Iron Maidenin vokalisti kertoo omien poikiensa tilanteesta musiikin parissa

Heavy metallin legendan Iron Maidenin vokalisti Bruce Dickinson on vieraillut hiljattain Opie Radion talk show:ssa, jossa mies on jutellut mm. Spotifyn vaikutuksesta musiikin kulutukseen sekä omien poikiensa Austin Dickinsonin (As Lions) sekä Griffin Dickinsonin (SHVPES) mahdollisuuksista selviytyä nykyajan varsin vaikeassa taloudellisessa tilanteessa musiikin saralla. Voit lukea Bruce Dickinsonin mietteitä poikiensa bändeistä sekä heidän tilanteistaan tästä:

”My two boys [are] both doing their own thing and they both just got signed to record labels and stuff, and so they’re going through the whole process right now,” Bruce said. ”And the deals that they’re looking at… ’Cause, I mean, I go down the pub with my guys, and they sort of say, ’Dad, you wanna take a look at the contracts and see if we’re getting ripped off?’ And I said, ’Well, I don’t really have much of a clue what I’m looking at here, but let me have a look.’ [And then I went], ’That one looks a little dodgy to me. You might wanna ask them about that one.’ For example, on one contract, there was this thing that said, ’Yeah, we’ll give you X thousand advance’ — and it’s only an advance, so, I mean, it’s not a huge amount. The money is, like, twenty percent of what it would have been fifteen years ago, so, for starters, all that is way back. Plus, they wanna be selling t-shirts for you, and they wanna be taking a slice… The record companies are taking a slice of everything. So, anyway, in this contract was one bit that says, ’And we will give you tour support.’ Okay? And I went, ’Oh, okay. Well, that’s okay. Tour support of X.’ And then it said, ’Tour support will be payable after the tour, after you give us all the receipts.’ And I’m, like, ’Eh, no.’ [Laughs] ’So who’s gonna front [the money]…? In other words, you’re gonna pay all the money out of the money that you guys have got to live on, and then you’ve gotta try and claim it back off these schmucks? You’ve gotta be kidding me. You can’t run a tour like that.'”

Austin Dickinsonin luotsaaman As Lionsin kappale nimeltä ”The Fall”:

Griffin Dickinsonin luotsaaman SHVPES -nimiseen yhtye kappale nimeltä ”State of Mine”: