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I might be mistaken, but didn't Steve say they haven't filmed the tour for budget reasons, as in they didn't film the tour themselves?
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I might be mistaken, but didn't Steve say they haven't filmed the tour for budget reasons, as in they didn't film the tour themselves?
Forostar
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That's correct. He stated this, just a few years ago. But if he knew there would be other material that he'd like to use, he wouldn't be so sorry about it.
So our only hope is that some saint can persuade Steve to put amateur quality material on a DVD, or that some other saint comes up with newly discovered material.
So our only hope is that some saint can persuade Steve to put amateur quality material on a DVD, or that some other saint comes up with newly discovered material.
I'm pretty sure that in some vault somewhere, there is a TV broadcast. Somebody just has to remember it- we're dealing with a time over twenty years in the past after all. If somebody from somewhere would have the guts to tell Steve or the management that he saw a show on TV, that'd be worth an investigation. In some countries, like Poland or Yugoslavia, Maiden playing was a major event, and I just don't believe that it would have not been covered.
Nigel Tufnel
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Alot of countries in the Old Eastern Bloc did'nt allow musicians from the west in thier countries back then. That's why Behind the Iron curtain was such a bigh deal back in the 80's.
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I don't really care about that kind of material, 'cause it's available free of charge already. And you can't do much on amateur stuff...maybe a bit of color correction, noise reduction and sound eq (which the bootleg community is already doing). So putting amateur bootlegs worths nothing.
Actually, big names of all genres visited Yugoslavia on the regular basis. Rock and alternative scenes were 10 times better then than now, and the names like Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Dire Straits, Tina Turner...and Iron Maiden played here in the very peaks of their career. That's quite understandable because, altrough communist, we weren't closed to the west and we weren't a part of Warsaw Pact. Border wasn't closed, you got your passport once of legal age and after conscript service (meaning around 19-20 years), and you're free to go.
Even that passport worthed a lot more than current Croatian passport, and you needed a lot less hassle to get to some western states than now. Go figure.
The metal scene couldn't even be compared. We were at the trends with first real metal bands emerging in late '70s, first trash bands in early '80s and so on...there were annual large open-air festivals hosting many of those bands, and altrough little known outside the borders, musicians were superb and often called to join well known western rock/metal bands. Prime example is guitarist known as Zele from band Divlje Jagode (Wild Strawberries), who was called not to audition, but to play with Whitesnake in early '80s. He decided not to, loyal to his band.
Sorry about offtopic, but it doesn't do justice to put Yugoslavia in the same basket as Warsaw Pact countries, nor to put it behind the iron curtain. The situation on the music scene was far better than it's now. As i like to define it, in Soviet influenced countries you weren't really allowed to artistically express anything that wasn't a part of "communist art outlines" or whatever. In Yugoslavia, you weren't really allowed to artistically express anything that opposes communism. And the domain in the middle of those two is very big, so the bands could steer in the center and still be sucessful, mainstream, and not get opressed by the system.
If Iron Maiden were from Yugoslavia, they would be sailing risky waters with their post '90 stuff, because of large political conotations. However, anything between 1975-1990 wouldn't have any problems. Yeah, it's not freedom but it's helluva better than Poland or any other WarPac country that was toured during Powerslave/SIT tours.
Don't forget that Maiden played in Yugoslavia as early as 1981.
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Heh. The small thread of faith i'm hanging on comes from a fact that a certain person acquired master tapes of Spectrum show years and years after the show itself, when the tapes were already damaged beyond repair on certain parts. The show was probably broadcasted on some local TV. There were 10.000+ people in the venue that night, don't you think they haven't noticed big bulky '80s era Betas shooting the concert? Yet, the bootleg was discovered and acquired years after.
I also like to refer to Ed Hunter shows which were pro-shot. There is a plethora of clipped footage on Swedish Jirka TV (or something like that), from several songs, pro shot, used in a TV special. Normally, if i sent an email asking for it, asking to make a pro bootleg, they would turn me down...but Maiden's management would surely get it quick.
Besides, Harris used to write a personal diary back in the day. As i remember, he used to write small impressions and remarks of every show. Maybe he wrote..."yesterday we played in XYZ, good shows, there were cameras of local TV station"...
Perun said:
Or if someone spoke up and said they were at a concert that was pro-filmed. If you've ever been to such a show (I've been to one, but it wasn't Maiden), you know it - you can't possibly not see all those cameras.
We're talking about older concerts, yes? I just can't see Steve himself not noticing that...and considering the availability of high-quality camera equipment in the late 70s as compared to today, well.