List of Blaze Bayley band members
This is a list of the band members associated with English rock musician Blaze Bayley.
Main band
- Blaze Bayley – vocals (1999–present)
- Chris Appleton – guitars, backing vocals (2014–present)
- Karl Schramm – bass, backing vocals (2014–present)
- Martin McNee – drums (2014–present)[1]
Former line-ups
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| B L A Z E (January – April 2003) |
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| B L A Z E (April 2003 – December 2003) |
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| B L A Z E (January 2004 – September 2004) |
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| B L A Z E (October 2004 – December 2005) |
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| B L A Z E (December 2005 – January 2007) |
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| Blaze Bayley band (March 2007 – October 2007) |
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| Blaze Bayley Band (November 2007 – March 2011) |
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| Blaze Bayley Band (April 2010 – March 2011) |
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| Blaze Bayley (March 2011 – December 2011) |
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| Blaze Bayley (January 2012 – December 2012) |
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| Blaze Bayley (December 2013 – November 2014) |
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Bayley vs Di'Anno
From 2012, former Iron Maiden singers Blaze Bayley and Paul Di'Anno started a partnership doing some co-headlining tours and sharing the same roster of musicians.
- Russian Federation and occasionally Scandinavia:
- Blaze Bayley – Vocals
- Andrey Smirnov
- Vladimir Litsov – Guitar
- Ilya Mamontov – Guitar
- Nikolay Korshunov – Bass
- Andrey Ischenko – Drums
- Sergey Serbrennikov – Drums
– for their Australia/New Zealand tour Bayley and Di'Anno shared Australian musicians:
- Blaze Bayley – Vocals
- Doug Dalton – Guitar
- Jimmy Lardner-Brown – Guitar
- Stu Tyrrell – Bass
- Dom Simpson – Drums
– for the Scandinavian gigs and occasionally Great Britain:
- Blaze Bayley – Vocals
- Richie Nielsen – Guitar
- John V – Guitar
- Are Gogstad – Bass
- Rick Hagan – Drums
– for some Italian and French gigs the two singers have been backed by official Iron Maiden tribute band Children of the Damned from Italy:
- Blaze Bayley – Vocals
- Carlo Micheletti – guitar
- Andrea Moretti – guitar
- Francesco Bevini – guitar
- Matteo Panzavolta – bass
- Gianluca Calanca – drums
Metal vs Blues
In 2015 Blaze started a cooperation with US-Italian band Twin Dragons with the shows "Metal vs Blues Rock", with these musicians:
- Blaze Bayley - Vocals
- Nazzareno Zacconi - guitar
- Don Roxx - guitar
- Fabio Cerrone - bass
- Manuel Togni - drums
North America
- Starting from 2013 Bayley hit the stage for brief US tours with an all star project named The Foundry, involving members of Disturbed, Adrenaline Mob, Danzig, Black Simphony, Scorpions, Fates Warning and Twisted Sisters:
- Blaze Bayley – Vocals
- Rick Plester – Guitar
- John Moyer – Bass
- Bobby Jarzombek - Drums
- (James Kottak – Drums 2013)
- (A.J. Pero – Drums 2014-2015)
- (Shawn Austin – guest on vocals 2013)
-in Canadian tour of October 2014 he was backed by Maiden Québec:
- Blaze Bayley – Vocals
- Steven Bergeron (Lead Guitars)
- Leandro Alves (Lead Guitars)
- Math Gagnon (Bass)
- Jef Rastoldo (Drums)
-in the US tour of 2011 the singer performed with the following band:
- Blaze Bayley – Vocals
- Rick Plester – Guitar
- M.G. Jones – Guitar
- Matt Maclean – Bass
- Bill Legue – Drums
- (Chris Declercq – guest on guitar)
South America
– in the Brazilian and Paraguay tours Blaze (initially with Zwijsen) has been backed by musicians of "The Best Maiden Tribute" and Tailgunners from Brazil:
- Blaze Bayley – Vocals
- Thomas Zwijsen – Guitars
- Lely Biscasse – Guitars
- Raphael Gazal – Guitars
- Lennon Biscasse – Bass
- Guto Franceschet – Drums
Unplugged
– for acoustic touring Blaze recently involved those musicians:
- Thomas Zwijsen – Guitar – acoustic tours 2012-2013-2014
- Anne Bakker – Violin – acoustic tour 2013–2014
- Michelle Sciarrotta – Guitar – acoustic gigs Italy and UK 2013 and 2015, Christmas song 2013
- Olivier Arpin and Stephan Laroche – Guitar – Canada 2013
- Andrea Neri – Guitar – acoustic tour Italy 2011
- Jase Edwards – Guitar – acoustic tour Uk 2011
- Nazzareno Zacconi - Guitar - acoustic gig 2015
Occasional
– in September 2014, celebrating 20 years after joining Iron Maiden, he toured with a special set with this band from Slovakia:
- Blaze Bayley – vocals
- Juro Gasinec – guitars
- Tibor Buso – guitars
- Jan Kicin – bass
- Lubo Franek – drums
– for the Italian summer tour of 2011, soon after the dissolution of Blaze Bayley Band, the singer has occasionally performed with the following lineup:
- Blaze Bayley – Vocals
- Andrea Neri – Guitar
- Lorenzo Carancini – Guitar
- Simone Massimi – Bass
- Roberto Pirami – Drums
– in March 2013 for a charity gig in Redhill (Uk) the line-up has been:
- Blaze Bayley – Vocals
- James Cornford – Guitar
- Pete Welsh – Guitar
- Jim Houghton – Bass
- Rai Whisker – Drums
– in one festival in France of 2012 Neil, bandmate of Lehmann in Neurasthenia, has performed on guitar as stand-in for Andrea Neri
– Bayley occasionally performed full shows with the bands Seven (Czech Republic), Trooper (Romania), John Steel (Bulgaria), Hammerheart (Slovakia), Apsent (Turkey, first gig ever after the dissolution of Blaze Bayley Band), Lunar Explosion and Flash of The Blade (Italy)[2]
References
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