Recent content by 2M2M

As fairly obvious by my screen name here - 2 minutes to midnight is a simple but mean riff, and it stands as my favourite iron maiden riff. Maybe not from a technical stand point, not maybe even a creative stand point. But from the pure heart feeling to hearing that riff. I think maybe it was on...

Funny you mention Simon Phillips - I was thinking he would have been a great drummer in Maiden, at least had the right size kit for it! ( I don't mind Simon Dawson at all, but I did feel his playing lacked explosiveness which is the term I can think of for Nicko's playing)

Yeah sorry I should have rephrased it a bit better. I had actually typed out that Davey used Victory & Fender amps on BOS and H used Blackstars too but then ended up not posting that haha.. I was more so meaning that H Davey and Jan don't seem to go sit in a room of rare and vintage amps and go...

I wonder if those amps have genuinely been sat unused since early 80s? From what I've gathered in the past all the studio records haven generally just been the live gear with maybe a different 'new' amp here and there

To be fair, I’ve just seen a couple of days ago a drummer for a band explaining how he had custom clear pvc drum ‘mats’ because their whole stage is LEDs. So it can be done.

Unrelated specifically to Eddfest - but I noticed while watching a YouTube video of one of the recent shows, shot from higher up in the side-stands. There is no floor design on the stage - is this a first in a long time for Maiden? I feel like up until TFP they always had a design on the stage...

Yeah so when he left during start of Hallowed maybe he was just taking a massive leak

I agree! Looks very rock n roll even with just a t shirt!

It seems strange to see H dressed so casually on stage!

Do we think H will bring out the 50th Anniversary Jackson for the USA portion of the tour? I know he had it at home in the US from when he shared a few videos earlier in the year while playing it - so figure that's why it's not shown up on the EU tour so far. And I do wonder if Jackson made him...

I don't think they would do a live album instead of a studio album - the work the band themselves do wouldn't really overlap other than maybe approving the final mix/video cut. If the Paris show had gone perfectly (or even as it has gone now) - they could easily have that mixed and mastered by...

It's interesting how everyone seems to think the sound quality would be way different if they took that from another show - sound should be the same general level of quality, I would think every show is recorded the same way across the tour. Maybe from a video perspective it would differ - in...

I was reading back over the 2026 initial tour announcement post on the band's Instagram, and it is always worth pointing out that they didn't say specifically the band was going to take 2027 off entirely, it just said they were taking a break from the road. I think that could be interpreted a...

On further inspection, it's not the same one H is using - H's is 22 frets, and this one is 24. Looks to be almost the same spec though!

Here's a shot of the Lado (most likely - as in, I don't know if it's actually H's Lado) - I saw it posted on the 2026 tour thread by @sea.of.madness.1986 - I'm unsure where the photo originates though! Perhaps you can advise?