I think it depends on how longer they go for after this one.
The docuseries "The History Of Iron Maiden" was scrapped after Maiden England. So, a lot can change in 10 years. Now it ends with Adrian saying "...and a year later, I wasn't in a band." and will likely not be continued.
My biggest worry is that a lot will be left out since it seems it is a movie and not a series.
Agreed.
There wasn't exactly a fourth history re-release DVD to attach part four of the documentary to anyway. Don't think it's a huge mystery why it was never finished, they ran out of shit to put out.
Donington '92 is definitely one of their popular and biggest shows and the setlist is classics. Raising Hell is probably something they don't want to re-release. It would have sold well, Maiden fans like such stuff. DVDs aren't what they used to (back then it was better), but I think Maiden stopped releasing them earlier. If not for them, put videos on YouTube for free. That's it now, right.
I lean to that way of thinking too but then the Maiden England doc was half assed compared to the depth and production values of the previous 2 so maybe they were already acutely aware of falling dvd sales. Either way, it's a damn shame.
Yeah. Indeed a shame, imagine we could have gotten documentaries about the Reunion era too (especially for BNW and the big comeback).
They should have released Maiden England in 2008 or 2009 like originally planned. I would have happily sacrificed the Maiden England tour for more physical media, interviews and content. I thought the tour was ok, but the set list was mostly a big let down. It didn’t need to be a 3 year tour. Just pure laziness and milking.
That was when they were at their laziest, they were even thinking about a short break. ME released in 2008 (SBIT tour was for 3 80's albums after all) would have meant some options for the 2012 tour - early 90's era plus classics (like now), FFTE concept (not that likely because of the 2010 tour, I guess; and LOTB in some way), a proper SIT tour, deep cuts... all in all, 2012 could have been the most interesting if they played
Seventh Son in full.
That's what's boggling my mind about them fully producing Donington 2007, possibly an Early Days live album, and at this point a Future Past live album(?) and just sitting on them as physical media continues to swirl further down the crapper year after year. They're losing potential (monetary) value the longer they wait, so...what's the plan? A big live box set after retirement (which will have repeats of numerous songs, and only be attractive to a handful of completionists? Just throw the money spent (on Donington, at least--the others are theoretical so far as I know) away? Digital only, so they can get 0.00001 cents per stream? Weird.
Well said.
I'd rather take Donington's editing over the clusterfuck that was Death On The Road.
I think it's the other way around for me. LAD is difficult to watch.
They could include the real music videos for Fear of the Dark Live and Hallowed Be Thy Name Live, which would be the most worthwhile footage given you cant even pick up the analogue versions of these
Why haven't they put them on yet?
It's odd, but it is verified that's what happened to the Donington 2007 stuff.
Ullevi 2005 and Download 2013 too, right?
The sound was completely re-edited and re-mastered by Kevin Shirley with the idea of releasing it with the 4th part of the story, but, as I said, it was scrapped, for what I know, because the interest of physical media had lowered.
So they wanted to release LAD '92 plus a shorter documentary, it's not like they don't want to discuss this era. I think in this upcoming new documentary they're going to touch the 90's era. That was after the ME tour, right? The 2014 leg? After TBOS tour? And also, do you happen to know if they were planning a 90's-inspired tour to go along with the re-release like for the 80's concert videos? They released FFTE without a tour.
