Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog

This is the place for free live concerts and rare audio/video recordings. All posts are NOT officially released material. Nothing is for sale and everything is for free downloading & sharing only. My favorites are Led Zeppelin, Journey, and Feist. But you will find so much more too as this blog progresses because I love music! This site will primarily be a FLAC audio and DVD sharing site with a few rare exceptions. Thank you, and enjoy the show... Bootradr

Monday, November 30, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1975-03-03 Fort Worth, TX (FLAC_SB_3 CD)

This is the recent (2015-11-14) release of the Led Zeppelin Fort Worth 1975 soundboard I got about two weeks ago. EVSD released this never before available show and only 150 copies (X3 for each version of the release) were made.

I got my first copy from the R-O share by "smoking pig" on November 18th and then another copy on November 19th on Dime from "fishey". Both show had the same lineage of silver CD's > EAV > WAV > TLH but it sounds like the second EAC rip, the one shared by "fishey", sounded better. The "fishey" copy is a better sounding recording and a few of us have noticed. Were not clear as to why this is the case however. But either way, a huge thanks goes to "smoking pig" and "fishey" both for getting their copies up so fast.

LINEAGE:
EVSD silver CD's > EAC > WAV > 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

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: March 3rd, 1975
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Venue: Tarrant County Convention Center
Title: Rock Super Stars
Label: EVSD
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes (full artwork in download)
Size: 1.04 GB
Length: 173:06:22

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. Trampled Underfoot
203. Moby Dick

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

LIN KS:
(1) 1975-03-03 Fort Worth, TX (SB/EVSD)
(2) 1975-03-03 Fort Worth, TX (SB/EVSD)

The show is a superb soundboard recording. And I am uploading the "fishey" copy even though I had prepared the "smoking pig" copy for upload before realizing the issue I mentioned at the beginning.

I have only listened to the copy "smoking pig" shared all of the way through once. I've not had a chance to listen to the complete copy "fishey" shared yet and I think I will have some time to do that today. I really am wondering why the two copies that for all practical purposes went through the same processes to get to FLAC 8 files sound different?

This is the full concert and the band sounds a little off to me this night. They don't sound bad. They sound more like they're tired. But still, there are some awesome and cool pieces played in songs that are unique to this night. Robert Plant's voice is really having some issues after the whole flu deal. And this show was still one and two days before the next two Dallas shows that followed. But Plant's voice, especially in spots like the final "...and she's buying the Stairway..." really isn't going to hit the high note so he doesn't even try. He can be heard clearing his throat throughout the show as he was still working on getting his voice back.

The bass frequencies are hard and heavy in this show and I like it. It's not distorted and sounds good. And the high frequencies are the same in that they are up front and evenly mixed. As with most recordings never officially released or mastered with overdubbed tracks, there are some errors as well as noises at times sounding like a bad cord or connector that leads to an AC hum type of noise. It doesn't ruin the show by any stretch but it is there at times and usually noticed in between songs when things are quieter and no music is playing. It isn't in many of the songs.

One thing I found very strange in the "smoking pig" copy as I listened the first time was the big audio difference in "No Quarter" at the beginning on CD 2. "Kashmir" ends CD 1, you have "No Quarter" which I had to turn way down starting CD 2, and then there is the sound changing again in "Trampled Underfoot". I really am confused and have to re examine this and see what is does on "fishey's" copy.

I just realized what the cause of the above paragraph's problem likely was. Why this hasn't been more obvious to me before now mystifies me. I may have determined what caused the audio fluctuations in the "smoking pig" copy. I made two copies I embedded and re-encoded as FLAC 8 of the "smoking pig" shared EAC rip. On one copy I tried fixing the clipping in the audio that was in almost every song and in the other copy I left it as is from EVSD. I am thinking I may have mistakenly mixed up the Audacity fixed clipping copy with the unaltered sound copy. I used Audacity's Clip Fix tool on one copy. This was experimental on my part and I knew that without all clips being joined as one track it was not the proper way to do this. And after fooling around a little with it, I just burned the unaltered copy (or so I thought maybe) to disc the next day. If I had somehow burned the altered copy that would possibly create the issues in sound I am talking about. I bet it was an error on my part.

