As a huge fan of Blaze I just think the song exposed his weaknesses at the time.
A good production and making the album in Eb would have solved all of this.
Full list of their songs if it helps anyone
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_Iron_Maiden
I can't really put them in order other than the top few but my 40 favourites
Rime of the ancient mariner
Phantom of the opera
Revelations
Dance of death
Paschendale
Powerslave...
Saw someone say on Reddit Steve doesn't seem to be reliably playing his bass lines live as well as he used to, as if age is really catching up to him. Any truth to that? I know it's inevitable but hope that's a long way off.
I love Blaze Bayley but can you imagine if all these forums and YouTube videos existed of him during his Maiden tours? Especially his worst nights.
"maiden are finito! It's over, it was a disaster, they're done!"
They're still very good live but I was watching Revelations live from 2005 and I think they were just untouchable live from 1999 to about 2008 or so. The reunion era was the absolute peak of their live performances, Bruce was unbelievable.
I would love a little bit of the blaze era live shows.
Not the full thing, just his best performances (yes they do exist) from the 95 part of the X Factour and his better ones from the 98 VXI tour.
Not much Bruce stuff, just his own material from his two albums really apart from Afraid to...
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