Iron Maiden @ Milano, Italy 1981-10-30
LDB Special Series #392 (RLR collection)
Out of my 7,000+ shows and radio broadcasts, I have many concerts that were special for some reasons: the setlist, the musicians, the venue or unexpected events. These are the ones I'd like to propose you. Most of these come from my cassettes collection, so they will be released at a slower pace than my Master Series! But you won't be disappointed!
I will try to gather the most unusual things I have in my collection and, as always, your feedback and comments will be my reward for all the work involved in this project.
DO NOT share this music on mp3, just convert it for your own use. Sharing mp3's is the right way to make me stop sharing music here.
Finally, some notes about your truly ldb: I have been a fan of live music since I was 9 years old (that is where I attended my very first show, a PFM/De André gig at Milano's Palalido) and my first taped show was at 11 using a crappy portable cassette player with embedded microphone. I become more serious about taping in 1983 when I started to record every show. In 1991 I acquired my first Sony Professional and in 2000 I moved to MiniDisc to finally settle on R-09 in early 2008.
I have seen over 500 shows in my career. Most of them were taped but for others bad luck struck and I could not record it: on top of my mind there's a Paul McCartney show in 1993 in Milano where I was caught by the security or Porcupine Tree in Roma in March 1999 when the DAT machine would seem to work but listening back to the tape there would just be a long bunch of silence. Or during a Y.Malmsteen show where I got so annoyed that I left halfway through the show and erased the tape and finally on a PFM show in Milano in 2007 where I had to leave before the encore because the baby-sitter had to leave early that evening. Some other times I was very close not to tape or had to do it in extremely difficult situations: for the four Peter Gabriel shows at Earls Court in 1987 security
was checking tapers with metal detector; at the David Gilmour comeback show in London in 2001 at RFH I had the security guy sitting next to me but I managed to tape the show without checking one single time my MiniDisc!
There was a time I was travelling anywhere in Europe to see shows, especially if there was no touring in Italy: I remember Rush in Paris in 1992 when the trio did not even know what Italy was. I have seen shows at stadiums (Genesis at Wembley) and in places with 30 people (Porcupine Tree in Milano in 1997); bands that would later become huge (Pearl Jam in a free show for 150 people) and masters of jazz (Miles Davis or Sarah Vaughan). Shows I will never forget (Pink Floyd at Versailles castle) and some I would rather forget (no comment...).
I truly believe that live music is what keeps music alive, what make us enjoying it together, what allow us to have deep feelings and transmit it to others. Studio records are nowadays 'commodities': you can buy online as anonymous wav files and listen in your iPod or at home. Live music will always imply an effort to buy the tix,travel to the venue, see the show, think about it when coming back home.
IRON MAIDEN
Milano, Palalido
October 30, 1981
5th Show with Bruce Dickinson
01.The Ides of March
02.Sanctuary
03.Purgatory
04.Wrathchild
05.Twilight Zone
06.Remember Tomorrow
07.Genghis Khan
08.Killers
09.Another Life
10.Innocent Exile
11.Innocent Exile (cont.)
12.Murders in the Rue Morgue
13.Phantom of the Opera
14.Iron Maiden
15.Transylvania
16.Guitar Solo
17.Drifter
18.Prowler / I´ve Got The Fire
TT 86:37
Lineage: Unknown recording device > low generation tape > Teac Tape Deck AD-RW900 > Creative Sound Blaster Audigy > HD >
SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6)
Steve Harris – bass, backing vocals
Dave Murray – guitars
Adrian Smith – guitars, backing vocals
Bruce Dickinson – lead vocals
Clive Burr – drums, percussion
I listened to other sources from this show but I find this being the best, probably because it is a low generation source acquired by RLR in the mid 80´s. This is were foreign bands were starting to tour Italy again after the big black out of the 70´s. The Palalido has been recently demolished (a brand new venue will be built, courtesy of M.Giorgio Armani) and this is my personal souvenir to this venue where I had seen some of the earliest shows during my teens. Although designed as a basketball arena and with a rather shitty sound, I have fond souvenirs of it.
The show itself is wild and Bruce Dickinson doing a great job.
ldb
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