Showing posts with label Bootleg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bootleg. Show all posts

Saturday, July 05, 2025

Sabbath '75 Bootleg

Today is the day of Black Sabbath's final live performance. I was kind of excited when I first heard the announcement that the original four members were going to be playing one last show, and I thought how cool it would be to make the trip to Birmingham to see it. I knew that I wasn't going to go, but it was a nice thought. Tickets sold out quickly, and then came the news that this was more of a Sabbath celebration and that there were a number of big name bands that were going to be sharing the stage to help send Black Sabbath off into retirement. I wasn't sure exactly what that was going to look like, but for me it suddenly became less interesting... then things got worse as it started to spin into more of a spotlight on Ozzy, and that he was going to also be playing some songs from his solo career. Oh for fucks sake. Look, I'm sure that as a tribute to Black Sabbath, it will be a very cool event... it just isn't what it was initially promoted as. So instead, I'll pull this live bootleg from my blog backlog and post this up today.
This bootleg isn't one that I was searching for. I just did a favor for my friend Jeff, and as a way of thanks, he asked if I was interested in taking this live boot from '75. Hell yeah, I'm not going to turn down a free record.
I'm surprised with how great this Sabbath live bootleg sounds. Pulled from the soundboard for their set in Ashbury Park, NJ in 1975, this sounds so good. Possibly the best live Sabbath set with Ozzy that I have from those early days... and the setlist is absolute fire. I'm very happy to have this.

Friday, January 31, 2025

No Love At The L'Amour

Picking up a couple of live bootlegs during the year just seems inevitable at this point. Every once in a while I'll get an itch and start looking around to see what I can find. To be honest, I've had this Exodus live boot for a while now... I actually picked it up back when I bought my last Maiden boot... but I've just had other records that I wanted/needed to get up on the blog first. Time to finally get it up here.
Recorded live at the L'Amour in New York at the end of '85, this live bootleg sounds surprisingly good. Part of the reason that I waited so long to listen and post this here is that I expected it to sound really rough. I didn't even know that live boots from the 80's could be this nice. I'm impressed. The band rip through thier set of classic Exodus tunes, including some cool early unreleased songs like Hell's Breath and Death Row... and was probably one of their last shows with Baloff, before bringing in Zetro to replace him.
Of course because this is a bootleg, you know that you can't trust the packaging to be accurate, especially with Baloff pictured on the front, and Zetro in the photo on the back.
Number 150 out of 333 that were pressed on blue and black vinyl.

Sunday, September 08, 2024

Eddie Rips Up London

Seems that whenever I post a live bootleg record here, it makes me want to rush out and buy another one of them. After posting about the Megadeth boot earlier this year, it didn't take me long to head over to the Hells Headbangers store and see what I could pick up next.

Iron Maiden live boots are an instant buy for me. I own 10 or 11 Maiden bootlegs, and will not hesitate to buy a new one if the cover catches my eye. I just can't say no to a good looking Eddie cover... especially since the bootleg fan art tends to look better than what Maiden puts on their studio covers.

Back in 2005, I was really getting back in to heavy metal after distancing myself from that style of music through the 90's. Iron Maiden was touring and playing only the early shit, from the self titled album through Piece Of Mind, and made a stop in Massachusetts. At that time, while I was starting to listen to more and more metal, I was not going to see the bands play live... and after the band came and went, I deeply regreted not going to that show. Fun fact, after that Eddie Rips Up The World tour in 2005, I've seen Iron Maiden play every tour since then (with the exception of them touring for The Final Frontier album when they didn't play Massachusetts that time around) for a total of six times... with my seventh time coming up in a couple of months when Maiden hit Massachusetts for The Future Past tour.
All of this is to say that I'm happy to finally have a live boot from that 2005 tour. I love all eras of Iron Maiden, but man, this setlist of early songs is just so good. Makes me wish that they would do another tour playing this older stuff.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Rattle Your Boots

