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And what songs did he play (other than the expected Lord of the Flies, which I saw a clip of with Steve-o watching from the side)? It's not up on the ol' setlist.fm yet.

Makes me wonder how much of the "boss" role he's given up in recent years. Getting outvoted for 2027, and clearly he wants to play that song, since he's brought it up a fair few times in interviews. It's probably indicative of nothing, just too many other songs they want to play more/feel...

I'm in the same boat. While Bruce's studio and live versions are technically superior as far as note accuracy, there's something about Blaze's that makes that the version I always come back to. Maybe it's the lack of polish to his voice that makes it more believable that the guy singing is the...

My guess is Simon's about as good as he'll get. He was 66 when he joined, after all, and he's been running (mostly) the same set for the second year. I've only seen a few videos where I really noticed the drums--one was Fear of the Dark, where it was played at about studio speed, which felt odd...

Ugh. I forgot he'd said that about adding crowd noise to the actual album. Thank jeebus he never did!

I don't think opinions on The X Factor or Virtual XI would have changed much at all. Live was where that era suffered the most and has the worst rep still to this day. Had they downtuned to suit the Bruce material, that era overall would have been looked back upon much more favorably. I don't...

And that's why I think we've entered the "double-album" phase of Maiden's career. No song isn't up to snuff anymore and they all belong on the album, when most outside the Maiden bubble tend to agree that the last two albums might be stronger minus a song or two.

I honestly think Blaze, even after years of touring with Wolfsbane, was still so green when it came to his voice he didn't know any better at the time that they should have tuned down. He still says to this day he learned so much about his voice from working with Steve. Having read At the End...

I'll see what I can do!

I went on a kick of trying to find the perfect soundboard representations of every tour, and then never listened to them because too little time/too many of the same songs on each recording tour after tour. So, I went and made A Real Live One/Dead One-esque amalgams of new songs played with...

100%. Having a more minimalist drumming approach worked fine for Virtual XI--there shouldn't be an issue doing it for a song or two on a new album.

Because Nicko himself has said a few times he'd be open to recording only a song or two on a new album.

Yep. If Steve's not feeling up to it, there are enough good songwriters in the band to write the lion's share of the album. It would be fun to imagine a scenario where Adrian ends up with the bulk of the songwriting credits, and we end up with something akin to a reunion-era styled version of...

Not to mention this one:

And Bruce, because if you tune down it's "not authentic" anymore for...reasons.

I always took the "strange yellow gas" playing with their minds as an allusion to MK Ultra rather than anything sci-fi, and, being a Yank, my association went to the failures of George W. rather than Tony Blair. The quiet/loud/quiet/loud intro and Bruce's great inflections really draw you in...

It was the most adventurous setlist I've seen for a good while indeed. Never in a million years thought I'd hear them play Caught Somewhere in Time again, and we all thought there'd never be a realistic chance for Alexander. It's why it pisses me off to no end that we're getting no live album...

I find myself in this camp too, especially since my wife still hasn't divulged how much she spent on our tickets for this September's show (all I know is it was over $200 per). Given the rising expense, I'm gonna need a better reason to keep going if they're just going to go with songs I've seen...

Ugh...so frustrating as a fan. In that context, it sounds a little "taking my ball and going home"-ish, that his overall stance is he doesn't want to do an album and "I didn't want to take next year off--they did." (Yes, I know he just said "I'd be up for one," but other interviews and Bruce's...

I'll buy any new live album they put out, but I rarely play them, especially if they don't have renditions of songs they hadn't played before (new album cuts, rarities). That's what makes it so frustrating that we're getting one for this tour, yet The Future Past gets ignored.