PONDERING IRON MAIDEN’S SETLIST: MAYBE IT’S NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL

I’ve gotta admit… although I gave Iron Maiden some flack last week for compiling a U.S. Tour setlist consisting of mostly new(ish) material, I’m still pretty excited to see them live in NYC next month. This live footage of the band performing new song “El Dorado” in Dallas is just so much fun, mostly because the band members look like they’re having fun playing it:

And as I’ve already said, I’m completely tickled pink that they’ll be playing four songs from 2000’s masterpiece Brave New World. I think the problem with the Maiden tour on which they played all of A Matter of Life and Death is that a lot of that album’s songs are slow clunkers; if Maiden can stick to high-energy material, which their setlist would indicate they mostly are, then we should be in for a fun show.

Side note: Steve Harris is the man. Look at him in the above vid! Dude just rules.

-VN