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Now that's my kinda gig!Was there a Lisbon event shirt?
Oh, Lisbon. My bad.
Now that's my kinda gig!Was there a Lisbon event shirt?
As a yorkshireman this made me chuckleI feel like I agree it's always been a huge staple and a live highlight for many fans (especially those who are seeing them for the first time) but I
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.
It's bloody Wentworth bloody golf course! If the Queen played golf, she'd play 'ere!As a yorkshireman this made me chuckle
SE Asia is a great base to catch Maiden from on the ‘global’ leg. I was fully Singapore based during Future Past last year and caught 4 of the Aussie shows. Brilliant experience.Madrid sound iffy, crowd fantastic. As I live in Bangkok fingers crossed 2026 something works for me in Japan through Australia.
I got many of my first experiences with heavy metal and hard rock from Guitar Hero 2 and 3, and the first Rock Band. It came out at the perfect age for me, I got Guitar Hero 3 for my fifteenth birthday. It very much shaped my taste in music, and got me into the older bands of the genre.I know things have moved on and this is purely anecdotal and a very small sample size- but I’ve had a number of youngsters say ‘oh- you like Iron Maiden?! Brah, that song is so hard!’
Then through some digging I learned The Trooper was a song on Rock Band. Not suggesting this is the equivalent of radio airplay but that game has definitely added Maiden to the cultural consciousness of a younger audience.
I hope you did the right thing and turned to them and said "So you 'like' Iron Maiden too huh, kid? Alright, name every song on No Prayer for the Dying" and sent him scurrying away.I know things have moved on and this is purely anecdotal and a very small sample size- but I’ve had a number of youngsters say ‘oh- you like Iron Maiden?! Brah, that song is so hard!’
Then through some digging I learned The Trooper was a song on Rock Band. Not suggesting this is the equivalent of radio airplay but that game has definitely added Maiden to the cultural consciousness of a younger audience.
Is this you?I hope you did the right thing and turned to them and said "So you 'like' Iron Maiden too huh, kid? Alright, name every song on No Prayer for the Dying" and sent him scurrying away.
Where did you find that picture of me??Is this you?
I wish we were getting the full songs proshot.A little proshots from portugal concert...
Dave Sullivan! Nice to see him again. He didn't expect the band to be this big now.A little proshots from portugal concert...
A little proshots from portugal concert...
Maybe im wrong but its dark probably because of phone used is not so good in capture images in a darker place.Here's a screen recording of Run To The Hills (the stage is quite dark for it) from Madrid. What a crowd!![]()
My problem is with the drum sound. Until 2022, it was crystal clear and well-defined. Since future past, it sounds like the kit is behind a wall of mud, lacking definition, dirty. Idk, it does not sound as it should to me.They all also mentioned the bad live sound. Pooch, what has happened to you?
I think this could be a combination of 2 things. Nicko's stroke caused him to lose a LOT of power. So I think Pooch needed to compensate that with gates. Full strength Nicko was amazing and the fact is that if you don't hit the drums with intent, they don't sound right and are harder to capture with microphones.My problem is with the drum sound. Until 2022, it was crystal clear and well-defined. Since future past, it sounds like the kit is behind a wall of mud, lacking definition, dirty. Idk, it does not sound as it should to me.
Bands in massive shows use triggers (prerecorded samples that fire when you hit each drum) or in some instances a combination of trigger and live sound. So the size of the drums and the kit is largely irrelevant.I am no drummer and have no idea of music theory or whatever but I am not yet deaf. Nicko had a big kit, rolls, fills, everything sound different in a big kit, in Simon's small kit it's like the sound does not change. No matter the roll or the fill every hit sounds the same. Might be wrong, but the songs sound different to me.