I feel like there's an outstanding album hiding in there somewhere if you combined the best songs off TBOS and Senjutsu into one album. Something like this:
1. If Eternity Should Fail
2. Speed of Light
3. The Writing on The Wall
4. Days of Future Past
5. The Book of Souls
6. Stratego
7. Hell...
Since seeing The Future Past tour, I have a new found respect for Senjutsu. Still my least favourite reunion album, but it's not as bland as I originally thought. Particularly Death of the Celts, which I thought found new life in a live setting.
Yeah I can't see an album already being recorded. They wouldn't have gone straight into the studio right after a long tour, and then Nicko recovering from a bloody stroke in January and barely being good enough to tour. The closest to that scenario I can see happening is them recording an album...
In an ideal world, I think this would be the plan for next year.
January - Enter studio
Mid-late March - South American Tour
April - Short North American tour (like 2016 TBOS tour)
June-July - Album announcement & European tour hitting places they didn't hit this year
August - Bruce's solo...
I wonder if Nicko's stroke has made them question how long the band has left, and has made them want to get into the studio sooner than they imagined. It's been very noticeable how appreciative they've been to be on stage on this tour, particularly Bruce.
I don't want to get my hopes up.
Bruce: "Something else will happen, can't tell you what. But you'll be happy"
Strange that Steve didn't say anything. I feel like he can't be arsed doing most promotional materials anymore.
On a purely selfish level I'd want them to not do a second leg next year, and just go straight into a new fresh European tour next year with a fresh setlist of purely rare and underplayed songs.
But I know of course that's not going to happen, I'm just aware that the sands of time are running...
When the Wild Wind Blows.
The song that got me into Iron Maiden and metal in general, so it's a track that I hold in my heart dearly. I was 12 when The Final Frontier tour came around, and I was deemed a bit too young to go. I really think it deserved one of more go around, I doubt it though.
I think I'd rather the next tour (if there is one) focus on more rare and unplayed songs. I think the past three tours has shown there's an appetite for it, not only from the audiences but from the band.
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