Showing posts with label Led Zeppelin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Led Zeppelin. Show all posts

Friday, July 14, 2017

Led Zeppelin: 1979-08-04 Stevenage, UK, Knebworth Festival (Pro Shot_3 DVD) REPLACEMENT LINKS GOOD FOR 7 DAYS ONLY

These are TEMPORARY links for a show I promised to get uploaded again as soon as I could.  These links will be good for 7 DAYS ONLY from the time they're uploaded.

I have no file sharing site anymore and I have been looking for a good one that is free user friendly as well as one that allows me to store at least a few TB's of data.  The cost involved as well as the sites that meet the criteria have me in limbo right now.  I can't afford what I'd like to use so I am using what I think is the best service for free users.  It's WeTransfer and they have fast speeds and users can download multiple links simultaneously.  There are limitation to downloading simultaneously and I don't know if it's based on file sizes or number of downloads at once?  So if you get a few downloads going and then you can't download any more, just let a download or two finish and then try the remaining links.  WeTransfer is FAST so that is really good.

This early post is a preparation for the 3 DVD 1980-08-04 superb Knebworth video.  It's also to let those who have requested this show again know to keep a lookout for it now.  As soon as the links become available, likely sometime today, I'll post them here.

This is the original link to the show and information:
BBBB Original 1979-08-04 3 DVD Upload/Info

REMEMBER, LINKS ARE GOOD FOR 7 DAYS ONLY!!!

Part 1 - 1979-08-04 KNEBWORTH MASTERS - LINK EXPIRES 2017-07-21
Part 2 - 1979-08-04 KNEBWORTH MASTERS - LINK EXPIRES 2017-07-21
Part 3 - 1979-08-04 KNEBWORTH MASTERS - LINK EXPIRES 2017-07-21
Part 4 - 1979-08-04 KNEBWORTH MASTERS - LINK EXPIRES 2017-07-21
Part 5 - 1979-08-04 KNEBWORTH MASTERS - LINK EXPIRES 2017-07-21
Part 6 - 1979-08-04 KNEBWORTH MASTERS - LINK EXPIRES 2017-07-21

Enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1977-06-13 New York, NY (FLAC_AUD Source 2 Master & Source 1 1st Gen Mix_3 CD)

It's been a long time since I've...uploaded a Led Zeppelin show (or any show for that matter).  All I can say is I have been busy and I also needed a break.

This show is one I've never uploaded before and it's one that was requested over on my Facebook page about a month ago.  This is a great sounding recording too.  Great means pretty much middle of the road of you've ever looked over and noticed the ratings (above all the band names and links) I give shows.

I think the source 2, or primary source used here, recording of this show is the best one.  The source 1 recording has too much noise and distortion throughout it but does have more high frequencies.  But still, the source 2 recording is cleaner and much easier to listen to I feel.  Of course this upload is a mix of the two sources with source 1 being used to fill in the missing material in the show after "Kashmir".  Stanko, or source 2, reportedly taped the full show but lost the tape with the material after "Kashmir" and up through "Achilles Last Stand".

LINEAGE:
(1) Source 2 CD-Rs > EAC > Sony Sound Forge > WAV > TLH > FLAC >
(2) Source 1 CD-R's > EAC > Sony Sound Forge > WAV > TLH > 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

NOTES:
The only other thing I did was take the final tracks, "Whole Lotta Love" and "Black Dog", and split them into two tracks.  They were originally one track so I used CD Wave Editor and created a split at the right point to form two tracks.


DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 13th, 1977
Location: New York, New York
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Title: None

Label: Stanko & Artie (tapers)
Source: AUD (Source 2 Master & Source 1 1st Gen Mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: No
Size: 1.10 GB
Length: 182:45:69


SETLIST:

CD 1:
101. crowd
102. The Song Remains The Same

103. Sick Again
104. Nobody's Fault But Mine

105.
Over The Hills And Far Away
106. Since I've Been Loving You
107. No Quarter
108. Ten Years Gone

CD 2:
201. The Battle Of Evermore

202. Going To California
203. Black Country Woman ~ Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
204. White Summer ~ Black Mountain Side
205. Kashmir
206. Over The Top

CD 3:
301. Heartbreaker
302. Jimmy Page (violin bow guitar solo)
303.
Achilles Last Stand
304. Stairway To Heaven
305. encore/crowd
306. Whole Lotta Love
307. Black Dog


LINK:
(1) 1977-06-13 New York, NY (AUD Source 2 & 1 Mix)
(2) 1977-06-13 New York, NY (AUD Source 2 & 1 Mix)

MIRROR:
(1) 1977-06-13 New York, NY (AUD Source 2 & 1 Mix) (Mirror)

(2) 1977-06-13 New York, NY (AUD Source 2 & 1 Mix) (Mirror)

NOTE:
I'm using a free Mega account as a mirror in this upload.  Those of you downloading please leave me a message here or on the Facebook (Community Group or Secret Group) letting me know what works best as far as the links go.  I eventually plan on adding a secondary mirror site to my posts as I've always had until the last year or so.  Your opinion will help me help you.


This really is a nice performance by Led Zeppelin you can hear throughout this show.  Robert Plant sounds great vocally and Jimmy Page sounds on fire during his solos.  His "Over The Hills And Far Away" solo sounds great as I listen to it now.

The waveform looks great for both sources and there is no audio clipping either.  The audio sounds pretty level too throughout the show in each source.  There is some crowd chatter heard.  Primarily a yapping girl can be heard in the source 2 audio at times.  And in the source 1 audio, or the Artie audio, it's a crap-shoot at who may be heard at times.  Artie is the famous Led Zeppelin New York taper that is also known for talking a lot in his recordings.  But overall, this is a great sounding two source mix.

I've got a DVD-A of this source 2 material that I think sounds the best of all audio I've ever heard for this show.  In the text file for the DVD-A, it mentions that the audio was transferred off of the master tapes using the baking process to prevent any further oxidizing of the tapes.  This source 2 audio being shared here now is the same audio and came from the same transfer after it was converted over to the CD standard format.  It is not from another transfer of the master tapes prior to the baking of them (which of course allows a one time transfer and they're no longer any good).

