Led Zeppelin: 1977-06-22 Los Angeles, CA (FLAC_AUD 4 Source Mix_4 CD)

I've had some requests lately for some shows I never have uploaded before.  As many know, Led Zeppelin played The Forum in Los Angeles, California for six nights on their return to the United States in 1977.  And this is the second night's show and for all practical purposes it is the complete show.  There is a small cut missing between "Kashmir" and "Over The Top" (or "Moby Dick").  To date there has been no source available for this short missing cut according to "weedwacker" and it is not available at this time anyhow.  But other than that small cut, the full show is here and it takes 4 CD's to get it all on disc.

This is a four sources mix project done by "weedwacker" and it is the revised version too.  So all thanks goes to him and the tapers of course.

LINEAGE:
Source 1 (CG source): 1st Gen cassette > 1 CD-R (2)
Source 2 (Barry tape): Unknown Gen cassette > 1 CD-R (x)
Source 3 (EF Source): 1st Gen cassettes > 1 CD-R (2)
Source 4 (TYG Source): 1st Gen > DAT (x) > 3 CD-R (0)
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: June 22nd, 1977
Location: Los Angeles, California
Venue: The Forum
Title: None
Label: weedwacker
Source: AUD (4 Sources Mix...See Lineage Above)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 4
Artwork: Yes
Size: 1.04 GB
Length: 207:41:00

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. The Song Remains The Same*
102. Sick Again*
103. Nobody's Fault But Mine*
104. In My Time Of Dying*
105. Since I've Been Loving You*/**/****

CD 2:
201. No Quarter**/****
202. Ten Years Gone***/****
203. The Battle Of Evermore***
204. Going To California***
205. Black Country Woman***
206. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp***

CD 3:
301. White Summer***
302. Kashmir***
303. Over The Top***
304. Over The Hills And Far Away***
305. Jimmy Page (violin bow solo)***
306. Achilles Last Stand***

CD 4:
401. Stairway To Heaven***
402. Whole Lotta Love***
403. Rock And Roll***

Notes from "weedwacker" (copy & paste):
1. "* = Src 1, ** = Src 2, *** = Src 3, **** = Src 4"
2. "Complete show minus small cut between Kashmir/Over The Top that is not available on any existing sources. Minor cleanup was done to fix overly harsh hiss levels on source 2 and source 4. No remastering was done to the actual music itself.

Rev 0.1 - pops and clicks fixed in original mix. This version supercedes any previous versions."

LINKS:
(1) 1977-06-22 Los Angeles, CA (AUD 4 Source Mix/weedwacker R1)
(2) 1977-06-22 Los Angeles, CA (AUD 4 Source Mix/weedwacker R1)

The sound ranges from good-to-excellent depending on which source is being used.  But even the good sound sounds clean.  There was some light "cleaning" done to compensate for the high amounts of hiss on tape sources 2 and 4 according to "weedwacker" too.

I started listening to this recording again tonight as I started preparing it for uploading.  Led Zeppelin was excited on their return to Los Angeles (being a state and city they loved) and in this second night's show they put on a flawless and stellar performance.  I'm up to "White Summer" right now and refreshing my memory on this show since it has been so long ago I last listened.

The sound ranges and changes with the use of different sources as you would expect.  So if you're just after a perfect sounding show, this one may not be for you?  Unfortunately Mike Millard does not appear to have been at this show otherwise we'd likely have a perfect recording of the whole show (or most of it).

I tried a number of ways of making this show fit onto three discs but could not.  Disc times were running over 80 minutes (the maximum CD time limit without using over-burn) with the traditional breaks we see on most 1977 Led Zeppelin show recordings.  Having a more complete copy of a show can easily cause this to occur.  Many may or may not realize that a lot of times small parts, usually chatter in between songs, get cut sometimes to make a four disc show into a three (or whatever the scenario might be) CD set.  I prefer having the full show or at least everything that is available to make it the most complete.  And that is what "weedwacker" has done here thankfully!

