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Monday, June 02, 2008

464. Iron Maiden / Hammersmith 1983 [Bootleg]. 1983. 5/5.

This is an A- quality bootleg from the World Piece Tour, and gives a pretty good perspective of the band at that stage of their career.

Although this carries only nine songs, it has a couple of major highlights and songs of interest. It kicks off with “Where Eagles Dare”, with Bruce Dickinson at his ‘Air Raid Siren’ best especially at the beginning and the conclusion of the song. The performance live of “To Tame a Land” is also superb, especially as it has not been done since this tour. It is a shame never to have seen it performed live. Also add another brilliant version of “Phantom of the Opera”, and you have a damn good album.

Rating:  The best bootleg I have of this tour.  5/5

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