I'd like a Future Past live release with recordings from 2024. By the end of the 2023 leg Nicko was already much more back to his old self, but still holding back in places. I imagine next year he'll be even better!
How on earth did you arrive at this conclusion? Because they're both about civilizations that built pyramids?
They're completely different tempos, meters, and feels- musically speaking, they are almost nothing alike.
They were planning a 3rd leg of Legacy in 2020, including a return to Europe, before the pandemic necessitated postponing it and ultimately adapting the setlist to accommodate the new album. The original 3 leg plan had nothing to do with Senjutsu.
Those are different kits - the one in the Pat Travers photo is a silver George Hayman 5pc, it was his second kit he ever bought after his Sonor Teardrop 4pc. He bought it from Top Gear in Denmark street in 1966. He would later add a couple of Staccato fiberglass "horn" toms. Later on, Pat would...
These ones? They were standard on the Phonic Plus towards the beginning of its run. The photo below is from the 1982 catalog. I have owned at least one standard production Phonic Plus bass drum with these spurs over the years.
I don't doubt that Nicko's kit was handmade though, I believe...
Worth noting that they did this so Bruce could actually sing the chorus a full octave higher than Blaze sang it, so even though technically the key of the song was changed it was done for the opposite reason that downtuning is usually done (so the vocalist can sing lower)
Future Past Tour 2024 "LOTB-ified" version (for territories that missed LOTB due to the pandemic)
1. Caught Somewhere In Time
2. Stranger In A Strange Land
3. The Writing On The Wall
4. The Time Machine
5. Senjutsu
6. The Trooper
7. The Clansman
8. Alexander The Great
9. Revelations
10. Sign of...
Yeah you can tell he's become a lot more comfortable with playing fast groups of 16th notes especially. I've noticed his 2-hand hi-hat work in Stranger is also a lot stronger now.
At this rate, maybe the snare fill in CSIT will be back next year!
He's not hitting the cymbals as hard or consistently as he was pre-stroke.
It's really hard to make a soft cymbal hit sound like a harder one just by boosting the overhead mic levels, aside from the fact that that would boost the entire kit, the way cymbals behave means the character of the...
I'm glad they lowered Nicko's drum riser on the tours since then. I'd forgotten how high up he used to be on stage. He's hard enough to see with that wall of square-sized power toms in front of him!
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