But there is another anomaly too between the "smoking pig" and "fishey" copies of the show. The "smoking pig" copy had much higher spikes in the waveform (definitely the unaltered copy too) and more audio clipping in the initial, unaltered rips of the discs. But the "fishey" copy I am seeing as I prepare it for uploading has far less clipping in the waveform. CD 3 looks like it has more clipping on both copies but why there is a big difference in two identical rips makes no sense to me. In theory, all EVSD Fort Worth 1975 discs ripped with EAC should have the same waveform I would think. But maybe not?

Any way you look at it, this is a show you will want if you haven't got it. It's still brand new also and as the Soundboard Revolution continues we can only wonder and hope to see what is next!

Once I listen to the "fishey" copy today, I will also know if I mistakenly burned the wrong copy I had messed with on the "smoking pig" copy. Even so, I have compared the two copies from the two uploaders with others and it does seems like the "fishey" copy is superior in sound and therefore I am uploading it.

This wasn't the way I had planned on this post going today. I planned on talking about having had the master Fort Worth 1975-03-03 silent video in my hands before. It had been recorded by a friend, Andy U., and then it was held for many years by another, John R. John finally sent it to the Cosmic Energy guy who did wonders on it as he synchronized it with audio from the Dallas show and made a few upgrades on DVD's like the Assemblage releases.

I always knew this Fort Worth show likely existed in a soundboard and it made my day seeing this show finally surface after 40 years and only having seen silent video of it over the last 22 years. It is great when things come around full circle isn't it!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1971-09-29 Osaka, Japan (FLAC_AUD 4 Source Mix & Remaster_3 CD)

This is the recent Winston Remasters work and share on the Led Zeppelin 1971-09-29 Osaka show. I'm listening to the show tonight as I write this review and post. So it may not cover the entire show since it is so long. And by the way, and according to Winston Remaster' text file in the sharing of this show, this is the complete show too.

This is one of the most wide spread dates out there in the "bootleg world" and there are tons of sources and versions of this show available. But being a fan of so many Winston Remasters shows and enjoying his work on them, and the fact this is a new one and I am enjoying what I am hearing so far, I'm uploading it tonight as I listen.

Even though this show is listed as a SB/AUD show many times, it really is all audience reportedly. For many years one of the sources was spread around as a soundboard recording. But through the years it was determined to be an audience recording with a microphone on the stage rather than a soundboard (or so the story goes). I really don't know and I don't care either because the show sounds superb to my ears. Since Winston Remasters listed it as a soundboard/stage recording for one of the two main sources use in the mix, I just kept it that way too.

LINEAGE:
Main Sources:
(1) Various vinyl sources from trades
(2) From trade labeled "Best Ever" 2nd Gen tape source
Patching/Mix Audio Source:
(3) Source 1 3rd Gen (2 x TDK SA 90 & 60 cassettes) > CDR(3) > FLAC > CD1-R
(4) Source 3 Master > DAT >CD-R
(5) 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

Winston Remasters Notes (copy & paste):
"Hardest show I ever worked on. Used the best possible audio for each song.
Each of the Stage/SBD sources ran at different Sound/Pitch/Speed. It was like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, a BIG THANK YOU to Blackmikito, He really helped me get it right!
Sound: This is more of a Restoration than a Remaster, So I decided to try and give each source tonal balance and clarity.
It seemed the less I did the better it sounded. If your looking for a beefed up in your face version this isn't it, I would recommend Wendy's Fatally Wanderer instead.
Also would like to thank Pernod for his help early on.
So.. Is it Perfect? NOPE. But its the best I could do."

