Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog

This is the place for free live concerts and rare audio/video recordings. All posts are NOT officially released material. Nothing is for sale and everything is for free downloading & sharing only. My favorites are Led Zeppelin, Journey, and Feist. But you will find so much more too as this blog progresses because I love music! This site will primarily be a FLAC audio and DVD sharing site with a few rare exceptions. Thank you, and enjoy the show... Bootradr

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1972-02-29 Brisbane, Australia (FLAC_AUD 2 Sources, 2nd Gen Mix_2 CD)

This show falls into a strange category. It will have been 43 years ago tomorrow. But at the same time, tomorrow it will have been 43 years ago yesterday. Think about it for a minute and it makes sense :-)

So falling in between today and tomorrow (kind of), why not upload it and celebrate its birthday today. After all, I think it only has a real "birthday" every four years anyhow.

This is a two sources, both second generation tapes mix of the 1972-02-29 Brisbane, Australia Led Zeppelin concert. This is the "dadgad" remastered copy (no EQ) that has been speed corrected and mixed using the two sources.

This show was the last show in the short Australia and New Zealand tour Led Zeppelin did in February of 1972. And looking online at the venue this concert was held in, it was a lot smaller than I imagined it would be. It was tiny compared to the Sydney stage from the photos I looked at. The guys came to Australia with beards and mustaches and left looking like clean cut young men (well, minus the long hair) :-)

LINEAGE:
Source 2 2nd Gen (primary) and Source 1 2nd Gen (patch) tapes > no info given other than "cleaned, speed corrected, unaltered sound" > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: February 29th, 1972
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Venue: Festival Hall
Title: None
Label: None/dadgad
Source: AUD (Source 2 2nd Gen & Source 1 2nd Gen Mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Size: 644 MB
Length: 140:47:62

SETLIST:
CD 1:
01. Immigrant Song
02. Heartbreaker
03. Black Dog
04. Since I've Been Loving You
05. Celebration Day
06. Stairway To Heaven
07. Going To California
08. That's The Way*
09. Tangerine*
10. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp*

CD 2:
01. Dazed And Confused*
02. What Is And What Should Never Be
03. Moby Dick
04. Whole Lotta Love*

* Source 1 (patch source used)

LINK:
(1) 1972-02-29 Brisbane, Australia (AUD 2nd Gen Source 2 & 1 Mix)

This was Led Zeppelin's one and only concert ever in Brisbane, Australia. The source 2 tape is the primary one with the source 1 tape being used to patch the missing audio. Source 1 is used for "That's The Way" and "Bron-Yr-Aaur Stomp" as well as the first minutes of "Dazed and Confused", "Whole Lotta Love", and the "Going Down Slow" medley section in "Whole Lotta Love" according to "dadgad's" notes. He also noted that he cleaned and speed corrected the audio but did not alter the sound (or EQ I would guess) it.

The recording starts off pretty rough and distorted sounding. But as is continues on, it starts sounding better. I'd still give it a good-to-great (at times) sound rating depending on what part of the show I'm listening to. The taper sounds like they may have been a distance from the stage. And even though most of what Robert Plant says in between song can be made out, partially because of hearing him say it before in other shows, it isn't very clean.

When the bass notes come back into play, the distortion does too in a song like "Heartbreaker" which is heavier. But in a song like "Since I've Been Loving You", the song doesn't sound as distorted with that type of bass being played.

So far, I've been talking about the source 2, primary recording used. But the source 1, patch material is not distorted even though it still sounds distant. Both recording sources sound a little muffled but that may just be the old tapes being oxidized over their previous decades of storage too? I really don't know.

Personally, I like the patch material (source 1) recording better because it is not distorted and is cleaner sounding. And Plant's voice as well as Page's guitar and the rest of the band are more easily heard. The more I listen to the source 1 part of the recording, the more I think that taper was possibly closer to the stage than the source 2 taper. But once again, I really don't know.

During quieter music, without a lot of bass, source 2 sounds better to me. But when there is heavy bass, like in "Dazed and Confused", the source 1 recording sounds better. So it's a constant battle as to which source sounds better (to me anyhow) and it is always dependent on the song (or more precisely the part of the song) that is being played.

I'm not even going to try and explain the mixed TLH CDDA Test text file I created (to check for lossiness) other than to say "dadgad" is fully capable and knows what he is doing with audio and I am sure he checked for lossiness. I'm not concerned about it being lossy and especially since TLH is what I'd be basing my wondering on. These recordings came from the copies of the tape that has been around for 40 years and that's way, way, way before lossy material was ever around also.

It's really hard to guess at what makes this source sound this way and that one sound that way. And I could be totally wrong in any assumptions I make too. But I do know what sounds better to me. And the source 1 recording sounds better to me. And that may be the consensus too for most listeners, or they may disagree?

This is a great job done by "dadgad" to showcase what is available from a low generation copy of the source 2 material and also use the source 1 material as a patching source. And it is an enjoyable show to listen to and sit and critique on this very cold day 40 years later too!

I hope you enjoy this show..

Bootradr

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Led Zeppelin: 1975-02-28 Baton Rouge, LA (FLAC_AUD_3 CD)

Today's the 40th anniversary of this Baton Rouge Led Zeppelin show, and what a show it is! I uploaded a soundboard of the show here two years ago. So I guess I should go ahead and post an audience recording of the show too. Whether you want a soundboard or audience recording, and if I find time maybe even a soundboard and audience mix, they're here and ready for your eardrums to enjoy.

This is an excellent audience recording and I believe one of the better sounding ones for this date. There is a little bass distortion at times and this Silver Rarities copy seems to have a more clean and less distorted bass sound in it than the EVSD copy does. I'm pretty sure this is from the "Freezer" (the taper) sourced recording. I've got a copy of this show listed as "12th generation Freezer" in the lineage. But I believe that nobody really knows what generation the copy was in the lineage and they were just messing around with traders saying "12th generation" back int the day. And it doesn't sound as good as this copy does either.

