Live After Death DVD details announced

[Spiff]

C/- our friends at Blabbermouth:

Finally available on DVD for the first time, New Door Records/UMe are proud to announce the eagerly awaited release of the double disc DVD of "Live After Death", the legendary recording of IRON MAIDEN's four night stand at Long Beach Arena, California, in 1984.

In the stores February 5, 2008, the release will coincide with the start of the band's Somewhere Back In Time World Tour on which they will recreate many of the aspects of this original and spectacular show.

Disc one contains the recording of this full 90 minute concert. Originally filmed on 35mm, the footage comes alive on DVD resulting in a visually stunning film that far outstrips the usual live video of the '80s. The disc carries two sound options — the original concert audio specially mixed into 5.1 Surround Sound by Kevin Shirley, MAIDEN's producer since 1999, plus the original stereo sound track by Martin Birch, the band's producer from 1981 to 1993. Originally released on video in 1985, this has been largely unavailable for the past 20 years

Disc two has Part 2 of the "History Of Iron Maiden", continuing on the MAIDEN story from "The Early Days" DVD, along with rare and unseen bonus footage in the form of "Behind The Iron Curtain", "Rock In Rio '85", and "'Ello Texas", all in all giving a total running time of well over three hours. Plus of course the photo galleries, relevant promo videos, artwork galleries, tour dates, tour program and other features which all combine to make MAIDEN DVDs a very special and utterly comprehensive treat for their fans.

Manager Rod Smallwood explained: "The original video of 'Live After Death' has not been readily available for a long time so its good that we finally got around to this. lt was one of the first full concerts to be filmed after the advent of video and of course the live album, recorded on a different night to the video, has long been considered to be one of the seminal metal live albums and has sold millions since. Fans have been begging us to do this DVD for some time now but we wanted to wait until we were able to recreate that whole tour to go with it and also to make it part of a series of DVDs that we are putting together around the band's history. And of course we are making sure that now we have got to it we will be giving the fans everything we can find from that period!!”

Full list of contents:

Disc 1 — Live After Death

"Live After Death" concert with Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio (90 minutes)

Setlist:

01. Churchill Speech/Aces High
02. 2 Minutes to Midnight
03. The Trooper
04. Revelations
05. Flight of Icarus
06. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
07. Powerslave
08. Number of the Beast
09. Hallowed Be Thy Name
10. Iron Maiden
11. Run to The Hills
12. Running Free
13. Sanctuary

Disc 2 - Documentary / Bonus Concert Footage

1. The History of Iron Maiden — Part 2 (60 mins) — Documentary.
Band members, crew, friends and associates talk about the period in the band's career which saw the writing, recording and release of the "Powerslave" album, and later "Live After Death", and the subsequent massive touring. And not just the serious side!!

2. Behind the Iron Curtain (57 mins approx) Documentary and Live — shot during MAIDEN's historic tour of Poland and other parts to the Eastern Bloc in 1984 featuring interviews, live and offstage footage capturing the atmosphere of this remarkable journey behind the Wall at the height of the Cold War.

3. Live Footage - Rock in Rio '85 (50 mins approx)
The full MAIDEN set supporting Queen on the first day of the first Rock in Rio in front of 300,000 manic metal fans. A bloody and stirring performance!! Songs performed include "Aces High", "2 Minutes to Midnight", "The Trooper", "Revelations", "Powerslave", "Iron Maiden", "Run To The Hills", "Running Free"

4. Ello Texas — 15 minutes — Interview and live. Caught by a film crew in 1983 at the Alamo and sound checking their show in San Antonio.

5. Artwork Gallery, Tour Programme, Tour dates and photo gallery

6. Promotional clips for Aces High and 2 Minutes to Midnight

Subtitles for all documentary footage:

PAL version — English HOH / Dutch / French / German / Italian / Swedish / Portuguese / Spanish
NTSC Version — English HOH / Brazilian Portguese / Latin Spanish

 

[salty]

Also...original stereo audio track

 

[Southy]

how awesome is this gonna be!

 

[TinMan666]

very awesome!

i was kinda expecting the somewhere on tour & maiden england stuff as well... but maybe that'll be saved for the NEXT dvd release?

 

[Southy]

I can't wait for the Maiden England release, I got the vid, but haven't had a vcr to play them for a few months, and have wanted to watch em like crazy

 

[Icarus]

This shall be awesome. Wonder when they are going to release the next dvd with SIT live stuff on it.

 

[Shannow]

Drove into the supermarket carpark today, and saw a very very tidy Nissan 260C two door.

Lowered, nice wheels, and when I looked through the window, it had a killers mirror hangy thing.

I parked next to a car...and saw Iron Maiden stuff on it...first time ever.

This is gonna be big.

 

[phlogiston]

This shall be awesome. Wonder when they are going to release the next dvd with SIT live stuff on it.

Is there any SIT live stuff? Except for snippets here and there, I've never seen anything at all from that tour. I wouldn't expect them to release any new concert footage next time around.

 

[Spiff]

No official SIT recording as far as I'm aware, apart from the snippets on 12 Wasted Years. I think if there was footage we'd have seen it by now.

 

[Mark]

No formal recording of SIT shows was ever done; Steve had shows videoed purely for his personal record, but nothing that would be suitable for commercial use.

Remember on the 12 Wasted Years video, even the live footage then (shown when Bruce and Steve are being interviewed by some Japanese chaps) was of the camcorder variety.

 

[Spiff]

(shown when Bruce and Steve are being interviewed by some Japanese chaps)

Better than singing, even?

 

[Bucko]

this should be great !!!!!!

 

[Mark]

Better than singing, even?

No, it's "More than singing even?" regarding the amount of time he (Bruce) spends fencing

Bruce: "It would be... difficult... to spend more time than singing, at the moment..."

Jap Bloke: "Ahhhhh" *nods*

 

[Spiff]

Hmm, I'm sure it's "better".

 

[Southy]

Those crazy Japs....

And Shannow, it is fashionable to be a Maiden fan again, people will be coming out of the woodwork

 

[Mark]

Here's a 24-min preview - woohoo!

[ame]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3091818091207308628&hl=en[/ame]

 

[Spiff]

Bruce: You can't play heavy metal with synthesizers!

 

[salty]

haha the dude's borat like response is gold "ahh yes, I want!"

 

[Southy]

 

[maiden1]

As this topic is to do with "Live After Death" I was wondering if anyone has had a sound mistakes/flaws on their 1st CD songs 9-13

I purchased the Album yesterday and took it back within 2hours as I couldn't enjoy songs 9-13 without that shitty sound coming over the top, and as it was the last LAD CD I ended up getting the Powerslave CD one of the greats.

So has anybody had this problem with their Album/CD. It sounded like a wave of sound but it went through the hole song/s

cheers Adrian