srfc
Ancient Mariner
This was a real good tour too, shame that it was one of the only tours were a significant portion of the reunion era got played that wasn't a tour for their parent albums.
Which three reunion tours you personally consider their most interesting ones?
- Thread starter Dick Brucinson
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This was a real good tour too, shame that it was one of the only tours were a significant portion of the reunion era got played that wasn't a tour for their parent albums.
Dick Brucinson
The TRUE Dick Brucinson
Could someone please give me a little update on what's that thing with this 2010 "pre-Final Frontier tour"? Never heard of that. Set list and stuff? Differences to the real TFF-tour?
srfc
Ancient Mariner
It was before the album came out but they played El Dorado on it,
This was the Dublin set list, but I believe there was some rotation on the tour
The Wicker Man
Ghost of the Navigator
Wrathchild
El Dorado
Dance of Death
The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
These Colours Don't Run
Blood Brothers
Wildest Dreams
No More Lies
Brave New World
Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden
Encore:
The Number of the Beast
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Running Free
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Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
- Ed' Huntour
- Gimme 'Ed Till I'm Dead
- The Final Frontier (2nd leg)
Runner-up: Eddie Rips Up The World 2005
Least interesting: Maiden England 2012-13-14 (the idea was great but the setlist was disappointing compared to what they could have done)
- Gimme 'Ed Till I'm Dead
- The Final Frontier (2nd leg)
Runner-up: Eddie Rips Up The World 2005
Least interesting: Maiden England 2012-13-14 (the idea was great but the setlist was disappointing compared to what they could have done)
chaosapiant
Ancient Marinade
The first few shows in the states alternated Paschendale with Dance of Death before they settled on Dance of Death for the rest of the tour. It also sported the same stage setup as the Final Frontier tour.
I mean, it was still a Final Frontier tour. I just call it “pre” because the album wasn’t out yet, they only played the newly released single, and the set list was significantly different than what ended up in the rest of the tour, including the En Vivo live album/video.
Edit: Also of note is that the “real” TFF tour never came back to the states with the exception of a show in FL, if I remember correctly. We only got the pre-album tour. Despite being a fan of the band since 1988, this was the first tour where I finally got to see Iron Maiden live. And it was a magical experience!
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srfc
Ancient Mariner
I think they should be considered two seperate tours as in reality it's no different to the relationship between GMETID and the DOD tour.
permanenteddie
Educated Fool
I'm gonna go with the set-list above everything else
1. The Early Days tour tied with AMOLAD: simply because after a tour focused only on their first 4 albums with some songs that they haven't played in a long time (Murders in the Rue Morgue, Another Life, Prowler, Remember Tomorrow, Drifter and...Charlotte the Harlot), they totally changed their game with the whole album played (specially at that period in time where a lot of bands were on tour playing one whole album...but their most classic one. Like Dio with Holy Diver, Metallica with MAster of puppets, Deep Purple with Machine Head. Or bands that decided to record a sequel to their most well-known album: Helloween with Keeper part 3, Queensryche with Mindcrime part 2)
2. The Final Frontier tour 2010: Once again a set-list based mainly on their reunion albums, they dared to do it...just sad I couldn't make it to any of their gigs for this tour
3. Legacy of the beast: this one because of all the theatrics and a well balanced set-list that brings back some songs from the Blaze era.
1. The Early Days tour tied with AMOLAD: simply because after a tour focused only on their first 4 albums with some songs that they haven't played in a long time (Murders in the Rue Morgue, Another Life, Prowler, Remember Tomorrow, Drifter and...Charlotte the Harlot), they totally changed their game with the whole album played (specially at that period in time where a lot of bands were on tour playing one whole album...but their most classic one. Like Dio with Holy Diver, Metallica with MAster of puppets, Deep Purple with Machine Head. Or bands that decided to record a sequel to their most well-known album: Helloween with Keeper part 3, Queensryche with Mindcrime part 2)
2. The Final Frontier tour 2010: Once again a set-list based mainly on their reunion albums, they dared to do it...just sad I couldn't make it to any of their gigs for this tour
3. Legacy of the beast: this one because of all the theatrics and a well balanced set-list that brings back some songs from the Blaze era.