From what I understand, there is a master or low generation copy that exists. But "Freezer" was reportedly a real hard person to get shows from and either wasn't sharing the copy or was holding it hostage until he got something for it. I don't know if this really true, and really, I don't care. Rumors or truth, it makes no difference to me. I do have either two or three tracks from this source though and they really do sound incredibly clean and in the superb category. So if the tape is being hoarded or there is some game being played keeping it out of the Led Zeppelin enthusiast's hands, there really is nothing we can do but wait and hope it surfaces one day.

"Freezer" recorded a number of Louisiana and Florida Led Zeppelin (and other bands) shows back in the 1970's. Some I've heard are really excellent and others I've heard were not too great. But he was (or maybe still is) a well know bootlegger from the old days. And if this recording is from an unknown generation recording of his, and then reworked by SIRA, then thanks does go to him for recording it and at least sharing a copy with someone in the past.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: February 28th, 1975
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Venue: Louisiana State University
Title: Led Astray
Label: Silver Rarities (SIRA)
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes
Size: 936 MB
Length: 166:03:67

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. intro
102. Rock And Roll
103. Sick Again
104. Over The Hills And Far Away
105. In My Time Of Dying
106. The Song Remains The Same
107. The Rain Song
108. Kashmir

CD 2:
201. No Quarter
202. Trampled Underfoot
203. Moby Dick

CD 3:
301. Dazed And Confused
302. Stairway To Heaven
303. Whole Lotta Love
304. Black Dog

LINK:
(1) 1975-02-28 Baton Rouge, LA (AUD/SIRA)

I think this is one of the best 1975 Led Zeppelin performances. The performance is really excellent and the recordings, soundboard or audience, are between excellent and superb in quality also.

Led Zeppelin had been on the Physical Graffiti tour by this show for a couple of months and they had their shows down and were really playing them well. The setlist was a great one and the more they played the better they sounded. And the Physical Graffiti LP had been released finally in America just a week earlier and the fans were packing the venues to see these great shows live. This was a great time for the band and the fans.

This title by SIRA, Led Astray, has been around for many years. In fact, I just looked at the back artwork and it shows it was put out in 1995. So it was half as long ago that it was released (20 years) as it was that the show was played (40 years ago).

The SIRA label copy was the first copy I ever had of this show too. I got it sometime in the 1990's on a Kodak Gold CD-R trade with a buddy I recently got in touch with again from the trading days. But I did not do an EAC rip of my copy and got this copy with no lineage not too long ago from a friend over at R-O. And since this copy checked out perfectly fine and with no errors, I'm uploading it early this morning.

I may one day try and do a remastering of this show's audience sourced audio? I'd like to amplify Page's guitar just a little bit to make it sound even better. And I'd track the show a little differently than SIRA did. They start the tracks a little too early in some songs and include Robert Plant's talking leading up to the song before the music begins. Sometimes this works, but is not normally the way it is done and it would have been better if each track started with the beginning of the song in my opinion. This is a great show like I said already and I'm sure any Led Zeppelin fan should like it as well as the superb soundboard recording I uploaded two years ago of this date too!

I hope you enjoy this recording on its 40th anniversary...

Bootradr

Friday, February 27, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1970-02-28 Copenhagen, Denmark (FLAC_AUD Master_2 CD)

This is an great-to-excellent recording of the Led Zeppelin show that will be celebrating its 45th anniversary tomorrow. Actually, tomorrow is a busy day in the music history of Led Zeppelin too. So I'm uploading this one a little early to get ahead of the curve.

This over two hour recording of the show I was thinking at first was obviously not the complete show. With it starting on "Dazed And Confused", I thought it was missing a few tracks before that song. But actually, I was likely wrong in assuming this. Because everywhere I looked I found this song listed as the first song of this show. I'm not sure what the sources are for the data that some resources use, but even the official Led Zeppelin site shows this is the first track for this specific show.

This was the show where Led Zeppelin, at the risk of being sued by Eva Von Zeppelin of the Zeppelin blimps family, were billed as The Nobs. Crazy as it sounds, this is what happened. I guess she really didn't like seeing them and didn't appreciate their music. But she didn't stop them either did she?

LINEAGE:
Master > DAT > CD-R (x) > EAC > WAV > CD Wave > WAV > FLAC Frontend > FLAC 8 > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness*) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

NOTES:
* TLH was unable to check any of the audio files and gave the "...cannot be qualified" message on each track. I've researched what this is suppose to mean and have never found an answer anywhere. However, there is no fear or worry of this being lossy in any way. And with "pernod's" revision and fixes, I know he would have caught any lossy properties if there had been any. This is the very first time I've had a complete recording not qualify any tracks at all.

This show has some of the rare tracks seldom heard in Led Zeppelin shows too. This show was only a month and a half after the 1970-01-09 Royal Albert Hall show that Led Zeppelin officially released on DVD back in 2003. And the band has some of the awesome songs in it like they did at the end of the Royal Albert Hall show too. Songs like "C'mon Everybody", "Something Else", and "Long Tall Sally" we do not have many recordings of. And even "Bring It On Home" was not a very common song in many Led Zeppelin shows even though it was played more often than the other three I mentioned. The setlist really rocks in this show!

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 28th, 1970
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Venue: K.B. Hallen
Title: None
Label: None/pernod Revised
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Size: 620 MB
Length: 127:43:25

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Dazed And Confused
102. Heartbreaker
103. White Summer/Black Mountain Side
104. Since I've Been Loving You
105. John Paul Jones (organ solo)/Thank You
106. Moby Dick

CD 2:
201. How Many More Times
202. Whole Lotta Love
203. Communication Breakdown
204. C'mon Everybody
205. Something Else
206. Bring It On Home
207. Long Tall Sally

LINK:
(1) 1970-02-28 Copenhagen, Denmark (AUD Master)
(2) 1970-02-28 Copenhagen, Denmark (AUD Master)

This recording is from the master Michael Moller's shared. I originally had information, and the text file indicates this too, that he was the taper. But I was just updated and he shared the master but did not record it. Whoever the taper was, it really does sound like they got a very good recording of a rare show. This show is not one seen as often as most that sound as good as this one does. Not even many labels seem to have released this one (or their rendition of it).