Back on my bootleg bullshit. I posted one earlier this year when I added another live Slayer boot to the collection, but I had the itch for more, so this is my first one for Megadeth.
I wasn't too impressed with the goofy looking cover art for this Megadeth bootleg, but since it was a very early live set for the band, I couldn't resist it. Recorded live in San Francisco on February 19th, 1984, so these are the very early years of the band. We are a full year out from the release of Megadeth's first album, and Mustaine is still cobbling together musicians trying to find a group that works... in fact, based on the time frame, I'm fairly certain that this live set is one of the five shows that had Kerry King on guitar before he went back to focus on Slayer full time.
The setlist had me excited to check out these songs but the sound is so rough at the beginning that I can't tell what is playing. The first song is Hook In Mouth, and I was curious if this was an early version of the song that ended up on the So Far, So Good album from '88, but the sound is so bad that I have no idea... same with the next song Burnt Offerings...it is just a blur of noise. Thankfully things clear up and sound much better by the time we hit Chosen Ones, and the rest of the album is a lot of fun to listen to. It is very raw and really captures the young thrash scene with Mustaine's over the top between song banter... and yes, he talks plenty of shit on Metallica. Overall, this record is very raw and what I would expect from a live bootleg from this time period.

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Reign In Pain

It has been a while since I've picked up a new bootleg. I'd gotten in the habit of checking the Hells Headbangers store for Iron Maiden boots, but once those seemed to stop showing up there, I stopped checking for anything. Thinking that it had been too long since I'd added one to the collection, I took a look. As soon as I saw this live Slayer bootleg, I quickly added it to the cart.
There are a few bands that I'm a sucker for live bootleg recordings, and Slayer is one of them. I'm not sure if it is the intesity of a live setting, or if it is Tom Araya's between song banter, but sign me up every fucking time for this shit. I was thinking that I only had a couple of Slayer boots, but checking the collection for this post, I discovered that this live set from the Reign In Blood tour is my fourth from this band. I've already got a live recording from this tour... a week later for a show in Berlin... but this one at the Odeon Theatre in Birmingham sounds so much better. The quality of this is great... the sound and the cover art are fantastic.
The D side of the vinyl has songs from a live set at Studio 54 in New York. There is only five songs here, so I'm assuming it is an incomplete set, and it was just thrown in to take up space, but it still sounds great.

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Sometimes I'm Happy

I've always been a bit fascinated with these unofficial releases. Hell, I remember as a kid going into a record store in Portland that had a section of live bootleg cassettes for sale, and as I'd grown up in a time of FBI warnings around illegal recordings of movies and live concerts, I was certain that I was going to be arrested as a part of some sting operation when I bought one. Bootleg records felt dangerous, and I'm sure that fueled my fascination with them.

A couple of years back I was buying a lot of live boots, but I got to a point last year where I made a conscious decision to ease up and put that money towards records that were more important. A year had passed since I'd bought my last one, and that itch came back, so I started looking around at what was easily available.

This Black Sabbath bootleg is from a series of three shows that the band did in Italy in February of 1973. This double LP captures the full live set from their Bologna date, and it sounds fantastic. Recorded on their tour for Vol. 4, we get a bunch of songs from that album, plus an early recording of Killing Yourself To Live that Sabbath would include on their next album, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath... plus the song Sometimes I'm Happy, which will end up being torn apart and pieces will show up in Symptom Of The Universe a couple of years later. Overall, a very cool setlist.
The packaging for this is well done with the Vol. 4 layout, but with Geezer on the front cover and Ozzy on the back. Looking good!

Friday, May 20, 2022

Show No Mercy Tour '84

I bought a lot of live bootleg records over the last couple of years. Through 2020 and 2021, I managed to pick up twelve live boots. That seems a bit excessive. While I do find them exciting to add to the collection, I find myself questioning how many of those things I really need to buy. As we moved into 2022, I told myself I was going to focus on chasing more important records and not waste my money on those live bootlegs. Five months into the year, and I've already bought two of them. Fuck me.
When I was picking up the Judas Priest live bootleg, I noticed that Hells Headbangers distro also had one available from Slayer as well. Rock Brigade does a great job with their boots, so I took a chance and added it to the cart as well. Recorded live at Ruthie's Inn at the end of 1984, it is surprising how great this audience recording sounds. I bought a number of live bootleg cassettes in the 80's, and typically they are just a wall of muddy noise and distortion, but this Slayer boot sounds fucking amazing. I'm really surprised with how great it sounds. If you have issues with Live Undead and the controversy around if it was actually recorded in front of a live crowd, this bootleg should deliver that authentic live atmosphere. I'm very happy to have a copy of this recording.
Hells Headbangers had a number of colored vinyl options, but of course pink was the correct choice here.

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

World Vengeance Tour '83

As a young kid just getting into heavy metal, I took the opportunity to record a live concert from Judas Priest that was being aired on MTV. I knew very little of the band, and I can't remember if I'd already grabbed a cassette of the Screaming For Vengeance album with my allowance money, but either way, I definitely wanted a copy of this killer show so that I could get to know more. I grabbed my personal handheld tape deck, sat in front of the television, told everyone in the house to stay quiet, and I hit that record button. That dubbed cassette was one of the coolest things that I had at the time and I listened to that fucker over and over.

While this bootleg doesn't give me a vinyl copy of what would eventually be released as Live Vengeance '82, it is still from the World Vengeance Tour and brings back a lot of memories from that concert that I'd recorded from MTV.

This bootleg is from Judas Priest's live set at the US Festival in '83, and while I wish that they had kept songs like Bloodstone and Devil's Child in the setlist for this show, this is still a strong representation of Priest at the time. The recording is from the soundboard so it sounds absolutely fantastic for a boot. The songs from Side D are from a live show at Hammersmith Odeon in 1980, which was the first time that Priest played Breaking The Law and Grinder live, so it was cool to have this tacked on at the end of the US Festival set.
This bootleg was pressed on a few different color vinyl options...because everything needs to be on a stupid amount of different colors today... but seeing how Screaming For Vengeance is known for the yellow cover, the yellow vinyl was the obvious choice for me.

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Sabbath Bootleg Haven

I've picked up a number of live bootlegs this past year. I just kept finding them and could not resist the opportunity to buy another one. Looking back, I'm kind of shocked at how many I bought this year, but damn, they were all so great that I just had to add them to the colleciton. As I was talking to my friend Jeff a couple months back, and showing off the latest bootleg that I'd bought, he started complaining about a Black Sabbath one that he had and that he thought it was a piece of shit. I told him that no matter how bad the live recording is, I usually still enjoy them...and without giving it a second thought, he gave me the one he had.
This Black Sabbath boot isn't one of those amazing looking releases from the past few years. Recent bootlegs have some fucking fantastic packaging, and this is not that. This is a bootleg that was released back in 1983, and like most old school boots, the packaging is an uncoordinated mess. The record is actually made up of a few different shows from '75 to '78, however, the front cover photo of Ozzy is from the early 80's when he was fronting the Ozzy Osbourne band...and then the writing from the back cover is all about Ian Gillan and when he joined Sabbath. Good old fashioned bootleg chaos.
Yeah, this recording is a bit rough, and I can see why Jeff was eager to dump it. The recording from the first LP is a bit slow and off pitch, so it is kind of a difficult listen... and overall, it just isn't put together very well. Still, it is an old bootleg from the 80's, so I've got to keep it.

Sunday, November 14, 2021

This Is Boston, Not LA

I have a hard time walking away from a live bootleg record. They just look fucking badass, and that goes double for Maiden boots.
The latest live boot from Maiden that I picked up was from the Ed Hunter tour in 1999. I already had a live record from the Los Angeles date on this tour, so I might have ordinarily walked away from this one. However, this record was from Maiden's Boston show at the Orpheum (where I saw Testament, Nuclear Assault and Savatage eight or nine years earlier)... and with Eddie on the cover with an SSD shirt and standing on the steps from The Kids Will Have Their Say cover, I couldn't resist grabbing a copy.
This was Bruce's return to the band, and thier first tour together in six years. They were touring on their greatest hits release, Ed Hunter, and had yet to get in the studio to record Brave New World, so the band had a few songs from the Blaze Bayley era in their set. It is always so cool to hear Bruce sing songs like Futureal and Man On The Edge as I think that this was the only tour that he sang them.
This puts me at nine live bootleg records for Maiden. I still desperately need something from the Piece Of Mind and Somewhere In Time tours!

