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I too was a big fan of the era, having come in shortly before Blaze joined. Since they were up against grunge and a contingent of the audience wanting Bruce back, they played with a lot of fire, like a band with something to prove again. The Virtual XI tour especially, Blaze sounded better and...

Ultimately it's up to Nicko and the band, but I personally would've loved an official recording of Nicko doing simplified fills, etc. for posterity. Address it in the liner notes and call it a heroic tribute to his dedication and resolve. But, the window to make that release its most impactful...

As "meh" as I was about the title of the documentary, I like the artwork for it even less. :D The executive producer credits for management aren't terribly surprising, but yes, it does confirm it had more Maiden involvement than Steve let on. I imagine Steve meant the band itself was more hands...

Very good point. Haven't been to the Maiden shop in many moons, so I'm a bit out of the loop in that regard.

Is it an official Maiden release? Or is it coming from the filmmakers, whom Steve vaguely distanced himself from a week or so before it launched? I know they helped to promote it a little and several showed up at the premiere, but Steve also said the band wasn't really involved (though Bruce...

Wow...looking very trim in that shot. Might be just the angle, but I hope he's dropped a few for his health. I know even after his heart attack, he's mentioned in podcasts getting his diet under control has been difficult.

If Bruce said "we'll see about that year off," that would indicate either Steve came around to the idea of a new studio album or offers for some festivals maybe showed up. As for Steve's willingness to go into a studio without Nicko, Nicko himself said he's very open to coming in to do a couple...

Good point. I would reiterate my earlier comment in the thread to say that Bruce was actually more of an outsider than the others I'd listed: Nicko, Janick, Blaze, or Simon. And how did that work? Steve wanted to fire Bruce shortly after they'd started touring together. I think Bruce was the...

Honestly, for the difficulty of the chorus, I think Blaze did great on it. I'd always assumed the chorus was written as an obvious crowd interaction piece, with Blaze singing the lead-up, and the crowd answering with "STRIKES TWICE!" But Blaze didn't do as much of that as Bruce had. His...

Steve could sing shout the "strikes twice" part for Bruce to make it more doable.

Wow. That's a stunning image. One of the best live shots from their entire history, I dare say.

Maiden has a history with that, picking replacements pretty much by what's close at hand. Bruce was in the same local touring circuit as Maiden was around the UK/Europe. Same with Nicko, and they were friends already to boot. Janick had just done Tattooed Millionaire with Bruce, and boom, he's...

The only two plausible candidates for wanting 2027 off are Dave and Bruce...and you could make an argument for Adrian, I suppose. Dave, only because of the longstanding rumors and Nicko's kinda-sorta confirmation of it. But I agree, it's not like Dave is showing any signs of road-weariness at...

My educated guess is that there will be activity in 2028, mainly due to Steve's admission that 2027 was a year off, and that he had to agree to it since "he's only one out of six." It's the nitty-gritty of it that we don't know. Does Dave actually want to retire? Will he make that choice after...

Uh...isn't that already a foregone conclusion, what with Bruce saying long ago the new album would be finished in 2026 but not released until early 2027 so he could tour it? And that he already has touring plans laid down for late 2027? Or perhaps you're just being facetious, which didn't...

If they saw fit to release Nights of the Dead with the way Bruce sounded throughout, they'll have no issue releasing Paris with a bad rendition of Aces High.

Agnostic. Don't see evidence of a god, see mountains of evidence against the existence of the Biblical one, at least, but can't hop fully to the side declaring there absolutely isn't a god. It could be a celestial toad that likes to create civilizations and sit back and watch them burn for all I...

At this point, it's honestly bonkers that original version's never been shown before...at least as far as I've been able to find.

My friend who went thought it was a missed opportunity to have Bruce with his infamous response to the fan about synthesizers to not do a hard cut into the intro for Caught Somewhere in Time. But yeah, they really did skim over several albums. Seventh Son got almost no coverage at all, just...

I kind of gave the screen the side-eye when they had the fan up there touting the Blaze era, going further to say he was at his strongest live (or something of that nature) -- *editors proceed to smash cut to Blaze performing The Trooper, arguably the song he struggled most on. At least they...