I got my first copy back in 1999 of this show and have thought, due to what the trader had told me, that it was the Baby Face label Dancing With Snow Queen. But the more I investigated it today as I did an EAC rip on it this morning, I think my first copy is actually the Beelzebub Records Heavy Vibes copy instead. I'm trying to confirm one way or the other for sure. But all indications are that it is.

This master recording borders on being superb in a lot of spots. The only thing keeping it from being that good sounding is the partial distortion in the real heavy parts of the show. But it still is a wonderful recording and one that can be cranked up loud and heard clearly.

This show is a real gem and I'd say a "must have" for any Led Zeppelin collector!

I hope you enjoy this show...

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 1972-02-27 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (FLAC_AUD Source 2 Master Speed Corrected_2 CD)

Today is the 43rd birthday of this 1972 concert Led Zeppelin performed in Sydney, Australia. This is an excellent sounding audience recording and one revised (not EQ'ed) by "pernod" over on R-O.

Robert Plant has a problem with the beginning lyrics of "Going To California" in this show and it takes him a second to get on track. I think it was either "Going To California" or "That's The Way" he messed up on in a previous show before they went over to New Zealand for a few days. I mentioned it in that show's post a day or three ago.

I love the additional guitar licks Page puts into the song "That's The Way" in these Australian concerts. Pay attention to the very beginning of the acoustic music he's playing at the start of the song, before Robert Plant starts singing, and you'll hear what I am talking about. That would have sounded cool on the official studio release had they added it to it.

Thanks goes to "zepster1979" for supplying the files "pernod" cleaned up and fixed (without any EQ work)!

LINEAGE:
(1) Master cassettes > PC > CDR (4) > EAC > FLAC >
(2) Additional lineage: FLAC > TLH > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0.1 (for appending WAV files and 96.5 shrink) > WAV > tracked with CD Wave Editor > encoded to FLAC 8 with FLAC Frontend and tagged and verified >
(3) me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and pad last track) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: February 27th, 1972
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Venue: The Showgrounds
Title: None
Label: None/pernod Revised
Source: AUD (Source 2 Master Speed Corrected)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (not specific to this recording)
Size: 637 MB
Length: 126:41:45

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Robert Plant talking
102. Black Dog
103. Stairway To Heaven
104. Going To California
105. That's The Way
106. Tangerine
107. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
108. Dazed And Confused
109. What Is And What Should Never Be

CD 2:
201. Moby Dick
202. Rock And Roll
203. Whole Lotta Love
204. Communication Breakdown
205. John Paul Jones (organ solo)
206. Thank You

LINK:
(1) 1972-02-27 Sydney, Australia (AUD Source 2 Master)

The show is not complete, and this seems to be a big issue wioth most of these Australia recordings. As I mentioned in another Australian show a few days ago, the tapers seem to cut their recorders off or put them in pause mode in between songs many times. However, this show is close to being complete. And the ending of the show seems to be recorded too where a lot of the earlier Australian shows cut off after "Whole Lotta Love" and the encores were not taped or shared.

The show had already started when this recording starts. But we still get the most of the concert and the songs, other than a few seconds cut at the beginning of some due to the taper starting their recorder again missing the very first notes. The first two tracks I'm are not recorded and ""That's The Way" is also cut short. I'm listening to the show now and am up to "Whole Lotta Love" right now. So whatever happens from the time I upload this show and the very end is not something I can type about now :-)

I uploaded the Genuine Masters DVD-A (I'll have to double check and see what source or source mix it is) of this show on its 42nd anniversary (or a year ago today). So if you're interested in that one, it can be found here too.

Even though I've been told it is not necessary to fix a sector boundary error (or SBE) and align it if it is the last track on a CD, I still like to fix it anyhow. So I did that on "Thank You" wheter it was needed or not. I did it if for no other reason than to avoid confusion for someone else like it has caused me in recent years.

I also had a feeling the lossiness test, the file titled "TLH CDDA Test", would likely show some previous processing of this recording (prior to "prenod's" revision) before I ever started putting this upload together. It sounded as if it had been processed at some point to me (and I think it has). And after seeing the test results, I definitely believe this is the case now. This will not be a lossy recording. There is no worry about that even if the TLH testing, which is not reliable for lossiness testing anyhow, shows a mixed report.

I added some artwork from the source 2 recording, however, it was not created for this specific lineage (Master Source 2) upload. It just fits and is from a non label, non descriptive source (and that's why I used it). Please remember, if you share this show and include the artwork be sure to make note that the artwork is NOT for this specific recording so others will not be confused.

I hope you enjoy this show..

Bootradr

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Page & Plant: 1998-02-26 Katowice, Silesia, Poland (FLAC_SB_2 CD)

This is an excellent soundboard recording of the Page and Plant concert from 17 years ago today. This is a great show, one I've not heard in a long time but am listening to again right now, and it is also from what I consider to be the best Page and Plant tour too.

I've stated in the 1995/1996 posts I've made that I really did not like the strong Middle Eastern musical influence the band had on that tour. I wanted to hear a much more Led Zeppelin sounding performance. I still like and enjoy their shows from the first No Quarter tour in 1995/1996. But their second go at it in their 1998 tour was much more Led Zeppelin sounding and songs like "No Quarter" sounded like what I'd almost expect Led Zeppelin to sound like had they continued on even after John Bonham's death in 1980.

This show was being performed before the new Page and Plant album, Walking Into Clarksdale, had been released. Robert Plant even mentions this before they play the self titled song "Walking Into Clarksdale" too. It seemed Led Zeppelin was always touring before their LP's were released and it looks like Page and Plant were following that old habit.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Page & Plant
Date: February 26th, 1998
Location: Katowice, Silesia, Poland
Venue: Spodek Hall
Title: Going To Katowice
Label: DoubleLiveDiscs (possibly)
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 665 MB
Length: 104:34:71

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. The Wanton Song
102. Bring It On Home
103. Heartbreaker
104. Ramble On
105. Walking Into Clarksdale
106. No Quarter
107. Going To California
108. Tangerine
109. Gallows Pole
110. Burning Up

CD 2:
201. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
202. How Many More Times
203. Most High
204. Whole Lotta Love
205. Thank You
206. Rock And Roll

LINK:
(1) 1998-02-26 Katowice, Poland (SB)

This is an excellent sounding show as well as an excellent performance. There are some parts in the show that make me wonder if this may be just a superb audience recording and not a soundboard. It sounds like a soundboard but a few times I hear some close clapping in between songs. But since it is circulated as a soundboard, and I am sure someone would have determined if it wasn't by now, I believe it most likely is one.

