+Pontus Ozzy Andrén he is the best singer of all time

@@TrueIronMaidenFan True. Bruce is actually better singer than Freddie Mercury.

Yeah, and the most unbelievable thing is he has gotten even better over the years. Everyone else gets worse. Ozzy sounds like shit now, and not to say anything bad about Dio, r.i.p. but he was not that good live in his later years. But Bruce has just improved. It's just amazing. He's the best ever hands down

@@bittermin3148 true asf lol he's voice so damn good now a lot vibratto and "heavy"

A true story!

I love this album, unique and some of their best later work. This concert looked so damn cool and they performed amazing. Long live maiden \m/

'Cause they didn't support it right. 1 part of the tour they only played el dorado. So many great songs that won' t be play live ever.

It's not underrated, it just wasn't a good album aside from a few songs like this one.

@@tonyschannel2281 Well for me it's second only to Brave New World in the modern era of Maiden so I would have to disagree

@@tonyschannel2281 I have to disagree tbh, I find the album tells a nice story but understandable for anybody to say it is overrated I just dont think so I think all the dick riding maiden fans stay playing number of the beast lol my fav all time is piece of mind hby?

I don’t think anyone alive

good observation

I remember reading he said that he had to stand still for this song for that very reason. It's an epic performance though!

Yep! It's what opera singers call "park and bark" or "plant your feet and bloom". This song requires incredible breath support to sing this well. And, of course, he nails it!

You know the song is a ballbuster when Bruce brings out the mic stand.

torture, its not fair..

GarysEgo so true, and that´s the reason to their incredible greatness....theese guys are always looking for new musical borders to cross, and they do, every single time !!

Spot on

jajajjajaj ......in 2022 continua cantando igual o mejor no limits for ....the band

@@susannewilliamsson8339 How is my favorite Metal Queen❤❤🤘

From now I proclaime Susanne Williamson for Metal Queen of the world

+ffsf739 Saying Bruce (hell, all of Iron Maiden) isn't talented is like saying 2+2=22.2222222. The math will never add up.

He is the beeeest

He IS!!!

Yes he is the best!

You can tell its a tough one for him as he doesn't move from that spot! 😂😂

Yeah no doubt one of their best live performance! I wud never have made it thru the years without them!!

Dance of death, the book of souls and so much more xD

you have to realise that steve wanted harmony guitars in his compositions

+Ricardo Gadelha And he adds so much to their live stage show, which is a huge part of what Iron Maiden is all about

+Sketchy Luke and don't forget that he is a great guitarist

Who's gers?

Eddiethenotsogreat Good analogy.

a wrathchild

+Eddiethenotsogreat It's better than either of those songs.

It's like a God wrote a song. Oh, wait, Gers wrote this. Well, actually a God wrote a song.

Matteo Dessilani, You are absolutely right....He has also written masterpieces like Ghost of the navigator, Dance of death, Book of souls, Lord of the flies, Dream of mirrors and so on .......

And By Nicko, and by Dave, and by Steve, and by Janick, and by Adrian...

+BadKidAdvil We need more people like these guys on Earth.

+BadKidAdvil knowing cancer. it will return. treasure these years while we still can.

deathguitrst Gods, specifically those of Metal, are not affected by cancer. Oh wait... Lemmy and Dio... Well, Death only then decided to tell them they're dead. 'Twas too scared.

it dosent always return and i hope thats the case but its very concerning.

QuietHero Unfortunately, in most cases, it will return....Maybe there´s a long time before it does, let´s hope so........

You're totally right, man!

live in stuttgart and beast of hammersmith are the only two live shows that can beat this

@@xiaozhang7103 what tour was the Stuttgart gig you mentioned? Wanna check it now, thanks!

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@@xiaozhang7103 I would put Rock In Rio as one of the best performances by Bruce.

It is a Maiden classic already! For a song to be considered as a classic, it doest not need to be old, just remarkable.

Thiago Moreira so true, it´s indeed remarkable, really phenomenal.....

Its 10 years old now... it is now a classic

I don't understand you, this song is a classic since the day the album was released

@@isaacgarcia3777 I think what he's insinuating is that the Iron Maiden fanbase suffers from recentcy bias quite a bit.

like dance of death :)

the legacy, out of the silent planet, be quick or be dead, lord of the flies......

J Mastodon That´s exactly what I´ve been saying all along, if Janick composes a song, there´s always something exciting and unique ....He´s a fantastic songwriter....

@@susannewilliamsson8339 Smith/Gers should write a song together

Gers song are more maiden than smith song nowaday, epic like harris song

Well said, i agree, its great that metal is not "age" "ist", these men have still the power and still the glory..... Up The Irons.....!

Matej Kilík I would go as far as calling him the best. Without a doubt.

Age shouldnt matter at all

Tomislav Gredsnjak underrated ?? by whom ?? not by any Maiden fan, I for one love it !!!!

it's the best song off The Final Frontier alongside Starblind and When the Wild Wind Blows!

I'd rate When the Wild Wind Blows a perfect 10/10, The Talisman 9/10 or 9.5/10, and Starblind 7.5/10 or 8/10. When the Wild Wind Blows is certainly the best, followed by The Talisman. As for the third spot, I'm not sure if I would choose Starblind, as El Dorado and Mother of Mercy are also really good.

interesting ranking. to me it would be: 1. The Talisman 10/10 2. When the Wild Wind Blows 9/10 3. Starblind 9/10 I put The Talisman above the rest because the lyrics are so well written, and Bruce's voice just sounds majestic, so raw and powerful. but yeah, the whole album is pretty damn good.

Gino Fáctàp so we do agree, you put the Talisman at the top....I love the entire album ( almost ) but that´s a really an obsessive song....thank you !!

You said it, man!

+pukki34 I think that 98% of the time, since I started listening to them, ten years ago

+pukki34 He 100% does in this case.

+pukki34 It is quite unusual to Bruce.

Богдан Ерунцов Im not sure, i think the whole band is really great live ?

pukki34 I used to listen their live albums on loop for hours when younger, all of them are much greater live, even when they mistake chords

Milos Milosavljevic Yes exactly! he sounds WAY better live on all the newer tracks, I'm thinking it's the way they produce and mix it or something as well since on the last few of albums since Dance of Death he sounds "dry" and slightly thin but will sound full with way more power live!

Milos Milosavljevic Maiden sounds MUCH better live than in a studio, who knows why :D

IneedFran Sometimes Bruce has a sore throat, or a cold. Or he's just tired. And he doesn't sound the way he usually do. But, when he is healty and not tired, he just rocks. Maiden is strong in all points. Not just Bruce, but all other members. In studio versions, everything is surgicaly precise. And somehow sterile, to certain extent. But, in live versions, when they start playing, passionally and with love, then you hear and see magic. I prefer live version of The Mercenary, for instance. Much better than studio. Also, Wasting love, Fear of the dark, Blood brothers, Sign of the cross, The Clansman, Wicker man... You name it. They just love music and heavy metal and give all they have on stage. That's why I love them. Cheers!

Milos Milosavljevic As he aged, his voice has definitely suffered. But on this particular song and on this particular concert, he sounds as if he was 25 again.

Pedro Calmon His voice has not faded..He just CHOOSES to sing diffrently since he stoped screaming after powerslave .. ( he went back to it for NPFTD) And has done a few songs in his older style in recent albums

jalal mk Bruce is a singer out of this world.....freakin´awesome...........

I completely agree with you. It really pisses me off when I go online and see people in the comments section slagging him off saying they should get rid of him or he ruined maiden and whatever else. He is a song writing genius only second to Steve Harris out of these 6. I've had the pleasure of meeting him and he is honestly one of the most humble and down to earth guys you could hope to meet. Someone you could easily sit down with at a pub drinking a few pints and chatting with. Here's to many more years of Janick being crucial to the band

I completely agree with you. He's a phenomenal guitarist and songwriter, and a crucial part of Iron Maiden. That and he's a beautiful person inside and out...

@@itsthewanderingfool we are in Total agreement!

As a guitarrist. You sir, are right! He's a great musician in every way!

Nothing compares, truly

amen

I was there that night and man it was an absolute riot. One of the best nights of my life.

+Blazter55 All without taking a single vocal lesson.

+RyanThompsonGuitarist you don't know if he had any lessons or not. I've heard he was trained to sing opera which helped him alot in his breathe control and security in higher notes. He probably started of as a very talented man, but over the years, with so much gigs and concerts, there is a tiny possibility that he managed to keep his voice in shape without anyone showing him how. When you think of Live after death tour, it was, perhaps, the most difficult tour for him and his voice which can be heard on some of the tapes, but after that, the voice had to be retracted, taken care of and oiled up again for the next stages. It is not shame to took lessons. I think, for someone that holds up milions of fans, that it's a shame not to take care of your voice and being able to entertain for many years after.

+Skendrović Nikola in a recent interview, he said he would go along to a vocal class, following his recent cancer battle. He then said 'I've never had a vocal lesson, so I might learn something'

+RyanThompsonGuitaristMy apologizes, then. Thank you for sharing that. Greetings!

+Skendrović Nikola no problem!

AND he did it better than on studio album! at 53

Yah it might be his best vocal performance ever. This song would be hard for a classically trained singer to do

Ciao blood bro/sis. I was lucky enough to have seen them performing in 6 live, the last one was on 2022 summer. They are incredible live. A lot of songs are best than the studio ones. Bruce vocal are HUGE, he' s a living legend, just like all bembers as great musicians. I really do love Mr. Dave Murray. His iconic riff and solos guitar melt my soul and give me goosebumps, every fuc*ing time . I wish you could go to their live. Greetings from Italy, Rock on 🤘🏻💜🔥

La misma opinión que tú.Por desgracia me moriré sin verlos.Son Los mejores y esta canción en directo la 1.La escucho todos los días ❤❤❤

me too‼️

I think the song "The Chase" with Dio and Tate has greater complexity and more rhythmic intensity, especially Dio's vocals, which manages to reach the lowest notes with greater depth and hitting several D5s in a legato sequence while maintaining a long phrasing. , and the song is louder overall, I think Tate himself talked about this in an interview about the difficulty of singing the high note progressions of that song, so much so that no one has even done a decent cover on the same level as that performance.

@@luamoliveira3467 I don’t agree at all. That song doesn’t require nearly as much stamina or range as The Talisman. I’m not saying Dio isn’t as good as Bruce, or that Dio couldn’t sing The Talisman, but I fail to see how The Chase is one of Dios better vocal performances. Now if you said Stargazer I’d have had a hard time arguing against that.

@@moderndayheretic I understand you but The Chase does depend on a lot of resistance, especially because many metal singers cannot maintain the stability of their phrasing as a good legato sequence with the same ease and are constantly stabbing their phrasing, especially when they are singing intensely like this one music, the sequence of words with those D5 that he sustains without breaking the phrasing and with that fabulous control in full chest voice, is a challenge and the glottal effort can be greater to sing in this region and even the level of muscular fatigue is bigger, precisely because the majority will sing this song in the oropharyngeal region within a strong balanced mix with head predominance, with that same subglottic head voice pressure as a natural subterfuge to sustain the notes and which makes it easier as Bruce started clearly to do after the age of 50 with some more operatic techniques, I see this all the time when these people are trying to do a decent cover of Dio's songs, when it doesn't sound too forced, they usually sound screamed or shrill with a certain rhythmic intensity in the progression of higher notes and does not have the same naturalness and the larynx completely free of muscular tension as Dio performs in his performances; the only difference is that the percussion in the song "The Talisman" is longer in general and the impression will really be as you said, more logically that Ronnie has more difficult performances than in "The Chase"; And I can mention both Stargazer as an example, as well as his live performances of Mistreated in Chicago 1978 or Heaven and Hell and Stand up the shout in Manchester 1983; I think that when you try to sing Dio or Jussi Bijörling at the Opera, it is one of the most difficult tasks in my opinion. As an example, I remember that end of Ronnie's show in Belgium in 2000, where Dio and Bruce Dickinson in those performances of Rainbow in the dark and Long live rock in roll perform together, Bruce didn't adapt perfectly to those songs at that moment in the show, and Right away I realized the difficulties he was having in maintaining the stability of his voice, and so he chose to try a higher harmony than Dio's voice and some improvisations, which didn't really work in my opinion, as he maintained a third voice at certain times but it sounded too shrill, the larynx was too high and he released a certain amount of air from his throat which made him lose some natural control of his voice; maiden fans said that the song was made for Ronnie's original tone and noticed that he was having difficulties, he was great but it was obvious that it was not an easy song to sing, as it required many long legato sequences in very high regions acute.

@@luamoliveira3467 I’m not even going to pretend I’m anywhere near as much of an expert as you so let me just ask you this. Have you ever listened to the isolated vocal tracks of Flight of Icarus, Book of Soils, and Where Eagles Dare? I’d like to know an experts opinion on the vocals on those tracks and if you think that Bruce demonstrates similar skill level to Dio.

@@moderndayheretic It is one of Bruce's most difficult performances, I think there is any similarity technically between him and Ronnie but them are diferent, he is one of the best vocalists and with a great range as we know, excellent consistency live and with a great command of full belting in voice mixed chest voice (especially at his peak, where he used more chest voice when he was young), Bruce has a very characteristic vibrato, very precise and with a very operatic aesthetic and he always maintained excellent control over his trebles and just like him he also has excellent technique in general; Regarding Ronnie, he was an absolutely virtuoso singer without a doubt and that's why he is being so praised by great singing teachers out there and even operatic singing teachers like Elizabeth Zharoff, Beth Roars and Zach Ansley for example, who They have even stated a few times that he would be in their Top 3 of the best singers of all time along with Pavarotti and Caruso (even though there is that resistance on their part with Heavy Metal singers, Bruce is also highly praised, as is Halford himself), because Dio has an extremely natural way of singing, practically effortless throughout his vocal range and without any noticeable facial and throat muscle tension over years of his professional career (I note that with the exception of some opera singers, many singers that I hear live, have some necessary muscular tension and that is something normal, but Dio had no tension at all and this influences a type of sustainability and a very great vocal consistency and stability over the years) he is quite technically proficient( Perhaps he is the best voice manipulator I have ever heard and one of the rare singers with total command of his vocal instrument, you can tell by the way he very easily manipulates intonation to create that entire fabulous spectrum of varied vocal color effects in his performances and this allowed Dio to create many different melodic designs in a single song in each show); As Ken Tamplin and Zach Ansley themselves had already mentioned, Dio managed to create great resistance and a very high level of glottal compression through the perfect muscular domain of the modern open throat technique and in a very advanced way (a structural technique that found within the appogio in Bel Canto), his diaphragmatic support was fantastic and he managed to develop a lot of motor strength, a very solid muscular structure of his vocal mechanism with years of practice, so you realize that through this process, Dio was able to sing most of of time with a full chest voice in a very controlled and natural way( we know the enormous difficulty in singing with a full chest voice in a natural way and especially with the frequent use of harmonic distortion, you could see how he could hit those vowels completely open ones in many moments and as the texture of his resonance did not change as we see in a mixed voice), but he sounded quite relaxed live despite the risks that this could cause in terms of muscular friction in the long term, because it also depends in part on genetic mechanics of the singer and also of the solid muscular structure that is very well developed to be able to sing at that rhythmic intensity throughout an entire performance without showing signs of muscular fatigue, and in this context Ken Tamplin has already stated why many cannot emulate with any perfection the vocals of Dio singing his songs and because many of them sound too strident, because in addition to all this context regarding the extreme mastery he had of the mechanism, Dio also used a lot of glottic compression and a lot of diaphragmatic support to maintain his stability on those performances.

TheMvvs he´s brilliant, in every sense of the word....I just love this amazing wonder of a guy....

Freddie Mercury to shame??! even though I am a fan of both your statement is falacious.

Cor Tadew Bruce is a better singer and has a more powerful voice.

Michael Colby Difference styles but funny you compare them because are ,my two favourite vocalist/showman !!!

Michael Colby nope, just see the register and the vocal range and by the way both are great at their styles.

Cor Tadew Not sure about technicalities but love both, of course uÇI have the pleasure of seeing Maiden Live and will do next and next ;), thing that didn´t happened with Queen.

Seriously Up the Irons

What people? Almost every Maiden show is either sold out or close to be. I think that's an understatement

Eddie Torrez you are wrong ....Maiden can not be your religion because Maiden is better than any religion !!!!

Eddie Torrez I´ve been trying to buy a ticket to anywhere in UK for their latest tour, but every single concert was sold out, so people obviously love their music....

People are fuckin' lame. That and intelligence is not a common trait and it requires intelligence to appreciate this level of songwriting and playing.

I believe he uses a mixed head voice in a lot of the higher passages. He has quite powerful 'belt muscle' (diaphragm) control in the chest voice, where 'full voice' originates but the smooth blending of chest / head voice keeps it strong and full-sounding as he moves up. Bruce's singing has always been one of the most fascinating things to me..

@@j_freed Bruce’s and halford’s control of voices are what got me into singing.

@@tplinkRob Halford, in his prime, could dwarf Bruce Dickenson (both literally and figuratively lol) .. especially in terms of vocal range. I think Bruce's voice has held up better over time, however. Rob (who is significantly older than Bruce) .. his voice has not held up quite as well i.m.o. Im not saying one vocalist is better than the other (in fact, Maiden is my favorite band) .. but Halford, in his prime, was unmatched in terms of (non-falsetto) vocal range.

@@BrotherMan321 Rob may have been more rangey but personally the power Bruce held in back on the day was unrivalled. That broad vibrato with pure projection just wasn’t matched.

@@Elnont "unrivalled"? #RJD #RIP

This is what's gonna be playing when they plant me

For me Bruce is the best I don't care what anyone says. People will nitpick at his vocal abilities and say someone else is better but regardless - nobody - in metal front man brings music to life the way he can and that's what matters most.

Dickson va clonato

+vasileios papadopoulos When Bruce dies, he'll play lead in God's choir.

the gamerator 10 gods never die my friend

***** Correction: IF he dies.

Why would he play lead in his own choir?

I wish they will never been forgotten...more realistic:)

SilverSurferFTW They won´t, they just have too many great songs!

Steve Harris says Maiden gonna be gone within 10 years :(

Rusty Shackleford Understandable ....we have to enjoy these 10 years...

Rusty Shackleford So let´s all of us be very grateful to them for all their amazing music and mindblowing lyrics...I wish we could make them understand what they have really meant to us....LIFE AND SHEER ADMIRATION ASWELL AS SANITY........

@@superhosster ozzy is a dickhead too

@@adambroderick8325 i would like to see ozziy sing this 1 😂😂😂

there is no money in the earth that could buy me on this one...

Pedro H theese guys creates music from beyond borders of music, their musical capabilitys are overwhelming !!!

sujith jinadevan to be honest, they All performed just insanely brilliant, and age is only a number, they all prooved that without any doubt in their " Legacy of the Beast " tour ...in 2018...I´m truly stunned, take a bow !!

Benjamin Breeg theese amazing guys has indeed nothing more to prove, but with every new album or show, they are outdoing themselves, like this latest album, after forty years they released Book of Souls, an outstanding album !!

That's personal opinion I personally feel these guys blow megadeath out of the water. But the deth do have icredible musical talent :)

Iron Maiden >> Megadeth