Iron Maiden just lately played “Alexander the Great (356-323 BC)” for the first time ever, which begs the query – what else ought to they lastly escape reside? Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris tells Metal Hammer he’d find it irresistible if the band would play their 1988 tune “Solely The Good Die Younger” from Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son extra.
“There’s a number of tracks that will be good to dig out now and again, I suppose. I feel ‘Solely The Good Die Younger’ is a very nice tune that will be good to play.”
“We did play it a few instances. It might be good to play that, possibly. It’s kind of extra, a type of obscure songs. Nevertheless it’s simply… what do you drop out?! That is the issue. So many songs, so many albums.”
Harris later admits in the identical interview that Iron Maiden actually solely picks their setlists to please themselves, and would not pay an excessive amount of consideration to what’s really common. Which is honest – dudes have been doing it for rattling close to 50 years. Gotta preserve yourselves entertained at a sure level, proper?
“This may be blunt and brutal, however we do not do it for the viewers. We do it for our personal factor first. We have gotta really feel comfy with what we’re enjoying and luxuriate in it, after which hopefully they’re going to prefer it. That is at all times been our stance during. We do not do a census of, ‘Oh does everybody like this or like that?’, or no matter. We do not do this.”
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