Hmm, this brings back some memories. I am afraid this will be a little autobiography.
Bought?
In 1991 I bought the
Live After Death LP-set (2nd hand of course), plus the
Sanctuary 12" vinyl single, which I chose because
Prowler was the b-side on it. Perhaps I bought the single before LAD, or even both at the same time, can't remember :--/
I bought these items after having heard a recorded cassette of the
Iron Maiden album. I have never been so addicted to
new music after hearing this stuff in my walkman. I was completely in another world. The only hard rock I knew and appreciated before that was some Queen (
I Want It All), Guns'n'Roses (
Appetite For Destruction), Kiss (
Alive II) and even Bon Jovi (
You Give Love A Bad Name in particular)
After LAD I bought two videos:
12 Wasted Years and
The First Ten Years
First bought studio albums (also in 1991): Two at the same time:
Somewhere in Time &
Piece of Mind. I just HAD to buy SIT, because I was totally mesmerized by the fragment of
Caught Somewhere in Time that I knew from
12 Wasted Years.
Before I bought my first studio albums, I already knew
Killers,
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (which I both borrowed from a classmate) and the before mentioned debut album.
After this, all went very fast and I purchased all Maiden albums before I witnessed Iron Maiden for the first time ever in concert, 2 September 1992. It was my first concert experience. From that gig,
Can I Play With Madness landed on
A Real Live One !
The circle is kind of full now, when I'll see Maiden this year, during "A Matter of Touring"-tour in the same venue: Brabanthallen in Den Bosch, Netherlands.