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I know he's a great drummer, he's also 30 years younger than the rest of the band. For many bands that would be ok, such as Rush. Maiden are very conservative and Joe would have been a strange fit. Don't get me wrong if he'd have gotten the gig he'd have done amazing I'm sure. I'm just...

This is why I'm surprised at some of the reactions in here. Anyone following Maiden for any serious length of time shouldn't have been surprised at this appointment. Maiden are safe. They do things in their own slow, repetitive and predictable way. They value reliability and routine above just...

Mate who are you trying to convince? How many hate posts will get it out your system. Nobody thinks Simon is amazing. Everyone knows it's a huge downgrade but Maiden are all about 70 years old. What do you expect them to sound like?

I didn't really mean cobbles together as a negative. It just is what it is at this point, through no fault of their own they are having to adjust to circumstances. It's a shame but getting any sort of official release is still good news. I'd love a proper video from Future's Past, cobbled or...

They won't fly around the world, do weeks of rehearsals and gather the full crew required for a couple of shows. The Maiden machine moves very slowly so if there really is nothing planned for next year at this point, I can't see anything happening at all that involves the whole band. Of course...

That's getting a bit laboured now, bringing it onto random threads is going to get boring really quickly.

Bruce is being ironic when he says play faster. It felt to me like he was struggling with the speed and probably had mild frustration that was betrayed with his comment. Maybe not very cool to call out his band mates like that, even if in a slightly pointed joke way. But it's not a big deal.

Say on the video... You all know what happened. The bits we got are great and you want to see them so here they are. It sort of feels easy when you put it like that.

When I say lack of potential it's something we all have to face as we get older. The fact is Maiden doesn't have years of adventures and new stories ahead. I always found it so exciting thinking about what's next but there's just not much more left to see. Again, that's all perfectly natural...

Very true but it did at least feel like a proper Maiden tour if you know what I mean. But I suppose they've been a bit of a corporate monster for a long time, it's just moving away from new material and album tours makes it a bit harder to defend.

Yeah we've been in that nostalgia bit for a while and it's definitely well earned. There's very little scope to do much outside of that space, nothing that they can currently point to that says they're still a vibrant creative force. That lack of potential makes it all feel a bit weird and...

On the idea of why it feels different and maybe why people here in particular have mixed feelings, I wonder if it's just that this is a tour that doesn't feel like it's for us, it's for the casuals? It doesn't have that underground, all in it together, Maiden feel. The truth is we might just...

Even ear plugs take some getting used to. It really throws off your equilibrium so I do get it. But it's starting to feel more and more like Maiden's inherent stubbornness will be what ultimately does them in. It's their biggest strength and weakness. I just wish they didn't choose to die on...

I can easily imagine Bruce finding IEMs difficult. Suppose it's a bit of an Old Dogs New Tricks thing as well, would be a big change after such a long career. IEMs change your entire sense of yourself and the stage. All the natural acoustics and vibes are gone and replaced with something that...

We live, in the UK at least, in a multicultural society. The vast majority of racists don't get the "luxury" of choosing who they work with. There are also degrees of racism. It's one thing to hold sympathetic views to right wing racist ideology, it's another thing altogether to say I'm never...

Quest for fire Another life Sun and Steel Let's do the 90s next

I think you've probably summed it up very well there. If the best we can say is there's a good balance between long and short songs and some long songs have interesting parts, it's a bit damning with faint praise. It just has no fire or intensity. It feels like Maiden without much to say...

This is sounding a lot like the Metallica debate. Ozzy as a brand is waaaay bigger than Maiden could ever hope to be..but it has nothing to do with music. And, yeah, it's fair to say that's on Sharon's management. But what I'm struggling to see is why that would be considered a good thing. Fair...

This is probably my favourite ever Maiden gig. I did the FC bus which took an absolute eternity but we were rewarded with an upgraded hotel which was really too nice for the dirty band of Maiden fans who invaded. I remember Nijmegen being beautiful, Bruce being at his most aggressive, berating...

Actually, save yourself the bother and watch someone else play it