Then at his own shows this year, he played 10 songs from his current band, 4 songs from the BLAZE days, and just 2 Maiden tracks (Man on the Edge and Futureal), so it's not like he is turning into D'iAnno 2.0 fully...
At festivals it's the Maiden set now days usually. Perhaps that's what promoters are asking for. He has actually done a lot of festivals in recent years, and perhaps it's easier to get a gig if it's mainly an Iron Maiden set, and the money is probably decent. It's allowing him to pay his...
In the beginning I think all of them were positive:
https://bravewords.com/news/nicko-mcbrain-reflects-on-blaze-bayley-s-time-fronting-iron-maiden-there-were-nights-when-he-sang-his-cotton-socks-off-and-it-was-brilliant-and-there-were-a-lot-of-other-nights-where-it-wasn-t-so-hot-video
Ghost of the Navigator
Brave New World
Dance of Death
These Colours Don't Run
The Final Frontier (but skip Satellite 15)
The Book of Souls.
Could add If Eternity Should Fail as well, but I think that's for a Bruce solo tour.
I think more famous metal bands like Megadeth can tour on their own now and therefore don't need Maiden these days, but in 1999 things were different. Also Dio had it rough back in 1998, and followed Maiden with Blaze around North America.
The band not playing an encore at Rio de Janeiro 1998, despite an enthusiastic audience. The rest of the band also went to the dressing room in this moment without informing Blaze that the show was over. That was just mean.
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