The inevitable 1990s tour after Book of Souls Tour ends

I think if they did a 90s tour then Be Quick or Be Dead is already out. Way to fast for them now..
If they wanted to do something fast I'm sure they'd rather do Aces High so I chose that.

Here's what I think
1. Aces High
2. Lord of the Flies
3. Two Minutes to Midnight
4. Afraid to Shoot Strangers
5. Sign of the Cross
6. Number of the Beast
7. futureal
8. The Trooper
9. The Clansman
10. Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter
11. Hallowed be thy Name
12. Fear of the Dark
13. Iron Maiden
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14. Tail gunner
15. Wasted Years
16. Running Free


I dont think there will be a 90s tour. I think they will re release Live at Donington, with a history part 4.
 
If they tour with Legacy of the Beast I can see them include some 90s material, and speaking of Be Quick Or Be Dead, Bruce performed it in 2005 - so why not again?

 
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I don't see them doing a 90s history tour in the time they have left, I'm afraid. Not that it doesn't have commercial potential, it just doesn't have as much commercial potential as a tour covering material from a wider period.
 
Well, after all it is also possible that a high % of people go to see Maiden just because it's Maiden and don't give a damn or even don't know what kind of tour that is. So it would probably make a decent amount of money anyway. Still, I don't think the band has interest in revisiting the 90s on a big scale. It's more likely that at some point they'll sneak in some 90s songs to honour that era in the fashion of AtSS on ME.
 
I loved hearing Afraid but ME was about honouring ME era. If Maiden will honour the nineties era, I'll.... ...be damned.
 
Srogyy said:
Well, after all it is also possible that a high % of people go to see Maiden just because it's Maiden and don't give a damn or even don't know what kind of tour that is. So it would probably make a decent amount of money anyway. Still, I don't think the band has interest in revisiting the 90s on a big scale. It's more likely that at some point they'll sneak in some 90s songs to honour that era in the fashion of AtSS on ME.
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I'm being cynical. I think a high % of people go to see Maiden to hear the radio hits. TNOTB, Trooper, RTTH, 2M2M. Give them anything else and they'll boo. See the first leg of the AMOLAD tour for further reference. And 'Arry and Smallwood know it. They cannot not know.

I can't even begin to talk about Metallica and the number of people who left right after they played Nothing Else Matters.
 
The real cynical part is the possibility of 'Arry and Smallwood (or whoever) giving in to the boo audience. That's not the band known for taking risks, or known for doing what they want to do. They did do what they wanted in the nineties, and were damn proud of it.
 
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Brigantium said:
I don't see them doing a 90s history tour in the time they have left, I'm afraid. Not that it doesn't have commercial potential, it just doesn't have as much commercial potential as a tour covering material from a wider period.
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I think the commercial potential is pretty low compared to what they could/probably will do. The band is trending up commercially, I doubt they will do a "Here is the area that the majority of fans like the least tour". I could see a broader tour with a few (like 2 at most beyond FotD) 90s songs being added and I think that will be about it.
 
I highly doubt that they will do it, if so I could see them doing 1 song off each 90's records played along with hits and newer material.

Public Enema Number One
Afraid to Shoot Strangers
Man on the Edge / Sign of the Cross
Futureal / Clansman
 
Well, let's compare 2 tours: TFF World Tour (an album tour, less "commercial") and Maiden England (a historical one, with an appeal on classics, more "commercial"). Excluding festivals, of course.

TFF: Average 14.227 attendance in an average 17.276 venue (79% of occupation). Around US$ 934.550 per gig
ME: Average 17.188 attendance in an average 20.281 venue (82% of occupation). Around US$ 1.258.973 per gig

OK, this is Wikipedia data, and i didn't made an calculation splitted in areas (Europe, NA and SA. Maybe i'll do that when i return home), so this numbers aren't...science. But it shows that the attendance is slightly better in tours focusing classical songs (even if the crowd only knows NOTB, they'll be more pleased to hear The Clairvoyant than Coming Home).
 
JudasMyGuide said:
I think a high % of people go to see Maiden to hear the radio hits.
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It is true... for a certain part of the American audience only, which is but one country in the world and to boot one that hasn't done much for Maiden's reputation and success anyway apart for the 84-85 tour more than thirty years ago. ;)

However, I am also of the opinion that they feel that a 90s-oriented tour would not be so relevant since, being the age they are, they had better focus on a final album. But who knows? If they actually did it, I think this would be a good setlist:

1. Be Quick or Be Dead
2. The Number of the Beast
3. Public Enema Number One
4. Holy Smoke
5. Wasting Love
6. Tailgunner
7. The Clansman
8. Man On the Edge
9. Sign of the Cross
10. Heaven Can Wait
11. From Here To Eternity
12. 2 Minutes To Midnight
13. Fear of the Dark
14. Iron Maiden

15. Afraid to Shoot Strangers
16. Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter
17. Run To The Hills

EDIT: or "From Here to Eternity" in n°3 perhaps.
 
