Black Sabbath 11/25/1989

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Date: 11/25/89
Year: 1989
Venue: Olympic Hall
City: Moscow
State: Russia

Set I

The Gates Of Hell
Headless Cross
Neon Knights
Children Of The Sea
Die Young
Apache
When Death Calls
War Pigs
Black Sabbath
Iron Man
Children Of The Grave
Heaven And Hell
Paranoid
Heaven And Hell [reprise]
Fluff

Set II

Set III

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User (active/rating)	Media / #	Show	Sound	Details	User Source
Jack (5/4.3)	DVD-R / 2	A	B	View	Pro Shot
Notes:	2 SHOWS, EVENING & AFTERNOON VERY GOOD PRO SHOT
Hopper's DVD List (5/5)	DVD / 1			View
Notes:	Tony Martin on Vocals
Yoshi (4/0)	DVD / 1	A	A	View	Afternoon Show
Notes:	PRO
emanon (3/4.8)	DVD / 2			View
Notes:	Both Afternoon and Evening sets.
trentnaka (0/0)	DVD / 0			View
Petr (0/0)	DVD / 0			View	PRO
Notes:	Afternoon show "Black Sabbath performed a marathon 14 shows at Moscow's Olympski Hall from November 19th through the 28th. During the weekend shows, they would play both an afternoon and evening performance. They also played an additional 12 shows in Leningrad through December 9th. These were the longest stints they'd played at a single venue since their early gigs at The Star Club in Hamburg. With the obvious advantage of not having to break down their equipment every night, they decided to record some of these shows for a possible home video release. Tony Iommi: “We did use a crew out there to film and record the shows which were pretty good actually. We had a bit of a disagreement with the TV station at the time because they wanted to hold on to certain tapes. I think we’ve solved this one now, so there will be something done although it will take a while before anything comes out. We have to at least see them ourselves and pick out which ones are which. We recorded two of the shows, an afternoon and a night one, then we recorded plenty of walking around Moscow and Leningrad.” [from BSAS #5 – 1990] Based upon my own viewings of the Moscow footage, I would speculate that some of the films may have been damaged and may not have been up to commercial standards. The copies currently in circulation have some flaws that may have been on the master reels. 13 years later, the footage surfaced as a Japanese bootleg titled HEADLESS IN RUSSIA. Like many other professional recordings that have recently surfaced from this era, these films are probably from Cozy Powell's private collection. Much of his estate was sold after his untimely death in 1996. Since the HEADLESS IN RUSSIA bootleg did not give an exact date for these performances, the actual performance source has been open for speculation until now. Guillaume Roos recently spoke with Neil Murray about those shows and was able to pinpoint those exact shows for us. They were in fact from the two sets they played on Saturday, November 25th, 1989 in Moscow. The afternoon show took place at 2:15 PM and the evening show began at 8:15 PM. Thanks to both for finally clearing this up for us! Being that these were pro-shot, the filming contains an excellent multi-cam perspective of the shows. However, the picture quality does contain numerous flaws. White streaks mar these otherwise beautiful films. These may have been damaged while in storage. On the Afternoon Show disc, there also appears to be a brief accidental erasure that occurs at the beginning of "When Death Calls". There are two brief dropouts, each lasting no longer than 3-5 seconds. There are also VHS copies of this show that are said to be better than the DVD-R’s IF you can find a low enough generation source! Two of these Moscow shows surfaced in 2002 on the bootleg DVD-R set HEADLESS IN RUSSIA. These are encoded with Dolby Digital 4.1 sound. Each DVD was mastered using MPEG-2 video streams at 4 mbps and MPEG 2.0 audio at 384 kbps, fitting each show easily on to a single layer DVD-R. The running time for the afternoon show is 85:38. The evening show clocks in at 86:14. Alexander Rack, webmeister of black-sabbath.de, wrote in with this interesting tidbit about some hidden footage on the HEADLESS IN RUSSIA DVD-R’s. He wrote: “Did you ever saw these Russian bootleg DVD’s with the TV broadcast of the Moscow 1989 shows? As a kind of secret menu [also known as ‘Easter Eggs’ or hidden features], they contain a preview of an "upcoming" release - it is 1 min of LIVE EVIL footage (Intro and Mob Rules) with audio!” An interpreter appears on stage at times to translate Tony Martin's English to Russian! AFTERNOON SHOW: Missing the "Ave Satani" introduction. Contains a unique live performance of the Hank Marvin & The Shadows instrumental "Apache" during the Afternoon Show! This is the only live version of this song currently in circulation. An aborted rehearsal take of the songs appears on the DEHUMANIZER REHEARSALS boot CD."
Tom Gunn (0/0)	DVD / 0		A+	View	SBD

