The Future Past Tour 2024

[OutwardFeller]

I don´t know if this has been discussed before, but the tempo here is absolutely brutal and Nicko is speeding up the whole song.
In the solo section, you can see Dave making a moderate mistake, but Adrian absolutely butchers the solo and cannot phrase the notes because of the ferocious tempo. In the last verse, Bruce can barely keep up, cos Nicko is too damn fast and at around 7:53 Adrian stops playing and gets very upset and gestures at Nicko very angrily. I love Nicko so damn much, but he is really just degrading the performances now.

 

[InfiniteDreamer544]

I don´t know if this has been discussed before, but the tempo here is absolutely brutal and Nicko is speeding up the whole song.
In the solo section, you can see Dave making a moderate mistake, but Adrian absolutely butchers the solo and cannot phrase the notes because of the ferocious tempo. In the last verse, Bruce can barely keep up, cos Nicko is too damn fast and at around 7:53 Adrian stops playing and gets very upset and gestures at Nicko very angrily. I love Nicko so damn much, but he is really just degrading the performances now.

Don’t blame Nicko just because Adrian can’t play his guitar

In all seriousness though I really dig the fast tempos, Maiden really needs more of that imo. Perhaps these are the first signs of the guitarists’ ages showing though. Maybe the finger dexterity is degrading ever so slightly.

 

[TaaviMaiden]

I love Nicko but can I nevertheless admit that I would want to see a Maiden live show with a different drummer? (For me, preferably not someone generic as the nephew but someone who has achieved already more in their career).
Line-up changes happen all the time in Metal and the bands stay popular, successful or even improve. Who knows, maybe after giving something new a chance, it would even stimulate Steve's creativity to work with a new drummer?

 

[Ascendingthethrone]

I love Nicko but can I nevertheless admit that I would want to see a Maiden live show with a different drummer? (For me, preferably not someone generic as the nephew but someone who has achieved already more in their career).
Line-up changes happen all the time in Metal and the bands stay popular, successful or even improve. Who knows, maybe after giving something new a chance, it would even stimulate Steve's creativity to work with a new drummer?

#Replacethe3Amigos

Maybe someone will start a thread about that!

 

[Iron Lurker]

I love Nicko but can I nevertheless admit that I would want to see a Maiden live show with a different drummer? (For me, preferably not someone generic as the nephew but someone who has achieved already more in their career).
Line-up changes happen all the time in Metal and the bands stay popular, successful or even improve. Who knows, maybe after giving something new a chance, it would even stimulate Steve's creativity to work with a new drummer?

I get it. You want a star or someone well known behind the kit. I say who cares? It's not like they would have a drum solo or anything. Joe knows all the songs and can play them very well (just as good or better than anyone else they could bring in). Plus I feel he would mesh well with Steve just fine. That's what matters the most.

 

[matic22]

I don´t know if this has been discussed before, but the tempo here is absolutely brutal and Nicko is speeding up the whole song.
In the solo section, you can see Dave making a moderate mistake, but Adrian absolutely butchers the solo and cannot phrase the notes because of the ferocious tempo. In the last verse, Bruce can barely keep up, cos Nicko is too damn fast and at around 7:53 Adrian stops playing and gets very upset and gestures at Nicko very angrily. I love Nicko so damn much, but he is really just degrading the performances now.

Nicko seems to be speeding up during fills and that's why Adrian spends so much time there.

At times it seems like every fill he does, he falls out of tempo a bit, which results in speeding up. He becomes a runaway train. And even Bruce is struggling to keep up after the solos. The tempos during some stretches of the tour were just stupid for their age.

 

[riff]

Did I imagine this or were constantly elevated tempos one of the reasons Adrian left in 1990?

 

[matic22]

Did I imagine this or were constantly elevated tempos one of the reasons Adrian left in 1990?

Yes. But those were on purpose.

These days, they aren't. Nicko is getting braver with little fills during songs. Too brave in my opinion. Every time he mistimes one, the song speeds up and that results in a break-neck tempo of the song (like the video).

Nicko should be braver with fills, which is commandable, but not to the point when he drives CSIT from 160-ish BPM to 180-ish BPM at the end (yes I used a Google metronome and that's the difference). Nicko sped up 20 BPM in that video. That's just a recipe for disaster.

 

[CA Bryers]

I love Nicko but can I nevertheless admit that I would want to see a Maiden live show with a different drummer? (For me, preferably not someone generic as the nephew but someone who has achieved already more in their career).

On the bright side, they took a 7:26 song and got it done in 2:21. Maybe Nick's got somewhere to be?

I get what you're saying, though. I could live with a different drummer if Nicko ever decides to step down, and I certainly would want someone who brought some personality to their work. Best example I can cite is when Jukka quit drumming for Nightwish. They brought in a fantastic drummer in Kai, but Jukka had such personality to his style and sound that Kai sounds technically great to my ears, but flat...doing the job. I'm not a musician, so I can't explain it better than that.

That said, I'm also happy if Nicko hangs until the end. I can live with some ultra-tempoed songs in the set if he still wants to keep playing with the band. Since he's worked hard to get his chops back since the stroke, it's obviously important to him that he does.

 

[Melony]

The drummer shouldn't get so much faster (unless that's a feature of this particular composition) unplanned during the same song, whether his string instrumentalists are young or not.