RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 2026

I was just watching a video of Infinite Dreams live this year. They are crushing it. It’s a shame I am missing this year, but I can’t justify it at the moment.

I just have remind myself that I have been incredibly privileged over the years to see them perform some of my favourite songs over the years. The Book of Souls, Sign of the Cross, Flight of Icarus, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Legacy and Hell on Earth have all been particular highlights.
 
Yeah I think at this point I've seen most of my favourite songs live, too. The Future Past and the Legacy tours really helped with that.
 
After 30 years of seeing them live, I do not think I have any real favourites that I have yet to see them play. It would be nice to see Infinite Dreams, but like @Ascendingthethrone, I cannot really justify to spend a huge amount of money to go to Eddfest just to tick that one off the list of songs I have not seen live.

I cannot really complain. I have seen all my favourite Maiden songs live. If someone would have told me in 1998 that we would have a long and successful reunion in which the band would be playing live songs that had not been played since the mid-80s, I would have thought they were pulling my leg. The Prisoner, Children of the Damned, Revelations, Flight of Icarus and Powerslave are the highlights to me.
 
I think a lot of the wierdness is definitely due to seeing Eddie & Boys start the "final lap" of it all. I think the loss of time due to COVID shifted them more into the very sterile/corporate/this is a production kind of feel to things. Then as the band picks back up and rolls with trying to claw back on track, everything goes down with Nicko and his health (Add in the extra drama of that one dude Lazarus? That is a pretty damn good Nicko copycat, was at least in some way on retainer for the band to mark off legal needs due to Nicko's age). No doubt all of that combined into a shitty-soup of stress, concerns, and questions about the future.

Naturally, those sort of conditions often result in a retro-active shift towards structure, rigidness, and a very sterialized/squeeky clean business. Its no secret the boy's twilight years have been squandered by things, and its amazing we can all still go see them. I doubt I'll ever see them all goofing around with that "free" feeling like I saw on TBOS tour, but Im happy they're still up there playing real music
 
Prowler said:
Yeah I think at this point I've seen most of my favourite songs live, too.
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They do a great job with the new album songs and the 80s in general. I would love to see more from the Reunion era and the 90s (ofc), some of my favorites are the likes of Rainmaker, Silent Planet, Wasting Love, No Prayer, Futureal, Parchment.. Big ones? I can say for some, but probably not like Alexander, Empire, Infinite.
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Dave's live version of his RTTH solo (especially the last lick) is effective.
 
Poto said:
Infinite Dreams was the last big one for me.
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Be quick or be dead one of the best openers and they just played it for 1 tour and a half becuase it was like they extended the tour. But sometimes i think they could play it really slow and that song like aces could sound really soft.
 
FeelLikeIveForumedBefore said:
I think a lot of the wierdness is definitely due to seeing Eddie & Boys start the "final lap" of it all. I think the loss of time due to COVID shifted them more into the very sterile/corporate/this is a production kind of feel to things. Then as the band picks back up and rolls with trying to claw back on track, everything goes down with Nicko and his health (Add in the extra drama of that one dude Lazarus? That is a pretty damn good Nicko copycat, was at least in some way on retainer for the band to mark off legal needs due to Nicko's age). No doubt all of that combined into a shitty-soup of stress, concerns, and questions about the future.

Naturally, those sort of conditions often result in a retro-active shift towards structure, rigidness, and a very sterialized/squeeky clean business. Its no secret the boy's twilight years have been squandered by things, and its amazing we can all still go see them. I doubt I'll ever see them all goofing around with that "free" feeling like I saw on TBOS tour, but Im happy they're still up there playing real music
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They sound different,apart of simon. They sound more clear dont know why i dont say that is bad becuase you can hear everything perfect but i miss that raw live sound. Maybe indoors theyll sound diferent. But as i saw in this tour and in the videos i feel the same. But i enjoyed for sure. They are still one of the greatest live bands.
 
GhostofCain said:
After 30 years of seeing them live, I do not think I have any real favourites that I have yet to see them play. It would be nice to see Infinite Dreams, but like @Ascendingthethrone, I cannot really justify to spend a huge amount of money to go to Eddfest just to tick that one off the list of songs I have not seen live.

I cannot really complain. I have seen all my favourite Maiden songs live. If someone would have told me in 1998 that we would have a long and successful reunion in which the band would be playing live songs that had not been played since the mid-80s, I would have thought they were pulling my leg. The Prisoner, Children of the Damned, Revelations, Flight of Icarus and Powerslave are the highlights to me.
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There are plenty of reunion era songs I would love to hear live. The only album tours I got to see were TBOS and TFP.
 
Azas said:
Some of my all-time favorites are still waiting for their live debut: Invaders, Gangland, Quest for Fire, Chains of Misery, The Apparition, When Two Worlds Collide, and a few other overlooked masterpieces.
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There's nothing wrong with Invaders or Gangland. Call me crazy but I like Chains of Misery. It even could have been played on American radio if the band name wasn't Iron Maiden IMO.
 
Iron Lurker said:
There's nothing wrong with Invaders or Gangland. Call me crazy but I like Chains of Misery. It even could have been played on American radio if the band name wasn't Iron Maiden IMO.
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I agree. A friend of mine who's mostly familiar with the big classic hits that still got airplay a lot and a more or less random selection of longer tracks (Seventh Son, Isle of Avalon) got himself into a Maiden listening groove after watching the Burning Ambition and Chains of Misery is one of his newfound favourites. "Why isn't this played on the radio?" :D
 
MindRuler said:
More Tea Vicar, Pass The Jam, Roll Over Vic Vella, ...
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Azas said:
Behave. I don’t even dare dream about hearing those gems live.
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How about playing Sheriff of Huddersfield live in 2030 in order to celebrate Rod's 80th birthday?

In all fairness, Bruce's impersonations of Rod are pretty good.

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I was phenomenally strong; pride and ego, my lads, pride and ego is what makes the world rotate.
 
Iron Lurker said:
There's nothing wrong with Invaders or Gangland. Call me crazy but I like Chains of Misery. It even could have been played on American radio if the band name wasn't Iron Maiden IMO.
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I agree that Invaders and Gangland are passable songs. But judging them against Iron Maiden's classic hits doesn't do them any favors.

As for the more experimental songs on Fear of the Dark, I strongly disagree. To my ears, those tracks are very un-Maiden. They sound like the band trying to be something they never really were.

Regarding Virtual XI, I personally rate only three songs as very good to great: Futureal, The Clansman, and The Angel and the Gambler (the short version). Beyond those, the album comes across to me as rather whiny and depressive. That's simply how I hear it. Sorry.

As for Quest for Fire, yes, the lyrics are questionable, but I think the music is good. So in my previous post, the songs from the '80s were simply the usual suspects—the tracks that aren't particularly loved by a large portion of the fanbase.
 
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