IRON MAIDEN - The Book Of Souls (4 septembre)

Dark S. a écrit:Un bon chanteur ce Paul Mario Day, bien meilleur que ce clown de Dennis Wilcox.

Speaking about how he landed the MAIDEN gig a quarter century ago, Blaze said: "MAIDEN were holding auditions for the new singer. And I said, 'I'll have a go for it.' And I did. I think they had 1,500 demos that they had listened to, and then there were, like, the 12 disciples that were chosen for the audition. And I was lucky I was one of those 12. You went to the studio to sing live. There was 10 songs that were in the set at the time — 10 of the classics that you had to learn — and I went and I'd done my best. And I was very, very surprised that they chose me to be the singer, because my voice is so different to Bruce [Dickinson]. We did look a little bit alike, but our voices were radically different. But I think what it was they wanted a change, and the albums that I did, [1995's] 'The X Factor' and [1998's] 'Virtual XI', that was the real start of the progressive era of IRON MAIDEN, and I learned so much about songwriting and about my voice. And it was an incredible, incredible experience. The music that we came up with was just fantastic, I think."

As for the 12 total singers, over the years I've found out about 6 more I know of that supposedly auditioned which were Steve Grimmett , Andre Matos, Marco Hietala from Nightwish, Damien Wilson (Threshold), Russ North, ex Cloven Hoof and Doogie White.
Also Rod Smallwood apparently approached James Labrie at some point and asked if he'd be interested. Michael Kiske has always been rumored to have auditioned but he didn't. The rumor apparently started from an interview with Steve Harris where he said he could picture Kiske singing with Iron Maiden.