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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.

I could see 2MTM being swapped for TETMD since Steve wants to play it and it's been out of the set since 2019, so the exact same amount of time as 2MTM was before last year. It'd also shorten the set by a few minutes which could be used to keep the length similar if Clairvoyant is indeed...

The Donington DVD was also intended to be supplemented with performances from 2006 to cover the entire AMOLAD album since we saw Steve working on the mix for The Longest Day on Flight 666. It's a crying shame it ended up getting shelved. I know people talk about the footage being bad or other...

Nah I'm gonna go the opposite way with my delusions: it's because they've changed the setlist and are getting a headstart on locking the rhythm section in since Steve wasn't going to the premiere anyway. Janick's presence is incidental because he's got nothing better to do. Infinite Dreams...

I'm pretty sure Shirley's used bass drum samples at least on some tracks for all of the albums he's produced, including the live mixes. TBOS and Senjutsu might be the ones with the least obvious sample use, but Isle of Avalon for example is downright blatant in an otherwise pretty shoddy...

I would say Dave really started to come back in 2023 and last year he was on top form. '23 was obviously everyone playing their ass off because of Nicko, but last year seems like they seriously focused on performance above all, since we also saw arrangement changes in songs like Phantom to bring...

I still can't believe the tour called Run for Your Lives doesn't have the song said line is from as the last encore so each gig would literally end on "run for your lives". If they didn't stick Aces High in the encore I could almost believe it was so Bruce could deliver a better performance, but...

Senjutsu. I don't necessarily rate it all that much honestly, but I feel TBOS simply has too many moments that are utterly lackluster and songs that are at best okay. Most of the songs on Senjutsu are massively bloated and there's two I kinda despise (LIALW especially, Darkest Hour mostly...

Imagine they get inducted and it's Blaze, Dennis Stratton and ol' Nick up there accepting the award since nobody else wanted to go or was able to due to obvious circumstances.

I'd be incredibly happy with a change like AH to DWYBO or something similarly uptempo that hasn't been played to death lately. Not just because AH frankly sounds awful, but because it's been done so much better so many times now it's frankly baffling Rod or someone demands it to be in the set...

2027 will likely be a bit of a test for Steve in particular. If he doesn't mind being entirely free of Maiden-related tour and studio commitments and finds himself content with life, I doubt he'll have any enthusiasm left for a new studio project or an extensive tour. If it turns out to be...

It's not like there wasn't space on the disc for both. I prefer Pit, it's different and weird and honestly a bit silly but in a fun way.

Simply announcing a "unique, one-of-a-kind show with a very special setlist" or whatever PR speak you could use would probably make people who otherwise aren't interested in Knebworth reconsider, even if it ended up that all they did was play a few rarities as one-offs. The bigger issue however...

I dunno, some of Nicko's worst nights from last year in Australia for example were even worse if you ask me, because him being totally off his game very nearly derailed entire songs like Fear. It was so bad management actually went for the it never happened strategy and forced people to take...

For some reason this kinda got ignored, but for everyone here: you should probably check out Nicko's drumming. He's basically done the impossible and recovered to the point it's genuinely fucking crazy and suddenly any suggestion of him playing a single show with the band in Florida doesn't seem...

It could've been included...but it would've been played at a ludicrous tempo and probably sounded half as good at best with Bruce skipping or shortening lines etc. to get a breath in, and it might've even gotten dropped mid-tour. Those years spent not playing the song is what gave both parties...

He'll say he made a "moral contribution" to Children of the Damned, RTTH and The Prisoner. He'll forget to mention Gangland, as usual.

I don't really have much of an opinion on the topic, but OTGDY is miles better than ATG. Apples and oranges since the only thing in common between the two is they're both the last track on their respective albums, but it's not exactly like ATG vs. SSOASS is going to end up as anything short of a...

See him saying Aces High was a bit much as an encore in some interview, months after he'd hyped the whole thing up to high heaven as the best ever show they did. Still waiting for that country album.