The is the first show with my long time college friend and fellow music maniac Sol. He's in NY and Maiden was playing in NJ so I made the drive down.
There were some opening bands but we spent the whole time in the Pru lobby checking out the rad T-shirts and gear that people were sporting.
I wish I had a picture but the prize for most interesting couple went to two guys: one with a Ted Nugent shirt, one with a Burzum shirt. Sub-urban Trumpers or people with a fantastic sense of humor?
Onto the main event.
When we went upstairs to find out seats we were politely told that they "don't exist" and that we should talk to Martha in section blah blah. 🤔 Well that's never happened before! In the end we got upgraded to some killer seats, as shown in the first pic. I could actually see Nicko! We were in an open accessibility area and joined by other non-existent seat holders. There was a younger guy there with his girl. This dude was PUMPED to see Maiden. His girl, not so much. She was a "trooper" (haha) and chilled out in a seat the whole time while he head banged to every song.
Maiden played a killer set, good mix of tunes and fantastic stage settings which changed through out the night. Bruce even had these bad ass flame thrower arm things, shown in the video below.