good, good.
for some strange reason i have a bebo site again now :confused:
so i put a good video on it - Revelations, live at Rock AM Ring 2003 :D
awesome version of the song.

^you can see almost the entire gig up on youtube. Something tells me thta might be our early days tour dvd.

i don't know, because they it's apparently from the '03 tour, so not from the early days tour. unless it's just tagged as the wrong year.
i hope there is an early days tour album though, even if there's not a dvd.

That bootleg is pretty cool. I like the part in "2 Minutes To Midnight" where Bruce goes "Two Minutes To!..." and the crowd goes "MIDNIGHT!" and you hear some guy "More like Two Hours!"

:lol: I never noticed that.

/goes to listen

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGo0rHO_dN0[/url]
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This thread needed a bit of controversy to get going.

Also...

IRON MAIDEN Drummer Defends Band's Decision To Play Entire New Album Live - Oct. 14, 2006

A video clip of IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson ripping up the "Play Classics" sign that was thrown on stage by a member of the audience at the group's headlining show at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on Thursday (Oct. 12) has been posted online at YouTube.com.

In a live interview with the "Friday Night Rocks" radio show on New York's Q104.3 FM conducted on Friday (Oct. 13), IRON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain defended the band's decision to play their new album, "A Matter of Life and Death", in its entirety on MAIDEN's current tour.

Said Nicko: "You're never gonna be able to please everybody all the time.

"When we finished recording this record — that was way back in March/April of this year — when Kevin [Shirley, producer] had finished putting everything together and we listened to the record from top to bottom, it's one of those moments where — we're not sure who said it — but it was one of those magical moments when everyone was like, 'We've gotta do this live.' More than likely it was Steve [Harris] that said something. Nobody knows who it was that came up with this idea of doing it, but it doesn't really matter, because we all were in agreement. And we went, 'This is too good. What do you leave off this record?' In the past, we've always done five or six songs off a 10- or 11-track album. And so you kind of normally had two-thirds of the record performed live — I mean, 'Dance of Death', we did six tracks off the album — but this is historically the first time we've EVER ventured into doing something like this.

"For me, my personal feeling, and it's very well documented, I'm sure, is that I think that this is the best album I've ever made with this band. So I was delighted — it was a challenge, it is a challenge every night to play these songs, because they're very intricate, there's a lot more progression… there's lots of reasons what makes, for me, this album to play live a challenge. But we decided to take the bull by the horns and say, 'Look, we're not really worried…' Because we knew — and believe me, we sat and we said, 'You know we're gonna get flak for this from a lot of our older fans and even some of the newer fans who wanna hear the older classic songs.' But this is the wonderful thing when you've got 14 records that are all magic that all have great songs on them. So, let's just say, there's an average of 10 songs [per album], there's 140 tunes to choose from over a wonderful career of 25-plus years. The older fans and newer fans all go, 'I wanna hear my favorite, I wanna hear this…' but to do this, it is bold, and we just decided, 'Look, this is what WE wanna do as a band.' And we took the decision, and we knew we were gonna get various amounts of flak for it. And to be honest with you, I wrote a little [tour] diary [entry] the other day and I stuck it on the site and I said, 'Look, for you guys out there, stop freakin' whining. Just come and enjoy it. This is what we're doing because this is what WE want to do.' And it's not about not doing what our fans want. Because our fans made this record No. 9 — it was a Top 10 album — we've never had a Top 10 album in America. So there's a lot of people who are very happy to hear this album in its entirety. There are gonna be the people that are whining and moaning and groaning about it… Well, too freakin' bad. You're gonna get what get.

"Listen, if you look at it this way, and this is the way I look at it: You do an IRON MAIDEN set. We've got it split into thirds. We're doing two-thirds of the set new stuff; one-third is the old stuff. So you're getting two-to-one new. OK? That ain't bad. The great thing about it is that you know full well you're always get 'Iron Maiden' — it's the show closer, it's the signature song for the band. That will always be played last, and that's usually when you'll get the feature of whatever the theatrics we have on the stage — the entertainment side. We'll always have the album theme with a special effect come out — you're always gonna get that. One thing you always will have is 'Hallowed be thy Name', because I… myself and Steve, it's both our favorite IRON MAIDEN song to play live. And I made a deal with Steve years ago, and I said, 'If there's ever a time when you decide you don't want to do this song, you're gonna have to go get a new drummer.' Those two songs you will always have — always. There may be a time when we drop 'Hallowed' — possibly. But songs like 'The Trooper', 'Number of the Beast'… We've got 'Fear of the Dark', '2 Minutes to Midnight', and people go, 'Oh, I don't wanna hear '2 Minutes…' I'm fed up with it.' You're never gonna please everybody. But, of course, you don't wanna make somebody upset. They come all the way to see you, and they spend a lot of money to come down and have a good night out, and then they go, 'Oh, I'm disappointed.' I've read some e-mails that people have sent it, saying, 'I hope they change the setlist by the time they hit Europe.' Well, I've got news for you. Sell you freakin' tickets. Go scalp 'em. 'Cause we ain't changing the setlist.

