RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 2025 Tour Thread *SPOILERS INSIDE*

Kalata said:
True that, and I suppose there was a reason Hills was used as an encore song in the 80's (probably because the chorus has words), but Trooper's melody and single cover are some of the most iconic in metal. During the 90's they become equal, I guess.

Speaking of the song, I'm not enjoying the song's studio tempo live now, and Simon is playing the verses without the gallop(?). Sorry.
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Trooper?
 
naranja said:
I feel like I agree it's always been a huge staple and a live highlight for many fans (especially those who are seeing them for the first time) but I

Rod I'm ill.

How ill? (Yorkshire accent)

I'm really ill.

You can do it tonight can't you? (Yorkshire accent)

And then I spend the gig just sitting on the drum raiser.

What's he doing on stage! He shouldn't be on stage! (Yorkshire accent)


Paraphrased from the twenty five times I've seen it.
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As a yorkshireman this made me chuckle
 
I know things have moved on and this is purely anecdotal and a very small sample size- but I’ve had a number of youngsters say ‘oh- you like Iron Maiden?! Brah, that song is so hard!’

Then through some digging I learned The Trooper was a song on Rock Band. Not suggesting this is the equivalent of radio airplay but that game has definitely added Maiden to the cultural consciousness of a younger audience.
 
Courbet said:
I know things have moved on and this is purely anecdotal and a very small sample size- but I’ve had a number of youngsters say ‘oh- you like Iron Maiden?! Brah, that song is so hard!’

Then through some digging I learned The Trooper was a song on Rock Band. Not suggesting this is the equivalent of radio airplay but that game has definitely added Maiden to the cultural consciousness of a younger audience.
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I got many of my first experiences with heavy metal and hard rock from Guitar Hero 2 and 3, and the first Rock Band. It came out at the perfect age for me, I got Guitar Hero 3 for my fifteenth birthday. It very much shaped my taste in music, and got me into the older bands of the genre.
 
Courbet said:
I know things have moved on and this is purely anecdotal and a very small sample size- but I’ve had a number of youngsters say ‘oh- you like Iron Maiden?! Brah, that song is so hard!’

Then through some digging I learned The Trooper was a song on Rock Band. Not suggesting this is the equivalent of radio airplay but that game has definitely added Maiden to the cultural consciousness of a younger audience.
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I hope you did the right thing and turned to them and said "So you 'like' Iron Maiden too huh, kid? Alright, name every song on No Prayer for the Dying" and sent him scurrying away.
 
onurb said:
A little proshots from portugal concert...

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Dave Sullivan! Nice to see him again. He didn't expect the band to be this big now.

The sound is better on a pro-shot ofc, but is it just me or the cymbals mix is really low even on that? And will Maiden release one live song, like from every tour, or will they save ''the surprise'' for the full live show released after the tour? I'm still not that sure, tbh. But the band sounds great, so.

Here's a screen recording of Run To The Hills (the stage is quite dark for it) from Madrid. What a crowd! :rocker:

 
onurb said:
A little proshots from portugal concert...




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Thanks for sharing!

I know some people who went to the Madrid and Lisbon shows, including some close friends who had not seen Maiden live since the SBIT tour, and they really liked the show.

They all also mentioned the bad live sound. Pooch, what has happened to you?
 
Kalata said:
Here's a screen recording of Run To The Hills (the stage is quite dark for it) from Madrid. What a crowd! :rocker:
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Maybe im wrong but its dark probably because of phone used is not so good in capture images in a darker place.


GhostofCain said:
They all also mentioned the bad live sound. Pooch, what has happened to you?
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My problem is with the drum sound. Until 2022, it was crystal clear and well-defined. Since future past, it sounds like the kit is behind a wall of mud, lacking definition, dirty. Idk, it does not sound as it should to me.
 
onurb said:
My problem is with the drum sound. Until 2022, it was crystal clear and well-defined. Since future past, it sounds like the kit is behind a wall of mud, lacking definition, dirty. Idk, it does not sound as it should to me.
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I think this could be a combination of 2 things. Nicko's stroke caused him to lose a LOT of power. So I think Pooch needed to compensate that with gates. Full strength Nicko was amazing and the fact is that if you don't hit the drums with intent, they don't sound right and are harder to capture with microphones.

With Simon, I think it's the matter of tuning. Remember, Nick tuned all drums minus bass drum quite high, while using oversized toms in main positions. I think Simon doesn't tune them as high, while still using quite big toms and that results in muddy sound.
 
I am no drummer and have no idea of music theory or whatever but I am not yet deaf. Nicko had a big kit, rolls, fills, everything sound different in a big kit, in Simon's small kit it's like the sound does not change. No matter the roll or the fill every hit sounds the same. Might be wrong, but the songs sound different to me.
 
Today, I was at a bar in Athens to see Alice Cooper's band members live.
The size of the drum kit doesn't always matter. Glen Sobel ( the drummer of the band) played in a small kit (not his own) and he killed it. I haven't seen a better drummer live. In general the band was so tight. They played everything from Metallica and Motorhead to Alice Cooper and Cheap Trick and some punk.
 
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