Page & Plant: 1996-02-17 Nagoya, Japan (FLAC_SB & AUDMatrix_2 CD)

This is one of the most superb sounding recordings of a Page & Plant show to have surfaced so far.  It is a matrix recording using the sounboard recording of the show with the audience recording of it too.  This was done by a fan that goes by "Liriodendron".

I first got a silver CD copy of the soundboard for this show around 1999.  I was blown away back then by the quality of the recording.  But this matrix is even a step up from that recording and just that much better!

LINEAGE:
(1a) SB Lineage:  Tarantura Made in Occupied Japan Part 3 silvers > EAC (Secure Mode) > WAV > FLAC Frontend > FLAC 8
(1b) AUD Lineage: Real Dragone Two Swans on A Century Lake silvers > EAC (Secure Mode) > WAV > FLAC Frontend > FLAC > TLH > FLAC 8 >
--- shared on Dime ---
(2) me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align tracks on sector boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to double check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Page & Plant
Date: 1996-02-17
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Venue: Century Hall
Title: Tea For One
Label: (1)Tarantura + (2) Red Dragon) + (3) Liriodendron Matrix
Source: SB/AUD (Matrix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (complete artwork in download including disc art)
Size:831 MB
Length: 125:02:06

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Egyptian tape intro
102. Heartbreaker
103. Bring It On Home
104. Custard Pie
105. Ramble On
106. Tangerine
107. Thank You
108. Hurdy Gurdy solo (Nigel Eaton)
109. Gallows Pole
110. The Rain Song
111. The Song Remains The Same
112. Tea For One

CD 2:
201. Egyptian  Pharaohs introduction
202. Dancing Days
203. In The Evening
204. Four Sticks
205. Kashmir
206. encore break
207. Celebration Day
208. Black Dog
209. Rock And Roll

LINK:
(1) 1996-02-17 Nagoya, Japan (SB/AUD Matrix)

As I've mentioned in other Page & Plant shows I've shared, this was when the band started playing the songs more "Zeppelin like."  In the earlier 1995 concerts they had way too much orchestra and Middle Eastern music renditions to the songs we grew up loving.  Don't get me wrong.  I like the 1995 Page & Plant shows too, but they were not as good as the ending of that first Page & Plant tour in Japan in 1996 and then the followup tour in 1998 in my opinion.

These songs on this 2 CD set are played much more like Led Zeppelin would have played them.  And I always say it is just too bad they didn't have John Paul Jones playing bass and keyboard (amost a few instruments) and they all started a Led Zeppelin reunion tour then.  But they didn't.  Michael Le, the late drummer at the time, was really on fire and did great "John Bonham style" playing I think.  He could have been used as well as Jason Bonham too I'm sure to have started the reunion tour that never happened.  There was the 2007 reunion show, but a show is not a tour either.

I really wish they had played "No Quarter", one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs, in this show.  But they didn't.  They did add some unique, never played live by Led Zeppelin songs into the mix like "Tea For One" however.

"Liriodendron" did a spectacular matrix job on this recording.  The mix sounds superb as well as the recordings he used.  All thanks goes to him for this CD set (complete with artwork too)!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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