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Showing posts with label Live. Show all posts
10/18/2009 Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name (Live @ Rock In Rio)
"Hallowed Be Thy Name" is a song written by Steve Harris for the 1982 Iron Maiden album The Number of The Beast.
The song describes a man's thoughts just before being sent to the gallows. He begins to feel terror and realizes he really is afraid of dying, despite claims that he's not ("tears flow, but why am I crying?/after all, I'm not afraid of dying/don't I believe that there never is an end?"). At the end of the vocal section, the man gets executed; this is followed by a long instrumental section, culminating in his ambiguous final words, "Hallowed be thy name". When the album "Number of the Beast" was profiled on VH1's Classic Albums, Steve Harris said the song was about "having faith, whether it be in religion or whatever, but could that faith fail you at the last second when you need it most?"
* Bruce Dickinson – vocals
* Dave Murray – guitar
* Adrian Smith - guitar (album version)
* Janick Gers – guitar (live single version)
* Steve Harris – bass guitar
* Clive Burr – drums (album version)
* Nicko McBrain - drums (live single version)
Official Website: http://www.ironmaiden.com/
9/08/2009 Van Halen live '1979 Dance The Night Away
"Dance the Night Away" was Van Halen's first top 20 U.S. hit, peaking at #15, and the second song from their 1979 album Van Halen II. While the rest of the songs from this album had existed in some way, shape or form since their days doing demos and playing clubs, this song was possibly the only song written during the recording sessions for the album. Having become a hit in July 1979, the band conceived the song during the recording sessions while the band members were standing in a circle humming to each other. It was inspired by Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way". Eddie Van Halen purposely left a guitar solo out of the final version of the song, replacing it instead with a riff of Tap Harmonics. David Lee Roth originally wanted to call the song "Dance Lolita Dance", but Eddie convinced him that "Dance the Night Away" was more suitable and the chorus was changed to reflect that.[1]
David Lee Roth claimed, during a rant in a 2006 performance in San Diego, California, that he wrote this song in tribute to an intoxicated woman who was having sex in the back of a truck and ran with her pants on backwards into the bar where the fledgling band was playing to escape police officers. This was also mentioned at a 2006 performance in Detroit, Michigan.
9/02/2009 Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust (live in 1978)
"Diamonds & Rust" is a 1975 song written and performed by Joan Baez.
The song was later covered by Judas Priest, first appearing on Sin After Sin, and later on the Best of Judas Priest, Hero Hero, as well as some remasters of their first album, Rocka Rolla. A live version of the song is on Unleashed in the East. The song remains a staple of Judas Priest live concert performances. In recent years, Priest have been performing a mostly-acoustic version of the song that is more similar to the original than the "rocked up" recorded version. Thanks to this band, many others into Metal genres have covered this song, like Great White and the Finnish Power Metal Band Thunderstone.
Official website: http://tinyurl.com/bwznt
Judas Priest discography
* Rocka Rolla (1974)
* Sad Wings of Destiny (1976)
* Sin After Sin (1977)
* Stained Class (1978)
* Killing Machine/Hell Bent for Leather (1979)
* British Steel (1980)
* Point of Entry (1981)
* Screaming for Vengeance (1982)
* Defenders of the Faith (1984)
* Turbo (1986)
* Ram It Down (1988)
* Painkiller (1990)
* Jugulator (1997)
* Demolition (2001)
* Angel of Retribution (2005)
* Nostradamus (2008)
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