2014 Tour Rumours

Thank you, @The Flash for posting before me. I might have gotten all hotheaded...

Let's just say the truth: Dave could never play Adrian's solos, Adrian could never play Dave's solos, and neither Adrian nor Dave could ever play Janick's...multi-note concoctions.
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
How come Davey doesn't have to give up any solos?
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I just always interpreted it as Dave Murray never left the band, and had been around since the beginning (yes, I am aware he left in the late 70's, but I am meaning strictly from 1980 onward); so therefore, why should he have to give up any of his solos?

Adrian Smith is the one who left the band. Janick was his replacement. So Janick had his own share on "No Prayer for the Dying", "Fear of the Dark", "The X-Factor", and "Virtual XI". He also had to play Adrian's solos on the songs they continued to play hat were from before Janick's time.

So therefore, when Adrian returned to the band, he and Janick basically shared some of the solos. They weren't going to just tell Janick he couldn't play anymore, and Dave didn't have to give up a damn thing because of it.
 
Travis The Dragon said:
I predict that Maiden will either have a new album out in the middle of next year and then tour for that or next year's tour will be a warm up tour for the new album and they'll do a new song, but I don't think it will be another history type tour since there have never been 2 of those in a row.
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I may be wrong, but didn't someone from the band (think it was Bruce?) comment not too long ago that we shouldn't expect a new album until probably 2015?

And the whole 90's History thing rumor spreading around is because apparently Hot Topic is getting a bunch of Iron Maiden merchandise from 90's material ("Fear of the Dark", "A Real Live One", etc); so I guess some people have speculated that this could be due to an upcoming 90's History tour next summer? Apparently it happened with Maiden England 2012-13; so perhaps that's where the speculation is coming from?

I, personally, wouldn't know. I hate my local Hot Topic store, and never go in there...

If it's not a 1990's History tour, and not a new album tour, I could see it being a post-2000 classics tour (much like the summer 2010 tour throughout NA). I can't think of what else it could be, other than one of those three.
 
Demigod_Tyek said:
And the whole 90's History thing rumor spreading around is because apparently Hot Topic is getting a bunch of Iron Maiden merchandise from 90's material ("Fear of the Dark", "A Real Live One", etc); so I guess some people have speculated that this could be due to an upcoming 90's History tour next summer? Apparently it happened with Maiden England 2012-13; so perhaps that's where the speculation is coming from?
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I can tell you that there is substantial inside info (besides the hot topic shirts) to suggest it will be a 90s history tour.
 
Lego said:
I can tell you that there is substantial inside info (besides the hot topic shirts) to suggest it will be a 90s history tour.
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Care to catch me up? Or direct me back to what I possible missed? Only thing I remember discussing here was that Hot Topic thing.
 
And, for the record, it did happen with Maiden England. Hot Topic got a bunch of 7th Son Merch in and up on their site before the tour was even announced.

Plus, Donington 92 is the next in line for a DVD release, as confirmed by Rod a couple years ago.

Puzzle pieces...
 
Yeah, puzzle pieces... sounds good to me though.

I'm sure we'll know for sure come March-April next year; that's usually when they announce any tour plans for the upcoming summer/fall.
 
Lego said:
Just like Maiden England was the perfect framework for such Maiden England classics as Fear of the Dark, Afraid To Shoot Strangers and Phantom of the Opera? :D
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This. and when we /they speak about a period tour its not only 90s, the main setlist will be about 90s (maybe donington) but the period of the songs is from 1980 to 1992.
 
Demigod_Tyek said:
Yeah, puzzle pieces... sounds good to me though.

I'm sure we'll know for sure come March-April next year; that's usually when they announce any tour plans for the upcoming summer/fall.
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I wouldn't be surprised if we knew earlier. Maiden England was announced in February 2012, and didn't begin until late June.
 
dickinson1978 said:
This. and when we /they speak about a period tour its not only 90s, the main setlist will be about 90s (maybe donington) but the period of the songs is from 1980 to 1992.
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True. But, I still think it'd be very unlikely they'd play such a song as Alexander the Great (and other songs from "Somewhere In Time") on a 1990's History Tour.

If we got any song from that album for a 1990's set list, I'd bet it'd be Heaven Can Wait; since that was played in 1992-93. Or perhaps the other, often played Wasted Years...

