Good question. I had an awesome time. Definitively a show of the year contender. I'm not going to ahead and give a long essay of thoughts like I would in my normal concert thoughts since everyone here that has seen the show knows that this show was great, the band was fantastic and you wouldn't think these guys were in their 60s, Bruce was awesome and animated as ever, the setlist was great, all the production values is out of the world. It's always awesome to see a band that has a custom backdrop of all of their songs. The only thing that sorta bugged me was that I was placed in the far back and centered section where I thought I would have a fantastic center view and I did. One catch, there was this thing that was placed on top of the middle speaker in the fields and it blocked a portion of my view of the stage (right around where Steve would normally be positioned in). Thankfully, there were two big screens anyway to capture a lot of action so I wasn't bothered by it too much except for the two opening bands where they didn't get to utilized those screens at all so no close up footage for those two bands (I think those screens could have helped get people into those bands rather than try to feign interest and give a respectful applause after a song ends.)
Also, I guess I kinda wished the crowd were more into the I guess "obscurer" songs outside of the 80s era like The Clansman, For the Greater Good of God, etc. but I think that's asking too much since this is a history of Maiden tour. Another downer for me was that when I got to my seat, I had huge cramps in my left leg (that might have been due to the fact that I was walking about a mile from the Metro Expo Line station to the stadium in really warm LA weather and stood around for another hour or so. That honestly didn't make sense since I was standing in line for about 4 hours two weeks ago for another show and had no cramps. Just plain feet soreness) so I found myself sitting the entire time. Thankfully, the person in front of me was sitting so that was a bit of a relief to me.
The people around me were nice. Sure, there was a row in front of me was smoking what I presume was pot a lot and the smell of it was too overbearing, but it wasn't a distraction. I sat next to a guy that stated that this was his 15th Maiden show and that his first show was in Long Beach Arena back in 1985 for Live After Death. Overall, people around me were friendly and not giving anyone a hard time at all. Just really excited to see Iron Maiden although, and this is just me, I just don't like the look that people have where they wear denim vests with all kinds of metal band logos on it. I always find that look to be tacky.
Overall, seeing Iron Maiden first time ever lived up to every expectation, and then some, and hype for me waiting the 10 months to see this show. I would absolutely love to see them again in Southern California a few more times before they call it a career. I just hope they do not host it in Glen Helen Amphitheater and Banc of California Stadium is a nice looking stadium. Just really hard to get out (I took a Lyft to get back to the parking lot in LA Live I was parked in and we waited like 10-15 minutes to get out).