No Prayer on the Road

Iron Maiden Rome 1990

Paleur 1990-11-20 Rome, Italy

Iron Maiden, Rome 1990: the physical release in hand

My rating what's this?

Step 1 of 4. What you're looking at

This is a bootleg, not the official live album. The actual night itself, recorded from inside the crowd, with the mistakes and the roar left in. This is the concert as it really sounded, before anyone cleaned it up.

// Full facts

The show

Date
1990-11-20
Venue
Paleur
Location
Rome, Italy
Tour
No Prayer on the Road

The recording

Source
AUD
Format
dvd
Equipment
High Generation VHS (PDM E-240 Chrome), Philips HDR3800 Standalone recorder
Lineage
High Generation VHS (PDM E-240 Chrome) -> Philips HDR3800 Standalone recorder -> DVD

Credits

Taper
emmebi Productions
Cover art
EMMEBI Productions

// Tracklist

  1. 01 Intro
  2. 02 Tailgunner
  3. 03 Public Enema Number One
  4. 04 Wrathchild
  5. 05 Die With Your Boots On
  6. 06 Hallowed Be Thy Name
  7. 07 22, Acacia Avenue
  8. 08 Holy Smoke
  9. 09 The Assassin
  10. 10 No Prayer For The Dying
  11. 11 Hooks In You
  12. 12 The Clairvoyant
  13. 13 2 Minutes To Midnight
  14. 14 The Trooper
  15. 15 Heaven Can Wait
  16. 16 Iron Maiden
  17. 17 The Number Of The Beast
  18. 18 Bring Your Daughter … To the Slaughter
  19. 19 Run To The Hills
  20. 20 Sanctuary

// Cover art

// The night

Anthrax opened this Rome night of No Prayer on the Road. The hall listed as Paleur in the band's tour archive is the PalaEUR, the Palazzo dello Sport in the EUR district. An audio edition of the night also circulates among collectors under the title Live...In the Centre of the Empire.

Sources No Prayer on the Road archive on ironmaiden.com, with Anthrax as support Venue naming history on Wikipedia Iron Maiden Bulgaria on the circulating audio edition

// Around the web

The rating

The rating is mine, and it is the only quality mark here. The number from 1 to 10 next to a recording is my own listening judgement: how much I enjoy putting it on, everything weighed together.

I do not hand out an "objective" grade, because nobody can grade a live recording objectively. One collector's ears are not another's.

A tape can be clean and still rate lower if it leaves me cold, or rate high in spite of its flaws because it captures the night. Higher means I reach for it more often.

Take it as one ear, then trust your own.

About these releases

The disc you see in these photos is burned by me and the cover is printed by me, by hand. Each one is a single copy for my own shelf, put together while I catalogue the collection.

This is not a label, and nothing here is a product. Nothing is for sale and nothing is for trade.

If a release looks finished, that is just the fun of the craft. Please do not write asking for a copy. I make them for no one but myself.