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Aces High has gone from a rare treat to being very predictable as an encore start. And Wasted Years has now closed the set for the BOS, Future Past and 5oth anniversary tours. Again, just boring. It would take no effort to have designed a more surprising and engaging encore.

Oh shit, Wasted Years AGAIN. Disappointing end to an otherwise excellent set

totally agree. Excellent start and middle. Not so great end.

All to play for in the final song (s) Running Free and end would be a squib though

Great - animation of shooting down German WW2 planes. How’s that going down on the German leg of the tour then?

Oh no its aces. Shit

Pray its tailgunner not aces :)

KNEW IT! that was my prediction, brilliant opener

Hello, I quite like BQoBD (as a nostalgic track from childhood, rather than something I love for its own sakes today) Objectively, maiden and Bruce have shown that track no love at all for a very long time. - they last played it in august 1993 at Raising Hell - they last featured it on Best of...

I didn't think NOTB worked well as an opener at all when I saw the 2003 Download show. They just walked out anti-climatically into broad daylight, the intro tape isn't a very good build up on its own for the start of a show. I also can't imagine BQoBD... Rue Morgue (just like in 2005) is a...

Finally dug out my one Simon Dawson CD that's not British Lion. 20+ years ago as a student, I used to buy every cheap metal CD I could, and I bought this Dearly Beheaded album. I recognised the band name from Kerrang and liked Machine Head, Pantera, Deftones at the time... Songwriting is...

I think there may be an Americas / Asia / Australia leg in 2026

I'm curious, did you ask AI for your profile picture "to make Bruce Dickinson look like 80s MacGyver"? :lol:Just joking of course! If Maiden use videos, they must be better quality than the Guns N Roses video wall I saw in 2021, the animations were awful. And Agreed about the new Metallica...

My money for the opener is on Transylvania, Prowler, Murder in the Rue Morgue... that kind of vibe.

Aces High has gone from being very much missed (no live appearances after 1985 until 1999, and then vanished again for nearly a decade). To being a highlight in 2008-09, to inexplicably appearing in the 7th Son set (2012-14), to its starring role in Legacy (2018-22). Best retire it with...

I really can't see Be Quick or Be Dead making it in; Steve once compared it seemingly unfavourably to other Maiden tracks that have more melody in an old Kerrang article. The track has gotten no love or mention from the band since the Raising Hell show in August 1993, and when it appeared on the...

Agreed. The amount of money they are spending on sets has also clearly gone up a hell of a lot since Somewhere Back In Time

Another incentive is the more they switch the show to lots of special effects, the less the band needs to move around while playing... The Legacy show was genius for this, it slightly camouflaged their advancing years and takes some pressure off running around too much.

It is a good debate. Steve thought the band would carry on for 10 years in the NME interview, he thought your 30s was old and meant retiring like in football... Clearly the views of a young man. For extra context these areas of East London (Leyton for Steve, Clapton for Smith & Murray, Hackney...

Went back and read your old thread. The 1982 NME interview is amazing, I'd never seen it before. I found it archived here (links in the old thread are dead). I guess my family were among Steve's 'darkies' living in East London in the 1980s? Wow. Not to rehash the old thread, these attitudes...