TBOS Tour Predictions

I hope they do like RUSH did this last tour, and bring out songs fans have waited for and had been requesting for years. (Jacobs ladder, losing it). I think this could mean infinite dreams, Alexander the Great, still life...??!)
Of course just about any combination of songs will be great. I do really love the idea of IOM/Killers as an opening...
 
Travis The Dragon said:
Ya, FOTD is way overdue to be dropped. In fact, I think they should have dropped that on the last tour and put ATSS in its place and kept Hallowed. Another dream and hope of mine is a Blaze song that hasn't been done with Bruce yet, but was done during the Blaze years. VERY unlikely I know, but I SO badly want to hear more of that with Bruce. Lightning Strikes Twice would be incredible!
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I think that they will not take anything from Fotd except for the titletrack, since the next "history tour" will regard this period.
 
bornless1 said:
I hope they do like RUSH did this last tour, and bring out songs fans have waited for and had been requesting for years. (Jacobs ladder, losing it). I think this could mean infinite dreams, Alexander the Great, still life...??!)
Of course just about any combination of songs will be great. I do really love the idea of IOM/Killers as an opening...
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MAYBE ATG or SL, but I'm not counting on songs that have never been played live before.
 
I would say that Alexander and Still Life have no chance being played on this tour. Their best chance was on the Maiden England tour. Still Life will probably never see the stage again. Alexanders only chance would be on the final tour.
 
ironbaz said:
I think that they will not take anything from Fotd except for the titletrack, since the next "history tour" will regard this period.
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If there is a history tour for that period. There's not many fans of this particular era of the band's discography, so I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't do such a tour. If anything, I could see them doing a thirty-fifth anniversary tour for Number of the Beast in 2017 and having a general 80's classics tour centered around that.

Collin said:
I would say that Alexander and Still Life have no chance being played on this tour. Their best chance was on the Maiden England tour. Still Life will probably never see the stage again. Alexanders only chance would be on the final tour.
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Nailed it. We're not going to see Still Life live anytime soon, I think and I doubt we'll ever get Alexander either. If we do, it'll be on the farewell tour.
 
Chained Prometheus said:
Certainly not me. My suggestion (which I've mentioned here on the forums before) is that that they could get Michael Kenney to come onstage and play Bruce's piano parts live, much like how he did for Seventh Son with Steve's keyboard parts. I think you misread my post there, buddy.
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I sure did! :facepalm:
Chained Prometheus said:
Yes, they did, at least in the 2006 leg of the tour. They took some songs out and put in more from NotB to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary during the 2007 segment.
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Didn't even realise that.
Chained Prometheus said:
Not necessarily. SiT tracks seemingly get overlooked to this day because the guitar parts are apparently too complex/fragile for Adrian to want to play them.
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I think it's more to do with the synths. Some of the album clearly isn't going to sound like the album if played live. I don't think they've ever been that comfortable with tracks from the album live.
Chained Prometheus said:
If that's the case with Empire, then you're spot-on. If it's just because of the piano and strings, then there's ways around that. The Gregorian chants at the start of Sign of the Cross didn't stop the band from playing that song live without a choir, after all. They can pipe in the strings if they want to and they can do the same for the piano parts if they don't want to bring Kenney onstage either.
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I agree. I just think it's too long. They might. Wonder if they'll rehearse it.
 
CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
I sure did! :facepalm:
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Eh, it happens! :)

Didn't even realise that.
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It was quite possibly the ballsiest thing the band's ever done live and I missed it by two years! Would've been great to see in person.

I think it's more to do with the synths. Some of the album clearly isn't going to sound like the album if played live. I don't think they've ever been that comfortable with tracks from the album live.
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Fair enough, but I'm pretty sure that they played the synth stuff live via synthesized guitars and bass back in 1986 (the ones with all those extra nobs and buttons on them) and I think Adrian did the same thing in 2006/7 for Brighter Than a Thousand Suns too. Could be wrong on that one though.

It could also depend on how heavily featured the strings are. As I recall, there's apparently orchestral-accompanied versions of both Paschendale and Dance of Death, but that didn't stop the band from playing either song live regardless. If it's only a small portion of the song, they could just play the song without the strings or just pipe them in, a la Sign of the Cross's Gregorian chants or the opening parts to Caught Somewhere in Time and Moonchild.

I agree. I just think it's too long. They might. Wonder if they'll rehearse it.
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I guess we'll have to just wait and see! :)
 
SixesAlltheway said:
I was there. First to the barrier via the fan club. Right in front of Dave :)

And there's a video from that gig:


They also put out some live b-sides from the two Denmark shows in 06 as well.
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I've seen some footage of a few shows in 2006. One of the best moments in the post-reunion era so far, IMO, is the band playing Lord of Light live. Bruce slayed on that song live.
 
SixesAlltheway said:
Lord of Light is my favorite song from AMOLAD :)

One of the better bootlegs from that tour is the Uniondale NY one. Don't know if you've seen it.

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That's a good one. I can't remember which bootleg was my personal favorite. I think it was a performance in Europe though.

EDIT: Lord of Light is tied with The Legacy as my favorite song from AMOLAD. :D
 
I think people hoping for "An evening with..." setlist are forgetting that this tour will be Bruce's first since the cancer treatments. Bruce testing his vocals to such a capacity so soon sounds like a dangerous idea. For the benefit of future tours, I really don't think Bruce should be doing anything of the kind.
 
MaidenHeaven said:
I think people hoping for "An evening with..." setlist are forgetting that this tour will be Bruce's first since the cancer treatments. Bruce testing his vocals to such a capacity so soon sounds like a dangerous idea. For the benefit of future tours, I really don't think Bruce should be doing anything of the kind.
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Potentially. I think it'd depend on multiple factors, such as the length of each segmented setlist, the length of the intermission and the space of days in between shows. Give Bruce a bit of a breather with, say, a thirty minute intermission in-between sets and then two or three days between each show. I think that would probably work really well.
 
Maiden will never do "an evening with" longer set like Rush. They put way too much energy into their shows and even before Bruce's cancer, he still put a lot into his singing and doing too long of a show could be very damaging to the band because it could really wear all of them out.
 
Different world,such a nice songruined by the pre chorus. It is however sad that they did not release something from the AMOLAD tour. I k ow it was too soon after Death on the road and ll that...but still.
 
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