Monday, November 08, 2021

Never Say Die Tour

Earlier this year I picked up an Ozzy live bootleg from the Rock Brigade label. The cover art for that Ozzy boot was amazing. The black and white cover design with the gold OBI strip was a great look, and as soon as I saw that the label also released a live bootleg for Black Sabbath as well, I jumped on it.
Back in 1978, Black Sabbath went on tour to support their Never Say Die album, and they took Van Halen out with them as the opening act. Seems that most people love to talk about how Van Halen blew Sabbath off the stage each night... that Sabbath were dinosaurs and could not keep up with those young guns from California. Fuck that noise. Sabbath may have been on the verge of crashing during this tour, but this bootleg shows that the band could still bring some heat live from the stage. The band is tight and Ozzy sounds fantastic. In fact, this may be my favorite live recording of the song Black Sabbath ever... when Ozzy says "Let's dance with the devil" mid-song, it gives me chills. Plus live versions of Shock Wave and the title track from Never Say Die, plus Dirty Women and Rock 'n' Roll Doctor off Technical Ecstacy make this well worth the price of admission.
This live boot does have it's flaws though. It is a bit rough for me to sit through the drum solo, guitar solo, instrumental of Orchid, and then another guitar solo. Ugh...it is not interesting at all to me. Plus there is a drastic cut at the end of Dirty Women and Electric Funeral, to end Side B and Side C, that is jarring as hell. Still, overall, this shows how strong Sabbath still was on the road at the time, especially when you think that in a little over six months, Ozzy was out of the band and Dio came in to take his place.

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Bare Breast Boogie '85

Sometimes I'll just head over to the Hells Headbangers distro and do a random search for bootlegs. Often times I'll come up empty, but occasionally I strike gold. Now, I wasn't really interested in collecting Motorhead live boots... hell, I can't even be bothered to buy some of thier official live records... but I remembered that when I'd picked up an Ozzy bootleg record that there were a number of inserts in there promoting a bunch of other records that the label had released. That Ozzy bootleg was a lot of fun, so I figured that I'd search Hells Headbangers to see if they had any of the other Rock Brigade boots. I came up empty on that front, but I did get a hit on something from Motorhead, and when I saw the Bare Breast Boogie album title, I decided to take a chance on it.
I didn't have high hopes on the quality of this recording. I'd checked a couple Youtube videos that had audio for this show and they were muddy as fuck, but I still ordered it just to have a record titled Bare Breast Boogie in my collection. Like I said, I'm not too excited over live Motorhead records, but surprisingly this thing is a blast. The sound is actually quite good for a bootleg, and Lemmy is a fiesty motherfucker throughout this show. Lem asks for the girls to show their tits before the band tear into the song Jailbait, and he calls the people in the mosh pit a bunch of assholes for not paying attention to the music as they dive into No Class. It was still nine months or so before the release of Orgasmatron, but Motorhead still included three songs from that record in this set which must have been a real treat for the kids at the show. This whole set is just a lot of fun and I'm glad that I grabbed this record.
I'm not really sure what is going on here on the back cover, but it is a nice reminder to wear your mask to help prevent the spread the of COVID-19 and it's variants.
Let's hear it for those motorboobs.

Sunday, August 29, 2021

Speak Of The Live Bootleg

I've been known to occasionally chase live bootlegs every now and then. I love the raw and unpolished live sound of these unofficial releases. They typically sound like shit, but for me, that is part of the charm. For the most part, I usually just focus on Iron Maiden, but when the mood strikes, and I'm not opposed to throwing money out the window, I'll jump on live boots for other bands as well.
I'm not too interested in live bootlegs for Ozzy, but I would like to get my hands on one from The Ultimate Sin tour. As I was searching the internets to see what was available, I stumbled upon this nice looking boot from Ozzy's performace at the US Festival in '83. Honestly, as soon as I saw that cover, I needed to own it. That black and white cover design with the bat and the gold OBI is cool as hell.
The Speak Of The Devil live album only consisted of Black Sabbath songs, however the tour to promote that record had a setlist that, for the most part, was filled with songs from the first two records that Ozzy recorded with Randy Rhodes. Jake E Lee is on guitar for this live show, and shortly after this, the band was in the studio to record Bark At The Moon which would be released later in the year.
Along with the poster, this record comes with multiple inserts to promote other live bootlegs that Rock Brigade has recently released. Honestly wouldn't mind owning all of these.