In case anyone is wondering which sources sound the very best, it is my opinion that source 1 and source 3 beat source 2 and source 4 by a long shot.  Sources 1 and 3 are excellent sounding.  But then again, I like them all too.  Also, in case anyone sees the ad below showing just four dates and wonders about that; the band added more shows due to the selling out of tickets to the originally planned show dates very fast.

I hope you enjoy the show...
 
Bootradr

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Led Zeppelin: 1975-03-17 Seattle, WA (FLAC_SB_3 CD)

This is the superb sounding EVSD copy of Led Zeppelin's first night in Seattle on their 1975 Physical Graffiti tour.  I've uploaded the source 2 audience copy and a remaster (by me) copy here in the past.  But there are some errors I made on the copy I messed with and this unaltered (by me) copy is a much better sounding copy.

LINEAGE:
EVSD silver CD's > EAC > TLH > FLAC 8 > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness & align sector boundaries) > 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 17th, 1975
Location: Seattle, Washington
Venue: Seattle Center Coliseum
Title: Haven't We Met Somewhere Before
Label: EVSD
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes (full scans in download)
Size: 1.06 GB
Length: 182:11:35

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Rock And Roll
102. Sick Again
103. Over The Hills And Far Away
104. How Many More Times
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
304. Black Dog

LINKS:
(1) 1975-03-17 Seattle, WA (SBEVSD)
(2) 1975-03-17 Seattle, WA (SBEVSD)

There is some audio clipping done by EVSD but fortunately it is not brickwalled by them.  The audio sounds superb however and the clipping is not horrendous.  I like EVSD's EQ job on this show too.  While many may or may not agree, they did a decent job and the mix sounds nice I think.  This is a show you can crank up too if you want to without fear of distortion from things like the bass being too heavy.

In the version of this show I had worked on in the past I really messed up and caused more audio clipping I now see.  I'm not sure how I did it, but I did.  I believe it was done in part by a software program I use to use that did not accurately show the waveform and audio clipping could occur without it being seen.  It happened on a few (not many) other shows this way in past years before I realized what was going on and stopped using the software.  I really like the sound of this show and copy.

All instruments and vocals can be heard clearly and evenly in the show.  The performance is a great one also.  The band really played a great gig this night and we're fortunate to have a great sounding copy of this show.  I've got a few fan remasters of this show as well as another label or two that released it too.  But this copy sounds the best to me.

I hope you enjoy the show...
 
Bootradr

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Led Zeppelin: 1973-07-17 Seattle, WA (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen & SB Low Gen Matrix & AUD 4th Gen_3 CD)

It's been a month since I've been able to make any posts.  Due some medical issues and a Christmas time stay at the hospital, I had to take a break from making any posts or even keeping up with new material being shared or circulating.  While things are still ongoing, and hopefully nothing more than a doctor visit and catching up will be involved, I hope to be back uploading new old material again now.  The uploads may be a little sporadic at first but should fall into a regular pattern soon.

This is an excellent show I never have uploaded anything from yet and it's another great job by Winston Remasters.  This show has been one that a good friend requested a while back so I decided to start back my uploading with this requested show first.

I have compared this copy I am uploading with a few other mixes of other soundboard and audience recordings of this show and I truly believe this is by far the best sounding copy of this show.  It is also the second longest copy with the EVSD label copy coming in at two minutes longer.  However, this blows the EVSD mix out of the water and this is a matrix too.

From the way Winston Remasters wrote about this project, and I could be wrong, it sounds like he used the first generation audience recording as the primary audio file and used the soundboard as the secondary source in the matrix of the first two discs.  I may be wrong too (see Winston Remasters Notes below) since he indicates "80/20" and then "SB/AUD" too.  The third and final disc is the second audio source used on its own (no matrix).  Winston Remasters did note this was his first matrix project too.