Nicko seems a bit miffed.

I can understand where Niko is comming from though. It you look at for example blabbermouth, there is a hundread dumb asses everyday who post "WORST SETLIST EVER, MAIDEN ARE THE BIGGEST IDIOTS EVER! DO NOT GO SEE THEM, THE NEW ALBUM SUCKS!

I am personally quite pleased with this setlist, if i could go see them i would be extremely happy.

Also the bruce video (great video) is just Bruce acting out. He's always done stuff like that. Durring the early days tour alot of fans kept on yelling " PLAY FEAR OF THE DARK!" and of course Bruce would start yelling ITS THE EARLY DAYS TOUR ASKJSLFKJDLFJ

Interesting video none the less

TO LS2: i heard that to :lol:

Yeah, Nicko made a lot of good points, people who start name calling and moaning far too much are very unappreciative of what they have, especially when there are alot of people they are passing over this tour, Maiden is still Maiden, sure I would have liked a few of my favorites in the set, but I love all of the new album, and all of the classics that they are playing, I'm fairly pleased.
Besides, I'm going to see Iron Maiden, they could stand there and do nothing and I'd be reasonably happy :)

Personally i'm glad they're not playing many of the classics this time around :) it would have been nice to see some rarer songs or Blaze era songs but i'm not complaining at all.

[QUOTE=Josh;13437978]i don't know, because they it's apparently from the '03 tour, so not from the early days tour. unless it's just tagged as the wrong year.
i hope there is an early days tour album though, even if there's not a dvd.[/QUOTE]


Oh i was thinking of the ullevi gig sorry. But yes, they will be having a early days tour dvd. Thats what they promised with some of the european DOTR dvd releases.

I stand by my earlier post. I'm still thrilled about going to see them, but I'd be a lot happier if they played a few songs off the new album and then played classics.

I too stand by my earlier post, which was along the same lines as Legions'.

The old songs have been done many many times. They're on lots and lots of live albums.

They just did an entire tour dedicated to their old stuff.

My prime complaints with RiR and DotR is that there isn't enough of the respective latest albums on them.

AMOLAD is a fantastic album, and I can hear their old stuff some other time: but I want to hear the AMOLAD stuff while it's still fresh.

Argument won.

Thank you.

Why would someone want to play the same songs for 20 years

Anyone seen the 'different world' video? I'm not really liking the fact it's all animated.

I'm just realizing something whilst listening to AMOLAD, I'm very pleased with the setlist of the tour, there is not a single song on the album I wouldn't want to see live, and theres always the next part of the early days tour for the classics.

:)

[QUOTE=rik;13444782]Anyone seen the 'different world' video? I'm not really liking the fact it's all animated.[/QUOTE]

The full thing has been released?

To the fanclub yes. Not to the public til tomorrow. I've seen clips. It looks awful :)

I've seen the clips for it too. It does look rather awful but what Maiden video isn't :p

:lol: atleast it doesn't have wolfmen and other assorted people dancing around like jackasses with 6's on their backs, like in a certain NOTB video, hehe.

[QUOTE=Quiksilver26;13445635]:lol: atleast it doesn't have wolfmen and other assorted people dancing around like jackasses with 6's on their backs, like in a certain NOTB video, hehe.[/QUOTE]

Come on give them some credit, that video was atleast funny. And its not as if all other videos from the 80's weren't garbage anyways, just look at the many Micheal Jackson videos out there.

I think The Trooper has a pretty piss poor video...random war footage mixed in with spandex = NOT good.

Holy Smoke video ftw.

I will punch anyone in the throat who says that the Aces High or The Trooper videos aren't amazing.

Punch away.

The videos werent meant to be that serious anyway..... But along with wildest dreams, this viedo looks quite terrible =/

I've only ever seen one Maiden video outside of Breeg, it was pretty bad.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caMBtJbnpIA[/url]

Full animated Different Worlds.

The countdown has begun: 24 hours from this moment I'll be leaving work to get ready to go to Detroit for Maiden. :D

I hope you have an awesome time :thumb: