The Iron Maiden Thread v. The Merge of Souls

[wolfking]

It's a shame there was no official recording from the Ed HUnter tour.  Those few songs were got were awseome and the setlist was fantastic.

Aces High
Wrathchild
The Trooper
2 Minutes to Midnight
The Clansman
Wasted Years
Killers
Futureal
Man on the Edge
Powerslave
Phantom of the Opera
The Evil That Men Do
Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden
The Number of the Beast
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Run to the Hills

Stranger in a Strange Land was played a few times too.

[cramx3]

Eddie's Archive was worth ever cent IMO, until they released the cd's seperately!

Mine was like $120 if I remember correctly and I have a cool story to go along with how I found it (small time record store in college had it hidden) but my version is also the original with limited pressings before they released more (difference you can tell by the color of cloth on the inside).  I got this before the internet had ways of finding all those tunes so definitely worth the money, plus I won a game of war against my college roommate to get to keep it after we graduated since we split the cost.  And of course we've had plenty of shots from drinking from the goblet 

[wolfking]

Nice.  I paid $155 for one of the originals too so I still think it was worth the money.

[TAC]

It's a shame there was no official recording from the Ed HUnter tour.  Those few songs were got were awseome and the setlist was fantastic.

Aces High
Wrathchild
The Trooper
2 Minutes to Midnight
The Clansman
Wasted Years
Killers
Futureal
Man on the Edge
Powerslave
Phantom of the Opera
The Evil That Men Do
Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden
The Number of the Beast
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Run to the Hills

Stranger in a Strange Land was played a few times too.

Plenty of excellent boots though.

[El Barto]

What was so great was that it was it was a theater tour. Really felt intimate. One of my favorite Maiden shows.

Exactly. Down here it was a beloved 3000 seat arena in the back of a bowling alley. Helluva show.

[jjrock88]

That's an awesome setlist!

[cramx3]

Yea, sucks they dropped Stanger.  That's such an awesome song.

[TAC]

Well, Adrian missed a number of shows, including Boston  , because his father passed away.

[cramx3]

Well, Adrian missed a number of shows, including Boston  , because his father passed away.

Yea I heard that which sucks, but they didn't bring it back when he returned.

[TAC]

The St. John, NB show. One of the better boots from the tour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoUzF2E4OdY

[nobloodyname]

This one is a little better in terms of sound quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tQ40_Z0xjw

And also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TguoHe72n80

[TAC]

Doesn't the tour resume tonight?

[MirrorMask]

Yup, in Belgium.

[devieira73]

Excellent bootleg from Ed Hunter Tour (although Stranger... wasn't played at this show):

https://highqualitybootlegs.blogspot.com.br/2014/12/iron-maiden-ed-hunter-tour-1999.html

[cramx3]

Two set lists changes, one a surprise actually the other, people guessed in this thread

[TAC]

TBOS track switch 
The Classic track switch 

[fadetoblackdude7]

TBOS track switch 
The Classic track switch 

This!

[wolfking]

01. If Eternity Should Fail
02. Speed Of Light
03. Wrathchild
04. Children Of The Damned
05. Death Or Glory
06. The Red And The Black
07. The Trooper
08. Powerslave
09. The Great Unknown (live debut)
10. The Book Of Souls
11. Fear Of The Dark
12. Iron Maiden

Encore:

13. The Number Of The Beast
14. Blood Brothers
15. Wasted Years

Good to see they finally dropped Clown.  Great Unknown is a solid choice.  With you guys though, WTF?  They drop Hallowed and put Wrathchild in?!?!?!?!?!  Ripped off.

[MirrorMask]

Wrathchild is becoming the easy replacement song of their setlists. Something doesn't work for a reason or the other, they stick in Wrathchild. Damn stop playing that song forever and ever already.