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: September 29th, 1971
Location: Osaka, Japan
Venue: Festival Hall
Title: Arigatou Osaka
Label: Winston Remasters
Source: AUD (4 Source Mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes (full artwork in download)
Size: 1.04 GB
Length: 198:15:61

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

CD 2:
201. Stairway To Heaven
202. Celebration Day
203. That's The Way
204. Going To California
205. Tangerine
206. Friends
207. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
208. What Is And What Should Never Be
209. Moby Dick

CD 3:
301. Whole Lotta Love
302. Communication Breakdown
303. John Paul Jones (organ solo intro)
304. Thank You
305. Rock And Roll

LIN KS:
(1) 1971-09-29 Osaka, Japan (4 Source Mix/Winston Remasters)
(2) 1971-09-29 Osaka, Japan (4 Source Mix/Winston Remasters)

The show starts out not sounding as bright as it later becomes. It still sounds fine, but Page's guitar and well as Plant's vocals are not very loud. They can be heard but the drums and bass are more up front in the recording at the beginning. Page's picks up and becomes bright during "Heartbreaker" but again becomes not as bright.

Winston Remasters states that he used the best source for each song and this is really more of a restoration than a remaster. And I hear what he is speaking of I believe as I am finishing up CD 1 ("Dazed and Confused"). It is not meant to be an "in your face" copy but more of a cleaned up copy and one that had some errors (like pitch) fixed.

I'm not going to say this is the best copy of the show I have heard. It probably isn't. But I am going to say it is the most evenly mixed copy I have heard so far. It sounds like one track or source goes into the next with very little to no audio differences. In other words, the audio sounds relatively the same throughout what I have heard so far. And I like that.

I'm starting CD 3 now and I'm not going to wait until I have finished the show to make this post. I'm ready to upload it now. If there is anything worth updating as I continue listening, I'll come back and post it.

My overall opinion of this recording is it is an excellent-to-superb sounding recording to me. It may or may not be to you? But I like it and think it is very clean sounding.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1971-11-25 Leicester, UK (FLAC_AUD Source 1 Raw Master & Source 1 & 2 Master Sources Mix & Remaster_6 CD)

Today is the 44th anniversary of this unbelievably awesome Led Zeppelin show in Leicester in 1972. This is an incredible performance and the sound is really superb in most parts of the show. The way Led Zeppelin plays this show is mind bowing and full of high energy, on the fly, and one time only musical moments in this show. While the sound may be excellent I think it really is superb personally.

The waveform looked great on both 3 CD set and the sound is mixed very well with the low end bass and higher end guitar and vocals all loud and clear (and really clean). I highly recommend this show for the performance and for the sound too. I don't have time to review this one today so here are the basics.

LINEAGE:
(1) CD's 1 - 3: Source 1 master tapes > CD-R > EAC (Secure > WAV > FLAC 6 >
(2) CD's 4 - 6: Source 2 Tarantura 2000 AUD master silvers The Diploma > EAC > WAV > FLAC >
(3) 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: November 25th, 1971
Location: Leicester, United Kingdom
Venue: Leicester University
Title: Bad Muthtaxyz
Label: A Personal/Group Project
Source: AUD (Master Source 1 & Source 1 & 2 Master Mix & Remaster)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 6
Artwork: Yes (full artwork in download)
Size: 1.27 GB
Length All 6 CD's: 282:38:02
Length CD's 1-3: 129.53.62 (Source 1 Raw)
Length CD's 4-6: 152.41.15 (Source 1 & 2 Mix)

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. introduction
102. Immigrant Song
103. Heartbreaker
104. Black Dog
105. Since I've Been Loving You
106. Celebration Day
107. Tangerine

CD 2:
201. Dazed And Confused
202. Stairway To Heaven

CD 3:
301. What Is And What Should Never Be
302. Whole Lotta Love
303. Rock And Roll
304. Black Dog

CD 4:
401. introduction
402. Immigrant Song
403. Heartbreaker
404. Black Dog
405. Since I've Been Loving You
406. Celebration Day
407. Going To California
408. That's The Way
409. Tangerine (false start)
410. Tangerine
411. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp

CD 5:
501. training old style
502. Dazed And Confused
503. Stairway To Heaven

CD 6:
601. What Is And What Should Never Be
602. Whole Lotta Love
603. Rock And Roll
604. Communication Breakdown

LIN KS:
(1) 1971-11-25 Leicester, UK (AUD Masters/6 CD)
(2) 1971-11-25 Leicester, UK (AUD Masters/6 CD)

The first three CD's are the raw master recording titled Bad Muthaf***ers (one source) and the last three CD's are the remaster of Bad Muthaf***ers and Tarantura's The Diploma (Speed Corrected) (another source) which is also an audience master recording. The sound and performance are jaw dropping with some of the best, raw music made in songs like "Dazed and Confused" that I've never heard anywhere else before.

