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  • 0:00 HELL YEAH!!!

  • LOL! this is bruce dickinson were talking about. he can do and say whatever teh FUCK HE WANTS!!! there is no such thing as an iron maiden classic, cause all fo there music is badass.

    they could play there shittest song and tehy would still be the best metal band out there. and its the true fans, people like me who travel the world to see them live, who no amtter what are in total support of Iron Maiden that know this. the rest of you can eat shite and die.

  • WIN O METER

    Fail

    Cool

    Pretty Cool

    Charlie Sheen

    BRUCE DICKINSON

  • i have every studio album from maiden. All of them are incredible, even the latest ones have amazing songs on them.

    UP THE IRONS!!

  • To all the bitches who are saying "Iron Maiden suck now" or "All Iron Maiden are are the classics" those people can litterely go fuck themselves!! Iron Maiden's music has gotten much more sophisticated, and for the peopel who dont like it, their just to narrow minded and non-intelligent to understand the deep meaning of tehir recent songwriting

  • Why play classic music?

    Maiden is not yet dead you fucking dumbasses.

  • @jakethegimp2 have u even heard seventh son of a seventh son ? ,

  • Охуительно! Брюс молодца))

  • @jakethegimp2 Downhill? What about Seventh Son? What About A Matter Of Life And death?

  • @jakethegimp2 A Matter Of Life And Death is one of the best albums ever made.

  • @Rattlepiece EXACTLY MAN!!!!!!!!

  • @jakethegimp2 WTF not really their new album is fantastic and when i heard it live this year at the O2 it blew me away!!!

  • That's kind of bitchy to tear up the sign. I mean, of course I would want to hear the new songs they have, but if I went to an Iron Maiden concert where they didn't play Number of the Beast or Fear of the Dark and such, I would be rather disappointed.

  • If i wanted to hear Iron Maiden "classics" to be honest i dont think i would go to see an Iron Maiden concert...

  • That fan may had not knew it as (with any of the fans then) he may have given away what tour Iron Maiden would have been doing after which I believe this was just before the Somewhere Back In Time world tour. Only Maiden knew about it then. It's just one perception of looking at this.

  • I hope the cocksucker who brought that sign left without any of his teeth intact.

  • Only a fag would say "play classics", goddamn mainstream poser....i love going to a concert, by any artist, and hearing a song ive never heard before but like, and finding out what it is later

  • @semiLivedj You're an idiot. If you get hit with a truck tomorrow, that's not coincidence, that's just natural selection at work. 

  • The dick with the sign created 32 accounts and disliked this

  • They ARE playing classics. AMOLAD is a classic album!

  • was this the matter of life and death tour? cos if it was you guys were lucky to have that album played in full! it is an INCREDIBLE record

  • When I saw Metallica for the black album tour,they played Enter Sandman first.After James said"Poser fucks can go home now".Metallica was great for many years.Now....Iron Maiden has kicked ass for decades.Playing the same songs for 30+ years may get a wee boring.Not so crazy about the Blaze Era,but what a ride he had.

  • @titmouse6666 Shame Metallica didn't appreciate the love they got even after the Black Album, even after Load/Reload and still got more mediocre. They should have stopped releasing new albums, toured the old ones and done new covers of their influences, maybe, to make live sets more interesting. Instead, as they were locked-into a record-company/contract/old-sc­hool industry deal, and listened to Bob Rock's moaning about all their dependants/hangers-on losing out, they now suck.

  • How can you have a sign saying "Play classics" when the song their playing is considered a classic already.

  • ugh... hearing them play number of the beast run to the hills aces high etc can get boring after a while. Good that he ripped up the sign.

  • People who complain about them not playing "classic" obviously ain't real fans.

    Maiden ain't just a nostalgia act for people to relive 1985. They're also a living, breathing band that still writes and releases kick-ass music.

    The real fans have seen Maiden hundreds of times, and think it's a breath of fresh air to hear new songs. And the real fans also know that if they play a lot of new songs on the current tour, they will play a lot of classics on the next.

  • @Skullkiller79 you can´t say a real fan must have seen them hundreds of times!!! i started to listen to them for two years ago and i love their new albums, don´t download their stuff, go to every concert in my country and just love them very much!!!!

