bought this video yesterday for £7.99 at HMV.
it misses out just a couple of songs from the CD album.
from 1985, when Maiden were at their peak of success, pretty much.
for me it was worth buying just to see them play "rime of the ancient mariner"-
it's interesting to see how Steve Harris plays the same note in different parts of the neck to facilitate difficult phrases- eg. in "rime" he switches from his favourite 7th fret A string E to the 2nd fret D string E in the riffs at the end of each verse.
also instead of playing the minor third from E to G on the 5th and 7th frets of the A and D strings he hammers it on from the 7th to the 10th fret of the A string in the fast bit just before the chordal break. - more difficult for me to play it that way though.
in the quiet chordal section with the spoken narration he arpeggiates the bass chords first with his thumb only (thumbnail?) and then with his thumb and two fingers- I prefer using 3 fingers for all of it.
in the open D string drone section it looks like he's using his thumb to pick the D string, and fingers on the G....I use 3 fingers for that again.
I noticed he seems to reach for his tone and volume controls a lot- to check they're full on, presumably, as his tone doesn't change.
I read in an interview that he had the tone pot dewired on one bass- looks like he should have a controls bypass wired in on all his basses
Bruce Dickinson's comments to the crowd are quite funny ("SCREAM FOR ME LONGBEACH!"), especially his intro to "rime..."- I suspect he was a major inspiration for Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap
also there seem to be what look like models of Bambi-like deer on either side of the drumkit
maybe they were supposed to be Sphinx-type creatures......more Tap-isms....