As you can see above, the remastered 2 source mix copy has extra tracks not in the single Source 1 raw recording. The remastered discs are more complete and that means longer too.

I had thought about uploading these two recordings separately but decided not too because it wasn't shared that way. The artwork is all included and there is a decent amount created for this production.

I don't have much time to talk about this show if I plan on getting it uploaded today on its 44th anniversary. So rather than have me ramble on about stuff in the show, download it and listen yourself. You won't be disappointed. The band was all together and firing on all cylinders on this night 44 years ago!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1971-11-24 Manchester, UK (FLAC_AUD Low Gen Phase Corrected_2 CD)

Today is the 44th anniversary of this Manchester, UK Led Zeppelin concert. This show seems to have been shared through the years with the audio not being phased correctly. In this copy, "pernod" properly phased the audio and it makes a world of difference when comparing it to other audio copies that are not phased properly.

LINEAGE:
(1) Original source lineage: low gen tapes > CD-R > EAC > WAV > SHN > FLAC
(2) Additional source lineage: FLAC > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0.1 (appending, phase correction, channel balancing, minor edits, and 106.2 stretch) > WAV > CD Wave Editor (to track) > FLAC Frontend, (to encode as FLAC 8 and tag & verify
(3) 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: November 24th, 1971
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Venue: Free Trade Hall
Title: None
Label: pernod Revised
Source: AUD (Low Gen Phase Corrected)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Size: 495 MB
Length: 112:12:00

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. intro
102. Immigrant Song
103. Heartbreaker
104. Black Dog
105. Since I've Been Loving You
106. Celebration Day
107. Stairway To Heaven
108. Going To California
109. That's The Way
110. Tangerine
111. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp

CD 2:
201. Dazed And Confused
202. What Is And What Should Never Be
203. Rock And Roll
204. Whole Lotta Love
205. Thank You

LIN K:
(1) 1971-01-24 Manchester, UK (AUD Low Gen Phase Corrected)

This recording is cleaner as I mentioned but it still falls into the great audio category. Even being better sounding, it still lacks Hi-Fi sound and factors that would have improved the sound. But it still is a show I like and one any Led Zeppelin fan not looking for the superb copies of shows only should enjoy.

There are a few short cuts in the audio. From memory, "That's The Way" is cut just before the end and seems to be where a tape flip occurs. I know the first few seconds of "Dazed and Confused" are also not there and it seems the taper had to pause or stop the tape before "Dazed and Confused". And a small part of "Whole Lotta Love" and the last track "Thank You" are not complete either. From listening to the show, I remember "Whole Lotta Love" seemed to be another tape flip area I had thought. And there are some really unique and different parts of "Whole Lotta Love" that sound cool before any cuts come into play. "Thank You", being less than two minutes long, is the final song in the recording and I imagine the taper realized he was running out of tape and did the best he could.

One thing I really do like was how the taper usually left the recorder taping except near the very end and when he had to flip a tape. He wasn't the kind of taper that paused until he had too it sounds like. He didn't pause the tape between songs and I think he only stopped the tape when really necessary.

The audio recording and level sounds even throughout the show. It doesn't go between different sounding periods in the show. The taper does a great job. There are not a lot of audience noises or chatter either and that is a real plus. If the taper had just had better gear this would likely have been an excellent or even superb recording because the taper does a great job on their end. And Plant's voice is up front in the show too as well as John Paul Jones' bass.

I've got two or three more copies of this show and I believe this one is the best. But I haven't found one, my first copy I ever had, titled Rave On yet. The copy I believe this phase corrected copy is sourced from, a 2nd generation copy, sounds a lot noisier and distorted. But the noisier copy is not phase corrected either. There is some distortion in this copy I am uploading but not near as much and nothing to gripe about either really.

