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I couldn't tell you how many times I watched this over the next couple of years. I kept that video tape until sometime in the last 20 years. I don't think it's in any of my boxes anymore. It's not like I have a VCR to play it (haven't owned one in probably 20 years) and I have hoped that someone had archived it. I do not know why I have never looked at @internetarchive before. What was I /not/ thinking?

No Idea why the metadata says 1980-1981, it was filmed while they toured for Powerslave. 1984-1985, IIRC.

Anyway, I am so fucking happy right now.

#IronMaiden

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OMG OMG OMG. Sometime after this video was released (1985ish), I was up late one night watching Night Flight on USA, and a commercial came on about this tape. I asked my parents if I could get it, it was maybe $30US or something. I anxiously awaited its arrival.

We received all our mail at the same address as my family's business, a PO box. Whatever I was doing that day it arrived, I didn't go by there that after school--I usually walked to said place of business from school. My dad was still working that evening, & he told me my package had arrived. I was so excited, I asked if I could watch it right then & there. It was late & we didn't even have a VCR at home, yet. So, I sat there about 6" away (exaggerating) from the TV--you know, whatever distance that your parents would all yell at you "Don't sit so close to the TV!"). I'm sure it was torture for my dad who sat there w/me while I watched it.

archive.org/details/Iron_Maide

I've never heard this fantastic cover of #IronMaiden's "666 The Number of the Beast" before, but it's incredible! youtube.com/watch?v=XGlsEmmWX14

This is one of the few Zwan songs that features Matt Sweeney on vox. With members like Sweeney, David Pajo (of Slint) Paz Lenchantin (A Perfect Circle), James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlain, and Billy Corgan, Zwan had so much potential to do more cool music like this. Unfortunately, the final release was more like The Smashing Pumpkins Part II.