I think the best possible chance we'd ever have to hearing such a song like that live (along with other, oddball songs they rarely or have never played live) is during whatever their final/hurrah tour may be; perhaps they'd go all out then? But even that may be pushing it.

I, personally, honestly don't see how they COULDN'T go out with a bang on a "final" tour and play those rare, fan-demanded songs. But that's just me.

Lego said:
I wouldn't be surprised if we knew earlier. Maiden England was announced in February 2012, and didn't begin until late June.
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Ah, yeah, I forgot that was February 2012. But I knew it was within those first few months of the year. February to March-ish.
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
If Janick can ruin some of Adrian's solos live, then why can't Adrian save some of Janick's?
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Oh yeah!


Don't get me worng: I like Janick and I appreciate he has written some amazing songs lately ('The talisman', 'Dance of death' or 'Ghost of the navigator' to name just a few), but I'd rather have Adrian playing his solos like in the last tour.
 
harrisdevot said:
I'd really like to here somme of the songs from No Prayer. I saw them three times back then, and Tailgunner was awesome live, like the title track. I'd love to hear Run Silent... too, but this won't happen. At the time, I enjoyed the other songs they played from that album, but I just hate Bring your Daughter and Hooks in You, Maiden's worst songs ever in my opinion. The Clansman and Lord of the Flies would be fantastic. It would be so refreshing to hear that stuff again.
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'Bring your daughter... to the slaughter' was amazing live in 2003... :rocker:
 
I'm not going to start making up a setlist, but if there is a nineties tour in the works, I would think that From Fear to Eternity would give us a couple of strong hints at what is going to be played. I'm not saying we are looking at the setlist there, but recall the how Somewhere Back in Time album and tour worked together. So I think that Holy Smoke, Be Quick or be Dead, Tailgunner and Bring Your Daughter are givens.
 
Perun's probably right about this one. As long as there is Sign of the Cross and The Clansman I'd be happy. Man on the Edge and Lord of the Flies would be great to. Bring Your Daughter is a given but I'm not sure about Holy Smoke and Tailgunner.
They most likely wont play any 90's songs that weren't included on From Fear to Eternity.
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
I only think he should if his contribution is of lesser quality. Whoever plays a better solo should play the damn solo, IMO.
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Who decides which is better. I don't think there will be a public poll, nor do I think that the band will follow this "reasoning" (although they might have done it with Moonchild!).

In the nineties it's logical that Janick did Adrian's solos. But to be honest, he didn't always play his solos. He often played his own solos on the places where the original Adrian solos were. That's something different. OK, he followed some stuff like Adrian did, e.g. in The Trooper or The Evil, but often he did it his own way.

When you look at Rock in Rio, you can see that Janick played only one solo that was originally Adrian's, namely Hallowed. So the criticasters made an elephant out of a mosquito when that tour went on. Looking at the recent tours, Adrian plays way more solos live than Janick.

On the Final Frontier Tour this had mainly to do with the content of the last album, on which H does the most solos. On the Maiden England Tour there were many songs for which Janick never did the solo before, since Adrian return to the band. He did do Moonchild before, and now Adrian does it again, but that's the only exception. Of course, the nineties songs (FOTD and ATSS) were his domain. I think he also did Phantom!

For the rest we have lots of Adrian and lots of Dave live (way more than Janick), so I find all these complaints about Janick exaggerated. What do you want: take away all his solo contributions? I am pleased to hear the few that are left, thank you very much.
GhostofCain said:
Oh yeah!
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Ha! The only Janick-solo Adrian ever did (not Maiden though)! Good find.
 
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Perun said:
I'm not going to start making up a setlist, but if there is a nineties tour in the works, I would think that From Fear to Eternity would give us a couple of strong hints at what is going to be played. I'm not saying we are looking at the setlist there, but recall the how Somewhere Back in Time album and tour worked together. So I think that Holy Smoke, Be Quick or be Dead, Tailgunner and Bring Your Daughter are givens.
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Yes there are songs there that for sure would be played but i would look to donington 92 setlist more than FFTE. I would drop Holy smoke i dont see maiden playing that song nowadays

And btw



And if they are covering REAL LIVE DEAD ONE.............

Where eagles dare,remember tomorrow,prowler.......
 
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