LINEAGE:
(1a) Disc 1 & 2 Matrix Sources: AUD - external microphone >Tandberg mono reel-to-reel @ 7 1/2 jps-reel master > VHS (1) > matrix remaster & (1b) SB - unconfirmed low gen very clean analog >DAT1> matrix remaster
(2) CD 3 AUD Source: cassette (4) > DAT (2) > PCM > remaster
(3) me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness & align sector boundaries) > 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

Winston Remasters Notes (copy & paste):
"First Zep Matrix I attempted. Thanks to Gungywump for the idea ;)
Matrix -  80/20 SBD/AUD  mixed with Samplitude.
Best way to describe the sound - AUD source gave the SBD natural reverb and added Harmonics.
Only cut that remains is between Moby Dick -  Heartbreaker. no plantations..  ALL SONGS ARE COMPLETE.
Dynamics & EQ applied for balance."

Bootradr Notes:
I mention above I fixed SBE's (aligned sector boundaries) in this recording.  This was not an error or oversight on Winston Remasters part either.  The last track of each disc had an SBE which really does no damage since it is the last track on each disc.  However, I like to remove the SBE's anyhow.  If someone was to burn the show not following the setlist order below and make another track the final track on any disc then the SBE "could" cause a digital error.  It's not likely this would happen and the tracks might not even fit on discs any other way (I didn't check because I wanted to fix the SBE's anyhow).  This is a real common practice among many people (not worrying about the final track with an SBE) since it doesn't create issues when burned to disc in the same setlist order.  I'm just a stickler for getting rid of the SBE's anyhow.  Again, the way Winston Remasters did it was NOT an oversight or error!

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: July 17th, 1973
Location: Seattle, Washington
Venue: Seattle Center Coliseum
Title: Seattle July 17 1973 Matrix
Label: Winston Remasters
Source: AUD 1st Gen/SB Unconfirmed Low Gen (Matrix) &AUD 4th Gen (CD 3)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes
Size: 1.09 GB
Length: 180:03:72

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. opening announcements
102. Rock And Roll
103. Celebration Day
104. Black Dog
105. Over The Hills And Far Away
106. Misty Mountain Hop
107. Since I've Been Loving You
108. No Quarter
109. The Song Remains The Same
110. The Rain Song

CD 2:
201. Dazed And Confused
202. Stairway To Heaven

CD 3:
301. Moby Dick
302. Heartbreaker
303. Whole Lotta Love
304. The Ocean

LINKS:
(1) 1973-07-17 Seattle, WA (SB/AUD Matrix/Winston Remasters)
(2) 1973-07-17 Seattle, WA (SB/AUD Matrix/Winston Remasters)

I really like the sound Winston Remasters got out of this show when he finished his work on it.  It is so much cleaner sounding, likely a lower generation copy than the label sources, and it is smooth and clean on both the soundboard and audience sources used.

I'm a little surprised I haven't uploaded this one in the past.  But the good news is there are a lot more like this one, ones that are really awesome sounding and I just haven't gotten to them yet.  So this means there are still plenty of shows/dates I just haven't made it to yet that are left to keep uploading new (old) Led Zeppelin concerts of to this site for a very long time!

The waveform looks perfect in this recording with no audio clipping.  The final CD, disc 3, is all excellent audience audio also.  Like many of the 1973 Led Zeppelin soundboard shows, there is no soundboard audio currently circulating or available for the last disc of the show.  I've often wondered why this is the case on so many 1973 shows.  Were the tapes for the shows not all available, did the label(s) keep them in hope of future releases, who really knows?  But we are fortunate to have an excellent first generation copy to make this a complete show and finish out the concert with a disc three.

I've only sampled parts of the show tonight and it has been at least two years since I have sat down and listened to the whole concert.  But memory and sampling tells me this is an excellent-to-superb sounding recording and it is one any Led Zeppelin fan will likely enjoy.

I'm skipping a more detailed review of the show other than what I've noted already since I want to get this concert uploaded before I go to bed and I remember how great this one sounds.  You be the judge.  And please leave a comment and let me know what you think of the show and recording once you listen.  Feel free to post your review if you'd like in the comments area.

