Personally think he is in denial or too stubborn to admit that the songs need to change key.
I cringed all the way through Hallowed at Download in 2022.
I think it also depends a lot on the songs spots. But some should be in the encores, like Hallowed. The crowd can help with Run To The Hills' chorus. He will do a good job, it's not like those songs are harder than Aquarius and Book Of Thel, both played at the end of his solo set this year. It's like Priest's Painkiller, it's just tough. Idk what Bruce thinks, but he can still sing those high and difficult songs, that's it.
I have a strong feeling that Infinite Dreams and Still life will be on the set list. These are the big songs outside of Alexander the Great, that fans have been calling for since they were left off the Maiden England revival tour back in 2013. I also think Only the good die young will make an appearance as Steve has mentioned a few times in past interviews about wanting to play that song. Another one I think is nailed on is To Tame a Land. It’s only ever been played on the piece of mind tour and would would be this tours Alexander as the next epic to get a revival. These would be the 4 deep cuts then the rest of the set made up of the usual staples. I also think Bring your daughter to the slaughter is nailed on but wouldn’t be considered a true deep cut.
Agree about all and also think the same way (4-5 deep cuts at most), but let's not forget the potential 2-3 90's songs, they would also be in that category. Plus Killers, Murders, Rime are the same. A song of Infinite Dreams/To Tame A Land length could be featured, debut of a song is 50/50.
I guess the number of the cuts will depend on how many songs they play. Their 80s songs are shorter, for the most part, than most of what came after the reunion. Will we be getting a 17-song setlist?
That makes already 13 songs. I do not think they will choose more than a couple of deep cuts (if any at all), so we might end up with Running Free and Sanctuary being played live.
The number of songs is key, true. At least 3 deep cuts should be a given, methinks. The problem is, idk, if they will have a desire now with a new drummer, the theme of the tour and especially if it is their last. This is the big factor.
I kind of doubt Running Free/Sanctuary because they haven't been played in a long time and tbh I don't wan't them.
If they want to play deep cuts, they should swap out 3-4 80's popular songs. And all SIT songs. That's the way. But songs like 2 Mintes, Evil, Running, Hallowed, Number and Hills were not played on the last 2 tours regularly.
That's already half an hour into their 1hr, 30mn set. A lot of people want classics, but imo, a more interesting choice would be a No Epics setlist.
^It's still possible. A Maiden live show without epics? I can't imagine it, and every era has long and popular songs.
Frome somewhere or the dont play any song or stranger. And my doubt is if they play murders or be quick or be dead as an opener.
I'd like to think they'd prefer Be Quick instead of Murders now, but SIT, if it's not a deep cut, should be skipped. But if the setlist is 17 songs, then I can see songs from all albums for sure.
I fear that will be the bulk of the setlist. Crowd-pleasers and little novelty.
I hope Bruce's desire to play rarer songs will prevails. Nicko also expressed such desire last year. And the setlist is up to Bruce. Maybe with the grand stage they will want to sort of ''cover'' the generic setlist... I hope not.
It's still a bit of a disappointment that it will most likely be so, especially considering Steve thinks there's nothing worth celebrating past 1992 lol. Unless they pull an Early Days-type move and play real deep cuts, like Another Life.
The Real Live Dead One set was interesting as well. And playing Where Eagles Dare could create a bit of an homage moment for Nicko.
I don't think Steve thinks so. It's just the odd theme for 50th anniv. 2005 tour's deep cuts were a lot and unique to that tour. I don't expect the same now.
I doubt they will play Eagles and I'm not sure how Simon would sound on it.
No, it doesn't. Sure, if you drop it four or five semitones it'll be a massive difference, but a single one? I guarantee you the vast majority of the audience would never notice the difference, especially live. Hell, they transposed Lord Of The Flies a whole tone and there are still people who never noticed the change.
What actually changes the feel of the songs is the vastly different tempos (Aces High in 99, Flight Of Icarus in 84 being much faster, FOTD being much slower the last few years). That's immediately noticeable yet no one cares about the "sanctity of the studio version" for lack of a better description. This vehement refusal to even entertain downtuning (when Maiden has already transposed a song before) was always silly and is still silly nowadays.
I agree with matic. And it's not the same with Bruce's own songs and a song from a different era and singer. True about the tempo, but they've always played faster live, since 1982. It would be curious to hear some Maiden songs heavier, but Bruce and Maiden are about high vocals. It's their essence.
