The Future Past tour 2023

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Dick Brucinson said:
If this is a marketing problem for them, I wonder why they just don't go with a different digital format. Download purchase or whatever. Minimal effort at a maximum gain for them.
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I thought I remembered an announcement from Atomic Fire Records about a successful metal DVD, and yes, I found it.

ATOMIC FIRE RECORDS The Mailordershop For Heavy Metal

☆ Get exclusive vinyls, boxsets and merchandise of our artists and other metal acts!
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My translation
"...With the very successful and critically acclaimed streaming event "The Monumental Mass: A Cinematic Metal Event" (#1 in the official German album and DVD charts), POWERWOLF once again made a strong statement in the international music scene..."

The DVD doesn't seem to be that out of fashion, otherwise the Powerwolf management would be idiots to have out this out as a DVD.
 
I watched a video of the Leipzig gig (Leipgig?) for Caught Somewhere in Time, and it sounded a little like his feet were starting to pick up some of the bass drum rhythms again. Since it's all cell phone recordings, it's hard to tell if I'm just hearing what I want to hear, but it seemed to be present.
 
chaosapiant said:
I watched a video of the Leipzig gig (Leipgig?) for Caught Somewhere in Time, and it sounded a little like his feet were starting to pick up some of the bass drum rhythms again. Since it's all cell phone recordings, it's hard to tell if I'm just hearing what I want to hear, but it seemed to be present.
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Yup. He is doing more kick patterns, however not even close to those machine gun triplets on the original recording/tour.

That said, CSIT would never sound as it did in the 80's instrument-wise. But, ghey kept a decent tempo and that's good enough for me for a band in their 60s and 70s. Vocally, it's a completely different story. Miles better nowadays than in the 80s.
 
matic22 said:
That said, CSIT would never sound as it did in the 80's instrument-wise. But, ghey kept a decent tempo and that's good enough for me for a band in their 60s and 70s. Vocally, it's a completely different story. Miles better nowadays than in the 80s.
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Tempo-wise, it's more than fair. I'd like to think that it's more important to stay fair to the studio version of it than another live version of it almost four decades ago.

matic22 said:
Yesterday was also the first night of the tour I heard slight struggling from Bruce (probably a bad vocal night):
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Probably all that fucking dust from Sweden Rock Festival
 
matic22 said:
Yup. He is doing more kick patterns, however not even close to those machine gun triplets on the original recording/tour.

That said, CSIT would never sound as it did in the 80's instrument-wise. But, ghey kept a decent tempo and that's good enough for me for a band in their 60s and 70s. Vocally, it's a completely different story. Miles better nowadays than in the 80s.
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What could be the reason for not playing those kick patterns or the drum fill on The Trooper in earlier shows? Lack of confidence? Being under rehearsed? Pacing himself to last the whole tour?
 
I'll say it the way it is. I'm in a very dark and sad moment in my life right now, but all the people who care for me convinced me to go see Maiden in Leipzig, which I did together with @LooseCannon.
I don't give a fuck about what drumfills Nicko did or didn't play. I don't give a fuck about how the setlist relates to the played-live statistics of individual songs. I don't give a fuck about all those stupid complaints and precious little opinions everybody has. All I know is that last night, I saw my favourite band play the music I've loved for the better part of my life, once more helping me get through the trials of life, and if that isn't good enough, then nothing in life is.
 
GhostofCain said:
What could be the reason for not playing those kick patterns or the drum fill on The Trooper in earlier shows? Lack of confidence? Being under rehearsed? Pacing himself to last the whole tour?
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Kick patterns? I think those are gone for good. Nicko himself said that even in 2018, he was on the limit with The Wicker Man on the choruses.

I think the fills are a combination of things. I think the biggest ones might be pacing oneself and lack of confidence.

Btw, I read that, according to Charlie Charlesworth who spoke with some fans, the snare fills in CSIT were taken out, because the tempo wasn't consistent with them (=Charlie saying nicely that Nicko wasn't able to perform them as they were intended to be).
 
Perun said:
I'll say it the way it is. I'm in a very dark and sad moment in my life right now, but all the people who care for me convinced me to go see Maiden in Leipzig, which I did together with @LooseCannon.
I don't give a fuck about what drumfills Nicko did or didn't play. I don't give a fuck about how the setlist relates to the played-live statistics of individual songs. I don't give a fuck about all those stupid complaints and precious little opinions everybody has. All I know is that last night, I saw my favourite band play the music I've loved for the better part of my life, once more helping me get through the trials of life, and if that isn't good enough, then nothing in life is.
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I hope you will get well soon! Music can be therapeutic.
 
GhostofCain said:
What could be the reason for not playing those kick patterns or the drum fill on The Trooper in earlier shows? Lack of confidence? Being under rehearsed? Pacing himself to last the whole tour?
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Good question, Ghost. Would love to know for certain. Could be he's building back up lost stamina, or there's some physical/health related issue that hopefully is starting to sort itself out. Per the Brazil guys his roadie said they took out fills to keep up the tempo, perhaps he's more confident in doing that and is adding those back in?
 
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