NOTE:  I recommend unzipping the WinRAR zipped files into a short named folder/path name.  Otherwise, if you encounter an error when unzipping the zipped files (and I'm not saying you will), just rename the two zipped files (or the folder you put them in) with a shorter name if you encounter a message or error mentioning anything regarding the path containing more than 260 characters.  I'm not saying this will happen!  But it if it does rename your folder or the zipped files (even just until you unzip them) and you will have no issues.  Every so often a longer name is needed when I describe the contents like I do.  It is a very simple issue to fix if this ever does occur.

I hope you enjoy the show...
 
Bootradr

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Led Zeppelin: 1980-06-18 Cologne, Germany (FLAC_SB 1st Gen & AUD Master Matrix_2 CD)

This show is another recent Winston Remasters share of his Live Omega # series of Led Zeppelin 1980 concert projects.

This superb recording is of the band's second show as they opened their final tour in 1980.  This is not a mix of the soundboard and audience sources used like in the previous Dortmund, Germany show I uploaded.  This is a matrix and that means both the soundboard and audience tracks are used for the full show (where audio existed).  When it is a mix one of the sources used (or more than one source) gets used to fill in gaps in another source's audio that is missing.  A matrix is really stacking and synchronizing at least two sources to play simultaneously and that is what the project of this show encompasses.

LINEAGE:
(1) SB source: 1st Gen. cassette > (DAT (2)
(2) AUD Source: Master tape > DAT (1) > 2 CD-R (2)
(3) Mixed and mastered with Samplitude.  Waves Plugins used to enhance the sound  >
(4) 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

Winston Remasters Notes:
"I hope the boot labels leave this one alone. A lot of work went into this.  This is a hobby, So please take it for what it is."

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 18th, 1980
Location: Cologne, Germany
Venue: Sporthalle
Title: Live Omega # 2
Label: Winston Remasters
Source: SB 1st Gen/AUD Master (Matrix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 579 MB
Length: 105:24:27

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Train Kept A Rollin'
102. Nobody's Fault But Mine
103. Black Dog
104. In The Evening
105. The Rain Song
106. Hot Dog
107. All My Love
108. Trampled Underfoot
109. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 2:
201. Achilles Last Stand
202. White Summer
203. Black Mountain Side
204. Kashmir
205. Stairway To Heaven
206. Rock And Roll
207. Communication Breakdown

LINK:
(1) 1980-06-18 Cologne, Germany (SB/AUD Matrix/Winston Remasters)

The band plays a lot better on this second night than they did the previous opening night.  They are much tighter and the show has that energy that just was not as prevalent in my opinion the previous night as they played Dortmund, Germany.

I have not had a chance to listen to this entire Winston Remasters project yet.  In fact, as I make this post I am trying to pick up where I left off earlier this morning.

The sound seems to really be mixed well and with the audience matrix source it gives it a more live feeling too.  I may be wrong and I will have to check this closer, but there may be a slight delay in the synchronizing of the audio too.  I'm not sure if this was reverb added or if the synchronization is just not 100% on?  I can hear this more easily as I am listening to "In The Evening" again.  I had noticed it this morning but was unable to check closer then.  This may have been added on purpose for all I know.  I just know the audio sounds really clean, well mixed, and superb as far as the fidelity of it goes.

This is another recently shared and new Winston Remasters project.  He shared it on Dime a week or two ago as well as his Dortmund Live Omega # 1 project too.  I hope this is an indication he is working on some of the 1980 shows since I really do like the work Winston Remasters does in most cases.

I hope you enjoy the show...
 
Bootradr

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Led Zeppelin: 1980-06-17 Dortmund, Germany (FLAC_SB 1st Gen & AUD 1st Gen Mix & Remaster_2 CD)

This is the excellent sounding Winston Remasters copy of the first Led Zeppelin show on their final 1980 tour.  This was the band's first tour since their tour that was cut short by the illness and then death or Robert Plant's son in 1977 as the band played in North America.

