{"id":647924,"date":"2026-01-07T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/647924\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:08:10","slug":"james-labrie-a-decline-loffre-de-devenir-chanteur-diron-maiden-en-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/647924\/","title":{"rendered":"James LaBrie a d\u00e9clin\u00e9 l\u2019offre de devenir chanteur d\u2019Iron Maiden en 1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>James LaBrie (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalzone.fr\/dream-theater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dream Theater<\/a>) a confi\u00e9 avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 pressenti pour chanter dans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalzone.fr\/iron-maiden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iron Maiden<\/a>, en 1993, apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9part de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalzone.fr\/bruce-dickinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce Dickinson<\/a>. Il a d\u00e9clin\u00e9 l\u2019offre sans h\u00e9siter, pr\u00e9f\u00e9rant rester fid\u00e8le \u00e0 Dream Theater.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James LaBrie a refus\u00e9 de rejoindre Iron Maiden en 1993<\/p>\n<p>Dans une interview accord\u00e9e \u00e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bbxgthoMUX4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Metal Voice<\/a> en 2021, James LaBrie est revenu sur un \u00e9pisode peu connu de sa carri\u00e8re, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque o\u00f9 Rod Smallwood, le manager d\u2019Iron Maiden, lui avait propos\u00e9 de remplacer Bruce Dickinson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u00c0 l\u2019\u00e9poque, Maiden cherchait un nouveau chanteur, et leur manager envisageait aussi de s\u2019occuper de Dream Theater\u201d, a racont\u00e9 LaBrie. \u201cOn jouait aux fl\u00e9chettes quand Rod Smallwood m\u2019a pris \u00e0 part et m\u2019a lanc\u00e9 une question inattendue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Le chanteur, d\u2019abord surpris, pensait qu\u2019il s\u2019agissait d\u2019une simple discussion sur une collaboration manag\u00e9riale. Il a vite compris qu\u2019on lui proposait de chanter dans Iron Maiden : \u201cSon assistant Merck \u00e9tait aussi l\u00e0. Ils m\u2019ont dit : \u2018On te verrait bien au chant dans Iron Maiden\u2019. J\u2019ai r\u00e9pondu : \u2018Quoi ?\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Une d\u00e9cision fond\u00e9e sur l\u2019exp\u00e9rience et la conviction<\/p>\n<p>LaBrie a d\u00e9clin\u00e9 l\u2019offre sans \u00e9quivoque : \u201cJ\u2019ai dit non. Je leur ai expliqu\u00e9 que ma priorit\u00e9 \u00e9tait Dream Theater. Point final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Il a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 qu\u2019il ne voulait pas revivre l\u2019exp\u00e9rience de ses d\u00e9buts, lorsqu\u2019il avait bri\u00e8vement remplac\u00e9 Carl Dixon au sein de Coney Hatch : \u201cJ\u2019avais l\u2019impression de faire du karaok\u00e9. Je pouvais chanter toutes les chansons, mais je n\u2019\u00e9tais pas per\u00e7u comme un artiste \u00e0 part enti\u00e8re.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aujourd\u2019hui encore, LaBrie ne regrette rien. Il souligne le respect mutuel qu\u2019il entretient avec Bruce Dickinson : \u201cNous nous sommes rencontr\u00e9s \u00e0 plusieurs reprises, notamment lors d\u2019une \u00e9mission \u00e0 la BBC. Il y a toujours eu une forme de respect entre nous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finalement, c\u2019est <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalzone.fr\/blaze-bayley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blaze Bayley<\/a> qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisi pour assurer le chant au sein de Maiden jusqu\u2019au retour de Dickinson \u00e0 la fin des ann\u00e9es 90.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James LaBrie (Dream Theater) a confi\u00e9 avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 pressenti pour chanter dans Iron Maiden, en 1993, apr\u00e8s le&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355],"tags":[58,59,1011,27,1361,873],"class_list":{"0":"post-647924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-musique","8":"tag-divertissement","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fr","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-musique"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@fr\/115855865085506499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}