dickinson1978
Ancient Mariner
Any chances of a new song played?
The Official Book of Souls Tour 2017 Thread (Warning: Spoilers Within)
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matic22
Ancient Mariner
In terms of never performed before probably not. As I said before they will most likely swap COTD and TOAC for two before live-proven songs (eg Revelations, BNW, ...) and that's it.
matic22
Ancient Mariner
I think there is some potential for a live album. The O2 dates are located nicely in the middle of the tour and there are 2 of them, so they could be recorded.Guys, to be honest with you....if they do not release a new Live album....it doesn't really matter what they play (for me) as they won't be coming to Greece
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Plus there will be a load of Maidenfans in the crowd. Unmissable.
Travis The Dragon
AFTERGLOW!!!
I'm going to predict the setlist stays exactly the same. As far as new album tours go, the reason the AMOLAD tour changed was because they changed the name of the tour to A Matter Of The Beast and the first leg of The Final Frontier tour was before the album came out so that was more like the Give Me Ed tour. But as far as the other 2 post-1999 tours where the album was already out, they kept the same setlist for both legs. Also, there's no doubt in my mind that we'll get an official live release since Maiden England got skipped.
Ruflux
Ancient Mariner
I kind of like the idea of CotD being replaced by Revelations and ToaC being replaced by Brave New World. Both are proven live songs and even though I'd argue many other songs would deserve the playtime more, the fact is at least they're not Wrathchild and 2MTM or something. Basically it'd be damage minimization for the inevitable DVD.
Lego
Ancient Mariner
Maiden England legs 1 and 2 had the same setlist.
Ruflux
Ancient Mariner
ME was a bit different though. The '12 leg was North America only while the '13 one was (mostly) Europe. This time they've already played Europe and NA (albeit only a few dates in the US) last year and I do believe Maiden usually changes their setlists if they hit the same places in different years of the same tour.
Welsh Phantom
Ancient Mariner
If RTTH did come back, there is no way they would drop the title track of the whole album / tour / stage theme.
You could be right on with the others though!
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Ruflux
Ancient Mariner
They'll actually be replacing all the TBoS tracks with well-adored classics on the '17 leg, as requested by various fans in the Blabbermouth comments section. Look forward to hearing classics such as Wrathchild, TETMD, 2MTM, RTTH and Wrathchild again on the upcoming leg of The Book of Souls World Tour.
Welsh Phantom
Ancient Mariner
The mad thing is, I am usually disappointed with the same old set list to some degree each tour, but this year my wife is going for the first time ever, so I kind of hope they do some stuff she knows, which would be 2MTM, RTTH, TNOTB etc, so I can't really lose this year!
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I actually got a taste of what it must be like for a casual fan to go to the more recent Maiden shows.
Took my wife to see Bon Jovi a few weeks back.
Honestly, I haven't really listened to his material since the 80's. I've heard a few of the newer 'hits' on the radio a few times since then, but basically only know the classics.
The first hour and a half he played 2 classic songs.
Thankfully the last hour was almost all classics except for 2 newer hits.
About an hour in, I started thinking, this is what casual Maiden fans must feel like.
Though, at least Maiden sprinkles in more classics throughout the set.
Took my wife to see Bon Jovi a few weeks back.
Honestly, I haven't really listened to his material since the 80's. I've heard a few of the newer 'hits' on the radio a few times since then, but basically only know the classics.
The first hour and a half he played 2 classic songs.
Thankfully the last hour was almost all classics except for 2 newer hits.
About an hour in, I started thinking, this is what casual Maiden fans must feel like.
Though, at least Maiden sprinkles in more classics throughout the set.
matic22
Ancient Mariner
What you said is a thing of pacing the setlist. With last year's set Maiden did that perfectly. 2 new songs, 1 classic, 2 new songs, 2 classics, 2 new songs, classics to the end. That's good set pacing. What do you do after a long new TRATB? Drop a Trooper. I do not know what Bon Jovi show you saw (they change the setlist), but from what I've seen (looked up on setlist.fm) they paced their set terribly on this tour (15 songs with only 2 classics hits between, is a snoozefest for non diehard).
Travis The Dragon
AFTERGLOW!!!
Maiden should have better paced their setlist then they did all of AMOLAD by putting classics in between the other songs.
Nah. That was their ode to the hardcore fans. I really wish I had seen that tour.
bornless1
Messiah Supreme. True Leader of Men.
IESF
Sol
2min2mid
Run2theHills
Great unknown
Death or glory
Number of the beast
BookofSouls
Trooper
coming home
Fear of the dark
Killers
Iron Maiden
DanceofDeath
Wasted years
So out with the R&B...In with some reunion love and classics/BOS mixed up slightly.
Sol
2min2mid
Run2theHills
Great unknown
Death or glory
Number of the beast
BookofSouls
Trooper
coming home
Fear of the dark
Killers
Iron Maiden
DanceofDeath
Wasted years
So out with the R&B...In with some reunion love and classics/BOS mixed up slightly.
I just can't help but think it must be harder to type the song titles this way than properly.