Judas Priest February 2, 1984 Pabellon del Real Madrid Madrid, Spain Defenders of the Faith Tour European leg
Disc 1: 01. The Hellion / Electric Eye 02. Riding on the Wind 03. Grinder 04. Metal Gods 05. Bloodstone 06. Breaking the Law 07. Sinner 08. Desert Plains 09. Some Heads Are Gonna Roll 10. The Ripper
Disc 2: 01. Heavy Duty / Defenders of the Faith 02. Freewheel Burning 03. You've Got Another Thing Comin' 04. Victim of Changes 05. Living After Midnight 06. The Green Manalishi
I was recently contacted by a bootleg trader called Ericfg who has a sizeable collection of Judas Priest bootleg tapes he's collected since the 1980s and now wants to share them with the rest of the world. The deal is that instead of sending tapes or CDs back and forth, he digitizes the tapes at home and then sends the raw, unedited recordings to me by WeTransfer to which I apply whatever edits I see fit and then get them out to the rest of the bootleg world. No EQing by the way, I've learned my lesson from some previous uploads. Just track splitting, volume balancing and tape speed corrections if needed.
The fourth show in this series is from the European leg of the Defenders of the Faith Tour. The audio quality is neither very good or bad, while the band sounds a bit muffled and the amount of crowd noise is fairly high there is no distortion and all instruments and vocals are audible. Another redeeming factor is that none of the songs are incomplete, so there's no nasty cuts or jumps and you can hear the entire concert. Because of the existence of much better-quality bootlegs from this leg of the tour (Stockholm or Clermont-Ferrand, for example), I'm only recommending it to completists or those who have a particular interest in Priest's concerts in Spain.
2 CDs Audience nknown gen cassette tape -> Denon DRM44HX dual capstan tape deck -> Audacity 2.1.1 for recording -> FLAC -> Sent to me via WeTransfer -> Audacity 2.1.1 for track splitting, channel balancing and other edits -> WAV -> Trader's Little Helper -> FLAC level 8 (align on sector boundaries with fix) FLAC 47:01 & 42:52 min. B-
