Legacy of the Beast Tour 2018 - CONTAINS SPOILERS

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Wogmidget said:
There are no bootlegs whatsoever from the second show in Yugoslavia, so there exists a fantastically slim possibility that a handful of extremely lucky slavs actually experienced ATG live
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No, it would be known.
 
nicko should just blackmail the band for ATG if he wants to play it

THIS TOUR OR I QUIT
 
Zare said:
No, it would be known. Alexander is highly popular here because Macedon guitar music was booming in 70s and 80s, mainly through Leb i Sol, Vlatko Stefanovski. It is the SiT epic, i know people that attended all Maiden shows in mid-1980s in ex-Yu and they'd knew it.
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ah leb i sol, would have loved to catch em live, but Bijelo Dugme last year was amazing as well
 
Sadly, they did not play ATG in any of the shows in Yugoslavia, and they only played TLOTLDR in Belgade. It seems like even then they were not satisfied how songs from that album sound live.
 
Is there any good footage for RTTH from Helsinki - I really want to see that white V guitar of Adrian :)
 
I got up to leave just as RTTH just started and totally missed Adrian's Flying V. Woulda probably seen it if not for the awful, steep stairs at the arena making the trip down to the exit a very precarious experience. I did hear the rest of the tune though, had to stop and wonder at Bruce basically sounding like the album original.
 
As he gets older, Bruce looks after himself better. He performs on stage like he really has something to prove. I believe this is why he sounds even better than he did in the 1980s and the 1990s. He was never as motivated as he is now, especially in the aftermath of the cancer.
 
Xennon said:
As he gets older, Bruce looks after himself better. He performs on stage like he really has something to prove. I believe this is why he sounds even better than he did in the 1980s and the 1990s. He was never as motivated as he is now, especially in the aftermath of the cancer.
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Since 97' vocally Bruce is better than ever. This may be blasphemy but I think that during show in 1980s he was terrible most of the time, even if he was great in studio. Now he has more discipline.
 
CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
That clip from Janick's side is the only one I see up on YT. You can see Adrian's definitely playing a white flying V in it; just a glimpse though.
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Thanks ! I really want to see a picture of Adrian with that guitar - it will suits him. I think he have that guitar since the DOD tour...
 
Meliegree said:
Since 97' vocally Bruce is better than ever. This may be blasphemy but I think that during show in 1980s he was terrible most of the time, even if he was great in studio. Now he has more discipline.
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I agree. I would not enjoy listening to any SIT song if he will sing it like he did in 1986. But honestly, I am sure he is able to make it ten times better now. And since 97 (with ups and downs in between), I believe he developed some techniques to manage his breath better / keep his voice more intact during a 2 hour show. He seems to be at his maximum in LOTB. Let's hope it continues this way.
 
7th son said:
Sadly, they did not play ATG in any of the shows in Yugoslavia, and they only played TLOTLDR in Belgade. It seems like even then they were not satisfied how songs from that album sound live.
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I have, and have listened, to every SiT bootleg rated as 8+/A sound by taper, where score is reviewed and potentially corrected by trader himself. My personal opinion with problems in SiT live recreation, vs a hypothetical today's performance;

- Sonor tin can sound in the 1980s live. Vs. very roomy, highly reverberated and deep sound of studio drums. This is not true for last 20 years, especially when Shirley came in. It would be possible to recreate studio SiT drum sound today in concert.
- Lead guitar sound was ok then compared to the record and today it would be better. Maiden have enough staff to put the sound workload on them. When someone on stage flicks a pedal switch he don't necessarily care how many rack amps and effects were mangled in the backstage and how his audio signal changed routing.
- Rhythm guitar wasn't ok back then since it was completely chorus drowned and lacks the grit and distortion. On record the rhythm guitars were immense due to excellent balancing of acoustics and electronic effects, e.g. natural amp/room reverb gave it volume and widening while compressor gave it attack and spikes. If they did it today, they have three guitars on disposal where the bulk of rhythm sound can be through the usual Marshall stack, just not fully dry sound from all 3 at once to give it a spacey feel. When Smith plays Wickerman, there's a riff acting as intro and outro for the solo, on outro run he nowadays turns on something like flanger or phaser or chorus that makes it wet. Something like this.
- Bass, the usual business back then and now.
- Synths, offloaded to Keeney
- Vocals, Dickinson far better today than he ever was in the complete 1980s

So what's left? Stamina to perform the songs, and the willingness to put out 100% into them live from all band members. The problem is somewhere between those, where they might muster the stamina and recreate the energy live by putting 100% in the performance, which they won't do because obviously they don't rate SiT 100% collectively as a band.

Dickinson/Smith vs Harris argument over FOI tempo wasn't a political issue. Seems to me that Harris didn't feel the song at original tempo and had greater problems adapting to it than those two on the sped up version. The confirmation of this is today's performances where Nicko lays down an even more tight groove at the original tempo and Harris is extremely tight and into it, apart from the bass fills where he's still a bit too fast. Again this displays their reluctance of playing anything the whole band doesn't breathe with.

Simply put, no Alexander the Great because Harris and Dickinson don't like it, no some other SiT stuff because someone else in the band might think its meh.
 
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