I am ecstatic I HAVE BEEN WAITING TWENTY THREE YEARS FOR THIS:

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	• Iron Maiden: Live After Death (Two-Disc Set) Iron Maiden Universal Music, 2008 average customer review:based on 90 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Good package

Well, at least we have the classic VHS LIVE AFTER DEATH released as a DVD. The package is well crafted, the content is good. So why do I rate it only three stars? There goes the explanation.

1) "History of Iron Maiden Part II". Even being very interesting to watch, contraty to the first part, where we really follow the band from its conception until the Piece of Mind time, in this one we have one hour about Powerslave" only. It's almost like the "Classic Album" series for "The NUmber of the Beast", but this time it's for "Powerslave".

2) The Rock in Rio concert. Although no fault of the band or producers, the sound is so atrocious and damaged that it's embarrassing...

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I am ecstatic I HAVE BEEN WAITING TWENTY THREE YEARS FOR THIS:

I HAVE BEEN WAITING TWENTY THREE YEARS FOR THIS:

That I have finally got my hands on a copy of this and the extras are phenomenal as I was at the March 4th 1985 Dallas Texas showing of this tour concert at Reunion Arena - (W.A.S.P. opened for them (Blackie Lawless started spinning his hair around and it looked like his head was on a pivot) but Maiden was definately the highlight at 50,000 WATTS of power) (LOUDER THAN A JET ENGINE) - (my ears did not stop ringing for four days afterwards and I probably still got a touch of tinitus even today because of this). They even broke The WHO'S record for loudest band in the world. I also used to have the vinyl double album for this but it got stolen in Ft. Worth Texas back in the day. I even hand drew a picture of Eddie on my '73 Brown Chevy El Dorado Pickup car that night.

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Una obra maestra!

Una edición remasterizada de una obra maestra en shows en vivo, excelente! el booklet podría traer más fotos, pero se complementa con el bonus dvd, aunque deberían haber editado el festival de rock en rio 1.

Somewhere Back in Time

Is this recording really 23 years old? Can it be? Has time slipped away that quickly. Some would certainly argue the opposite. In fact, all of us waiting to finally get a picture clean-up and an audio enhancement would probably say that it seems as though the wait has been forever or long overdue at best.

But here it finally is...Live After Death on two DVD disks. Disk one is the classic performance wrap-up of Iron Maiden's 1984/1985 World Slavery show in Long Beach, CA. This just has got to go into any Maiden fan's collection. The cleaned-up, full screen picture is better than the VHS, but it still makes you appreciate how much better the technology is today. The audio has been converted to 5:1 and sounds terrific. The Live After Death set list goes:

"Intro: Churchill's Speech"
"Aces High"
"2 Minutes to Midnight"
"The Trooper"
"Revelations"
"Flight of Icarus"
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
"Powerslave"
"The Number of the Beast"
"Hallowed Be Thy Name"
"Iron Maiden"
"Run to the Hills"
"Running Free"
"Sanctuary"

The show runs for about 90 minutes and captures a great performance and all of the energy that a Maiden show was back in the early days.

Disk two includes a lot more time than the DVD jacket suggests. The DVD jacket says that Disk Two runs for 150 minutes, but rest assured that, if you include the photo gallery tour, you get 231 minutes of Maiden stuff that includes:

1) "The History of Iron Maiden Part Two" - This is getting billed as the follow up to the 2004 release of The History Of Iron Maiden - Pt. 1: The Early Days, but don't expect the same kind of multi-year documentary here with Part 2. To be sure, Part Two is a 60 minute documentary of only the Powerslave, or should I say World Slavery, tour. So if you're expecting (as I was) that this is another multi-year documentary of Maiden that perhaps takes us into the Janick Gers/Blaze Bayley years, you'd be mistaken.

2) "Behind the Iron Curtain" - Apx an hour in total length, this chapter features some behind the scenes stuff as Maiden made their way through Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary (in 1984 I think). You also get complete live performances of:

"Aces High"
"The Trooper"
"22 Acacia Avenue"
"The Number of the Beast"
"Hallowed Be Thy Name"
"2 Minutes to Midnight"
"Run to the Hills"

3) As if the above weren't enough, you get another 50 minutes of live footage from Maiden's 1985 appearance at the Rock in Rio festival. "Scream for me, Brazil!" The picture quality was beyond repair (by today's standards) for this, but the sound is pretty good.

"Aces High"
"2 Minutes to Midnight"
"The Trooper"
"Revelations"
"Powerslave"
"Iron Maiden"
"Run to the Hills"
"Running Free"

The good news is that if you wan't a high quality A/V Rock in Rio performance by Maiden, you've got it with 2002's outstanding Rock In Rio DVD.

4) Finally, you get another 49 minutes of stuff with:

- "'Ello Texas!" - Same songs (3 altogether), different time period. From 1983's World Piece Tour...'22 Acacia Ave', 'Flight of Icaris' and 'Iron Maiden'.
- Videos for "Aces High" and "2 Minutes to Midnight".
- A 20 minute photo gallery tour.

How could any Iron Maiden fan pass on this. Simple...a true Iron Maiden fan CANNOT pass on this. I predict that in conjunction with the 2008 Iron Maiden "Somewhere Back in Time" World tour, the boys will record a show and release it on DVD next year with History Part Three. Let's hope on the next DVD that they switch out some of those classics that we're so used to hearing for some great tunes like Murders in the Rue Morgue, Where Eagles Dare, Killers, Die With Your Boots On, and so on and so on.

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Up the Irons & Shut the Lid!!

Live After Death is the best concert performance of Iron Maiden ever recorded. The DVD includes a fantastic transfer of the original film. It looks like it was filmed just yesterday instead of back in '85. It contains some songs not available on the old VHS version. I got the VHS tape back in '85 for my 13th birthday. Back in those days, you had to buy anything separate, so I also had Behind the Iron Curtain. The new DVD has an extended version of Behind the Iron Curtain as an extra. Also, the 2nd part of History of Iron Maiden with excellent interviews with Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson, and the always amusing Nicko McBrain. It shows you what it was like on a long 13-month tour with all the highs and lows, traveling around the world. I can't wait to see Part 3. I still have a copy of Maiden England on VHS and I hoping for that concert to make it to DVD along with the Somewhere On tour. If you a Maiden fan go out and get this. Hopefully they will tour more in the US.

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