Posts Tagged ‘1988’
Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Concert Ticket
I was recently asked what my first Iron Maiden show was and it was this one, the Seventh Son tour. I actually had tickets to see them on the Somewhere in Time Tour and had to give them up because of my grades. That was a reality in my life growing up. Looking back, I understand why it happened, but as a kid, I was pretty pissed to miss my favorite band.
Killer Dwarfs opened up this show. They were terrible. All I cared about was Maiden and they delivered…they always do.
$14.50 for a ticket? Back then that seemed like a lot. For many of the shows I see these days, I’d love to pay that!
Setlist:
- Moonchild
- The Evil That Men Do
- The Prisoner
- Infinite Dreams
- The Trooper
- Can I Play With Madness
- Heaven Can Wait
- Wasted Years
- The Clairvoyant
- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
- The Number of the Beast
- Hallowed Be Thy Name
- Iron Maiden
- Run to the Hills
- 22 Acacia Avenue
- 2 Minutes to Midnight
- Running Free
Deathwish – Demon Preacher – 1988
Here’s an old one and a tad bit obscure. I remember first buying this on tape when it came out. I saw an ad in a magazine and 
thought the cover looked cool. Remember back in the old days when you had a good chance of picking a good band by their album covers? Not so much these days.
Deathwish hailed from England. While this isn’t a great thrash album by any stretch of the imagination, it’s worth giving a listen to once a year or so. I picked it up on CD a few years after its release and got it in a cutout bin for maybe $5. What an investment it was! A few days ago I sold my copy on eBay for $65!
Doomsday News I, II and III Compilations (NOISE Records 1988-1990)
Here are some cool compilations that NOISE Records put out. Some real stinkers on these but also some real gems. Especially Watchtower with Mike Soliz (Militia) on vocals!
1. Scanner – Galactos
2. Rage – Before the Storm
3. Deathrow – Scattered by the Wind
4. Coroner – Arrogance in Uniform
5. Tankard – Total Addiction
6. Sabbat – Hosanna in Excelsis
7. Helloween – Starlight
8. Vendetta – And the Brave Man Fails
9. Celtic Frost – Mesmerized
10. Kreator – After the Attack
11. Voivod – Cockroaches
1. Coroner – Hate, Fire, Blood
2. Watchtower – Dangerous Toy
3. Midas Touch – Aceldama – Terminal Breath
4. Deathrow – Machinery
5. Mordred – The Artist
6. Rage – Mirror
7. Vendetta – War
8. Mania – Break Out
Kreator
1. Flag of Hate
2. Riot of Violence
Tankard
3. Alien
4. Chemical Invasion
5. Maniac Forces
Sabbat
6. Hosanna in Excelsis
7. I for an Eye
8. For Those Who Died
Coroner
9. D.O.A.
10. Absorbed
11. Read My Scars
It was a cold night in February 1988…
…when I met Nicko McBrain. He had come to town to do a drum clinic for Sonor Drums and Paiste Cymbals. As a zit 
-faced, poofy-haired kid who loved Iron Maiden more than just about anything, this clinic was like a taste of Heaven. There were only about 30 people there as Whitesnake were in town touring for the ’87 LP. I was one of 2 people who actually got to get up on stage and play his drums with him standing right there. It was awesome. During one of his rambles, he mentioned the size of the crowd being small due to Whitesnake being in town. Under my breath from the front row I said “Fuck Tommy Aldridge.” Nicko stopped his speech and said, “Steve, give that man a beer!” So his tech handed me an ice cold Heineken which I had Nicko autograph after the show. I still have that bottle, unopened and it’s all chunky inside. I didn’t drink at the time so there was no reason to open it.
Here it is:
Lord – Second Coming (1988)
This is one that I only picked up within the last year or so off of eBay. When I saw that it had Bloodlust’s singer I had to 
check it out. How did I not know about this one before? WTF? But here we are…Lord’s Second Coming CD rereleased (aka bootlegged) on HOT METAL RECORDS. This label put out a bunch of obscure stuff like Hammeron, Satan’s Host, Killen, SA Slayer…but of course all as bootlegs and they sound like they were recorded straight from the vinyl. But I kind of like that on some things. Takes me back to the old days of listening to metal in my bedroom on my POS record player.
This is a good metal find though and oddly enough this is the first CD I ever loaded into my iTunes that it didn’t recognize. I am a bit surprised.
Second Coming starts out a bit odd in that there’s a ballad as the opening track. You do hear a side of Guy Lord’s voice that you don’t hear so much on Bloodlust’s Guilty As Sin LP. It picks up from here on the song Burnin’ but in more of a NWOBHM style. His vocals are clean and the riffs and well crafted IMHO. I’ve probably spun this 20 times since I picked it up last year. Some of the stuff has a 70s hard rock feel ala Pentagram’s more upbeat early stuff. There’s a variation of different hard rock/metal styles on here. I’m not much of a fan of The Doors but they do a pretty cool cover of The End.
So if you liked the vocals on Bloodlust’s Guilty As Sin, I recommend that you download this. It’s worth a few spins for some old metal listening.
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