The more I listen to this show, the better it is sounding to me.

So here is a breakdown of the tracks from the source 1 material that was used to patch this show and make it complete.  "Over The Top", "Heartbreaker", Jimmy Page's violin bow guitar solo, and "Achilles Last Stand" are the source 1 patch tracks.  But when "Stairway To Heaven" comes in, it goes back to the original source 2 material through the end of the show.  There are likely other parts in the show where a short section from source 1 would be added to fill in a gap (usually between songs) in the source 2 recording when something like a tape flip occurred.  But the text file lists the above mentioned songs as fully source 1 material as well.

I wish I knew where I got this from but I cannot seem to nail that fact down tonight.  I wanted to thank the project creator.  They also cleaned up some sound issues such as balancing the channels and working with the audio (not mentioned how) using Sound Forge.  So technically, this audio may be slightly different sounding that the DVD-A copy I mentioned a little bit ago.  Whoever did the work did a great job and from everything I can see they knew what they were doing and did it right.

I wish I could have uploaded this one on its 39th anniversary which was less than two weeks ago.  But I was not able to.  Since I had some time tonight and I knew this one was wanted by a few people, I decided to get it done and uploaded for my friends.

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.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!





Friday, May 6, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1975-02-10 Landover, MD (FLAC_SB_3 CD)

This is the newly surfaced Landover, Maryland Led Zeppelin show we've been waiting for over the last few weeks (or longer for some).  I was able to get it two nights ago (Wednesday) over on R-O thanks to the upload and share by "Smoking Pig" over there.

I listened to the full show through headphones last night and really enjoyed it.  It is an excellent-to-superb sounding recording.

LINEAGE:
EVSD silver CD's > EAC > TLH > 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: February 10th, 1975
Location: Landover, Maryland
Venue: Capital Centre
Title: Ultra Violent Killer
Droog
Label: EVSD
Source: SB (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes (web sourced artwork for now)
Size: 1.01 GB
Length: 170:09:58


SETLIST:

CD 1:
101. introduction
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. Trampled Underfoot
203. Moby Dick

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


LINK:
(1) 1975-02-10 Landover, MD (SB/;EVSD)
(2) 1975-02-10 Landover, MD (SB/;EVSD)

MIRROR:
(1) 1975-02-10 Landover, MD (SB/;EVSD) (Mirror)

(2) 1975-02-10 Landover, MD (SB/;EVSD) (Mirror)

NOTE:
I'm using a free Mega account as a mirror in this upload.  Those of you downloading please leave me a message here or on the Facebook (Community Group or Secret Group) letting me know what works best as far as the links go.  I eventually plan on adding a secondary mirror site to my posts as I've always had until the last year or so.  Your opinion will help me help you.


As we would expect, the waveform does have some clipping but it is not atrocious like some other EVSD shows have been over the years.  The labels (not all but a lot) like EVSD really do not seem to understand how to work on a show without clipping the waveform (audio) it seems.  But this is no big surprise either and it is something we've come to expect from EVSD (or brickwalling if it is Tarantura).

The show starts off with Robert Plant's voice breaking and sounding really bad.  But it soon improves and the show is really a very nice performance by the band.  I think somewhere after "Sick Again" you really don't hear his voice being a problem in this show.

The mix is good but I cannot say for sure if it was too bass heavy or not right now.  As I listened via the headphones Wednesday night I made a lot of changes to the sound and got the show sounding like I wanted it.  At times I had to lower the bass setting due to it being so strong.  But nevertheless, the show sounded excellent and I really enjoyed hearing this soundboard for the first time.

Nobody has done any scans of the artwork yet it seems.  At least if they have they have not shared them yet.  I've gone ahead and searched the web and got what I could on e-Bay and a few other sites.  But we don't really get these shows for the artwork anyhow do we?  If I ever get some high resolution scans I'll add them here.

I was going to upload the show last night but really wanted to listen to it first.  Now, I don't feel like reviewing it because those who are going to get it will hear it for themselves and those that aren't getting it (but should) will have to wonder :-)  Seriously though; I just want to get it uploaded and get to sleep tonight (or this morning really).  You will like this audio if you like Led Zeppelin and should be very pleased.

Thanks again to "Smoking Pig" for being the first to get this one out for us to listen to!

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.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!



Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1971-05-03 Copenhagen, Denmark (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

Here is a show I have never uploaded a copy of before.  I had wanted to upload this show on its 45th anniversary yesterday but I was not able to do so.  So I figured I'd upload it this morning since I cannot sleep.

This is the copy I decided to go with because I think it has one of the best mixes and the work done on this copy sounds and looks great also.  The highs are not cut from this copy like on some of the other label copies and it doesn't have the rougher sounding distortion that the master copy has.  I'm not saying this is the very best copy, but from my checking of about 6 copies of the show I have, I liked what I was sampling in this copy a lot so I chose it.

LINEAGE:
Silver CD's > EAC (Secure Mode) > WAV > TLH > 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: May 3rd, 1971
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Venue: KB Hallen
Title: Stick Out!

Label: None
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (full scans in download)
Size: 462 MB
Length: 121:36:00


SETLIST:

CD 1:
101. Immigrant Song
102. Heartbreaker

103. Since I've Been Loving You
104. Dazed And Confused

105. Black Dog
106. Stairway To Heaven
107. Going To California
108. That's The Way

CD 2:
201. Robert Plant talking

202. What Is And What Should Never Be
203. Four Sticks
204. Gallows Pole
205. Whole Lotta Love
206. Communication Breakdown
207. Misty Mountain Hop
208. Rock And Roll


LINK:
(1) 1971-05-03 Copenhagen, Denmark (AUD/Stick Out!)

MIRROR:
(1) 1971-05-03 Copenhagen, Denmark (AUD/Stick Out!) (Mirror)


NOTE:
I'm using a free Mega account as a mirror in this upload.  Those of you downloading please leave me a message here or on the Facebook (Community Group or Secret Group) letting me know what works best as far as the links go.  I eventually plan on adding a secondary mirror site to my posts as I've always had until the last year or so.  Your opinion will help me help you.