Monday, July 05, 2021

Seventh Bootleg Of A Seventh Tour

Iron Maiden have a ridiculous number of live albums. Since reuniting and releasing Brave New World in 2000, Maiden have basically released a live album after each tour. When I picked up their latest for the Legacy Of The Beast tour, I found myself wondering how many times I'll actually listen to it before I die. Based on the number of live albums that Maiden have, and combined with how little time I actually spend with live albums, I'm guessing that if I listen to that thing five times it will be a surprise...yet, I can help but buy them when the band releases them. As if the number of official live albums weren't enough, here I am still hunting down live bootlegs.
This latest live bootleg from the Seventh Son tour brings my count up to eight for Maiden (nine if you count the live CD from the Piece Of Mind tour). Bootlegs these days look amazing and even if they sounded like shit, I'd still feel compelled to buy them based on the album artwork alone. The last few that I've picked up have ended up getting framed to hang on the wall because I love the look of them so much. This latest one may end up framed as well.
The sound quality for this live show in Indianapolis from 1988 is great for a bootleg. Such a cool selection of songs. While this tour did get an official release with the Maiden England '88 album, and that setlist is stronger with the inclusion of Still Life and Killers, this is still a cool live set to own. The bootleg quality makes it sound raw, and Bruce's between song banter is always entertaining.

Saturday, February 13, 2021

Killers World Tour '81

I love Iron Maiden bootlegs. The thought of owning these raw and unedited live recordings is exciting and it gives me a charge when I add one to the collection. Truth be told though, once I buy it and give it the initial spin, it gets filed on the shelf and it is quite possible that I'll only pull it out for a listen once every ten years...if at all. It seems that I enjoy the concept of owning live bootlegs more than actually listening to them. This leads me to the problem that I experienced when I picked up the latest Maiden bootleg that was released by Heavy Metal Heroes.
I love the Heavy Metal Heroes bootleg releases. The covers look great and the packaging is top notch, so it is a thrill to grab them when I see them. When I saw that Hells Headbangers distro recently had an Iron Maiden live bootleg from the 1981 Killers tour, I didn't hesitate to add it to my cart. These things tend to sell for $60 and up on eBay, so when I can grab them from Hells Headbangers for half that price, I consider myself to be damn lucky.
This live recording from Berlin sounds great, and it is really cool to hear these songs live with DiAnno on vocals. The only problem is that I have this exact same fucking recording on a bootleg that I picked up five years ago. The packaging is obviously different, but I guess that it speaks volumes on how little I pay attention to what I'm actually buying for Maiden bootlegs. "Oh cool cover. I'll buy it."
If I'd known that I already owned the bootleg vinyl for this recording then I most likely wouldn't have bothered with this release...but now that I have it, I'm not sure if I want to let it go and flip it on eBay.

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Virtual XI Japan Tour

Iron Maiden have a ridiculous amount of live albums, and yet I still find myself chasing the occasional bootleg because, apparently I need more of them. I've been seeing a few live bootlegs posted on Instagram recently, and it has really fueled my need to acquire another one. When I saw something from Maiden show up in the Hells Headbangers webstore, I jumped on it.
While Iron Maiden might have around nine live albums, there has been nothing officially released for the Blaze Bayley years. Those five years of the band's history were a dark time, and some fans can't hang with the Blaze albums. I happen to love the raw and dark feel of them, so when I saw Hells Headbangers was carrying a live bootleg from the '98 Virtual XI Japan tour, I was excited to get my hands on it.
I've heard countless times about how weak Blaze Bayley was singing live for Maiden, so I was curious to hear how painful this live set was going to sound. Well, fuck all that because this shit is great. The setlist contains eight songs from the Blaze albums, so it is really cool to hear those songs live, and while I thought that Blaze might be a bit shaky on some of the Dickinson-era songs like Heaven Can Wait, he does the job well.
I love that Maiden haven't completely disowned those two Blaze albums, and will occasionally bring a Blaze song into their current setlist, but man, this full live album from '98 is a real treat to hear.

Monday, December 07, 2020

Praying To Satan

With this covid pandemic, it has been a long time since I've stopped by one of the local record stores. As I was driving home from a friends house recently, I happened to be driving by one of the Bull Moose stores...it was late a night, so I was sure the store would be empty of customers, so I decided to stop in a poke around for a bit. It was fun to flip through some record bins, and when I saw a live bootleg for Slayer, I knew that I was going to have to take a trip to the register an buy it.
This live record is an old FM radio broadcast from back in '91. These type of radio broadcasts are popping up all over the place these days, and while they are generally good for the recording quality, they do tend to cut the setlist short so everything can be contained on a single LP. That is the case here for this Slayer bootleg. Everything sounds good, but I can't help but feel disappointed when comparing the record to the full setlist for this show, and noticing the songs that ended up being cut (ugh...would have loved to have Hardening Of The Arteries included on this record).
The band is on fire here though, and it serves as a good reminder of how great they were. I don't know...there are times when I kind of take those bigger bands like Anthrax, Metallica and Slayer for granted, and it seems that I rarely give thier albums a spin. I grew up with that stuff, and back in the late 80's that shit was in constant rotation...these days, I sometimes tend to overlook it for one reason or another. This live record was a nice reminder of just how insanely good the Slayer were, and now all I want to do is fill my daily playlists with late 80's thrash.

