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Friday, February 29, 2008

335. Iron Maiden / Come On Copenhagen! [Bootleg]. 1990. 4/5.

This is a bootleg of the concert in Copenhagen on November 5, 1990, on the No Prayer for the Dying tour. The quality is excellent for an audience recording, though do not expect 'perfect' quality if you ever listen to it. Sometimes, bootleg-listening becomes an art form.

Taken from the “No Prayer on The Road” tour, Maiden go all out to promote the album No Prayer For The Dying by including six songs off it in their set list – most of which never got a run live again. And they all sound great live – “Public Enema Number One”, “Tailgunner”, “Holy Smoke”, “The Assassin”, “Hooks In You” and “Bring Your Daughter… To The Slaughter”. It can continue to amaze just how much better some songs sound live than their studio recorded components, and to be honest also vice versa. Add to that the usual gems from the back catalogue and you have a set list that is a great showcase for this era of Iron Maiden.
This album catches all of that. This was Janick's first tour with Maiden, so it is good for that aspect as well. Much of the newer material never made it into a set again, so it is good to listen to them live, with Bruce belting them out with great passion. It is a good bootleg of this tour. Of course, in this day and age, they pretty much release an official live album of each tour. One of this tour would have been great.

Rating:  Worth it just for the songs off No Prayer for the Dying.  4/5.

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