The waveform looks fine in this show's audio and there is no audio clipping.  There may have been some slight compression used when the show was being mastered.  But it sounds like it comes from a low generation source and as I mentioned up top the highs are more present and the distorting portions sound much better here in this recording.

The audience is not an issue in this recording either.  They are relatively quiet or not caught by the taper as the music plays for the most part.  You can hear them clapping in various songs and hear some talk, whistling, etc throughout the show.  But they were a quiet crowd.  And there even seems to be a rumbling going on in the crowd too because Plant jumps all over the people causing the issue and more or less tells them they will not play if it continues.

As with all shows lately, I am revisiting this one as I prepare the upload.  And I really like it more and more as I listen.  The sound improves a lot too around "Since I've Been Loving You".  I'm sure the taper had to get things set and working right and do the technical adjustments earlier on as we all have to do sometimes.

There are some parts of the show with distortion and it really is in the real heavy and fast parts of the show sometimes when the bass, drums, and guitar are all jamming together.  It sounds like the distortion comes from the taper's gear just not being able to handle the loud show and the limitations with his gear.  Not every part like this is distorted and the distortion is not the kind that is so bad you cannot listen to it.  You can still hear the show just fine.  And the taper sounds like he is close to the stage as well so each member can be heard pretty equally in the mix.

There are a few rarities in this show as well.  The band plays "Four Sticks" and "Gallows Pole" as well as "Misty Mountain Hop" as one of the encore songs.  "Gallows Pole" is played in an incredible way and it sounds awesome in this performance.  "Misty Mountain Hop" became a normal track in the 1973 tour but it wasn't played a lot (maybe at all...I need to check that) in the 1971 shows and hearing it in this show is rare.  He introduced the song saying "this is a song from the next album" and it does sound different than later versions too.  I have always loved the "Minnesota Blues" and "Honey Bee" parts of some Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love" performances.  And they play them both in this show.  Robert Plant also adds in part from "Celebration Day" in the near end of "Communication Breakdown" which is a thing I don't think they did in any other recordings of their live shows before/after this show.

I just noticed as "Gallows Pole" is ending the recording sounds like it becomes brighter sounding.  It almost sounds as if another source may have been mixed in.  It may not be anything at all like I am saying it "sounds like".  It may be something as simple as the taper making an adjustment to his gear.  But the distortion I spoke of sounds to have lessened also as "Whole Lotta Love" starts up and this would have been a spot I would have expected to hear the distortion more.  I do not think this a second source mixed in but you tell me what you think when you hear this part of the show.

I really think this is a great-to-excellent sounding show myself.  I love the sound but I also can deal with imperfections in a recording as long as I can still hear the songs fine.  And that is the case with this recording.

One last thing worth mentioning is the great job the taper did at keeping the show sounding the same throughout it.  Unlike many other shows out there, the audio seems to have the same great sound throughout the show and you don't have a mix of better sounding parts of the show alongside other parts sounding worse.  The only (small) issue in the sound changing is the parts where some distortion is present.  But overall, this should be a show any Led Zeppelin live fan should enjoy without any problems!

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.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!



Thursday, April 14, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1980-07-07 Berlin, Germany (FLAC_SB, AUD, + Bonus FM BX_5 CD)

And now we are to the last Led Zeppelin show I have not ever uploaded from the 1980 European tour as well as the last show of the band before John Bonham  died less than two months later.  EVSD did a decent job on this one too.

This is an excellent sounding 5 disc set of both the soundboard recording (discs 1 & 2), audience recording (discs 3 & 4), and the final disc 5 which has news reports of John Bonham's death and the possible end of Led Zeppelin from 1980 radio broadcasts.  The final disc can be easily added to disc 2 (soundboard) or disc 4 (audience) since it is under 4 minutes.  In fact, it could be added to both discs if you wanted it at the end of each source's  recording.  The different news reports are just one track and it is 3:52 in total running time.

LINEAGE:
EVSD silver CD's > Nero Burning Rome > FLAC Frontend > FLAC 7 > 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: July 7th, 1980
Location: Berlin, Germany
Venue: Eissporthalle
Title: Eternal Magic

Label: EVSD
Source: SB/AUD/FM BX (not a mix of these sources...read post for info)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 5
Artwork: Yes (full artwork in download)
Size:1.45 GB
Length 1: 135:28:02
(Discs 1 & 2 SB)
Length 2: 142:23:02 (Discs 3 & 4 AUD)
Length 3: 03:52:12 (Disc 5 Bonham's Death News Reports)
Length 4: 281:43:16 (All 5 Discs TRT)

SETLIST:

CD 1 (Soundboard CD 1):
101. Train Kept A Rollin'
102. Nobody's Fault But Mine

103. Black Dog
104. In The Evening

105. The Rain Song
106. Hot Dog
107. All My Love
108. Trampled Underfoot
109. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 2
(Soundboard CD 2):
201. White Summer
~ Black Mountain Side
202. Kashmir
203. Stairway To Heaven
204. Rock And Roll
205. Whole Lotta Love


CD 3 (AUD CD 1):
101. Train Kept A Rollin'
102. Nobody's Fault But Mine

103. Black Dog
104. In The Evening

105. The Rain Song
106. Hot Dog
107. All My Love
108. Trampled Underfoot
109. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 4
(AUD CD 2):
201. White Summer
~ Black Mountain Side
202. Kashmir
203. Stairway To Heaven
204. Rock And Roll
205. Whole Lotta Love

CD 5:
501. The Radio Reports


LINKS:
(1) 1980-07-07 Berkin, Germany (SB, AUD, & FM BX/EVSD
(2) 1980-07-07 Berkin, Germany (SB, AUD, & FM BX/EVSD)

MIRROR:
(1) 1980-07-07 Berkin, Germany (SB, AUD, & FM BX/EVSD) (Mirror)

(2) 1980-07-07 Berkin, Germany (SB, AUD, & FM BX/EVSD) (Mirror)

NOTE:
I'm using a free Mega account as a mirror in this upload.  Those of you downloading please leave me a message here or on the Facebook (Community Group or Secret Group) letting me know what works best as far as the links go.  I eventually plan on adding a secondary mirror site to my posts as I've always had until the last year or so.  Your opinion will help me help you.


