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All in all, I think we'll see 60 dates in total for Senjutsu next year and then the band will go on break until late-2024 (new album?) I recognize the end is near, but lately I've been thinking the end's not as close as we might think it is.

Ah, yes, the "Nicko needs to sleep in his own bed" gig. :D

Off the top of my head... 91-92? Don't think Ed Hunter or TBoS 2016 would count.

Been to a Kiss concert where they were playing in their standard Eb tuning and then again a few years later when they went another step down to help Paul Stanley. Worst sounding performance I ever heard - and it wasn't the mix.

I'm worried if Maiden were to downtune some of the songs would turn into a sludgy mess. If you asked me, I'd rather have 14-15 songs in the normal tuning than 16 songs in a lower tuning.

Has to make a profit though. In terms of production costs and band salaries and all of that fun stuff, it'd be hard to do that in a theater capacity without gouging the hell out of your fans. If it's a tour of smaller venues, I can see them getting in and getting out of the continent with ~10 dates.

That's what I don't get about the complaints about song selection, they said all along it was going to be the LotB set with some Senjutsu cuts added into it. Surely folks weren't expecting Maiden to be cranking out a 19-song set in 2022? I get the critique on the "Some songs being swapped out...

Yeah, I'm not hearing an awful performance at all. Better than Zagreb. Much better. If it keeps playing like that, I'd see no reason to move it from closer.

That was a funny video to watch. I thought he said "Fuck it, I'm going home" after the staredown with Adrian and Steve or something like that.

Well, they're definitely not playing like a band that's knocking on the door of retirement. That's for sure. Regarding Bruce, if you're out of gas on the last song of the night, okay, I get it. If you're out of gas on song #2, then you've got a problem.

Doesn't sound bad on RTTH there.

Like Tokyo 2016 where he totally forgot the mic or did it go flying into the audience? LOL

Really for North America, the markets that are kind of looking like duds at the moment are the ones I figured would've been duds - Tulsa, Sioux Falls and Greensboro. Bit surprised the show on Long Island's a bit slow at the moment, but Newark the next night is very close to sold out.

Just looking at the seat maps for the North American dates, it looks like sales are picking up - enough to prompt me into action to finally grab my seats for Chicago. Austin and Denver are cruising towards sellouts, opening night in El Paso's been sold out, Tulsa's still a little bit slow so I'm...

Of course Bruce tied his hair back in a samurai bun. :D

Nicko: "I don't even hit it during the show!" Charlie: "Wanker."

If we get a set reshuffle, I don't think we'd see it until the Lithuania gig as the band/crew have five days off (well, not really for the crew.) I think the crew would probably need to do a rehearsal of sorts to set up/take down the various bits of the show in a different order.

No.

I do think it was funny just how short his pre-Blood Brothers speech was. It's like, my God, you just spent three years going around the world talking for two hours a night non-stop and now suddenly you don't want to talk anymore? :D

Which isn't all bad. Him hobbling about in 2019 on one good leg was still better than a lot of other frontmen out there today.