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Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!
Jun. 18th, 2008 12:08 pmI went to see Iron Maiden in Camden last night. Sold out crowd -- in fact I went to Camden because they had already sold out Madison Square Garden. And pretty much every venue they've played all over the US and Canada. And everywhere else -- the tour kicked off in Mumbai. The latter is less surprising: Metal has stayed huge outside the US.
People unfamiliar with Iron Maiden might have thought the concert was a "best of" show. People more familiar with Iron Maiden would recognize that the 2-hour setlist only covered half their career (1980 - 1992) and could have been a 4-hour setlist and still qualified as a "best of..." I would have liked them to include some more recent stuff, but I do recognize there wasn't much space to cram it in.
There was a moment of optimism about the band's staying power when Bruce took a poll and we discovered that about 80% of the audience hadn't been born yet when Powerslave was released in 1984.
As usual, Bruce also dropped some knowledge between songs. First with some class analysis around the fact that the people in the back sitting on the lawn are just as die-hard fans as the people right up at the stage, but the tickets for the orchestra and pit are pretty expensive and many people simply can't afford 'em; later with the underlying environmentalist message of Rime of the Ancient Mariner -- which he admits hadn't occurred to him in '84.
Look for the new album in June, I'm hearing. Which should mean more touring. Yay!
People unfamiliar with Iron Maiden might have thought the concert was a "best of" show. People more familiar with Iron Maiden would recognize that the 2-hour setlist only covered half their career (1980 - 1992) and could have been a 4-hour setlist and still qualified as a "best of..." I would have liked them to include some more recent stuff, but I do recognize there wasn't much space to cram it in.
There was a moment of optimism about the band's staying power when Bruce took a poll and we discovered that about 80% of the audience hadn't been born yet when Powerslave was released in 1984.
As usual, Bruce also dropped some knowledge between songs. First with some class analysis around the fact that the people in the back sitting on the lawn are just as die-hard fans as the people right up at the stage, but the tickets for the orchestra and pit are pretty expensive and many people simply can't afford 'em; later with the underlying environmentalist message of Rime of the Ancient Mariner -- which he admits hadn't occurred to him in '84.
Look for the new album in June, I'm hearing. Which should mean more touring. Yay!