Led Zeppelin: 1977-04-09 & 1979-04-10 Chicago, IL (DVD_AUD Shot_LPCM_1 DVD)

Today is the 38th Anniversary of the last two out of four concerts Led Zeppelin played in Chicago, Illinois.  These were not only the last two shows in Chicago in 1977;they were the last two shows in Chicago ever.

This bonus DVD came in the EVSD 9 CD Great Chicago Fire set of the April 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th shows the band played on their 1977 tour.  It contains the April 9th and 10th recordings it looks like and also some other 1977 audio from a bonus 1977 American show according to the menu.  It goes with a slide show (kind of a DVD-A within a DVD).

The majority of the disc is the video of the last two nights in Chicago that was recorded from the audience from those nights.  The songs are incomplete due to the video cameras of the 1970's and the tape lengths.  But the video is cool to see and it's close up shots too.  Too bad it is incomplete audio, but it is very cool to watch and see at the same time.

I've got the master (or maybe 1st generation) videos not overdubbed by some of the audience source recordings too.  "KRW_Co" shared those in the past and they contain the audio directly from the cameras used (not many had audio capabilities in 1977 either).  I believe this DVD's audio is overdubbed with the tracks from the last two nights in the EVSD 9 CD set this bonus DVD came with.  But I may be wrong?

LINEAGE:
Trade DVD-R > DVD Decrypter > me > searched for missing files over a period of time and found them later (they original share was incomplete) > moved missing files into correct folder and tested DVD integrity (was perfect) >TLH (to create and verify new md5 file) > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: April 9th, 1977 & April 10th, 1977
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Venue: Chicago Stadium
Label: EVSD
Title: Great Chicago Fire

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes
DVD's: 1
DVD Size: 3.19 GB
Bonuses: Slideshow in a DVD-A format of 1977 pictures and live '77 audio

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Color/B&W: Color
Type: AUD Shot
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 7000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 1536 kbps
Codec: LPCM
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
3rd Night 1977-04-09:
01.The Song Remains The Same
02. Sick Again
03. Nobody's Fault But Mine
04. Since I've Been Loving You
05. No Quarter
06. Ten Years Gone
07. Jimmy Page is sick ending the show

4th Night 1977-04-10:
08. The Song Remains The Same
09. No Quarter
10. The Battle Of Evermore
11. Trampled Underfoot
12. While Summer
13. Kashmir
14. Moby Dick
15. Jimmy Page (violin bow guitar solo)

BONUS (1977 Tour Slideshow & Songs):
16. Going To California ~ Black Country Woman
17. Jimmy Page (violin bow guitar solo) ~ Achilles Last Stand

LINK:
(1) 1977-04-09 & 1977-04-10 Chicago, IL (AUD Shot DVD/EVSD)
(2) 1977-04-09 & 1977-04-10 Chicago, IL (AUD Shot DVD/EVSD)
(3) 1977-04-09 & 1977-04-10 Chicago, IL (AUD Shot DVD/EVSD)

The bonus 1977 audio tracks and slideshow from another/other shows was done in a DVD-A method.  The imagery is sharp too and the photos are from more than the Chicago show in 1977.  But it's a cool bonus feature on this bonus disc EVSD added.  I imagine the disc was a limited number of copies kind of deal and probably only came with the full 9 disc Great Chicago Fire box set by EVSD.

If the audio from EVSD's Great Chicago Fire box set of all nights was better audio, I'd have uploaded it a few days ago.  And over time, I'll put it and many other Chicago 1977 copies I've obtained over the years up.  But other than the show cut short on April 9th by Page getting sick, most of the audio is not that noteworthy.  Some sources suffer from distortion as I mentioned in the last post for the April 6th and 7th shows. And while the April 9th show sounds pretty good, the April 10th show is another muddy, not very good sounding recording too.

I hope you enjoy the video from these shows and the bonus material...

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.

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Led Zeppelin: 1977-04-06 & 1977-04-07 Chicago, IL (FLAC_AUD_4 CD)

Even though these shows were yesterday and the day before 38 years ago, I am finally getting them uploaded this morning.  I will be uploading all four nights in Chicago from this 1977 tour as well.  But this 4 CD set is the first two nights.

This Gusto Production label is an unknown label and may just actually be what the person creating the artwork put on it.  But it is something to identify the 4 CD set by too, so we'll go ahead and use it.  There are other Gusto Production shows too but the consensus in Led Zeppelin groups seems to be that the audio is just taken from other labels or shares of shows and the artwork is then created and Gusto Productions is added to it.  There is no audio altering mentioned and really no lineage given either to identify the real sources of the audio in either of these two recordings.

LINEAGE:
DVD-R data disc > Zeptrade's 77 Vine > PC > Torrent > 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: April 6th, 1977 & April 7th, 1977
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Venue: Chicago Stadium
Title: The Home Of The Electric Blues
Label: Gusto Productions
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 4
Artwork: Yes
Size: 1.64 GB
Length: 271:41:53

SETLIST:
1st Night 1977-04-06:
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
106. No Quarter

CD 2:
201. Ten Years Gone
202. The Battle Of Evermore
203. Going To California
204. Black Country Woman
205. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
206. While Summer ~ Black Mountain Side
207. Kashmir
208. Moby Dick

CD 3:
301. Jimmy Page (violin bow guitar solo)
302. Achilles Last Stand
303. Stairway To Heaven
304. Rock And Roll
305. Trampled Underfoot
2nd Night 1977-04-07:
306. The Song Remains The Same
307. Sick Again
308. Nobody's Fault But Mine
309. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 4:
401. No Quarter
402. Ten Years Gone
403. The Battle Of Evermore
404. Going To California
405. White Summer ~ Black Mountain Side
406. Kashmir
407. Achilles Last Stand
408. Stairway To Heaven
409. Rock And Roll

LINK:
(1) 1977-04-06 & 1977-04-07 Chicago, IL (AUD)
(2) 1977-04-06 & 1977-04-07 Chicago, IL (AUD)

I've not listened to the Chicago 1977 shows in a long time myself.  I've got multiple copies for each show and did not do any comparisons this time either.  I'm just trying to get caught up on the anniversary shows I am uploading (I've skipped the Paris 1973-04-01 and 1973-04-02 shows earlier this month due to lack of time) and I will try to continue on from this point.

I'm not even going to try and do much reviewing of these shows since that would just take more time.  I did notice the first night, 1977-04-06, in Chicago the audio sounds very good with the exception of the lower frequencies being distorted in the show.  But the audio is really very good and is right around the excellent rating range other than the distortion unfortunately.  It's my guess the distortion comes from equipment limitations since the waveform doesn't appear to be clipped or the audio levels over amplified.  I can't say this is the case for sure, but it appears it could be.  In the quieter moments and songs the audio is very clean and sharp too.

There are also some tape issues in the show in various parts that I've heard as I barely sampled it.  Robert Plant's vocals are very up front and clean as well as Jimmy Page's guitar.  This would have been such an awesome audio capture, and I'm still talking about the first night too, had the distortion not been in the audio.  It does sound like the taper was likely  much closer to the stage in the first night's audio recording than in the second night's audio recording too.

The second night's recording is complete.  I'm not sure if it was not all recorded (most likely scenario) or if in the attempt to put the two nights on four discs something was left out.  I'm not going to research this now and take more time either to figure it out.

The second night's recording, or the 1977-04-07 recording, does not seem distorted from what I am sampling right now.  It is not as sharp in the high frequencies but it is not distorting either.  But Plant and the rest of the band can easily be heard and the biggest difference between this recording and the previous night's recording, other than the lack of distortion and length of the show, is the fidelity isn't as nice.  But it may be the better sounding show too?  The taper on the 1977-04-07 show also seems to have not captured complete songs out of what I am sampling tonight.  He or she comes in late on some songs and cuts off the endings of others.  That would also be an accounting for why the second night's show is not as long as the firs night's and only makes up 1 1/2 CD's too I'd guess.

As any live show collector or fan knows, once you start listening to audio from a show you start adjusting to it and it starts sounding more and more acceptable and normal to the ears.  And these two nights in these 1977 shows are no different.

