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

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Stevie Nicks: 1989-10-06 Houston, TX (FLAC_SB/FM_1 CD)

Here's another excellent Stevie Nicks show from my hometown of Houston. If I remember correctly, this is one of the more rare Nicks tours as far as recordings go. This was her tour for the album The Other Side of The Mirror. I know I have a DVD of this tour too but I need to rebuild it and add at least chapters because it came without any.

LINEAGE:
FM broadcast (WGIR FM Manchester) > Yamaha 500 receiver with digital tuner and wire antenna > NAK. BX-100 cassette deck (Dolby off) > almost never played Maxell XLII-S 90 minute. master cassette > played on Tascam 112 into Soundforge (WAV) > FLAC (sector boundaries aligned) > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Stevie Nicks
Date: September 6th, 1986
Location: Houston, Texas
Venue: Houston Summit
Title: None
Label: This And That Production
Source: SB/FM
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 507 MB
Length: 71:25:35

SETLIST:
01. Superstar Concert Series intro
02. Outside The Rain
03. Dreams
04. Rooms Of Fire
05. Gold Dust Woman
06. Stand Back
07. Alice
08. No Spoken Word
09. Beauty And The Beast
10. Whole Lotta Trouble
11. Two Kinds Of Love
12. Edge Of Seventeen
13. Nightbird
14. Has Anyone Written Anything For You

LINK:
(1) 1989-10-06 Houston, TX

I'm surprised I didn't go to this show back in 1989. I believe I recall the commercials for this tour, but then again it could have been the 1986 tour I'm thinking of too. Either way, I know I didn't go because (a) I'd remember it and (b) I still have never seen Stevie Nicks live. I'd love to see her but the ticket prices for her and for Fleetwood Mac too are through the roof.

Fleetwood Mac is touring right now in 2014 and I'd love to get a chance to see and record their show. I've seen a number of shows surfacing lately but have not got any from the 2014 tour yet. To be honest, i was a little disappointed by their last tour in 2012 I believe. Lindsay Buckingham, while starting out strong in the 2012 shows I got, seemed to start playing in a very non Fleetwood Mac sounding style in the shows. His old style of excellent rock and roll, as in the 1975 - 1979 era of the band, seems lost in the past in most shows today. And that's too bad because this is a talented band that has made some excellent music over the years.

I guess I'll get off of Fleetwood Mac and finish up with posting this Stevie Nicks show. If you are a fan of Nicks you will like this show because both the recording and her voice sound excellent. Unlike a few shows in previous years, she seems very on track and in control over her performance and what she says during it. She sounds undeniably Stevie Nicks!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY! NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE. THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Stevie Nicks: 1986-09-06 Weedsport, NY (FLAC_SB/FM_1 CD)

I've been skipping a lot of other artists lately and primarily just uploading Led Zeppelin shows. I'm not saying that is a bad thing. I just think it's time I branch out again and start adding some more music from artists I also like. Besides, I don't think Led Zeppelin was playing anywhere "X amount of years ago today" in October anyhow :-)

This is an excellent sounding Stevie Nicks partial concert broadcast over FM radio a number of years back. Peter Frampton is featured on the track "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" as a backup singer and guitarist.

LINEAGE:
FM radio BX > 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 6 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

* See lossiness notes below download link

DETAILS:
Artist: Stevie Nicks
Date: September 6th, 1986
Location: Weedsport, New York
Venue: Cuyattoga Fairgrounds
Title: Weedsport 1986
Label: None
Source: SB/FM
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 277 MB
Length: 71:25:35

SETLIST:
01. Outside The Rain
02. Dreams
03. Talk To Me
04. I Need To Know
05. Beauty And The Beast
06. Leather And Lace
07. Stand Back
08. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
09. How Still My Love
10. Edge Of Seventeen
11. Rhiannon

LINK:
(1) 1986-09-06 Weedsport, NY

I cannot say without a doubt this is a lossless source recording right now. It tests lossy (MPEG) with TLH. But TLH is notorious for not giving correct readings on FM radio broadcasted shows too. With the amount of work the original sharing party put into this show, I have a good feeling it is lossless and not lossy. But again, I cannot be for sure and especially without a frequency analysis or spectral analysis on the audio tracks. I'm going ahead and uploading the show in the FLAC format like I got it. If I'm able to determine it is lossy in the future I will correct this post.