Saturday, October 03, 2020

Legacy Of Brazil

One of the last great shows that I went to, before COVID-19 brought everything to a screeching halt, was Iron Maiden last August for the Legacy Of The Beast tour. The stage show was amazing and the setlist was fire, as they included a number of songs that I'd either never seen them play live before or songs that they haven't done live for years.

When I saw someone on Instagram post a photo of a bootleg from the Legacy Of The Beast tour, I started my desperate search to get my hands on a copy. I checked eBay and a number of overseas sellers had the record available for around $70 which was disappointing, but I did find one seller with an auction starting at $50. Even at $50, I thought it was too expensive, but I was so desperate to get my hands on a copy, so I placed a low bid and hoped that no one else made a play for it.

Immediately after placing my bid, I remembered that Hells Headbangers distro sometimes carries Maiden bootlegs, so I quickly checked their store and sure enough, they had the record available. $30. Fuck. Not wanting to miss out on this great price, I quickly ordered one and then just hoped that I was outbid on eBay. Thankfully, it all worked out, as seconds before the auction ended, someone came in and placed a bid higher than mine.

This bootleg delivers the goods. The sound quality is great, and the packaging is absolutely stunning.

From the amazing cover art, to the gatefold packaging with some great photos from the tour...bootlegs are some next level stuff these days. Boots didn't look like this when I was a kid.

The OBI strip shows that there are three other records in the Legacy Of The Beast series for shows in Sweden, France and England. They all look great, but I think that I'll just stick with this one from Brazil...especially since Maiden announced their official live record from their Mexico shows on this tour, which will be released next month, and of course I'll need to get that one.

Monday, August 31, 2020

Mother Sun

I'm a huge Judas Priest fan, and while I wouldn't call my self a Priest historian by any stretch, I think that I know my shit when it comes to the band. Yet, a few weeks ago I managed to get quite the surprise when someone online mentioned the song Mother Sun that showed up in a few of their early live sets but was never recorded in the studio. There was some talk of bootleg copies of the song, so I started my hunt. I quickly found that it had been uploaded to youtube, and a quick search of discogs turned up the Mother Sun bootleg collection of rare live and studio recordings.

Honestly, the bootleg recording of the song isn't that impressive. I mean I'm a huge fan of the first couple Priest records, but this live recording of Mother Sun from 1975 is a bit shaky and rough to listen to. The band Portrait recently recorded a cover version of the song, and their version is actually quite a bit better. Still, I needed the Priest live version in my collection, so I grabbed the bootleg LP.

As a whole, this is a really good bootleg. Side one is just a killer recording of Priest live in the BBC studio from 1978. That opening riff for White Heat, Red Hot is fucking killer and it is nice to hear a live version of Starbreaker. Side two has the two songs that the band recorded for the Old Grey Whistle Test...and while I've seen the live videos for those songs on youtube, it is cool to have them here.

Monday, February 03, 2020

Bootleg Of The Beast

My buddy, Sandwell, is the king of Iron Maiden bootlegs. Dude has got some killer ones, and whenever he picks up a new boot, I get seriously jealous. Sometimes the Hells Headbangers distro will get some bootlegs in stock, so I make sure that I do a random search for Dio, Slayer and Iron Maiden whenever I'm in their webstore...and when I stumbled across one for Maiden a couple months ago, I quickly grabbed it.

Iron Maiden has released a ton of live albums over the course of their career, but they do have some holes that haven't seen an official release. One of those tours that did not get documented with a live album was the Ed Hunter tour in 1999. This was the first tour that Maiden did after reuniting with Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith, but before they entered the studio to record the Brave New World album. The band kept three songs from the Blaze Bayley era in the set for this tour... The Clansman, Futureal, and Man On The Edge... and I hadn't heard Bruce do a couple of those songs, so I was very excited to hear them here.

This double live record is a true bootleg, and not something that was released as a live radio broadcast, but the sound on this is still really good. This is a great recording, and it is always fun to listen to Bruce's un-edited rants and between song banter.

Nice gatefold packaging with the tour dates listed.