Rock in Rio
Sony - Sony
Iron Maiden
Release date: 2002-03-26
Audio CD
Heavy Metal, Pop, Pop/Rock Music, Rock
1. Intro
2. The Wicker Man
3. Ghost of the Navigator
4. Brave New World
5. Wrathchild
6. 2 Minutes to Midnight
7. Blood Brothers
8. Sign of the Cross
9. The Mercenary
10. Trooper
11. Brave New World (enhanced video)
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Rock in Rio
Date undefinedI have to admit this live Maiden album surprised me at how good it really is. The thing that amazes me is how a crowd of 250,000 people sang along with Bruce and sounds so damn good. Usually when a crowd sings along with a live band performance it totally blows, but with Rio I was totally amazed at how well Bruce and the Maiden pulled this off. Bruce Dickinsons vocals are ripe and blistering. There is alot of "Brave New World" material on this cd, because "Brave New World" was released several months before this January 2001 "Rio" show. "Brave New World" was new and fresh so alot of material from this BNW was played on this Rio cd. The early 1980s songs were performed beautifully. There were also three guitar players on this Rio cd. Believe me Maiden needed three guitar players to pull of some these excellent live song performances. Bruce performs "The Clansman" and "Sign Of The Cross", believe me Bruce sang this Blaze material really well, and actually sounds better than Blaze himself. Whatever Blaze lacked in the vocal range in these two songs Bruce more than adequetly filled in, and it shows when you hear these two songs performed on this "Rio" cd. The only thing that annoyed me, there was no "Wasted Years". After all these years Maiden still got that great live performance magic. I did'nt think Rio would be so good, I have to admitt this Rio cd rocks. Any metal hard or rock fan should own "Rock in Rio" along with "Live After Death"
Rock in Rio
Date undefinedReview no.105.'Rock In Rio' is a good 2-CD,21 track live audio document of Iron Maiden playing to a crowd of reportedly a quarter of a million(supposedly their largest crowd ever)at the 2001 Rio Rock Festival.Nice to see the return of frontman/vocalist Bruce Dickenson. Tunes I liked experiencing once again were the the title cut from their new (at the time) CD,"Brave New World","2 Minutes To Midnight","Trooper","The Evil That Men Do",the band's namesake "Iron Maiden","Number Of The Beast" and of course "Run To The Hills".I saw Maiden earlier on this very tour and I remember other fans complaining they didn't play ENOUGH older material. Actually,I myself thought they performed an extremely well balanced set. Great cover,no?
Rock in Rio
Date undefinedIf you get this live album, you will soon thirst to see, own and feast on the DVD.
Enjoy!!
