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Friday, March 1, 2024

Las Cronicas De Javier Barba Vallejo / The Chronicles of Javier Barba Vallejo


SPA: El pasado Miércoles 28/2 publiqué una foto mía en el sillón de casa con nuestra perrita Yorkshire "Nina" en un brazo y el disco pirata de Saxon "Heavy Metal Thunder" grabado el 28/2/84 ( de ahí mí pequeño post de homenaje al aniversario , ya que en ese momento justo 40 años atrás se estaba celebrando ese concierto) en Nimegen (Holanda) durante el exitoso World Tour Crusader ' 84 .





La verdad es que me dormí en los laureles , porque para esa noche quería tener preparado este post y publicarlo en ese momento , pero bueno los planes fallan y cambian... Considero como fan coleccionista que soy de ellos que dentro de la discografía pirata o bottleg de Saxon los discos y ojo !!!... siempre hablando de bottlegs editados en tiempo real en vinilo y obviando a los piratas en CD o posteriores ediciones actuales de antiguos conciertos en vinilo debido al auge tanto de la presente carrera de Saxon como al auge del vinilo como formato . Los más representativos son , el "Strong Arm Of The Law" grabado el 19/12/81 en el Hammersmith Odeón de Londres por histórico , puesto que fué el primer disco pirata de la historia de Saxon , sacado desde la mesa de sonido del concierto con el propósito de potenciar la gira que poco más tarde iniciarian por Japón en el '81.

Y este "Heavy Metal Thunder" por la popularidad que adquirió al ser un disco doble editado por la discográfica UFO en la cúspide de la carrera comercial de la banda con una portada un tanto épica con aires a las ilustraciones de Richard Corben. Evidentemente en la época existian otros legendarios bottlegs como el "Redline" del Power And The Glory Tour '83 o el "Princess Of The Nigth" del The Eagle Has Landed Tour '82 , este editado actualmente en 2020 por Cult Legends Recordings con la foto en blanco y negro de portada de una chica sexy con una guitarra sobre sus hombros . Recuerdo ver de jovenzuelo adolescente a principios de los 80 este disco pirata en la histórica tienda "Papermusik" de la calle Riera Baixa de Barcelona , que era con identica portada negra de letras rojas y logo del aguila plateada del The Eagle Has Landed , pero ponía con las mismas letras góticas Princess Of The Nigth . Por supuesto yo en aquel entonces no tenía dinero para comprarlo y tenía que ser muy muy selectivo con el poco dinero que tenía para compar mis primeros cassettes y revistas de Metal , por lo cual ahora la edición que tengo de ese disco es la de 2020 , pero siempre hay sorpresas en el coleccionismo , por ejemplo hará un par de años conseguí la primera edición del The Eagle Has Landed (1982) Alemana , en la cual el Aguila del logo mira hacia la izquierda , será una frikada , sí , pero solo lo tiene la primera edición Alemana del 82 así que era un objetivo a conseguir . Esto me lleva al disco que ocupa este post el "Heavy Metal Thunder" , disco que he conseguído de segunda mano claro está , este pasado mes de Enero después de tantos años tras él , porque lo recordaba ver en los stands guiris de las firas del Disc de Jordi Tardà a precios siempre elevados por aquel entonces y ahora lo he conseguido a muy buen precio al haberlo comprado a un particular en Terrassa (Barcelona) recogiéndolo yo mismo , según me dijo el hijo del propietario que el disco llevaba años en el fondo de un armario... para que os hagáis una idea en el momento que escribo este post por ejemplo hay tres ediciones de este disco a la venta en Discogs que oscilan entre los 75 € y 150 € pero con gastos de envío caros ya que dos de ellos están en Australia , aunque veo que en la tienda "Cd And Lp" se puede compar una copia alemana a 43 € con gastos de envío incluidos , buen precio si alguien está interesad@ , ahí lo dejo... Particularmente no recomiendo los discos piratas a no ser que se sea un fan acerrim@ de la banda y se quieran contemplar ya otros aspectos de la grabacion más "Raw". Este para mí gusto ofrece alguna curiosidad que otros como el Princess Of The Nigth '82 y algunos más no ofrecen , así que lo comentaré un poco... cómo frikadas a destacar algunas erratas gráficas en los títulos 1 , 5 , 9 , 11 ,13 y el tema 14 que yo flipaba pensando que sería un tema inédito al llamarse "Never See No" y en realidad es "And The Bands Played On", ni idea de a qué viene el otro nombre . Vayamos con el audio para mí gusto está bien , manteniendo ese particular eco que tienen los pabellones , dando esa sensación de sonido "en crudo" quizá por destacar lo peor sea el sonido de la batería , pero es bastante aceptable, que estamos hablando de bottlegs !!!. En vez de caras A , B , C ,D ( Side A , B, C , D ) está dividido en Episode I ,ll , lll y IV muy medieval a lo Crusader.


Tras una intro hablada , llega la intro musical nada más y nada menos que "The Hellion" de sus adorados Judas Priest y ya comienzan con "Power And The Glory" seguida de "Princess Of The Night" y "Dallas 1 P.M". con la grabación de los altavoces en el momento del asesinato de John Fitzgerald Kennedy , que ha habido Tours en que no llevaban efectos de grabacion , aunque eso fué en momentos más bajos de su carrera, nada que influyera mucho en sus directos , pero mola mas que los lleven. Le sigue "Just Let Me Rock" la primera de cantan de Crusader el álbum que promocionan en ese concierto y siguen con "Never Surrender ", para ya volver con el tema título "Crusader" , pero sin la intro "The Crusader Prelude" tras ella viene "Strong Arm Of The Law" y vuelven al álbum Crusader con el single y tema más comercial del disco "Sailing To América" y ya retoman su anterior disco Power And The Glory con "This Town Knows How To Rock" en la que Biff juega con el público , para luego seguir jugando Nigel Glockler con el público haciendole participar en su solo de batería , siguen con "The Eagle Has Landed" y "747 (Strangers In The Night)" con el efecto de grabacion del avion y el público coreando a sus anchas el estribillo. Y llega para mí la sorpresa del disco con "A Little Bit Of What You Fancy" que Biff Byford alarga cachondamente jugando con el público , está acaba en el disco con un empalme extraño y mal hecho ( el único de este doble Lp) con "And The Bands Played On" con el que se aprecia que Saxon salen del escenario y la gente les llama entonando un curioso Ooooooooeeeeeeee ooooooooeeeeeeeee ooooooooeeeeeeee hasta que vuelven a las tablas ya en lo que es el Episode IV o Cara D del disco que comienza con un solo de guitarra de Graham Oliver que alterna solos de cosecha propia con riffs del "Smoke On The Wáter" de Deep Purple , el "Paranoid" de Black Sabbath , el " Pretty Woman" de Roy Orbison , el Purple Haze de Jimmy Hendrix ( ídolo indiscutible de Graham Oliver) y tras él un solo de guitarra que acaba con "Riff Raff " de AC/DC , siguen con "Wheels Of Steel" y "Denim And Leather" en donde Biff y el público vuelven a jugar y cantar , para acabar con "Heavy Metal Thunder" haciendo un Medley intercalando parte de "Stand Up And Becaunted" y "Warrior" volviendo a acabar con Heavy Metal Thunder.


Esta version del Heavy Metal Thunder con este Medley más un trozo de "Taking Your Chances" la incluirían en la cara B del Maxisingle del "Rock And Gypsies" del que sería su próximo álbum "Innocence Is No Excuse" (1985) , para mí uno de los más preciosos y completos de la era Saxon tras el cierre de su anterior etapa con el directo The Eagle Has Landed de 1982 y la "americanización" de su sonido. Pero eso ya es otra historia.... En estos últimos años se están editando en vinilo algunos bottlegs antiguos "Never Surrender" , "Donington Park 1980" o el interesantísimo "Stand Up And Rock" con demos e inéditas jamás editadas en vinilo , veremos qué más nos trae mundo bottleg en el universo Saxon , que de momento lo han vuelto a petar con su último álbum de estudio "Hell , Fire And Damnation" (2024). NEVER SURRENDER !!!!!!


