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It's rare for established bands to go out their way to write B-sides that are so poor they don't even get included in the official b-sides compilation album, and yet here we are.

The synths are so loud they hurt my ears. It might just be the phone recording over-enunciating the highs but it seems like they drown out the guitars when they come in during the post-solo harmony bit. Doesn't help that the synth sound is straight out the 80s.

I gotta file in an actual Simon-related complaint: all the parts seem to be there for what I can tell, but he just can't quite get the feel right on SSOASS. It's like he can't quite get it going all smooth, he has to focus to get the snare hits in which results in them sounding overly staccato...

I'm seriously getting quite tired of this bit. I hope some enterprising concertgoer decides to make it a life mission to film the whole gig and continue posting it on YouTube with subtle changes each time to ensure they can't automate the takedown process and have to manually claim each and...

I'm surprised how similar the fuck-up in Phantom was to the '84 Hallowed one linked earlier. We sure they haven't been doing taste testing on new Trooper flavors before the gig or something?

I saw some other video claim it was from Rock in Rio, but the drums pretty clearly don't match since it's the Ed Hunter kit which he used for at least some of the 2000 Euro gigs. So somewhere in that date range. I did notice something else interesting which at least I wasn't aware of before: it...

Many years ago, I had some actual mariner (not ancient, but he did look the part, figured it was probably the lifestyle) tell me when both of us were incredibly drunk that you can't shoot seagulls because they're the souls of sailors. I mentioned albatrosses because, well, duh, and we'd just...

You wanna talk about feel? Have a listen, in case you haven't; the show starts at about 1:10 in: It's literally a completely different piece compared to how Clive originally played it by this point, but my God is it ever a perfect encapsulation of Nicko's influences in a singular tune that's at...

Even looking at the in-audience footage closer to the stage, it's pretty easy to tell that's a festival crowd deluxe situation right there; i.e. people who couldn't give less of a shit since they're really just there to be there and drink overpriced alcohol. The more advanced (in age) crowd will...

It'll be alright elsewhere in the world, but yeah it's not exactly the best impression when the tour's in the European summer. Especially in the Nordics. Fear of the Dark looks slightly comical in overcast weather, imagine when it's actually sunny and Bruce is performing in front of a giant...

Last year they also took down some videos of really rough performances by Nicko from Australia, I believe. I think in that case they specifically contacted the uploader and essentially went "we're giving you the chance to take it down yourself or we'll DMCA you". My answer remains the same as...

That cover photo's super interesting. Four familiar faces and also some guy.

Exactly. It's why I made sure to put a stab in re: Adrian's stance on AI in music in my post about this - it's beyond fucking hypocritical now for him to be critical of AI in music, when he's perfectly happy to play in a band that would rather use generative AI for its background footage than...

Yeah. This is why they never played Alexander the Great on tour and stuck to that decision, since it never sounded quite right to their ears in rehearsal.

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...