Legacy of the Beast Tour 2018 - CONTAINS SPOILERS

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MrKnickerbocker said:
Seriously! Anyone complaining about his current vocals on songs like The Trooper must've been deaf during the 80s.
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I'm not complaining, I just say that his voice is much better now than on the 80's (their heyday, which I think continues and now) and I pointed out the reason... ;)
 
I have listened to the full song and it does not seem to be a problem with the guitar. During the solo Adrian had some mistakes, but came back with a nice improvisation (3:04).

EDIT - he switches from the bridge pickup to the neck pickup, so there was a problem there.

 
mihai said:
I have listened to the full song and it does not seem to be a problem with the guitar. During the solo Adrian had some mistakes, but came back with a nice improvisation (3:04).

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Probably a monitoring issue. Adrian was just frustrated with that and threw the guitar to the floor.
 
Ian Anderson, one of those who inspired Steve and Bruce long long ago, has well put it: there is no such thing as a perfect live performance. You do one thing correct but another goes beyond your control. Just so many variables o_O
 
GhostofCain said:
Anyway, Adrian was not as pissed off as in Lisbon in 2013. Check what he does at the end of his solo...

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I think that was also a monitoring issue. There is nothing wrong with the guitar.

Considering how much of a perfectionist he is, I think he is rarely satisfyed with his in-ear sound, but if it's really really bad, he gets pissed like this. I remember in Ft. Lauderdale in 2016, he spent half of TBOS backstage, because he had trouble with his in-ears.
 
I think H is that type of guy who gets very frustrated when things aren't going as planned. I don't see Dave or Jan expressing in such ways.
 
Well, I watched an interview with Phil X (Bon Jovi) lately and he said that there can be problems (especially with monitoring) that you can hide from the audience, but can be more frustrating than something like a guitar going out of tune or breaking the string. It happens, even with all this new technology.

Phil said that when they played RIR in 2013, his in-ears were cutting in and out during the whole set, so he basically played half of the show without any monitoring. But the audience didn't notice, because he kept going like nothing's happening.

Considering that these days the guitar levels on stage with Maiden are pretty low, I think that a thing like this (in-ears cutting out/an uncontrollable buzz in them) could flip the anger switch with H.
 
Eep! It's definitely a monitoring issue. The solos sound fine in both videos (recent and 2013). If a string broke, you'd hear it. If the guitar was out of tune, you'd hear it, even in these potato recordings.

Adrian is, dare I say it, being a bit snitty here.

You're playing live, shit happens, roll with it. I've played plenty of gigs with shit monitors, bad sound guys, etc, but it only becomes a bad show when the audience knows the on-stage sound is bad.
 
Again, he switches the pickups around 3:05 in the Wicker Man video. Most likely, there was something wrong with the bridge humbucker that he didn't like. But yeah, kinda overreaction.

Also, there's the commercial aspect - someone could think twice to buy a signature guitar that is smashed on stage by the artist himself.
 
mihai said:
Again, he switches the pickups around 3:05 in the Wicker Man video. Most likely, there was something wrong with the bridge humbucker that he didn't like. But yeah, kinda overreaction.

Also, there's the commercial aspect - someone could think twice to buy a signature guitar that is smashed on stage by the artist himself.
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It isn't. The guitar sounds fine until the end of the song. He also uses the same guitar for Icarus, TETMD and Hallowed in the same concert.
 
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