Iron Maiden - Legacy of the beast tour - 2019

With Rush you had the most epic live shows within the progressive rock genre of the past 15+ years easily, the last several tours were simply phenomenal!

Like Rush, not only is the music epic but the shows are an optical mind freak. I really wanted to see RW The Wall and Us and Them, but he was asking uber money like $200-250 a ticket. I'm not a huge fan of him personally....I would gladly pay that money to see Gilmour though. 

I thought living in Toronto if you did not go see Rush in town, you were thrown out of the country?? WTH man!!

Catcher10 wrote: … Like Rush, not only is the music epic but the shows are an optical mind freak. I really wanted to see RW The Wall and Us and Them, but he was asking uber money like $200-250 a ticket. I'm not a huge fan of him personally....I would gladly pay that money to see Gilmour though.

 

There are some things in life that are worth catching … I remember for many years in the 70's the incredible high prices to see Pavarotti, Misha, and a few others … and earlier than that when Nureyev did a tour.

These things only come around once in a lifetime, and if one misses them, these things are gone.

THE WALL, read my review of it which compares the first one by Roger, compared to the original shows in LA, is worth seeing, since it is/was a magnificent event, and for anyone who has not seen it, it is worth it … it redefines what music and "entertainment" really is … but some folks are paying the same price and more for Rolling Stones, and Eagles, for what amounts to music that … has a lot less value beyond simple entertainment, or your (supposedly!) happy days getting stoned and laid in the beaches of Southern California without catching any crabs or worse!

That said, I really think that RW was pushed to do it, and he went ahead, but as you can see the amount of shows and WHERE is really limited due to the amount of everything they carry and take with them, including the champagne, the this and that, I'm sure! AND likely first class tickets if not a chartered jet, which is better, and fits the BNL song wayyyyyyy better!

Unfortunately, the show, as it was presented and seen on the tube, has not improved, and my take on it, is that all the digital bull-crap and what not did not make the material better … and catch the example in my review, which kinda says it all … you're supposed to imagine everything else … and while I can appreciate a band "expecting" me to be educated and intelligent, I find the whole thing ridiculous and sometimes insulting and … very lazy and cheap! The original 4 wall sound system (the late "quadraphonic") was way better at helping you imagine things as it placed you in the middle of them!

All in all, just to give you an idea, by the time he created CA IRA, I felt that he had lost most of his real ability and that he was now infatuated with his fame and money … and how to continue it … I didn't even bother getting his last album, and CA IRA could have been way better if it had an electric guitar and RW had not given in to some folks thinking that he was a classical composer … in many ways, he came off as an idiot and the singers on the piece made it really poor and it should have been done with rock singers that understand lyrics way better … than any classical singer out there these days … most of which have formulaic voices that can do notes but not words and letters!

For me … RW is done and gone … there are much better things out there, and I would rather spend my few retirement dollars on Rachel Flowers than Roger Waters … the feeling and the care, and the honesty behind it is what matters to me, and RW lost it a long time ago in my book.

As for Iron Maiden, I'm sorry to say that I have not given it a good listen at all, and I will make an effort to do so properly, but these days … I will likely see Riverside, and it might just be my last concert ever … the ones I really want to see I will never have a chance to … Sakamoto, Oldfield, Vangelis … can you imagine what a Vangelis ticket would be? Probably $1,000 and more!

I agree Pedro. I'm not retired yet, but by the time I am most of the artists I like and listen to will be done probably so I suspect my concert days will be minimal. What I will probably navigate to is going to see jazz/fusion shows more small venue stuff.

I mean Iron Maiden will be done touring by then and in that vein of artists they are the last ones, again now that Rush are done. I don't see the massive arena shows from anyone we listen to today, they will NEVER be that big to command such a production. 

I have yet to see Marillion live and we were gonna travel to Lisbon Portugal to see the Marillion Weekend, but that weekend sold out super fast and can't get passes anymore. To your point Pedro a show should not only be musically entertaining but it should encompass the artist and what they are trying to convey with visual production, Steven Wilson is another who has gotten better at this recently.

But again, there are no prog, prog related/influenced bands that can achieve what Rush had for a live show, nor do I ever see one getting there in the next 10yrs. Those who never saw those shows will have to be satisfied with a bluray/DVD or YT clips to experience what we did.

I hear you, and feel I am gonna have a similar problem considering the location where they play in the city. Not sure why ticket price has not relevance to selection of the venue, as it does to seat location.