ENG: Last Wednesday 2/28 I published a photo of me on the couch at home with our Yorkshire dog "Nina" in one arm and Saxon's pirated album "Heavy Metal Thunder" recorded on 2/28/84 (hence my little post tribute to the anniversary, since at that moment just 40 years ago that concert was being held) in Nimegen (Holland) during the successful World Tour Crusader '84. The truth is that I rested on my laurels, because for that night I wanted to have this post prepared and publish it at that moment, but well, plans fail and change... I consider as a collector fan that I am one of them that within the pirate or bottleg discography of Saxon the records and be careful!!!... always talking about bottlegs released in real time on vinyl and ignoring the pirates on CD or later current editions of old concerts on vinyl due to the rise of both Saxon's present career and the rise of vinyl as a format. The most representative are, "Strong Arm Of The Law" recorded on 12/19/81 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London because it is historic, since it was the first pirated album in the history of Saxon, taken from the concert's sound board. with the purpose of promoting the tour that they would begin shortly after in Japan in '81. And this "Heavy Metal Thunder" for the popularity it acquired as a double album released by the UFO record label at the peak of the band's commercial career with a somewhat epic cover reminiscent of Richard Corben's illustrations. Evidently at the time there were other legendary bottlegs such as the "Redline" from the Power And The Glory Tour '83 or the "Princess Of The Night" from The Eagle Has Landed Tour '82, this one currently released in 2020 by Cult Legends Recordings with the photo Black and white cover of a sexy girl with a guitar on her shoulders. I remember seeing this pirated album as a young teenager in the early 80s in the historic "Papermusik" store on Riera Baixa street in Barcelona, ​​which had the identical black cover with red letters and the silver eagle logo of The Eagle Has Landed, but it said with the same gothic lyrics Princess Of The Night. Of course, at that time I didn't have the money to buy it and I had to be very very selective with the little money I had to buy my first Metal cassettes and magazines, which is why now the edition I have of that album is the 2020 one. but there are always surprises in collecting, for example a couple of years ago I got the first edition of The Eagle Has Landed (1982) German, in which the Eagle in the logo looks to the left, it will be a freak, yes, but only It has the first German edition from '82 so it was a goal to achieve. This brings me to the album that occupies this post, "Heavy Metal Thunder", an album that I got second-hand of course, this past January after so many years after it, because I remembered seeing it in the tourist stands at the fairs of the Jordi Tardà's record at always high prices back then and now I have gotten it at a very good price having bought it from an individual in Terrassa (Barcelona) picking it up myself, according to what the owner's son told me that the record had been in the back for years from a closet... to give you an idea at the time I write this post, for example, there are three editions of this album for sale on Discogs that range between €75 and €150 but with expensive shipping costs since two of them are in Australia, although I see that in the "Cd And Lp" store you can buy a German copy for €43 with shipping costs included, good price if anyone is interested, I'll leave it there... I particularly do not recommend pirated albums unless you are a die-hard fan of the band and want to consider other aspects of the more "Raw" recording. For my taste, this one offers some curiosity that others like Princess Of The Night '82 and some others do not offer, so I will comment on it a little... how cool to highlight some graphic errors in titles 1, 5, 9, 11, 13 and song 14, which I was freaking out thinking would be an unreleased song because it was called "Never See No" and in reality it is "And The Bands Played On", I have no idea what the other name comes from. Let's go with the audio, for my taste it is fine, maintaining that particular echo that the pavilions have, giving that sensation of "raw" sound, perhaps to highlight the worst thing is the sound of the drums, but it is quite acceptable, since we are talking about bottlegs !!!. Instead of sides A, B, C, D (Side A, B, C, D) it is divided into Episode I, ll, lll and IV, very medieval like Crusader. After a spoken intro, comes the musical intro from none other than "The Hellion" by their beloved Judas Priest and they begin with "Power And The Glory" followed by "Princess Of The Night" and "Dallas 1 P.M." with the recording of the speakers at the time of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, there have been Tours in which they did not have recording effects, although that was at the lowest moments of his career, nothing that had much influence on his live shows, but it is cooler let them take them. It is followed by "Just Let Me Rock", the first song from Crusader, the album they promoted at that concert, and they continue with "Never Surrender", to return with the title track "Crusader", but without the intro "The Crusader Prelude" after she comes "Strong Arm Of The Law" and they return to the album Crusader with the single and most commercial song of the album "Sailing To América" ​​and they already return to their previous album Power And The Glory with "This Town Knows How To Rock" in which Biff plays with the audience, and then Nigel Glockler continues playing with the audience by making him participate in his drum solo, they continue with "The Eagle Has Landed" and "747 (Strangers In The Night)" with the recording effect of the plane and the audience chanting the chorus at will. And the surprise of the album comes for me with "A Little Bit Of What You Fancy" that Biff Byford extends playfully playing with the audience, it ends on the album with a strange and poorly done splice (the only one on this double LP) with " And The Bands Played On" with which you can see that Saxon leaves the stage and the people call them, singing a curious Oooooooooeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeee until they return to the stage in what is Episode IV or Side D of the album that begins with a guitar solo by Graham Oliver that alternates homegrown solos with riffs from Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Wáter", the " Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, "Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison, Purple Haze by Jimmy Hendrix (indisputable idol of Graham Oliver) and after it a guitar solo that ends with "Riff Raff" by AC/DC, they continue with " Wheels Of Steel" and "Denim And Leather" where Biff and the audience play and sing again, to end with "Heavy Metal Thunder" making a Medley interspersing part of "Stand Up And Becaunted" and "Warrior" ending again with Heavy Metal Thunder. This version of Heavy Metal Thunder with this Medley plus a piece of "Taking Your Chances" would be included on the B side of the Maxisingle of "Rock And Gypsies" of what would be their next album "Innocence Is No Excuse" (1985), for me one of the most precious and complete of the Saxon era after the closing of their previous stage with the live The Eagle Has Landed in 1982 and the "Americanization" of their sound. But that's another story.... In recent years some old bottlegs "Never Surrender", "Donington Park 1980" or the very interesting "Stand Up And Rock" have been released on vinyl with demos and unreleased ones never released on vinyl, we will see what else the bottleg world brings us in the universe Saxon, who have hit it again with their latest studio album "Hell, Fire And Damnation" (2024). NEVER SURRENDER!!!!!

ENG; Last Wednesday 2/28 I published a photo of me on the couch at home with our Yorkshire dog "Nina" in one arm and Saxon's pirated album "Heavy Metal Thunder" recorded on 2/28/84 (hence my little post tribute to the anniversary, since at that moment just 40 years ago that concert was being held) in Nimegen (Holland) during the successful World Tour Crusader '84.
The truth is that I rested on my laurels, because for that night I wanted to have this post prepared and publish it at that moment, but well, plans fail and change...
I consider as a collector fan that I am one of them that within the pirate or bottleg discography of Saxon the records and be careful!!!... always talking about bottlegs released in real time on vinyl and ignoring the pirates on CD or later current editions of old concerts on vinyl due to the rise of both Saxon's present career and the rise of vinyl as a format.
The most representative are, "Strong Arm Of The Law" recorded on 12/19/81 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London because it is historic, since it was the first pirated album in the history of Saxon, taken from the concert's sound board. with the purpose of promoting the tour that they would begin shortly after in Japan in '81.
And this "Heavy Metal Thunder" for the popularity it acquired as a double album released by the UFO record label at the peak of the band's commercial career with a somewhat epic cover reminiscent of Richard Corben's illustrations.
Evidently at the time there were other legendary bottlegs such as the "Redline" from the Power And The Glory Tour '83 or the "Princess Of The Night" from The Eagle Has Landed Tour '82, this one currently released in 2020 by Cult Legends Recordings with the photo Black and white cover of a sexy girl with a guitar on her shoulders.
I remember seeing this pirated album as a young teenager in the early 80s in the historic "Papermusik" store on Riera Baixa street in Barcelona, ​​which had the identical black cover with red letters and the silver eagle logo of The Eagle Has Landed, but it said with the same gothic lyrics Princess Of The Night.
Of course, at that time I didn't have the money to buy it and I had to be very very selective with the little money I had to buy my first Metal cassettes and magazines, which is why now the edition I have of that album is the 2020 one. but there are always surprises in collecting, for example a couple of years ago I got the first edition of The Eagle Has Landed (1982) German, in which the Eagle in the logo looks to the left, it will be a freak, yes, but only It has the first German edition from '82 so it was a goal to achieve.
This brings me to the album that occupies this post, "Heavy Metal Thunder", an album that I got second-hand of course, this past January after so many years after it, because I remembered seeing it in the tourist stands at the fairs of the Jordi Tardà's record at always high prices back then and now I have gotten it at a very good price having bought it from an individual in Terrassa (Barcelona) picking it up myself, according to what the owner's son told me that the record had been in the back for years from a closet... to give you an idea at the time I write this post, for example, there are three editions of this album for sale on Discogs that range between €75 and €150 but with expensive shipping costs since two of them are in Australia, although I see that in the "Cd And Lp" store you can buy a German copy for €43 with shipping costs included, good price if anyone is interested, I'll leave it there...
I particularly do not recommend pirated albums unless you are a die-hard fan of the band and want to consider other aspects of the more "Raw" recording.
For my taste, this one offers some curiosity that others like Princess Of The Night '82 and some others do not offer, so I will comment on it a little... how cool to highlight some graphic errors in titles 1, 5, 9, 11, 13 and song 14, which I was freaking out thinking would be an unreleased song because it was called "Never See No" and in reality it is "And The Bands Played On", I have no idea what the other name comes from.
Let's go with the audio, for my taste it is fine, maintaining that particular echo that the pavilions have, giving that sensation of "raw" sound, perhaps to highlight the worst thing is the sound of the drums, but it is quite acceptable, since we are talking about bottlegs !!!.
Instead of sides A, B, C, D (Side A, B, C, D) it is divided into Episode I, ll, lll and IV, very medieval like Crusader.
After a spoken intro, comes the musical intro from none other than "The Hellion" by their beloved Judas Priest and they begin with "Power And The Glory" followed by "Princess Of The Night" and "Dallas 1 P.M." with the recording of the speakers at the time of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, there have been Tours in which they did not have recording effects, although that was at the lowest moments of his career, nothing that had much influence on his live shows, but it is cooler let them take them.