Randalf
Ancient Mariner
A tough question. Ed-Huntour and The Legacy of the Beast both had amazing, career-spanning setlists & performance. Give Me Ed tour had some brilliant deeper cuts, but it wasn't quite as coherent set as the previously mentioned. A Matter of Life and Death and The Book of Souls stand out from the album tours. The very era-specific tours 2005, 2010 and 2006 definitely stand out as particularly bold sets and in a way, the most "interesting ones."
I've only seen them in 2011, 2013 2018 and 2022 though, so I missed most of these tours anyway.
Performance-wise, Ed-Huntour should probably be included, but taking a very subjective and the "catching as many favourite songs as possible" approach to it, I'd probably start with these two:
Legacy of the Beast 2018
The staples are there, yes, but most of them got their best live renditions for... 10 years or so? Opening with Aces High & Where Eagles Dare was absolutely brilliant. The Clansman gets a very intense performance and it really is a live favourite for me. For the Greater Good of God was great inclusion and the giving it a bit slower yet heavier treatment worked very well, as Bruce got time to breath and give more emphasis on the very cliché but all the more poignant Steve Harris™ lyrics. Always cool to catch The Wicker Man. Sign of the Cross was a big surprise for me and immediately became one of my biggest live favourites. Flight of Icarus made a glorious return.
LOTB offered rather brilliant coverage of different material and was, in many ways, a "hits tour" done right.
A Matter of Life and Death 2006
AMOLAD remains as one of my favourite Iron Maiden albums. It would've been an amazing tour to witness. I'd still pay a full ticket price even for the 10-song AMOLAD package, albeit the classic selection was rather good too.
As for the third one... it's very hard one to pick. Ed-Huntour could be it for the performances alone, and the set is a damn good one, but... on the other hand, I'd love to hear those The Book of Souls cuts live and to catch Children of the Damned and Powerslave as well is very tempting. Maiden England tour gets a lot of bashing for it's... rather unimaginative execution, but Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is probably my favourite Iron Maiden album and despite the fact that
So uhm.
Don't know. As for the least interesting... that might be a bit easier to pick. As much as I like some songs on The Final Frontier, enjoyed the show I saw in 2011 and find En Vivo! a very strong release, the 2011 leg of the tour didn't really offer a whole lot outside the five new songs. Well, a brilliant rendition of Dance of Death. The preceeding and succeeding tours did so much better in terms of "interesting" setlits and show: SBIT was... well, SBIT. The 2010 leg came with a very bold set, Maiden England, despite some very unimaginative approach to the interesting concept, dusted off some long-awaited rarities and a semi-classic from the 90's and finally, The Book of Souls tour gave the usual history/album tour setlist structures some much needed shake. The 2011-2014 (with some competition from 2007) is probably their "laziest" period of setlist structuring from the reunion era, but those tours were pretty great anyway.
I've only seen them in 2011, 2013 2018 and 2022 though, so I missed most of these tours anyway.
Performance-wise, Ed-Huntour should probably be included, but taking a very subjective and the "catching as many favourite songs as possible" approach to it, I'd probably start with these two:
Legacy of the Beast 2018
The staples are there, yes, but most of them got their best live renditions for... 10 years or so? Opening with Aces High & Where Eagles Dare was absolutely brilliant. The Clansman gets a very intense performance and it really is a live favourite for me. For the Greater Good of God was great inclusion and the giving it a bit slower yet heavier treatment worked very well, as Bruce got time to breath and give more emphasis on the very cliché but all the more poignant Steve Harris™ lyrics. Always cool to catch The Wicker Man. Sign of the Cross was a big surprise for me and immediately became one of my biggest live favourites. Flight of Icarus made a glorious return.
LOTB offered rather brilliant coverage of different material and was, in many ways, a "hits tour" done right.
A Matter of Life and Death 2006
AMOLAD remains as one of my favourite Iron Maiden albums. It would've been an amazing tour to witness. I'd still pay a full ticket price even for the 10-song AMOLAD package, albeit the classic selection was rather good too.
