Iron Maiden songs – a rough overview of their “live history”

Perun said:
Actually, I seem to remember it was the studio version with some audience noise dubbed in.
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I didn't compare it to the death on the road version, I just listened to see if it sounded familiar so it probably is the studio version :lol:
 
I think it is important to note the following thing:

Aces High, Caught Somewhere In Time, Out Of The Silent Planet and The Final Frontier (Satellite 15...) - the intro of all those songs is never played live (it was played through the PA system).
 
Kalata said:
I think it is important to note the following thing:

Aces High, Caught Somewhere In Time, Out Of The Silent Planet and The Final Frontier (Satellite 15...) - the intro of all those songs is never played live (it was played through the PA system).
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The only exception to this would be "The Number of the Beast". When the spoken intro tape failed to start, Bruce made up by reciting the bit:
 
Some songs have minor changes live:

Sanctuary - the bit with the crowd participation just before the end of the song.
BYD... TTS - has a ''yeah-yeah'' intro from Bruce.
DOD - has a voice tape intro live.
TAATG - it was shorter live in 1998.
OOTSP - the intro was skipped in 2001.
MITRM - the intro was skipped in 2005.
FHTE - it was longer live in Donington '92.
Running Free and Drifter - both are longer live.
Paschendale - has a intro tape with sound effects and Bruce's voice.
WED and Revelations - both have intro tapes (LOTB tour + Early Days tour for WED too).
 
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Kalata said:
Some songs have minor changes live:

Sanctuary - the bit with the crowd participation just before the end of the song.
BYD... TTS - has a ''yeah-yeah'' intro from Bruce.
DOD - has a voice tape intro live.
TAATG - it was shorter live in 1998.
MITRM - the intro was skipped in 2005.
FHTE - it was longer live in Donington '92.
Running Free and Drifter - both are longer live.
Paschendale - has a intro tape with sound effects and Bruce's voice.
WED and Revelations - have a intro tapes (LOTB tour + Early Days tour for WED too).
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Sometimes there is only 1 verse after the solos in Killers and Where Eagles Dare live, and sometime the intro of Revelations is only played twice rather than 4 times.
 
srfc said:
Sometimes there is only 1 verse after the solos in Killers and Where Eagles Dare live, and sometime the intro of Revelations is only played twice rather than 4 times.
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If I'm not mistaken, ''Drifter'' was also changed live during the Early Days tour (at least in Ullevi 2005) - Adrian's solo was shorter and they added a third solo played by Janick just before the end of the song.
 
Update:

I decided to change this:

Invasion: 1, 2 (played on Adrian Smith's first concert @ Brunel University, Uxbridge, England (waiting for confirmation), and probably also on the next 1-3 gigs)
Women in Uniform: 2 (played on Adrian Smith's first concert @ Brunel University, Uxbridge, England; (waiting for confirmation), probably also on the next 1-7 gigs; at least it was played in Newcastle)


into:

Invasion: 1
Women in Uniform: 2 (played in Newcastle, perhaps also on some other of Adrian Smith's first Maiden gigs)
 
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Of all the 43 never played live songs, I want to see the most:

Alexander The Great
Childhood's End
Deja-Vu
Empire Of The Clouds
Face In The Sand
Isle Of Avalon
Judas Be My Guide
Montségur
Mother Russia
Only The Good Die Young
Shadows Of The Valley
Starblind
The Duellists
The Nomad
The Thin Line Between Love And Hate
 
@Kalata started (and I added to) an overview of songs that were played but never appeared on video footage (official, unofficial, does not matter).
Included some songs without audio proof: most probably played live in the seventies, and in one case 1984.

1975-1980:
01 Strange World
02 Burning Ambition (a wild guess, but probably a good one, since it is one of Steve's oldest songs and it would make sense if that was played, e.g. in a time when the band did not have many songs yet (maybe the band stated that it was played, can't remember where at the moment)
03 Highway Road in Time
04 Jailbreak
05 Prodigal Son
06 I've Got the Fire
07 The Ides of March
08 Invasion
09 Women in Uniform

1981:
10 Twilight Zone
11 Genghis Khan

1984:
12 Back in the Village (In 1985 Adrian said it was dropped from the set (beginning of World Slavery Tour in Poland), unless he was talking about a rehearsal. In the early nineties he said Maiden never played it. See Pages 5, 6 and 12 of this thread)

1984-1985:
13 Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)

1986:
14 The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner

1998:
15 Don't Look to the Eyes of a Stranger

post-1998: nothing escapes us anymore.


More 1970s songs @Magnus ?
 
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I put this together when trying to answer the question - "how often has the band played reunion era songs, after the initial tour"?

Brave New World
  • 2000: five songs were played during all 77 shows (The Wicker Man, Brave New World, Ghost of the Navigator, Blood Brothers, Dream of Mirrors). The Mercenary was played 74 times, and The Fallen Angel 3 times.
  • 2001: only 6 concerts this year. Six songs (The Wicker Man, Brave New World, Ghost of the Navigator, Blood Brothers, Dream of Mirrors, The Mercenary) were played at each. The Fallen Angel and Out of the Silent Planet were played 4 times.
  • 2002: only 3 concerts this year. Six songs were played at each (The Wicker Man, Brave New World, Ghost of the Navigator, Blood Brothers, Dream of Mirrors, The Mercenary)
  • 2003: 89 shows were played. Brave New World 65 times, The Wicker Man 54 times.
  • 2004: 14 shows were played. Brave New World each time.
  • 2010: The Wicker Man, Brave New World, Ghost of the Navigator, and Blood Brothers were played at all 36 shows.
  • 2011: The Wicker Man and Blood Brothers were played at all 62 shows.
  • 2016: Blood Brothers played at all 72 shows.
  • 2017: Blood Brothers played at all 45 shows.
  • 2018: The Wicker Man played at all 38 shows.
  • 2019: The Wicker Man played at all 44 shows.
  • 2022: Blood Brothers played at all 57 shows.
Dance of Death
  • 2003: Wildest Dreams was played at all 89 shows. Five songs (Rainmaker, No More Lies, Dance of Death, Passchendale, Journeyman) were played at 34 shows.
  • 2004: all six of those songs were played at all 14 shows (except it looks like Journeyman was skipped once - not sure why)
  • 2010: Wildest Dreams and No More Lies were played at all 36 shows. Dance of Death was played 31 times, and Passchendale at the other 5.
  • 2011: Dance of Death was played at all 62 shows.
A Matter of Life and Death
  • 2006: the entire album was played at all 44 shows.
  • 2007: five songs (Different World, These Colours Don't Run, Bright Than A Thousand Suns, The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg, For the Greater Good of God) were played at all 16 shows.
  • 2010: These Colours Don't Run and The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg were played at all 36 shows. It looks like Bright Than A Thousand Suns was played once.
  • 2018: For the Greater Good of God was played at all 38 shows.
  • 2019: For the Greater Good of God was played at all 44 shows.
The Final Frontier
  • 2010: El Dorado was played at all 36 shows.
  • 2011: five songs (Satellite 15… The Final Frontier, El Dorado, Coming Home, The Talisman, and When the Wild Wind Blows) were played at all 62 shows.
The Books of Souls
  • 2016: six songs (If Eternity Should Fail, Speed of Light, The Red and the Black, The Book of Souls, Death or Glory, Tears of a Clown) were played at all 72 shows
  • 2017: six songs were played at all 45 shows (take the above list, remove Tears of a Clown, add The Great Unknown)
Senjutsu
  • 2022: three songs (Senjutsu, Stratego, The Writing on the Wall) were played at all 57 shows
  • 2023: five songs (The Writing on the Wall, Days of Future Past, The Time Machine, Death of the Celts, Hell on Earth) were played at all 37 shows
  • 2024: so far, the same five songs have been played at every show
 
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Murder of Rue Morgue said:
It's indeed five.

The Writing on the Wall, Days of Future Past, The Time Machine, Death of the Celts, Hell on Earth. Same as 2023.

Which brings Senjutsu's total to 7 out of 10 played live. One of the highest ratios of the reunion era.
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There's two ways to look at it. The positive spin - the band has played (from BNW onwards) 8/10, 6/11, 10/10, 5/10, 7/11 and 7/10 songs live. That's 43 out of 62, or nearly 70%. That tells me that the band believes in their new music, and they want to give fans the chance to experience these songs live.

The negative spin - from 2012 onwards, only three songs (The Wicker Man, Blood Brothers, and FTGOG) were played beyond the initial album tour. It looks like there will be no reunion era songs played in 2025 and 2026. That works out to just three reunion era songs (outside the initial album tour) in 15 years.

I know it will never happen, but I would have liked to see a tour focusing on the reunion era. (Something like 3 songs from BNW, 1-2 song from each of the other five reunion albums, and then you can still include 4-5 "safe" choices).
 
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