I didn’t get tickets for this tour. The first kick in the nuts was reading that they’re opening the shows with my all time favorite song (Xanadu). The second kick in the nuts was watching the YouTube videos and realizing that Geddy’s voice sounds better than it has in 30 years. Fuck.
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My first (sort of) Yes concert was also in DC, it was Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe at Constitution Hall:
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/anderson-bruford-wakeman-howe/1990/dar-constitution-hall-washington-dc-1bc80940.html
Satellite 15 is rather boring. As is most of the first half of TFF.
But El Dorado is a catchy rocker. And everything beginning with and after Isle of Avalon is gloriously triumphant.
I haven’t rolled up the actual numbers but it’s interesting that it seems to me that for the majority of the posters in this thread their first IM concert was Xfactour.
I’m not sure what happened there with all the underlined and bold font, but that song is definitely Top 5 Maiden.
And we all know that Somewhere in Time is the all time best IM album
Without going into too much detail, my favorite 5 in order:
1. The Red and the Black
2. The Great Unknown
3. The Book of Souls
4. Shadows of the Valley
5. Empire of the Clouds
My first IM show I was a 15 year old kid and things got a bit feisty, some even called it a riot, but it was mostly standard drunk 80s festivities.
It was Somewhere on Tour and much later (2017) I recapped it on a hockey fan message board. These were my recollections:
I was there.
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