if you could send Steve back in time to correct ONE mistake in the entire Maiden history: what thing would you choose him to have changed?

[Dick Brucinson]

I think letting H go in 1989 was very stupid.
and keeping away from the producers chair in the 1990s would have been clever I'd say.

 

[GhostofCain]

Manic Street Preachers hold the record of the longest song title to go to #1 in the UK with the superb If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next.

You probably will soon hold the record for longest thread title at Maidenfans.com!

 

[Dick Brucinson]

You probably will soon hold the record for longest thread title at Maidenfans.com!

didn't even know there was a competition about

 

[GhostofCain]

didn't even know there was a competition about

You’ve just won it.

 

[Dick Brucinson]

You’ve just won it.

ah, okay.

 

[Deleted member 7164]

Something trivial like keeping or having a song in the set. You don't want to change successful history (that much)

 

[chaosapiant]

I agree with Steve’s own assessment that he should’ve allowed Total Eclipse on Number of the Beast instead of Gangland. Beyond that, I wouldn’t call anything he’s done a “mistake.”

 

[Flaming Blimp Crash]

Live After Death follow up from the SIT tour... although I'm certain that's more a Rod decision.

 

[DJMayes]

Make him separate Satellite 15 and The Final Frontier on the album!

 

[____no5]

Manic Street Preachers hold the record of the longest song title to go to #1 in the UK with the superb If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next.

I thought of Pink Floyd’s “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict”.

Nowhere near no1 but quite long.

 

[____no5]

Open the next LOTB setlist with Alexander the Great.

See, without changing the course of history, we can still re-write the future!

 

[Lampwick 43]

Maybe go back to when he was writing The Nomad and try to avoid the whole plagiarism thing.

 

[Crazypants]

The Dance of Death cover comes to mind.

 

[____no5]

Maybe go back to when he was writing The Nomad and try to avoid the whole plagiarism thing.

Since I LOVE Nomad, I would wait him to remove the plagiarism and I’d ask him to put it back again.




EDIT @Lampwick 43 no really think about it.
This part except being a beautiful hommage to Beckett’s, it’s also a bridge in time between Nomad and Hallowed be thy Name’s narrative.

The protagonist of Hallowed dies at the Gallows Pole during the dark ages somewhere in Central Europe. He then is being reincarnated in Ordos, Mongolia, becomes a warrior and follows the hordes of mighty Genghis Khan, to finally reach back to the place of his hanging and completely burn it to the ground.

One of the many possible spin offs!

 

[el diablo]

Since I LOVE Nomad, I would wait him to remove the plagiarism and I’d ask him to put it back again.

Ok so Nomad is my favorite song on BNW but apparently I am missing some background info here. What is this about plagiarism??

 

[____no5]

Ok so Nomad is my favorite song on BNW but apparently I am missing some background info here. What is this about plagiarism??

The second part, the instrumental epic marching piece, is stolen note by note by Beckett’s Life’s Shadow, same song that gave some word by word to Hallowed be thy Name.

 

[Iron Lurker]

My first thought would be for Steve to not hire Blaze. But then if they got another vocalist instead and they were able to carry on successfully in spite of the Dark Ages of the 90's, we may not have had Bruce and H come back.

 

[chaosapiant]

The second part, the instrumental epic marching piece, is stolen note by note by Beckett’s Life’s Shadow, same song that gave some word by word to Hallowed be thy Name.

It isn’t stolen note for note, but the similarities are uncanny.

 

[MindRuler]

Leave out the bikini baby on the DOD album cover.

 

[chaosapiant]

Leave out the bikini baby on the DOD album cover.

Man, that bikini baby ties the whole thing together!

But for reals, I’ve always loved that cover. It’s goofy and unfinished, sure, but it has this weird surreal mix of a Dali painting with the aesthetics of Kubrick’s movie Eyes Wide Shut, and I just can’t hate it.