They filmed video for “Stranger In A Strange Land” tonight. A small live clip appeared on the tv show “Entertainment USA”. The cameras looked like they were running all night… There’s also the bootleg video that Steve did
Ah this one was a good one. My favourite band in my favourite venue. Think this was about the 5th show of this tour i went to. There’s a fantastic quality bootleg of this show doing the rounds 🙂
They added “Wrathchild” to the set tonight.
Seats in 1st rows were demolished.The guys from Anthrax were in crowd as the accident had happened in Scandinavia. Charlie Benante was in row behind me taking photos. Pretty sure he saw my tape recorder but didn’t grass me up.Good guy! 🙂
This was the first night of the 17 dates i’d follow on this UK tour. Recently i came across a lot of the hotel receipts, information, train times etc (Yes, i AM a hoarder) It’s amazing how different these things were back then, when there was no internet 😉 Here’s a sample of that old stuff : 
Last night i’d see of the tour & was up in the balcony. The great thing was that at this (+the other Hammy O shows) they played the extra tracks which they’d slotted in previously at other shows. I guess that they were rehearsing them for when they played Hammy O. The reason for this was that they were recording the shows for a live album. Of course, in the end they released the show from Long Beach with a few bonus tracks from Hammersmith. I’ve always thought Bruce sounded much better at Hammersmith….
A very “nice” venue….probably too nice 😉 Afterwards, i hung about to meet the band & get autographs. But i did it differently. At the time, supposedly, the band members checked into hotels under aliases. Well, i got them to sign autographs as their aliases ! So, Adrian Smith was “Fabian Quiff”, Nicko was “Henry Boomer” etc. Dunno where that autograph book ended up…
Thanks to an old friend Karen, i was both surprised & shocked when she sent me these photos about 30 years after the event ! I’d totally forgot they’d even been took! Thanks for these great memories Karen 🙂
Funny thing about this was that i’d narrowed it down to a couple of hotels where i would stay in Bristol. If i’d chose the other one, i’d have been in same hotel as the band! Oh well… Got there early & hung outside venue with others. I managed to get in & watch the soundcheck from on stage. I remember Phantom, but that’s about it. Also, one of the road crew, Dickie Bell, said to me ” Have you taken root on those boxes?” (as i’d been sat there so long). Oh yeah, also got chatting with a famous photographer from the era (Robert ‘Bob’ Ellis). After soundcheck, i did a private interview with Steve Harris. The idea was that i planned to do a Fanzine…well, i never did get round to doing that.