You can tell Led Zeppelin was putting on a great show and performance on this night. Unfortunately, John Paul Jones' bass sounds louder than Jimmy Page's guitar. But for one last time, the true fan not concerned with fidelity only will enjoy this because it is a record of the show, it is almost complete, the audio doesn't jump around in the way it sounds and remains pretty consistent throughout the show, and your ears do get use to the sound and the show becomes more and more enjoyable (to me anyhow).

I've almost listened to this whole show once again as I have been making this post and getting things ready. And it is a nice piece of history from 44 years ago today we can listen to. And I'm glad to have this copy. Thanks to the taper (whoever they may be) and to "pernod" for revising this one and doing the phase correction work making the recording even more enjoyable! I'm up to "Rock and Roll", which seems to be in a different place than one might expect it (like after "Whole Lotta Love") and by the time this show has uploaded and I post it I should have finished this great sounding show from 44 years ago today by the mighty Led Zeppelin.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Van Halen: 1976-05-29 Pasadena, CA (FLAC_SB_1 CD)

This is a superb recording of a very early, pre first album Van Halen show in their hometown of Pasadena, California. David Lee Roth even mentions before they start playing "Show Your Love" that they don't even have an album or anything like that out yet. But it sounds like they may have been in the beginning stages of getting an album going and were going to be on the radio soon too.

This has excellent stereo separation and other than a few hiccups the audio is superb. A few tracks have early endings like "Eruption" it sounds like. There is definitely some audio cut from the show and it can be heard more easily nearing the last tracks on the disc. This is an enjoyable hour of very early, live Van Halen.

LINEAGE:
CD-R > EAC > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align sector boundaries) > 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: Van Halen
Date: May 29th, 1976
Location: Pasadena, California
Venue: Pasadena Convention Center
Title: Civil Disobedience
Label: Wooda Live 1 Productions
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 349 MB
Length: 60:48:11

SETLIST:
01. On Fire
02. Somebody Get Me A Doctor
03. Babe Don't Leave Me Alone
04. Show Your Love
05. Runnin' With The Devil
06. Let Me Swim
07. Let's Get Rockin'
08. Eyes Of The Night
09. Simple Rhyme
10. La Grange
11. Honolulu Baby
12. Eruption
13. House Of Pain
14. I Live With Fools

LINK:
(1) 1976-05-29 Pasadena, CA (SB/Wooda)

The waveform looks nice and there is no audio clipping in the show. It is not brickwalled but there really is no room to do any more amplifying either. If it weren't for the cuts in some songs, and again it's really towards the end, this would be a perfect recording. There are more songs in this show too than are on the disc. It became easier to tell this as I listened to the show today. "Eruption" is cut short and songs like the last one, "I Live With Fools", indicate the show was not over and there was more we just do not have. And that's too bad considering how great this show sounds.

I originally got this show the first time from my friend David E. I had gotten it a few other times too over the last couple of years just to compare with what I already had hoping there might be more in the newer downloads that was not in the original share from my friend. But each copy contains the same exact length of time in music and there are no differences in any of the three sources I have.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Feist: 2007-05-10 Santa Monica, CA (FLAC_SB/FM/Studio 1st Gen_1 CD)

I've been going way to long without my Feist fix! As I've stated in each post I've made of her music probably, I love her voice and music too. And this 2007 live FM studio broadcast recorded is a superb sounding and perfect mood setting example of what I wanted to hear this morning.

A special thanks goes out to "Nibbler" for recently sharing this lossless recording at my request. I have got be honest when I say I don't remember when I even asked him to reseed his copy or if I did? I've made some requests in posts and forums before and this is the second person who has helped in the last 9 years. He may have seen my requests for Feist here or I may have PM'ed him on Dime or asked via the Dime Yahoo Group. Wherever he saw I was asking about this show, he was kind enough to re-post the show again after coming across it and he even sent me a PM letting me know. And he did a superb job of recording the audio too!

