Collection / New York 2016 The Book of Souls World Tour
Iron Maiden New York 2016 Madison Square Garden // 2016-03-30 // New York, USA
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 2016-03-30
Venue Madison Square Garden
Location New York, USA
Tour The Book of Souls World Tour The recording
Source AUD
Format dvd // Tracklist 01 UFO/Intro 02 If Eternity Should Fail 03 Speed of Light 04 Children of the Damned 05 Tears of a Clown 06 The Red and the Black 07 The Trooper 08 Powerslave 09 Death or Glory 10 The Book of Souls 11 Hallowed Be Thy Name 12 Fear of the Dark 13 Iron Maiden 14 The Number of the Beast 15 Blood Brothers 16 Wasted Years // The nightA sold-out Garden on the Book of Souls tour, with Dickinson on stage months after being cleared of cancer. He paid a short tribute to Robin Williams before 'Tears of a Clown', written in the comedian's honour, and 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' was back in the set. Between songs he scanned the floor, teasing the faces he recognised and the ones he did not.
Sources Loudwire review (Joe DiVita) · Vice review (Kim Kelly)
// What the press said It was chaos, and it was beautiful: it was Heavy Metal Parking Lot all over again, down to the Judas Priest shirts that peppered the scrum. Vice Kim Kelly Read the full review → // In their words I know your face, I know your face, I've seen your ugly face before! I've never seen you, you're a f--king stranger! You must be 'Children of the Damned'! Bruce Dickinson, on stage, before 'Children of the Damned' · source
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.
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