I really wish John Paul Jones had been with Page and Plant and that they had used the late Michael Lee, their drummer for both Page & Plant tours, and had made their first, full concert Led Zeppelin reunion show. This would have been the prime time to have done so and then they could have carried on with some Led Zeppelin shows in a world tour too.

Jason Bonham, who has done a great job in the reunions he has been a part of as he carried on his father John Bonham's legacy, might have worked too. But I personally think he wasn't really up to par at this point and he was going through some troubles of his own back them.

When I met Jason Bonham and sat and talked to him alone as we each had a beer in 1999, he was doing the In The Name of My Father tour. The band he had together played Led Zeppelin songs. And they sounded great too. He was a super nice guy and even signed my ticket stub to the show he and his band played that night with the symbolic John Bonham three circles logo on it too. But without going into any details, he was battling some problems of his own back then. And this was just a year after the Page and Plant 1998 tour too. He was not in the best place to be filling in as the drummer for the guys and they may have known this? And thankfully, Jason got himself together and carried on in the later years and did a great job when Led Zeppelin did reform for their 2007 one show only reunion. I was glad to see them using him and having the (most likely) final Led Zeppelin show ever performed being one that was kept within the Led Zeppelin family.

Getting back on track for this seventeen year old show as of today, the band puts on a great show but I have heard them put on much better shows too. This was their very first time playing in Katowice and just their fourth show of the new tour too. I'm sure they were still getting warmed up and getting settled into the tour. Plant's voice sounds a little untested but he still sounds fine and great. Even Jimmy Page sounds like he is a little "careful" and not as ad-lib playing or making it up as he went along as he later sounded as he got back in the swing of things. But there is absolutely nothing wrong with the show. They just seemed to have gotten a little better as the tour progressed I think. And I know the crowd left the venue on this night and they were not disappointed either.

I hope you enjoy this show...

Bootradr

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1972-02-25 Auckland, New Zealand (FLAC_AUD Source 1_2 CD)

Today is the 43rd anniversary of this Led Zeppelin Auckland, New Zealand show. Akashic, the label, did a great job on this release and it sounds excellent!

I can only guess why the recording is less than 90 minutes. And without any real idea, I'd imagine the taper only brought on 90 minute tape maybe. I don't even know how long tapes were back in 1972, so who knows for sure? But this is what we have and it is really enjoyable.

LINEAGE:
Akashic silver CD's > EAC > WAV > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: February 25th, 1972
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Venue: Western Springs Stadium
Title: Going To Auckalnd
Label: Akashic
Source: AUD (Source 1)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 394 MB
Length: 86:40:52

SETLIST:
CD 1:
201. Immigrant Song (ending) ~ Heartbreaker
102. Black Dog
103. Since I've Been Loving You
104. Stairway To Heaven
105. That's The Way
106. Tangerine
107. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp

CD 2:
201. Dazed And Confused (incomplete)
202. Whole Lotta Love
203. Communication Breakdown

LINK:
(1) 1972-02-25 Auckland, NZ (AUD Source 1/Akashic)

This is not the complete show unfortunately, but regardless of that, it is an excellent recording of what was captured. At times there is a little flutter or static in the left and right channels. But it isn't anything horrible and it definitely is not the show ruining kind of static. Plus, it is very low volume and not the kind that hurts ears or is even very noticeable.

The taper got a really great recording of the show and Robert Plant sounds like he's standing right in front of you. The same goes with the rest of the band's instruments too. This is the source 1 recording and it is surely the best one for this show. I'm not saying the label's copy is necessarily the very best, but I like it a lot.

The Akashic processing of the audio for their silver CD pressings makes the TLH CDDA test look a little suspicious. But this is not a lossy copy.

I hope you enjoy this show..

Bootradr

Journey: 1983-02-22 Nagoya, Japan (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

This was Journey's opening show of their Frontiers tour in 1983 and it was the opening of the Japanese leg of the tour as well. This show is a few days past its 32nd anniversary, and that's my fault. I missed it on its anniversary so I am uploading it tonight.

I really like this show. The sound is good-to-great-to-excellent in my opinion and the band gives a spectacular show in this opening night of the tour. The sound gets better as the show progresses but it also has some distortion at times. I love the ad-lib pieces from the band in the show. Steve Perry's voice is spot on and his vocal range is superb and used a lot in this concert too. The performance by the band is what I find to be the most enjoyable factor in this 2 CD show.

The show has an energy that unfortunately seemed to slow down a little as the music sped up later in the American leg of the tour. It's a well known fact that the band was beginning to fracture from within at this point. But the boys still pulled off an excellent tour, a tour with some great audience recordings and soundboard recordings too, And this night on February 22nd, 1983 may be one of their best performances of this whole Frontiers tour.

LINEAGE:
CD-R from trade > EAC > (unspecified pitch adjustments and pop/click removals software and methods used) > FLAC 8 > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align sectors on boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to double check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: February 22nd, 1983
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Venue: Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
Title: The Edge Of Trouble
Label: Rubicon Reproductions/Stulken Reworked
Source: AUD (speed corrected & fixed version)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 594 MB
Length: 100:50:10

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Elmo's Theme (opening music)
102. Chain Reaction
103. Wheel In The Sky
104. Line Of Fire
105. Still They Ride
106. Open Arms
107. Frontiers
108. Rubicon
109. Edge Of The Blade
110. Who's Crying Now
111. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
112. Steve Smith & Jonathan Cain (drums & keyboards solo)
113. Back Talk

CD 2:
201. No More Lies
202. Stone In Love
203. Keep On Runnin'
204. Any Way You Want It
205. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
206. Escape
207. Don't Stop Believin'
208. After The Fall
209. Send Her My Love
210. Faithfully
211. Elmo's Theme (closing music)

LINK:
(1) 1983-02-22 Nagoya, Japan (AUD)

As I mentioned above, the band sped up their music as they came back to America and each show seemed to be as if they were trying to hurry up and get the song played at a faster tempo to move on to the next one and finish the shows. I don't know what the real reason was for this change? It may have been to just change things up a little since I'm sure playing the same songs night after night, and even year after year, can wear on a band.