This is an excellent sounding recording (and remaster by Winston Remasters) that uses the first generation soundboard as the primary audio source with a first generation audience recording as the patch source in the audio.  Winston Remasters has started back lately on some new releases of the Live Omega # series shows for the 1980 Led Zeppelin concert recordings he has worked on.  There have been some other Live Omega # shows he has put out in the past and I likely have uploaded at least one or two of these other dates/shows in the past.

LINEAGE:
(1) SB source: 1st Gen > (DAT (1) > 2 CD-R (1) > remaster
(2) AUD Source: 1st Gen cassette > DAT > unknown > remaster
(3) Sources digitally enhanced with Samplitude, EQ'ed, dynamics, reverb, and stereo phase used to achieve tonal balance and clarity >
(4) 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

* TLH CDDA/MPEG test wrongly indicates audio could be lossy but the FA (frequency analysis) and an independent check by my friend "techtuts' prove it is in fact lossless audio indeed!  Not only those details but this was an upload by Winston Remasters himself and he would not be sharing lossy audio we all know.

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 17th, 1980
Location: Dortmund, Germany
Venue: Westfalenhalle
Title: Live Omega # 1
Label: Winston Remasters
Source: SB 1st Gen/AUD 1st Gen (Mix & Remaster)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 517 MB
Length: 104:13:66

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Train Kept A Rollin'
102. Nobody's Fault But Mine
103. Black Dog
104. In The Evening
105. The Rain Song
106. Hot Dog
107. All My Love
108. Trampled Underfoot
109. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 2:
201. Achilles Last Stand
202. White Summer
203. Black Mountain Side
204. Kashmir
205. Stairway To Heaven
206. Rock And Roll
207. Whole Lotta Love

LINK:
(1) 1980-06-17 Dortmund, Germany (SB/AUD 1st Gen/Winston Remasters)

This show starts off a little rough and then the sound quickly is readjusted by the sound engineers on the soundboard from ShowCo.  But the band is also a little out of whack too in this first show.  Robert Plant is not remembering the song lyrics right or singing the right verses at the right time and Jimmy Page is not playing in the right spots or timing at different times.  It sounds like the whole band is off when it comes to timing really.  They get it all together before the show ends, but it does take a little time.

Since this is the band's first show since 1979-08-11 (10 months earlier) and this was their first tour in three years (last one ending early on 1977-07-24), I have a feeling they just were a little rusty.  A lot had happen in the three years since Led Zeppelin had cancelled the rest of their 1977 tour when the news that Robert Plant's son, Karac Plant, had become ill and died before Robert Plant was able to get back home from the North American tour.

In 1979, Led Zeppelin played four concerts preparing for their 1980 come back.  They played two shows in Copenhagen, Denmark (July 23rd and July 24th, 1979) referred to as the "Copenhagen Warmups" and then they played the two Knebworth Festival shows on August 4th and August 11th, 1979.  It was close to a year later when they played this first show in Dortmund.

As the story goes, the only two band members that really were preparing and practicing and really responsible for the band's 1979 LP Presence were Robert Plant and John Paul Jones.  They responsibly were in the studio and making the music for the album as band members Jimmy Page and John Bonham were running wild with their addictions playing a large part in controlling their life.  There is no doubt that Page had become addicted to heroin at this stage, and it does show in his performances in 1980 as well as later performances in the following years such as the 1983 ARMS performances when he returned for performances for the Ronnie Lane benefit concerts.  Thankfully sometime after this Page was able to get clean.  As for Bonham, he never broke free of his alcohol addiction and he died not long after this 1980 European tour concluded as the band was preparing for their North American tour.  He died from asphyxiation as he passed out drunk and choked to death in his own vomit after a failed practice attempt over at Jimmy Page's home on 1980-09-25 and this officially was the end of Led Zeppelin.  These problems that were ongoing are noticeable in this first Dortmund show I think.  The band still sounds good but they sound far inferior to their normal capabilities too.  The end was drawing closer than they realized.

