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Testament at Ace of Spades - August 14, 2012
I headed down to Ace of Spades in Sacramento, California this past Friday to see Death Angel, Testament, and Anthrax. Unfortunately, they only gave Death Angel 30 minutes to play and that was the band I wanted to see the most.
I’ll post some more photos from the show over the next few weeks. Click here for a picture I took on my way home. The buses of the bands came up this same stretch of highway just an hour or two later I bet.
Opening for Iron Maiden at Shoreline a few weeks back was Coheed and Cambria.
I had previously seen the band 3 (or Three) open for Opeth in Oakland. Coheed and Cambria are somewhat similar. Both bands sound great live, but their studio work doesn’t do it for me. Coheed’s last three songs on this evening were particularly good. They did a cover of Black Sabbath’s “Heaven and Hell” followed by their two heaviest and most Maiden-like songs (“In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3” and “Welcome Home”).
Iron Maiden has the rather strange situation of having three guitarists at the moment in addition to founding bassist Steve Harris. I say “at the moment,” but Janick Gers has actually been in the band for over 22 years now. He came on board to fill in for Adrian Smith, but has stuck around despite Adrian returning more than 13 years ago.
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden during "Phantom Of The Opera"
The setlist at Shoreline (and I think for the entire 2012 Maiden England tour) was:
Moonchild
Can I Play With Madness
The Prisoner
2 Minutes to Midnight
Afraid to Shoot Strangers
The Trooper
The Number of the Beast
Phantom of the Opera
Run to the Hills
Wasted Years
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
The Clairvoyant
Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden
Encore:
Aces High
The Evil That Men Do
Running Free
A very good setlist in my opinion, but if I was in charge I would have changed the last two out for “22 Acacia Avenue” and “Hallowed Be Thy Name.”
Steve Harris of Iron Maiden
Back in the 1982 – 1987 time frame I practically worshiped Iron Maiden–and Steve Harris in particular. The first chance I had to see them live was at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1985 at the ripe old age of 16. I saw them four times in the following two years while they toured in support of their Powerslave and Somewhere in Time albums. But, as I mentioned on my other blog, I only had the opportunity to witness Iron Maiden one other time (Brave New World tour) in the past 25 years… until this past Friday night when I made the drive down to the Shoreline Amphitheatre for a really fun evening.
Iron Maiden is currently doing a throwback tour to their Seventh Son of a Seventh Son days which is fantastic for me as I didn’t see that tour. They are calling it the Maiden England World Tour, the same name given to their video from the similar tour back in the late 1980s.
I’ll post some more photos from the show over the next few days.