This is the speed corrected and fixed version of the Rubicon Production's original The Edge of Trouble CD set that "Stulken" made some fixes and corrections to. And even the fixed version needed some additional fixing which I did when fixing the sector boundary errors (or aligning the tracks on their sector boundaries). But once everything was all done, I burned me a new copy of this show and have been enjoying it tonight.

There are two sets of artwork I have for this show and both are based off of the original Rubicon Reproductions The Edge of Trouble artwork. In fact, one of the copies is the original artwork. The original artwork had errors in the setlist and then "Stulken" added artwork where he changed the text and fonts of the original artwork and it was suppose to have corrected the errors. And for the most part, it did. But the new artwork still has errors of its own too. But both will work fine and the more correct artwork (even though it doesn't mention the song "Frontiers") is the one I'm adding below in this post. I've included both sets of artwork in the artwork folder for you to choose from.

I hope you enjoy this very enjoyable show...

Bootradr

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Journey: 1983-02-24 Osaka, Japan (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

This is a great sounding show from Journey's concert in Osaka 32 years ago today. This was their second show I believe on their Japan leg of the band's Frontiers tour in 1983.

I originally got this show with Japanese FLAC files, or more precisely, Japanese text FLAC files. And that really creates a problem when using programs in English to prepare, check, verify, and even play the files. But after working on the files for about 90 minutes, I was able to do what needed to be done and convert everything over to English where it works properly now.

This is one of the more rare Journey shows out there. Today, on the show's 32nd anniversary, I'll be able to listen to a copy of the show for the first time ever myself. I have burned it to two CD's and I am going to crank it up and experience what I had all but forgotten I had until I found it on my drive today. And that excites me!

LINEAGE:
No lineage given > me > manually renamed FLAC tracks first time with numbers > TLH (to strip headers and decode to WAV files through errors) > WAV > Audacity (to import WAV files, name tracks correctly, and export as WAV again...this enabled being able to check and work with files in TLH) > TLH (to align sectors on their boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to double check for SBE's and create and verify an ffp & md5 file) > you

NOTE:
I accidentally titled the show "Faithfull Tonight" in the embedded metadata.

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: February 24th, 1983
Location: Osaka, Japan
Venue: Furitsu-Taikukan
Title: Faithfully Tonight
Label: Trial
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 694 MB
Length: 107:58:24

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Elmo's Theme (opening music)
102. Chain Reaction
103. Wheel In The Sky
104. Line Of Fire
105. Send Her My Love
106. Still They Ride
107. Open Arms
108. No More Lies
109. Back Talk
110. Jonathan Cain (piano solo)
111. Frontiers
112. Rubicon
113. Steve Smith (drum solo)
114. Edge Of The Blade

CD 2:
201. Faithfully
202. Who's Crying Now
203. Don't Stop Believin'
204. Stone In Love
205. Keep On Runnin'
206. Any Way You Want It
207. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
208. Escape
209. After The Fall
210. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

LINK:
(1) 1983-02-24 Osaka, Japan (AUD)

The show is a great sounding show, however; it is not excellent or superb sounding (yet). But with some time spent on a good remastering, something I may do soon, this could easily be upgraded to an excellent show I am positive.

UPDATE 1: This show sounds a lot better through the home theater system than I even first realized through the PC. I really like it. Some parts are better than others, but it is very enjoyable as I jam out now!

The show does not sound bad at all and you shouldn't worry about that. The band can be heard fine but the taper sounds like he or she was a little ways away from the stage and the show sounds like it could use a little amplification too. And there is plenty of room to do this you can easily see when viewing the waveform. So, keep a lookout for an upgrade sometime soon.

UPDATE 2 (2015-10-18): The better sounding source and remastered copy of this show in the lossless format can now be found HERE

I hope you enjoy this show...

Bootradr

Monday, February 23, 2015

Rik Emmett: 1990-10-26 Cleveland, OH (FLAC_SB/FM_1 CD)

This is an excellent sounding Rik Emmett concert I believe was broadcast live via WMMS FM in 1990. I had promised to upload this one over a month ago, and my memory failed me until I saw it ready to upload. And after just a few short things I had to do to finish the project, here it is. I'm sorry to the person that requested it for the delay.

LINEAGE:
CD-R trade > EAC > WAV > FLAC 8 > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Rik Emmett
Date: October 26th, 1990
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Venue: Empire Concert Club
Title: None
Label: None
Source: SB/FM BX (possibly live)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size:519 MB
Length: 71:55:57

SETLIST:
01. Stand And Deliver
02. Somebody's Out There Somewhere
03. Carry On The Flame
04. Lay It On The Line
05. Big Lie
06. Fantasy Serenade
07. Midsummer's Dram
08. Rik Emmett talking ! Suitcase Blues
09. Pizza
10. Hold On
11. Saved By Love

LINK:
(1) 1990-10-26 Cleveland, OH (SB/FM)

This is an interesting live recording. The crowd is very loud and excited in this show. And unlike most live FM recordings, they can be heard a lot. It's still an excellent sounding show and performance though. And unlike the later years of Emmett solo shows where he played a lot of acoustic music and had a boombox with a CD playing other instruments instead of musicians, this is a full band show without prerecorded music being used.

I was looking online at a site from someone who had attended this show and it looks like the very last song, "Magic Power", is not in this broadcasted recording or else the person that recorded the FM broadcast left it out of their share. Too bad since it is such a great Triumph song.

Anyhow, I'm making a fast upload of this show since I took so long getting it uploaded. And I'm sorry once again for it taking me this long to get it uploaded.

I hope you enjoy this show...

