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Since they're sticking with these multi-year tours, I agree, a more versatile setlist is what they should be doing. Excitement goes down on the second leg of a tour with the same setlist, obviously, but that can be tempered by swapping out a fair amount of songs on each leg. Then there are the...

Mainly because--looking at RFYL and a possible latter half of the career followup--they'd be quite flagrantly ignoring the Blaze era as if it wasn't important. Fans understandably would jump all over that, just like loads complained that No Prayer was omitted from RFYL. Realistically, though...

Or, as I've said before, go hybrid again. New album + 1995-Senjutsu, + obligatory classics in the encore. It won't leave a ton of room for new songs, especially with the average length of reunion era songs. The consensus around here, at least, is that a 1995-Senjutsu set wouldn't sell nearly as...

Yep. Nicko wanted to get the eff outta there! :D

Great to hear--I'm seeing him Sunday in St. Paul, and my beaten-up body needed a kick in the butt to start getting pumped about the show!

I totally agree. I know Maiden's Steve's baby, but if he's not feeling up to it creatively or doesn't want the stress, I don't see the problem with letting the others do the heavy lifting on a new album. Bruce and Adrain could easily come up with some great collabs, and Janick's a great...

The story is, Nicko went to Steve with some soundboard tapes near the end of the tour, and basically showed him how well (or not) Blaze was singing. Steve notoriously doesn't have the best hearing, so I imagine Nicko played it for him assuming Steve thought everything was fine live. If I had to...

The first three are pretty solid, I think. TMWWNT had some good stuff, and some filler. I cannot for the life of me get into anything on Promise and Terror, but others love it. King of Metal, like I said, was the low point. Since hooking up with Absolva, it's been good, but not as consistently...

Well, your original post didn't say anything about post-reunion documentation, just live documentation in general. If you were meaning post-reunion, it's mostly the standard ones with Di'Anno: Wrathchild, Sanctuary, IM, maybe one or two more, and then the Di'Anno-heavy opening to the RFYL show...

He changed to Blaze Bayley after his entire original band left, and he had to get a new band. He rationalized the name change because he said people didn't know he was doing any new music under the rather vague Blaze name, and things improved after the name change for a while. There was also...

There's quite a bit of well documented Bruce takes on the Di'Anno era, but yep, only a handful from the Blaze era: Iron Maiden (obviously every live album) Prowler (ARDO, re-recorded in studio) Charlotte the Harlot (re-recorded in studio) Killers (Maiden England) Phantom of the Opera (Live...

13. No Prayer for the Dying: There's some good material here, so it was hard to put it this low in the ranking. I suppose it was down to there being nothing truly outstanding that gave it this spot in the end. 14. Piece of Mind: Like others, I'm not preferential to their "golden age." It of...

Agree, his voice was good and blown in '96. It's too bad the best quality recordings for posterity of that tour are from the dead end of it in South America.

100% agree. I would think after a few rehearsals before the tour, the range issue would've been apparent, but nobody said anything, I guess. Had they worked to the strengths of his voice and downtuned, yeah, I think we would've had a total hidden gem era through and through. There are plenty of...

According to his band biography, during The X Factour he was locked midstage in front of the drumset so he could hear the monitors. I think he had confidence in performing, but in that situation, it didn't seem he had confidence to stand up for himself or at least go to Steve and get the boss to...

Oh heck no, I wouldn't lead with that. LOL! But you make some great points. If we got to the point where I saw what kind of shape the manuscript was in, I'd tell him what I had in mind for how I would make it into a workable draft. What I'd have in mind might be completely opposite for his...

He deserves better than to be where he is. It's unfortunate the Maiden fans who disliked his era will likely never come to realize how much better of a singer and performer he became after his time in Maiden. His solo work, apart from perhaps King of Metal, is remarkably solid. Steve speaks so...

Okay, possibly stupid idea here. I listened to a very recent interview with Blaze where he was finally asked about the Infinite Entanglement book he'd been working on. Long story short, it's not done but he bought a new keyboard and would like to get back to it, but the window to capitalize on...

I'd be thrilled if someone did a major cleanup of Paris '86, which is the closest thing we've got to a soundboard mix of the tour, IMO. Every version I've tried (that isn't an audience recording) has that high-pitched VHS-sourced whine over the entire thing. It'd be amazing to have that gone...

Totally agree. Devil on a Hog is a blast of a song. Personally, I'm kind of glad Eternal didn't make it onto an album. It strikes me as overtly Floyd-y and would feel out of place had it shown up on ToS. It's a curiosity piece for me, which made it a good choice for a B-side. Sonata strikes me...