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Future past…..live album
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07-SMS:A1L
Educated Fool
Here's an advice from someone who loved the setlist, the show and Blaze Bayley during The X Factour: don't listen back to the bootlegs, I completely destroyed the memory buy doing so.
If You’re Gonna Die…
Prowler
The best recording from 86 is the show in Paris. It isn’t professional level, but it’s pretty darn close especially in the first half. I think it was a TV broadcast based on the footage and audio recording quality. The Chicago show from 87 is also pretty good, though it doesn’t sound as good as the Paris show and the setlist is slightly different, most notably Sea of Madness was dropped from the setlist by this point in the tour (for some reason the version I have omits Hallowed and Running Free but they are on the full version of the bootleg). Most other recordings I’ve heard from that tour are pretty bad from what I remember.
Ledges Bitten In Dust
Educated Fool
I honestly think if we don't get live album announced by the end of august, we won't get it at all.
CA Bryers
Ancient Mariner
The only chances I see of us getting one are twofold:
A) post-first leg of RFYL, around the time of the release of the Infinite Dreams book...this as a music release tossed out for something to buy as another addition to commemorating the 50th Anniversary.
Post-retirement release, which, as I've said before, is becoming an increasingly stupid strategy. If that's indeed what they're doing with a few live albums that were either definitely recorded (Donington 2007) or allegedly (Early Days Tour), the physical media market is shrinking by the day, digital and streaming pays cents (or micro-cents) on the dollar, Euro, whatever. Tl;dr: the chances don't look great either option you go with. It's a shame, because as uneven as Nicko was on that tour, it would still be an interesting and unique keepsake to commemorate his final tour with the band.
CA Bryers
Ancient Mariner
I'm the same with the Blaze era. Loved it, the underdog, back-against-the-wall feel of it...it was a cool time to be a fan. As far as the bootlegs go, there are good ones and bad ones. Unfortunately, the best quality ones from the X Factour were all in South America where his voice was completely blown. He performed more admirably earlier in the tour, especially on his own material. The Bruce stuff was about 30%/70%. He did well on a few songs, not great on the rest. Trooper should never have been attempted in its original key with him...well, none of the Bruce material should have, but we've gone over that exhaustively here.
Virtual XI Tour was better. The in-ear monitors helped him with mobility and staying in tune, but he was still drowning in Bruce's giant shoes.
Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
Y’know one thing no one’s suggested is that Maiden could always take the best performances and then overdub in the studio as needed to iron out any mistakes. I know most people want their live albums to be 100% live but this technique has given us classics like Alive! and (supposedly) Live After Death. I think if the vibe remains the same but you get a better performance that way then it’s a legitimate approach to making a live record. But Maiden would never spend that much time on something these days lol.
Yax
Ancient Mariner
RIght back at you.
Donner
Ancient Mariner
Nights of the Dead was so awful I'm guessing they have just decided to not bother with live albums any more. 
Which is odd considering they were such a guarantee for so many tours. I also assume Nicko not being 100% is a likely explanation.
I'd love to have some kind of documentation of this tour though. It's a tad ironic that they revisited the SIT era, a piece of their history that the band acknowledges was overlooked and under documented and then they....don't release a live album from this tour.
The 2 shows I saw last November were some of my very favorite Maiden shows of all time. So many new and classic songs I never thought I'd ever hear live all jammed into one show. It really felt like a tour for the die hard fans. And even though Nicko wasn't quite himself, I'll always have super positive memories of the two shows I saw.
Then again, maybe it's best to leave those as memories....
Which is odd considering they were such a guarantee for so many tours. I also assume Nicko not being 100% is a likely explanation.I'd love to have some kind of documentation of this tour though. It's a tad ironic that they revisited the SIT era, a piece of their history that the band acknowledges was overlooked and under documented and then they....don't release a live album from this tour.
The 2 shows I saw last November were some of my very favorite Maiden shows of all time. So many new and classic songs I never thought I'd ever hear live all jammed into one show. It really felt like a tour for the die hard fans. And even though Nicko wasn't quite himself, I'll always have super positive memories of the two shows I saw.
Then again, maybe it's best to leave those as memories....
Patrick92
Ancient Mariner
Nights of the Dead was such a mistake. They should have just kept their cool and released that proper and finished instead of a shitty mixed bootleg
I still want a proper video release from the Legacy tour. Im hoping they will release some stuff when they have retired. Vinyls, dvds and stuff from back in the day and from recent tours
I still want a proper video release from the Legacy tour. Im hoping they will release some stuff when they have retired. Vinyls, dvds and stuff from back in the day and from recent tours
gazda
Ancient Mariner
They have soundboard recording form every tour since 1990 I belive. Some versions from the B-sides are proof that those are decent recordings, better than Nights of Dead for sure.
From the video side, only if Steve will not edit that. Few days back I watched Death on the Road again. My god, such a terrible edit.
From the video side, only if Steve will not edit that. Few days back I watched Death on the Road again. My god, such a terrible edit.
dickinson1978
Ancient Mariner
I think we will have live recordings during years
Is nights of the dead that bad? I never listened to it, don't even know what your it is.
They don't need to release full concerts anymore. I'd be happy with a pro shot version of caught somewhere in time (Nicko was always fine in that one) on YouTube, Alexander and a few others. Like they did with Stranger.
They don't need to release full concerts anymore. I'd be happy with a pro shot version of caught somewhere in time (Nicko was always fine in that one) on YouTube, Alexander and a few others. Like they did with Stranger.
Vaenyr
Ancient Mariner
It's the LOTB 2019 set featuring a sick Bruce (because of course they chose such a show).
The setlist is great. Nicko's drumming is and sounds brilliant.
The production fucking sucks though. It has many of the same issues Book of Souls Live Chapter had, in addition to a sick Bruce.
Any part where the crowd is singing along (the chorus in Wicker Man, Aces High, the "hey"s in Revelations, parts of FOTD) are entirely unintelligible. Seriously, even if you know how the melody is supposed to go, you can't hear what the audience is singing. You just hear crowd noise. The "hey"s are particularly egregious because they sound as if someone triggered a shotgun blast in a cathedral and recorded it from outside. I have no idea how it is possible to mangle audience recordings with modern equipment to such a degree where you genuinely can't tell what they are singing and shouting anymore.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Didn’t Bruce get sick AFTER the Mexico shows? At least that is what I remember being mentioned at the official Fan Club forum back then.
The production is pretty weak and the fake audience sound is abysmal.
Vaenyr
Ancient Mariner
Could be, I'm not sure! Didn't keep up too much with them at that time. I read somewhere that he was sick, which would explain his... performance on that album. If he was healthy that's another level of yikes though.