LINEAGE:
FM broadcast > Harman Kardon AVR30 > analog out > Sony RCD-W500C > Audio CD-R > WAV > Pioneer DVR-RW DVD-108 > EAC > CD Wave Editor (for tracking and encoding as FLAC.8) > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, Normalize audio, 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: Feist
Date: May 10th, 2007
Location: Santa Monica, California
Venue: KCRW Studio (Santa Monica College)
Title: Morning Becomes Eclectic
Label: Nibbler (taper)
Source: SB/FM/Studio (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 204 MB
Length: 34:06:24

SETLIST:
01. KCRW FM intro
02. So Sorry
03. band talk
04. The Park
05. Feist (switching instruments)
06. The Water
07. Feist (interview)
08. I Feel It All
09. Safety Bricks
10. Feist (telling band they're still on air live)
11. Sea Lion Woman
12. KCRW FM outtro

LIN K:
(1) 2007-05-10 Santa Monica, CA (SB/FM/Studio 1st Gen)

This recording really showcases Feist's beautiful voice and her talent as a singer. This recording, being a studio live broadcast from the radio station, is more acoustic sounding than the actual songs in a live show would have been. And it is a nice change too.

I made a small project out of this recording and fixed some errors in the track order. After finding the live video of this performance and making sure the setlist was correctly oriented, I used Normalize in Audacity on the tracks and the outcome sounded like a nice improvement to me. The original tracks sounded fine too. But Normalize evened out the audio volume and made for a nice listening experience. I also made a copy of the recording without any Normalize attributes too as a backup.

Feist was at the KCRW studios for the second time in this broadcast. The first time, in 2005, was for the Let It Die album release and this time in 2007 was for her The Reminder album which she was starting her touring on the following week she says. The Reminder is really the release that made he a much more well known name and a Canadian Grammy (Juno Awards I believe they are called) winner too.

I've been waiting since Feist finished up her 2012 touring for a new album or tour but so far I am only seeing hints she may be doing something now via Facebook. I sure hope so because it was late 2011 the last time she released anything new and I really want to hear and see her in concert again.

The original date reported for this performance in the sharing of this audio was reported as 2007-05-11. However, the official KCRW website shows this show was on 2007-05-10. I'm guessing it may have been rebroadcast a day later or maybe the date could have been reported wrong by either "Nibbler" or KCRW FM? I'm just going by when the radio station said the show was broadcasted live.

There have been a few new shows I have wanted to get uploaded here lately. One is a show I recorded a week ago today and another is the Led Zeppelin 1975-03-03 newly surfaced Fort Worth, Texas soundboard! Originally the party sharing the first Led Zeppelin copy I got had requested people wait until after this weekend to share it. But the next day another person who had also gotten a copy as it was released by EVSD shared their copy on Dime. So all is fine on uploading it now I'm sure but I just need to get the time and sit down and make the upload. I'll get around to getting some music uploaded here as soon as I have some time. Hopefully; this lack of uploads lately will soon be over and I'll be back in full swing.

I hope you enjoy the studio recordings...

Bootradr

Friday, November 13, 2015

Led Zeppelin: The Making Of Led Zeppelin II (FLAC_SB/Studio Multitrack_4 CD)

I'm uploading this EVSD set at the request of a friend over on my Facebook page that asked for it over a week ago. This morning is the first time I've really had a chance to go ahead and prepare and upload the recording.

This is a superb 8 track multitrack set of four Led Zeppelin songs from the 1969 Led Zeppelin II LP studio recordings. These are not all of the same songs that came together to form the officially released material. The versions here are longer in most (maybe all) cases and this is a really awesome gem and something I've never seen from any other Led Zeppelin studio recordings before. I've meant to upload these recordings for a long time but just never have until now.

The four songs, each on their own disc, each contain eight individual tracks as you can see below in the setlist. The songs are as follows. Disc 1 contains the eight "Whole Lotta Love Tracks", Disc 2 contains the eight "What Is And What Should Never Be" tracks, Disc 3 contains the eight "Heartbreaker" tracks, and the final Disc 4 contains the eight "Ramble On" tracks. All tracks on each disc are equal lengths and when put together form the 8 track recordings of each song.

I have made a CD with the multitrack recordings combined from each song's eight tracks recorded to make a complete recording of the four songs. But that is not in this upload and I can upload it at a later time. It sounds really awesome listening to a 6:13 "Whole Lotta Love" (the song is originally 5:34 on the LP and 3:10 on the single released). There are a lot of combinations musicians can use to play their instruments to various mixes of the individual tracks here and play along with these songs as they practice.

