Legacy of the Beast Tour 2018 - CONTAINS SPOILERS

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Yeah, Dance of Death sounds quite bad. The Final Frontier is also lifeless. Brave New World and AMOLAD are good.
 
Number 6 said:
I might be alone in this, but I enjoy his production job on Maiden's albums. Brave New World sounds very fresh, crisp and clear, and the drum sound in A Matter of Life and Death might be the best drum sound in any album I've ever heard. The Dance of Death production has grown on me and now it doesn't bother me at all, and The Final Frontier and The Book of Souls aren't bad either.
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The albums sound great on CD, but if you have really good headphones TBOS comes off as hollow. Hence I stick to my physical copy.

Edit: Actually this is true of all of them except possibly BNW.
 
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I would accept that argument if album tours featured just songs from the newest album. "The Trooper", for example, appears everywhere, including album tours, which makes it much more overplayed than "Aces High". "The Evil That Men Do" has appeared in more tours than "Aces High", and no one's talking about that.

About it being an "unimaginative opener", I don't know exactly what gives that impression (I myself used to think like you do), but it has only opened 2 tour before this one since 1999. There were about 2 history tours during this period (3, if you count the 2010 leg of the Final Frontier Tour) which didn't feature "Aces High" at all, plus in the Maiden England Tour it didn't show up until the encores. So no, it's not actually overplayed (neither as an opener, nor even as a standard song in the set).
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Aces High isn’t overplayed but it doesn’t usually work as well because Bruce can’t hit the notes. From what I’ve heard on this tour though, it sounds like he might finally have nailed it.
 
From what I heard he sounded quite amazing on first show. Maybe it’s true, maybe fans are so hyped that they don’t care if he miss a note or ten. Either way given his age and cancer history it’s still amazing to hear him perform so well.
 
Flying monkeys with flamethrowers. That would be mind blowing.

I'll wait for more shows to see how good this tour is but now I'm still hyped like hell. On other note - they seem to be in pretty good shape on first show, that's not so common from what I saw on earlier tours - question is how they did it?
 
CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
Solo proper starts at ~02:36 (not "2:15") and sounds pretty like the album version.

Laziest complaint of the thread so far? :p
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He plays the neoclassical part different from the record (as he has always done), but he’s also just playing a legato flurry of notes a la Dave in the section right after it.

I know this solo, and that is a very, very simplified way of playing it. Check your facts before calling out laziness.
 
Meliegree said:
Flying monkeys with flamethrowers. That would be mind blowing.

I'll wait for more shows to see how good this tour is but now I'm still hyped like hell. On other note - they seem to be in pretty good shape on first show, that's not so common from what I saw on earlier tours - question is how they did it?
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If they usually get better with each concert does this mean by #4 they will blow our minds far more than they’ve already been blown?
 
Meliegree said:
question is how they did it?
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Based on the setlist, I think this tour required more rehearsals than usual. They pulled off 5 songs they hadn't done in 15+ years, plus the new props which they probably had to test on rehearsals as well. Other tours mostly featured more classic staples that didn't require that much practice.
 
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Oh and I must admit that I was wrong. In earlier thread about tour I said that "Revelations" are boring etc. this video:
(posted some time ago in this thread) changed my mind. I like it. Not love but now I'll stay and listen instead of walking out in search of cold beer.

Oh, there it is - FTGGOG!
 
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MrKnickerbocker said:
He plays the neoclassical part different from the record (as he has always done), but he’s also just playing a legato flurry of notes a la Dave in the section right after it.

I know this solo, and that is a very, very simplified way of playing it. Check your facts before calling out laziness.
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Pff, you're the one who called H lazy for literally no good reason. Sounds better than the album version to me.
 
Theres been some comments about how great Bruce sounds etc, but one thing i was worried more - Nicko. Age never comes alone but what the heck, he proved me wrong once again. Hope he can keep it up. Thats not easy 2 hours for drummer neither!
 
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