...Perhaps the only thing more cringeworthy than this in my opinion are the skads of bands now reduced to being cover bands playing songs from when they were more popular/relevant (Iron Maiden being the main offender right now).
I couldn't disagree more.
Having just seen Maiden perform better and tighter than the last three times I can assure you they are on fire.
Would you rather have a band with such a supreme back catalouge choosing not to perform those songs in favour of a self indulgent prescriptive set list defined by whatever songs they have written most recently.
Or would you agree that only new albums are followed by tours that showcase the best of the new alongside the benchmarks of old.
The Final Frontier tour was just that and the Maiden England/Seventh Son tour is something else. A chance for some fans who may never have even been born in 88 to see the concept played live.
Even Prince who could still write Number 1 hits while taking a sh1t realised that paying punters sometimes want to hear "Little Red Corvette" & "Purple Rain" played live (sometimes for the first time in their life) instead of a 3 hour jazz funk improv...
The idea that the same musicians playing their own body of work reduces an artist to a cover band is a joke.
If you were talking LA Guns or Great White where all the personnel have changed you would have a point.