Stevie Nicks sounds really great vocally in this show and the mix is very sharp and clean too in the recording. The only change I noticed listening earlier was the volume drop during the very last track "Rhiannon". It can still be heard fine. It just sounds like the receiver was turned down or the broadcast volume was lowered a little as the song gets moving.

I was comparing a few other Nicks shows that were also FM broadcasts a little earlier and this was one of the top ones in sound and clarity I do believe. At least in the 5 different FM broadcast I was looking at this was the case as I checked them before transferring them to the master hard drive with the rest of the Stevie Nicks shows are stored.

I'm having problems sleeping tonight so I may upload another Stevie Nicks show or two (or some other artist). If you have an artist you haven't seen here and you'd like too, just leave a comment in the most recent post and I'll upload something from them if I have them. And as long as they aren't something I hate (like rap or hip hop), I'll even try and find a recording of the artist if i don't have then and if you let me know what you'd like to hear in a comment. So let me know!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Monday, October 13, 2014

Led Zeppelin: 1969-01-26 Boston, MA (FLAC_AUD 2nd Gen_2 CD)

This is the fourth night in Led Zeppelin's inital first time playing in Boston. I'm guessing this show must have been added on after the first three dates because of posters and newspaper articles I've seen referring to the 23rd, 24th, & 25th dates only. This is an excellent recording!

LINEAGE:2nd Gen tape > CD-R(3) > EAC > WAV > FLAC > TLH > tested for SBE's > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform and embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: January 26th, 1969
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Boston Tea Party
Title: Tight But Loose
Label: Tarantura
Source: AUD (2nd Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (has wrong info on it, read below)
Size: 587 MB
Length: 91:47:55

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Train Kept A Rollin'
102. I Can't Quit You Baby
103. Killing Floor (including The Lemon Song)
104. Dazed And Confused
105. You Shook Me
106. Communication Breakdown

CD 2:
201. White Summer/Black Mountain Side
202. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
203. Pat's Delight
204. How Many More Times

LINK:
(1) 1969-01-26 Boston (2nd Gen Tarantura)

The artwork for this show is way off and completely wrong with the date and venue. It claims this recording as the 1969-02-01 Fillmore East show in New York. It is definitely not that location or date and is Boston 1969-01-26.

This copy sounds better to me than the one I initially uploaded HERE. It is a cleaner recording and even Plant's vocals, as well as other instruments and playing, can be heard better and cleaner. Page's guitar takes precedent still but the recording and show sound better than the Cobra/Trade Mark of Quality label Killing Floor.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 1969-01-23 Boston, MA (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen_1 CD)

This is Led Zeppelin's first show in Boston. It was the first of four nights they played in a row and the first time ever they played there at all. Currently, we have two of the four nights recorded. This night, or the first night, and the 1969-01-26 show which was the fourth and last night before they returned again a few months later for three more shows starting on May 27th. Both recordings from the January Boston shows are great and I have already uploaded the last night's show in the past.

I have another copy of the 1969-01-26 show I may upload here in a little while today. I really like the 1/26 show because Jimmy Page's guitar is really up front and the person recording was obviously in front of Page's amps. It comes at the expense of hearing Plant and other members as well, but Page was on fire that night and it really is worth it!

LINEAGE:
Master reel > analog 1st Gen (A1) > DAT (4) > CD-R (4) > EAC > FLAC 8 > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, amplify 3.5 db, and embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: January 23rd, 1969
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Boston Tea Party
Title: None
Label: None
Source: AUD (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 293 MB
Length: 47:55:42

SETLIST:
01. Train Kept A Rollin'
02. I Can't Quit You Baby
03. As Long As I Have You
04. Dazed And Confused
05. You Shook Me

LINK:
(1) 1969-01-23 Boston (1st Gen)

Led Zeppelin, the band's first album, Robert Plant is not sure if it has been released yet in the United States he tells the crowd before "I Can't Quit You Baby". The band seem to be spending some time tuning up and getting ready before the songs too. After all, they had only been touring three or four months at this point and on their very first tour.

Storms are raging in my area so I'm going to hurry and finish this post up, upload it, and hopefully get it all done before the power cuts off again!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Led Zeppelin: 1969-04-27 San Francisco, CA (DVD-A_SB Master/AUD 2nd Gen Matrix_Both Sets)

It is completely unbelievable that I have never uploaded this superb show before! It's so far from normal understanding that I thought I had at some point and guess I just never checked until today. I'm still thinking I have but somehow am missing it here, but it sure doesn't look that way.

This is one of my five top Led Zeppelin shows on the list of the best ones. It is that good! The second set was my first Led Zeppelin unreleased recording I ever got too. It sounded nothing near as good as the more recent decades of copies have. Plus, it was the audience recording I got and not the soundboard way back then too. But I loved it just the same.

This is both sets at the Fillmore West, a venue renown for excellent Led Zeppelin shows on their 1969 tour. This is a DVD-A (DVD audio with slideshow and video segments). And I like the way Genuine Masters built this DVD-A too.

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: April 27th, 1969
Location: San Francisco, California
Venue: Fillmore West
Source: SB/AUD (SB Master & AUD 2nd Gen Patch)
Format: DVD-A
DVD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Label: Genuine Masters
Title: The Devil's Blues

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Size: 4.34 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:
SET 1:
01. Train Kept A Rollin'
02. I Can't Quit You Baby
03. As Long As I Have You
04. You Shook Me
05. How Many More Times
06. Communication Breakdown

SET 2:
07. Killing Floor
08. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
09. White Summer/Black Mountain Side
10. Sitting And Thinking
11. Pat's Delight
12. Dazed And Confused

LINKS:
(1) 1969-04-27 San Francisco (GM DVD-A)
(2) 1969-04-27 San Francisco (GM DVD-A
(3) 1969-04-27 San Francisco (GM DVD-A)

I like how Genuine Masters added video to the project instead of it being all slideshow oriented like most DVD-A projects are. I could have lived without the graphic cartoon artwork representations of the band however. It's just not the way I want picture the band jamming out if you know what I mean. But with the LPCM audio and the excellent production Genuine Masters is known fo, I really don't have too many complaints.

The show really sounds superb too. I'm not saying it is the definitive sound out of the different copies of the show I have. But it is not anything at all worth worrying about quality wise either. And I will be uploading other copies of the show over time too including what I think is the definitive copy. The soundboard based copies are all superb with excellent stereo separation!

Thanks goes to Greg Z. for making this DVD-A available. I'd seen it mentioned over a few years, had a FLAC audio rip of the DVD-A, but did not have the DVD-A itself. And I like DVD-A projects because (a) the show is usually on one disc, (b) it is almost always in a higher quality audio, and (c) you usually have some sort of slideshow or video to watch as you listen to the show. I plan on watching this one myself today when I get back home!

Speaking of getting back home...I'm uploading this remotely this morning so there is no text file in the upload. There was not one to begin with, and since I wanted to get the show uploaded while I was gone, I uploaded it without a description/information text file. You can copy & paste this post's content into a text file and save it if you want one. But since I didn't have time to make a "Bootradr's info" file and since there was no "info" file originally, I had to get it uploading without one before I left yesterday.