It is followed by "Just Let Me Rock", the first song from Crusader, the album they promoted at that concert, and they continue with "Never Surrender", to return with the title track "Crusader", but without the intro "The Crusader Prelude" after she comes "Strong Arm Of The Law" and they return to the album Crusader with the single and most commercial song of the album "Sailing To América" ​​and they already return to their previous album Power And The Glory with "This Town Knows How To Rock" in which Biff plays with the audience, and then Nigel Glockler continues playing with the audience by making him participate in his drum solo, they continue with "The Eagle Has Landed" and "747 (Strangers In The Night)" with the recording effect of the plane and the audience chanting the chorus at will.
And the surprise of the album comes for me with "A Little Bit Of What You Fancy" that Biff Byford extends playfully playing with the audience, it ends on the album with a strange and poorly done splice (the only one on this double LP) with " And The Bands Played On" with which you can see that Saxon leaves the stage and the people call them, singing a curious Oooooooooeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeee

until they return to the stage in what is Episode IV or Side D of the album that begins with a guitar solo by Graham Oliver that alternates homegrown solos with riffs from Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Wáter", the " Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, "Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison, Purple Haze by Jimmy Hendrix (indisputable idol of Graham Oliver) and after it a guitar solo that ends with "Riff Raff" by AC/DC, they continue with " Wheels Of Steel" and "Denim And Leather" where Biff and the audience play and sing again, to end with "Heavy Metal Thunder" making a Medley interspersing part of "Stand Up And Becaunted" and "Warrior" ending again with Heavy Metal Thunder.
This version of Heavy Metal Thunder with this Medley plus a piece of "Taking Your Chances" would be included on the B side of the Maxisingle of "Rock And Gypsies" of what would be their next album "Innocence Is No Excuse" (1985), for me one of the most precious and complete of the Saxon era after the closing of their previous stage with the live The Eagle Has Landed in 1982 and the "Americanization" of their sound.
But that's another story....
In recent years some old bottlegs "Never Surrender", "Donington Park 1980" or the very interesting "Stand Up And Rock" have been released on vinyl with demos and unreleased ones never released on vinyl, we will see what else the bottleg world brings us in the universe Saxon, who have hit it again with their latest studio album "Hell, Fire And Damnation" (2024).
NEVER SURRENDER!!!!!
Last Wednesday 2/28 I published a photo of me on the couch at home with our Yorkshire dog "Nina" in one arm and Saxon's pirated album "Heavy Metal Thunder" recorded on 2/28/84 (hence my little post tribute to the anniversary, since at that moment just 40 years ago that concert was being held) in Nimegen (Holland) during the successful World Tour Crusader '84.
The truth is that I rested on my laurels, because for that night I wanted to have this post prepared and publish it at that moment, but well, plans fail and change...
I consider as a collector fan that I am one of them that within the pirate or bottleg discography of Saxon the records and be careful!!!... always talking about bottlegs released in real time on vinyl and ignoring the pirates on CD or later current editions of old concerts on vinyl due to the rise of both Saxon's present career and the rise of vinyl as a format.
The most representative are, "Strong Arm Of The Law" recorded on 12/19/81 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London because it is historic, since it was the first pirated album in the history of Saxon, taken from the concert's sound board. with the purpose of promoting the tour that they would begin shortly after in Japan in '81.
And this "Heavy Metal Thunder" for the popularity it acquired as a double album released by the UFO record label at the peak of the band's commercial career with a somewhat epic cover reminiscent of Richard Corben's illustrations.
Evidently at the time there were other legendary bottlegs such as the "Redline" from the Power And The Glory Tour '83 or the "Princess Of The Night" from The Eagle Has Landed Tour '82, this one currently released in 2020 by Cult Legends Recordings with the photo Black and white cover of a sexy girl with a guitar on her shoulders.
I remember seeing this pirated album as a young teenager in the early 80s in the historic "Papermusik" store on Riera Baixa street in Barcelona, ​​which had the identical black cover with red letters and the silver eagle logo of The Eagle Has Landed, but it said with the same gothic lyrics Princess Of The Night.
Of course, at that time I didn't have the money to buy it and I had to be very very selective with the little money I had to buy my first Metal cassettes and magazines, which is why now the edition I have of that album is the 2020 one. but there are always surprises in collecting, for example a couple of years ago I got the first edition of The Eagle Has Landed (1982) German, in which the Eagle in the logo looks to the left, it will be a freak, yes, but only It has the first German edition from '82 so it was a goal to achieve.
This brings me to the album that occupies this post, "Heavy Metal Thunder", an album that I got second-hand of course, this past January after so many years after it, because I remembered seeing it in the tourist stands at the fairs of the Jordi Tardà's record at always high prices back then and now I have gotten it at a very good price having bought it from an individual in Terrassa (Barcelona) picking it up myself, according to what the owner's son told me that the record had been in the back for years from a closet... to give you an idea at the time I write this post, for example, there are three editions of this album for sale on Discogs that range between €75 and €150 but with expensive shipping costs since two of them are in Australia, although I see that in the "Cd And Lp" store you can buy a German copy for €43 with shipping costs included, good price if anyone is interested, I'll leave it there...
I particularly do not recommend pirated albums unless you are a die-hard fan of the band and want to consider other aspects of the more "Raw" recording.
For my taste, this one offers some curiosity that others like Princess Of The Night '82 and some others do not offer, so I will comment on it a little... how cool to highlight some graphic errors in titles 1, 5, 9, 11, 13 and song 14, which I was freaking out thinking would be an unreleased song because it was called "Never See No" and in reality it is "And The Bands Played On", I have no idea what the other name comes from.
Let's go with the audio, for my taste it is fine, maintaining that particular echo that the pavilions have, giving that sensation of "raw" sound, perhaps to highlight the worst thing is the sound of the drums, but it is quite acceptable, since we are talking about bottlegs !!!.
Instead of sides A, B, C, D (Side A, B, C, D) it is divided into Episode I, ll, lll and IV, very medieval like Crusader.
After a spoken intro, comes the musical intro from none other than "The Hellion" by their beloved Judas Priest and they begin with "Power And The Glory" followed by "Princess Of The Night" and "Dallas 1 P.M." with the recording of the speakers at the time of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, there have been Tours in which they did not have recording effects, although that was at the lowest moments of his career, nothing that had much influence on his live shows, but it is cooler let them take them.

