maidens oppening show setlist.....
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Pretty nice, but it would have been better if they had some of the older ones in there.
Also 2M2M looks really out of place on that setlist.
And seriously, who would have thouight that they wouldnt include RTTH and NOTB, that kind of shocked me.

I think that's pretty lame. I would be very annoyed if I was seeing Iron Maiden for the first time and didn't get The Number of The Beast, Run To The Hills and The Trooper.

But I like that they're finally changing it up.

Exactly.
But like i said, they should've included a bit more classics or songs they dont often play live.

Hmm

All of AMOLAD
The Wicker Man
Revelations
The Clansman
Phantom of the Opera
Iron Maiden


Looks good to me.

At least one blaze song would have been nice.
The edge of darkness anyone?
Also, im not that sure how well out of the shadows is going to go down live.

[QUOTE=Hot Darn!;13384421]I just got back from seeing them.
They played AMOLAD in its entirety.
I don't remember everything they played but here are some.
Fear of the Dark
The Evil that men do.
2 minutes to midnight
Hallowed be Thy Name.

A tank popped out at the back of the stage behind the drumset in the middle of 2MTM.

No trooper =/, and the set seemed kind of short because of the playing of AMOLAD. But still, they are amazing and remain my favorite band.
I got a sweet hoodie with the guns and ed on the back too :D.[/QUOTE]

w00t! 2MTM, TETMD, FOTD and HBTN, as well as all the album? i always wanted them to play TETMD and 2MTM the first time i saw them :D
although i'd rather have them play some stuff off Somewhere in Time than all of AMOLAD, but still, they're gonna pwn live.

NP: Different World (on my awesome new speaker set)
i love the philosophical aspect of this song.

Ugh, i can't say i'm to fond of this set list, FotD and Iron Maiden really could have been changed to rarer songs :(

But at least they changed some songs. I was expecting:

AMOLAD
FOTD
The Trooper
RTTH
NOTB
HBTN

[QUOTE=Hot Darn!;13384421]I just got back from seeing them.
They played AMOLAD in its entirety.
I don't remember everything they played but here are some.
Fear of the Dark
The Evil that men do.
2 minutes to midnight
Hallowed be Thy Name.

A tank popped out at the back of the stage behind the drumset in the middle of 2MTM.

No trooper =/, and the set seemed kind of short because of the playing of AMOLAD. But still, they are amazing and remain my favorite band.
I got a sweet hoodie with the guns and ed on the back too :D.[/QUOTE]

I also just saw them, the older stuff they played (Fear of the Dark and Hallowed be Thy Name in particular) was ****ing incredible. I think it was kinda lame how they didn't do more songs outside of their new stuff, but it was an amazing show none the less.

To be perfectly honest...Every song on the setlist is awesome, and I will enjoy (FotD was one of the big ones I was hoping for).

But for a band with such a massive back catolouge (full of awesome songs) to play the entirety of a new album is ludicrous, 5 or 6 songs, I would have understood. I would have hoped for a better setlist for my first time seeing Maiden.

Seriously though, its still going to pwn the face off me and I'm still hella excited to go see them.

I think it's perfectly legitimate. They have a new album, which they are promoting. It's not their responsibility to play everyone's favorite songs every time they tour.

[QUOTE=pate;13386817]I think it's perfectly legitimate. They have a new album, which they are promoting. It's not their responsibility to play everyone's favorite songs every time they tour.[/QUOTE]

very good point. plus, they tried playing Charlotte the Harlot on the last tour and swapped it for Wrathchild, as too many of the fans didn't know CTH :angry:

Wow. I would love CTH. When I saw them last summer, at my show they decided to swap Wrathchild with Murders in the Rue Morgue, which was a nice surprise.

they did both at mine :confused:
they came on while a tape of The Ides Of March was playing, and launced into Murders... at the drum-roll part, just before the vocals start.

[QUOTE=Josh;13386889]very good point. plus, they tried playing Charlotte the Harlot on the last tour and swapped it for Wrathchild, as too many of the fans didn't know CTH :angry:[/QUOTE]
Wow, those fans suck...

i guess i don't mind to much about the set list, in the end of the day i'm seeing Maiden and no matter what they play it will kick *** :)

Paschendale!

****!

but The Longest Day will be on the setlist, IMO doing that and Paschendale would be overdoing the modern war thing, although it would still be awesome.

[QUOTE=the_uber_penguin;13387340]Paschendale!

****![/QUOTE]

123!
After posting my last comment I went youtubing for Maiden videos, and watched the Paschendale performance on Death on The Road (again) and it dawned on me I wouldn't see it live :upset:

Really though, I am just glad to be seeing them, and I am extremely looking forward to it, AMOLAD is brilliant, and I know it will be even better live.

That was just the set for the first show too, so there's a possibility of the setlist changing slightly. They could be waiting to see everyone's reactions to each of the songs. I would kind of like to see maybe 1 or 2 more songs added at any rate though.

but remember that the new album is 72 minutes long, or something like that, so that limits how many others they can do...

Even with that though, that is a pretty short set list tbh.
I was just coming to post exactly what Quiksilver said, It occoured to me that maybe they played all of the songs at the first gig as a sort of launch of the tour special, and mainly to see which songs go down the best so they can keep them for the rest of the tour.

A long shot, but I have no doubt the set will change at least a little.

it will almost certainly change a bit, but when they first finished the album, they did say that they thought the album was good enough to be performed all the way through live.
either way, it'll be an awesome show, i can't wait. it'll be my 3rd time seeing them.

Yeah, it'll be my 2nd time only, I think i'm even more pumped than before first show though :). I've seen so many people complaining about the setlist.. but in reality it's a fricken tour to support the album. And the album just so happens to crush all in its path.

With that said, I also cannot wait for a Golden Years tour :D

Interesting set list for sure. I was expecting the whole album, but the other songs seem a little unorthodox. Why not:

Hallowed
Iron Maiden
The Trooper
Paschendale
Infinite Dreams

And yeah, Out of the Shadows does seem out of place.

Paschendale would be the greatest blessing ever received... anyway, I just read a post on another board (the official IM forum actually) from people who were at the first show. According to them, Bruce announced that they'd be playing the entire AMOLAD album as a special treat... so MrConeman's assumptions about it being a tour kick off type of deal could be right on.

Or maybe as a special treat to North American fans for this tour? Or for everyone on this tour?

If we all remember the DoD tour, they actually played more songs of their album, but since the crowd reaction wasnt very good,they changed songs out for like wrathchild and stuff.

My first maiden gig was extremely short (50 minutes anyone?) so they just went though all the classics which wasnt bad.
it went like
1.Intro/ides of march (missed this came late)
2.Wrathchild (missed this came late)
3.the trooper (cam right when bruced yelled 'THE TROOOOOOOPER! when of the best experiences of my life)
4.revelations (i didnt know this song at the time so missed out badly)
4 1/2. Burce yelled about corporate america for a while.
5. Phantom of the opera (amazing, never thought i would get to hear it)0
6.Run to the hills
7. Number of the beast (niko threw one of his drumsticks into the corwd durring this song which was kind of un-usual)
8.Hallowed be thy name
9.Iron maiden (my first time seeing eddie :extremelyhappy:)
-break-
10.running Free
11. Sactuary


They blew me away.

I had that set, except exchange Wrathchild with Murders in the Rue Morgue. Indeed, they were amazing.

[QUOTE=pate;13390828]I had that set, except exchange Wrathchild with Murders in the Rue Morgue. Indeed, they were amazing.[/QUOTE]

I would have rather had MITRM, if i was actually there to see it. Tis one of my alltime favorite maiden songs.