User (active/rating)

Media / #

Show

Sound

Details

DB Source

User Source

Jack (5/4.3)

DVD-R / 2

View

Pro Shot

Notes:

2 SHOWS, EVENING & AFTERNOON VERY GOOD PRO SHOT

Hopper's DVD List (5/5)

DVD / 1

View

Notes:

Tony Martin on Vocals

Yoshi (4/0)

DVD / 1

View

Afternoon Show

Notes:

PRO

emanon (3/4.8)

DVD / 2

View

Notes:

Both Afternoon and Evening sets.

trentnaka (0/0)

DVD / 0

View

Petr (0/0)

DVD / 0

View

PRO

Notes:

Afternoon show "Black Sabbath performed a marathon 14 shows at Moscow's Olympski Hall from November 19th through the 28th. During the weekend shows, they would play both an afternoon and evening performance. They also played an additional 12 shows in Leningrad through December 9th. These were the longest stints they'd played at a single venue since their early gigs at The Star Club in Hamburg. With the obvious advantage of not having to break down their equipment every night, they decided to record some of these shows for a possible home video release. Tony Iommi: “We did use a crew out there to film and record the shows which were pretty good actually. We had a bit of a disagreement with the TV station at the time because they wanted to hold on to certain tapes. I think we’ve solved this one now, so there will be something done although it will take a while before anything comes out. We have to at least see them ourselves and pick out which ones are which. We recorded two of the shows, an afternoon and a night one, then we recorded plenty of walking around Moscow and Leningrad.” [from BSAS #5 – 1990] Based upon my own viewings of the Moscow footage, I would speculate that some of the films may have been damaged and may not have been up to commercial standards. The copies currently in circulation have some flaws that may have been on the master reels. 13 years later, the footage surfaced as a Japanese bootleg titled HEADLESS IN RUSSIA. Like many other professional recordings that have recently surfaced from this era, these films are probably from Cozy Powell's private collection. Much of his estate was sold after his untimely death in 1996. Since the HEADLESS IN RUSSIA bootleg did not give an exact date for these performances, the actual performance source has been open for speculation until now. Guillaume Roos recently spoke with Neil Murray about those shows and was able to pinpoint those exact shows for us. They were in fact from the two sets they played on Saturday, November 25th, 1989 in Moscow. The afternoon show took place at 2:15 PM and the evening show began at 8:15 PM. Thanks to both for finally clearing this up for us! Being that these were pro-shot, the filming contains an excellent multi-cam perspective of the shows. However, the picture quality does contain numerous flaws. White streaks mar these otherwise beautiful films. These may have been damaged while in storage. On the Afternoon Show disc, there also appears to be a brief accidental erasure that occurs at the beginning of "When Death Calls". There are two brief dropouts, each lasting no longer than 3-5 seconds. There are also VHS copies of this show that are said to be better than the DVD-R’s IF you can find a low enough generation source! Two of these Moscow shows surfaced in 2002 on the bootleg DVD-R set HEADLESS IN RUSSIA. These are encoded with Dolby Digital 4.1 sound. Each DVD was mastered using MPEG-2 video streams at 4 mbps and MPEG 2.0 audio at 384 kbps, fitting each show easily on to a single layer DVD-R. The running time for the afternoon show is 85:38. The evening show clocks in at 86:14. Alexander Rack, webmeister of black-sabbath.de, wrote in with this interesting tidbit about some hidden footage on the HEADLESS IN RUSSIA DVD-R’s. He wrote: “Did you ever saw these Russian bootleg DVD’s with the TV broadcast of the Moscow 1989 shows? As a kind of secret menu [also known as ‘Easter Eggs’ or hidden features], they contain a preview of an "upcoming" release - it is 1 min of LIVE EVIL footage (Intro and Mob Rules) with audio!” An interpreter appears on stage at times to translate Tony Martin's English to Russian! AFTERNOON SHOW: Missing the "Ave Satani" introduction. Contains a unique live performance of the Hank Marvin & The Shadows instrumental "Apache" during the Afternoon Show! This is the only live version of this song currently in circulation. An aborted rehearsal take of the songs appears on the DEHUMANIZER REHEARSALS boot CD."

Tom Gunn (0/0)

DVD / 0

A+

View

SBD


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