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Let's see, this year was... Metallica in Syracuse in April. Ghost here in August. Bruce in Montreal in September. Judas Priest/Alice Cooper here in October. Patti Smith here last week. Paul McCartney three days ago. And I think that's it for this year. Next is probably Ghost in Tulsa in February.

Paul was much better than when I saw him in Seattle three years ago. Was expecting with further age for him to sound even more raspy than he did then, but I think Seattle being the second show after the break for Covid required him to warm up a bit. Then he was left rather exposed during songs...

Loved that doc, so hoping for good things.

The band immediately followed up the Legacy of the Beast with putting out a new album and immediately announcing a European tour in 2023. The press release for the tour made a point that the format would be the same as the previous two tours where the stage set would change during the...

Great show playing Horses in its entirety. I feel like I got ran over by a truck, which is odd because I had nice seated balcony seats.

The shows that eventually get cancelled due to COVID in 2020 do end up getting made up for in early-2022. The band sits on Senjutsu for three whole years before announcing it the day after the final 2022 show in Europe and drop it in Q4 2022. Legacy of the Beast Tour 2018-2019 + Early 2022 Set...

The band takes 2012-2014 off to focus on various solo projects such as Steve forming British Lion. Bruce is off on various business ventures and even goes out to do a solo tour (that he jokingly refers to as the 'Better Late than Never Tour' for Tyranny of Souls.) After the announcement of Bruce...

The Final Frontier World Tour 2010-2011 Set 1 1. Satellite 15... The Final Frontier 2. El Dorado 3. Wrathchild 4. No More Lies -or- The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg -or- These Colours Don't Run 5. Paschendale -or- Brighter Than a Thousand Suns 6. The Trooper 7. When the Wild Wind Blows 8. 2...

Somewhere Back in Time World Tour 2008-2009 Set 1 1. Aces High 2. 2 Minutes to Midnight 3. Wrathchild 4. Children of the Damned 5. Phantom of the Opera 6. The Clairvoyant 7. Revelations 8. The Number of the Beast 9. Heaven Can Wait (w/walk-on Cyborg Eddie) 10. Wasted Years Set 2 11...

A Matter of Life and Death Tour 2006-2007 Set 1 1. Different World 2. These Colours Don't Run 3. Brighter Than a Thousand Suns 4. The Pilgrim 5. The Longest Day 6. Out of the Shadows 7. The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg 8. For the Greater Good of God 9. Lord of Light 10. The Legacy...

What a pity that the writing fell off a cliff for both follow ups with the Broderick-Shawn Drover lineup.

Patti's show is tomorrow. Production holds I guess were released for McCartney today, snagged a ticket on the floor for $200 cheaper than what's going around in the upper bowl on resale. (My wallet's still cussing me out.)

Dance of Death Tour 2003-2004 Set 1 1. Wildest Dreams 2. No More Lies 3. Lord of the Flies 4. 2 Minutes to Midnight 5. Dance of Death 6. Revelations 7. 22 Acacia Avenue -or- Die With Your Boots On 8. The Clansman 9. The Number of the Beast (w/walk-on Grim Reaper Eddie) Set 2 10...

Next series of setlists are going to be a what if on Bruce and Adrian's return, the band went to a setlist format more like Rush where they split the main set into two halves with an encore attached to the second? Going to make this more interesting and also combine setlists of tours (so, Early...

Endgame? Like that one. Like that whole album, actually. About on par with the 80s/early-90s classics for me.