I have uploaded some other 1977 Chicago recordings from the four nights Led Zeppelin played there to my site in the past.  So you may want to look for those too.  I don't think either of these two nights have been uploaded by me before, but one may have.  And the audio may be better and I likely would have made comments on how it sounded too at the time of the upload.

I hope you enjoy these shows...

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.

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Sarah McLachlan: 1992-04-06 Boston, MA (FLAC_SB/FM BX_2 CD)

A few hours ago would have been this concert's 23rd anniversary but I was too lazy tonight to upload it in time and wanted to catch up on some TV programming I'd DVR'ed.  But since it really is a superb 23 year old recording, I'm going ahead and uploading it anyhow.  The same excuse goes for why I didn't upload the Led Zeppelin Chicago, Illinois first night out of four show from 1977-04-06 too (I accidentally have 1975 in text file) :-)

Sarah McLachlan is an artist I never even heard of before the mid 1990's since she wasn't classic rock related.  And when I first heard her singing from some friends that liked her and played her CD's, one being a roommate at the time, I thought it was really nice.  But I paid little attention to it until the later part of the 1990's (probably 1998) when I got a few live shows of her that were really great recordings in a CD-R trade.

As the years have gone by, and they have, I've not listened to a whole lot of Sarah McLachlan but I've still collected a number of shows.  I like how clean most of her shows and her voice sound.  And she sings a mood setting music too.  A lot of her songs I still do not really know or know what they're even saying.  But it is a very easy going and clean music, and in some ways, it is a little like the artist Feist's music that I really love.  She's not anything like Feist even though I compared her to Feist.  But it is a type of music that is very unique and very mood setting or right for the when you are in the right type of mood.

In a way, Sarah McLachlan's music is a romantic type of music that goes good when you aren't really listening to the meaning of it but have it playing in a romantic setting (as an example).  And no, I'm home by myself tonight with the pups crashed out on my feet under the desk :-)

LINEAGE:
WFNX FM stereo simulcast > Maxell XLIIS (Dolby OFF) > Nak cassette deck 2 >
Pioneer PDR-W839 CD burner > CD-R's > EAC > FLAC > WAV (Cool Edit*) > CD Wave > FLAC 8 > 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

* See copy and paste information below relating to remastering done with Cool Edit software.

DETAILS:
Artist: Sarah McLachlan
Date: April 6th, 1992
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Charles Playhouse
Title: None
Label: None
Source: SB/FM BX (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (front only)
Size: 571 MB
Length: 82:59:06

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. intro
102. Drawn To The Rhythm
103. Back Door Man
104. Home
105. Lost
106. Shelter
107. Black
108. Out Of The Black
109. Ben's Song

CD 2:
201. I Will Not Forget You
202. The Path Of Thomas (Terms)
203. Into The Fire
204. Steaming
205. Vox
206. Gloomy Sunday

LINKS:
(1) 1992-04-06 Boston, MA (SB/FM BX)

This show was recorded by "babybreese" as it aired live over WFNX FM in Boston and was later remastered by "RossMan" as he did retracking, some audio remastering, and some light tweaking on the audio too.

Here are some notes from the original information provided (copy & paste):
"OUTSTANDING FM recording. While this show was a great transfer to begin with, I felt it could use just a slight tweaking, due a few spots where the sound was getting clipped and some of the track points were after the song had begun.  So I rebuilt the entire show in CoolEdit and isolated 3 different spots where the recording was getting clipped and reduced them down to the average of the the entire recording. I now felt that the show had room to breath and then normalized both channels of the entire show to 98%. I then opened it up in CDWave to retrack all the cue points. There are 2 fades in the recording: One between tracks 9 & 10, where it was split for 2 discs and again between tracks 13 & 14. I feel that this is an improvement but I would only call it a "slight" remaster."

This is a very nice sounding show, it has good stereo separation, and it would surely be one any Sarah McLachlan fan would enjoy very much.  The recording is only about 2 - 3 minutes over the length of a CD-R's capacity and could be over-burned I'm sure if you're software and discs allow that and made to fit on one CD-R.