  • @filmaren100 Hundreds og times is an exaggeration. I've only seen them 5 times over the past 20 years. But the point is; if you see them often enough, you get what you want.

  • @Skullkiller79 "Real fans"? I thought real fans are like real friends. They say shit to the face instead of blindly accepting everything.

  • @Skullkiller79 Bah I'm a real fan but I don't need to qualify that with x number of concerts seen, with y amount of arse-kissing of the band, fuck that, they're men, I'm a man, I bend over for no-one but I respect Maiden when they're on form and don't when they're not (it happens occasionally, not often but tell the truth). Because I'm a REAL person, not a fake-feeling, deluded person. What difference is there between religion and fan-worship when it's that deep?

  • @TVismyopiate I would totally agree with you, if Maiden had sold out and started playing grunge or nu-metal. Like Dickinson did with Skunkworks. But Maiden, even though they don't sound EXACTLY the same as in the 80's, has always stuck with their guns and their own style. Their new music is amazing, but is always overshadowed by their classics. And it's most casual fans who want to get drunk and relive the 80's that want the classics, not us who listen to them almost every day.

  • Iron Maiden Is Classic!

  • Final Frontier was just. . .not up to scratch, the fan with the sign is right, i saw them for the first time at sonisphere last year and the set list was really dissapointing.

    when you pay to see a band live, you want classics.

  • @KKMM00 I don't want classics, I want whatever they'll enjoy playing, because surely then it'd be a better performance. I saw them yesterday, and it was a good mix of old and new songs, and all of them, including the ones of TFF, were fucking incredible!

  • Well done Bruce! Great answer!

  • What a dick!

  • LE rompió un cartel a un fan? me parece increible

  • @MCKLEUD Un cartel que decía ''Toquen Clásicos'', como expresión de cierta queja porque estaban tocando temas de su nuevo disco, me pareció correcto que lo haya roto.

  • @Victorys1996 a mi no me parece bién , una cosa es qe no esté deacuerdo, y otra romperle el cartel delante de miles de personas....

  • Bruce Dickinson is the greatest singer of all time!!! AND AMOLAD is FANTASTTIC ALBUM!!!! UP THE IRONS~!!!!

  • Thanks Bruce, you rock.

  • I would have killed just to see them playing For the Greater Good of God live and this guy with the stupid sign =/

  • @Victorys1996 I've got the whole album live on a bootleg DVD :)

  • @madridboy86 D:

  • @Victorys1996 I wonder if I should upload it onto youtube :/ turns out its from NY 12/10/06

  • @madridboy86 That would be awesome.

  • new or old all maiden songs turn out to be classics for fuck sakes.

  • that fan must have killed himself seriously, if bruce did that to a sign i made i would

  • If the band has new Album, it needs promoting.What would you want to trawl through old stuff, as if you done that, there would be even more critism.You cant win!!!!

  • @mattowarrior so dang true. Caught them for the 19th time in Ohio for the Final Frontier tour... and half the crowd was pissing and moaning that they were playing the new stuff. Of course, 2 years before I was there for the Somewhere Back in Time Tour. Idiots. Bruce said it best if all you want to hear is the Trooper go listen to a F8cking cover band.

    Post 200 Maiden, might IMO be BETTER than 80s Maiden.. and I LOVE 80s Maiden. How many bands are this inspired and creative 30 years in?

  • @killerpeaches7 I was at that show and I agree. All Maiden is Classic Maiden

  • Personally i love Iron Maiden's work post 2000 there is so much maturity in it, they have delivered something new, by staying true to their roots something not every band out there is capable of doing...thats the reason i love maiden!

  • What did the sign say?

  • @MelvinMcNoodles "Play Classics".

  • @crashin1 A Matter Of Life And Death is by far the best album like bruce said "i think its bullshit the fans want classics cuz when we play dance of death blood brothers the crowd roars.!""

  • Maiden works hard enough to play what ever the fuck they wanna play. Dig up the fuckin albums if you wanna hear the classics!!!!!!!!

  • Lol, shame A Matter of Life and Death is their worst album to date. Dont really see the hate for this sign considering the classics far surpass anything from that album.