The waveform does have clipping in the audio which surely came from EVSD over amplifying the audio or when they EQ'ed it.  It isn't horrible clipping but it has more than I like.  But what do you expect?  Many labels can press a professional disc but do not really know how to properly edit and work with the audio too many times unfortunately.  But the show and recordings sounds excellent-to-superb to my ears.

This final Led Zeppelin show may very well be the best sounding show out of the 14 concerts they performed in Europe in 1980.  This was their comeback after three years of not touring and the United States tour was to begin in November 1980.  And after the previous 1980 shows leading to this last one, they were warmed up and in a groove and ready to continue on after a short break (which wound up being 27 years before they played a full show again).

This paragraph a little off topic and not related to the show.  But it all has to do with this same 1980 time frame and what I talk about in this post.  I have a real, true, and never used Led Zeppelin ticket from their November 13, 1980 Chicago, Illinois show that never happened.  How you ask?  It is thanks to Led Zeppelin Tickets!  The day John Bonham died, the tickets arrived in the United States for the bands first shows so they could be sold.  But they were not distributed since the tour was obviously cancelled due to John Bonham's passing away on September 25, 1980.  Led Zeppelin Tickets helped me in getting my ticket and if you ever have any interest in owning one there are likely some left.  This is the FACEBOOK PAGE and their main website is HERE (or just go to LedZeppelinTickets.com for more information).

Getting back to the show at hand here now, this is a really awesome performance by the group and as I stated it may be their best performance on the tour since it was their last night.  I like Jimmy Page's (different again) intro to "Since I've Been Loving You" and his different ending to "Trampled Underfoot" as well.  I'm not saying this is the definitive copy of the show being shared or even those tracks when compared to other shows because it likely isn't.  But it is a really excellent and even superb sounding recording in both the soundboard and audience discs for the show.

I noticed on the soundboard disc 1 that there was an audience patch when I was starting to work on this upload yesterday.  I'm listening to disc 2 of the soundboard now and have not heard any more patches yet and I am up to "Kashmir".  Ha!  What a great time to make that statement because there is another audience patch for about 20 seconds in the middle of "Kashmir" I heard right after I typed what I did.

I am listening to the audience source(s) used now (after finishing the soundboard discs) as I finish preparing this upload.  The audio sounds excellent but I know an unaltered copy of a low generation audience source is what I want.  I don't know if one exists or if I even may have one on the drive not plugged in now?  I looked briefly online yesterday for anything I might not have had (audience or soundboard for 1980-07-07) and I could not find anything.  But I am fairly sure I do not have a low generation copy of this same source audience recording and if I do it is not one that is unaltered.  But it is obvious the audience recording this was sourced from was an excellent sounding recording so there is likely an unaltered copy out there somewhere (hopefully besides in EVSD's hands).


Both the audience and soundboard recordings make for very enjoyable listening though so you should not be disappointed because the instruments and vocals are all easily heard, mixed decently, and the sound is excellent at least.  The high and low frequency ranges are present as well in the audience recording and it has a more "full range" of sound..  It has its flaws in some areas but is generally a nice, clean sounding recording.  "Hot Dog" sounds like two audience sources, possibly running at different speeds, were used and that is very noticeable.

Using the Trader's Little Helper (TLH) program to check for lossiness in the audience recording, it left some question marks in my mind as to whether or not lossy audio was used.  But after a frequency analysis (FA) it looked lossless and was just altered by the EVSD EQ work causing it to look possibly lossy to TLH.  This happens sometimes when EQ'ing is done, frequencies are cut or altered, etc.  But it is a lossless and NOT a lossy sourced audience source.

I'm not going to run on and do much more talking here this early morning.  I'm wanting to get this 5 CD set uploading.  I will say the full artwork scans are in the upload but they are low resolution scans and not large files.  They are 150 dpi scans so it isn't too bad and they can surely be resized  if need be.

I'm glad EVSD did a decent job on this one as well.  I'll surely be uploading other copies of this show as time goes by.  I forget what all I have for this date but I do know I have an unaltered first generation copy of the soundboard as well as so a number of various label copies and some remasters too.  I saw something that made me think there may be a Winston Remasters copy of the show but I do not have nor have I seen that one before.  It may be a future project or something like that but I really do not know.  Hopefully, if a Winston Remasters copy doesn't already exist, one will someday soon.  I have a feeling that one will be the definitive copy since he does such incredible work and he also works with the best sources (lowest generation) recordings in his projects.  He really gets things sounding the best in most cases I feel.


This is a sad show to listen to knowing it was the final, all original members Led Zeppelin show ever.  And Jimmy Page does do a "Stairway To Heaven" solo that is totally different than any other version of the song I have heard him doing.  As I stated a few posts back, it was like he was saying "goodbye" without even realizing it in this song on their 1980 final tour.  And what better way to say goodbye than through a never played before variation in "Stairway To Heaven".

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.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!



      

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1980-07-05 Munich, Germany (FLAC_AUD Source 1 & 2 Mix_2 CD)

This is the second from last show Led Zeppelin played with John Bonham.  It is also the second from last show in the requests I've had for the 1980 concerts.

This is a great-to-excellent sounding two sources mix of the show.  I wish I knew who did the work but I do not have that information.  The way it is put together, I imagine somebody over on R-O did the work and created the project.  This is a very enjoyable listen!

The band had a special guest join them on the final song, "Whole Lotta Love", in this show.  Band Company member Simon Kirke sat in with Led Zeppelin and played on the final song closing out the show on this Saturday night in 1980.

There was no artwork for this specific two source mix but I did find some for another two source mix.  The only difference is the Source 1 material used and mentioned on it was second generation material and not first generation material like this mix being shared used.  I'll include it but just keep this in mind.

LINEAGE:
(1) AUD Source 1 1st Gen cassette > CD-R (6) > EAC > WAV > FLAC
(2) AUD Source 2 3rd Gen cassette > ?? > CD-R > 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: July 5th, 1980
Location: Munich, Germany
Venue: Olympiahalle
Title: None

Label: None
Source: AUD (Source 1 1st Gen & Source 2 3rd Gen Mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (not an exact Source 1 information match)
Size: 690 MB
Length: 124:53:74


SETLIST:

CD 1:
101. Train Kept A Rollin'
102. Nobody's Fault But Mine

103. Black Dog
104. In The Evening

105. The Rain Song
106. Hot Dog
107. All My Love
108. Trampled Underfoot
109. Since I've Been Loving You
110. Achilles Last Stand

CD 2:
201. White Summer
~ Black Mountain Side
202. Kashmir
203. Stairway To Heaven
204. Rock And Roll
205. Whole Lotta Love


LINK:
(1) 1980-07-05 Munich, Germany (AUD 2 Source Mix)

MIRROR:
(1) 1980-07-05 Munich, Germany (AUD 2 Source Mix) (Mirror)


NOTE:
I'm using a free Mega account as a mirror in this upload.  Those of you downloading please leave me a message here or on the Facebook (Community Group or Secret Group) letting me know what works best as far as the links go.  I eventually plan on adding a secondary mirror site to my posts as I've always had until the last year or so.  Your opinion will help me help you.


The waveform looks nice with no audio clipping or brickwalling.  The sound is great most of the time but it has its excellent moments too like in "All My Love".  Source 1 in this two source mix is from a first generation transfer and Source 2 is from a third generation transfer.

The crowd can be heard clapping and talking sometimes and it isn't as clean of a recording as some other audience recordings are.  But it still is very nice.

I'm listening to Page's guitar solo now in "Trampled Underfoot" and it seems clean and up front.  The mix is a good one and you can hear the whole band in their individual singing and instrument playing throughout the whole concert.  But it could use a good Winston Remasters working to make it into a much better sounding show also.

As with many shows, the sound starts off not sounding as good as it gets a few songs into the show.  The sound does improve after "Train Kept A Rollin'" and even a little more again just a little bit further into the show.

There is not a lot of hiss in the recording and yet you can hear there is some there.  I'm wondering if the audio was worked on to make it less hissy?  I cannot say for sure but the high frequencies do sound like they may be tampered with a small amount and this would be a likely result of trying to remove some of the tape hiss.  Once again, this is speculation on my part and I may be way off in thinking this?  It just sounds like a possibility to my ears.  Sometimes the high frequencies seem to be more prevalent than others and it could simply be from something such as the person taping the show trying to keep a microphone hidden and not pointing it with a clean and clear line of sight towards the stage?  Who knows, but it sounds great still.

The crowd seems very manageable and they don't interfere much in the audio.  You can hear close by people clapping in between and during some songs as I already mentioned and you also hear a few comments every so often.  They can be heard and yet they aren't the annoying show ruining kind of audience interference thankfully.

Source 1 is the primary audio source and Source 2 is used for patching any missing moments.  So this really is most all Source 1 that you hear.  The recording was shared as a matrix over on Dime but this does not appear to be a matrix recording and it sounds like it is just a mix with the two audience sources used. The text file has no information calling it a matrix at all either.

I like the start of "Since I've Been Loving You" in this show.  It is a little different and a little slower and sadder sounding as it starts out.  This song, "Stairway To Heaven", and "Whole Lotta Love" are my favorite songs from this final 1980 tour in Europe.  These are all old classics from the band but they all have something new in the way they were being played at the time.

At the end of "Since I've Been Loving You" Robert Plant says something a little prophetic regarding the tour.  He says, "...it's getting a little bit towards the end, we got one more show after this and then who knows, you know?  Perhaps we'll have to do another one after that one".  But as all Led Zeppelin fans know, they never got a chance to do another one after the 1980-05-07 show Plant mentions.  As the band was preparing to come to the Unites states for the tour they planned John Bonham died.  So the "who knows" part of what he said really rings true sadly enough.

Nobody knew John Bonham was about to die and there would be no more Led Zeppelin as of his death.  The various reunions, most just two to five songs and with other artists sometimes joining in and of course filling in (for John Bonham) were many years later and the final Led Zeppelin reunion and first real concert performance was not until 2007-12-10 or some 27 years later.  They ended the Led Zeppelin legacy right with John Bonham's son, Jason Bonham, replacing his dad on the drums.  Nobody knows what tomorrow has in store for them and Led Zeppelin surely did not know they were playing their second from last show on this night in Munich, Germany.

The band sounds like they were doing an excellent job in their performance in this show.  Robert Plant's voice sounds really good and so does Jimmy Page's playing.  It sounds like it was a really tight show and one that everything just flowed along very smoothly in.  And they were only one show away from wrapping up their 1980 European tour now.  So the next upload (of course) will be of that last show Led Zeppelin ever played with John Henry Bonham.  It was in Berlin, Germany on 1980-07-07.

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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Led Zeppelin: 1980-07-02 Mannheim, Germany (FLAC_SB_2 CD)

This is the fourth from last 1980 show before Led Zeppelin was no more.  This one has been requested as have two more 1980 shows in order for me to have at least one copy of each 1980 shows here on the site.  The band was wrapping up their Tour Over Europe 1980 dates and after this show there were only three more before Led Zeppelin was suppose to come to North America in November and start their tour dates here.  As we all know, the North American tour never happened due to the death of John Henry Bonham on September 25, 1980.

I decided to upload the Flagge label copy because it sounds really nice.  Most all copies sounds excellent from what I've got and heard but this one, and it may not even be the best sounding copy either, is the one being shared today.

LINEAGE:
SB > ?? > ?? > 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: July 2nd, 1980
Location: Mannheim, Germany
Venue: Eisstadion
Title: Mannheim 1980

Label: Flagge
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 783 MB
Length: 129:25:61


SETLIST:

CD 1:
101. Train Kept A Rollin'
102. Nobody's Fault But Mine

103. Black Dog
104. In The Evening

105. The Rain Song
106. Hot Dog
107. All My Love
108. Trampled Underfoot
109. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 2:
201. Achilles Last Stand
202. White Summer
~ Black Mountain Side
203. Kashmir
204. Stairway To Heaven
205. Rock And Roll
206. Whole Lotta Love

NOTE:I somehow left "Achilles Last Stand" out of the text file when I uploaded it.