As for the third one... it's very hard one to pick. Ed-Huntour could be it for the performances alone, and the set is a damn good one, but... on the other hand, I'd love to hear those The Book of Souls cuts live and to catch Children of the Damned and Powerslave as well is very tempting. Maiden England tour gets a lot of bashing for it's... rather unimaginative execution, but Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is probably my favourite Iron Maiden album and despite the fact that
I still think a setlist that holds songs like Moonchild, The Prisoner, Afraid to Shoot Strangers, Phantom of the Opera, Wasted Years, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and The Clairvoyant is damn great! Naturally, I'm as gutted as any fan for the omission of Infinite Dreams, but... I got a big handful of songs I had never heard live before and most of the mentioned haven't been played since, so... I get where the big criticism for that tour comes from and I agree with it for the most part, but honestly, Maiden England tour gets sometimes a bit too much retrospective bashing. Okay, it came with a bit too much SBIT repeat, especially for those who actually saw that tour, but those few big gems really stood out for me. So, being a Seventh Son centered set, that (2012-13 anyway) might very well be among the "most interesting" ones for me.
So uhm.
Don't know. As for the least interesting... that might be a bit easier to pick. As much as I like some songs on The Final Frontier, enjoyed the show I saw in 2011 and find En Vivo! a very strong release, the 2011 leg of the tour didn't really offer a whole lot outside the five new songs. Well, a brilliant rendition of Dance of Death. The preceeding and succeeding tours did so much better in terms of "interesting" setlits and show: SBIT was... well, SBIT. The 2010 leg came with a very bold set, Maiden England, despite some very unimaginative approach to the interesting concept, dusted off some long-awaited rarities and a semi-classic from the 90's and finally, The Book of Souls tour gave the usual history/album tour setlist structures some much needed shake. The 2011-2014 (with some competition from 2007) is probably their "laziest" period of setlist structuring from the reunion era, but those tours were pretty great anyway.
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Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
I agree. Really strange that they didn't use a different stage set (and name) for the 2010 tour, like they did in 2003 - and like they will do this year, of course the situation is a bit different.
Randalf
Ancient Mariner
Is it, though? El Dorado was already released (where as Wildest Dreams "premiered" as a live cut) and the tour definitely served as a huge promotion campaign for the upcoming album. In that sense, it kind of worked, even though I do get your point!
srfc
Ancient Mariner
I actually checked back on web archive and the first announced shows of the tour, Sonisphere, Wacken and a few others were actually announced a few months before the album and tour name was announced.
Sth2112
Ancient Mariner
Definetly Dance of death/eddie rips up the world/a matter of life and death tour. This was Maiden at their most experiemental phase.
- Dance of death with the costumes, acoustic song, spoken word intro on the title track and Paschendale.
- Eddie rips up the world, first time dropping many hits from later albums, doing only old school sets. Many rarities played for the first and probably last time.
- A matter of life and death the new album played from start to finish. Dropping The trooper and The number of the beast.
After this, part new world tours and part nostalgia act.
- Dance of death with the costumes, acoustic song, spoken word intro on the title track and Paschendale.
- Eddie rips up the world, first time dropping many hits from later albums, doing only old school sets. Many rarities played for the first and probably last time.
- A matter of life and death the new album played from start to finish. Dropping The trooper and The number of the beast.
After this, part new world tours and part nostalgia act.
Spambot
Meme Lord
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Anywho, TFF 2010 is probably the ballsiest setlist they had. No deep cuts, no greatest hits, no new songs. Looking back, it's probably one of my favorite setlists I seen them do. And they did extensive USA tour with it. Absolute madlads.
In terms of ballsy I also have to nominate Eddie Rips Up (yes, I also chanted for FOTD, but it was a second date and I got Charlotte, so it's a win after all).
LOTB '18 and LOTB '22 should be two different options, because they were worlds apart.
Azas
ELF
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Spambot
Meme Lord
Some smaller bands will probably use, I mean, it probably will be cheaper.
But I noticed that, in terms of "creativity" those AI thingamajigs are pretty frowned upon. It's great to have fun, but when people start using for something else, it usually results in backlash (minor example, but still - Mike Portnoy changed his profile picture and used some of those AI programs and all the people in the comments started warning him how wrong it was to do that. Then again, it's Mike Portnoy, so that reaction might be inevetable.)