False Maiden trivia

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The Maiden trivia box is a nice idea specially for people maybe new to the band. But are these all correct facts? This one for example:

"- Iron Maiden were the first ever band to release a full length concert video. "

I doubt it. Maiden´s first full lenth concert video was Live after Death. Judas Priest surely released their Memphis concert earlier than that. Or KISS Animaliza concert. Those bands probably weren´t the first either, I´m just saying Maiden was most certainly not the first.

Over the years Ive heard Maiden was the first doing promo videos as well. But that´s highly incorrect. For example Queen did a video for Bohemian Rhapsody in what? ´74, ´73?
 
This question should be asked to the Ancient Mariner, as this is one of his entries. Sorry I can't help more. [!--emo&:unsure:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/unsure.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'unsure.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
The first Maiden concert video was the Rainbow '81 video, not Live After Death. The running time is about a half-hour, so I don't know if it qualifies as "full-length" by modern standards.

The Kiss Animalize: Live video was released April 1, 1985 - about 6 months before the Live After Death video (the first Maiden video which is unquestionably full-length).

The webmaster of [a href=\'http://www.judas-priest.com\' target=\'_blank\']http://www.judas-priest.com[/a] (a Priest collector's site) is a good friend of mine, and he has assured me that the famed Memphis concert was never officially released until this year as part of the Metalology box set; it was only heavily bootlegged and traded.

As far as promotional videos for a single song: the earliest that I know of is the Beatles video for "Strawberry Fields Forever" from 1967.
 
I believe they were. I don't know of a full concert video before 1981.

And yeah, I think Strawberry Fields Forever by the Beatles in 1966 is what I'd call the first promo video.
 
What about "The Song Remains The Same" by Led Zeppelin (1976)?
It's a full-lenght feature film, most of it is concert footage, and the audio is from the concert only.
 
By the way, "Bohemian Rhapsody" was released in 1975, and it is widely regarded as the first real commercial promo video.
 
[!--QuoteBegin-SinisterMinisterX+May 30 2004, 03:00 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(SinisterMinisterX @ May 30 2004, 03:00 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--] The webmaster of [a href=\'http://www.judas-priest.com\' target=\'_blank\']http://www.judas-priest.com[/a] (a Priest collector's site) is a good friend of mine, and he has assured me that the famed Memphis concert was never officially released until this year as part of the Metalology box set; it was only heavily bootlegged and traded.
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Then why was it sold in so many official recordstores?
I think this webmaster is not a good source. I'd rather ask such questions to the guy from the best Priest site on the web: The French Metallian!

[a href=\'http://judaspriest.free.fr/tfm-uk.html\' target=\'_blank\']http://judaspriest.free.fr/tfm-uk.html[/a]

Info belonging to the Judas Priest Metalogy:

"........And as a bonus, the initial pressing of 'Metalogy' will include a live DVD of a complete concert filmed on December 12, 1982, at Mid South in Memphis, TN, on the 'Screaming for Vengeance' tour. This show was released on home video as 'Judas Priest Live' but it has been out of print for many years, and fans have often requested that it be reissued. This new DVD is mastered in pristine 5.1 Surround Sound for the ultimate Priest live concert experience."




This looks very official, by the way:
[img src=\'http://judaspriest.free.fr/discography/videos/live.jpg\' border=\'0\' alt=\'user posted image\' /]
 
Forostar: Obviously, either my friend is terribly wrong, or (more likely) I understood him incorrectly. Thanks for the information.

Perun: The Song Remains The Same was originally a theatrical film, not a home video. And "Bohemian Rhapsody" is only considered to be the first video by people who don't know about the Beatles videos.
 
I don't know if but the live at rainbow video is not a full concert because as the commentary pointed out, it is the same as the 'Before the exile' bootleg but it does not contain prowler or innocent exile etc.
 
[!--QuoteBegin--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Perun: The Song Remains The Same was originally a theatrical film, not a home video.[/quote]

You're right there, but to be picky, I'll have to say that it was released on video thereafter. Still, I accept it doesn't count.

[!--QuoteBegin--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]And "Bohemian Rhapsody" is only considered to be the first video by people who don't know about the Beatles videos.[/quote]

Most people who care about promotional videos are aware of the Beatles videos but still consider "BoRap" to be the first commercial one. Even many experts claim that it is widely regarded as such. I'm not saying I believe that (besides, The Doors also had promo videos in the sixties), I'm just stating the fact. Personally, I'm always a bit reluctant on such disputes, because everybody has their point somehow.
Many even say that the true inventors of promo clips for marketing purposes were Abba.
All I can say is that the first promo clip I know of is "Break On Through (To The Other Side)" by The Doors, which was released in 1966 (Strawberry Fields was released in 1967).

[!--QuoteBegin--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]I don't know if but the live at rainbow video is not a full concert because as the commentary pointed out, it is the same as the 'Before the exile' bootleg but it does not contain prowler or innocent exile etc.[/quote]

Almost every concert video (at least before the DVD age) was cut and edited in some way because they wouldn't fit on one tape but there wasn't enough material for two full tapes. There were also other reasons. For example, Queen's "We Will Rock You" was recorded on the "Hot Space" Tour 1982 but lacked all tracks from the album (except "Under Pressure", obviously) to avoid it becoming such a flop as the album itself. It is still considered a full-length concert video because it is 90 mins long (the American version is only 60).
 
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