Led Zeppelin: 1971-03-06 Dublin, Ireland (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

Here's a good-to-great recording of the show from 43 years ago tonight that Led Zeppelin put on in Dublin, Ireland.  This was the second and last night on the Ireland part of their touring.  And I'd have to look back at the dates in history, but I imagine the English (Led Zeppelin) and Irish people weren't getting along very well during this time-frame either.  But they all seemed to love Led Zeppelin!

One thing I find really cool is that Led Zeppelin is playing "Black Dog", "Rock And Roll", "Going To California", and "Stairway to Heaven" in these early March shows.  What's cool about that you ask?  The album these songs are one, Led Zeppelin (nicknamed Led Zeppelin IV and Untitled by fans, was not released until November 8th, 1971.  They'd been in the studio making the album between December 1970 and March 1971 and these Irish nights they started their touring on were the first nights people were hearing the songs live.  Robert Plant messes up the lyrics to "Stairway To Heaven" because it's new to him too I guess.  This night, and the previous night in Belfast I uploaded yesterday, are historic nights for the first attempts live at playing the songs on an album that wasn't to be released until eight months later.  And the band played them with a fire burning as they had a crowd who had never heard them either.  That's pretty cool and historic to this Led Zeppelin fan anyhow!

LINEAGE:
EVSD silver CD's > WAV > FLAC > me > TLH

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: March 6th, 1971
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Venue: National Boxing Stadium
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (full artwork scans are in download)
Label: EVSD
Title: Black Velvet (CD's 3 & 4)
Size: 753 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Immigrant Song
102. Heartbreaker
103. Since I've Been Loving You
104. Black Dog
105. Stairway To Heaven
106. Dazed And Confused

CD 2:
201. Going To California
202. What Is And What Should Never Be
203. Moby Dick
204. Whole Lotta Love
205..Communication Breakdown
206. C'mon Everybody (fragment)
207. Rock And Roll

LINKS:
(1) 1971-03-06 Dublin, Ireland (AUD/EVSD)
(2) 1971-03-06 Dublin, Ireland (AUD/EVSD)

I was going to upload the 2nd generation (from the master tape) copy that had no EQ work or altering done.  I usually like the unaltered version the best because I can do my own work on them and save a copy of it if I want too.  But EVSD did a good job I think on this show.  The instruments and vocals are more clear and it sounds good.

Black Velvet is actually a 4 CD box set that includes the previous night's show in Belfast (CD's 1 & 2) and this night's Dublin show (CD's 3 & 4).  The vast amount of artwork for the whole box set is includes, but it is for both nights too.

The only real issue with this recording is the taper's noisy mouth in parts of the show.  Not only does he think he can sing like Plant, he thinks he can sound like Page's guitar too :-)  You'll notice this at the beginning of "Since I've Been Loving you" especially.  But thankfully, it's only periodically they chime in.

I hope you enjoy the concert!  Until next time...

Bootradr

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