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I have one complaint: no mechanical or inflatable Eddie during Iron Maiden. Other than that the whole show is glorious (in Helsinki at least).

I don't know guys. Some songs might be played a tad slower, I always prefer physical backdrops to video screens and I'm sure Dickinson has sung Aces High much better at some point in his career, but I had an absolute blast last night. Sang so much almost lost my voice. There is no other band...

I'm under the impression that Bruce equals tuning down to using backing tracks and teleprompters.

I'd go as far as to say that the best way to experience any show is indoors.

Ok, boomer.

To include Fear of the Dark (song). Otherwise it would be "from Iron Maiden to Seventh Son of a Seventh Son". They're gonna lean on Powerslave and earlier whereas SBIT was Powerslave onwards.

Sure, but couldn't the relentless stream of the band's most known songs be considered a "set for the ages" for mostly casual audiences?

Yeah, the last tour was for the hardcores. This one will be a greatest hits tour like no other, like Dickinson himself said.

On a greatest hits tour? I can already imagine the deafening silence from casuals and people with company brought tickets when Maiden hits the opening guitar melody of Holy Smoke.

I gather that there's on big screen (which is not yet in its place in the picture) and two smaller screens on the sides. Regular platform with space for drums in the middle. The spectacular aspect could very well be animated videos in the background. After all on FP tour the images were mostly...

Or "blow people's minds" by starting with it?

Hear hear!

I don't know. You could argue that these are the "must-haves" for a pure greatest hits tour from the first nine albums: The Number of the Beast Run to the Hills Iron Maiden The Trooper Fear of the Dark Wasted Years 2 Minutes to Midnight Aces High Hallowed Be Thy Name Can I Play With Madness The...

I would pay good money to hear Kari Vepsä sing Aces High.

Tape: Ides of March 1. The Number of the Beast 2. Wrathchild 3. 2 Minutes to Midnight 4. Children of the Damned 5. Wasted Years 6. The Trooper 7. Rime of the Ancient Mariner 8. Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter 9. Phantom of the Opera 10. Hallowed Be Thy Name 11. The Evil That Men Do 12...