Review: Iron Maiden - Give Me Ed… 'Til I'm Dead Tour | |||||||
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Venue: Colisé Pepsi City: Quebec City, Canada Show date: August 01, 2003 Guests: Motörhead, Dio Rating: 5/5 Review online: August 10, 2003 Reviewed by: Pierre Bégin |
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It was a warm and humid evening in Quebec city when the classic heavy metal Motörhead opened the hostilities with a 40 minutes set. Lemmy, followed
by his two bandmates enters on stage, and tells the crowd: "We are
Motörhead, and we're gonna kick your ass!" Well, not being a
Motörhead freak, the highlight of their set for me was the brilliant Mikkey
Dee drum solo. However, I must say that the sound was awful (too loud and too
Dio was next! It was my fourth time seeing them and I couldn't wait,
especially with the return of Craig Goldy on guitar. The latter was Dio's
guitarist on the very good "Magica" and on "Dream Evil", my
favorite Dio album of all time. They brilliantly commenced their gigs with
"Killing The Dragon", the title track from their very good most recent However, there is something I didn't like during their set: they edited and
cut many parts of songs, like for instance on "The Last In Line" and
"Holy Diver", possibly in order to play more tracks on their short
opening time slot. Instead, they should remove the drum, guitar and keyboard
After an about half hour of waiting, the lights came down, the crowd went
crazy, I mean, really really crazy! MAIDEN! MAIDEN! MAIDEN! "Woe to you, of
Earth and sea…" echoed thought the old Quebec City building. "The Number
Of The Beast" was the opening track of the set immediately followed by
another huge Maiden classic: "The Trooper". Wow, what a great start!
Next song is for me THE surprise of the night, "Die With Your Boots Next is another huge classic, "Hallowed Be Thy Name", followed by a Bruce Dickinson speech all in very good French! "We have made a show at Madison Square Garden," he said. "It was a good show. There are some concerts - and there is THE concert!" The crowd went really crazy, screaming like hell! The roof of the Pepsi Coliseum almost fell down! (-; Iron Maiden received a huge long ovation! Next is "Wildest Dreams", their first single off their soon to be
released album "Dance Of Death". I heard the song a few time on the
Internet and it just started to grow on me. It's a good solid song; I can't wait
to have their new album next September! After "The Wicker Man", Bruce
talked about freedom versus medias (especially radios) that ignore heavy metal
music as an introduction "The Clansman". In my words and freely
The bass intro kicks in and it's time for two other classics; "The
Clairvoyant" from the "7th Son Of A 7th Son" album, during which
Eddie made his first live appearance of the night and the excellent "Heaven
Can Wait" from the "Somewhere In Time" album featuring about 10-
15 fans backing up the "oh, oh, oh" including a woman who had
seemingly lost her top!!! Next is the mandatory "Fear Of The
Dark", including the line "Quebec City in the dark!" The song Two more classics were played during the encore: "2 Minutes To Midnight" and finally "Run To The Hills" which ends the one hour and a half long excellent Iron Maiden gig. Bruce Dickinson told us that this is the best gig so far on their North American tour and tonight was a very special night for them; the fans give another standing ovation! The stage design was sublime with many superb lights effects and many
beautiful Iron Maiden sleeves as background curtains. During "The Number Of
The Beast", a huge "666" was lighted during the chorus. "The
Overall, it was an excellent evening with three legendary bands. Every penny spent on my ticket worth it. Iron Maiden proved that night that they are still the kings of metal. They didn't tour with flavor-of-the-month bands under the moniker "Summer Sanitarium" to be hyped and attract more young people. And they don't need to do that; their two gigs were sold out in the province of Quebec (and there were many young fans), and at many other venues around the world. Heavy metal and Iron Maiden are a way of life! While other bands lost their integrity at the altar of money and stardom, the legendary Iron Maiden are still there and down-to-Earth after 25 years and I'm sooooooooooo proud of them! Now the name of the tour "Give Me Ed... 'Til I'm Dead" take all its signification. Up the Irons! Note: All photos taken by Dave Darling of Buffalo, NY at the Toronto show. Review written in Quebec City, QC and edited in Ottawa, ON. International enough for ya? :) - Ed.
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