It is followed by "Just Let Me Rock", the first song from Crusader, the album they promoted at that concert, and they continue with "Never Surrender", to return with the title track "Crusader", but without the intro "The Crusader Prelude" after she comes "Strong Arm Of The Law" and they return to the album Crusader with the single and most commercial song of the album "Sailing To América" ​​and they already return to their previous album Power And The Glory with "This Town Knows How To Rock" in which Biff plays with the audience, and then Nigel Glockler continues playing with the audience by making him participate in his drum solo, they continue with "The Eagle Has Landed" and "747 (Strangers In The Night)" with the recording effect of the plane and the audience chanting the chorus at will.
And the surprise of the album comes for me with "A Little Bit Of What You Fancy" that Biff Byford extends playfully playing with the audience, it ends on the album with a strange and poorly done splice (the only one on this double LP) with " And The Bands Played On" with which you can see that Saxon leaves the stage and the people call them, singing a curious Oooooooooeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeee

until they return to the stage in what is Episode IV or Side D of the album that begins with a guitar solo by Graham Oliver that alternates homegrown solos with riffs from Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Wáter", the " Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, "Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison, Purple Haze by Jimmy Hendrix (indisputable idol of Graham Oliver) and after it a guitar solo that ends with "Riff Raff" by AC/DC, they continue with " Wheels Of Steel" and "Denim And Leather" where Biff and the audience play and sing again, to end with "Heavy Metal Thunder" making a Medley interspersing part of "Stand Up And Becaunted" and "Warrior" ending again with Heavy Metal Thunder.
This version of Heavy Metal Thunder with this Medley plus a piece of "Taking Your Chances" would be included on the B side of the Maxisingle of "Rock And Gypsies" of what would be their next album "Innocence Is No Excuse" (1985), for me one of the most precious and complete of the Saxon era after the closing of their previous stage with the live The Eagle Has Landed in 1982 and the "Americanization" of their sound.
But that's another story....
In recent years some old bottlegs "Never Surrender", "Donington Park 1980" or the very interesting "Stand Up And Rock" have been released on vinyl with demos and unreleased ones never released on vinyl, we will see what else the bottleg world brings us in the universe Saxon, who have hit it again with their latest studio album "Hell, Fire And Damnation" (2024).
NEVER SURRENDER!!!!!
Last Wednesday 2/28 I published a photo of me on the couch at home with our Yorkshire dog "Nina" in one arm and Saxon's pirated album "Heavy Metal Thunder" recorded on 2/28/84 (hence my little post tribute to the anniversary, since at that moment just 40 years ago that concert was being held) in Nimegen (Holland) during the successful World Tour Crusader '84.
The truth is that I rested on my laurels, because for that night I wanted to have this post prepared and publish it at that moment, but well, plans fail and change...
I consider as a collector fan that I am one of them that within the pirate or bottleg discography of Saxon the records and be careful!!!... always talking about bottlegs released in real time on vinyl and ignoring the pirates on CD or later current editions of old concerts on vinyl due to the rise of both Saxon's present career and the rise of vinyl as a format.
The most representative are, "Strong Arm Of The Law" recorded on 12/19/81 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London because it is historic, since it was the first pirated album in the history of Saxon, taken from the concert's sound board. with the purpose of promoting the tour that they would begin shortly after in Japan in '81.
And this "Heavy Metal Thunder" for the popularity it acquired as a double album released by the UFO record label at the peak of the band's commercial career with a somewhat epic cover reminiscent of Richard Corben's illustrations.
Evidently at the time there were other legendary bottlegs such as the "Redline" from the Power And The Glory Tour '83 or the "Princess Of The Night" from The Eagle Has Landed Tour '82, this one currently released in 2020 by Cult Legends Recordings with the photo Black and white cover of a sexy girl with a guitar on her shoulders.
I remember seeing this pirated album as a young teenager in the early 80s in the historic "Papermusik" store on Riera Baixa street in Barcelona, ​​which had the identical black cover with red letters and the silver eagle logo of The Eagle Has Landed, but it said with the same gothic lyrics Princess Of The Night.
Of course, at that time I didn't have the money to buy it and I had to be very very selective with the little money I had to buy my first Metal cassettes and magazines, which is why now the edition I have of that album is the 2020 one. but there are always surprises in collecting, for example a couple of years ago I got the first edition of The Eagle Has Landed (1982) German, in which the Eagle in the logo looks to the left, it will be a freak, yes, but only It has the first German edition from '82 so it was a goal to achieve.
This brings me to the album that occupies this post, "Heavy Metal Thunder", an album that I got second-hand of course, this past January after so many years after it, because I remembered seeing it in the tourist stands at the fairs of the Jordi Tardà's record at always high prices back then and now I have gotten it at a very good price having bought it from an individual in Terrassa (Barcelona) picking it up myself, according to what the owner's son told me that the record had been in the back for years from a closet... to give you an idea at the time I write this post, for example, there are three editions of this album for sale on Discogs that range between €75 and €150 but with expensive shipping costs since two of them are in Australia, although I see that in the "Cd And Lp" store you can buy a German copy for €43 with shipping costs included, good price if anyone is interested, I'll leave it there...
I particularly do not recommend pirated albums unless you are a die-hard fan of the band and want to consider other aspects of the more "Raw" recording.
For my taste, this one offers some curiosity that others like Princess Of The Night '82 and some others do not offer, so I will comment on it a little... how cool to highlight some graphic errors in titles 1, 5, 9, 11, 13 and song 14, which I was freaking out thinking would be an unreleased song because it was called "Never See No" and in reality it is "And The Bands Played On", I have no idea what the other name comes from.
Let's go with the audio, for my taste it is fine, maintaining that particular echo that the pavilions have, giving that sensation of "raw" sound, perhaps to highlight the worst thing is the sound of the drums, but it is quite acceptable, since we are talking about bottlegs !!!.
Instead of sides A, B, C, D (Side A, B, C, D) it is divided into Episode I, ll, lll and IV, very medieval like Crusader.
After a spoken intro, comes the musical intro from none other than "The Hellion" by their beloved Judas Priest and they begin with "Power And The Glory" followed by "Princess Of The Night" and "Dallas 1 P.M." with the recording of the speakers at the time of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, there have been Tours in which they did not have recording effects, although that was at the lowest moments of his career, nothing that had much influence on his live shows, but it is cooler let them take them.

It is followed by "Just Let Me Rock", the first song from Crusader, the album they promoted at that concert, and they continue with "Never Surrender", to return with the title track "Crusader", but without the intro "The Crusader Prelude" after she comes "Strong Arm Of The Law" and they return to the album Crusader with the single and most commercial song of the album "Sailing To América" ​​and they already return to their previous album Power And The Glory with "This Town Knows How To Rock" in which Biff plays with the audience, and then Nigel Glockler continues playing with the audience by making him participate in his drum solo, they continue with "The Eagle Has Landed" and "747 (Strangers In The Night)" with the recording effect of the plane and the audience chanting the chorus at will.
And the surprise of the album comes for me with "A Little Bit Of What You Fancy" that Biff Byford extends playfully playing with the audience, it ends on the album with a strange and poorly done splice (the only one on this double LP) with " And The Bands Played On" with which you can see that Saxon leaves the stage and the people call them, singing a curious Oooooooooeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeee

Last Wednesday 2/28 I published a photo of me on the couch at home with our Yorkshire dog "Nina" in one arm and Saxon's pirated album "Heavy Metal Thunder" recorded on 2/28/84 (hence my little post tribute to the anniversary, since at that moment just 40 years ago that concert was being held) in Nimegen (Holland) during the successful World Tour Crusader '84.
The truth is that I rested on my laurels, because for that night I wanted to have this post prepared and publish it at that moment, but well, plans fail and change...
I consider as a collector fan that I am one of them that within the pirate or bottleg discography of Saxon the records and be careful!!!... always talking about bottlegs released in real time on vinyl and ignoring the pirates on CD or later current editions of old concerts on vinyl due to the rise of both Saxon's present career and the rise of vinyl as a format.
The most representative are, "Strong Arm Of The Law" recorded on 12/19/81 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London because it is historic, since it was the first pirated album in the history of Saxon, taken from the concert's sound board. with the purpose of promoting the tour that they would begin shortly after in Japan in '81.
And this "Heavy Metal Thunder" for the popularity it acquired as a double album released by the UFO record label at the peak of the band's commercial career with a somewhat epic cover reminiscent of Richard Corben's illustrations.
Evidently at the time there were other legendary bottlegs such as the "Redline" from the Power And The Glory Tour '83 or the "Princess Of The Night" from The Eagle Has Landed Tour '82, this one currently released in 2020 by Cult Legends Recordings with the photo Black and white cover of a sexy girl with a guitar on her shoulders.
I remember seeing this pirated album as a young teenager in the early 80s in the historic "Papermusik" store on Riera Baixa street in Barcelona, ​​which had the identical black cover with red letters and the silver eagle logo of The Eagle Has Landed, but it said with the same gothic lyrics Princess Of The Night.
Of course, at that time I didn't have the money to buy it and I had to be very very selective with the little money I had to buy my first Metal cassettes and magazines, which is why now the edition I have of that album is the 2020 one. but there are always surprises in collecting, for example a couple of years ago I got the first edition of The Eagle Has Landed (1982) German, in which the Eagle in the logo looks to the left, it will be a freak, yes, but only It has the first German edition from '82 so it was a goal to achieve.
This brings me to the album that occupies this post, "Heavy Metal Thunder", an album that I got second-hand of course, this past January after so many years after it, because I remembered seeing it in the tourist stands at the fairs of the Jordi Tardà's record at always high prices back then and now I have gotten it at a very good price having bought it from an individual in Terrassa (Barcelona) picking it up myself, according to what the owner's son told me that the record had been in the back for years from a closet... to give you an idea at the time I write this post, for example, there are three editions of this album for sale on Discogs that range between €75 and €150 but with expensive shipping costs since two of them are in Australia, although I see that in the "Cd And Lp" store you can buy a German copy for €43 with shipping costs included, good price if anyone is interested, I'll leave it there...
I particularly do not recommend pirated albums unless you are a die-hard fan of the band and want to consider other aspects of the more "Raw" recording.
For my taste, this one offers some curiosity that others like Princess Of The Night '82 and some others do not offer, so I will comment on it a little... how cool to highlight some graphic errors in titles 1, 5, 9, 11, 13 and song 14, which I was freaking out thinking would be an unreleased song because it was called "Never See No" and in reality it is "And The Bands Played On", I have no idea what the other name comes from.
Let's go with the audio, for my taste it is fine, maintaining that particular echo that the pavilions have, giving that sensation of "raw" sound, perhaps to highlight the worst thing is the sound of the drums, but it is quite acceptable, since we are talking about bottlegs !!!.
Instead of sides A, B, C, D (Side A, B, C, D) it is divided into Episode I, ll, lll and IV, very medieval like Crusader.
After a spoken intro, comes the musical intro from none other than "The Hellion" by their beloved Judas Priest and they begin with "Power And The Glory" followed by "Princess Of The Night" and "Dallas 1 P.M." with the recording of the speakers at the time of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, there have been Tours in which they did not have recording effects, although that was at the lowest moments of his career, nothing that had much influence on his live shows, but it is cooler let them take them.

