Led Zeppelin: 1975-03-12 Long Beach, CA (FLAC_3 AUD Master Sources_3 CD)

Thirty-nine years ago today, Led Zeppelin played Long Beach Arena for the second night in their California part of their 1975 tour.  This recording is available thanks to my friend David living about 250 miles north of me.

The Mike Millard source in this show is short.  He reportedly got into a traffic accident on the way to the show and didn't get to the concert until near the end.  His source recording of the show, being called source 2,  only contains part of "Stairway to Heaven" through the end.  But in this 3 source version, Millard's recording is used for part of "Stairway to Heaven" and up through "Whole Lotta Love" (including "The Crunge").  David was able to do a transfer of the newly surfaced source 3 which is the majority of this show's content.  Source 1, being called the Long Source, is only used for the beginning part of "Stairway to Heaven".  Here are the notes included in the text file:

Complete show based on the newly discovered 3rd source recording. The new source is an excellent sounding recording but incomplete. The Millard source which is also an excellent recording is used to fill in the missing sections with the old lesser quality source used to fill in the gaps missing in source 2 and 3. The version of source 3 used here is a direct transfer from the master cassettes. 

And here are David's notes including the lineage:

I made several versions to get this mix. I call this the "old school" version.  The transfer used here for source 3 was done with the following.  3-12-75 Master Tapes > Kenwood KX-W791 (monster cables) > Sansui RG-7 10 band EQ (monster cables) > Spin Doctor > CDR>flac
Intro - Rain song Cool edit pro was used to bring up one side that was 50% low. Moby dick - Dazed cool edit pro was used to convert mono to stereo.

I was the first to get these master tapes to transfer, Of course not perfect so I did what was necessary. The master cassettes consisted of the following:
Tape A Intro - Rain (one side is real low) flip side Kashmir - Trampled (perfect!) Tape B Moby - Dazed (only one side was recorded) flip side Stairway - Black dog (audio malfunctioned during recording and could not salvage) Tape C Encore - Heartrbreaker (perfect!)

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: March 12th, 1975
Location: Long Beach, California
Venue: Long Beach Arena
Source: AUD (3 Master sources mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: No
Label: None
Title: Three Worlds Collide (possibly?)
Size: 1.12 GB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. opening announcements
102. Rock And Roll
103. Sick Again
104. Over The Hills And Far Away
105. In My Time Of Dying
106. The Song Remains The Same
107. The Rain Song
108. Kashmir

CD 2:
201. No Quarter
202. Tramples Underfoot
203. Moby Dick

CD 3:
301. Dazed And Confused
302. Stairway To Heaven
303. Whole Lotta Love (incl. The Crunge)
304. Black Dog
305. crowd
306. Heartbreaker

FileFactory Links:
Part 1 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/6riiwzv5867d/
Part 2 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/5g6h3isyys5h/
Part 3 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/43n0wvy3hd4h/

I'm not really sure why the front artwork mentions a "newly discovered soundboard" as being one of the sources, but it does.  There isn't any soundboard recording(s) in this upload.  And as far as I know, no soundboard has ever surfaced anyhow.

Enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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