Phatoor?

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This why I love this forum.

 

[Welsh Phantom]

It ain't over yet, @Forostar !



Looks like my original hypothesis was correct, someone at Toshiba just transferred master tapes to CDs without any intervention on the tracking part.
Which leaves us in a dead alley really, the word "Phatoor" came from Maiden or studio affiliates so it could be an internal joke which we will never deduce.

Next time there's an Q&A or interview, and someone from this board participates, they should really pop the question. It's a very, very obscure piece of Maiden trivia.

I think that "phatoor" is just onomatopoeia for the extended "whhhaaaatt hhoooo". In this clip you can hear him do it at around 5:40

 

[Deleted member 7164]

Yes that would seem logical and Forostar already established the connection. However apart from the intuition there's no proof.

 

[srfc]

I'd put money on it being an anagram of troopah, it comes on after trooper and Bruce used the same device on his greatest hits, "the voice of crube",