I've had this recording for years and years now.  And tonight, as I make this posting, is the first time I've ever listened to it.  Sarah really does have an awesome voice and vocal range too and it reminds me of why I started (and still do at times) collecting some of her shows.

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.

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Janis Joplin: 1969-04-01 Amsterdam, The Netherlans (FLAC_SB_1 CD)

This is another show I wanted to upload last week but due to a busy day was unable to get everything ready to upload.  It would have been this show's 46th anniversary at the time had I been able to upload it when I had planned to in April 1st.  However, there are a few confusing dates for this show too.  But this one, April 1st, seems to be the most consistently accepted and thought to be correct date.

This is a superb sounding soundboard of Janis Joplin and The Kozmic Blues Band performing in The Netherlands in April of 1969.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given except "EAC > SHN" > 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: Janis Joplin and The Kozmic Blues Band
Date: April 1st, 1969
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Venue: Unknown
Title: Summertime
Label: Moonraker
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 288 MB
Length: 45:19:32

SETLIST:
01 .instrumental
02. Maybe
03. Summertime
04. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
05. Can't Turn You Lose
06. Combination Of The Two
07. Ball And Chain
08. Piece Of My Heart

LINK:
(1) 1969-04-01 Amsterdam, The Netherlands (SB/Moonraker)

The sound and mix is superb and so is Janis' voice.  The only thing I really don't lack about this era of Joplin's music is the horns added to her band after leaving Big Brother and The Holding Company.  That and the lack of real guitar solos.  But Joplin still carries the show perfectly and it really does sound nice.

If you like Janis Joplin's voice and music, then you will like this soundboard of this show too.

I'm not going to really say much more since I am trying to get this show uploaded now other than (a) it contains superb stereo separation and (b) "Summertime" is one of the best versions I've heard her sing live.

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.

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Heart: 1980-04-03 Fort Worth, TX (FLAC_SB/FM 2 Source Mix & Remaster_2 CD)

I've been busy lately as well as a little burned out and have skipped uploading a few Zeppelin birthday shows and uploading much of anything over the last week.  I had wanted to upload this show on its 35th anniversary but I didn't.  So here it is three days after its birthday.

This is a nice upgrade to the copy of this show I uploaded in the past.  This is the WMET FM master reel-to-reel taping and WAAF FM  master cassette taping merge of the two sources and it has also been remastered.  The sound is a lot sharper than either source's unaltered recording is (both of which I do have and compared).  The remastering and mixing of the two sources was posted by "gr19" on Dime so all thanks go to those involved in making this recording available.

I had originally thought the "KRW_Co" shared WMET FM master reel-to-reel copy was from the radio station's master reel.  So some of the information embedded in the audio tracks may be slightly incorrect if it states this.  I listened to this copy being uploaded all the way though on April 4th and realized that both recordings (or sources) are from off-air recordings of the two radio stations and I had been mistaken thinking one source was from the radio station's master reel.

This the full and complete audio from this Fort Worth 1980-04-03 concert too.

LINEAGE:
(1) KRW Source Lineage: WMET FM BX > reel-to reel master tapes > WAV > CD-R > EAC > FLAC >
(2) Patch Source Lineage (beginning of track 1, middle of track 10, end of track 21, all of track 22): WAAF 107.3 FM live BX > Sansui 8 receiver with wire antenna > unknown average quality cassette deck (Dolby off) > almost never played TDK-SA 90 min. master cassette >  played on Tascam 112 into Soundforge (WAV) > FLAC > sector boundaries aligned) >
(3) Remaster Lineage: Dime FLAC download > WAV (balancing and patching tracks 1, 10, 21 and 22) > FLAC (sector boundaries aligned again) >
(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

DETAILS:
Artist: Heart
Date: April 3rd, 1980
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Venue: Tarrant County Convention Center
Title: None
Label: A This And That Production
Source: SB/FM BX (Source 1 Master Reel & Source 2 Master Cassette Mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No (I'm including the Bebe Le Strange boot art...not an exact match)
Size: 708 MB
Length: 94:30:08

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. FM radio interview and intro
102. Bebe Le Strange
103. Crazy On You
104. Straight On
105. Even It Up
106. Raised On You
107. Strange Night
108. Dog And Butterfly
109. Dreamboat Annie ~ Just The Wine
110. Down On Me
111. Mistral Wind

CD 2:
201. Silver Wheels
202. Magic Man
203. Barracuda
204. Rockin' Heaven Down
205. FM radio announcer ~ encore 1
206. Rock And Roll (Led Zeppelin cover)
207. Sweet Darlin'
208. FM radio announcer ~ encore 2
209. I'm Down ~ Long Tall Sally
210. Unchained Melody
211. FM radio outtro

LINKS:
(1) 1980-04-03 Fort Worth, TX (SB/FM/2 Master Sources Mix)

The fidelity of the primary, "KRW_Co" sourced, WMET FM audio recording is the better of the two sources.  The WAAF FM source was only used to patch missing parts of the show in a few short places.

This show was being broadcast live and worldwide as it happened back in 1980.  Heart puts on great show with their new lineup of band members as the opened their Bebe Le Strange tour.  I believe Ann Wilson says this is either the fourth or fifth show on the tour in the early interview track.

I first got this show myself back in the 1990's in a CD-R trade or from a local collector friend "Digital_Journey".  It was a great sounding show then I thought.  But the original source I had as well as the few others I have gotten over the years all fall short of this recording's sound.

There are some audio changes (besides the two sources sound differences) in the show and I am convinced they're part of the original FM broadcasted airing of this show in 1980.  So all copies have the sound changes I'm referring to.  In earlier copies, all copies of the show had a slight high pitch noise in the audio.  And in the pre-internet days when we traded shows and the generation of the copy might be a lot higher, this brought out the high pitch tone more I believe.  It wasn't a show stopper kind of noise but it was annoying nevertheless.  You can hear as track 1 starts up in this recording and the interview is taking place the high pitch noise I am referring too.  But it quickly disappears as the audio gets much better and the show starts up.

While searching for some facts or information on the show, I asked "whotapes" if he had any additional information since he was at this show in 1980.  He said the one thing that was different than other shows was the fact you had to buy your tickets at the Tarrant County Convention Center and that was the only way you could get them.  So there were no third party ticket vendors selling them and he said the lines outside at the Tarrant County Convention Center were very, very long.  I never asked him this, but I believe he may have been saying this was more or less a first come, first serve kind of ticket sales concert.  But I can't state that for sure.

So far, this is the best copy of the show I have heard out of the five or six copies I have obtained over the years.  I was able to turn it up loud and enjoy it Saturday; so I did!

I hope you enjoy the show too...

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!!!

Led Zeppelin: 1977-04-03 Oklahoma City, OK (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen_3 CD)

Today is the 38th anniversary of this Led Zeppelin concert in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  The band was fresh on their 1977 tour and this was their second show on the tour.  The first was in Dallas on 1977-04-01 and is the wort known audience recording of Led Zeppelin to exist.

At the time of this Oklahoma City show, it had been two years since the band played their last show in 1975.  And after a lot of problems and issues in band member's lives, with more terrible news to soon hit Robert Plant when his son died a few months after this show as Led Zeppelin was on tour, they were ready to tour and get back in the game.  Still recovering and dealing with issues, they actually sounded a bit rusty too.

The 1977 Led Zeppelin tour has some superb performances but is also known as the band's worse period in time so far and it is also known for some of their worst shows too.