It is followed by "Just Let Me Rock", the first song from Crusader, the album they promoted at that concert, and they continue with "Never Surrender", to return with the title track "Crusader", but without the intro "The Crusader Prelude" after she comes "Strong Arm Of The Law" and they return to the album Crusader with the single and most commercial song of the album "Sailing To América" ​​and they already return to their previous album Power And The Glory with "This Town Knows How To Rock" in which Biff plays with the audience, and then Nigel Glockler continues playing with the audience by making him participate in his drum solo, they continue with "The Eagle Has Landed" and "747 (Strangers In The Night)" with the recording effect of the plane and the audience chanting the chorus at will.
And the surprise of the album comes for me with "A Little Bit Of What You Fancy" that Biff Byford extends playfully playing with the audience, it ends on the album with a strange and poorly done splice (the only one on this double LP) with " And The Bands Played On" with which you can see that Saxon leaves the stage and the people call them, singing a curious Oooooooooeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeee

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Last Wednesday 2/28 I published a photo of me on the couch at home with our Yorkshire dog "Nina" in one arm and Saxon's pirated album "Heavy Metal Thunder" recorded on 2/28/84 (hence my little post tribute to the anniversary, since at that moment just 40 years ago that concert was being held) in Nimegen (Holland) during the successful World Tour Crusader '84.
The truth is that I rested on my laurels, because for that night I wanted to have this post prepared and publish it at that moment, but well, plans fail and change...
I consider as a collector fan that I am one of them that within the pirate or bottleg discography of Saxon the records and be careful!!!... always talking about bottlegs released in real time on vinyl and ignoring the pirates on CD or later current editions of old concerts on vinyl due to the rise of both Saxon's present career and the rise of vinyl as a format.
The most representative are, "Strong Arm Of The Law" recorded on 12/19/81 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London because it is historic, since it was the first pirated album in the history of Saxon, taken from the concert's sound board. with the purpose of promoting the tour that they would begin shortly after in Japan in '81.
And this "Heavy Metal Thunder" for the popularity it acquired as a double album released by the UFO record label at the peak of the band's commercial career with a somewhat epic cover reminiscent of Richard Corben's illustrations.
Evidently at the time there were other legendary bottlegs such as the "Redline" from the Power And The Glory Tour '83 or the "Princess Of The Night" from The Eagle Has Landed Tour '82, this one currently released in 2020 by Cult Legends Recordings with the photo Black and white cover of a sexy girl with a guitar on her shoulders.
I remember seeing this pirated album as a young teenager in the early 80s in the historic "Papermusik" store on Riera Baixa street in Barcelona, ​​which had the identical black cover with red letters and the silver eagle logo of The Eagle Has Landed, but it said with the same gothic lyrics Princess Of The Night.
Of course, at that time I didn't have the money to buy it and I had to be very very selective with the little money I had to buy my first Metal cassettes and magazines, which is why now the edition I have of that album is the 2020 one. but there are always surprises in collecting, for example a couple of years ago I got the first edition of The Eagle Has Landed (1982) German, in which the Eagle in the logo looks to the left, it will be a freak, yes, but only It has the first German edition from '82 so it was a goal to achieve.
This brings me to the album that occupies this post, "Heavy Metal Thunder", an album that I got second-hand of course, this past January after so many years after it, because I remembered seeing it in the tourist stands at the fairs of the Jordi Tardà's record at always high prices back then and now I have gotten it at a very good price having bought it from an individual in Terrassa (Barcelona) picking it up myself, according to what the owner's son told me that the record had been in the back for years from a closet... to give you an idea at the time I write this post, for example, there are three editions of this album for sale on Discogs that range between €75 and €150 but with expensive shipping costs since two of them are in Australia, although I see that in the "Cd And Lp" store you can buy a German copy for €43 with shipping costs included, good price if anyone is interested, I'll leave it there...
I particularly do not recommend pirated albums unless you are a die-hard fan of the band and want to consider other aspects of the more "Raw" recording.
For my taste, this one offers some curiosity that others like Princess Of The Night '82 and some others do not offer, so I will comment on it a little... how cool to highlight some graphic errors in titles 1, 5, 9, 11, 13 and song 14, which I was freaking out thinking would be an unreleased song because it was called "Never See No" and in reality it is "And The Bands Played On", I have no idea what the other name comes from.
Let's go with the audio, for my taste it is fine, maintaining that particular echo that the pavilions have, giving that sensation of "raw" sound, perhaps to highlight the worst thing is the sound of the drums, but it is quite acceptable, since we are talking about bottlegs !!!.
Instead of sides A, B, C, D (Side A, B, C, D) it is divided into Episode I, ll, lll and IV, very medieval like Crusader.
After a spoken intro, comes the musical intro from none other than "The Hellion" by their beloved Judas Priest and they begin with "Power And The Glory" followed by "Princess Of The Night" and "Dallas 1 P.M." with the recording of the speakers at the time of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, there have been Tours in which they did not have recording effects, although that was at the lowest moments of his career, nothing that had much influence on his live shows, but it is cooler let them take them.

It is followed by "Just Let Me Rock", the first song from Crusader, the album they promoted at that concert, and they continue with "Never Surrender", to return with the title track "Crusader", but without the intro "The Crusader Prelude" after she comes "Strong Arm Of The Law" and they return to the album Crusader with the single and most commercial song of the album "Sailing To América" ​​and they already return to their previous album Power And The Glory with "This Town Knows How To Rock" in which Biff plays with the audience, and then Nigel Glockler continues playing with the audience by making him participate in his drum solo, they continue with "The Eagle Has Landed" and "747 (Strangers In The Night)" with the recording effect of the plane and the audience chanting the chorus at will.
And the surprise of the album comes for me with "A Little Bit Of What You Fancy" that Biff Byford extends playfully playing with the audience, it ends on the album with a strange and poorly done splice (the only one on this double LP) with " And The Bands Played On" with which you can see that Saxon leaves the stage and the people call them, singing a curious Oooooooooeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeee

Last Wednesday 2/28 I published a photo of me on the couch at home with our Yorkshire dog "Nina" in
ENG:Last Wednesday 2/28 I published a photo of me on the couch at home with our Yorkshire dog "Nina" in one arm and Saxon's pirated album "Heavy Metal Thunder" recorded on 2/28/84 (hence my little post tribute to the anniversary, since at that moment just 40 years ago that concert was being held) in Nimegen (Holland) during the successful World Tour Crusader '84.
The truth is that I rested on my laurels, because for that night I wanted to have this post prepared and publish it at that moment, but well, plans fail and change...
I consider as a collector fan that I am one of them that within the pirate or bottleg discography of Saxon the records and be careful!!!... always talking about bottlegs released in real time on vinyl and ignoring the pirates on CD or later current editions of old concerts on vinyl due to the rise of both Saxon's present career and the rise of vinyl as a format.
The most representative are, "Strong Arm Of The Law" recorded on 12/19/81 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London because it is historic, since it was the first pirated album in the history of Saxon, taken from the concert's sound board. with the purpose of promoting the tour that they would begin shortly after in Japan in '81.
And this "Heavy Metal Thunder" for the popularity it acquired as a double album released by the UFO record label at the peak of the band's commercial career with a somewhat epic cover reminiscent of Richard Corben's illustrations.
Evidently at the time there were other legendary bottlegs such as the "Redline" from the Power And The Glory Tour '83 or the "Princess Of The Night" from The Eagle Has Landed Tour '82, this one currently released in 2020 by Cult Legends Recordings with the photo Black and white cover of a sexy girl with a guitar on her shoulders.
I remember seeing this pirated album as a young teenager in the early 80s in the historic "Papermusik" store on Riera Baixa street in Barcelona, ​​which had the identical black cover with red letters and the silver eagle logo of The Eagle Has Landed, but it said with the same gothic lyrics Princess Of The Night.
Of course, at that time I didn't have the money to buy it and I had to be very very selective with the little money I had to buy my first Metal cassettes and magazines, which is why now the edition I have of that album is the 2020 one. but there are always surprises in collecting, for example a couple of years ago I got the first edition of The Eagle Has Landed (1982) German, in which the Eagle in the logo looks to the left, it will be a freak, yes, but only It has the first German edition from '82 so it was a goal to achieve.
This brings me to the album that occupies this post, "Heavy Metal Thunder", an album that I got second-hand of course, this past January after so many years after it, because I remembered seeing it in the tourist stands at the fairs of the Jordi Tardà's record at always high prices back then and now I have gotten it at a very good price having bought it from an individual in Terrassa (Barcelona) picking it up myself, according to what the owner's son told me that the record had been in the back for years from a closet... to give you an idea at the time I write this post, for example, there are three editions of this album for sale on Discogs that range between €75 and €150 but with expensive shipping costs since two of them are in Australia, although I see that in the "Cd And Lp" store you can buy a German copy for €43 with shipping costs included, good price if anyone is interested, I'll leave it there...
I particularly do not recommend pirated albums unless you are a die-hard fan of the band and want to consider other aspects of the more "Raw" recording.
For my taste, this one offers some curiosity that others like Princess Of The Night '82 and some others do not offer, so I will comment on it a little... how cool to highlight some graphic errors in titles 1, 5, 9, 11, 13 and song 14, which I was freaking out thinking would be an unreleased song because it was called "Never See No" and in reality it is "And The Bands Played On", I have no idea what the other name comes from.
Let's go with the audio, for my taste it is fine, maintaining that particular echo that the pavilions have, giving that sensation of "raw" sound, perhaps to highlight the worst thing is the sound of the drums, but it is quite acceptable, since we are talking about bottlegs !!!.
Instead of sides A, B, C, D (Side A, B, C, D) it is divided into Episode I, ll, lll and IV, very medieval like Crusader.
After a spoken intro, comes the musical intro from none other than "The Hellion" by their beloved Judas Priest and they begin with "Power And The Glory" followed by "Princess Of The Night" and "Dallas 1 P.M." with the recording of the speakers at the time of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, there have been Tours in which they did not have recording effects, although that was at the lowest moments of his career, nothing that had much influence on his live shows, but it is cooler let them take them.

It is followed by "Just Let Me Rock", the first song from Crusader, the album they promoted at that concert, and they continue with "Never Surrender", to return with the title track "Crusader", but without the intro "The Crusader Prelude" after she comes "Strong Arm Of The Law" and they return to the album Crusader with the single and most commercial song of the album "Sailing To América" ​​and they already return to their previous album Power And The Glory with "This Town Knows How To Rock" in which Biff plays with the audience, and then Nigel Glockler continues playing with the audience by making him participate in his drum solo, they continue with "The Eagle Has Landed" and "747 (Strangers In The Night)" with the recording effect of the plane and the audience chanting the chorus at will.
And the surprise of the album comes for me with "A Little Bit Of What You Fancy" that Biff Byford extends playfully playing with the audience, it ends on the album with a strange and poorly done splice (the only one on this double LP) with " And The Bands Played On" with which you can see that Saxon leaves the stage and the people call them, singing a curious Oooooooooeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeee





I consider as a collector fan that I am one of them that within the pirate or bottleg discography of Saxon the records and be careful!!!... always talking about bottlegs released in real time on vinyl and ignoring the pirates on CD or later current editions of old concerts on vinyl due to the rise of both Saxon's present career and the rise of vinyl as a format.
The most representative are, "Strong Arm Of The Law" recorded on 12/19/81 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London because it is historic, since it was the first pirated album in the history of Saxon, taken from the concert's sound board. with the purpose of promoting the tour that they would begin shortly after in Japan in '81.
And this "Heavy Metal Thunder" for the popularity it acquired as a double album released by the UFO record label at the peak of the band's commercial career with a somewhat epic cover reminiscent of Richard Corben's illustrations.
Evidently at the time there were other legendary bottlegs such as the "Redline" from the Power And The Glory Tour '83 or the "Princess Of The Night" from The Eagle Has Landed Tour '82, this one currently released in 2020 by Cult Legends Recordings with the photo Black and white cover of a sexy girl with a guitar on her shoulders.
I remember seeing this pirated album as a young teenager in the early 80s in the historic "Papermusik" store on Riera Baixa street in Barcelona, ​​which had the identical black cover with red letters and the silver eagle logo of The Eagle Has Landed, but it said with the same gothic lyrics Princess Of The Night.
Of course, at that time I didn't have the money to buy it and I had to be very very selective with the little money I had to buy my first Metal cassettes and magazines, which is why now the edition I have of that album is the 2020 one. but there are always surprises in collecting, for example a couple of years ago I got the first edition of The Eagle Has Landed (1982) German, in which the Eagle in the logo looks to the left, it will be a freak, yes, but only It has the first German edition from '82 so it was a goal to achieve.
This brings me to the album that occupies this post, "Heavy Metal Thunder", an album that I got second-hand of course, this past January after so many years after it, because I remembered seeing it in the tourist stands at the fairs of the Jordi Tardà's record at always high prices back then and now I have gotten it at a very good price having bought it from an individual in Terrassa (Barcelona) picking it up myself, according to what the owner's son told me that the record had been in the back for years from a closet... to give you an idea at the time I write this post, for example, there are three editions of this album for sale on Discogs that range between €75 and €150 but with expensive shipping costs since two of them are in Australia, although I see that in the "Cd And Lp" store you can buy a German copy for €43 with shipping costs included, good price if anyone is interested, I'll leave it there...
I particularly do not recommend pirated albums unless you are a die-hard fan of the band and want to consider other aspects of the more "Raw" recording.
For my taste, this one offers some curiosity that others like Princess Of The Night '82 and some others do not offer, so I will comment on it a little... how cool to highlight some graphic errors in titles 1, 5, 9, 11, 13 and song 14, which I was freaking out thinking would be an unreleased song because it was called "Never See No" and in reality it is "And The Bands Played On", I have no idea what the other name comes from.
Let's go with the audio, for my taste it is fine, maintaining that particular echo that the pavilions have, giving that sensation of "raw" sound, perhaps to highlight the worst thing is the sound of the drums, but it is quite acceptable, since we are talking about bottlegs !!!.
Instead of sides A, B, C, D (Side A, B, C, D) it is divided into Episode I, ll, lll and IV, very medieval like Crusader.
After a spoken intro, comes the musical intro from none other than "The Hellion" by their beloved Judas Priest and they begin with "Power And The Glory" followed by "Princess Of The Night" and "Dallas 1 P.M." with the recording of the speakers at the time of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, there have been Tours in which they did not have recording effects, although that was at the lowest moments of his career, nothing that had much influence on his live shows, but it is cooler let them take them.

It is followed by "Just Let Me Rock", the first song from Crusader, the album they promoted at that concert, and they continue with "Never Surrender", to return with the title track "Crusader", but without the intro "The Crusader Prelude" after she comes "Strong Arm Of The Law" and they return to the album Crusader with the single and most commercial song of the album "Sailing To América" ​​and they already return to their previous album Power And The Glory with "This Town Knows How To Rock" in which Biff plays with the audience, and then Nigel Glockler continues playing with the audience by making him participate in his drum solo, they continue with "The Eagle Has Landed" and "747 (Strangers In The Night)" with the recording effect of the plane and the audience chanting the chorus at will.
And the surprise of the album comes for me with "A Little Bit Of What You Fancy" that Biff Byford extends playfully playing with the audience, it ends on the album with a strange and poorly done splice (the only one on this double LP) with " And The Bands Played On" with which you can see that Saxon leaves the stage and the people call them, singing a curious Oooooooooeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeeeee oooooooooeeeeeeee


Wednesday, February 14, 2024

THE RODS - RATTLE THE CAGE


 The Rods es una banda con una historia que se remonta a principios de los años 80 y aún así su discografía no es demasiado larga. El álbum debut 'Rock Hard' se presentó en 1980 y algunos lanzamientos adicionales ayudaron a establecer la banda antes de que la primera era de The Rods llegara a su fin en 1987.


