Popular Post Powerage5 Posted December 15, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted December 15, 2016 I thought this may be of interest to some of the other Maiden fans on here, especially considering it's flying under the radar of the media pretty well. Barry Purkis, better known as Thunderstick, found a rehearsal tape he did of his time in Maiden. He's released some clips of it so far, and it's pretty interesting to say the least. A lot of the songs don't have the edge they do when they were recorded for the first/second album, they're a bit more aligned with Thin Lizzy, for example. The supposed lineup from this rehearsal tape is Dennis Wilcock on vocals, Terry Wapram on guitar, Tony Moore on keyboards, Steve Harris on bass, and Thunderstick on drums - making this the only existing recording of the band without Dave Murray, who was briefly fired in mid-1977. There's been a clip coming out every few days of a different song, so far there's five. The tracklist of the full rehearsal tape is supposedly: 1. Burning Ambition 2. Drifter 3. Sanctuary 4. Prowler 5. Another Life 6. Transylvania 7. Strange World 8. Floating (Which would later become Purgatory, on the Killers album) 9. Charlotte (Which would later become Charlotte The Harlot) 10. Wrathchild 11. Innocent Exile 12. Iron Maiden The clips so far: Iron Maiden Sanctuary Strange World Another Life Charlotte Anyways, I thought some of the other Maiden fans on here might find this interesting - it's an era of Maiden which, until now, there really hasn't been any actual evidence of. Keep in mind this was recorded about a year and a half before The Soundhouse Tapes demo, and nearly two and a half years before the earliest commonly circulating live recording. There are some live recordings of earlier gigs (Going all the way back to 1976), but a very select few people have them. I had one of a Dennis Wilcock gig from mid 1977 played for me over the summer, and I can say if we get to hear the full rehearsal tape of this someday, there's some really cool/interesting stuff happening on it. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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