Bruce Dickinson

[Marplot]

This is potentially exciting news.
"It's been a very busy year of mixing things. Also we've been doing the back catalog as well, so we've just done — in fact, this week, [we got done] mixing the Atmos Dolby version of 'Skunkworks', we've remixed it, and we're gonna be doing the same thing for all of my back catalog, so 'Balls To Picasso' and all the other albums."

 

[4-earredwonder]

And for those [like myself] unfamiliar with BD's SKUNKWORKS

 

[edisonbaggins]

I love Skunkworks. The Chemical Wedding even more so.
This is good news. Hoping for Blu-ray.

 

[Bill B]

This is potentially exciting news.
"It's been a very busy year of mixing things. Also we've been doing the back catalog as well, so we've just done — in fact, this week, [we got done] mixing the Atmos Dolby version of 'Skunkworks', we've remixed it, and we're gonna be doing the same thing for all of my back catalog, so 'Balls To Picasso' and all the other albums."

I can't get too excited until there is actually news that it will be release physically.

 

[Marplot]

I too hope for physical media and also for Harris to be watching over his shoulder and think "let's give this a try for seventh son"

 

[haikubass]

Copying my earlier post in thread 'Listening to in Dolby Atmos Streaming, via Tidal/Apple/Amazon' here as there's even more positive detail to this news there: https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...ming-via-tidal-apple-amazon.31491/post-763474
Hope that Skunkworks don't disappoint, really liked Balls to Picasso too at the time... Bring on the blu-rays or downloads!

 

[Marplot]

Searched and missed it due to the link. Thanks for sharing it ... again.

 

[Tres Discrete]

Please…let this open the door to the entire Iron Maiden back catalog

 

[fetchmybeer]

Don't care for Bruce's latest solo album, but love Skunkworks. It's very unlike any of his other works and I think he actually wanted to call it Skunkworks but the label wanted the BD name on it.

I love Maiden too, but seems like everything they've put out the last couple albums is guilty of Steve Harris's overkill. Hey, let's have a 2 minute bass intro! And maybe an outro for good measure! Let's repeat the chorus too much (probably Bruce's fault there)!. Let's make Janick double the vocal melody with his guitar because there's nothing else for him to do! Those guys have been using Kevin Shirley so long that nobody has the balls to step in and tell them to cut the fluff.

I went back and revisited all the albums from when Bruce returned (Brave New World through Senjutsu), thinking in advance that Brave New World was the best, but much to my surprise, I found that I liked A Matter Of Life Or Death the best. Just seemed to depart ever so slightly from the typical formula and production, not indulge in so much of the overkill, and yet still remain unmistakably Maiden. It's also the last one where I think Bruce's singing is still top notch. Not that I blame him. He is older and had cancer and the fact that he is singing at all and singing well is pretty amazing really. Those guys still put on a helluva show live.

 

[edisonbaggins]

Life in Surround news video, with shout-outs to @Marplot and @haikubass

 

[weekendtoy]

I'd love to get An Accident of Birth and The Chemical Wedding in ATMOS. Both amazing records!

I'd be shocked to see either get a physical release.

 

[JanBakker]

Killers, Number of the Beast and Powerslave would be nice in any surround format for me

 

[Bill B]

Killers, Number of the Beast and Powerslave would be nice in any surround format for me

Everything from IM to SSoaSS would be immediate buys for me (assuming the box sets weren't too bloated). A package like Def Leppard's forthcoming Pyromania would be tolerable.

 

[GOS]

If only they could find a way to clean up the fidelity a bit. Those early albums need a lot more low end. Still. I'd hit it.

 

[edisonbaggins]

If only they could find a way to clean up the fidelity a bit. Those early albums need a lot more low end. Still. I'd hit it.

Not on my system, playing the original vinyl pressings. Martin Birch knew exactly what he was doing. No other versions I've heard sound "right".
The originals sound awesome. Like a switch blade knife to your heart.

 

[GOS]

Not on my system, playing the original vinyl pressings. Martin Birch knew exactly what he was doing. No other versions I've heard sound "right".
The originals sound awesome. Like a switch blade knife to your heart.

OK, you're killing me! I do not have the original vinyl pressings. I have wondered. Thanks for that tip......now I'm gonna find me a copy.

 

[IMachine]

I love the low end on the first two albums

 

[bookofsaturdays]

OK, you're killing me! I do not have the original vinyl pressings. I have wondered. Thanks for that tip......now I'm gonna find me a copy.

If you still want digital, the original non-remastered CD’s sound just like the vinyl, but you may as well just go for the vinyl at that point.

The first pressing European (Made in West Germany) Powerslave CD with a tan CD label apparently sounds incredible. I have not heard it as it’s very expensive.

 

[bookofsaturdays]

Killers, Number of the Beast and Powerslave would be nice in any surround format for me

40th anniversary of Powerslave this year

Just sayin’….

 

[edisonbaggins]

If you still want digital, the original non-remastered CD’s sound just like the vinyl, but you may as well just go for the vinyl at that point.

Not to my ears. They sound brittle, by comparison. Not sure the DACs were all that good, at the time.
There is also the matter of how one's stylus and cartridge "color" the vinyl experience. I could agree that they are likely the same mastering.