Bruce Dickinson - 8.Son Of A Gun (Dive Dive Live 1990) video free download

Dive Dive Live - Recorded at the Town & Country Club in Los Angeles, US, August 14, 1990, during the Tattooed Millionaire Tour 1990.

Son Of A Gun (B. Dickinson/ J. Gers)

Bruce Dickinson: Vocals

Janick Gers: Guitar

Andy Carr: Bass

Dickie Fliszar: Drums

[Lyrics]

Holy was the preacher

Riding on his rig of steel in the rising sun

This was no grim reaper

But a man with a smile who took a pride in a job well done

Oooh, in a blood-red sunrise

He's preaching conversion as you lay down and die

(die)

Just a god-given holy roller

In a god-forsaken land

He didn't choose this killing ground

He didn't want this scrap of land

He's gonna scorch the earth (yeah)

And make the rivers run dry

Until we learn to hate like him

Oh, kill for killing, yeah; live to die

Chorus:

Ride on, you son of a gun

Ride on, ride into the setting sun

Ride on, you son of a gun (yeah) (x2)

You gotta be a hero

For one last time

To prove through your destruction

Killing is a great way of life

There's a wooden cross somewhere

Where they'll bury you down deep

You lie to your people - you lie to yourself

You're in love with death, man, you've got no shame

Chorus: (x2)

The preacher laughed - the preacher cried

He loaded bullets as he smiled

The congregation sat and wondered

Would they live, or would they die?

Just an ordinary man

With his orders and his plans

In the shadows of a cross

Oooh, in a blood-red sunrise

Take me to Jesus - with Judas my guide

Chorus: (x2)

(oh, yeah)

Ride on, ride on, ride on, yeah

Ride on, ride on, ride on, yeah

Ride on, ride into history, yeah

Ride on, ride on, you bleeding heart

Ride on, ride on, you played no part

Ride on, you feel no pity

Ride on, you feel no pain

Ride it into history

........................

''Son Of A Gun'' is a song from Bruce Dickinson's debut solo album, Tattooed Millionaire. It was released in October, 1990.

'Son of a gun' is an exclamation or a noun in American and British English. Apollo 12 Astronaut Pete Conrad said, upon seeing the Surveyor 3 just prior to touching down on the Moon: "Hey, there it is! There it is! Son of a gun, right down the middle of the road!". It can be used encouragingly or to compliment, as in "You son of a gun , you did it!"

Dive Dive Live video can be found on ''Anthology'' DVD (Disc 1) by Bruce Dickinson, released on June 19, 2006.

''Anthology'' is a 3 disc compilation DVD by Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of Iron Maiden. The DVD features three live performances as well every single promotional video made during Bruce's solo career. The DVD also includes over an hour of extras and unreleased footage.

Disc 1 features two live performances, the first is from the Tattooed Millionaire tour entitled Dive Dive Live, Bruce's first tour as a solo artist,and the second live performance is from the Skunkworks tour 1996 - Recorded in Pamplona and Gerona, Spain on May 30th and 31st 1996.

Dive Dive Live was filmed at the Town & Country Club in LA, August 14,at the end of the "Tattooed millionaire" US club tour in 1990. The video was directed by Jim Yukich (known for his work with Iron Maidens "Live After Death") and the personel were the same as on "Tattooed Millionaire", except that Dickie Fliszar handled the drum duties.

The material consists of practically all material from the Tattooed Millionaire-sessions (except Darkness Be My Friend from the All The Young Dudes single) including Bring Your Daughter...). The set also included some cover songs the band did on the tour, Deep Purple's "Black Night", AC/DC's "Sin City". They had previously done Free's "Wishing Well" on the European leg of the tour and in the US this one was replaced by Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter.

'' 'Tattooed Millionaire' is a hard rock album released in 1990 by Bruce Dickinson. It is his first solo album. The album project began when Dickinson was asked to record a song for the fifth Nightmare on Elm Street movie, which became the song called "Bring your Daughter...to the Slaughter". Collaborating with future Iron Maiden guitarist Janick Gers, Dickinson began to make a solo album which was fundamentally different from his works with Iron Maiden, sounding much more rock-oriented. "Bring your Daughter..." was not included on the original album but Iron Maiden later recorded a different version that was included on their 1990 album No Prayer for the Dying, which coincidentally became the band's only number one single to date. The introduction to the song "No Lies" is also reminiscent of Iron Maiden's version of "Bring your Daughter...to the Slaughter". All songs written and composed by Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers, except where noted. ''