It is sad to listen to the band's lackluster performances in many of the 1980 European shows we have.  They still sounded great, but they were nowhere near their earlier capacity in the way they played and they had cut their shows way, way back to about 100 - 110 minute shows.  And this was short for a Led Zeppelin performance on average.  It was easy to tell they were not performing at their best here in 1980 I believe.

We've got a lot of shows from the band's two months of touring during June and July of 1980 to compare performances to.  They were getting better as they warmed back up but they were not anywhere near their best as they dealt with problems they all had going on in their personal and semi-private lives as well as their public lives too.

But even after the downfall and end of the great Led Zeppelin occurred, it was just a matter of time before the individual band members would resurface with a fresh and new history to continue on with.  Just very little of the continuation would be comprised of Led Zeppelin reunions.  But thankfully; and due to benefits, awards, and finally in December of 2007 just because they wanted to; there would be a few Led Zeppelin reunions with the remaining band members and with John Bonham's song, Jason Bonham, playing on most of them in place of his late dad.

Overall, I look at the 1980 Led Zeppelin shows as the documented end of one of the greatest bands ever to exist.  It is an excellent documentation of where they were at, both good and bad, at this point and time and I really feel that musically you can hear, both good and bad, where the band was too.

One of the most compelling and greatest sounding pieces of music I feel in the ending shows in the band's documentary of audio is in the song "Stairway To Heaven".  I think that the band plays this song ever so beautifully in most shows.  Since this is the one staple song that everyone has heard of whether they know anything about Led Zeppelin or not, whether they have heard of the band or not, it is fitting that this would be the song that tells the story audibly in their ending.  It sounds like Jimmy Page's solo in this song cries out that they knew the end was coming but not in a bad way.  It has a  tone and just and overall sound to me that is singing out "it has been a great ride" and "thank you, goodbye, and we've enjoyed the ride" I feel.  If this sounds a little nutty to you, just listen to the song and have this thought in mind.  You might change your mind.

On this specific night in Dortmund, Page messes "Stairway To Heaven" up and almost doesn't come in with the solo when he should.  Again, this is a good example of where they were at and the problems they were having.  But on a night such as the 1980-06-29 Zurich show, the song and solo are flawless showing the emotion and fine points the band still had in them.

As I upload a variety of the 1980 concerts (I have not uploaded too many over the years) concerts as I plan to do in the upcoming months, pay attention to "Stairway To Heaven" and see if you cannot understand better what I am saying about the song, the way the band plays it, and it being a perfect staple and story itself in the 1980 ending of rock and roll's number one iconic classic rock story.  1980 was the turning point not only in Led Zeppelin's history but music history all together.  And music would never be the same again after 1980 in so, so many ways.

I hope you enjoy the show...
 
Bootradr

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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!!!

Page & Plant: 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy + Italy Bonus TV Extras (Video_AUD Shot 1st Gen_1 DL DVD)

This DVD of the 1998 Jimmy Page & Robert Plant performance in Milano, Italy was requested about a month ago and I am finally able to upload it today.  This is an excellent recording and a pretty good job by the taper of getting some good, close up video of the show too.  It is not perfect and at times the camera either is messing up or the generation of the tape may be the issue causing the video to look a little grainy.  But it is still an very enjoyable DL DVD and one of the best performances by Page on "No Quarter" in the 1998 tour I believe.

LINEAGE:
(1) Concert: PAL Hi-8 Master > 1st. Gen PAL VHS Tape (Sony Excellence)
(2) Bonus: PAL Hi-8 Master > 1st. Gen PAL VHS Tape (Sony Excellence)
(3) transfers: 1st. Gen PAL VHS-Tape via Panasonic NV-HS950 Hi-Fi Stereo SVHS VCR > SVHS cable for video / stereo cinch cable for audio > Terratec Grabster AV400 > USB 2.0 cable > PC > TMPG DVD-Author 1.6 for DVD authoring >
(4) me > TLH (to create new md5 checksum file) > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Page & Plant
Date: November 19th, 1998
Location: Milano, Italy
Venue: Filaforum
Label: Lords of Justice Production (for the Armored Saint)
Title: Walking Into Everywhere 1998