Bootradr

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1977-06-21 Inglewood, CA (DVD-A_AUD_LPCM)

After the Winston Remasters FLAC upload of this show two days ago, the copy mistakenly added without "The Song Remains The Same", I did some research and learned something I had not been aware of before. And as a temporary replacement until I can re-upload the full remastered copy of the Winston Remasters remastered show, I'm uploading what is either better than or equal to (in my opinion) the Winston Remasters copy and this is the Genuine Masters DVD-A of Listen To This Eddie - Collector's Edition. Both the WR and GM copies of the show use the Mike Millard source audio.

While trying to find the missing song from the other day's upload, "The Song Remains The Same", I realized there are a number of Winston Remasters copies associated with this 1977-06-21 show and the title Mike The Mike. There is a 2004 Mike The Mike sourced from the Millard AUD first generation cassette and remastered as well as a 2007 copy too sourced from a first generation Hi-Fi VHS copy that was remastered. But as well as the remastered copies, there are also unaltered copies that Winston Remasters also shared. And that doesn't even include the two sources copy I uploaded the other day (I don't think).

I've downloaded four copies of this show since two days ago with one copy still not completely obtained yet. I already had a couple of unaltered copies, and I believe I have them all now (the WR ones) with the exception of the primary one I want. It is stuck at 89.2% complete on some unknown torrent site and with no seeders now. It is the 1.25 GB 2007 Winston Remasters remastered copy. But I am confident I will get it eventually.

I could continue on with details that would scramble your brain like it has been doing to mine as I try obtaining information on (a) what is the difference in each copy and (b) what is considered to be the best copy of the Winston Remasters versions out there. But there is no need to get bogged down in all of those details, and especially in this post.

So without further ado, here is the Genuine Masters, superb sounding, audio DVD of the show and I know you will enjoy it. It is complete with "The Song Remains The Same" and is complete with a psychedelic art and pictures kind of slideshow of images from the concert as the concert plays. The slideshow displays on your TV or PC screen as the music plays. Plus, the images are formatted to fit the 16:9 aspect ratio widescreen TV sets or PC monitors too. In other words, they fill the screen!

LINEAGE:
Trade DVD-R > PC > me > TLH (to create a new md5 file) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 21st, 1977
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: The Forum
Source: AUD
Format: DVD-A
DVD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Label: Genuine Masters
Title: Listen To This Eddie - Collector's Edition
Length: 3:15:00

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Slideshow: Yes
Size: 4.33 GB

VIDEO:
Format: NTSC
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 16:9
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 3000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 1536 kbps
Codec: LPCM
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

SETLIST/CHAPTERS:
01. Intro
02. The Song Remains The Same
03. The Rover
04. Sick Again
05. Nobody's Fault But Mine
06. Over The Hills And Far Away
07. Since I've Been Loving You
08. No Quarter
09. Ten Years Gone
10. The Battle Of Evermore
11. Going To California
12. Black Country Woman
13. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
14. White Summer/Black Mountain Side
15. Kashmir
16. Moby Dick
17. Heartbreaker
18. Jimmy Page (violin bow guitar solo)
19. Achilles Last Stand
20. Stairway To Heaven
21. Whole Lotta Love
22. Rock And Roll

LINKS:
(1) 1977-06-21 Inglewood, CA (AUD DVD-A/GM)
(2) 1977-06-21 Inglewood, CA (AUD DVD-A/GM)
(3) 1977-06-21 Inglewood, CA (AUD DVD-A/GM)

SAMPLE:
YouTube Sample ("Since I've Been Loving You")

As I have started doing lately, the sample video clip above is on YouTube where I uploaded it and I am not embedding it into this post where it displays here. Something has gone wrong with doing it that way on Blogspot's site, and besides, it will sound and look better on the YouTube site anyhow.

Always remember, a smaple is a lossy format example of something off of the lossless quality download. It is near impossible to find a site that will stream or display a lossless format piece of video or audio on the internet. There are a few sites you can pay for and listen to lossless quality audio on, but I still have never seen one where you can upload and stream your own lossless product on. They may or may not be out there? But I'm not going to pay for anything I don't have to and especially just to post a sample on anyhow.

I will get the Winston Remasters remastered and unaltered best copies (in my opinion) up here on my site sooner or later. But until then, you won't be disappointed by this Genuine Masters DVD-A of the show either. Genuine Masters does great work. And even though I don't know what generation this source they used here on their DVD-A is, I imagine it is the first generation Millard recording. This is Genuine Masters second DVD-A of this show and it is an upgrade too! Thier first, 2004, 2 DVD-A copy used photos from the Seattle 1977 show and it did not sound as good either. This copy and their second attempt was done right and with the widescreen images and LPCM audio to make it a masterpiece and very enjoyable three hours, fifteen minutes of Led Zeppelin music and images.

I am not sure at this point if a true remastering (Winston Remasters or otherwise) has even been done on the unmarked Millard first generation tapes for this show that surfaced recently. I am trying to determine this even now.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Page & Plant: 1996-02-20 Fukuoka, Japan (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

Yesterday was this show's 19th anniversary and it was the very last Japan show of the Page and Plant No Quarter tour too. This recording is another superb and spectacular recording like most of the shows are in this 20 CD set! Every show was at a minimum an excellent recording with the majority of them being superb sounding recordings.

I was busy and gone for part of the day yesterday, so I never had a chance to upload it on its 19th anniversary. But I'm going ahead and making this fast post before going to bed this early morning so that the full set will be available to anyone who wants it and doesn't have it yet.

These are CD's 19 and 20 out of the 20 CD Hoochie Coochie box set of the entire Page and Plant Japan leg of their No Quarter tour. I hope you've enjoyed all of the Japan shows already shared and you enjoy this last show too.

Hoochie Coochie did a superb job on this 20 CD box set and there was no audio clipping throughout all 20 discs when viewing their waveforms. If anyone ever comes across full artwork scans or a site with the artwork for the different show, please leave a comment and let me know. I'd love to add it to the incomplete artwork 2 CD sets just to form a complete package and replace this low resolution artwork also.

