RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 2025 Tour Thread *SPOILERS INSIDE*

Courbet said:
Admittedly, I’m not as familiar with tempos and musical knowledge as many here (like I have no idea was 12/8 is lol) but could you give me a time specific for the Hallowed that’s linked?
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I had to skim through to find what was wrong with Hallowed, listen to the ending part, after the solos. One of the guitars starts playing the (normally) harmonized lead riff, the other instead continues to ply the power chords. Bruce tries to enter with the vocals to salvage the ending, but at that point they simply abandon the song. The whole "yeah, hallowed be thy name" section was fucked up. But they did manage to play the final seconds correct again. Actually pretty fun to hear them do mistakes of that caliber, since they're usually overall tight as a unit (not talking about individual mistakes).

As for the 12/8 thing: That's this triplet-feeling meter that's in a bunch of songs. For example, Rime starts out in regular 4/4 but the ' "There", calls the mariner, "There comes a ship over the line" ' part is in 12/8.

22 Acacia Avenue is another one that starts out in 4/4 and changes to 12/8 in the 'Charlotte can't you get out from all this madness?' section. Losfer Words starts out in 12/8, as does Montsegur or Quest For Fire, and (you guessed it) the second half of The Book Of Souls (after the second chorus) uses that meter as well.

Pretty difficult trying to get this across in writing, but I hope this made some kind of sense.
 
Prowler said:
Weakest opener they could have chosen. In hindsight, (now that we know that Aces High is in the encore) they should have opened with Aces High to get it out of the way. Murders is not a hit, not an iconic opener and most importantly the performance is meh.
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Murders do the job, but it's not an anthem or a hit, so the weakest opener is probably right. I think it's popular because of BOH, but the opener of LAD is probably more popular. Just saying. I think it was chosen over Prowler because it's faster. I still think Wrathchild would be a very nice opener from the list. Or 2 Minutes, for example.
 
Btw, despite the technical and other errors, the performances on the videos I can watch from Stockholm's 1st night (Powerslave, Wrathchild, Number, Fear, Hallowed) are very solid. Making Seventh Son 3+minutes is too much! Some songs are a bit slower, like Wrathchild for example. Odd. Also, Simon isn't as ''clean fills'' drummer as Nicko. And he can't play Murders like Nicko or Clive. The feel of the transitions isn't just there, it's different.
 
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dickinson1978 said:

Murders is a good song to open. But i think it has lost aggressiveness. It was 20 years ago since this awesome show. 20 years!
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Yep, amazing show and now just had to put on again. I saw the show just before this and I remember watching this one live from tv when it was going. It was just neat to see proshot show couple days later my own show. I think 2005 and 2008 were among their finest times ever.
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Glad to see it remastered and fixed the missing starting vocals from the original broadcast on Murders In The Rue Morgue.
 
PhantomOfTheOpera said:
Yep, amazing show and now just had to put on again. I saw the show just before this and I remember watching this one live from tv when it was going. It was just neat to see proshot show couple days later my own show. I think 2005 and 2008 were among their finest times ever.
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Glad to see it remastered and fixed the missing starting vocals from the original broadcast on Murders In The Rue Morgue.
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And what you say about the missing starting vocals happens from time to time. Dont know why I remember moonchild 2012.

About the finiest moments that are from 1999 to 2008. In 2010 to 2013 and 2017 to 2019 they were as good as usual but bruce is decrasing the stamina each tour. Normal for a person at his age
 
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dickinson1978 said:
And what you say about the missing starting vocals happens from time to time. Dont know why I remember moonchild 2012.

About the finiest moments that are from 1999 to 2008. In 2010 to 2013 and 2017 to 2019 they were as good as usual but bruce is decrasing the stamina each tour. Normal for a person at his age
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Do you have any specific show from 2012 in mind when you mentioned Moonchild's missing starting vocals?

I agree with the years you mentioned—it was absolute greatness from 1999 onwards.

I think Bruce can't avoid aging, which is, of course, part of being human. Even though he’s taken great care of his voice, it’s too bad they decided to release a show from 2019 for Legacy of the Beast, especially since he sounded much better at the earlier tour dates in 2018. At his age, his voice can still hold up, but maybe it's better to avoid overly long tours or at least make sure his voice gets proper rest between performances. I don’t really understand the logic behind recording a live album toward the end of such a long run. While the 2019 leg wasn’t much longer than 2018, there’s still a noticeable contrast between some of those performances.

Live After Death was also recorded toward the end of a long tour, and even with all its status, it’s certainly not a completely fair representation of Bruce’s voice at its best. I love that live album—it's one of the greatest of all time—but it’s still odd that the band could have easily recorded and released material from earlier shows that might have captured a stronger performance.

And it seems like they still haven’t fully grasped that Aces High really shouldn’t be played as an encore—it would be better off earlier in the set. After all, even Bruce himself has said it’s one of the hardest songs for him to sing in the setlist.
 
Shavasku said:
Wasn't it Rock In Rio 2013?
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That's what I was thinking because 2012 doesn't ring a bell concerning proshots?
Rock In Rio 2013 misses the first lines, while 2014 Rock Am Ring has it going from the start.
Can't recall how often this has happened..have to dig deeper to my collection someday when got time for it.
 
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PhantomOfTheOpera said:
Do you have any specific show from 2012 in mind when you mentioned Moonchild's missing starting vocals?

I agree with the years you mentioned—it was absolute greatness from 1999 onwards.

I think Bruce can't avoid aging, which is, of course, part of being human. Even though he’s taken great care of his voice, it’s too bad they decided to release a show from 2019 for Legacy of the Beast, especially since he sounded much better at the earlier tour dates in 2018. At his age, his voice can still hold up, but maybe it's better to avoid overly long tours or at least make sure his voice gets proper rest between performances. I don’t really understand the logic behind recording a live album toward the end of such a long run. While the 2019 leg wasn’t much longer than 2018, there’s still a noticeable contrast between some of those performances.

Live After Death was also recorded toward the end of a long tour, and even with all its status, it’s certainly not a completely fair representation of Bruce’s voice at its best. I love that live album—it's one of the greatest of all time—but it’s still odd that the band could have easily recorded and released material from earlier shows that might have captured a stronger performance.

And it seems like they still haven’t fully grasped that Aces High really shouldn’t be played as an encore—it would be better off earlier in the set. After all, even Bruce himself has said it’s one of the hardest songs for him to sing in the setlist.
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This,i was there and i think in this tour it happened often. But its because the microphone
 
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