Bruce Dickinson interview (excerpt)

Christine Black: Your music is so perfect for that kind of technology.

Bruce Dickinson: Exactly. For example, I don’t mind doing a bit of name dropping, there’s a band called Dream Theater, and I was taking a listen to their first album. There’s a song on there called ‘The Ytse Jam’. I’ve got a little home studio back here in London at home, and I pulled Janick around, and Nicko (McBrain), as well, and I sort of locked them in the room and whacked the monitors on ten and said, ‘Listen to that.’ They all came out sort of like, ‘Bloody hell! What was that?’ And I said, ‘Well, that’s the sort of stuff that’s coming from a first album from a band in the States, and they’re kids. They’re really young. And that’s the kind of sound people are getting for a first album in the States. Now, let’s have a listen to our last record. It sounds fine, but it’s missing something. It’s not the musicians or the songs that are missing. It’s just the sound.’