Concert #005 - August 17, 1982 - Scorpions (1) [Blackout] - Iron Maiden (1) [The Number of the Beast] - Girlschool [Screaming Blue Murder] - Ector County Coliseum - Odessa, Texas (4)

Concert #005
August 17, 1982 - Ector County Coliseum - Odessa, Texas (4)

Scorpions (1) [Blackout] 
Iron Maiden (1) [The Number of the Beast] 
Girlschool (1) [Screaming Blue Murder] 

Went w/ Dean Spit Purvis, and perhaps my brother who I recall was smitten by the Girlschool bassist, and quite enamored with seeing her panties under her mini skirt.
So, earlier in the summer, my brother David came home from college with a brand new ghetto blaster and some tapes dubbed from LPs.
He dug around and pulled out one that had the new  Scorpions - Blackout on one side, and the new Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast on the other. I couldn't believe it. I wore that poor cassette out, till there was nothing but bald plastic and remnants of magnetic dust.
First time to see Iron Maiden and Scorpions, and first and only time to see Girlschool.
Girlschool would never get bigger, and would dissolve a couple of years later.
 Iron Maiden had really come into their own, and I don't think I've ever liked them quite as much as this first time. They played five of the eight songs from The Number of the Beast.
  I got to see the great Clive Burr on his last stint with Iron Maiden, and Bruce's first. They were god-damned fantastic, and made me a fan for life. Clive played the drums really hard, and had a bit of a swing which was lost forever when he left. No offense to the GREAT Nico McBrain, but, Clive was my favorite Iron Maiden drummer. Bruce sounded simply amazing and the songs were still played in the correct tempo, unlike with Nico who tended, at least in the 80s to speed things up a bit. Adrian Smith and Dave Murray are still to this day some of my favorite guitarists, and of course the unbelievable Steve Harris. What can you say, there is no one on earth that can play and write like Steve Harris, he is a fucking MACHINE.
The Scorpions were at the height of their metal powers, and the fucking KILLED it. They had the pyramid pose, the giant drum riser with huge lights, which opened up and they walked out on stage from under the drums. Matthias Jabs was just amazing, highly under rated.

To me this would be the height of Scorpions songwriting and performance skills, because the next one, Love at First Sting, was still good, but seemed to be a lesser cloned version of Blackout.
Over the next few albums, they would descend into a cliche ballad band by the end of the 80's.
I really, really wanted to buy shirts, especially from Iron Maiden, but, I was 14 and had no money.
My mom picks us up, and we were telling her all about the show, and the shirts, and she says, "Oh, I meant to give you money so you could buy a shirt." D'OH!!!!

RIP Clive Burr - Drummer - Iron Maiden [Iron Maiden - 1982] Burr died in his sleep on 12 March 2013 in London, four days after his 56th birthday, due to complications related to MS. (aged 56)

RIP Kelly Johnson July 15, 2007, guitarist, (aged 49) - [Girlschool 1982] - Spinal cancer


Scorpions  [1]            [Blackout]

Scorpions (1) [Blackout] 
Klaus Meine (1) – Lead vocals
Matthias Jabs (1) – Lead Guitars,
Rudolf Schenker (1) – Rhythm guitars,
Francis Buchholz – Bass
Herman Rarebell – Drums

1. "Blackout"
2. "Don't Make No Promises (Your Body Can't Keep)"
3. "Loving You Sunday Morning"
4. "Make It Real"
5. "We'll Burn the Sky"
6. "Can't Live Without You"
7. "Coast to Coast"
8. "Always Somewhere"
9. "Holiday"
10. "Lovedrive"
11. "He's a Woman – She's a Man"
12. "Another Piece of Meat"
13. "Dynamite"
14. "The Zoo"
15. "Steamrock Fever"
16. "Can't Get Enough"
17. When the Smoke is Going Down over the P.A. as the lights came up. 

SCORPIONS - Blackout (soundcheck 1982)

SCORPIONS - San Sebastian Spain (LIVE 1982) Audio Only

Iron Maiden [1]        [the Number of the Beast]

Iron Maiden (1) [The Number of the Beast] 
Bruce Dickinson (1)  – lead vocals
Dave Murray (1)  – guitar
Adrian Smith (1)  – guitar, backing vocals
Steve Harris (1)  – bass, backing vocals
Clive Burr – drums, percussion RIP

• 1. Wrathchild
  2. Run to the Hills
  3. Children of the Damned
  4. The Number of the Beast
  5. 22 Acacia Avenue
  6. Hallowed Be Thy Name
  7. Iron Maiden

Girlschool             [Screaming Blue Murder]

Girlschool [Screaming Blue Murder] 
Kim McAuliffe – rhythm guitar, lead vocals
Kelly Johnson – lead guitar, lead vocals RIP
Gil Weston – bass, lead vocals
Denise Dufort – drums