IRON MAIDEN-Maiden Japan (1981) [Heavy M./UK]
Iron Maiden is THE BEST metal bands existing with, Dickinson or with Dianno (Cpt. don't accept compromises on that - you know). As you know (or you should), one of their best performances of the past, Maiden Japan, was originally available in EP form, with only 5 tracks from the show held at "Sun Plaza" (Tokyo) on the night of 24th May 1981. However, if you were lucky enough to be a member of the fan club, you could have got the whole show remastered in it's original form, as in 1999, the entire concert was remastered and released as a digipack to members of the Iron Maiden fanclub, with the following tracklist:
1. Wrathchild
2. Purgatory
3. Sanctuary
4. Remember Tomorrow
5. Another Life
6. Genghis Khan
7. Killers
8. Innocent Exile
9. Twilight Zone
10. Strange World
11. Murders in the Rue Morgue
12. Phantom of the Opera
13. Iron Maiden
14. Running Free
15. Transylvania
16. Drifter
17. I've Got the Fire
It is still agreat live record!
For further details, check out also this review: LINK.
JOE STUMP-Live Berklee (2003) [Shred/US]
This is no official album: it's a soundboard (those things you get from professionals of the field by exchange) of a kind of gig by shred-god Joe Stump at Berklee Performance Center (Berklee School), Boston on August 2003. Despite the quality is not exactly what you may expect from a usual soundboard record, you can still pretty much get..."shredded into submission" (to say it with Joe) and have the real feeling on one of his virtuostivc performances. It has no cover, no set list, nothing, as it didn't come into a printed CD form.
MR. BIG-Big, Bigger, Biggest! The Best Of Mr. Big (1996) [Rock/US]
Hey, hey!!!What the hell is this stuff doing here? Uh?
Well, Cpt. has never been a serious Mr. Big fan, and you will never catch him banging on him. But in old good days, I went through this tunes more than ocasionaly (despite I never got one of their albums). And since next month they will be playing around here - where they are considered god - and J13 is waving his magic wand to have me getting backstage access, you will understand it is a good chance for brushing up! Besides, they are good musicians... and shredders too!