LINEAGE:
Hoochie Coochie silvers > EAC > FLAC 8 > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Page & Plant
Date: February 20th, 1996
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Venue: Marine Messe
Title: 10 Days
Label: Hoochie Coochie
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (partial)
Size: 802 MB
Length: 131:50:41

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
102. Ramble On
103. Custard Pie
104. Heartbreaker
105. Wonderful One
106. The Song Remains The Same
107. The Rain Song
108. Celebration Day
109. hurdy gurdy instrument solo
110. Gallows Pole
111. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 2:
201. Whole Lotta Love
202. In The Evening
203. Four Sticks
204. Kashmir
205. Black Dog
206. Rock And Roll

LINK:
(1) 1996-02-20 Fukuoka, Japan (AUD/Hoochie Coochie CD's 19-20)

Robert Plant really messes up and forgets the lyrics and where to pick back up on the second song Ramble On. But as always, he and Jimmy get back on track and just keep rambling on. But throughout these Japan shows Jimmy Page kept getting better and better I think. He really sounds great in this show! Plant sounds great too, but Page really shines and stands out and the recording is practically soundboard sounding as the music is playing. It is that clean and superb.

There really was nothing special in the setlist on this last night like I expected there to be. I guess the guys were just ready to get the show over with, take a break, and move on to Australia and finish the last leg of the tour. I mentioned this earlier in another post, but I'll say it a second time in case anyone missed it. I was mistaken when I made numerous posts saying the Japan shows were the last leg of the No Quarter tour. I totally had forgotten about their Australian dates that ran through 1996-03-01.

Thanks goes to "Amduscia" for the EAC rips of all 20 of his silver CD's from his Hoockie Coochie box ser and for sharing them with us!

I hope you enjoy this show...

Bootradr

Friday, February 20, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1972-02-20 Melbourne, Australia (FLAC_AUD Source 1 & 2 Mix_2 CD)

This is a great recording of the Led Zeppelin concert 43 years ago today in Melbourne, Australia. This is the TDOLZ label recording and it uses a mix of the source 1 and source 2 recordings.

I thought I had done an EAC rip on my 2 CD copy of Melbourne Masters a year or two ago, and I was going to upload that one on its 43rd birthday. But it seems I never did the EAC rip on it and I was too busy and gone most of today so I just randomly chose this TDOLZ copy. But the more I listen to it, it is very, very enjoyable and really more of an excellent recording instead of just a great recording (in my opinion...see my ratings in "STICKY NOTES").

The crowd noise is very low, when not cut out in between songs, in this recording. I'm not sure if the crowds were just quiet or if the taper had a great location or directional microphone(s)? Then again, like Robert Plant told the crowd in the previous day's show in Perth as well as this show, "Shut up!" He appears to be hearing crowd noise during the acoustic songs the taper's microphone did not pick up. I'd say the taper was pretty close to the stage too with the sound in this recording. And that would explain why we don't hear the noise or crowd Plant is telling to "Shut up" too I guess? This really is a clean sounding recording and especially for a 1972 audience recording.

LINEAGE:
TDOLZ silver CD's > EAC > WAV > TLH > FLAC 8 > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: February 20th, 1972
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Venue: Kooyong Stadium
Title: Acoustically
Label: TDOLZ
Source: AUD (Source 1 & 2 Mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 602 MB
Length: 92:31:34

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Immigrant Song
102. Heartbreaker
103. Black Dog
104. Since I've Been Loving You
105. Stairway To Heaven
106. Going To California
107. That's The Way
108. Tangerine
109. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp

CD 2:
201. Dazed And Confused
202. Rock And Roll
203. Whole Lotta Love

LINK:
(1) 1972-02-20 Melbourne, Australia (AUD 2 Source Mix/TDOLZ)

I didn't realize this until I was getting ready to upload this show, but this is another date I never have added to my site yet. And so was yesterdays' Perth show as well as a lot of others lately.

I personally prefer the Melbourne Masters copy myself, but this show sounds really enjoyable and very easy to listen too. I'll do an EAC rip of the Melbourne Masters CD's or add the DVD-A of it sometime soon enough I'm sure. The EVSD disc recent release of Thunder Down Under, which came with version A and version B CD sets for all of the Australian and New Zealand shows from this 1972, had too much of a mix I didn't like as much. It wasn't bad, but it sounded a little too muddy to me. This copy of the TDOLZ upload here I almost didn't go with because I thought it had too much of a high, tinny mix at first. But it still seemed to sound better as I did a short sample of the copies (a few others too) of this show in my rush to get it uploaded on its 43rd birthday.

This isn't the best copy I've already said (in my opinion), but I also have already said it is getting better the more I listen to it. I'm up to "Dazed and Confused" (Page does some superb work in this song that is very unique and seldom done in this same solo manner) . As those who have been listening to live recordings for years all know, the more you listen to a show the better it it starts sounding as your ears adjust to the mix and overall sound.

The one problem with the Australian tapers is they seem to have a tendency to cut the tape recorder off in between songs and that causes them to sometimes miss the first second or two of a song. Maybe they didn't get a lot of practice like the tapers in Japan, Europe, and America did back in these days? Maybe there was a tape shortage? I don't know. But it is unfortunate that they didn't just bring enough tapes and leave the recorders rolling. Some tapers in some shows did of course. But starting off on this one and only Led Zeppelin tour that ever happened in Australia (and New Zealand too), the first show has never had a tape surface and the next two shows have the tapers cutting the recorders off in between songs and causing incomplete recordings. But at least we have an audible record and documentation of the shows, and they really sound great for the most part too, so how can we complain?

Thanks goes out to "fishey" for the sharing of this EAC rip of the TDOLZ silvers!

I hope you enjoy this show..

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 1973-03-24 Offenurg, Germany (FLAC_AUD Source 1 & 2 Mix_2 CD)

Here is another show that was recently requested and I had some time to get uploaded before I try to go to bed tonight. This is the Eddie Edwards two source mix of the Offenburg, Germany concert on 1973-03-24.

This two source mix is made up of the source 1, unknown generation audio and the source 2, third generation audio. Source 1 is the better sound and is the primary audio source in this copy. The source 2, third generation recording is used to fill in a gap missing in "Dazed and Confused" and for missing audio between tracks (i.e the crowd and some band talk).

