The Official Book of Souls Tour 2016 Thread (Warning: Spoilers within!)

I already hope Death or Glory will never be played again...because of this. Which is pretty bad hahah. But it would just be too fucking silly in any other tour constellation than the Book of Souls one....
 
I think it's funny. Y'all need to get a sense of humor.

The guys having fun on stage is not a new thing.
 
Well, red coat Trooper uniform, Ape mask..Who cares. ..No one I guess :p

I'm expecting Janick to jump out in a tiger costume next :p

Death or Glory HUHU!
 
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Me too, when I listen to the album version...:p

I don't need Bruce to dress up in full monkey gear for this song because of a single stupid line in the lyrics..., but OK, good fun live I guess. Now give it a rest.
 
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I think this monkey thing is out of control. Don't mind if they're having fun on stage, but this looks really exaggerated. Expecially when I see the crowd doing "monkey climb". It would be sincere if it happened occasionally, but this looks like they're really pushing it. Also, I don't get the backstory of mexican wrestler mask in Powerslave, it happened it Mexico first, but he used it on every gig since, if I'm correct.

On topic Maiden outdoor VS Maiden indoor I'll take Maiden indoor anyday. Stage production looks better, atmosphere is warmer, sound is in most times clearer, audience is more into it and so on. Few years ago I've decided not to see Maiden at festivals anymore, because of the reasons mentioned. The gig I'm going to (Croatia) is definitely the smallest one on this tour (indoor, cap. 11,000) and I'm so glad for it. But it could easily be their last one in Croatia. 3 weeks to gig and almost all of upper stands are unsold, plenty of tickets in other areas too. I hope this is that Croatian thing where people do everything in the last second. Otherwise it could be a small fiasco.

Seems like this is it considering event shirts, Italy and Spain could be lucky if they get one, which is a shame. It would probably cost them more than they would gained, but it would be nice if they made event shirt for every non-festival gig on this tour. I wouldn't mind if every event shirt was like Germany one, just Mayan Eddie and country/flag in the background, on the back of the shirt - date and place with that shaman guy (Eddie and EF1 are also nice but I liked shaman better.)
 
I've just calculated that after this tour I'm going to hear about 40% of Maiden's discography live - which is nice.
But what surprised me is realization that they haven't played a single song from No Prayer, X Factor and Virtual XI in last 11 years.
 
What if Bruce bet with Nicko that Britain would vote 'remain' and now has to wear that monkey mask because he lost?
 
He'll keep on doing it until the widest possible audience has seen it, then he'll decide it's old. And I suppose Bruce wore mask in Powerslave for years, the Mexican wrestler one is just a TBOS twist on that.
 
The monkey dance totally rocks and it's great how Bruce doesn't always sing the monkey line while he is doing the monkey dance so the awesome guitarwork is audible.
 
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Legatodave said:
Anyone have any news on when Maiden will be back touring TBOS in the US. Bruce said they'd be back at some of the shows
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I work in the booze industry, and recently was told by someone who has a lot to do with a certain beer's presence in the USA, that he was told Spring.
 
Legatodave said:
What beer was that?
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cdm613 said:
I work in the booze industry, and recently was told by someone who has a lot to do with a certain beer's presence in the USA, that he was told Spring.
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Which makes sense... End of February - April: N. America, May - June: UK, July - August: Europe.
 
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