Future History Tours

I'm surprised The Longest Day wasn't a single from AMoLaD!!! It fit the subject matter perfectly and is a truly epic and glorious song... yet was only played live the first leg of the tour. I would think they would have wanted to continue it even afterwards.

It was also one of the very first Maiden songs I heard and I was hooked when I did.
 
They could pick up Public Enema Number One and No Prayer for the Dying again, that would be a nice surprise.
 
Mind you, future history tours :p It's already 12 years since Brave New World came out. Once they are done covering the 90s it will be even more!
 
Well, the first post mentioning a tour focusing only on post-2000 songs didn't use the word "history" at all, and the second post addressing it (by me) stated that we will probably never see a full-blown history tour focused on that era - since Maiden will probably call it quits before this era is due for a nostalgia tour.

If we look away from the word "history" and just consider the possibility of a tour with a heavy focus on post-2000 songs, we've already had one (in 2010).

Anyway; I believe that a 90's history tour would not be a long tour at all, perhaps only a few shows before the kick-off of a longer tour? I can't imagine Maiden doing 30 dates across North America playing loads of songs from The X Factor and Virtual XI.
 
The title of the thread is "Future History Tours" so I'm pretty sure it's fair comment to ask why people are talking about post-2000 tracks; unless of course you consider post-2000 tracks candidates for any (likely) "history" tour(s). I'm just saying I do not (at present), as this makes the distinction, between said "history" tours & plain old normal tours, literally non-existent. Unless your saying "it's 2020 --what tracks do you think should be considered for a history tour?".

Talking about the 90's (at least the early 90's) seems fair enough (even right now), as chronologically this is the next period a history tour would cover --& this is quite far, now, in the past. But post-2000, to me, seems very recent. BNW will creep into my thoughts soon I suppose, but that's it. Even hypothetically, I don't see Maiden being around long enough (as you state) for DoD, AMoLaD, & TFF to really be candidate albums for any history tour(s). I accept they are, now, in the past. But history implies, to me, something a little more removed.
 
Mosh said:
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Will there be a history tour for the Early Days DVD? :p
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Do you mean a history tour for the "Eddie Rips Up... Tour"? :D They'll issue a blu-ray of the 2005 Ullevi show and a documentary on how they got to the idea of making the Early Days documentary and so on... It will be issued around 2025-2030. :D
 
Remember the Early Days covered 4 albums? If eventually the future Maiden England will have the 3rd part of the series, covering at least 2 albums (SIT and SSOSS), that leaves room for another History tour, covering 4 albums, and with the release of Donington 92, the raising hell gig, the Nicko "Not a lot of people know that" series, and the Bayley albums. After that, Maiden has their entire career, in some way or another, covered.

And is plausible a full tour of NPFTD, FOD, XF and VXI songs. They could recreate something out of those albums. Sign of the cross, Fear of the dark, Bring your daughter, the clansman - these four songs only can make more than thirty minutes live, more or less 1\3 of a gig.
 
That's a very good point, if we take it for granted that they'll play the staples; Hallowed Be Thy Name, Iron Maiden, Number of the Beast etc. then once they've thrown in a few more 90s era songs we'd have a full-length (and in my opinion pretty killer) setlist!
 
The question is not whether some people would like a setlist focused on the 90s or not, but whether sufficiently many people would like it. By sufficiently many I mean enough to sell enough tickets to make a tour worthwile. If Maiden don't believe that, I don't think they will go on such a tour.
 
Indeed --that is all that matters. There's plenty enough stuff from the 90's, that they used to play anyway, plus the usual (as you say) bumph, to fill out a set. I think it would be pretty good.

The real problem here is that Maiden only really resurrect songs, that they formerly played live on that songs respective tour, rather than actually rehearsing anything new, from whatever era the history tour is focusing on. Therefore we may get a Clairvoyant or a SSoaSS (very welcome), but are unlikely to see anything that wasn't played live at the time, like Only the Good Die Young. Which is a pity. But, I suppose, when Maiden finally hang up their boots, perhaps the fact that some songs never had a live outing, will be a good thing. A kind of "what if" that will keep us all forever interested & talking about them.
 
I say if they do a 90's style tour, it will come close to Fear of the Dark, which is the only 90's tour that really had the production values. The question will be whether it will come close to the FoTD tour in terms of the setlist, or whether they'll have it be a broader sweep and include material from Virtual IX and X Factor.

As for a 2000s style tour, I thought that was pretty much covered by the pre-TFF North America tour, where 2/3rds of the material came from BNW, DoD and AMoLaD. While such a tour might be possible, I'm thinking it would be unlikely.

Actually, having missed IM in the 80's and with very little in the way of official recordings, I would have loved to have seen a tour with the production of SiT. The Stranger in a Strange Land video and the boots from that era really made that tour look awesome.
 
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