Led Zeppelin: 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD_EVSD BD-R > DVD Rip)

This is by far the best version of this show to date (with the exception of the Blu-Ray Recordable, or BD-R, version it was sourced from).  This is one of the two known professionally shot Led Zeppelin 1975 shows.  There are likely others in the Zeppelin vaults, but as to wheter or not they'll ever see the light of day, that is unknown.  The second known professionally shot show is from the night after this one.  The 1975-05-25 show is an excellent show too and was Led Zeppelin's final night, back home in England, on their 1975 tour.show

I've had so many versions of this show since the VHS days that I cannot remember them all.  I started out with VHS videos of this show that were full of issues ranging from tracking, very high generation copies (bad quality), to sound issues.  And I enjoyed watching them still back then because it was what was available in those days,  But with the advent of high speed internet, and its substantial growth in the last 6 - 7 years, better versions of this 1975-05-24 (and the next night) show have been surfacing.  And this is a great one.

2012-10-28 SPECIAL NOTE: I got the "official" (not officially released) EVSD Blu-Ray silver DVD of this show today at the Austin Record Convention!  As happy as I was/am about that, unfortunately; it has some sort of forced formatting to the 4:3 aspect ratio and cannot be stretched even when using that setting on my Blu-Ray player :-(  It has no special audio encoding (like 5.1 Dolby Digital) and is just 2.0 Dolby Digital too.  It is a great picture though, but I'd have been perfectly happy with this Blu-Ray rip I'm uploading too!

SHOW DETAILS:
Location: London, England
Venue: Earl's Court
Date: May 24th, 1975
Label: Empress Valley Supreme Disc (EVSD)
Title: In The Court Of King James
Artwork: Yes
Note: I left the original uploader's text/description file intact

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Resolution: 720 X 480
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Video Bitrate: 3843 kbps average (lower than I like, but great quality nevertheless)
Audio Streams: 1
Audio Codec: LPCM
Audio Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Audio Bitrate: 1536 kbps
Audio Channels: 2 (stereo)
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Length: 3 hours, 40 minutes (approximately)
DVDs: 2
DVD Size: 8.69 GB (both DVDs combined)

SETLIST:
DVD 1:
01. concert introduction By Nicky Horne
02. Rock And Roll
03. Sick Again
04. Over The Hills And Far Away
05. In My Time Of Dying
06. The Song Remains The Same
07. The Rain Song
08. Kashmir
09. No Quarter
10. Tangerine
11. Going To California
12. That's The Way
13. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp

DVD 2:
01. Trampled Underfoot
02 .Moby Dick
03. Dazed And Confused
04. Stairway To Heaven
05. Whole Lotta Love / The Crunge
06. Black Dog

LINKS:
Part 1 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 2 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 3 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 4 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 5 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 6 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 7 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 8 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 9 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)

This is a great show that portrays Led Zeppelin performing about half way through the band's lifespan (1968 - 1980...excluding their reunion show in 2007 of course).  And this is the last tour during the 1968 - 1980 lifespan, while drummer John Bonham was still alive, where they played the song "Dazed And Confused".  What a shame.  Unlike the officially released video, "The Song Remains The Same", of the compilations of their July 27th, 28th, and 29th 1973 concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden; this concert is 100% complete.  And there are no breaks between songs where they show other things like the NYPD officer refusing to be interviewed, the band backstage talking, etc either like in the officially released "The Song Remains The Same" DVD.  I'm not criticizing the DVD and highly recommend buying "The Song Remains The Same".  I wholeheartedly believe in supporting the artists I like by purchasing their officially released material.  But I also love seeing an uncut concert all the way through like it's meant to be seen too :-)

The next night's show/video, which I'll upload soon, was the last time they played "Dazed And Confused" until their 2007-12-10 London, England reunion show.  And the 2007 reunion show (only one show) was pretty much their farewell show it sounds like.  I'll upload that one too in the future.  Maybe on December 10th if not before then :-)

Anyhow, this show being put up now is a great way to see Led Zeppelin in full force.  Hopefully, one day not too far off, they'll actually release this show officially.  I'd be happy to yank it from my site because it was released!!!

I hope you enjoy the show...

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