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Run For Your Lives Tour, but Iron Maiden use the Dream Theater/Metallica policy of playing different setlists when they do multiple shows in the same place. So, Setlist 1 would be what we got, Setlist 2 something like: "The Ides of March" + "Be Quick Or Be Dead" "Purgatory" "22 Acacia Avenue"...

I stand corrected: it definitely was Purgatory—or better said, its original version "Floating".

Is this screecher Wilcock? No wonder Dave roughed him up.

No I meant, the actual melody played by the bass. It's different from what Steve plays on Burning Ambition. ??? This is the same video you linked before.

Sounds more like a very raw version of the post-solo melody of Burning Ambition — if it is Iron Maiden: the bass doesn't match.

Avril Lavigne last summer with a SBIT t-shirt: (Tho maybe not the strangest of places since she's been on record multiple times praising Iron Maiden among others).

And here's Voldemort lip-syncing to The Number of the Beast:

Most songs featured in videogames by a metal artist: 51 songs in 15 different games, including their own Ed Hunter and Legacy of the Beast, Guitar Hero and Rock Band (but not Brütal Legend), Tony Hawk 4 (where Eddie also appeared as a secret skater) and GTA: Vice City (but not including DLCs, so...

Just randomly found this. One of Wailing Banshee's guitarists uses the Dave Murray Signature Strat 1st Series. They say in the comments that Iron Maiden are a big influence for them—although the main riff sounds more Running Wild-ish to me. The camera movements are reminding of the official...

It seems that all of a sudden this song became controversial, but I can't see the problem with the 'Beat her, mistreat her' lyrics if you put them in their correct context. The storytelling just changes perspective, and there clearly are two people telling the tale. The song begins with an...

And another in the catalogue. Not releasing a live album from Days of Future Past Tour was criminal.

Oh: Still life too. And Prodigal Son, though — played/not played debate aside — it seems that it became quite the divisive tune (I heard people calling it "one of the worst IM songs").

Yes the lyrics (and their delivering) and the final solo are by far the best elements. I'm largely partial to this song tho, I love it and especially the "a spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission" line, but objectively speaking it isn't near their best works like Tom Sawyer, Limelight...

Someone's been down the Rush-bit hole recently. Hard agree on Bravado, underrated gem. Hemispheres has both the best and the second best guitar riffs of their career. And the feedback that closes Limelight's solo will ring beyond eternity. But any comment for Mission that isn't "masterpiece"...

Late in the game but this sums it up in general. I can understand leaving Another Life (hideous song) or Charlotte the Harlot behind, or Innocent Exile (tho I love the tune), but it's a shame that the likes of Prowler, Sanctuary, Drifter, REMEMBER TOMORROW disappeared from setlists after 2005...