  • @crashin1 obviously you are not one who is particularly familiar with Prog Metal. The album is a classic, and Paschendale destroys nearly anything from the 80s. Powerslave and Seventh Son are still my favorites, but as a longtime fan, I find all of their post 2000 stuff better than Killer, Number of the Beast, Fear of the Dark, etc.

    Their "worst" album is either Fear or No Prayer, by a lot.

  • @killerpeaches7

    Okay, thanks for that. Lul...

  • @killerpeaches7 Yeah, yeah Prog Metal blah blah. Overly-long, repetitive songs, usually utilizing odd time signatures and trying to be overly-technical wank. Prog Metal, yadda yadda.

    I would hardly call their later works "Prog Metal", as that's a bigger insult to Iron Maiden than demanding they play classics. No, thankfully the only thing "Prog" about later Maiden is how their longer songs end up being incredibly repetitive by the half-way mark. Everything else is good/non-Prog.

  • @ThazuaBlackarrow What do you think of good prog metal like Edge of Sanity, Control Denied and prog/thrash band Vektor?

  • @mattowarrior My sign would have said "Play Sign of the Cross" in 1995 it would have said "Tune down, the man's a baritone" and on the back of both it would say "I'm super cereal"

  • HAHAHA i feel sorry for the stupid ass who wrote that sign. they must be too deaf to understand that all of their songs are classics!

    Up The Irons!!!

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  • Whoever the person was that brought that sign was an assclown of the highest order.

  • I was @ this show in N.Y.

    they played the whole A matter of life and death album.

    imember him tearn that sign uncool

  • @777hatred777 I was also at this show it was AWESOME. I believe the very next tour was Somewhere Back in Time and they did all the classics. I just went to the last one when they came around at the Garden. There is no such thing as 'Bad Maiden'

  • Unnecessary

  • i want listen flash of the blade or back in the village or purgatory live to have a nice die

  • Theres no such thing as an Iron maiden classic, cause every iron maiden song is a classic.

  • @thatkidseth i agree with you, if you talk about a sabbath classic maybe its the wizard, black sabbath, nib....

    if you talk about a ozzy classic maybe bark at the moon, suicide solution...

    but if you talk about a maiden classic you are talkin about all their songs!

  • @thatkidseth In your opinion.

  • @ChocolateHoneycomb not opinion, truth. every iron maidenn album is a classic, they are all masterpiece musical works.

  • @numaozone But that's still your opinion. We all have different views on things. And not everyone thinks every song is a classic. If that were the case, we wouldn't be able to choose a favourite song or know what song's better than another song. In my opinion, Somewhere in Time and Brave New World are their best albums, while No Prayer for the Dying and Virtual XI are their worst. In my opinion, Aces High is much better than Invaders and Different World. We all think differently.

  • As said in "Flight 666" :

    Bruce, you rock!

  • great singer...and great prick

  • the best thing about IRON MAIDEN is that there

    isnt even 1 bad IRON MAIDEN SONG!

    i mean: i like metallica and a7x,they have awesome songs but still somme crappy

    songs.

    UP THE IRONS FOREVER!!!!

  • Every Maiden song is a classic!

  • man i just kept watching him backwards and forwards ripping that sign ,it feels so good bringing down the assholes,,oh yea lets put out a new album .and lets tour the world with the number of the beast ,piece of mind powerslave somewhere in time 7th son of a 7th son ,,, while we just put out a great new albumseroiusly wtf is wrong with people that sign needs to be ripd 2million times up the irons forever pd DONT BE A STUCK UP

  • This is totally justified for several reasons, not the least of which being that Iron Maiden is not like so many metal bands whose new stuff isn't half as good as their old music. Iron Maiden, thank God, has not changed its style in 30+ years, and their new music is every bit as good as their old. Besides, I'm willing to bet this footage is from a tour promoting a new album that they worked their asses off making, so stepping out on the stage and seeing a sign like this would set me off too.

  • Whoever made that sign is an ass. "Play Classics", that's ridiculous. I bet that guy felt like a real jackass when Bruce did that, lol. Go Bruce!

  • When you've had a ton of past song that rock balls not a whole lotta people wanna hear new crap that doesn't measure up.

  • @TRE1275 So they should just tour with their older material only then, huh? You wouldn't happen to be the dude that made that sign would you?

