I honestly think Bruce has improved with age. Regardless, he is a force of nature who can still perform at the levels he was when he was in his 20s. Amazing.
@@markmm1066I wouldn’t say he’s improved or devolved. His voice has changed a lot. He still has the power and stamina. He’s lost some range, but he’s also gained a quality I can’t quite label-the best I can come up with is “maturity”, but that doesn’t quite convey it. I love classic Bruce vocals and current Bruce vocals about equally.
I blame you for me going back and listening to loads of maiden after the last few maiden vids you've done 🤣 Honestly can't think of a better live band with such theatrics, stage presence and crowd control.
I've been an Iron Maiden fan for 30+ years. I took my 19 year son to go see them last year in DC and it was freaking epic!!! The pictures, videos, and memories we got will last for generations. They will absolutely blow your mind away!!! They ran around and played like they were 30 years old again. WOW!!!!
Been with them since Killers was released. Just took my oldest son to his first ever concert. The Priest. Now this weekend, I'm taking both my sons to see Maiden for the first time (#17 I think for me) and the first ever concert for my youngest. Good for you, friend.
Or did, anyway. He's 65 now, and has said he won't be piloting Ed Force One anymore, due to age restrictions for airline pilots. Ed Force One was a 747 at one point, too.
Yeah he's retired from flying big commercial liners now. Not by choice I believe I think there's an age limit to how long you can fly commercially especially when carrying other souls on board. I'm pretty sure he could still pilot smaller private aircraft.
I've seen them live several times, and they never disappoint. Once I saw them at an outdoor venue and a beach ball made it up on stage. Without missing a note they played soccer with it for a while before kicking back to the crowd. It was absolutely amazing
Nicko has always been my favorite drummer, but you should check out something off the first 2 albums that has Clive Burr on drums and Paul Di'anno singing. Maybe "murders in the rue morgue" or "phantom of the opera" Clive is criminally underrated.
3:28 I’ve been to a fair number of shows. Maiden has the best crowd energy I’ve ever seen. It’s not *always* the most energetic, but it’s both crazy and really positive/uplifting.
Welcome to the world of Iron Maiden! This live performance is from their Flight 666 DVD. I saw them last year in Gothenburg and it was so good. I think it was my 6th or 7th time. They're the reason I started playing the guitar 22 years ago. Also some facts I don't know if you know about. Bruce had two tumors back in 2015 when they were recording their album 'The Book of Souls'. One in his throat and one at the back of his tounge. He didn't wanted to do the surgery until after the album was done because he was afraid it would affect his voice too much. He wasn't even sure he could ever sing again. Also, Nicko had at the beginning of this year a mini stroke (A TIA). He got into a speedy rehab to be able to get on stage again asap. And between May 28th and October 2nd their tour 'The Future Past' has been going on. Iron Maiden are something else and very unique to music and performance. Bruce is not just an incredible singer, but also such an amazing story teller. Very theatrical band and musicians. I love these guys for so many reasons!❤
Agree. The faster tempo loses the feel of the song. Too much “noodling” from Dave coming into tempo. And don’t get me started on Janicks reworking of Adrian’s solo. They sound better live but 1982 is when they did.
I saw them that following summer in Montreal at the first ever Heavy Montreal and thank god because I couldn’t go to the Toronto show and my friends did and I was so jealous. This tour was probably one of the best and the whole tour was filmed by Canadian Sam Dunn. This always brings me back to being 18 and loosing my fucking mind at the barrier.
Don't know if anyone already answered the question, but the singer of Maiden, Bruce Dickinson, is a real pilot and he flies the band jet. And yes, Maiden is absolutely one of the best live-bands ever. It's just not rational how they can perform!! But the most important thing I always see is that they're just having fun on stage with another, with the audience and with the music, even after almost 50 fuckin years on stage! It speaks for you that you acknowledged all that. Best reaction
Great reaction , giving us your take on this great band from a drummers perspective without too many lengthy stops 👍 I grew up on this band , and their music has clearly stood the test of time , relating to their original fans from back in the day and the younger generation of today . Look in the audience at the age variation at their shows , its comical it's so diverse - From teens to Grandparents ! 😁 "Flight 666" is a Maiden documentary showing their show schedules , logistics with Ed Force One with Bruce Flying and concert footage , well worth a look at for an incite to this amazing hard working and professional outfit . You will see in this just how appreciative and committed they are to their fans , and why they have such a timeless cult following in return . The Maiden family is like a silent unofficial family , they just gather in mass to make their existence well known with continually sold out shows 😁. See you on the next one . Cheers from Melbourne 👍🇦🇺
Not to take anything away from Nicko, but the musical drum bits pre-solo that you were pointing out were written by the original drummer, the late great Clive Burr. Nicko inserts quite a bit of his own personality in Clive-era songs, but he has always played Hallowed be thy name relatively straight to Clive's original for some reason.