About Hallowed, I wonder if it's starting to take its toll on Bruce. They've given it a rest for the Maiden England tour, brought it back in grand style for the new tour, and out of all songs they decided to drop *that*? seems to me a choice oriented for Bruce, if they wanted to drop it just because it's an overplayed classic, they wouldn't have snuck Wrathchild back in.

[kaos2900]

Love Wrathchild, no concerns from me. 2 months to my show!

[fadetoblackdude7]

Still being a newish fan, can someone tell me if there's a reason the main set always end with Fear/IM?

[Stadler]

Because Steve Harris says so.   (Not really kidding with that answer, either). 

[MirrorMask]

Still being a newish fan, can someone tell me if there's a reason the main set always end with Fear/IM?

Iron Maiden: because it's their namesake song, and they always, literally ALWAYS, closed the (main) set with that. And with Eddie appearing in a way or the other, so it's the climatical moment of the theatrical side of the show, the one involving Eddie.

Fear of the Dark before that: Steve Harris considers it the ultimate Maiden live song. So it's only logical that after such a big climax, you can only end the (main part of the) show without having further songs after that.

This rule has been rarely discarded in later years, at least in a tour Hallowed Be Thy Name and/or Run to the Hills snuck in between Fear of the Dark and Iron Maiden.

[fadetoblackdude7]

Got it, thanks

[wolfking]

About Hallowed, I wonder if it's starting to take its toll on Bruce. They've given it a rest for the Maiden England tour, brought it back in grand style for the new tour, and out of all songs they decided to drop *that*? seems to me a choice oriented for Bruce, if they wanted to drop it just because it's an overplayed classic, they wouldn't have snuck Wrathchild back in.

I thought this must be the reason also.  Has to be.

[TAC]

But The Great Unknown must be a killer on Bruce.

[wolfking]

But The Great Unknown must be a killer on Bruce.

Good point.  Great song though.

[MirrorMask]

And now, the randomness: I've suddenly realized that Viggo Mortensen could play Bruce Dickinson in a movie about him.

I'm not saying that they look alke, but there's enough of a vague resemblance to be a starting point for a make up artist. Also, they're both badass people, so that helps too.

[El Barto]

Wrathchild is becoming the easy replacement song of their setlists. Something doesn't work for a reason or the other, they stick in Wrathchild. Damn stop playing that song forever and ever already.

I think you might be right here. I know they played BtaTS here on the first night of the TFF tour, and then dropped it forever the next night for Wrathchild. In this case they thought it created a lull. I guess it's just one they can all play in their sleep without any rehearsal.

That was also a weird tour where they had A/B setlists, which I don't recall seeing otherwise.

[MirrorMask]

It was more like trying out some songs at the beginning, and then setting on a static setlist once the've ruled out the songs that weren't working.

Paschendale for Dance of Death was ok I guess, but Brighter for Wrathchild... meh 

[cramx3]

Yea, that tour settled into the setlist after the first handful of dates.  From the fan club videos at the time, the reasoning was Nicko was struggling.

[El Barto]

Their intention was to alternate Paschendale and DoD for the tour, but as stated, dropped the former due to it being rough on Nicko. Whether or not alternating one spot in the setlist qualifies as A/B is debatable, but for Maiden it was pretty damned unusual. Dropping Brighter was simply because of the crowd reaction to it. Personally, I'm just thrilled I got to see both versions.

[axeman90210]

Haven't seen Maiden enough times to not be bummed at them dropping Hallowed

[cramx3]

Haven't seen Maiden enough times to not be bummed at them dropping Hallowed

I've seen them enough to still be bummed about it.  It's their best song IMO and great live.  I'd gladly give up all the other staples to keep that song instead.

[axeman90210]

Haven't seen Maiden enough times to not be bummed at them dropping Hallowed

I've seen them enough to still be bummed about it.  It's their best song IMO and great live.  I'd gladly give up all the other staples to keep that song instead.

To me that song is like Master of Puppets in that it wasn't their biggest commercial hit but it's so beloved by fans that it should pretty much always be in their setlist.