  • Give the crowd what they want!Thats what I say! They probably played some anyhow.If not,they should!When I go to a concert,I want to hear their first song that put them on the map! or I would be pissed! Its a fuckin song and their musicians! Shut up and play for me! Its called showing your fans your appreciation of them.When your to good for your fans then your to good for me!

  • Bruce must be one of the coolest guys on earth!

  • good on him, they deserve to play whatever the fuck they want

  • Yeah but a matter of life and death isnt good enough to play the entire album

  • A true iron maiden fan loves all their songs.

    FUCK THE RETARDS who claim to be iron maiden's biggest fans and demand only old songs.

  • I think that if they do play older songs, it should be lesser-known stuff like The Prisoner, Prodigal Son, Sun and Steel, Flash of the Blade, Sea of Madness, Holy Smoke, stuff like that.

  • They DO play classics....Benjamin Breeg, Thousand suns, El Dorado., Talisman, Wicker man... all classics. I heard all the old classics live a thousand times, lets here the last four albums played more !!

  • @SnakedoctorMB El Dorado and Talisman? not quite classics are they?

  • @Jgh013 To be honest, i personally think none of those songs are classics the classics are all Maidens 80's albums, but i i do agree with him more of the last 4 albums would be good xD

  • I hate it when people demand from Maiden to play just what they want, as if they own Maiden... This band deserves the respect of their fans for everything they've done during their whole music career! They should play whatever pleases them... besides, a concert is for the fans, but also for the band ;)

    and the new albums are amazing!

  • I dont get these people. The last 4 albums were all great. All have standout tracks that sound great live.

  • dude all iron maiden are classics.

  • I honesty fucking loved BNW, it's one of my favorite Maiden albums, I was so happy when I first found out there playing alot of the stuff from that on the Final Frontier tour.

    Oh yeah, A Matter of Life Death was a kick-ass album too.

  • a classic maiden moment

  • Toca Raul!

  • Stupid british prick.

  • don't dis for the greater good of god mutha fuckers!!

  • Play Alexander the Great, son of a bitch!

  • What song are they playing?

    And agreed, Maiden may have its very enjoyable classics but honestly if people would give new stuff a chance it would allow those songs to become classics too.

  • @Ultramarine646 For the greater good of god (matterof life and death)

    and i agree with you, the old stuff is great and the new stuff is just ass great. The old stuff have been played so many times that its time for something new. I think maiden is doing the right thing, a tour with new stuff then one with the old again.

  • Maiden may be the only band whose new music is pretty good

  • What song were they playing I can't pick it out .

  • oh yeah what was the tour called again... oh yeah, the matter of life and death tour... oh yeah erm........... not think thay'd be playing songs from that, i think their best 4 albums have been the last 4, especially final frontier, when the wild wind blows best maiden song ever

  • @improvisedcinema1 agreed 100% When the Wild Wind Blows is about as epic as Rime of the Ancient Mariner. the entire Final Frontier is amazing!

  • @TheFryBoy1, The sad thing is this guy prepared that sign

  • @improvisedcinema1 its not a sad thing though, its like someone preparing a sign saying FUCK YOUR NEW SONGS, WE ONLY WANT THE OLD GOOD ONES

    and that isnt sad if it gets ripped up, good on bruce

  • That was badass.

  • The problem with Maiden is they have so many awesome albums and songs that it must be hard to choose what to play i think that's a good problem to have!

  • If you had a band the size of Iron Maiden who was completely popular throughout the music community and has been around for nearly 35 years, would you like to play older songs that made you or play newer songs that preserve you? i probly didnt say that right, but im siding with Bruce. Old stuff is great, but the newer stuff is what I want to hear most of the time.

  • @minidmoncsko I want to hear Variety, and as long as both old and new are played (and not the same songs) It's cool with me. BTW, I love the new album.

  • BRUCE IS GOD !

  • Who the fuck would rather hear The Trooper or Run to the Hills than For the Greater Good of God or The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg? A Matter of Life and Death is the best Maiden album in my opinion and I hope they continue to play just the new progressive stuff with a few classics mixed in here and there. I hate bands that live in the past, which is why I love Maiden, they ain't one of em.

  • @wwerulestna Pretty much most iron maiden fans would rather hear them tracks which are quite clearly better....

