Unlike many of IRON MAIDEN‘s ’80s rock peers who are playing a largely greatest-hits set on tour.
Singer Bruce Dickinson explained to Fortune:
“If you take advantage of them [fans], as in you serve up the same old thing every single tour, you can expect some of them to walk away. That is just a band becoming a karaoke band. If you’re not doing new music, why bother? We don’t share the idea that going and doing stadiums, playing thirty-year-old songs, is a success. It’s just making money.”
As for the fans who don’t want IRON MAIDEN to play anything but the 1980s classics, Dickinson said:
“That’s tough. In that case, don’t come.”
IRON MAIDEN bassist Steve Harris told The Music last year that the songs from “The Book Of Souls” have been going down well live. “Yes, they are,” he said. “It’s like any new tour with new songs; you’re not going to get the reaction that the old stuff gets. It’s just always like that when you’re playing new stuff. Maybe one day a couple of them songs will be regarded as a massive part of the set, once people know them more. But I think it’s really important to push your new stuff; it keeps things fresh.”
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A band that only plays their classic hits and no new music is like a stale loaf of bread, throw them in the trash, they must be past their best. UP THE IRONS !!
I just wish that anything after Seventh Son was any good.
You didn’t like Brave new world?
Most of the albums after Seventh Son have been good! Didn’t like really any of the 90s albums but have enjoyed Brave New World and the ones after. Come on dude
SORRY FOLKS.
AS A BAND, YOU ALWAYS PLAY TO THE CROWD.
IF THEY WANT AND ENJOY AND PAY TO HEAR THE CLASSICS, THATS WHAT YOU PLAY.
New music by old men. No thank you. Play your hits before you get into your forever box, grandpa.
Gnarly Pete.
Go watch Rock in Rio over and over then.
I enjoy my bands, Maiden, Leppard, Stryper etc, bringing out and playing new material. I like seeing that they still have the chops.
Going by your comment Maiden should have stopped at Fear of the Dark….
Their last great album was Seventh Son, Brave New World was ok too, anything else are worth a listen but I admire their commitment to create new music!
Charlie and Gnarly are not only quite outspoken, but completely wrong as well. Look at Rush, they always promoted their new music. Hearing lazy bands play their old songs and hits over and over gets spent pretty quickly. There is nothing gnarly about beating a dead horse into the ground. Support new music !