I wish I had noticed this earlier because I would have uploaded this four disc set on the anniversary of the LP's release. Led Zeppelin II was released on November 7th, 1969. So we're 6 days past its 46th anniversary today. There is no Led Zeppelin album I do not like. But Led Zeppelin II is definitely one of my favorites of all time from the band. It's hard to believe this LP was recorded while on the road touring on their Led Zeppelin debut album at the time too. Two albums in the same year being released and the second LP also being recorded as the band was touring and recording in various studios at the same time amazing.

LINEAGE:
EVSD silvers > EAC > 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

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: 1969
Location: Various
Venue: Various Studios
Title: The Making Of Led Zeppelin II
Label: EVSD
Source: SB/Studio (Multitrack)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 4
Artwork: Yes
Size: 639 MB
Length: 209:50:02

SETLIST:
CD 1 - Whole Lotta Love:
101. Whole Lotta Love (guitar #1)
102. Whole Lotta Love (guitar #2)
103. Whole Lotta Love (bass)
104. Whole Lotta Love (drum right)
105. Whole Lotta Love (drum left)
106. Whole Lotta Love (drum percussion)
107. Whole Lotta Love (vocals #1)
108. Whole Lotta Love (vocals #2)

CD 2 - What Is And What Should Never Be:
201. What Is And What Should Never Be (guitar #1)
202. What Is And What Should Never Be (bass)
203. What Is And What Should Never Be (drum right)
204. What Is And What Should Never Be (drum left)
205. What Is And What Should Never Be (vocals #1)
206. What Is And What Should Never Be (vocals #2)
207. What Is And What Should Never Be (vocals #3)
208. What Is And What Should Never Be (guitar & vocals)

CD 3 - Heartbreaker:
301. Heartbreaker (guitar #1)
302. Heartbreaker (guitar #2)
303. Heartbreaker (bass)
304. Heartbreaker (drum right)
305. Heartbreaker (drum left)
306. Heartbreaker (guitar, bass, & drum)
307. Heartbreaker (vocals)
308. Heartbreaker (vocals & guitar)

CD 4 - Ramble On:
401. Ramble On (guitar #1)
402. Ramble On (guitar #2)
403. Ramble On (guitar #3)
404. Ramble On (bass)
405. Ramble On (drum right)
406. Ramble On (drum left)
407. Ramble On (vocals)
408. Ramble On (vocals & guitar)

LIN K:
(1) The Making of Led Zeppelin II (SB/Studio Multitrack/EVSD)

The sound is superb on each of these tracks and the waveform is perfect as well being done in the studio where mistakes would be really rare.

On my personal mixdown of the tracks (not in this download/upload), as I was putting "Whole Lotta Love" together with all eight individual tracks, I wanted to raise up the amplitude of Jimmy Page's famous guitar solo on my copy as I made the personal preference copy for myself. It was fun taking the various tracks for the various instruments and vocals and making adjustments to them as I saw fit just to change up the sound of the songs a little. I also raised up John Paul Jones' bass in "Ramble On" to a higher audible level too just for fun and I really made a few different versions of each song with different mixes as I did my own mixdowns of each of the four tracks.

One thing makes me laugh every time I hear it. One of the vocal tracks, I believe it is the #1 vocal track, has Robert Plant singing the "ahh, ahh ohh, etc" sounds in the song "Whole Lotta Love". We all are familiar with this psychedelic part of the song. But in this extended length version of the song, all of the sudden Plant belts out "Timber" as if a tree were falling in the studio. This never made the officially released material of course and was obviously cut before the song hit the album or airwaves (or any live shows for that matter). But it really is just one of those "out of nowhere" kind of ad-lib type of cool moments you'll likely only find in the studio recording of this one vocal track and it mixes perfect with the song when all eight tracks are laid down to create the longer version of "Whole Lotta Love" too.

I've made no alterations to the sound in this 4 disc EVSD set I am uploading. What I've been talking about in the past few paragraphs are changes I made to my own copies I was having some fun with and not what is in this upload (at least in the various mixes I made).

