Who has been alive long enough to continuously have a huge impact on two entire generations of the world!
I used to think that Rock In Rio was Maiden's biggest concert.. In fact, I was led to believe that Maiden entered the Guinness Book Of World records for amassing such a huge gathering! Then, I saw Flight 666 the movie on Maiden's Somewhere Back In Time tour on their VERY OWN Boeing 757 (or was it 747?), that their lead vocalist Bruce Dickenson was piloting!.
The movie says that 30,00 people had gathered for the concert. Because that was the biggest field they had around! BUT, the show was cast live all across the country! Who has EVER got people to really stop everything they're doing, and just experience something so phenomenal?
In this tour, Maiden played songs that they had last played more than two decades ago. And in front of crowds that were of the SAME age group as the crowds that came almost 25 years ago!
They were playing for the first time for some Latin American crowds! And there were adults crying out their emotions and disbelief that their Gods have finally come down for them!
I almost had tears in my eyes when I realized how humbling this experience must be to them to experience what a channel they create for millions of people around the world to express their own different feelings. specially in places like Columbia and Chile (and I think they mentioned that in one of these places, such events were actually banned by the military!).
Seriously, who has been alive long enough to continuously have a huge impact on two entire generations of the world! And see what their music does to people?