Page & Plant: 1996-02-12 Tokyo, Japan (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

Today is the 19th anniversary of this show and the date Page and Plant pick back up after a couple of days break on their 1996 Japan leg of their No Quarter tour.  Today's discs are CD's 9 and 10 out of the set of 20.  And this is the fifth night's show in the ending, Japan leg of the tour.  There are five more shows left to go so we are at the halfway point now.

The new song this night is "Custard Pie" and I like seeing that one in the setlist!  And this is the very first night the band truly got "Tea For One" right.  Even in the 1996-12-09 show they still didn't have it starting out just right.  I guess they practiced it on their break and got it down finally.  My favorite performance of it is this night and the next night's show which we have video of too.  And I like the changed up a little "That's The Way" version they play too.  It really is cool.

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 12th, 1996
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Budokan Hall
Title: 10 Days
Label: Hoochie Coochie
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (partial)
Size: 655 MB
Length: 128:04:62

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. intro
102. Immigrant Song (Intro)
103. The Wanton Song
104. Bring It On Home
105. Heartbreaker
106. Ramble On
107. No Quarter
108. hurdy gurdy instrument solo
109. Gallows Pole
110. Tea For One
111. The Song Remains The Same
112. Going To California
113. That's The Way
114. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

CD 2:
201. Whole Lotta Love
202. Yallah
203. Four Sticks
204. Kashmir
205. Custard Pie
206. Rock And Roll

LINK:
(1) 1996-02-12 Tokyo, Japan (AUD/Hoochie Coochie CD's 9-10)

As with the previous and forthcoming EAC rips and shares of this 20 CD set, all thanks goes to "Amduscia" for providing them to us to enjoy and listen too!

This show is an excellent recording but not as superb sounding as the last one they had played (sound wise) on 1996-02-09 before the band took a couple off days to have a break.  And Jimmy Page sounds really good on the guitar, and Robert Plant sounds good too.

I don't know how long it has been since I have listened to this complete show?  But it's been long enough that I can't really write up a good review of it.  I'm listening as I make this post hurriedly.  But I'll attempt to point out some things that may be of interest to others.

I am noticing some flaws from the taper at times like pointing the microphone down or having it blocked by someone possibly for short moments.  The sounds is not as rich or full range sounding either and that is likely from the gear and the microphone the taper used as well as where they may have been seated.  But one thing is for sure.  The show does not sound bad at all.  It sounds excellent and it is very easy to enjoy it too.

In addition, the Japanese crowds have always been the best and they make it easy to record a show because they don't chat during songs, they cheer between songs when the band finishes and before they start the next song, and they just seem to be more polite than most other regions of the world.  It makes for such a perfect, almost studio/soundboard type of audience recording when crowds are like this.  But the Japanese definitely show their love and appreciation for the music in the right moments too.

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I hope you enjoy this excellent show...

Bootradr

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