LINK:
(1) 1980-07-02 Mannheim, Germany (SB/Flagge)

MIRROR:
(1) 1980-07-02 Mannheim, Germany (SB/Flagge) (Mirror)


NOTE:
I'm using a free Mega account as a mirror in this upload.  Those of you downloading please leave me a message here or on the Facebook (Community Group or Secret Group) letting me know what works best as far as the links go.  I eventually plan on adding a secondary mirror site to my posts as I've always had until the last year or so.  Your opinion will help me help you.


This was the bands first of two nights in a row at Mannheim's Eisstadion (the venue).  They put on a great show and the sound is nicely mixed with all members being heard well and evenly.  There is a good low frequency range too where John Paul Jones can easily be heard on both bass and his keyboards.

There is some audio clipping but it isn't horrible.  Each song, with the exception of "White Summer" and "Black Mountain Side", looks to have a few peaks where audio is clipped.  It looks like Flagge likely amplified the audio causing the clipping.  But it is not a brickwalled recording and the clipping is not too bad.  There is more tape hiss in this recording too.  It isn't horrible but it is noticeable.  As I listen to "The Rain Song" now, with headphones on, it is a lot more obvious due to the song being a quieter one.  But this is better than having the high frequencies cut when a label tries to remove tape hiss incorrectly.

I had started to upload the first generation soundboard recording but I missed bringing it over to the local drive on my PC when moving a few copies of each show being uploaded to the Requests folder from their external hard drive.  From what I remember, the first generation copy is a cleaner sounding and likely not EQ'ed copy of the show.  I'm sure Flagge did some processing of the audio with an equalizer.

I don't want to give the impression this is not a good sounding show because that is far from true.  It sounds excellent.  The mix is fine like I mentioned already but I think a better EQ job could have made it even better.  You have no problems hearing anyone playing or singing at all.  But I'd have enjoyed hearing Page's guitar a little more up front as well as Plant's vocals.

The band does seem to be in synchronization with their timing very well this night and not messing up with wrong lyrics, musically coming in at the wrong time, and having other issues like that heard in some of the other shows.  I'm only up to "All My Love" right now but I expect the rest of the show to be tight like it has been in this show so far.

Ironically, I did notice a slight difference in sound just as "Trampled Underfoot" started up.  It has less tape hiss and may have been processed or EQ'ed slightly different.  The high frequencies sounds great but may have been cut slightly.  It actually does sound cleaner and the mix sounds better with Page's guitar especially.  I'm not sure if this is a different source being used here, the soundboard having been adjusted a little in the sound,  or just different audio tweaking?  I'll have to see if it continues with this sound or not as the show progresses from this song on.  "Since I've Been Loving You" is sounding like the best song to me so far and Page's guitar is right where I was wishing to hear it at still too.


One thing I am noticing as I come back and insert this paragraph is that the very end of "Since I've Been Loving You" has some very light clicking in the audio.  It isn't for long and the song is really at the very end when it is heard.  It's not show stopping or ruining the audio but I thought I'd mention it anyhow.  I do not hear it as "Achilles" Last Stand" starts up.  That would be the first song on the second disc and this makes me think it was an error Flagge  caused or the person ripping the audio introduced into the audio without knowing.  It's hard to tell since the lineage is not really anything we can tell anything from (like if EAC was used to rip the audio, etc).  It's no big deal and it is short (30 - 45 seconds maybe) and at the end of disc 1.

The "songs remained the same" again on this night with "Whole Lotta Love" being the final track again like it was in the end of some shows the previous month.  There really isn't a whole lot of change in each night's setlist or the way each song was played.  To me, this is one reason I like the earlier years of Led Zeppelin live because the song never remained the same and the songs were played differently each night.  "Whole Lotta Love" was the exception to the songs remaining the same in 1979 - 1980 though.  And I really like how Page and the rest of the band changed up the song, once again extending it to a longer than 1 - 3 minute intro into another song as in some previous years, and they really were trying some new and awesome sounding music out in this one.  This song was always meant to be a long one in my book and on this night Plant even adds in some "Boogie mama" too going back to the 1973 era doing that.

Almost every night in the European 1980 tour Robert Plant has to ask the crowd to quit pushing, quit moving around like snakes, etc.  The crowds were really excited seeing Led Zeppelin again after their three years of not touring.  And many of these European countries had not had a Led Zeppelin tour in seven years or more too.  The two Copenhagen 1979 and two Knebworth Festival 1979 shows were not a tour in that year and most people were not able to see those shows.  But here, Led Zeppelin was back and touring again even though nobody realized just how close to the end they were for this happening and how lucky they were too to be able to see these last shows in June and July of 1980.

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.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!



Monday, April 11, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1980-06-27 Nuremberg, Germany (FLAC_SB 1st Gen_1 CD)

This requested show is either the shortest Led Zeppelin show ever or one of them.  It was stopped after three songs because John Bonham was ill.  They played through "Black Dog" and were about to start "In The Evening" when the song never got started.

After a few moments of silence, Robert Plant asks the crowd to "hang on a tick" and says they have a slight technical problem.  After telling them not to push each other and hang on some more he then says "we just have a minute problem so if you could just wait patiently we'd be very grateful".  Nothing else (recorded anyhow) get said and the show then ends.

LINEAGE:
1st Gen cassette > DAT (3) > CD-R (1) > EAC > WAV > FLAC > 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: June 27th, 1980
Location: Nuremberg, Germany
Venue: Messezentrum Halle
Title: Nuremberg, Germany June 27, 1980

Label: None
Source: SB (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 92.2 MB
Length: 16:07:00


SETLIST:

01. Train Kept A Rollin'
02. Nobody's Fault But Mine

03. Black Dog


LINK:
(1) 1980-06-27 Nuremberg, Germany (SB 1st Gen)

The waveform looks fine with no audio clipping, brickwalling, or anything bad in it.  And the audio sounds great-to-excellent too.  This first generation copy sounds better than the TDOLZ Flying Over Nuremberg released copy.

