Tattooed Millionaire (1990)? Balls To Picasso (1994)? Or perhaps the entire Mandrake Project . Which songs will be featured in Bruce Dickinson ?
In an interview with Paul Cashmere of Noise11.com Iron Maiden vocalist recalled ( via Blabbermouth ): “God knows how many years have passed since I really went out on the road.” And it has been nineteen years since their last release, Tyranny Of Souls (2005).
He explained that he doesn't plan to play The Mandrake Project in its entirety: "So, given that, and given the fact that you have seven albums to choose from now in terms of setlist, I think it would be a cruel and unusual punishment to make people listen to a new album from beginning to end."
He continues: “Let’s do ‘Tears Of The Dragon’ [from the 1994 Balls To Picasso 1998 The Chemical Wedding Accident Of Birth ], and all that stuff.”
“I’ll probably limit it to the things I did with Roy [ “Z” Ramirez ], because those are things we shared, with Roy and Dave Moreno , the drummer, and Mistheria played the keyboards on all my records.”
He says there will be songs from Balls To Picasso onwards, but probably none from Skunkworks (1996), not because he hates the album, but because there are "many other good songs".
"I'm sure this won't be the last tour we do together, so we have many opportunities to do things."
Regarding the new tracks, Dickinson said that there will likely be three or four on the setlist.
The musician will not be playing any songs from Tattooed Millionaire on this tour, but believes "that people will want to hear things from The Chemical Wedding because that was my breakthrough album of the 90s."
The Mandrake Project is now available for pre-order at the Wikimetal Store .
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