Fue en 2010 cuando la banda encontró nuevos puntos en común y entró en una nueva fase. 'Vengeance' fue el primer lanzamiento después de la reunión de la banda y 'Rattle the Cage' es el título de su nuevo esfuerzo.


Impulsada por los miembros fundadores desde el principio, David 'Rock' Feinstein y Carl Canedy, la banda lanza un álbum que suena poderoso y fuerte. Con Freddy Villano en la base, el trío también encontró un bajista que les dio los latidos en 2020 y después de haber sido parte de algunos lanzamientos de sencillos, el nuevo bajista es el primero que muestra su talento.


'Rattle the Cage' presenta heavy metal tradicional y no creo que nadie esperara algo diferente. Lo bueno es que, en este contexto, esa vieja escuela no significa anticuada. The Rods suenan pesados ​​y muy dinámicos en su último lanzamiento, lo que tiene que ver con la producción muy sólida pero también con la versatilidad reflejada en las canciones.


Está la canción principal con una vibrante vibra de rock'n'roll junto al místico y contundente 'Cry Out Loud'. Este último recuerda a Ronnie James Dio, el primo de Feinstein, pero también están incrustados algunos de los momentos himno de Manowar.


'Can't Slow Down' también tiene su momento Dio antes de entrar a las 'Metal Highways' a toda velocidad. Sin frenos y con el pedal a fondo, así es como se acerca la rápida pista de metal. Un solo de batería inicia 'Shockwave', que es otra pista de metal acelerada antes de que el rápido latido de 'hearts of Steel' presagie el capítulo final de este disco.


The Rods lanzan con ‘Rattle the Cage’ un magnífico álbum de heavy metal que pertenece a los mejores que ha lanzado la banda hasta la fecha. Estas diez canciones son un deleite para los headbangers y cuya impronta musical ocurrió en los años 80 se divertirán escuchando este ataque de riffs.


Friday, December 8, 2023

KISS - END OF THE ROAD (1973/2023) Review by David Kiss


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Bueno he tardado unos dias en digerir la despedida de mi grupo total desde el año 80/81 Kiss, 43 años de devoción , alegrias, tristezas, muertes, engaños y desengaños.

Excepto mis padres y mi amigo Alfredo nadie ha pasado tantos años tan cerca de mí, ni mujeres, novias, hijos, etc..: ( no confundir con amor). Un sabor agridulce a traves de mi kisstory personal y que voy a contar reducida, en lo que son para mí los momentos precisos y marcados, posiblemente se me olvidará algunos , pero eso daria para posiblemente para un libro…

Estaba en primero de Bup y mi amigo de clase ( Alfredo) me dijo que se vendía un disco de Kiss, le dije que se lo compraba  foto1 Dynasty, aunque yo venía influenciado por el rock and roll, la musica disco de finales de los 70 , s estaba muy presente en mi niñez y preadolescencia, ver esa portada con las 4 caras  maquilladas y escuchas I was made for… fué mi himno durante mucho tiempo ( y sigue estando aun muy prsente a dia de hoy).

A las pocas semanas apareció en la papeleria al lado del insti una revista( foto 2) esta es la vida Kiss, un compañero se adelantó y lo compró, lo solicité en un kiosko de mi barrio y tardaron dos semanas en traermelo, las pegatinas de dicha revista forraron mi carpeta de ese año, cada noche antes de acostarme me leía la revista, ni mates , ni lenguaje, ni deberes  ni ná😂, mediodia i was made y noche esta es la vida, me aprendi los nombres de los componentes, y soñaba en verlos en concierto, no se porque mi obsesion en mi mente era verlos en madison square garden de nueva york, quizas porque se formaron alli, vivian alli, como adolescente los imaginaba viendolos alli.



Mi primer pirata (foto3) sneak attack, ver ese disco colgado en edisons no podia faltar en mi pobre coleccion,seguido de mi primer single español (foto 4)  Shock me español del diaco Alive 2 por 150 pesetas en Helter Skelter.




Año 83 anuncian concierto en Barcelona (foto)5, no me lo podia creer, por fin podría verlos en directo, (foto 6), por fin les vería las caras, aunque ya los habia visto en alguna foto de la revista bravo fué un shock , aunque me dió igual el maquillaje, creo que solo los habia visto en el programa de navidad en el programa Tocata y el videoclip i love it loud, con lick it up ya apareció su videoclip, pero ese concierto fue apoteósico.





Foto 18 viaje a donington 1988 record de venta de entradas , desde las 10 de la mañana en primera fila, varios muertos, guerra de botellas, yo creí que moriria en acto de servicio sin ver a kiss🥲😅😂5 años sin verlos, cuando salieron mi ojos se inhundaron de lagrimas crazy nigthts, mi fanatismo habia aumentado  en grandes dosis, vivir en los 80,s siendo fan de kiss fué durisimo, los moñas maquillados, haciendo musica disco, pop , etc (foto7) still on fire ese libro me enseñó piratas , singles que no habia visto en mi vida y que con el tiempo llegaron a mi coleccion privada.



(Foto 8 la muerte de Eric Carr, el mismo dia que murió freddy Mercury, una pequeña esquela en El periodico me hizo llorar muchisimo, lo vi tres veces en concierto, me caia muy bien y completé el ciclo comprandome el disco de oro personalpor las ventas  de hot in the shade a su hermana, le comuniqué personalmente mi emoción de tener ese disco , ya que el dia de su muerte toda la mañana escuché ese disco vuelta y vuelta sin poder parar de llorar.



Foto 17 gira de kiss en inglaterra me voy a cardiff año 92 , caminandopor sus calles vi una cola enorme  estaban kiss firmando y se iban, entre como pude y todo lleno de ingleses mas altos del copon, grite Paul from barcelona, ohh yeah vino hacia a mi me cogio el disco Revenge y me lo firmó encima de la firma de bruce, 😅😅🙂🙂todo el mundo viendo el gol de koeman ganando la primera copa de europa yo viendo a kiss y casi matandome por coger la guitarra que rompió en dicho concierto, con 3 tios mas grandes que yo , no me la arrancaron , un roadie saltó para separara y hecho una moneda al aier, no se que habia pedido el otro individuo, pero mire la moneda vi su cara , cogi la guitarra  y piernas para que os quiero😂😂😂, me escondi detras de unas gradas y vi como los tres pavos me buscaban, un seguridad del local vio todo me abrio la puerta de emergencia y sali corriendo, a los 30 metros de la carrera me cogen dos tios y me enseñan la placa de policia ( eran secretas)😂😂me hicieron levantar la camiseta para ver que llevaba escondido .. the guitar de Paul stanley! Chillé yo, me dejaron ir, llegue al hotel temblando, camiseta rota, arrañazos, sangre por toda mi parte superior de mi cuerpo…



Foto 12, kiss anuncian reunion año 96, boom me explota todo, sin internet , tenia que ir a un cyber, no pude conseguir entradas, me conectaba una vez a la semana, sacaban entradas a la venta de la gira amaericana, pero  que buscaba yo? … cumplir mi sueño Madison Square Garden, 4 originales  , sold out esas dos noches , no podia creermelo cada semana conectandome , entradas en todos los conciertos y sold out en NY, me dio igual viajé con dias de antelacion y 4 noches seguidas pudé cumplir ese sueño de adolescente en mi diminuta habitacion leyendo esta es la vida Kiss, donald trump a mi lado, skid row, anthrax, shannon, nick, gene, Ace, a todos los vi en persona en el hotel donde se ospedaba kiss. En la foto 12 es el poster oficial de la gira con las 4 entradas enmarcadas de esos conciertos en NY.