It's too bad a Led Zeppelin soundboard show (or any show) had to be cut short.  I can't help but wonder in John Bonham may have been really hung over or whether or not it was a real sickness like the flu or something?  I'm not sure the flu would be going around in Nuremberg during June though?

This show I had almost forgotten about until the request for it came in.  It got me to thinking of each tour since 1973 Led Zeppelin had done.  Starting in a Vancouver 1973 show (as far as I recall) where Robert Plant got sick after a few songs and was taken to the hospital, the band had at least one show stopping illness each tour after that.  So the 1973, 1975, 1977 (we just had the 39th anniversary of that 1977-04-09 Chicago, Illinois show too), and this 1980 show meant each tour had a show stopping illness.  I cannot recall any shows prior to 1973 right now where an illness stopped it.  But that doesn't mean there may not have been some shows on the earlier tours too that were either cancelled or stopped early.

John Bonham does say he is feeling bad before the band starts "Black Dog".  He says the song reflects how he feels and possibly the other band members.  Again, it really makes you wonder...sure does.

John Bonham only had two days short of two months to live after this night before he died.  What a shame!  But thankfully we do have all of the 1980 concerts and video from a few too to remember the ending days of the great Led Zeppelin 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.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!



Sunday, April 10, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1970-09-04 Inglewood, CA (FLAC_AUD Master Multi Sources Mix_2 CD)

This is one of my all time favorite Led Zeppelin shows.  Not just because it sounds so excellent but because the band's performance is so incredible as well.  This copy had been requested back about six months ago and I had accidentally moved it over into the "Need To Burn" folder instead of the "Requests" folder I noticed the other day.  So today I am listening to and uploading it all at the same time.

There are I believe seven audience sources for this show in circulation now.  Every label in the world has at some point put out a copy of Live On Blueberry Hill it feels like.  Some are just one of the source recordings, some are mixed sources, and some I really don't know the details on.  But needless to say there are a lot of copies and versions of this concert out there.  I've already uploaded at least three or four with one being the Genuine Masters DVD-A copy here in past years.  This is an excellent-to-superb (superb to me) sounding show!

LINEAGE:
None given but we know > 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: Led Zeppelin
Date: September 4th, 1970
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: The Forum
Title: Live On Blueberry Hill

Label: Sanctuary
Source: AUD (Multiple Master Sources Mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 736 MB
Length: 132:22:70


SETLIST:

CD 1:
101. band introduction
102. Immigrant Song

103. Heartbreaker
104. Dazed And Confused

105. Bring It On Home
106. That's The Way
107. Bron-Yr-Aur
108. Since I've Been Loving You
109. John Paul Jones (intro organ solo)
110. Thank You

CD 2:
201. What Is An What Should Never Be

202. Moby Dick
203. Whole Lotta Love
204. Communication Breakdown
205. Out On The Tiles
206. Blueberry Hill


LINK:
(1) 1970-09-04 Inglewood, CA (AUD Multi Source/Sanctuary)

MIRROR:
(1) 1970-09-04 Inglewood, CA (AUD Multi Source/Sanctuary) (Mirror)

NOTE:
I'm using a free Mega account as a mirror in this upload.  Those of you downloading please leave me a message here or on the Facebook (Community Group or Secret Group) letting me know what works best as far as the links go.  I eventually plan on adding a secondary mirror site to my posts as I've always had until the last year or so.  Your opinion will help me help you.


There really is not a lot more I can say about the show itself other than what I have said in the past.  In this specific Sanctuary 2 CD set, the mix sounds excellent and there is no audio clipping to worry about.  There are a very few tiny spikes on a few tracks but nothing that will cause any problems or anything anyone would even notice without looking at the waveform.  There is no brickwalling done in the recording either.

I lost track of how many sources I heard used before making it to "Whole Lotta Love" which is where I am now.  The source transitions are smooth and the patches are used to fill in gaps other sources didn't get recorded in order to form a more complete show.  For all practical purposes, the whole show is here.  You don't miss any songs and there is even the introduction of the band as the first track which some copies do not have.

I still think my favorite copy is the Winston Remasters A Sweeter Blueberry copy because he did such a wonderful job on the sources he worked on.  I do not know if his copy is any less complete or more complete than this one right at the time.  And as you've already read, this Sanctuary copy is reportedly sourced from masters of the various sources used.

Here are some copy & pasted reviews from Underground Uprising:

(1) "
Live On Blueberry Hill (Sanctuary) Per **** SQ ****1/2 Appeal G
Another re-issue of the famous show from The Forum, Inglewood, California on September 4, 1970? But possibly the best version yet! A competent assembly of the best of the various audience sources results in a bright, very clean 2 disc set - lacking in bottom end on occasions and with a slight drop out in the right channel during Dazed. Page's guitar is always prominent in the mix. The playing is of a high standard throughout, check out the guitar/harmonica duet in Bring It On Home. The surprises come at the end of the show, the extended Communication Breakdown medley containing Good Times, Bad Times and a rare version of Out On The Tiles, followed by Blueberry Hill itself. The Japanese label is another of the expensive post-Tarantura efforts which means excellent packaging and more quotes from Luis Rey and Dave Lewis/Simon Pallett's Zeppelin reference books. (Tony Gassett Aug 99)"

(2) "Live On Blueberry Hill (Sanctuary) 2CD 9/4/70 Limited edition and numbered
Sound Quality 7-9/10; Appeal 4.5/5
Well, what can you say? This label appears to have set itself a goal to make their releases as complete as possible irrespective on the number of source tapes required to achieve this. This is all great news for the collector! Again, this release utilizes the original mono TMQ tape (or Blimp if you prefer) as much as possible with help from the alternate mono source used recently by Tarantura and what sounds like at least two stereo sources. This means that we get the complete band intro courtesy of the alt. mono tape and where possible in between song patter filled out with one of the two stereo tapes or the alt. mono tape. Pure trainspotting stuff! As with Bonzos-73, the splicing is quite good without a compromise in sound quality. Packaging is in the same format as for Bonzos, again using appropriate pics from the era and commentary from Rey and Lewis/Pallet. Ditto the concluding comments for Bonzo's above. This as complete as you are ever likely to hear this show and this release probably deserves definitive status. (Lord Byron Apr 99"