LINEAGE:
(1) Source 1: Unknown Gen tape > DAT > CD-R
(2) Source 2: 3rd Gen tape > DAT > CD-R
(3) No lineage given after "CD-R" > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: March 24th, 1973
Location: Offenburg, Germany
Venue: Orthanauhalle
Title: A Little Bit Warm
Label: Eddie Edwards
Source: AUD (Source 1 Unknown Gen & Source 2 3rd Gen Mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 803 MB
Length: 127:04:41

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Rock And Roll
102. Over The Hills And Far Away
103. Black Dog
104. Misty Mountain Hop
105. Since I've Been Loving You
106. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
107. The Song Remains The Same
108. The Rain Song

CD 2:
201. Dazed And Confused
202. Stairway To Heaven
203. Whole Lotta Love
204. Heartbreaker

LINK:
(1) 1973-03-24 Offenburg, Germany (AUD 2 Source Mix/EE)

This is a great stereo recording, but one channel in the audio had some problems and it resulted in some sound issues in parts of the show unfortunately. From what I have read, someone did a mono conversion of the show in another copy (I don't have) removing the bad channel and replacing it with the good channel's audio. But the information also said it really ruined the show and took away from the already great sound. So this is still the better recording.

The sound in this copy being shared now has been referred to as a "3D stereo sound" from what I was reading. I'm not fully sure what that means when listening to the show, but it is an enjoyable recording and a great show from the band.

The audio problems mentioned are not throughout the entire show but do occur and mess up some songs. The source 1 recording, again the best, is the most widely known and used source on the shows out there and it also is the source with the audio issues. So unless you're listening to a lesser source not sounding as good, you will hear what I'm talking about.

The zipped folder/file for this show has a long name. So I recommend unzipping it in a short path folder (like C:\\0) temporarily and then moving the files where you want to put them in order to avoid any unzipping issues.

I hope you enjoy this show..

Bootradr

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1972-02-19 Adelaide, Australia (DVD-A_AUD_LPCM)

Today is the 43rd anniversary of this Led Zeppelin concert in Adelaide, Australia. And I really like this DVD-A copy made by Genuine Masters and with the high quality LPCM audio too.

This DVD-A has a great psychedelic artwork mixed with shots of the band as they performed in Australia slideshow as the music plays.

I've not listened to this show in a year or so, but I know the taper stopped the recorder between songs sometimes and even chopped at least two songs short. Unfortunately, "Tangerine" was on the chopping block and we only have a small part of it. I went ahead and checked the disc and "Mony Dick" is fairly long but also cut short too. And last, but not least, sadly enough "Whole Lotta Love" seems to run out of tape nearing the end of the song but before it finishes. And with that song, they may have gone on for another hour too :-)

Also, while I'm not sure if Led Zeppelin did this or not in this show, they probably played "Communication Breakdown" and maybe even had the John Paul Jones organ solo leading into "Thank You" too. I'm guessing the taper just didn't bring enough tape with him, but again, I don't know for sure.

This is really an excellent recording and all the instruments ans well as Robert Plant can be heard easily and cleanly. It's too bad the taper had a little problem with the bass end on his equipment, but it is not horrible or show ruining at all. And not all bass is distorted either. I don't want to give that impression at all. It's just at some points in the show it is distorted a little in the real heavy (musically) parts of some songs. Page's guitar sounds so good too in this recording and he is on fire in this show.

LINEAGE:
Genuine Masters silver DVD > HD > DVD-R > me > TLH (to create a new md5 file) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: February 19, 1972
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Venue: Memorial Drive Park
Source: AUD
Format: DVD-A
DVD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Label: Genuine Masters
Title: Memorial Adelaide
Length: 1:36:07

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Slideshow: Yes
Size: 4.18 GB

VIDEO:
Format: NTSC
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 4500 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 1536 kbps
Codec: LPCM
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

SETLIST/CHAPTERS:
01. intro
02. Immigrant Song
03. Heartbreaker
04. Black Dog
05. Since I've Been Loving You
06. Stairway To Heaven
07. Going To California
08. That's The Way
09. Tangerine (cut short)
10. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
11. Dazed And Confused
12. Moby Dick
13. Whole Lotta Love

LINKS:
(1) 1972-02-19 Adelaide, Australia (AUD DVD-A/GM)
(2) 1972-02-19 Adelaide, Australia (AUD DVD-A/GM)

SAMPLE:
YouTube Sample ("Going to California" and "That's The Way")

I was going to upload a FLAC copy of this show since so many people ask for those when DVD-A uploads happen, but this is the better sounding version. And with all the free and easy to use DVD burning programs available, it is not hard to learn to burn a disc like this at all. In most programs you just pick the "VIDEO_TS folder as the source and the program does the rest.

Also, for some reason I have not determined yet, the DVD-A discs zip up much smaller than their full size. These two zipped files are a 900 MB part 1 and 271 MB part 2 zipped file set uploaded. That's not really much larger that a 3 CD shows and smaller than some. I think what WinRAR does on non moving video (or slideshows) is compress the video part or the images. The audio doesn't change and is the same.

I've tried zipping the DVD-A's up like we do FLAC files or actual DVD video files where they come out the same size zipped up as they do unzipped. But it just can't be done. But my point is this. It really isn't much larger of a file than you'd get downloading a 2 CD copy of the show.

The previous information only seems to apply to what is more correctly termed Audio DVD's and not the real DVD-A discs that have audio files in the AUDIO_TS folder too. There is a way to build a better DVD-A but few people or labels do that. They just build these Audio DVD's with the audio inside of the video files (or VOB files). Don't worry if this makes no sense to you because it's just information and not necessarily anything you need to know in order to burn or use the DVD.

The FLAC copies I have for this show, one being a master source copy, all had to much bass distortion when compared to this Genuine Masters copy. They sounded good, and one day I'll upload some of them too. But the recordings were heavier on the bass and I wanted to upload a cleaner sounding copy and one that can be burned to one disc and watched too. Ripping a DVD's audio is also easy if you want to do that and make a FLAC version. I might even do that some day myself.

Since I've been having problems uploading the link via Blogspot where it shows here in my post, I just added the sample link above and you can look over on the lossy YouTube site and see the sample if you want to.

I hope you enjoy this 43 year old show...

Bootradr