Came here to say much the same. As much as Nicko makes _Hallowed_ his own whenever he plays it (and he has played it an INSANE amount of times, given that it's the default concert-ender), the composition genius behind the drum part is entirely Clive's.
This show was the closest thing to magic. We were lucky enough to be onstage during “Heaven Can Wait” a few songs earlier in the set. I met a person that was to become one of my best friends, thanks to this show. And, to top it off, they ended the show with this song, my favorite song of all-time. Thanks for reviewing this particular live show.
I have been an Iron Maiden fan for almost 30 years. I managed to go to 2 concerts last year, and yep yep yep... You can feel the feelings I see from you here at a concert from beginning to end. They may not be running as much anymore, but the music and Bruce's voice are still perfect, impressive and fantastic.😊
Love to see your excitement and joy ! 😄 I also really got into Iron Maiden a couple months ago and I exactly get how you're feeling ! You have to see them live. I have just seen them this year, and they are still as brilliantly mind-blowing as in this live video 2008 and Bruce still sounds amazing !
Listening to the Number of the Beast album for the first time when it came out was an amazing experience, from the music to the album cover to the voice of Mr Vincent Price reading parts or Revelations.
The voice doing the intro for number of the beast was an actor called Barry Clayton, maiden wanted mr price but because of his fame the fee he asked for was to much.
And there's a hint that Maiden might be heading your way next year. They've shown a boomerang when asked where they're heading next. Maybe not NZ but Australia though
To your questions about the live show, the band has been very vocal about not using a click track, though Nicko has said he uses some kind of device to help him start each song at the correct tempo. What happens after that is all about the organic experience of performing live. All three guitar players use in-ears, but if I remember right, Nicko and Steve do not. Can't remember about Bruce, but he has talked about the challenges of hearing the rest of the band while he sings when the drums and bass are relatively loud and the guitars relatively quiet on stage, and what he hears varies by where he is on stage.
At some point Nico started using a click at the beginning to find the right pace. In the past, it sometimes happened that he counted so quickly that his bandmates, and especially himself, couldn't keep up.
@@thomash.5505 I have a bootleg of them in 1993 where they play Can I Play With Madness and Bruce (who is no slouch when it comes to fast articulation) does not quite manage to get his chorus lines into the space his bandmates leave him. That click for starting was a good idea.
Ed Force One is a play on words for America’s Air Force One, the President personal plane. Eddie Iron Maiden is their mascot and is the skeleton dude on all their album covers. So, Ed Force One. Bruce is actually a licensed commercial pilot which he does in his spare time. Fun fact… he was also an Olympic fencing candidate back in the day.
I have been 22 times in Maiden's gig, best gig's ever, people is good to others, there are kids and grandpapas in audience and band work hard every time and still having fun. My english is not perfect, but i learned it with Maiden at 80's.
I have had the great pleasure of seeing them twice...once was my first in 1983 enslave the world tour in Minneapolis MN, then Book of souls tour in the Takoma dome. Just as much if not more energy. I am hoping to make them my grandsons first. love the vids!
Hi there Andrew, you menciound that Nicco is a musical drummer, I sure agree. Maiden is my band, has been for years and hope to see them soon for my 48the time. Talking about musical drummers, could you check out Ed Warby, in the music video from Ayreon called The Day That The World Breaks Down ??? Cheers and greets from the Netherlands Chris.
I was a fair weather fan of Iron Maiden since around 1984 ish, until I saw them live about 12 years ago. Now I’m a true fan. Going to see them live, is amazing. If you get the chance, you’ve got to go.
A few years ago the Iron Maiden Fan Club asked its membership to pick the one song that if they could play to someone who had never heard Maiden, would perfectly deliver what the band was, in one song. This song won. By a landslide. That says it all, really.
I was at this show and it was outstanding. Also went to see Ed Force One arrive, when they were going to their van Nikko came over and talked to us and signed some autographs and was really a nice guy.
The english bands are insanely good when it comes to rock/metal music: Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, just to name a few
Iron Maiden rolled thru 🇨🇦 last week or so. This clip is obviously 2008 but the standard this band exudes is unreal then. This tour is no different! Yes much older but just as tight live on every level. I agree with you to name other bands today that do what they do live. Vocals to musicianship is unmatched. I will throw in Nightwish to table. After discovering Nightwish I’ve compared them to the same musicality live. They both perform their music better and to me makes or breaks a band in my eyes. Great reaction by the way looking forward to seeing what you got next.
The first time I saw Maiden (late in life, admittedly) was during the Final Frontier tour. We were on the floor just behind the pit, and the opening chords of this started. I turned to my friends and suggested that we retreat a bit. It was a good call.
They did this tour with Ed Force One, which was a Boeing 747, so that they could play a lot more shows than usual while still being well rested and having a great time. The fact that Bruce could graduate from a 757 to the real daddy jumbo jet certainly didn't hurt =D
Loving your Iron Maiden content!! The drumming in this one is predominately Clive Burrs masterpiece, but Nicko does it justice!!! Please look into doing 22 Acacia Avenue and Flight of Icarus!!
Basically Maiden follows right into the path of Judas Priest. Heavy metal 🤘 4 ever 😎 I am happy you discovered them Andrew. Very cool to hear you analyze them
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I remember Lars Ulrich saying in the flight 666 documentary (which you should totally watch, lots of great live performances and it's a sort of history of the band too) where he said he gets annoyed at Nico, cause he has such a massive kit, and Lars what's to see what he's doing and how he's playing these songs, but you can't see him over the mountainous kit he plays lol
Hello Andrew this is Wim from the Netherlands i have another Iron maiden suggestion. One of my favorites the sign of the cross live from the rock in Rio concert.
Maiden with Nicko have always had quite a dynamic tempo, especially live, but lots of recorded album songs were done this way. A few if not most of the later albums have been recorded with an almost-live style and using mostly one good take of the whole band recording the base song at the same time in the studio if i've understood it correctly. They're SO tight and they've had the same members for SO long... If they use metronomes or click-tracks, i couldn't tell you, i just know they're so tuned in to eachother as a band that it's almost magic seeing them live. Nicko is a very unique drummer, as anyone who understands anything about drumming already knows if they've heard Maiden =D
I think it’s pretty safe to say at this point, Iron Maiden are pretty progressive in terms of the tempo switches and lyrical themes. I think. Adrian Smith even said he was inspired by Pink Floyd in an interview.
if you are really diving into these guys, its worth checking out a live clip they did of this song in the 80s i think it was, easy to find. awesome quality also
And to top it all off they sound amazing when they play live. One thing interesting is Maiden invests into their stage production and sound system. Bringing everything needed with them. Not chancing it on questionable stage gear at different venues.
thanks for this fine reaction to this timeless masterpiece from one of the greates bands ever. IM have influenced to so many bands and musicians. so for example all female metalband "Lovebites" from japan with tons of talent (in 2018 they won metal hammers prestigious best newcomer award and played wacken the same year) and a fantastic drummer. I recommend their song "Liar live 2023" from their official channel. they are so good.
For Maiden fans at a concert, Hallowed Be Thy Name is a religious experience. Not even being hyperbolic.
Yep, that sums it up. Heck, the whole concert practically is. For two hours, nothing else in the world exists.
Yep. Bout right. I am relatively positive the secret to life is in the last 3 minutes…
100% agree
Agreed. You know what song they are going to close with.
The energy at a Maiden show is something special. It is a positively primal connection
You have to watch Hallowed be Thy Name live in the 80s when Bruce voice was godlike
1982 at Hammersmith with Clive is the best version
I was there at nammersmith odeon that night. I'm sure the rods were the support that night
@@christophersavill4785that's fucking sick dude!
I honestly think Bruce has improved with age. Regardless, he is a force of nature who can still perform at the levels he was when he was in his 20s. Amazing.
@@markmm1066I wouldn’t say he’s improved or devolved. His voice has changed a lot. He still has the power and stamina. He’s lost some range, but he’s also gained a quality I can’t quite label-the best I can come up with is “maturity”, but that doesn’t quite convey it.
I love classic Bruce vocals and current Bruce vocals about equally.
Maiden is the fine wine of metal. They are the pioneers for a reason.
YES
Goosebumps every time I see this video, the energy they can convey is unbelievable!
I do agree, feels like even the hair on top of my head is standing up when I get these goosebumps
Absolutely
Saw maiden last year, finally. Wanted to since the 80s. The best concert I've ever seen by far.
I blame you for me going back and listening to loads of maiden after the last few maiden vids you've done 🤣 Honestly can't think of a better live band with such theatrics, stage presence and crowd control.
Why did you stop listening to them in the first place?
I've been an Iron Maiden fan for 30+ years. I took my 19 year son to go see them last year in DC and it was freaking epic!!! The pictures, videos, and memories we got will last for generations. They will absolutely blow your mind away!!! They ran around and played like they were 30 years old again. WOW!!!!
Been with them since Killers was released. Just took my oldest son to his first ever concert. The Priest. Now this weekend, I'm taking both my sons to see Maiden for the first time (#17 I think for me) and the first ever concert for my youngest. Good for you, friend.
Bruce is not only the vocalist, but also the band's pilot. He flies them to every city on their private Boeing 757!
Or did, anyway. He's 65 now, and has said he won't be piloting Ed Force One anymore, due to age restrictions for airline pilots. Ed Force One was a 747 at one point, too.
Ed Force One was actually a 747 =)
@@GeFeldz No/yes.
08 09 a 757
10 11 an other 757. Wikipedia say that. But i think it was a 737.
16 17 a 747-400
Yeah he's retired from flying big commercial liners now. Not by choice I believe I think there's an age limit to how long you can fly commercially especially when carrying other souls on board.
I'm pretty sure he could still pilot smaller private aircraft.
@@The_Stranger1986I’ve wondered if that’s why he’s growing his hair back out.
I've seen them live several times, and they never disappoint. Once I saw them at an outdoor venue and a beach ball made it up on stage. Without missing a note they played soccer with it for a while before kicking back to the crowd. It was absolutely amazing
have seen them several times as well and you're right, they are just incredible to behold. Fav was when Motorhead "Opened" for them
Nicko has always been my favorite drummer, but you should check out something off the first 2 albums that has Clive Burr on drums and Paul Di'anno singing. Maybe "murders in the rue morgue" or "phantom of the opera" Clive is criminally underrated.
Even this song is from Clive's era (his last album with Maiden, in fact). Children of the Damned would be another great one from Clive to listen to.
Clive was a phenomenal drummer...
I agree, the first 2 albums with Clive and Paul were amazing. However, the last thing I've ever considered Clive is underrated
3:28 I’ve been to a fair number of shows. Maiden has the best crowd energy I’ve ever seen. It’s not *always* the most energetic, but it’s both crazy and really positive/uplifting.
Welcome to the world of Iron Maiden! This live performance is from their Flight 666 DVD. I saw them last year in Gothenburg and it was so good. I think it was my 6th or 7th time. They're the reason I started playing the guitar 22 years ago. Also some facts I don't know if you know about. Bruce had two tumors back in 2015 when they were recording their album 'The Book of Souls'. One in his throat and one at the back of his tounge. He didn't wanted to do the surgery until after the album was done because he was afraid it would affect his voice too much. He wasn't even sure he could ever sing again. Also, Nicko had at the beginning of this year a mini stroke (A TIA). He got into a speedy rehab to be able to get on stage again asap. And between May 28th and October 2nd their tour 'The Future Past' has been going on. Iron Maiden are something else and very unique to music and performance. Bruce is not just an incredible singer, but also such an amazing story teller. Very theatrical band and musicians. I love these guys for so many reasons!❤
One of my all time favourite songs, not just by Maiden, but of all time. I was there that night singing along.
A staple song for 40 years now. None better end of. Up the Irons ! 🤘
Just a moment to acknowledge the late Clive Burr, the man, the drummer, who recorded this first.
Iron Maiden Is one of the few bands that sounds better live than in studio
Can see your point, but I'm not too fond of the bit faster tempo here, so there you go. Absolutely stellar performace though.
Agree. The faster tempo loses the feel of the song. Too much “noodling” from Dave coming into tempo. And don’t get me started on Janicks reworking of Adrian’s solo. They sound better live but 1982 is when they did.
Nicko had a stroke not long ago and worked his balls off to get back into the groove. Can you imagine at 71beinh able to deliver two hours of that.
I saw them that following summer in Montreal at the first ever Heavy Montreal and thank god because I couldn’t go to the Toronto show and my friends did and I was so jealous. This tour was probably one of the best and the whole tour was filmed by Canadian Sam Dunn. This always brings me back to being 18 and loosing my fucking mind at the barrier.
Sam Dunn has made many brilliant documentaries about music.
@@Miwna I know, his contribution to rock/metal is incredible!
@@matthewpoburyny5147 Indeed. His first work, A Headbanger's Journey, is a must-see for all metal fans out there.
Iron Maiden is one of the few bands that has truly mastered both musicianship and showmanship.
And just look at how much fun they're having doing it.
Don't know if anyone already answered the question, but the singer of Maiden, Bruce Dickinson, is a real pilot and he flies the band jet. And yes, Maiden is absolutely one of the best live-bands ever. It's just not rational how they can perform!! But the most important thing I always see is that they're just having fun on stage with another, with the audience and with the music, even after almost 50 fuckin years on stage! It speaks for you that you acknowledged all that. Best reaction
Seeing Iron Maiden live will forever be some of my fondest concert memories. They are a force and a spectacle like few other
Bruce has always been the best And Maiden rules
Hi, it's Maiden's signature this tempo and riff changing. They put more riffs in one song than some artists put in a full album.
I love that you've finally "found" Iron Maiden. One of my favourite bands ever.
73 years old age and I love Maiden more now than I did in the 80's.
Yeaaaaaahhhhhh!!! more maiden please!! UP THE IRONS!!!
Cheers from argentina
What a show🤘 Thank you and greetings from Finland
Hey there!
Love you picked up on Nicko’s musicalty. He makes the drums sing.
Nicko actually hada stroke earlier this year he never said anything and just carried on drumming. What an absolute MONSTER.
Oh wow
Great reaction , giving us your take on this great band from a drummers perspective without too many lengthy stops 👍 I grew up on this band , and their music has clearly stood the test of time , relating to their original fans from back in the day and the younger generation of today . Look in the audience at the age variation at their shows , its comical it's so diverse - From teens to Grandparents ! 😁 "Flight 666" is a Maiden documentary showing their show schedules , logistics with Ed Force One with Bruce Flying and concert footage , well worth a look at for an incite to this amazing hard working and professional outfit . You will see in this just how appreciative and committed they are to their fans , and why they have such a timeless cult following in return . The Maiden family is like a silent unofficial family , they just gather in mass to make their existence well known with continually sold out shows 😁. See you on the next one . Cheers from Melbourne 👍🇦🇺
Best metal band imo
You should check out the 1982 live version to check out Clive Burr.
Checkout Iron Maidens orignal drummer Clive Burr
With the Song Called Women in Uniform
RIP Clive (1957-2013) ; 1979-1982 Iron Maiden - Up to Irons!
Not to take anything away from Nicko, but the musical drum bits pre-solo that you were pointing out were written by the original drummer, the late great Clive Burr. Nicko inserts quite a bit of his own personality in Clive-era songs, but he has always played Hallowed be thy name relatively straight to Clive's original for some reason.
Came here to say much the same. As much as Nicko makes _Hallowed_ his own whenever he plays it (and he has played it an INSANE amount of times, given that it's the default concert-ender), the composition genius behind the drum part is entirely Clive's.
Never really listened to Maiden until recently. I'm finding that I can't get enough! This song and Run to the Hills are incredible!
As I said before.. Nothing short of a spectacle.. Each and every live performance is 🔥🔥💪💪
I was in that crowd! Down the middle behind the mosh pit. One of the best live experiences of my life
Next year they are coming to Australia, maybe even New Zealand. You have to check them out.
The greatest showman on earth. So much talent
This show was the closest thing to magic. We were lucky enough to be onstage during “Heaven Can Wait” a few songs earlier in the set. I met a person that was to become one of my best friends, thanks to this show. And, to top it off, they ended the show with this song, my favorite song of all-time. Thanks for reviewing this particular live show.
I absolutely love Steve's face at 11:33 playing the song for the thousands time and it says: THIS WAS F****** AMAZING PEOPLE!