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes
DVD's: 1 DL DVD
DVD Size: 6.47 GB
DVD Length:
(a) concert: 114:54
(b) bonuses: 14:19
(c) approximately 130 minutes total time

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: PAL
Color/B&W: Color
Type: AUD Shot & Pro Shot/TV
Resolution: 720 x 576
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 25 fps
Bitrate: 9000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Audio Type: AUD Camera & TV (for bonus material)
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 384 kbps
Codec: AC3
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
01. intro
02. The Wanton Song
03. Heartbreaker
04. Ramble On
05. Walking Into Clarksdale
06. No Quarter
07. When The World Was Young
08. Going To California
09. Tangerine
10. Gallows Pole
11. Heart In Your Hand
12. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
13. Most High
14. How Many More Times (medley)
15. I Can't Quit You Baby
16. Whole Lotta Love
17. Rock And Roll

BONUS:
18. Italian TV TMC2 special including:
(a) Page & Plant backstage meeting with Italian fans and interviews
(b) live snippets of "Wanton Song" and "Heartbreaker"

SAMPLE:
"No Quarter" YouTube Sample

LINKS:
(1) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)
(2) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)
(3) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)
(4) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)
(5) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)
(6) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)
(7) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)

The audio is very good and on the great-to-excellent side of things I'd say.  It too isn't without flaws but they are the kind of flaws I can deal with too.  The audience is very excited but the recording seems to be pretty well balanced in not having a lot of audience noise during the music.  The audio is straight from the video recorder's audio track on the master VHS.  There seems to be some distortion in places but it is not bad and that would be almost expected using an older 1980's - 1990's VHS video camera.

As I mentioned already, the video goes between real clean and sharp video to a grainy, pixilated looking video throughout the show.  I'm not sure of the cause but the sharing party I got the show through mentions they think it was due to a camera malfunction.  I don't think this is the case however.  To me, this seems more like a lighting issue as well as the generation of the tape too.  It may even be an interference introduced in the transfer of the video tape when it was done or possibly heads that needed cleaning that could have caused the issue?  The camera's chip set (and it may not have had one) may have been an issue too but the drastic change I believe is due to this tape's transfer and generation most likely.

There are some tracking issues at the bottom of the screen but they take up a small portion of the screen and again do not ruin anything.  A good head cleaning might have fixed that on the video recorder or the SVHS recorder it had been transferred too?  It's all speculation on my part of course and this is not meant to belittle the great quality and job done on this DVD project either.  I've just seen similar issues occur when I had old VHS recorders with heads needing cleaning or even adjustments and alignments in years past.  I have a room right now with about 6 - 10 4-head Hi-Fi VHS recorders in it and even an SVHS recorder that all work great.  They just need head cleaning and alignment of heads to function at 100% full quality and nowadays you have to do this stuff yourself since repair shops have disappeared in today's disposable digital society.

The video is listed as a first generation VHS tape that was transferred correctly and digitally to a digital PC format.  But I think the generation may be a little higher than what the party building the DVD was originally told most likely.  I could be wrong though.  I'll upload a sample of my favorite song in this show and most of it is in the higher quality, cleaner looking moments too.  But you should see the moments where the video changes and looks grainy with no question of where it may be.

