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No offense, but I'm pretty sure Nicko would have a polite few words with anyone suggesting he should step back and let someone else play Caught Somewhere in Time on tour. I don't realistically believe there exists a force in the universe that could've stopped him from going out on The Future...

I feel I should point out that Metallica's song rotation is in fact larger than that, because they don't stick to two static setlists but rather swap songs out with each date with various slots rotating between multiple songs, and on this particular run they've debuted "new" songs from the album...

Seriously. Please listen to the original recordings before you make rash comments about new parts, since as SIASL has thought us, sometimes those parts were actually on the original recording (Janick playing a melody line in the tail end of the solo that IIRC was originally a synth line that...

Watching to it right now: Rock in Rio with such a margin it's not even a competition. The biggest minus is probably the editing which is serviceable, messy and way too rapid fire, but at least it's not Death on the Road or Donington '92 bad. That and the silly "overdubs" that aren't really a...

That's A-grade slop right there. No human would produce something so incomprehensible, and the Rime video in general has all the hallmarks of AI all over it with how uncanny it looks. Should've fucking guessed that was also a part of the equation why the video wall makes (financial) sense - much...

No, because this is Iron Maiden we're talking about. The screen probably already cost so much management was considering if they could just make taller drapes instead and blow some air with a fan on them to make them look animated. Also for whoever said a big stage needs a big kit, take a good...

I dunno about that. It sounds pretty much like Adrian does when he sings Wasted Years for example, I don't think there's that big of a gap really. Pleasant on the ears at least, especially compared to Bruce's croaking. Hard to really compare to LAD anyway since the backing vocals were redone in...

From that shitty quality YouTube video from above, it seems like he's singing the lines about the same he did on LAD though? I think that's the impetus for it, they've been doing the songs a lot closer to the studio versions (see the extra guitar lead fills in Rime, the MIA until now guitar part...

You're not talking about the part that always was on the album version that they never played live, right? The bit from 5:15 onwards in the above video? The one that probably wasn't even considered when they finally had three guitarists because it's presumably one of the overdubs Dennis Stratton...

Something interesting I've personally noticed from the footage is that it seems Janick's mostly been sticking to his corner of the stage and not really moving around all that much. I saw him around the middle, in front of Simon in one clip but other than that he seems unusually planted in one...

He would've been struggling hard on over half the setlist, with some songs just straight out or heavily altered like RTTH. Powerslave or Seventh Son, absolutely no shot. It's pretty obvious now there just was no way he could've continued since it would've limited the band's setlist choices...

Ah, Davey's solo on Seventh Son. Song was worthy of its inclusion by that virtue alone. The whole instrumental part in general, just a fucking blowout of solos followed by extra harmony parts and just pure guitar wankery of the best kind.

The video wall being so tall definitely helps the stage look more impressive. Even when they're using a simple backdrop like Trooper it comes across better with the sheer verticality of it, despite the actual stage part still being the same size as before, and the pan at the start of Murders...

Killers has been played a lot less overall, Murders appeared sporadically on WST, then again a few times in '98 until it became the opening track for '05. Killers was basically forgotten post-'82, a few shows in '88 and one tour in '99. e: Well, looking over the statistics, the difference in...

Well I always thought they were cool, other than the Stratego one. I think it had a big Eddie at least. I'm pretty sure it looked horrendous too. VXI also I think had one that looked so fucking heinous it should've been burned, but that's just because the Eddie itself for VXI was awful. e: It...

They were definitely far more conservative with the Eddies than I would've assumed this time around. Not a lot of Eddies in the backgrounds, the new walk-on is just Killers Eddie from the promo art while the other one is a reused one, and the big Eddie is replaced with the screen. Not even a...

I was honestly slightly afraid they were gonna have him on a super tight leash and do exactly this, maybe with slightly fewer toms and crashes and more typical sizes but otherwise trying to mimic Nicko's setup. I'm glad to see they're not treating him as a glorified crew member or anything, he...

I was wondering if that drum intro was quite there, and turns out, no, it wasn't. First show nerves for sure. I think that's probably the most noticeable honest-to-God fuckup Simon had, there were smaller flubs and some difficulty with timing here and there I believe, but a really good showing...

All that said, I can't help but wonder if Simon's planning on playing Steve recordings of Bruce singing Aces High a few months down the line though.

Well, it fits the performance of the song quite well then!