1/8/2023 0 Comments Meltdown sandwichesI was puzzled but thought little of it and agreed, yes I liked steak too. Instead he said something about steaks being good in Argentina, or so he’d heard. I remember it so clearly now as though it were yesterday but even at the time when I asked what he meant by it he didn’t recall have said anything of the sort. It sounded like that spoken voice at the end of ‘The Elder’. Alex usually has a soft Scottish lilt but this was deeper I noticed and more emphatic. The odd thing was he spoke in the same Mid-Atlantic accent I’d heard that time before. When Alex saw the tour dates he turned to me with a glazed expression and clearly said: “Where they took it off, so shall we put it on”. I’d never been there before and Brazil (Rio De Janeiro, Bello Horizonte and São Paulo) was where Kiss had played their last few historic gigs in make-up back in 1983. During that time we played a bunch of gigs with Bruce’s band and then a South American tour got booked. I laughed it off and thought nothing of it for some time. That night and with quiet determination, he said “We’ll fix this”, in what I thought was a comedy Mid-Atlantic accent. Sometimes he saw things even before they had happened. He sometimes saw things the rest of us didn’t. He read books on UFOs, Werewolves and the Illuminati. He however, had an unshakable conviction that things would take a turn for the better somehow. ![]() He’d had similar concerns, his going back further than mine. I voiced my worries to my bandmate in the Bruce Dickinson band, guitarist Alex Dickson. ![]() Rumour had it that they were growing beards and recording an ‘alternative rock’ album. The band had resorted to touring fan club conventions. ‘Alive III’ came out and was alright but it didn’t set the world on fire like their previous live albums. OK, ‘Unholy’ and ‘God Gave Rock and Roll To You’ were saved by their writers (Vinnie Vincent and Rod Argent respectively) but really, the rest? The make-up was off, Eric Carr was dead and Kiss had released possibly the dullest album of their career, ‘Revenge’. I’m sure it was a tough time for many of us. But as we all know, out of desperate times come desperate solutions.īack in the mid-nineties my life reached a crisis point in one area. In fact that kind of stuff gives me the creeps. I don’t believe in voodoo, black magic or Aleister Crowley.
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