StormTheTrooper said:
Well, let's compare 2 tours: TFF World Tour (an album tour, less "commercial") and Maiden England (a historical one, with an appeal on classics, more "commercial"). Excluding festivals, of course.

TFF: Average 14.227 attendance in an average 17.276 venue (79% of occupation). Around US$ 934.550 per gig
ME: Average 17.188 attendance in an average 20.281 venue (82% of occupation). Around US$ 1.258.973 per gig

OK, this is Wikipedia data, and i didn't made an calculation splitted in areas (Europe, NA and SA. Maybe i'll do that when i return home), so this numbers aren't...science. But it shows that the attendance is slightly better in tours focusing classical songs (even if the crowd only knows NOTB, they'll be more pleased to hear The Clairvoyant than Coming Home).
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I think it is just common sense as well .. the history tours do well because people either a) want to re-live a big event/tour or b) were not around for the first go around and want to see it.

Basing a tour around a period that was less popular to start with diminishes the interest from both groups. Myself, I would be happy to see it, I think the 90s were by far Maiden's weakest era, but there is still plenty of good stuff in there for a good show .. but if I were more of a casual fan, I doubt I would have a lot of interest.
 
Srogyy said:
Well, after all it is also possible that a high % of people go to see Maiden just because it's Maiden and don't give a damn or even don't know what kind of tour that is. So it would probably make a decent amount of money anyway. Still, I don't think the band has interest in revisiting the 90s on a big scale. It's more likely that at some point they'll sneak in some 90s songs to honour that era in the fashion of AtSS on ME.
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I'm going because I want to see guys play. I want to hear McB's new kit and what kind of new licks, modified rhythm guitar riffs and solo variations Smith is going to do.
Mate that goes with me isn't even properly introduced to anything post Fear Of The Dark. He doesn't care. And he's the one that got as tickets as soon as they went to sale, not me.

People mostly go for the atmosphere. A friend once told me she really loves going to any Maiden show, she doesn't even know more than 3-4 songs and doesn't listen to metal at all, but "the atmosphere".

Do we need to spoiler tags if we're talking about Book Of Souls the track, live performance? It's clear as 2+2 that this track was going to be played on this tour...
Anyways, in Santiago bootleg, when the track starts, somebody is booing from the audience.
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Here's a little question: How come we think that the 90's era wasn't popular with fans? Especially No Prayer and Fear of the Dark. Those albums made #2 and #1 in the British charts respectively, spawning no less than three top 3 singles. The Fear of the Dark tour was massive, the biggest since World Slavery. And everybody who was around then and even remotely into hard rock knows Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter. I've heard that from so many people. We're letting the common fan opinion on this era get in the way of objective judgement - Maiden were huge back then. There are no less than four official live releases from the Fear of the Dark/Real Live tour.
 
Perun said:
Here's a little question: How come we think that the 90's era wasn't popular with fans? Especially No Prayer and Fear of the Dark. Those albums made #2 and #1 in the British charts respectively, spawning no less than three top 3 singles. The Fear of the Dark tour was massive, the biggest since World Slavery. And everybody who was around then and even remotely into hard rock knows Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter. I've heard that from so many people. We're letting the common fan opinion on this era get in the way of objective judgement - Maiden were huge back then. There are no less than four official live releases from the Fear of the Dark/Real Live tour.
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It depends where you lived at the time. Attendance was certainly down in the US as was general popularity. Then you also have the second half of the 90s and the two Blaze albums and tours were another drop off.
 
FOTD definitely felt like a high point in the UK, Maiden had mainstream attention. But in the Blaze era, publicity died right back. Metal in general wasn't as visible as it was in the 80s, plus, I think music media began to specialise more in specific genres. I, for one, lost track of the band until the mid 00s, when I got decent home internet access. I still bump into people who like 80s Maiden, and have heard a reasonable amount of reunion era Maiden, but don't really know anything of the Blaze era.
 
JudasMyGuide said:
Give them anything else and they'll boo. See the first leg of the AMOLAD tour for further reference. And 'Arry and Smallwood know it.
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And yet they did a summer tour in 2010 with most of the set consisting of post-2000 material.

However, I don't see a 90s history tour coming, because the band doesn't have that many years left. They know that, too. And I see a new album as more likely than a new history tour.
 
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