Enjoy the show...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY! NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE. THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL & MERCHANDISE TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Friday, October 10, 2014

Led Zeppelin: 1972-10-10 Kyoto, Japan (FLAC_AUD Source 2 1st Gen & Source 1 3rd Gen Patch_2 CD)

As promised, here's the Led Zeppelin Kyoto show from 42 years ago today. Who would have imagined that almost half a century later we'd still be sharing excellent recordings like this one of these historic shows? I hope people will carry on with the torch over the next half century too because this is from an era when music was different, real, people took pride in the quality of their recordings which were harder to make, and the analog equipment was just built well and great captures like this one were recorded. And they have survived for so long. And likely will be surviving throughout history for as long as the earth exists if people like us carry on sharing the shows!

The band seems ready to get home if you can judge that by the setlist. They drop a few songs such as "Dancing Days" and "Moby Dick" as well as others. Kyoto may have gotten the shorter show I imagine because the almost two weeks in Japan was probably making the band feel like getting back home. Why else would the Kyoto show be approximately 45 minutes shorter than the show just the previous night?

LINEAGE:
1st Gen cassette > CD-R(n) > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: October 10th, 1972
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Venue: Koseinkin Kaikan Hall
Title: None
Label: None
Source: AUD (Sources 2 1st Gen & Source 1 3rd Gen Mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Size: 589 MB
Length: 98:28:46

SETLIST:
CD.1:
101. introduction
102. Rock And Roll
103. Black Dog
104. Misty Mountain Hop
105. Since I've Been Loving You
106. The Song Remains The Same
107. The Rain Song
108. Dazed And Confused

CD.2:
201. Stairway To Heaven
202. Over The Hills And Far Away
203. Whole Lotta Love
205. Immigrant Song

LINK:
(1) 1972-10-10 Kyoto Source 2 & 1 Mix

This is another excellent recording during the final day of Led Zeppelin's last show in Japan. This was the wrap up of their Japan leg of the 1972 tour as well as the last time they played a Japanese tour. I really do not know why? They have had a great following in Japan all along so one would expect they'd have come back in at least 1975. But in the remaining eight years of Led Zeppelin, they never played Japan again.

This historic show is the better Source 2 recording with Source 1 used as the patch where no audio existed from Source 2. I hate that there is a change right as the "Stairway to Heaven" solo begins and the Source 1 recording is used to fill that gap for a few seconds. I love the solo part of that song. But it still sounds great, and the lesser sounding Source 1 material is sparse and just used to fill in short spots where tape changes or whatever the reason was for missing or messed up audio was not present. So it does complete the show having both sources in there and it is an excellent production "weekwacker" put together.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 1972-10-09 Osaka, Japan (FLAC_AUD Master Source 2_2 CD)

I wanted to upload this copy of the Osaka show yesterday on its 42nd anniversary but was too busy and didn't have the time. So, here it is a day later. This is a really superb sounding recording and one everyone should be able to enjoy.

LINEAGE:
Master > DAT > CD-Rn > SHN > mkwact > 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 6 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: October 9th, 1972
Location: Osaka, Japan
Venue: Festival Hall
Title: None
Label: None
Source: AUD (Sources 2 Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Size: 892 MB
Length: 142:34:54

SETLIST:
CD.1:
101. Rock And Roll
102. Black Dog
103. Over The Hills And Far Away
104. Misty Mountain Hop
105. Since I've Been Loving You
106. Dancing Days
107. The Song Remains The Same
108. The Rain Song
109. Dazed And Confused

CD.2:
201. Stairway To Heaven
202. Moby Dick
203. Whole Lotta Love
204. Stand By Me
205. Immigrant Song

LINK:
(1) 1972-10-09 Osaka Source 2 Master

I'm not going to talk about the show and I'm just going to work on hurrying up and getting it uploaded so I can also get the 1972-10-10 Kyoto show that is from 42 years ago today now uploaded too at some point today.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr