Led Zeppelin: 1975-03-25 Inglewood, CA (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen_3 CD)

This may be the best Mike Millard recording out of all of the many he made of Led Zeppelin shows!  Thirty-nine years ago (and a few extra hours now), this show rocked the Los Angeles area.

I have a few other label's versions of this show and they all are pretty much superb + in quality.  Some labels over EQ'ed the show, did this, did that, etc as they usually do.  But even so, they all still sound great.  But why take what some other person or label did to the show and share that when the best sounding source is the unaltered and unmarked 1st generation copy.  And that's what I'm uploading here.  It sounds like a soundboard it is so good and clean.

LINEAGE:
(1) Taping Gear: AKG mics, Nakamichi 550 cassette deck
(2) 1st gen cassettes (TDK SA 90)x3 > Nakamichi 670 pitch & azimuth-adjusted playback deck > Nakamichi Outboard Dolby B Unit > Wavelab 96/24 > Izotope 44.1/16 > FLAC > me > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: March 25th, 1975
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: The Forum
Source: AUD (Millard 1st Gen.)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: No
Label: JEMS
Title: None
Size: 1.00 GB

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. Tramples Underfoot
203. Moby Dick

CD 3:
301. Dazed And Confused
302. Stairway To Heaven
303. Whole Lotta Love
304. Black Dog

LINKS:
(1) 1975-03-25 Inglewood, CA (AUD 1st Gen Unmarked/Millard & JEMS)
(2) 1975-03-25 Inglewood, CA (AUD 1st Gen Unmarked/Millard & JEMS)
(3) 1975-03-25 Inglewood, CA (AUD 1st Gen Unmarked/Millard & JEMS)

These 1st generation Millard masters were first digitally transferred in May of 2010.  All previous versions of this show were likely analog transfers done by labels and probably friends of Mike's that he had made marked copies of his shows for.

Mike Millard reportedly kept a notebook of how he marked each tape he passed out to friends so if they ever showed up being sold by a label, or by anyone for that matter, he could tell where it came from.  He might make a slight volume adjustment for a second in a certain spot of a song on one tape, do something slightly different to another tape's audio, etc before he passed them out to friends.  He never ruined a show's recording or did anything to destroy the show or audio on his recordings.  He just tried to make it where if someone did break their word he could tell who it was.  But as we all know, his efforts to do this were in vain because his tapes, from a variety of sources, all seemed to eventually make their way to the Empress Valley Supreme Disc's, Godfather Records', etc labels through the years.

But what is unique about this set of 1st generation Millard tapes that were transferred unaltered by JEMS in 2010 is they are unmarked tapes!  No volume fluctuations, no marks whatsoever; just a copy of the master tapes is what we have here and one that is a digital transfer at that.  In short, we have the best (well, second best since his family still has the masters likely).

I left the file set just as it was shared back in 2010.  The songs are titled, there is no artwork, there is a file fingerprint (ffp) file, and there is a short text file with lineage information and some of what I have said here in this post.  I added nothing and took nothing away (other than hours of listening enjoyment).

I love this show and I know you will too if you like Led Zeppelin...

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!!!