June 8th, 1992
The Ritz, New York CityIron Maiden:Be Quick or Be Dead
The Number of the Beast
Sanctuary
From Here to Eternity
Wasting Love
Tailgunner
The Evil That Men Do
Afraid to Shoot Strangers
Fear of the Dark
The Clairvoyant
Heaven Can Wait
Run to the Hills
2 Minutes to Midnight
Iron Maiden
Hallowed Be Thy Name
The Trooper
Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter
Running Free
Dream Theater:Pull Me Under
Under a Glass Moon
Metropolis Pt. 1
A Fortune in Lies
Learning to Live
Video Boot of Iron Maiden
It's a bit shaky but definitely watchable. In some spots, you can see my camera flash down in front of Dave and Steve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5SoofegTwkAudio Boot of Dream Theater.
Only Learning To Live is on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvSWzXSD42YI've uploaded their full set..
https://we.tl/t-f9IBXiVAYpSo..when Iron Maiden played at L'Amour's in 1988 before the 7th Son tour, my college roommate, who lived in northern NJ, and I pledged that if we got wind of anything like that happening again, we'd be there. Well, 2 years after college, it happened.
We went into the city early in the day. One of my best friends from high school (the guy that had Rik Emmett sing at his wedding...I've posted those pics) worked in NYC at the time, and we met him and had lunch at Planet Hollywood. And SoCo shots!
I remember lining up so we could get in when the doors opened. We got down to the front on Dave's side. I just remember thinking that I hope the opening band doesn't suck. Hell, I wish they didn't have to come on at all. I was on a huge Iron Maiden fever pitch. I loved Fear Of The Dark, which was such a huge improvement over No Prayer.
So this band called Dream Theater come on and they start Pull Me Under, not that I had any clue. When they hit the "Watch the sparrow falling", my jaw was on the floor. Holy shit, I thought. This band is incredible. They were so talented and tight.
I two main thoughts were that first, the drummer was incredible. By the time I figured out what he was playing, he was already playing something else. Other than Neil Peart, I had simply never been so moved by the drummer.
And secondly, and this is funny, but I thought the bass player was a madman! JM was at the edge of the stage in front of us. Seriously, I thought he was insane.
My only regret was not snapping a few pics, but I did not want to take a chance and get busted before Iron Maiden.
Iron Maiden was incredible. Seeing my favorite band on a small stage like this was truly amazing. There were no real surprises in the setlist, but I thought busting out TNOTB second song of the set was awesome. And they stuffed Fear Of The Dark in practically the middle of the set.
It was so cool to be so close to Dave. For the SiT and 7th Son shows, I was right in front of Adrian. So my pics from those shows are great, but unfortunately there's hardly any Dave.
Pics!
(I'm lucky to have this pics. Seems my negatives got jammed when they were developed. In this pic of the Marquee, in the lower right hand corner you can see an imperfection, and the pic of Bruce is almost ruined too. These are really the only decent pics I have from the show)
Unfortunately, this great Iron Maiden show is shadowed by my discovery of Dream Theater. In fact, my all time favorite Maiden show is the Somewhere In Time tour, but the inclusion of Dream Theater nudges it past that show slightly.
I bought Images & Words and listened to it for what seemed like 2 years straight, only taking it out to listen to Live At The Marquee. There was no internet back then. I remember being at work and going through the Boston Phoenix, which was a free paper of mostly ads. It's where I would see who's playing in town. And low and behold, I see that Dream Theater is playing at Axis. Not 6 months from now. In like two weeks!! And then they came back in December, which I posted previously in the thread.
My musical life was forever changed, and had I not been at this concert, I'd likely not be here at DTF typing this.
Thank you all for your comments and reading this thread. It has been fun going through many of these shows and tours again. I scanned a ton of shit in for this. I'd come home from work, and my son, thinking I'll be scanning in more stubs and pics, would ask, "Dad, do you want me to turn the printer on for you?"
What's better than that?