Iron Lurker
Ancient Mariner
It's Perun's fault......
Legacy of the Beast Tour 2018 - CONTAINS SPOILERS
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Gk1
Here I sit in a serenade of glory!
I don't have a problem with almost any of his songs up till 1992
Iron Lurker
Ancient Mariner
So for 12 years you liked Steve, for the last 26 years you have not....okay...what are your thoughts on the Reunion Era, as a whole?
Number 6
Ancient Mariner
He dislikes the reunion era, and has always been very vocal about it IIRC.
Xennon
Educated Fool
Such as replacing "Alexander the Great" with "Brucie the Little" everytime we write it?
That would be a deterrent factor for me.
Ps. @Dangerina liked this.
Demigod_Tyek
Powerslave
I think FTTGOG is the weakest part of the setlist.
I like the song, and I'm excited to see it live, but there are so many other songs on A Matter of Life and Death I like more than this one. FTGGOG is near the bottom for me on the album.
But I don't think they'll change it. I don't know what they'd replace it for, and if they went with The Red and the Black for two years in a row (which almost universally had low crowd reaction), then I'm sure they'll keep FTGGOG in. That's assuming they even replace songs because of crowd reaction, which I just don't see Maiden doing.
I like the song, and I'm excited to see it live, but there are so many other songs on A Matter of Life and Death I like more than this one. FTGGOG is near the bottom for me on the album.
But I don't think they'll change it. I don't know what they'd replace it for, and if they went with The Red and the Black for two years in a row (which almost universally had low crowd reaction), then I'm sure they'll keep FTGGOG in. That's assuming they even replace songs because of crowd reaction, which I just don't see Maiden doing.
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Demigod_Tyek
Powerslave
Clansman and Sign of the Cross will be the biggest treats for me this tour, but I'm scared to death they'll replace at least one of these for the second leg. I really hope they keep the setlist exactly the same for next year.
Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
I agree. It is likeable but so repetitive and it is harmed by a poor intro (other recent good, long songs such as "The Book of Souls" and "The Red and the Black" also suffer from this latter problem).
Crazy. I absolutely love those intros, and the FTGGOG intro has what is probably my favourite vocal performance of Bruce's...
Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
By "intro", I mean the instrumental part before the vocals come in.
Number 6
Ancient Mariner
I like it. It's a nice forshadowing of the melodies that would be further developed later in the song.By "intro", I mean the instrumental part before the vocals come in.
Naty
Educated Fool
Exactly... how is the crowd reaction in FTGGOG any different from the reaction in The Red and The Black? Or even in SOTC? I think the low reaction becomes more evident in FTGGOG only because Bruce asks for crowd participation. FTGGOG is also the centerpiece of the religion theme so I don't think they will take the song out of the setlist. I surely hope not.
Edington
Last Son of The Miracle
Just to chip in, I love For the Greater Good of God. It may be repetitive, but it's such a powerful piece of music - how anyone could hear the instrumental middle section without getting chills is beyond me. I think the somewhat lukewarm reaction to it so far is probably just audience unfamiliarity, Maiden haven't played the song for over ten years after all.
Never thought I'd hear anything from AMOLAD (my third favourite album) live, so I was so pleased to hear Maiden were playing one of my favourite songs from it, if they drop it I'll be devastated.
Never thought I'd hear anything from AMOLAD (my third favourite album) live, so I was so pleased to hear Maiden were playing one of my favourite songs from it, if they drop it I'll be devastated.
They play four songs from POM, so I was wondering- is it because POM is maybe the only album from the classic era that's among top 5 to all the band members? Just guessing, considering that IM and TNOTB were the only classic records that had 2 or 3 songs on some previous setlists.
Number 6
Ancient Mariner
Yes, and they're probably playing more songs from POM now because very few were played in the last few years. Nothing to do with the band's Top 5, as you mentioned. Like I said, if that were the case, we would be seeing a lot more Seventh Son songs, since it is known to be much loved by the entire band.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
I think that and Tears Of A Clown had low crowd reaction during the first leg of TBOS tour, but they played it 72 times ! Well, for the second leg they replaced it with another new song, but in this case FTGGOG can be replaced by a classic.
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