LINEAGE:
Master > VHS > WAV > FLAC > tracker > PC > Audacity (lossless test) > 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: April 3rd, 1977
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Venue: The Myriad
Title: Stamina In Clean Living
Label: Sean_The_Bootlegger
Source: AUD (1st Gen VHS)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes
Size: 1.10 GB
Length: 186:54:36

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. intro
102.The Song Remains The Same
103. Sick Again
104. Nobody's Fault But Mine
105. In My Time Of Dying
106. Since I've Been Loving You
107. No Quarter

CD 2:
201. Ten Years Gone
202. The Battle Of Evermore ~ Going To California
203. Black Country Woman
204. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
205. While Summer ~ Black Mountain Side
206. Kashmir
207. Moby Dick

CD 3:
301. Jimmy Page (violin bow guitar solo)
302. Achilles Last Stand
303. Stairway To Heaven
304. Rock And Roll
305. Trampled Underfoot

LINK:
(1) 1977-04-03 Oklahoma City, OK (AUD 1st Gen/STB)
(2) 1977-04-03 Oklahoma City, OK (AUD 1st Gen/STB)

This recording is the best sounding one out of the three I have on the PC and two CD set I got in the trading CD-R years earlier.  This is the "Sean_The_Bootlegger" shared copy and it may have some processing done on it.  The waveform has a lot of space to go before coming close to any clipping, so needless to say there is no audio clipping.

The speed on this recording is a tiny bit slow and many people would likely never realize it if I wasn't talking about it.  It also has some tape noise in parts of the show throughout the recording.  But the sound is a lot cleaner, has better fidelity, and beats the other master and first generation copies I've heard.

I don't know who the source of this recording is or even if there are multiple sources for sure.  But from the copies already on the PC that I've listened to, I do believe there are at least two sources for the show if not three.  The Paul C. recorded and "weedwacker" transferred first generation copy may be the same source as this recording but I would have to check more to say for sure.  And if it is, then this first generation copy has been likely EQ'ed and the sound has been made cleaner in the high end frequencies.

I hope you enjoy this 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!!!

Rush: 1994-04-02 Madison, WI (FLAC_SB Master_2 CD)

UPDATE: This is a superb+ recording as I listened on...

This is an superb Rush soundboard from their show that occurred 21 years ago tonight.  The only thing in the stereo recording that is off is the mix up through "The Analog Kid".  I may be wrong, and with allergies starting in and stopping me up some, maybe I'm not hearing the sound right?

It sounds as if the right channel is either a little heavier on the balance or else the high's from the drums and some other instruments are channeled to the left channel.

The sound corrects itself during "The Analog Kid" and is balanced better which makes me think this an actual soundboard recording/balance issue in the early stages of the show..

Rush is kicking butt in this Counterparts tour concert.  They really sound great and they're not stopping and talking most of time between songs like they can sometimes do.  They're going from one song into the next with very little conversation (if any) from the stage at all.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given (SB > DAT given as source) > SHN > 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: Rush
Date: April 2nd, 1994
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Venue: Dade County Coliseum
Title: Passive Aggression
Label: Signals Productions
Source: SB (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 823 MB
Length: 123:11:23

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. 2001 A Space Odyssey (intro music)
102. Dreamline
103. The Spirit Of Radio
104. The Analog Kid
105. Cold Fire
106. Time Stands Still
107. Nobody's Hero
108. Roll The Bones
109. Animate
110. Stick It Out
111. Double Agent
112. Limelight

CD 2:
201. Mystic Rhythms
202. Closer To The Heart
203. Show Don't Tell
204. Leave That Thing Alone
205. The Rhythm Method
206. The Trees
207. Xanadu
208. Hemispheres - Prelude
209. Tom Sawyer
210. Force Ten
211. YYZ

LINKS:
(1) 1994-04-03 Madison, WI (SB Master/Signals)

I burned this these same files to disc about seven or eight years ago.  Other than me embedding track information, naming tracks and organizing the file set, it is the same files I got back then.  I've mentioned I'm jamming on it now and enjoying it.  In fact, I want to hurry and finish this post and get it uploading so I can go sit in the living room and enjoy it better!  It's definitely not a disappointing sound, and even if there is a slight imbalance in the audio channels early on, it is slight and works out.

I made some LightScribe artwork for the 2 CD's I burned years ago and I'll scan them and add them in case anyone want to use them for disc art.

I don't want to give the impression this show is anything short of superb overall.  It is one of the sharpest, cleanest sounding shows I've heard in a long time.  But the mix is the one thing I wish was balanced just a little differently.  But after the sound changes, you really stop noticing the difference I mentioned and you just enjoy a superb sounding show very easily.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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