The band sounds especially superb on this night and they seem very musically charged!  Jimmy Page especially does and he plays like he is playing in a 1975 Led Zeppelin show more that like in a 1998 Page & Plant show it seems.  He is putting his heart and soul into the music and the solos are longer in many songs as well.  Just when you think he's about to finish up and get back into the chorus of the song, he adds something new and picks it all up again just like he did in the day.  "No Quarter" is one of the best versions of the song played on the tour I believe and what makes it great for me is Page's long and awesome solo and what he puts into it.  "Babe I'm Going To Leave You" is the same and he plays it with a longer version of the 1998 additional part he added in during the tour.  Robert Plant sounds like he is having a great time and feeling a little nostalgic or in the "Zep Daze" too it seems.  The rest of the band is doing an excellent job as well and there is some really great, John Bonham looking almost, video of the late Michael Lee banging away on the drums at full speed and force very powerfully.  I was always amazed by how well he pulled off taking over John Bonham's shoes in the two tours Page & Plant used him on their two tours.  There is no replacing John Bonham of course.  But if you needed someone to try and do an excellent job, well Michael Lee was the guy I think.

I really wish I had been able to have watched this full show again before uploading it overnight.  It has been a few years since I've seen it from start to finish.  But I did watch a good amount of it last night and some as I was sick and trying to recover from a 7 day stomach virus over the last week.  It was hard to pay attention to anything as I slept on the couch and kept running back and forth to the restroom all week.  But I did get to lay back and listen and enjoy it through the home setup off and on.

I'm really grateful to "ZoSo64" for sharing this DL DVD in February of 2010 on Dime and all thanks for sharing it.  He not only shared it but he also built the DVD using high quality methods and he created the artwork for the show too.  He was unable to recall the information on the Italian taper that recorded the show and he got it from.  But a huge thanks goes out to him too!

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!!!

Fleetwood Mac: 1977-12-05 Tokyo, Japan (Video_Pro Shot_1 DVD)

This is an excellent video of Fleetwood Mac from 38 years ago (and a few hours) as they finished their tour in Japan on the Rumors tour.  The video seems to be sourced from about 3 different sources from what I can tell.  A good remastering of this video would make for a great project.  However, it is already a great-to-excellent copy I think and a very enjoyable viewing experience.

I had mistakenly put this show into a folder for December 6th otherwise I would have uploaded it yesterday on its anniversary.  So it is one day later than its 38th anniversary due to my mistake.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given > me > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Date: December 5th, 1977
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Budokan Hall
Label: Gottahavit
Title: Japanese Rumors

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: No
Chapters: Yes (each song)
Artwork: Yes
DVD's: 1 DVD
DVD Size: 3.81 GB
DVD Length: 70:57

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Color/B&W: Color
Type: Pro Shot/TV
Resolution: 704 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 9555 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Audio Type: SB/Video
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 256 kbps
Codec: AC3
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
01. Monday Morning
02. Oh Well
03. Rhiannon
04. Oh Daddy
05. Never Going Back Again
06. Landslide
07. Over My Head
08. Gold Dust Woman
09. You Make Loving Fun
10. Go Your Own Way
11. World Turning
12. The Chain
13. Songbird

LINKS:
(1) 1977-12-05 Tokyo, Japan (Pro Shot DVD)
(2) 1977-12-05 Tokyo, Japan (Pro Shot DVD)
(3) 1977-12-05 Tokyo, Japan (Pro Shot DVD)
(4) 1977-12-05 Tokyo, Japan (Pro Shot DVD)

This is not the complete concert unfortunately.  I'm not sure if the full concert has ever surfaced to be honest.  And as I mentioned earlier, I think this is a video sourced from three different sources.  One source has no time stamp, one has one time stamp, and the third has three time stamps on the screen.

Some of the various sources for this DVD reportedly are from a TV program that was being made for the Japan show(s) that never got released and some live performances as well as outtakes (or rehearsals) too.  It is a confusing mess of information really.

The quality varies in the different videos.  There is some static in some songs that seems a little heavier in the right channel and other songs are clean and clear.  If I really knew the story on these videos and the whole project it would be easier to explain the differences in the video/songs.  But the songs were arranged in the correct order they were played live reportedly.  So even though the December 5th video is not complete at least the video is in the right order with what is on it.

I like Fleetwood Mac and that helps me rate this video higher.  But if you don't like them, well, this might be only as high as a great on your scale (see ratings).  But to me, even with the flaws, I still rate this one as a great-to-excellent DVD.

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!!!