100% agreed. I'd even go further... After listening to a ton of clips from TFP tour I think the last time he sounded noticeably better was the Maiden England Tour. In some tracks he sounds way less raspy (WOTW and Wasted Years are great examples).
Since the 2018 tour imo. And yeah, TWOTW sounds better live.
I don't see an epics tour being feasible or working out well, but we'll see.
Me too. I don't think that was a serious thought from Bruce.
next your will be one for the masses and not the fans. the closest we'll ever get to a tour for the fans is TFP. My two cents.
Probably, but that doesn't mean the setlist will be the same old classics again. I hope and think they will continue with the fresh approach and with at least 3-4 deep cuts.
...or something else. They could revisit Powerslave or Seventh Son again, they could do another hybrid sort of tour, we don't really know anything at this point.
They've already done 2 big tours revisiting these albums so it should/will be something new. Otherwise it would be so disappointing and boring (even if they play Flash Of The Blade). Why would they want to repeat themselves (now), with the stage too. This is
not their style since the Reunion, they always want to play more new/different songs (Nicko expressed a desire for that for the next tour), new concepts for tours. And why would they want to limit themselves with the songs choices for a 3rd tour in a row? Just call the tour 50 years celebration and you can play whatever you want - and they can still play mostly 80's songs. They can dust off songs like Boots, Murders, Phantom, Wrathchild (I know)...
There won't be a 90's-themed tour, a Reunion-songs tour most likely too, so the choices are limited. I think they could use the hybrid formula with the next album.
I know I'm in the minority on this, but revisiting LAD/Powerslave is probably the least exciting thing they could do and I'd be genuinely disappointed. Please, anything but that.
Agreed.
en.m.wikipedia.org
It was different because of the worlds.
Well, I'm kinda sure that the next tour won't be Clive-recorded tracks heavy. Clive did a lot of things that would be hard for Nicko to play currently (going from what Nicko has stated). Lots of cross handed drumming, snare rolls and non typical fills, which are hard for Nicko at this point.
I think the tour theme/setlist isn't set in stone at this point (although they have some ideas). But will be in a month or two.
I agree about songs from the early days. I think everything around the tour next year is ready. The setlist? Probably the core of it.
I'm more interested in seeing which classics that haven't been played in a while are likely to return.
Yep. Songs like Evil That Men Do, Clairvoyant(?)/Moonchild and even Seventh Son and Infinite Dreams have a chance. Throw in other songs like To Tame A Land/Sun And Steel, Only The Good Die Young, Rime, a surprise from the 90's and/or from the Reunion era (more unexpected than Brave New World) and it's enough for a cool set. After the current tour and Alexander (btw, for which Nicko said the band discussed playing it during the next tour before the 2nd leg of LOTB tour, iirc from a recent interview), everything is possible.
misplacedstraws.com
