Legacy of the Beast Tour 2018 - CONTAINS SPOILERS

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Gk1 said:
Well, having heard the full show I am starting to feel that maybe it is time they tried
downtuning.What about that???Anyone?
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If they’re doing a new album and want to stay somewhat relevant, I think they *really* have to change something now. The parts that sound the best and most honest on the current tour are the calm parts in SOTC and FTGGOG, while the loud mish-mash is starting to sound a bit pointless imo.
As I’ve said before, them going heavier and slower, more sabbathy and doomy incl. downtune could work very well now.
 
jazz from hell said:
If they’re doing a new album and want to stay somewhat relevant, I think they *really* have to change something now.
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The issue here is that we're dealing with Steve Harris. This is a guy who has a rusty bass rig and a battered 40 year old bass because he literally refuses to change even that. If he didn't detune for Blaze and was skeptical about doing it on BoS I don't think we're gonna see any big time changes in the future
 
But they did successfully try out downtuning on BOS. And Steve is a ‘gut feeling’ guy, perhaps he can feel it too: they’re more effective when they’re ‘vibe-y’ than when they’re just fast and loud (and muddy) — IMO.
 
jazz from hell said:
But they did successfully try out downtuning on BOS. And Steve is a ‘gut feeling’ guy, perhaps he can feel it too: they’re more effective when they’re ‘vibe-y’ than when they’re just fast and loud (and muddy).
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Very true, perhaps the next album will be more lenient on experimentation because of how it worked out on BoS, Steve may have liked it after all ‍♂️

Talking of detuning, did the band detune when playing originally detuned songs live on the BoS tour? Steve used his single bass all the way through so I'm curious
 
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But they did successfully try out downtuning on BOS. And Steve is a ‘gut feeling’ guy, perhaps he can feel it too: they’re more effective when they’re ‘vibe-y’ than when they’re just fast and loud (and muddy) — IMO.
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Well, drop D isn't exactly downtuning IMO. Downtuning would be Eb standard or so... It's just a flavour.

It was also only Jan and H.
 
jazz from hell said:
But they did successfully try out downtuning on BOS. And Steve is a ‘gut feeling’ guy, perhaps he can feel it too: they’re more effective when they’re ‘vibe-y’ than when they’re just fast and loud (and muddy) — IMO.
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I bet Steve didn’t detune

He didn’t detune when the others did for mother of mercy
 
Well this is the thing. When H is improvising it is almost always something great while Jan is just ruining the song.
 
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phantomoftheicarus said:
The issue here is that we're dealing with Steve Harris. This is a guy who has a rusty bass rig and a battered 40 year old bass because he literally refuses to change even that. If he didn't detune for Blaze and was skeptical about doing it on BoS I don't think we're gonna see any big time changes in the future
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After cancer scare with Bruce and current tour setlist I think that Steve may agree to some new things.
 
Poto said:
Time to make that country/western album.
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I actually would be interested to hear a full-on acoustic album by the band, but definitely not if they kept the song lengths - one Journeyman is more than enough. Also, 'Arry probably couldn't hear it anyway, so it's not likely, really.
 
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