Few metal bands have inspired a rabid following like Iron Maiden. So for their newly announced 2012 world tour, which comes to Shoreline in Mountain View on August 3, the band has come up with something unusual, maybe even unprecedented, to reward its fans for their loyalty.
It’s become hip in recent years for a group to revisit its greatest hits by performing a fan-favorite album in its entirety, from start to finish. But that’s simply not good enough for Maiden fans. So rather than playing, say, their 1982 album The Number of the Beast, this “Maiden England World Tour” will see the British metal legends actually re-create the 1988 concert video Maiden England, which was shot on the tour for the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album. That means not only playing mostly the same set list (although some newer songs will be added), but also, as much as possible, recapturing the look and feel of the original video.
This is in fact the third chapter in Iron Maiden’s attempt to give fans an unorthodox journey back into its own past. The “Early Days Tour” in 2005 covered just that, while 2008’s “Somewhere Back in Time” world tour featured mid-80s songs and set design.
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