gig, but paul doesn´t sound good either, I today can´t decide wheter paul is still better than blaze, one could say he´s better for thrash metal, but for maiden tunes he is today in the same level as Blaze, except for Wrathchild that remains a a really good one on his vocals.
Blaze sounds horrendous one more time...
Blaze does tend to forget lyrics though, which is a shame
Di'anno is just angry because Blaze's solo albums are better! =D
DiAnno, you were good long time ago, then you let your personality and habits ruin it for you. Get over it and stop being so angry. Take some responsibity and move on.
Blaze, how about a little effort put into rehearsing before going on stage and make an ass out of yourself?
I looooove youuuuu Paul DiAnnooooooooo!!!
I think they both need to quit and find new jobs, both are better suited to be delivery boys rather than wanna be rock stars!!!
Just look at that pic of them together and say no more. I like Blaze, but if that's true then it must be pretty embarassing. He may have forgotten the lyrics, but I feel like DiAnno is exaggerating about the rest. He's playing it this modest saint or something.
I CANT BELIEVE that Blaze been a member of Iron Maiden. He cant sing.
exactlly, how is possible it was steve that chosed 'im !!...I think the only explaination is that steve and rod wanted for one reason to destroy the group____no5
Personally I dont think DiAnno is free from criticism himself [blablabla] - 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")
Wake up man, if you'd even bothered to read the interview you'd see Paul discussing that as well, and explaining WHY.
Oh, and Paul DiAnno sing the socks off Blaze on any day!
Hey evryone lay off BLAZE! He is a great singer and I like him. He's better than PAUL DI'ANNO anyway. The only PAUL songs that can match any BLAZE ones are: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA,IRON MAIDEN,STRANGE WORLD and WRATHCHILD
...what about prowler, remember tommorow, murders..., trasylvania, innocent, drifter, another life ? they are lesser comparing to 2 worlds cillode, lightning strikes, and lord of the flies ? .....I don't think so !!......I don't exchange one of them even with the sign of the boring cross