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If each band member was promised 500k pounds sterling for playing one NPFTD song for one last time, here are the reactions (individually), the order being the higher the more accepting:

Dawson: Big money for me and I've no problem with it, I say we go for it

Gers: I've got good memories from that period, my first album & tour with the band, I mean, why not?

Murray: *chatting friendly for a minute and a half* ...but yeah, I'll have to wait and see what the big boss thinks

Harris: Gee, I don't know...

Dickinson: No Prayer For What??

Smith: *begins a tantrum*
 
I hope they play to their strengths on their next tour. No need for Aces High, Hallowed and any other song that Bruce struggles with. Murders is another one that doesn't sound right for whatever the reason. Maybe these early days songs don't really fit with the band nowadays. You listen to songs like Powerslave and Seventh Son and you think that they're at their prime and then switch to Hallowed and it's really difficult to not think they're on the decline. They're all such good musicians and Bruce still has it . He's technically better nowadays. They have to pick songs that demonstrate that from now on, because they have at least 10 more years in them. They have so many songs to choose from.
Revelations, Still Life, Remember Tomorrow, Children of the Damned, Stranger in a strange land, Moonchild, OTGDY, No Prayer for the Dying, literally 90% of the Blaze and reunion era...
 
Prowler said:
I hope they play to their strengths on their next tour. No need for Aces High, Hallowed and any other song that Bruce struggles with. Murders is another one that doesn't sound right for whatever the reason. Maybe these early days songs don't really fit with the band nowadays. You listen to songs like Powerslave and Seventh Son and you think that they're at their prime and then switch to Hallowed and it's really difficult to not think they're on the decline. They're all such good musicians and Bruce still has it . He's technically better nowadays. They have to pick songs that demonstrate that from now on, because they have at least 10 more years in them. They have so many songs to choose from.
Revelations, Still Life, Remember Tomorrow, Children of the Damned, Stranger in a strange land, Moonchild, OTGDY, No Prayer for the Dying, literally 90% of the Blaze and reunion era...
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For me the start of the show was one of the highlights of the show. Then ID ROTAM and SSOASS. But the start was great
 
Prowler said:
It's actually my least favourite start of a Maiden gig. Straight to Wrathchild would be better like the album
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I think that they should skip the slow intro of murders like in 2005 but i was into it i enjoyed it. Maybe the end of the show was a bit low for the people that hsve seen maiden many times.
 
Imo it was weird that the opened the album with Sign of the Cross. It should have been the closing track.

Senjutsu is fine as a song, but not as a gig opener.
When you have openers like Aces High, Moonchild, Caught Somewhere in Time, Where Eagles Dare, Wicker Man, it's difficult to open a gin with anything else. These songs are the perfect concert and album openers. It's criminal that they have played Somewhere in Time only on 2 tours.
 
Ruflux said:
Senjutsu as the opening song kinda proved to me they made the right call opening with Man on the Edge rather than Sign of the Cross back in '95/'96.
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Come on.... man on the edge is a SUPERB opener. A great successor of the best iron maiden openers. And one that bruce doesnt sing with the aggresive that blaze does.
 
Diesel 11 said:
“Senjutsu” fucking ruled as a concert opener. I loved the previous leg of LOTB so much that I went into ‘22 with mixed feelings. As soon as Nicko began pounding out that intro, I was fucking hyped again. The first in a series of reasons why LOTB3 was way better than I expected.
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100% agree. I loved the setlist. The combinations of Revelations, Blood Brothers, SOTC and FOI was top drawer as well.
 
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