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I was about to complain about H still using whatever ancient 80s technology for switching sound considering the incredible audible delay when he goes to the solo sound in Infinite Dreams, but apparently he's upgraded to at the very least 00s technology and cut the delay down to a reasonable...

Funny you bring up En Vivo, since I seem to recall one of main complaints about that tour's setlist and thus also the live album's was that it was incredibly uninspired since it was very similar to Rock in Rio besides the new songs and Dance of Death and Running Free (and with the interesting...

Yeah, it was horrendous at the first few shows, where it was right before Fear and then moved up one song to be before TETMD. He was apparently sick too for a while on that leg, but for once recovered in time for En Vivo so we (thankfully) got some absolutely stunning professionally mixed...

Nah. Bruce's peak was in the late 90s. He had a powerful voice, massive range and consistency, real vibrato technique and could easily keep it up for an entire show, with an encore of such easy songs as NotB, Hallowed and RTTH. He had a decade of absolutely stunning performances if you look at...

It's not even that. It's nature! Everyone's voice naturally lowers as they age (until a point anyway) and singers in particular have to come to terms that their vocal cords simply aren't as elastic as they used to be when they're past their 20s. Bruce used to understand the value of technique...

Aces High sounds so fucking awful on the first night of the tour it's genuinely mystifying they did nothing about it. Like excising it from the set or playing the encore in Eb or something. We had a better chance than normal since the last time Bruce sung Wasted Years was in Eb for his special...

So where's all the people who said they'd totally change another song if they were adding Infinite Dreams because they've never not done that before? I saw some gloating over the nonbelievers on account of ID getting played, but I'm gloating over all the believers here myself.

Yeah and they've never premiered a new song live after its original album tour, until 2023. They've never returned to a song they dropped mid-tour previously, until 2017 and 2018 if you consider Wrathchild a special exception. Assigning rules to Maiden at this stage of their career is stupid...

I really, really don't understand where this bizarre expectation Aces High was going anywhere came from. We went from assuming the set was staying the same until Bruce very specifically teased Infinite Dreams somewhat out of nowhere, straight to "Aces High is obviously out" despite literally...

You might have a point if this hadn't already happened two times before in an enclosed arena, since it's not like those are exactly soundproof. e: Technically thrice, I forgot about last year. But last year we actually had some false reports about DWYBO IIRC alongside SSOASS etc.

Honestly I feel like they were a bit heavy-handed with the tease this time. This is probably the one time not saying anything beforehand would've actually made sense since I don't think anyone was realistically expecting setlist changes for the second leg until Bruce started hinting at it. I...

Considering this is the first and only example where they altered the background in a way that incidentally obscures the Spitfire, I'm not exactly holding my breath for it meaning anything. If it was a hint, they would've removed it entirely. Instead it looks like a case of sloppy background...

I think the bigger problem was, will be, and will be forever enshrined as it's a festival of sorts with no real killer support acts. It's like they had most of the blueprint down but when it came time to execute, management balked at the idea of getting multiple festival grade acts to support...

AH is extra dumb since unless both Bruce and Steve were blatantly lying, they didn't even want to play it. So they should've just went "no" when Rod suggested it and ended the discussion there. Instead we got the stupidest timeline where it's the encore opener both because it's been done to...

I'm still a bit mad the original plan was very likely they'd play it and The Fallen Angel as the bonus tracks for the Rock in Rio show/live album but instead replaced them with fucking RTTH.