IRON MAIDEN – Beat Club, Bremen, ’81 (German TV)
This is the famous appearance of Iron Maiden on Beat Club, a German weekly TV show in the ’70’s/early ’80’s that also featured bands like Saxon, Dokken, April Wine and….ABBA.
The band plays live for half an hour in front of a studio audience and seems a bit nervous. They make quite a few mistakes throughout the set (‘Sanctuary’!). Nonetheless, it’s a great, energetic show from Maiden in what I consider their best period.
The video is a PAL recording, taken from what I guess is a 2nd generation video tape. Picture quality is pretty good, although there is some colour bleeding. I think I’d give the picture a VG to VG+ rating. Audio quality is great, but in mono. Furthermore, the Maiden concert was aired on Beatclub in two parts, on 2 different dates. For some reason, they decided to show ‘Santuary’ on both dates… Rather than butcher the videotape to edit one ‘Sactuary’ out I decided to leave both shows intact.
The video tape was transferred to DVD using a stand alone DVD recorder. There’s no fancy menu
and just automatic tracks every 5 minutes. But at least the audio is in sync!
Please feel free to re-author the DVD, though. I just don’t have the time or the knowledge.
All in all, this is a highly recommended piece of Maiden history, and one of the few proshots of Maiden w. Paul DiAnno.
I can’t upload screenshots, but I’m sure you’ll like this.
Enjoy!
Source:
video cassette (2nd gen.?) -> DVD -> DVD Smartripper
Tracklist:
1. Prowler
2. Sanctuary
3. Phantom of the Opera
4. Iron Maiden
5. Wrathchild
6. Innocent Exile
7. Sanctuary
8. Another Life
