H: "Each song in a different city"

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Recently I downloaded a new Adrian Smith interview from dimeadozen.org.

Some info:
ARTIST..............: Iron Maiden (Adrian Smith)
AIR DATE............: Febrero 23rd, 2008
RADIO SHOW..........: Sangriento
LOCATION............: Hotel Sheraton Maria Isabel, México, D.F.
F.M. BROADCAST BAND.: Reactor 105.7 (MEX)
AUDIO FORMAT........: Free Lossless Audio Codec
AUDIO BITRATE.......: 44.1Khz 2-Channels Stereo Level 6 VBR
RECORDED BY.........: LEDRod Audio Recorder®
SOURCE..............: F.M. Broadcasting
PLAYBACK............: Playable On Winamp Media Player (Need Codecs)
PLAY TIME...........: 19:05
RELEASE SIZE........: 145 MB


I'm not sure how to share this big file, so right now I'll transcribe the imo cool part. At some point, Adrian talks about the tour documentary and what we can expect of it. The most revealing is the last part, which I find very interesting. Don't worry there are no setlist spoilers, H just talks about what we can expect on a future document (DVD I guess!). Here goes:

...That's something we've never really done before. We want to document the tour obviously, because it's a special tour. To be quite honest, we were a little bit skeptical about it at first, because it's a very.. it can be a little bit intrusive, they're really filming us all the time. But you get used to it, and you know, my feelings are, you know, I've been doing this a long time. I've never had a visual document of a tour, would be great to have just to look back on it....years..and just remember all the little..it's all the little things, you know, backstage things, people, you know, Bruce warming his voice up, people putting their stage gear on, just the little things that fans don't see, you know, quite interesting. Talking about the music and the set, and all this, you know. It'd be great, it'll be very interesting, and I think it will probably be the most revealing thing we've done. We've done little things before, but I think this will probably be a bit more in depth.

It's a little difficult, especially when you just come off stage, there's some shall we say some heated discussions going on about this or that, like every band, but we're trying to get it real. They have thousands of hours of footage from all the different camera's.

There's also gonna be a live show as well. Each song will be in a different city. So the first one of India and then right through to Toronto. I don't think anyone has done that before...."
 
Are they going to rig up the cameras and so forth on every gig, like, 12 (or whatever how many they usually film with) or is this going to be some crappy 4 camera thing? If it's not, then this a fucking cool thing to have! Go H and the boys!
 
Sounds cool, but I think they should do it for Europe. :bigsmile:  It'd be cool to end up on a Maiden video.
 
I think that Rammstein already did such a live dvd, with all the songs recorded in different cities.

But nevertheless, great, yeah! The documentary part is going to be absolutely kickass!
 
Yeah... Just, there's a background hum/noise, is it also present in your losless version? I guess the guy who recorded it had bad reception.
 
The one thing I don't understand is this:

16 songs
21 cities

Are we going to see repeats, or changes in the setlist???
 
GuineaPig said:
The one thing I don't understand is this:

16 songs
21 cities

Are we going to see repeats, or changes in the setlist???

If there should be changes in the set list, I'd hope for this:
Stranger in a Strange Land or another track from SIT instead of Fear of the Dark.

(I have unfortunately seen some setlist details here and there, so I know at least half the set list by now)
 
I suppose they are recording at least one song (or even the whole setlist) on every gig (note the Yokohama story).
So they'll use the best versions in the end. As long as it's chronological on the DVD, it's possible to do the original plan, as Adrian explained.

What I guess is that there will also be an audio only product of this tour. I hope it will be from (a) later concert(s), e.g. European. So like LAD, audio and video, two different versions.  :)
 
I think Dave has gone a bit above Bruce's maximum carrying load specifications... :D
 
This is very interesting news, and I can't wait to hear further developments on this. And yeah, I hope Europe's in it somehow somewhere, if only for documenting crazy crowds :P.
 
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