  • @wwerulestna i agree i loved AMOLAD but the final frontier was not as good, 1k suns was the track of the album IMO but piece of mind still reins as there best

  • @MrMatt29999 Yeah The Final Frontier was not as good, still alright obviously, El Dorado, Coming Home, and When the Wild Wind Blows are great. And I as well would say Brighter Than a Thousand Suns or maybe FTGGOG is the best on the album, I love Lord of Light as well. Piece of Mind is excellent, right up there with Somewhere In Time, Brave New World and A Matter... IMO.

  • arrogant idiot

  • If they played only classics, then there new albums would'nt be important to anyone. Let's be honest - you've heard "Number of the Beast" once, you've heard it a million times! But you may only get to hear the current album tracks ONCE, and I wouldnt trade that for anything! UP THE IRONS!

  • DoD is like one of their best albums

  • @IRONxEWOK This was amolad tour I was at this show NVMC ,Uniondale NY

  • what says Bruce shirt?

  • @Xepher17 Resistance is Futile.

  • i love the classic!! =(

  • A Mather Of Life And Death is The BEST NEW GEN Heavy Metal Album since Bruce come back to Maiden.

  • @Xepher17 I listen to it nearly EVERY freaking day!

  • @PJB1775 Dude, this Album is just LEGENDARY... Every Song is Good, is Perfect... i listen it since its arrival, and i cant get tired of it!!!

    Up The Irons, Bro ;)

  • @Xepher17 In my personal opinion, it's the greatest Maiden album when it comes to consistency. It shines from beginning to end!!!

  • @PJB1775 ...and the best thing, its the ending of The Legacy... its like the song says "See You in a few Years ;)"

  • when i saw maiden in july of 2010 the only classics they played were number of the beast and hallowed be thy name. i was really pist. they should play alot more classics

  • @RockStarEnergy97  becasue ur a maiden fan stuck in the 80's that doesnt even know they have released 4 albums with bruce since 2000

  • @RockStarEnergy97 Fuck you! I imagine that by your name being "97" that was the year you were born? If you wanna see them play classics, then tough! you were born too late! You're not even a real Maiden fan, you're a disgrace actually. I've seen Maiden three times, and every song they have played - I went absolutely bananas, as I don't care WHAT they play, coz It's Maiden, and I love everything they've ever wrote (except Angel and the Gambler) FUCK THE CLASSICS! THEY ARE A CURRENT BAND!

  • amolad kicks ass

  • iron got to respect ME, otherwise, they wouldn't be there without me!

  • That's just fuckin' great! You have to really respect Iron Maiden for constantly moving ahead with their music. Some bands just rely on classics and sticking with what works. Thank God Maiden isn't like that.

  • @2112murphy I agree that AMOLAD was probably one of their best albums, but Fear of the Dark is an amazing song, please don't rip on that masterpiece :D

  • @Metal4Lyfe29 Well, they usually play that song almost every tour anyway. It's an anthem, much better than the overrated Run to the Hills!

  • Some fans act like Maiden is some kind of jukebox or living itunes library, something like: PAY AND GET THE HIT SINGLE

    Well fuck that, every Maiden song is worth to be played life, just already because it has soul and true feeling

  • @DarkMetalNightmare Im 16 and went to my first maiden gig last summer (2010, future reference) and all my buddies on the way out of the show were like "The fuck man they didnt play "Trooper" or "Run to the hills" I however was still pretty goddamned happy because maiden was doing something Unique by only playing recent stuff and as a real fan I can appreciate that. No matter what the setlist when Maiden plays ,you listen. And the entire time you do that your in awe of its sheer badass-ness

  • I understand them, if u got a new album u want to play that not like trooper and run to the hills!

  • hahahaah PLAY CLASSICS the guy got his wish on the next tour they did

  • after that they planned the "Somewhere Back in time World Tour".

    lol

  • Nice done Bruce, I think the classics is shit compared to "new" stuff. Brave new world and forward. I saw Maiden less then a month ago and the played alot of new stuff and it kicked ass.

  • @WrathWithinMe LOL You have some terrible taste if you think the classics are shit. Pathetic ears man.