I have been an Iron Maiden fan for almost 30 years. I managed to go to 2 concerts last year, and yep yep yep... You can feel the feelings I see from you here at a concert from beginning to end. They may not be running as much anymore, but the music and Bruce's voice are still perfect, impressive and fantastic.😊
Great reaction. I was lucky enough to see them five times. Every show was absolutely incredible.👍💓🎶🍻🇨🇦
They are so awesome live
Love to see your excitement and joy ! 😄 I also really got into Iron Maiden a couple months ago and I exactly get how you're feeling ! You have to see them live. I have just seen them this year, and they are still as brilliantly mind-blowing as in this live video 2008 and Bruce still sounds amazing !
They brought the fans right into the show
Listening to the Number of the Beast album for the first time when it came out was an amazing experience,
from the music to the album cover to the voice of Mr Vincent Price reading parts or Revelations.
I remember seeing Number of the Beast on Countdown in the early '80s. Went straight out and bought the album and been listening to it ever since!
The voice doing the intro for number of the beast was an actor called Barry Clayton, maiden wanted mr price but because of his fame the fee he asked for was to much.
If ever a song was written to be performed live, this is it!!
And there's a hint that Maiden might be heading your way next year. They've shown a boomerang when asked where they're heading next. Maybe not NZ but Australia though
Masterpiece! 🤘🤘
To your questions about the live show, the band has been very vocal about not using a click track, though Nicko has said he uses some kind of device to help him start each song at the correct tempo. What happens after that is all about the organic experience of performing live. All three guitar players use in-ears, but if I remember right, Nicko and Steve do not. Can't remember about Bruce, but he has talked about the challenges of hearing the rest of the band while he sings when the drums and bass are relatively loud and the guitars relatively quiet on stage, and what he hears varies by where he is on stage.
At some point Nico started using a click at the beginning to find the right pace. In the past, it sometimes happened that he counted so quickly that his bandmates, and especially himself, couldn't keep up.
@@thomash.5505 I have a bootleg of them in 1993 where they play Can I Play With Madness and Bruce (who is no slouch when it comes to fast articulation) does not quite manage to get his chorus lines into the space his bandmates leave him. That click for starting was a good idea.
As far as I remember, Bruce uses in ears.
@@svenjensen9770I seem to remember he uses earplugs, but no in ears. Of course, that may have changed since.
Ed Force One is a play on words for America’s Air Force One, the President personal plane. Eddie Iron Maiden is their mascot and is the skeleton dude on all their album covers. So, Ed Force One. Bruce is actually a licensed commercial pilot which he does in his spare time. Fun fact… he was also an Olympic fencing candidate back in the day.
Great video great audio. Band concert 🎶 👍
I have been 22 times in Maiden's gig, best gig's ever, people is good to others, there are kids and grandpapas in audience and band work hard every time and still having fun. My english is not perfect, but i learned it with Maiden at 80's.
Canada, awesome. 🇨🇦🤘
I have had the great pleasure of seeing them twice...once was my first in 1983 enslave the world tour in Minneapolis MN, then Book of souls tour in the Takoma dome. Just as much if not more energy. I am hoping to make them my grandsons first. love the vids!
Hi there Andrew, you menciound that Nicco is a musical drummer, I sure agree. Maiden is my band, has been for years and hope to see them soon for my 48the time.
Talking about musical drummers, could you check out Ed Warby, in the music video from Ayreon called The Day That The World Breaks Down ???
Cheers and greets from the Netherlands
Chris.
I was a fair weather fan of Iron Maiden since around 1984 ish, until I saw them live about 12 years ago. Now I’m a true fan. Going to see them live, is amazing. If you get the chance, you’ve got to go.
A few years ago the Iron Maiden Fan Club asked its membership to pick the one song that if they could play to someone who had never heard Maiden, would perfectly deliver what the band was, in one song. This song won. By a landslide. That says it all, really.
Glad I finally see what I missed all those years ago. Love this band.
I was at this concert in Toronto. This song never fails to make every hair stand on end.
I was at this show and it was outstanding. Also went to see Ed Force One arrive, when they were going to their van Nikko came over and talked to us and signed some autographs and was really a nice guy.
Enjoy them while they are here,there will simply never ever be another iron maiden
💯🤘
I saw this tour at Twickenham rugby stadium, fantastic! Top live band.
The english bands are insanely good when it comes to rock/metal music: Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, just to name a few
Iron Maiden rolled thru 🇨🇦 last week or so. This clip is obviously 2008 but the standard this band exudes is unreal then. This tour is no different! Yes much older but just as tight live on every level. I agree with you to name other bands today that do what they do live. Vocals to musicianship is unmatched. I will throw in Nightwish to table. After discovering Nightwish I’ve compared them to the same musicality live. They both perform their music better and to me makes or breaks a band in my eyes. Great reaction by the way looking forward to seeing what you got next.
