RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 2025 Tour Thread *SPOILERS INSIDE*

They showed snippets of Wrathchild, Run To The Hills and Fear Of The Dark from Graspop on tv news. The balloon birthday wishes, a stunt from Studio Brussel Deejay Eva, was liked by Bruce and was posted on Maiden´s instagram page. One young 10 year old kid was interviewed and he said Steve was his favourite member and the reason he plays bass too.
 
Vaenyr said:
This is genuinely, unironically fucking awesome.

This might be one of my favorite versions of Aces High. I've said it plenty of times, but there are barely any live versions of that song that I actually enjoy (even in the 80s it didn't work as a live song for me). Here, due to being sick, Bruce made the smart choice of altering the vocal lines, sing more with his lower and mid range, and sing altered harmonies for the chorus. And it sounds fucking fantastic.

Seriously, the way he sings the second half of the verses sounds like something he'd do on his solo albums in the 90s. I'd take this version of Aces High over any that I've heard in the last 15 years. Y'all gotta remember: just because it's not identical to the studio version doesn't mean it's bad. Use your ears, this sounds far more musical than Bruce straining to hell and barking to even hope to reach the notes for the second half of the verses (as he normally does when not sick).
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I am curious at this and I'm sorry that I missed the video before it got hanged
 
MindRuler said:
They showed snippets of Wrathchild, Run To The Hills and Fear Of The Dark from Graspop on tv news. The balloon birthday wishes, a stunt from Studio Brussel Deejay Eva, was liked by Bruce and was posted on Maiden´s instagram page. One young 10 year old kid was interviewed and he said Steve was his favourite member and the reason he plays bass too.
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What channel? If you tell me the channel and time I might be able to find it
 
Abas said:
I am curious at this and I'm sorry that I missed the video before it got hanged
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Ignore anyone who says it was like Blaze singing the Trooper, it's literally the opposite of that.

Blaze could hit high notes here and there, but songs like The Trooper required him to sing the entire thing outside of his range. Constantly having to reach for notes he simply couldn't perform in a sustainable way regularly. Which is exactly what Bruce has to do in the second half of Aces High's verses when he is not sick.

So, instead of straining even more and risking blowing out his voice due to being sick, Bruce stayed in his mid and low range and changed the vocal lines. This obviously sounded very differently to the studio version, but he sounded absolutely phenomenal, due to still having great control over his voice in the lower registers, despite being sick. It's a bit like a lot of the sections on Senjutsu (notably large parts of Lost In A Lost World for example), where he sings extended periods without the air ride siren.

For the chorus he chose to let the crowd sing a couple of lines and for the rest sang lower harmonies, while sounding phenomenal.

Again: Not a single person has explained how him sounding more relaxed and singing everything in key translates to him sounding "horrible", especially when he genuinely sounds tortured when trying to sing the song the regular way when he's healthy. That is when he sounds like Blaze; not when he alters the melodies to accomodate his currently diminished range.

Hopefully someone will reupload the video so that you can listen to it and form your opinion, but I hope you approach it with an open mind. Just because it's not identical to the studio version doesn't mean it was bad.
 
Vaenyr said:
Bruce stayed in his mid and low range and changed the vocal lines. This obviously sounded very differently to the studio version, but he sounded absolutely phenomenal,
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Ok. How much did Brucey payed you for posting this. :lol:
Vaenyr said:
For the chorus he chose to let the crowd sing a couple of lines and for the rest sang lower harmonies, while sounding phenomenal.
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And some more Pounds Sterling coming your way.
Vaenyr said:
Hopefully someone will reupload the video
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God forbid! Or to quote it with one of his own better sung babies: hell no! :ahhh:
Vaenyr said:
Just because it's not identical to the studio version doesn't mean it was bad.
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Oh it was...
 
Bruce did a good job to protect his voice.
The result was bad, because it's a song that needs energy, high notes etc. It needs to be like the studio version to work. Bruce sounded like Ian Gillan nowadays.
It's nice that Bruce protected his vocal cords from exploding, but the song sounds bad either way.
He, of course, had total control of his voice and that's better than his strained high notes anyway.
 
@GhostofCain @MindRuler

Again, I ask of you to actually use your words to explain why it was "godawful". His mid and low range sounded powerful and consistent, with strong vibrato, all throughout the track.

His usual ("healthy") performances of Aces High nowadays don't sound anything like that. They quite literally sound like Blaze did on Bruce's songs: Straining and barking to reach notes, without any musicality or technique to speak of. He sounds awful in the second half of the verse once the key changes. So, seriously:

Please use your words to explain your thoughts instead of joking around. It's getting pretty old, especially when the raised criticisms (the Blaze comparison) are pretty much the opposite of what happened.

I've had my fair share of negativity and criticisms for Maiden over the years, but this thread currently feels like some members are just here to vent their frustrations, regardless of how valid the actual complaint ends up being.
 
Vaenyr said:
Hopefully someone will reupload the video so that you can listen to it and form your opinion, but I hope you approach it with an open mind. Just because it's not identical to the studio version doesn't mean it was bad.
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In the nicest way possible: it fucking sucked. There's a stark difference between an alternative vocal line that's melodically interesting and an alternative vocal line that sounds awful in context of the song and in general because the singer's voice is completely shot due to illness.
 
Vaenyr said:
I've had my fair share of negativity and criticisms for Maiden over the years, but this thread currently feels like some members are just here to vent their frustrations, regardless of how valid the actual complaint ends up being.
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I went to the Helsinki show and it was amazing!
So no negativity or criticism about that. Rime was jawdroppingly good! Bruce shined there!
At the Helsinki gig Aces High was far from perfect but at least enyoable. This years Graspop version of Aces High was, to say it in the nicest possible way, not good. I guess my ears don´t hear what yours do and we agree to disagree on this one. :)
 
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