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  • sorry, those tunes are the ones that made us love you ,, 

  • I don't get why people gripe about these tours. Older fans have heard the material before, so what's their problem? Newer fans need to realise that Maiden were playing the classics a decade or so before these people were even born. They're entitled to mix tihngs up to keep it fresh, and on a tour-by-tour basis, few bands mix things up as well as Iron Maiden does.

  • Bruce !

  • lol bruce didnt seem happy when he was tearing the sign up

  • Great work Bruce!

  • AMOLAD to my mind is their best entire album they made since Seventh Son and it deserved to be played full. Sad that they are not going to play it anymore :(

  • A Matter of Life and Death is a great album n one of my favorites they have a right to be proud of it and proud to play it!

  • I got into Maiden just after they finished the AMOLAD tour, will be so gutted if I never get to see BTATS, FTGGOG or Lord of Light live....

  • In my opinion they have played way to much classics.. The whole somewhere back in time tour were classics now i want to hear the new material.

  • What the hell was up with that guy? They were playing classics!

  • Lol I saw them about 2 weeks ago and they played newer songs (as you all know) and Bruce said "we're not just gonna play the same shit every time like the eagles." They constantly have tours where they play only classics.(like when I saw them in 2008) But when they have a NEW album, I wanna hear NEW stuff

  • I love the AMOLAD!!

    Amazings songs!

    Hey..fuck..I'm tired of listen "fear of teh dark" in shows..

    Play others classics like ALEXANDER THE GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • their new songs are so fucking legit! UP THE IRONS!

  • I have seen Maiden live 27 times.....I have seen the Trooper great as it is....almost every time...I have the DVD's to relive the past.....The new stuff is far too good to ignore....face it.....Maiden could do an encore with quest for fire...mother russia and lonelines of the long distance runner and it would be amazing to hear.......you're basically bitching that the greatest band ever is too good and has too many songs....Long Live the Beast

  • LOVE THIS! Iron Maiden's new music is awesome and needs to be played live. I hope the play The Final Frontier in its entirety next tour.

  • I can't stand all the people who claim to be "huge maiden fans" but then say a new setlist sucks. Iron Maiden is the best band in the world. Sure we all want to here classics and they do play a few on setlists, but thats not all they play. I have every Maiden album and would would pay to see any setlist. Wish people would quit whinning. If you wanted classics then you should have went to the Somewhere Back In Time World Tour. UP THE IRONS!!!!

  • im a huge maiden fan, but AMOLAD sucked!!!

    the only album that deserves to be played live is

    SOMEWHERE IN TIME!!!!

    im not talking about the greatest hits cd, im talking

    the amazing synth driven 1986 album. so fucking underrated.

  • that guy shouldn't have brought that sign but i do sorta agree with him. they played the whole fuckin album of AMOLAD!!!!! what fun is that. its not really classics that i wanna hear im seein them in 2 days on the final frontier tour theyre playin mostly new stuff and i dont care i fuckin love the new stuff i just wanna hear songs i know and love and that doesnt mean just classics some of my fav maiden songs are new like brave new worlds no more lies dance of death

  • Well, I'm seeing them on the 17th for the first time ever (I've been a fan for 10 years) and I think getting to see them play newer stuff is great. Yeah, I am kinda bummed that I won't be able to see them play songs like The Trooper or Evil That Men Do, but I loved Brave New World and Dance Of Death so getting to see them play those songs is awesome in my book.

  • When I saw them in Vancouver on the Final Frontier Tour they played a lot of songs of Brave New World and really the only old songs they played were Number of the Beast, Fear or the Dark and Running Free.

    I think the sign might set him off a bit making him think that people don't like the recent songs.

  • they hate when people come to see them play classics. they aren't a museum. they still produce top notch metal and wants to preform new material aswell

  • To the dip shit that made that sign, THEIR FUCKING IRON MAIDEN, THE PLAY WHATEVER FUCKING SONGS THEY WANT!!!! UP THE FUCKING IRONS!!!!!!

  • AWESOME!!!

  • i saw them the other night and the stupid poser fans wouldn't stop bitching about the classics. maiden is maiden so shut the fuck up. the new stuff is fucking awsome and im sick of these fags who think they own the place at these shows.

  • Iron Maiden has no classics to play, thats why he tore up the sign

  • @mystro810 leave.