(3) "Live On Blueberry Hill (Sanctuary)
2 CDs, The Forum, Inglewood, 4 September 1970. Total time 133 mins. Collectors may be forgiven for thinking that there is no need for yet another release of this classic title, however they are wrong. Whoever compiled the master for this release went to a great deal of care, trouble and hard work. Using both the mono sources, and the stereo source, a definitive version of the concert has been put together, ensuring that every available minute of the concert is present. Full marks to Sanctuary for this valiant effort. It is however most unfortunate that on the covers they have again ripped off the entry in Lewis & Pallett's CONCERT FILE, and also Luis Rey's CONCERT TAPES, word for uncredited word. This has been released as an expensive limited and individually numbered edition, with the classic TMOQ cover (in full colour)on the card slipcase (Jules McTrainspotter Mar 99)"

I did want to thank "pernod" for sharing this over on R-O and I did take the high quality scans that were in the original 2005 download and crop them to get rid of non artwork borders that were around the edges and then I resized the artwork correctly.

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.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!



Thursday, April 7, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1980-06-26 Vienna, Austria (FLAC_AUD Master Source 1_2 CD)

This is another requested 1980 Led Zeppelin show I have never uploaded yet, so I am uploading this morning.  This was the band's last Vienna, Austria concert and I really only have a few recordings for this show.  A lot less than all other 1980 shows in fact.

There really is not too much information on this specific source other than it is a master source.  And the audience recording sounds excellent-to-superb too so that is great since there are not many other options to choose from.

I imagine, but do not know for sure, that Winston Remasters will be doing a Live Omega Series remaster of this one sometime in the future if he already hasn't.  If he has, I have not seen it and of course do not have it.

LINEAGE:
Master tape > CD > FLAC > 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: June 26th, 1980
Location: Vienna, Austria
Venue: Wiener Stadthalle
Title: Bedtime For Bonzo

Label: None
Source: AUD (Source 1 Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 738 MB
Length: 123:53:58


SETLIST:

CD 1:
101. Train Kept A Rollin'
102. Nobody's Fault But Mine

103. Black Dog
104. In The Evening

105. The Rain Song
106. Hot Dog
107. All My Love
108. Trampled Underfoot
109. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 2:
201. White Summer

202. Kashmir
203. Stairway To Heaven
204. Rock And Roll
205. Whole Lotta Love


LINK:
(1) 1980-06-26 Vienna, Austria (SB/AUD Source 1)

MIRROR:
(1) 1980-06-26 Vienna, Austria (SB/AUD Source 1) (Mirror)
Thanks for the Mega incorrect upload info Igor...the correct show is there now.


NOTE:
I'm using a free Mega account as a mirror in this upload.  Those of you downloading please leave me a message here or on the Facebook (Community Group or Secret Group) letting me know what works best as far as the links go.  I eventually plan on adding a secondary mirror site to my posts as I've always had until the last year or so.  Your opinion will help me help you.


The waveform looks fine and has no real audio clipping.  I say "no real" because there looks like one tiny spike in the waveform and it really amounts to nothing problematic either.

The artwork shows three extra tracks from another show at the end of disc two.  Those tracks are not in this download.  And the extra tracks from that show, the 1980-06-27 Nuremberg, Germany show, have not been uploaded here yet but will be soon in the upload for that show.

I am listening to the sow right now as I prepare this post and I like the mix.  I am hearing Robert Plants vocals, Jimmy Page's guitar, and John Bonham's drums cleanly.  John Paul Jones' bass is there but it is not as prevalent or up front as the rest of the band.  There is no problem with hearing JPJ however.  And his keyboards music is as clean and loud as the rest of the band too.  This is a very good job by the taper from what I have heard so far. And he seems to be close to the stage too.

This seems to be the full show based on the length of it.  It is longer than the last two concerts from Led Zeppelin's 1980 tour I have uploaded also.  The setlist doesn't change much other than in they dropped a song in the show. They do not play "Achilles Last Stand" in this show. The band seemed to have been playing the same setlist usually to this point in the 1980 tour  I have noticed in my recent uploads.  There was usually one change in each show and the final song was that change.  In the previous Bremen, Germany from 1980-06-23 show they ended with "Communication Breakdown", and in the upload before that, the Rotterdam 1980-06-21 show, they ended with "Heartbreaker".  In this show they end with "Whole Lotta Love".

I'm not giving a full review of this show because I really do not have the time this morning.  I want to go ahead and get it uploaded so you can enjoy it.

I have to admit that the more I listen to this show the more I almost feel like rating it as a superb audience recording.  There is some tape hiss but nothing distracting.  It is a good sign too that not much if any of the audio's high frequencies were taken out.  And there is not much crowd noise and definitely not the kind when there is any to interfere with the show.  I'm up to "Kashmir" now and have heard nothing in the show to complain about! 
  If anything; the sound has only improved.

I think somebody either makes Jimmy Page mad with a firecracker or his gear just went "pop" and the song just stops after that.  There is a long silence and then an Austrian person gets on the microphone and starts talking.  You hear the crowd saying "boo" after the Austrian mentions "Jimmy Page" and then the crowd gets happy again.  I wish I knew what was being said!  In the end the Austrian speaker on stage starts talking some English and says "the show must go on..." and he is talking about somebody in the audience and how they want to find them.  He seems to be asking the crowd to tell who the "neighbor" is.  The taper seems to take this time to stop the tape and do a tape flip and the rest of "White Summer" never gets played and needless to say "Black Mountain Side" never gets played either.  The band, without mentioning the incident, comes back on stage and starts playing "Kashmir" then.  A very interesting twist to the concert indeed.

UPDATE:
This is NOT in the text file.  I learned as this upload was almost complete that this is the source 1 out of two known sources recording.  I am trying to obtain a first generation copy of this same source right now to compare the two.  And I am looking for source 2 also but it does not seem to be in circulation at this time.  The source 2 recording is reportedly similar quality as this recording but the first generation copy of this source 1 recording sounds even better according to "pernod" in a 2011 post.  We'll see what happens!


I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr


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