Which songs will never be played anymore?

Reumeren I agree with you about TWM and BNW. The point I want to stress further is that Maiden don't give their recent material any chance to catch up with the classics. I guess they don't belive in their songs. Or their fans.
 
pilau said:
I guess they don't belive in their songs.
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Well, I sort of agree, because they know that the most crowd pleasers are the earlier ones. But they DID the play the entire album in 2006, so they took a chance then, maybe they'll do it again.
 
Pilau, with all respect, how often have you seen Maiden?

I can imagine that someone might complain about Maiden's setlist policy when he has seen them on ten different tours (ten times Fear of the Dark!), but if that's not the case....?

I'd say, don't worry about it, you've got another thing coming! :)
 
Eddies Wingman said:
Hehe, I don't think Maiden will play that one  B)
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Haha that actually made me laugh so hard everyone in the room stared at me, lol... :D

Forostar said:
They do. You only have to be there when it happens.
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What do you mean, Foro?

By the way, I have actually never been to a Maiden show before. I have seen all of their official live video releases, though.
 
It was a reaction to this:

pilau said:
The point I want to stress further is that Maiden don't give their recent material any chance to catch up with the classics. I guess they don't belive in their songs. Or their fans.
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This is not true. Maiden did play new songs everytime a new album came out, and will do so in the future.
But if you haven't been there, you missed it.

I wondered why you are so busy with it, especially because you have never seen them.
A first Maiden gig should always be cool, not?
:)
 
Well, I'll defend Pilau's point a little. When it comes to set lists from the recent album tours (let us skip the history tours, they were all about the classics from the 80's and we loved it), songs from post-80s albums haven't been to abundant, have they? I think that's more of Pilau's point;

Once the newer songs have been played on their album tour, most of them have been dropped.

On the Ed Hunter tour (prelude to BNW tour); Sign of the Cross, Man on the Edge, The Clansman, FOTD.
On the Brave New World tour, Sign of the Cross, The Clansman and FOTD.
On the Death on the Road tour; Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, FOTD.
On the AMOLAD tour; only FOTD.

So, if we overlook FOTD which was a live classic from early on in its life, just a very few songs have been given a chance after its respective album tour. I guess what Pilau means by " Maiden don't give their recent material any chance to catch up with the classics" is that newer songs are not among the live classics just because they're not given the chance more than once.
 
I'd actually like to see Blood Brothers revived for a tour. Not so much because I love it (I do), but because it sounded great on Rock in Rio, especially how Bruce dedicated it to everyone that supported Maiden.
 
Eddie's Wingman, you're the (wing)man! That's exactly the point. Nothing from the 80s onwards has become a live staple bar FotD. I think Maiden rely too much on their classic songs when they don't really need too. Of course I will enjoy my first (and second, and the next and so on) Maiden show, Foro :). I am not picky about my Iron Maiden, as I said on another thread. But even by watching all of their DVDs I already got a little tired of RttH and The Trooper and FotD. I think that new live staples should have been introduce on the Death on the Road tour, especially becausd they would have a bombastic 80s tribute world tour five years later.
 
I can't think of a good reason why Paschendale, Brave New World, Wicker Man, Rainmaker, These Colours Don't Run, etc should not be counted as classics. Each are surely better than Heaven Can Wait, which is a good song (save the repetitive chorus), but it's had it's day in the sun on far too many tours, while the other lie and wait.

I think the next live album (which will surely follow the next tour) would be embiggened by the inclusion of a Bruce sung 'Virus".
 
If you will experience a real concert like a DVD you shouldn't go.

Eddies Wingman said:
On the Ed Hunter tour (prelude to BNW tour); Sign of the Cross, Man on the Edge, The Clansman, FOTD.
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It wasn't a prelude to the BNW-tour but that doesn't matter now. ;)
This matters: There was also Futureal and no Sign of the Cross.

Eddies Wingman said:
On the Brave New World tour, Sign of the Cross, The Clansman and FOTD.
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We got Sign of the Cross, first time w/ Bruce.

So people who saw Maiden in 1999 & 2000 had a fair bunch of recent material. Try to see Halford doing Ripper songs, try to see Ozzy doing Dio songs.

About the Death on the Road tour; Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, FOTD. -->
LOTF! First time with Bruce! And we got a fair amount of DOD songs.

About the AMOLAD tour; only FOTD.  -->
Duh, Maiden preferred to do their new album in complete.

I don't have many problems with the album tours. There's always a surprise.
 
Hmm, which part of the sentence don't you understand?

You guys also shouldn't forget that an album tour isn't called album tour for nothing:
We especially get songs from the latest album. Other recent songs have been done recently so I guess that's why the band rather plays new material instead.
 
Forostar said:
Hmm, which part of the sentence don't you understand?

You guys also shouldn't forget that an album tour isn't called album tour for nothing:
We especially get songs from the latest album. Other recent songs have been done recently so I guess that's why the band rather plays new material instead.
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Of course. But my point is instead of playing the 80s staples, they should play recent highlights.

I didn't understand the like a DVD part.
 
Forostar said:
I think there's more you don't understand of what I said. But I give up, for now. Sorry.
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Uhm, Foro, sorry to say this, but that was actually extremely rude and uncalled for.
 
Hmm, I think you're right about that. I thought about it myself actually.

@pilau: I apologize for that. I am afraid I was a bit agitated because I thought I explained why Maiden don't do what you want. I didn't have the idea that you read my posts well. And I find it weird that someone judges a band on its live set while he has never seen them yet. How can you know what you will enjoy or not, in advance?

Now back to this:

'experiencing a real concert like a DVD'

I might have expressed myself in a bad way here.

I'll put it differently: To witness a concert is different from watching a DVD.
 
We'd all be in epileptic fits if we experience Maiden live like they are on the DVD. I don't think Rock in Rio has a shot that is onscreen for more than 0.3 seconds!
 
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