Live in Munich 1983 - NEW COMPLETE SOUNDBOARD RECORDING!!!

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OutwardFeller

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Hello all!
Tonight I stumbled upon a true revelation thanks to this forum and decided to make a new thread about it.
The revelation is the following concert recording in absolutely stunning SOUNDBOARD quality:

Iron Maiden - Live in Munich 1983

Tracklist:

01. Theme From "Where Eagles Dare"
02. Where Eagles Dare
03. Sanctuary
04. Wrathchild
05. The Trooper
06. Revelations
07. Flight Of Icarus
08. Die With Your Boots On
09. 22 Acacia Avenue
10. The Number Of The Beast
11. To Tame A Land
12. Guitar Solo
13. Drum Solo
14. Hallowed Be Thy Name
15. Iron Maiden
16. Band Introductions
17. Run To The Hills
18. Drifter

This marks the first ever complete (bar 2 little cuts) soundboard recording from the World Piece Tour.
While being described as a soundboard recording, it sounds almost like a multitrack mixdown.
I listened to it through my studio monitors and the instruments are leveled excellentely and the recording has a lot of depth for a soundboard.

It also brings following milestones for fans of live Maiden:
The first ever live recording of "To Tame a Land" in soundboard quality.
The first live recording of Where Eagles Dare from the classic line up.
The only soundboard recording of Drifter with this line up in soundboard quality. (sadly cut before the ending part)

Enjoy and discuss this amazing historical recording was hidden for 41 years!!!
 
It sounds great--definitely better than the string of Japan "soundboards" that've popped up in recent months where a lot of the instruments sound great, but Bruce's vocals sound like they're bleeding into the feed rather than being recorded directly.

Was "Still Life" ever played on the World Piece Tour? Or did it debut on the Seventh Tour?

Also, what are the 2 little cuts missing from the show?
 
onurb said:
Was played several times...For example:
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Ah, thanks. I haven't listened to Ipswitch in ages, forgot Still Life was in there, and went on a (very random) search through setlist.fm to see if its absence from Munich was an anomaly or not. In the time period I was looking through in 1983 shows, it wasn't on any of them.
 
CA Bryers said:
Ah, thanks. I haven't listened to Ipswitch in ages, forgot Still Life was in there, and went on a (very random) search through setlist.fm to see if its absence from Munich was an anomaly or not. In the time period I was looking through in 1983 shows, it wasn't on any of them.
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It was played only in the first 2 legs of the tour (UK and Europe pt 1).

Last gig with still life: 1983-06-12 Amsterdam, NL.
 
A live show from 1983 with this sound quality is a dream. :ok: Such a great tour.

Guitar & Drum Solos! Love them. The transition from To Tame A Land with them and then Hallowed is epic. It fits so much.

Other interesting choices: Sanctuary the 2nd song in the set, 4 new album songs in a row.

The missing songs from the show are Still Life and Prowler. And Phantom was played almost the entire tour. We needed them because they are not on LAD. 1983 is peak in terms of performances.

Bruce's performance on Drifter is better in 1982. He doesn't sound as interested like in 2005 for it. Guitar work is fire, so are drumming, bass and his vocals for all other songs. Where Eagles Dare shines live. Dave with a longer solo!
 
Thanks for sharing, this is phenomenal!

This is basically on the same level as the Wembley gig for No Prayer On The Road: Excellent sound quality and an almost complete show for a tour without an official live album.
 
I had no idea how badly Bruce's voice was shot even in late '83 because the Hammersmith bootleg is from earlier in the tour and he's still in good shape there. Obviously not quite mid to late-80s bad, but strained as hell and sounding like he's constantly out of breath even on the first song in the set, shortening lines just to get through them and all.

Shame it wasn't one of the early shows that had a proper soundboard recording since not only would it be a more complete setlist, it'd also feature Bruce still in more or less top form. But this is still really cool, hearing WED live in the 80s in this quality is crazy!
 
Ruflux said:
I had no idea how badly Bruce's voice was shot even in late '83 because the Hammersmith bootleg is from earlier in the tour and he's still in good shape there. Obviously not quite mid to late-80s bad, but strained as hell and sounding like he's constantly out of breath even on the first song in the set, shortening lines just to get through them and all.

Shame it wasn't one of the early shows that had a proper soundboard recording since not only would it be a more complete setlist, it'd also feature Bruce still in more or less top form. But this is still really cool, hearing WED live in the 80s in this quality is crazy!
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Are we listening to the same show? Bruce sounds awesome here! What more do you expect?
 
Kalata said:
Wasn't Running Free played a couple of times in 1983?
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No. As mentioned Still Life was played in the UK and a few European gigs. Never survived a full tour, as it was only played in the UK in 1988 as well.

Definitely give this one a go over the weekend, we owe you a beer pal. To Tame Land in soundboard quality more inviting than bucket of ice cold water in desert. Also yes, last tour with drum solo every(ish) night. Steve said they thought to give Nick the new guy a few minutes to impress the crowd (or for the rest of them to take a loo break who knows, as in those days they used to take a couple of beers before hittin' the stage).

And finally to further back up my prediction for Sanctuary to act as opener 2025-26, it indeed was the 2nd number for the majority of World Piece Tour. Basically meaning to say that it is not invonceivable to appear early again.
 
srfc said:
Running Free is on Ipswich Murders, the best ever audience recorded Maiden bootleg
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But this recording is from the World Slavery Tour, not the World Piece tour, a great sounding bootleg I must say
The 1983 Ipswich bootleg is called The trooper in Ipswich and it's true, is among the very best audience recorded bootlegs (the version released in 2006 by the taper himself is the best of all versions)but there is no Running free since it was never played during the World Piece Tour
 
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