The first time I saw Maiden (late in life, admittedly) was during the Final Frontier tour. We were on the floor just behind the pit, and the opening chords of this started. I turned to my friends and suggested that we retreat a bit. It was a good call.
i saw them in 1985 on the powerslave tour , and to this day the second half of rime of the ancient mariner still gives me serious goosebumps
Pure Energy
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110% their all they are giving!! Possibly more! And by the way it's the encore Maiden's encores are legendary they go on for about 4/5 songs easily.
Thank you for reminding me of how great this band is.
Wow, they are great, never followed them much before now, and I will.
Saw them in 1988, still the best show I have ever seen.
They did this tour with Ed Force One, which was a Boeing 747, so that they could play a lot more shows than usual while still being well rested and having a great time. The fact that Bruce could graduate from a 757 to the real daddy jumbo jet certainly didn't hurt =D
Where Eagles Dare is a great Nicko drumming song. Off their Piece of Mind album.
Loving your Iron Maiden content!!
The drumming in this one is predominately Clive Burrs masterpiece, but Nicko does it justice!!!
Please look into doing 22 Acacia Avenue and Flight of Icarus!!
Basically Maiden follows right into the path of Judas Priest. Heavy metal 🤘 4 ever 😎 I am happy you discovered them Andrew. Very cool to hear you analyze them
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I remember Lars Ulrich saying in the flight 666 documentary (which you should totally watch, lots of great live performances and it's a sort of history of the band too) where he said he gets annoyed at Nico, cause he has such a massive kit, and Lars what's to see what he's doing and how he's playing these songs, but you can't see him over the mountainous kit he plays lol
Hello Andrew this is Wim from the Netherlands i have another Iron maiden suggestion. One of my favorites the sign of the cross live from the rock in Rio concert.
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death (Live En Vivo) Just an amazing live clip.
Maiden with Nicko have always had quite a dynamic tempo, especially live, but lots of recorded album songs were done this way. A few if not most of the later albums have been recorded with an almost-live style and using mostly one good take of the whole band recording the base song at the same time in the studio if i've understood it correctly. They're SO tight and they've had the same members for SO long... If they use metronomes or click-tracks, i couldn't tell you, i just know they're so tuned in to eachother as a band that it's almost magic seeing them live.
Nicko is a very unique drummer, as anyone who understands anything about drumming already knows if they've heard Maiden =D
probably one of my all time favorites by IM... the story telling the music and vocals
Saw them headlining Wacken Open Air this year. They're still killing it 🤘🏼!
Up the irons!
Can't wait for more Maiden!
You don't have long to wait!
So glad the power of metal takes Maiden well into the future.
This is the best metal performance EVER!
I think it’s pretty safe to say at this point, Iron Maiden are pretty progressive in terms of the tempo switches and lyrical themes. I think. Adrian Smith even said he was inspired by Pink Floyd in an interview.
Saw them two weeks ago in Vancouver. Still just as tight. Also Clive Burr was the original drummer on that song. You should check it out.
if you are really diving into these guys, its worth checking out a live clip they did of this song in the 80s i think it was, easy to find. awesome quality also
Iron Maiden totally rules 🤘🤘
YES
And to top it all off they sound amazing when they play live. One thing interesting is Maiden invests into their stage production and sound system. Bringing everything needed with them. Not chancing it on questionable stage gear at different venues.
You look great in that classic Master of Reality album cover shirt! :)
That was the bollocks 🤟🏻❤️
Don't get better
Hallowed Be Thy Name is the best metal song ever written. Fight me 🤣🤣🤣
Ronnie James Dio when with Rainbow singing Stargazer or Gates of Babylon.
Yes! And the late, great Cozy Powell on drums! I'd love to see Andrew's reaction to Cozy's playing.
thanks for this fine reaction to this timeless masterpiece from one of the greates bands ever. IM have influenced to so many bands and musicians. so for example all female metalband "Lovebites" from japan with tons of talent (in 2018 they won metal hammers prestigious best newcomer award and played wacken the same year) and a fantastic drummer. I recommend their song "Liar live 2023" from their official channel. they are so good.
They are coming to New Zealand next September.
You don't get to be the biggest metal band in the world without being fucking awesome..🤘😁