Collection / Santiago 2001 The release, in hand · what's this? ? Never heard a bootleg? Here's why people chase them →
× 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.
Step 2 of 4. The person who saved it
Ever seen someone at a gig standing dead still, not filming, just there? They might
be recording. Two hours holding steady, so this night doesn't vanish when the lights
come up. Every bootleg exists because one person in the crowd decided it was worth
keeping, for you, a stranger, years later.
Step 3 of 4. "But it's all on YouTube"
Is it? Those old concerts you find there are bootlegs too, someone recorded them,
someone passed them on, someone uploaded them. YouTube didn't replace the collectors.
It lives off them. And what you get is three phone-shot minutes with no context, gone the
day the account is struck. The whole night, in full, doesn't come from an algorithm.
Step 4 of 4. Why it matters
Which is the whole point. Somewhere in here is a night you can never attend, because
it happened before you were born. 1984, behind the Iron Curtain, a crowd that fought
the militia to get in. You weren't there. You couldn't be. But someone recorded it,
so you can still step inside.
// Full facts The show
Date 2001-01-15
Venue Pista Atlética, Estadio Nacional
Location Santiago, Chile
Tour Brave New World Tour Credits
Taper #3: JayTor2112
Cover art Aleister666 // Tracklist 01 Intro 02 The Wicker Man 03 Ghost Of The Navigator 04 Brave New World 05 Wrathchild 06 2 Minutes To Midnight 07 Blood Brothers 08 Sign Of The Cross 09 The Mercenary 10 The Trooper 11 Dream Of Mirrors 12 The Clansman 13 The Evil That Men Do 14 Fear Of The Dark 15 Iron Maiden 16 The Number Of The Beast 17 Hallowed Be Thy Name 18 Sanctuary 19 Run to the Hills 20 End // The nightBruce's Santiago debut after rejoining the band, on the Brave New World tour's South American run, with Rob Halford opening. The night fought its gremlins: the lighting failed on the first walk-on and the opening had to be redone, and the sound took a long while to settle. During 'The Trooper' Bruce wore the Chilean flag as a cape, and the encore brought 'Run to the Hills' as a surprise played nowhere else on the South American leg. A note for collectors: bootleg sleeves often say Estadio Chile, but the show took place at the Pista Atlética del Estadio Nacional.
Sources Rockaxis review, the day after (Rodrigo Caamaño, Alfredo Lewin) · Futuro Chile, 25th-anniversary retrospective
// What the press said I don't think Iron Maiden had ever heard that song sung from the crowd with such force and volume. Rockaxis Rodrigo Caamaño, Alfredo Lewin Read the full review →
The rating Close 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 Close 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.
