Led Zeppelin: 1975-03-11 Long Beach, CA (FLAC_AUD Source 1 Master & Source 2 Patch_3CD)

Today is the 41st anniversary of this awesome Led Zeppelin show in Long Beach, California and it was their first performance out of two in a row in Long Beach on this 1975 Physical Graffiti tour.  Of course the source 1, or primary, recording is the Mike Millard tapes and the material used to patch missing gaps is the source 2 material (barely used).

I'm listing this as it was shared.  However, I do not think this is a master Mike Millard source because what we have available is first generation copies of his tapes.  Not that this makes much difference sound wise with the high quality taping that Millard did when he was alive.

LINEAGE:
Badgeholders silver CD's > Sonic Solutions 24 bit digital remaster > 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 11th, 1975
Location: Long Beach, California
Venue: Long Beach Arena
Title: California Sunshine
Label: Badgeholders
Source: AUD (Source 1 Master...1st Gen & Source 2 Patch)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes
Size: 1004 MB (.98 GB)
Length: 164:46:20

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Rock And Roll
102. Sick Again
103. Over The Hills And Far Away
104. In My Time Of Dying
105. The Song Remains The Same
106. The rain Song
107. 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 ~ The Crunge
304. Black Dog

LINKS:
(1) 1975-03-11 Long Brach, CA (AUD 1st Gen/Badgeholders)
(2) 1975-03-11 Long Brach, CA (AUD 1st Gen/Badgeholders)

I really like this specific Badgeholders release of this show.  It is one of the more complete copies and has an excellent, full range of sound in the mix.  To my ears, this is one of the very best recordings and mixes of this show.

There is some slight audio clipping in a few tracks but it is very minor amounts and nothing to worry about.  There is one thing I did notice while listening to the show with headphones and looking at the waveform.  The audio is slightly heavier in the left channel.  I doubt many, if any, people would even notice this if they were just listening through their home theater setup or not listening with headphones.  In fact, listening with headphones you soon forget about it too and it becomes unnoticeable.  But looking at the waveform you can tell it is ever so slightly heavier in the left channel.  Badgeholders could have balanced this but I guess they never noticed it.

Badgeholders did amplify the audio it looks like but it creates no problems.  They did a great job on this one and especially when you compare it to most of the other labels and their lack of perfecting the sound they don't exhibit many times.  In fact, some have messed up their releases with their lack of knowledge and what they did with EQ'ing the audio and similar changes.

I uploaded the another excellent copy of this show in the past which is the Winston Remasters copy.  Both of these copies, as well as the unaltered first generation unmarked copy, are my favorites for this specific 1975 performance.  The recording done by Millard was so professional sounding that even a messed up copy of this show still sounds excellent most times.  It's hard to ruin such a great job they had to work with.

HERE is the link to my previous Winston Remasters upload two years ago if anyone wants to compare it or just get it for their collection.  You cannot go wrong either way.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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