Foto 9,10,11, 13 kiss en Barcelona, me comi esa gira entera madrid, zaragoza y evidentemente barcelona, 5 dias se quedaron en la ciudad condal,  persegui a Gene en su limousine, y me quede a solas con él, me temblaba todo y no articulaba palabra, le explique que el año anterior habia ido a verlos 4 noches en Ny, preguntandome de donde era , alucino que fuese de barcelona, me invito  al concierto, firmandome mi tattoo del rock & roll over, el mismo que sale en el dvd nsecond coming, Paul y Peter tambien me firmaron el brazo, tengo un hueco esperando que Ace plasme la unica que me que me falta👏





Gene invitado en Barcelona (foto 14) , con mi koala jon lo maquillo y disfrazo como Demon, oigo un murmullo veo a mi hijo girarse y es Gene cogiendolo del hombro y presentandose , no me lo podia creer, lo llevaron al photocall y Gene and jon aparecieron en un monton de periodicos.



 
Otro sueño de chaval (foto14,15) era tener una foto con ellos maquillados, nunca quisé pagar un meet & greet, tanto de moda en estos ultimos años, siempre creí que ya daba bastante dinero como fan ( discos, revistas, merchandise, conciertos) pero se apareció la virgen en forma de socio de Gene y me prometió esa foto con ellos si venian a barcelona, no me lo creí, pero el tío cumplio con creces en Barcelona y al dia siguiente en Madrid, cuando acabe de hacerme la foto me lo encontré en los pasillos me abraze a el y no pare de llorar, pense que nunca llegaria a conseguirlo, pero ese sueño lo consegui.y por dos veces!!🤟🏻🤣🤣.




Foto 16 despedida Rock fest, aparecieron ycuando sonó I was made for loving you, saltaron las lagrimas, me di cuenta que nunca mas volveria a escuchar esa cancion en directo y sucedieron unos temas mas que brotaron mas  lagrimas.



Les di las gracias por formar parte de mi adolescencia, de mi vida y de ser parte de mi familia, 37 conciertos en unas cuantas etapas y formaciones diferentes, los fans de la vieja etapa saben de lo que hablo y de los fans de boquilla que no saben que i was made es su cancion mas popular a nivel mundial.

En su historia yo puedo chillar I WAS THERE!

Gracias por hacerme feliz en muchos momentos de mi vida.

DAVID KISS


ENG:

Well, it took me a few days to digest the farewell to my entire group since 80/81 Kiss, 43 years of devotion, joys, sadness, deaths, deceptions and disappointments.

Except for my parents and my friend Alfredo, no one has spent so many years so close to me, not women, girlfriends, children, etc.: (not to be confused with love). A bittersweet taste through my personal kiss story that I am going to tell in a reduced way, in what are for me the precise and marked moments, possibly I will forget some, but that would possibly be for a book...

I was in the first year of Bup and my class friend (Alfredo) told me that a Kiss album was for sale, I told him that I would buy it photo1 Dynasty, although I was influenced by rock and roll, the disco music of the late 70s , yes it was very present in my childhood and pre-adolescence, seeing that cover with the 4 faces made up and listening to I was made for… was my anthem for a long time (and is still very present today).

A few weeks later a magazine appeared in the stationery store next to the school (photo 2) This is the Kiss life, a classmate went ahead and bought it, I requested it at a kiosk in my neighborhood and it took them two weeks to bring it to me, the stickers This magazine covered my folder that year, every night before going to bed I read the magazine, no math, no language, no homework, no nothing😂, noon I was done and night this is life, I learned the names of the components, and I dreamed of seeing them in concert, I don't know why my obsession in my mind was to see them in Madison Square Garden in New York, perhaps because they were formed there, they lived there, as a teenager I imagined seeing them there.Mi primer pirata (foto3) sneak attack, seeing that album hanging in Edisons could not be missing from my poor collection, followed by my first Spanish single (photo 4) Shock me Spanish from Diaco Alive 2 for 150 pesetas in Helter Skelter.

Year 83 they announced a concert in Barcelona (photo)5, I couldn't believe it, I could finally see them live, (photo 6), I would finally see their faces, although I had already seen them in a photo in Bravo magazine, it was a Shock, although I didn't care about the makeup, I think I had only seen them in the Christmas program on the Tocata program and the video clip I Love It Loud, with Lick It Up their video clip already appeared, but that concert was amazing.

Photo 18 trip to Donington 1988 record ticket sales, from 10 in the morning in the front row, several dead, bottle fight, I thought I would die in the line of duty without seeing Kiss  😅😂5 years without seeing them, when My eyes came out and were filled with tears, crazy nights, my fanaticism had increased in large doses, living in the 80s, being a fan of Kiss was very hard, the moñas wearing makeup, making disco music, pop, etc (photo7) still on fire that book He showed me pirates, singles that I had never seen in my life and that eventually found their way into my private collection.(Photo 8 the death of Eric Carr, the same day that Freddy Mercury died, a small obituary in the newspaper made me cry a lot, I saw him three times in concert, I liked him very much and I completed the cycle by buying my personal gold record. sales of Hot in the Shade to his sister, I personally communicated my excitement at having that album, since on the day of his death I listened to that album over and over all morning without being able to stop crying.

Photo 17 Kiss tour in England I'm going to Cardiff in 92, walking through its streets I saw a huge queue, they were signing Kiss and they were leaving, I went in as best I could and everything was full of the tallest English people in the world, I shouted Paul from Barcelona, ​​ohh yeah he came towards He took my Revenge album and signed it over Bruce's signature, 😅😅🙂🙂 everyone watching Koeman's goal winning the first European Cup me watching Kiss and almost killing myself to pick up the guitar that he broke in That concert, with 3 guys bigger than me, they didn't take it from me, a roadie jumped to separate it and flipped a coin, I don't know what the other guy had asked for, but I looked at the coin I saw its face, I picked up the guitar and legs Because I love you😂😂😂, I hid behind some steps and I saw how the three turkeys were looking for me, a local security saw everything, opened the emergency door and I ran out, 30 meters into the race two guys caught me and they showed me my police badge (they were secret)😂😂they made me lift my shirt to see what I was hiding... Paul Stanley's guitar! I screamed, they let me go, I arrived at the hotel shaking, torn shirt, scratches, blood all over my upper part of my body...Photo 12, kiss announce reunion in 96, boom everything explodes for me, without internet, I had to go to a cyber, I couldn't get tickets, I connected once a week, they put tickets on sale for the American tour, but what was I looking for? I? … fulfill my dream Madison Square Garden, 4 originals, sold out those two nights, I couldn't believe it every week connecting, tickets to all the concerts and sold out in NY, I didn't care, I traveled days in advance and 4 nights in a row I was able to fulfill that I dream as a teenager in my tiny room reading this is life Kiss, Donald Trump by my side, skid row, anthrax, shannon, nick, gene, Ace, I saw them all in person at the hotel where Kiss was staying. In photo 12 is the official tour poster with the 4 framed tickets from those concerts in NY.

Photo 9,10,11, 13 kiss in Barcelona, ​​I ate that entire tour Madrid, Zaragoza and obviously Barcelona, ​​they stayed in Barcelona for 5 days, I chased Gene in his limousine, and I was alone with him, I was shaking everything and he didn't say a word, I explained to him that the previous year I had gone to see them 4 nights in Ny, asking me where I was from, I was amazed that he was from Barcelona, ​​he invited me to the concert, signing my rock & roll over tattoo, the same one that appears On the second coming DVD, Paul and Peter also signed my arm, I have a space waiting for Ace to capture the only one I'm missing👏

Gene invited in Barcelona (photo 14), with my koala Jon I make him up and dress him up as Demon, I hear a murmur I see my son turn around and it's Gene taking him by the shoulder and introducing himself, no

I could believe it, they took it to the photocall and Gene and Jon appeared in a lot of newspapers.

Another dream as a kid (photo 14, 15) was to have a photo with them wearing makeup, I never wanted to pay for a meet & greet, so much in fashion in recent years, I always believed that I already gave enough money as a fan (records, magazines, merchandise, concerts ) but the virgin appeared in the form of Gene's partner and promised me that photo with them if they came to Barcelona, ​​I didn't believe it, but the guy more than delivered in Barcelona and the next day in Madrid, when I finished taking the photo I found him in the hallways, I hugged him and I couldn't stop crying, I thought I would never achieve it, but I achieved that dream. And twice!!🤟🏻🤣🤣.Photo 16 farewell Rock fest, they appeared and when I was made for loving you played, tears came, I realized that I would never listen to that song live again and a few more songs happened that brought more tears.

I thanked them for being part of my adolescence, my life and being part of my family, 37 concerts in a few different stages and formations, the fans of the old stage know what I'm talking about and the lip service fans who They don't know that I Was Made is their most popular song worldwide.

In your story I can scream I WAS THERE!

Thank you for making me happymany moments of my life.

DAVID KISS