I did not realize this until I was getting this EVSD CD set ready to upload last night. But a huge thank you goes to"Amduscia" for getting this one out there for us! It seem he was the source that got this show circulating and I had not known that before. But it is no real surprise either because a ton of great music and releases of Led Zeppelin material seem to get circulated by him too.

I hope you enjoy the studio recordings...

Bootradr

Monday, November 9, 2015

Page & Pant: 1998-09-23 Las Vegas, NV (DVD_Pro Shot & AUD Shot_SB/Pre-FM Master Audio_1 DL DVD)

This version of this show was recently requested by a friend and I'm getting a chance to finally upload it tonight. This is the upgraded version of the Las Vegas 1998 Page & Plant show and it uses the master pre-FM audio Jimmy Page reportedly did not want to use or air (it's excellent so I don't know why) rather than the mono audio on the more common version of the show from Third Eye.

The video is also made up of about 1/3 of the show sourced from a pro shot video source and then the other2/3 being sourced from the Third Eye audience shot source. These are just rough estimates but I believe they're close. The audio used throughout the whole show is the LPCM pre-FM soundboard master audio. This is an excellent copy of the show and the very best I know of so far.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given > me > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Page & Plant
Date: September 23rd, 1998
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Venue: MGM Grand Garden
Label: Third Eye & Other Unknown Source
Title: None

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: No
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: No
DVD's: 1 DL DVD
DVD Size: 5.34 GB
DVD Length: 1 hour, 55 minutes

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Color/B&W: Color
Type: Pro Shot & AUD Shot
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 8000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Audio Type: SB/Pre-FM (DAT Master)
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 1536 kbps
Codec: LPCM
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
01. The Wanton Song
02. Bring It On Home
03. Heartbreaker *
04. Ramble On *
05. Walking Into Clarksdale *
06. No Quarter *
07. When The World Was Young *
08. Going To California *
09. Tangerine
10. Gallows Pole
11. Heart In Your Hand
12. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
13. How Many More Times/Trampled Underfoot
14. Most High
15. Whole Lotta Love
16. Thank You
17. Rock And Roll

* = Pro shot source video

LINKS:
(1) 1998-09-23 Las Vegas, NV (DL DVD/Pro & AUD Shot SB)
(2) 1998-09-23 Las Vegas, NV (DL DVD/Pro & AUD Shot SB)
(3) 1998-09-23 Las Vegas, NV (DL DVD/Pro & AUD Shot SB)
(4) 1998-09-23 Las Vegas, NV (DL DVD/Pro & AUD Shot SB)
(5) 1998-09-23 Las Vegas, NV (DL DVD/Pro & AUD Shot SB)
(6) 1998-09-23 Las Vegas, NV (DL DVD/Pro & AUD Shot SB)

At first I thought the audio for the show was a matrix of the SB/pre-FM material and an audience audio source (probably Third Eye's recording). But I realized this was not the case and this may be why Page didn't like this audio and did not want to air it. It sounds like the crowd can definitely be heard in between songs louder than usual but still not at all bad sounding. I actually like this audio better than if it had no crowd noise at all in between songs like some recordings have. There is no explanations or information as to why Page did not like the audio and would not let it be aired. And it's purely speculation on my part that it may be because it has a matrix and louder audience noise sound to it.

The text file that came with this DL DVD was very limited with information in it. There was no lineage, no explaining anything, and really nothing other than a setlist and some basic here it is. The sharing party did state they had higher expectations and plans for the project but they didn't have time to do the work they'd wanted to do so they were just uploading it. And that's fine. There is no menu but there are chapters for each song.

I have no idea if the rest of the show had been professionally shot or where this pro shot part of it came from. But thankfully it was available to add. And of course Third Eye's work, as almost always, is very good too.

I recently got the full 2 DVD Third Eye copy of this same Las Vegas show and I may upload it too eventually. But since this copy is the better copy and a definite upgrade as far as sound and video goes, it was an easy choice to upload this LPCM audio copy with a good amount of pro shot video. And it was the copy requested anyhow.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr