RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 2025 Tour Thread *SPOILERS INSIDE*

matic22 said:
Isn't that the infamous Radio City Music Hall with 4 dates in a row, after which Bruce wanted to kill Rod because of overbooking and went borderline insane?-
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Apparently five nights in a row, which is insane. Makes for a very interesting listen though. The quality of the bootleg is pretty good as well, so I'd recommend it to anyone who would like to hear Maiden under somewhat different circumstances.

Also, the audience is pretty great, during The Trooper they are singing along every word, making it difficult to hear Bruce at times.
 
Vaenyr said:
Apparently five nights in a row, which is insane. Makes for a very interesting listen though. The quality of the bootleg is pretty good as well, so I'd recommend it to anyone who would like to hear Maiden under somewhat different circumstances.

Also, the audience is pretty great, during The Trooper they are singing along every word, making it difficult to hear Bruce at times.
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Bruce mentions this gig specifically in the early days documentary. He was sat down for most of the show because he was so ill.
 
The Dissident said:
Okay I'm missing something here, can someone explain what an "Also ran" song is? I'm sure I missed what it means in catching up in the thread.
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English isn't my first language, but as far as I know "also ran" is used in a competition for someone who didn't win. They participated, they "also ran" (as in the ran too), but they didn't win.

In this case it would mean that it wasn't one of their best known songs, but simply another contender.
 
Vaenyr said:
English isn't my first language, but as far as I know "also ran" is used in a competition for someone who didn't win. They participated, they "also ran" (as in the ran too), but they didn't win.

In this case it would mean that it wasn't one of their best known songs, but simply another contender.
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Yes that’s precisely what it means. Trooper was historically one of their well known songs, but not one of the absolute top most famous ones like Run to the Hills and The Number of the Beast. Pretty simple.
 
Spaldy said:
Bruce mentions this gig specifically in the early days documentary. He was sat down for most of the show because he was so ill.
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Rod I'm ill.

How ill? (Yorkshire accent)

I'm really ill.

You can do it tonight can't you? (Yorkshire accent)

And then I spend the gig just sitting on the drum raiser.

What's he doing on stage! He shouldn't be on stage! (Yorkshire accent)


Paraphrased from the twenty five times I've seen it.
 
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Ok, TIL that The Trooper is as famous as Run to the Hills and The Number of the Beast I guess. I hear both of those on the radio every second day, I don’t think I’ve ever heard The Trooper on the radio once in my life.
 
BludBrutha said:
Ok, TIL that The Trooper is as famous as Run to the Hills and The Number of the Beast I guess. I hear both of those on the radio every second day, I don’t think I’ve ever heard The Trooper on the radio once in my life.
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FWIW, most of the casual Maiden/rock radio fans I know are familiar with the Trooper, RTTH, NOTB, and Fear of the Dark. And maybe Wasted Years
 
The Trooper never got a lot of radio play, but it has been well integrated via popular media. A casual example that always comes to mind is the song ending up in the book World War Z. So while I would think that in, say, 1985, The Trooper wasn't as well known as Run to the Hills, by 2025 I would think it absolutely is.
 
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