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That's a great idea!
18th Studio Album discussion
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That's a great idea!
Yes, if you can get very enthusiastic, that's both an advantage and a disadvantage. On the one hand, it gives you energy, but on the other, it can also happen that you believe a bit too early that you have created a masterpiece.
dickinson1978
Ancient Mariner
Surprising things for this band left in the can
A tour with all rare songs
A tour with only songs since reunion
A new album
Play a whole classic album maybe seventh son but i dont see the point
And a new album.
A tour with all rare songs
A tour with only songs since reunion
A new album
Play a whole classic album maybe seventh son but i dont see the point
And a new album.
Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
Which is why it would never happen, because Blaze songs are included in a setlist to give Bruce a break, lol.
Vaenyr
Ancient Mariner
Unless they go down the Lord Of The Flies 2003 route, where they traspose the song down a full step so that Bruce can make an octave jump in the chorus, making the song much more challenging to sing lol
Ruflux
Ancient Mariner
And may I just add: boy did it sure sound like it too.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
I would also like Blaze to be an opener band, it's something they should do, if he accepts. Guest musicians, Steve said it's something they could do, he can't say now. If only this tour's theme was for all eras. But it would kind of atypical for Maiden, but not unlikely. Playing Blaze era songs during a hypothetical Part 2 of the new tour would be something. Replacing his songs with live versions for the comp. albums was logical given the current lineup.
He also said they won't do a farewell tour, but let's see. Because of the number of classics, I'm really skeptical about the ''one song per album'' tour, but it's a very cool idea. I've always liked it. Come to think of it, it could work for a 3rd leg of RFYL tour! Combining new album with another theme, I guess too.
Well, it's not everything up to the vocalist, right. With his solo music, he writes and creates what interests him the most, with the chosen style and length of the songs. He can like and view them how he wants, ofc. He needs to be creative and enthusiastic, considering his career.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Yep:
- tour with deep cuts (Nicko and Dave have discussed this in the past, iirc).
- tour with 90's songs.
- tour around the Reunion albums (if we don't count the 2010 tour).
New album tour won't be a surprise. They can definitely do only Reunion songs, if they want. Deep cuts tour or only epics tour won't happen. Playing a whole classic album too, they had many chances for that (ex. 2012 tour).
dickinson1978
Ancient Mariner
90s i think is this tour. If you want to see x factor and virtual xi songs blaze is performing this songs. I went to last tour....and the dont sound even close to maiden.
dickinson1978
Ancient Mariner
Deep cuts and epics COULD BE 2025 tour. I dont see them playing a classic setlist.
Helmuth Von Moltke
Educated Fool
That's it in a nutshell.
Helmuth Von Moltke
Educated Fool
I noticed when watching them live in 2010 that when they do several reunion songs in a row, the repeated slow intros become energy drainers. Some slow intros are great in a 2 hour show. But too many and the momentum gets squandered even if all the songs are good.
TaaviMaiden
Educated Fool
But could that be something that the band really wants? Some songs with Nicko on the album and others with Simon and then the big discussion around the new album will be the comparison. I would find that rather unfortunate.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
I'm not sure I can agree, it depends, some Reunion era songs are not with that long intros. TFP tour had 5 songs with slow and long intros and it was good. The 2010 tour had a lot in a row (4+ ,iirc), but I think they could have swapped just one or two.
This. Who wants this.?
Blood On The World´s Hand
Trooper
I guess it still is a mystery if there is anything written yet but I think if not, they will write and record in 2027.
Helmuth Von Moltke
Educated Fool
Maybe it depends on the shows we saw. In 2010 I saw the Dublin show, which was great, energetic and indoors. And I saw the outdoor festival Sonisphere UK show. The weather was overcast and the festival more generally sucked in terms of location and bill. So maybe I wasn't in the zone, so to speak.
But I recall watching the show 14 years ago and thinking this mid-set run of songs started to drag...
Dance of Death
The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
These Colours Don't Run
Blood Brothers
Wildest Dreams
No More Lies
Brave New World
This is sequence they were played in. I love all of these songs. But when I watched them all played back to back (except for Colours and Dreams) you had x5 modern Maiden songs all composed or part-composed by Harris. All with a certain superficial but notable similarity in length and build-up structure.
A build-up intro works brilliantly live if it features in a few songs per set. Not every song or every other song.
I thought the 2006 AMOLAD set flowed better than the 2010 set, because AMOLAD has a good flow track-to-track.
Vaenyr
Ancient Mariner
It's fascinating how different individual tastes can be. I would've absolutely adored that entire segment (swap Wildest Dreams with something like Different World and it would've been perfection for me). The BNW to AMOLAD Harris (co-)written songs are one of the biggest reasons why I'm a Maiden fan in the first place, can't get enough of that.
It could be a good topic for the Maiden blasphemy thread, but being both a big fan of the reunion era and having seen the show myself in person (in addition to several bootlegs years after the fact), I think the 2010 setlist was kinda ill-conceived. It gets a lot of (well deserved) credit for giving the reunion era much needed attention, especially considering the last expansive tour they had done in North America for a new album had been Brave New World - most audiences had not heard a single song off Dance of Death or A Matter of Life and Death prior to the 2010 tour. But the actual selection of songs and sequence of songs is just so off. It seems like they pretty much just went with the singles and "obvious" choices from those albums without any consideration given to flow or whether that selection of songs made for a good mix. I think the band has gotten a lot a better about integrating new material since then and would be curious to see how they would handle this kind of setlist today. I also don't know if I think it was a good idea in the first place to have an onslaught of 2010s era material anyway. I think there is a way to give new material proper attention while also not alienating the casual fans, which the band demonstrates on the Book of Souls, Legacy of the Beast, and even Future Past tours.
I would have dropped Wildest Dreams and No More Lies, replacing them with an 80s classic that maybe didn't get played in 2008/2009 and a different song off Dance of Death (something more energetic like Rainmaker). I also would have swapped Brave New World for something off AMOLAD since, again, Brave New World already had the most expansive North American tour of the reunion era and the title track also got some play on Give Me Ed. The setlist lacks a classic Harris epic (No More Lies and Blood Brothers aren't it) so that would have been a good spot for FTGGOG I think.
You could have also gotten away with 6 reunion era songs (Wicker Man, Ghost of the Navigator, Blood Brothers, Dance of Death, Breeg, Colours) + El Dorado and then three more classics to balance out the set. I like the idea of focusing more on new material but energy level is also important and the 2010 setlist doesn't have the same vibe as playing all of AMOLAD in 06 did.
I would have dropped Wildest Dreams and No More Lies, replacing them with an 80s classic that maybe didn't get played in 2008/2009 and a different song off Dance of Death (something more energetic like Rainmaker). I also would have swapped Brave New World for something off AMOLAD since, again, Brave New World already had the most expansive North American tour of the reunion era and the title track also got some play on Give Me Ed. The setlist lacks a classic Harris epic (No More Lies and Blood Brothers aren't it) so that would have been a good spot for FTGGOG I think.
You could have also gotten away with 6 reunion era songs (Wicker Man, Ghost of the Navigator, Blood Brothers, Dance of Death, Breeg, Colours) + El Dorado and then three more classics to balance out the set. I like the idea of focusing more on new material but energy level is also important and the 2010 setlist doesn't have the same vibe as playing all of AMOLAD in 06 did.
matic22
Ancient Mariner
This. I never cared for either of those 2 songs and Rainmaker and FTGGOG would work much, much better. I think they possibly omitted the latter because of the tour theme (it would look sorta out of place with TFF set). Luckily it came back during LOTB.