I think playing Flash of The Blade live is nearly impossible, due to\"technical\" reasons.
The \"In a corner forgotten by no-one\" and \"One man and his honour\" part of the chorus, where Bruce singing in high notes, (highest notes of the song) and he dubs his vocal by harmonizing first one with even higher notes! (those are bloody high!!
) and it is not a scream, as in the endings of Aces High and Flight of Icarus, where with a raspy voice, one can \"imitate\" the scream on stage. (LADe video). no IM member can back Bruce with those notes on stage.
For the setlist of my dreams: I dream of something new. only that. Where is the excitement of going to a concert, when you know exactly which songs will be played, at which order, and that setlist is preserved for YEARS. I can really live without Trooper, Run To The Hills, The Number of The Beast, Two Minutes to Midnight, Fear of the dark, Clansman played live... I want to hear something new, new interpretations of oldies, as they did in 7th tour [!--emo&:lmao:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/lol.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'lol.gif\' /][!--endemo--] . Maybe with a medley, they could \"compress\" those songs, I don't know! but please, look at Rock in Rio! it is almost the same album with Live at Donnington with onlyFoD songs replaced with BNW songs! rest is unchanged over 10 years, immortal! [!--emo&
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I didn't buy the RiR for that reason. (and it didn't fulfill my expectations, when I listened a friend's copy. I don't want to speculate the motive behind this album)
What I dream of is that Iron Maiden playing with their old sound! It was less boomy, more RAW, powerful and edgy guitars. IMO biggest problem with Blaze era is not Blaze's vocal range, but poor production, poor sound (especailly guitars). Fortunately with Kevin Shirley (and Adrian returning) guitar sound improved in BNW, but this time I find music to be too bassy. There's something which does not feel right for me... I really miss first 5 albums, those 80's days... [!--emo&:rolleyes2:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/rolleyes[2].gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'rolleyes[2].gif\' /][!--endemo--]