Janick dances and prances and I wouldn't have it any other way. The topics in most Maiden songs are serious, but the live shows are fun and cheesy with a hint of epicness. I prefer musicians not taking themselves too seriously rather than the entire thing becoming a pretentious mess.
And if...
It's not a mystery: Steve fucked up and played a semitone higher.
I think it's a bit silly to never again consider a song just because a different line up/band fucked it up more than a quarter of a century ago.
Maiden have made mistakes on plenty of other songs throughout the years. It's the...
"Didn't work out" is a bit of an overstatement. By the same idea most TXF and VXI songs bombed in that concert, simply because most Maiden fans weren't into those albums.
"Forcing his band members to learn a song" is funny considering that 12 out of 14 songs on the current tour are from those...
Neither an album tour, nor a hits or anniversary tour:
They'll play a solo tour, where the setlist consists entirely of songs from the various solo projects, like Bruce's albums, British Lion and Smith/Kotzen.
Well, I wouldn't mind. Though I don't think he'd need to transpose that one. It's not a difficult song to sing and has never been out of his range. It's one of the rare Maiden songs to be in G# minor.
Those are the best case scenarios. There's also the chance that they'll only play songs that have been played since the reunion. Nothing is guaranteed, unfortunately.
Well, according to setlist.fm it's in top 10 ahead of Fear Of The Dark and Running Free.
Edit: this figure might be counting cover versions as well though, so take it with a grain of salt.
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