Blind Melon: 1994-03-17 Kirksville, MO (FLAC_SB_1 CD)

I've been wanting to upload this excellent sounding Blind Melon show from 1994 for some time.  But like many other times, things have gotten in the way and I've kept putting it off to the side for a little longer (and longer).  But today, it is getting done.

Blind Melon was a short lived band with the singer Shannon Hoon unfortunately.  They were/are a bunch of talented musicians that had a really classic rock meets modern day sound in their music.  I saw their second from last show in October of 1995 (nobody knowing the end was around the corner for many years to come) from the front row and was blown away by their performance.

Unfortunately, the singer Shannon Hoon died a few days later while the band was in New Orleans for that concert.  Shannon's drug addiction got the best of him and he passed away on the tour bus thus ending their skyrocketing career they had started.

The band continues on today.  I've even seem some 2014 shows out there.  After they found a new singer and gave it another try in the 2000's they tried to make a comeback.  However, and not that they were sounding bad either, the dynamics had changed and the shows I have heard just were not carrying the same energy and sound.  I believe they've gone through two and possibly three singers up to this point after Hoon's death.  But trying to replace the angst that Hoon had and that led to so many incredible songs was something the new singers could not replace.  I'd still go see them in a heartbeat if I knew they were coming to town because the rest of the band was so talented they still could carry the show and it would be very enjoyable to see them.

LINEAGE:
Unknown/none given > 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: Blind Melon
Date: March 17th, 1994
Location: Kirksville, Missouri
Venue: NE Missouri State University - Pershing Arena
Title: None
Label: None
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 217 MB
Length: 34:05:70

SETLIST:
01. Time
02. Dear Ol' Dad
03. Deserted
04. Wooh D.O.G.
05. Change
06. No Rain
07. Seed To A Tree

LINK:
(1) 1994-03-17 Kirksville, MO (SB)

The waveform has no clipping (or maybe one spike into the red really) but it does show some brickwalling.  But the audio really sounds excellent-to-superb and there is a very nice mix in it so I don't hear any need to really work on the audio.  But if you wanted to you would have to deal with the brickwalling.

This show cannot be the complete show I am guessing.  There are only seven songs and one of Blind Melon's shows would have been longer than that in a normal show.  Even if they were an opening band they would have played more.  I'm guessing this is about half of the show or possibly even less.

If you've never heard this band I recommend giving them a listen.  And please do not base your opinion of the overplayed song "No Rain" that we likely all got tired of hearing on the radio and MTV back in the mid 1990's.  Personally, while it is a good enough song, it is one on my least favorite songs the band ever made.  It's too bad they don't have songs like "I Wonder", "Holy Man", or "Mouthful of Cavities" to name just a few great songs in this show.  But like it has been for decades now, the radio only played (or plays) two or three songs over the air from most bands and the real gems go unheard many times unless you buy the CD's and find them yourself.

Just listening to this show now I am wanting to try and find some more of the shows I know exist out there (some I only have in mp3 formats).  A lot of the lossless shows I have are very bad, some are great, and a few like this one are really excellent and superb.  But the band sounds superb as far as their performances go in just about any show up through Hoon's passing in October 1995.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

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Rush: 1994-05-07 Toronto, Ontario, Canada (FLAC_SB Remaster_2 CD)

Today is the 22nd anniversary of this excellent-to-superb sounding Rush concert in Toronto.  I got my first copy of this show on silver CD's in the late 1990's in the Animated released title.  This is the same titled source and it was remastered by "leegeddy".

As far as the remaster goes here, it seems to not be an audio remaster by EQ'ing the show.  The audio sounds just the same as my silver CD's.  It looks like the show was just tracked differently and some clicks/pops were removed from what is mentioned.  As far as the clicks/pops go, I'm not sure where they were located on the original Animated discs release because I have not noticed them on my copy.  I'm not saying they may not be there also...I just haven't noticed them.

LINEAGE:
"Animated" silver pressed CD's > EAC V0.95 prebeta 4 (Secure Mode) > Cool Edit Pro 1.2a > CD Wave > Remaster > SHN (mkwAct) > 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: Rush
Date: May 7th, 1994
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venue: Maple Leaf Gardens
Title: Animated - Remaster
Label: None
Source: SB (Remaster)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 647 MB
Length: 119:09:09

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

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

LINK:
(1) 1994-05-07 Toronto, Canada (SB/Remaster)

The waveform looks perfect and has no audio clipping or other issues I can see.  And the sound of this show is really enjoyable as well.  This, to me, is really a superb recording of a Rush Counterparts tour.  But there are still better recordings from the tour so I will rate it as an excellent-to-superb only because I know there are a few better sounding recordings.  The show has a very nice mix and all three members and their instruments can be heard evenly.

On my silver discs copy of the show the first two tracks are (1) "intro" and (2) "(The) Spirit of Radio".  But here in the remaster the tracks were joined together to form one track.  The second difference is on the remastered copy the "Country Music" part the band did on this tour is not its own track and it is merged with "Cold Fire" to form one track.

The more I examine things while comparing my original copy with this remastered copy I do see there has been some amplification added as well to the remaster.  And this was done right too.  The waveform for the original copy shows no audio clipping either but it looks like some amplification was needed anyhow to bring up the audio a little.  The remaster was done very well and I see no visible errors at all in it.

The sector boundary errors I fixed were not any that would have made any difference if you had burned the FLAC files to disc without aligning the boundaries.  The errors were in the last track on each disc.  This location (final track of a disc) reportedly does not cause issues when located there.  But rather than chance it, and just because I like to make everything as perfect as I can, I went ahead and used Trader's Little Helper to fix them as I always do.

As usual, I am listening to the show now as I am preparing the upload.  Until earlier this morning (hours ago), I had not listened to this show in at least two or three years.  And this Rush Counterparts album tour was one of my favorite "newer era" Rush tours.  I remember buying the CD around 1995/1996 and really liking the songs.  I played it everywhere I drove, went, etc.  Not everybody around me liked it (at least they didn't act like they did) but that never phased me any.  A number of the songs from this album (or CD) touched home with me at the time.  I really thought "Cold Fire" was one such song.  Hard to believe that/she was 20 years ago now!

Any Rush fan should really enjoy this show and recording I am sure!

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.

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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!!!

Pat Benatar: 1979-11-06 Cleveland, OH (FLAC_SB Master_1 CD)

I was playing around on YouTube earlier and saw a Pat Benatar concert that reminded me I had been meaning to upload this show being shared now.  So I guess YouTube is good for something after all?

This is an excellent sounding recording of a Pat Benatar show from 1979.  I don't know this for sure, but since the setlist is short as well as her concert I imagine she was an opening act on this night.  This recording is from the soundboard master and it is a great show.

LINEAGE:
Reel-To-Reel Master > CD-R > CD-R > CD-R > WAV (16 bit/44.1kHz) > 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

Mastering Information (copy & paste):
"CDR ripped to WAV with Exact Audio Copy. Wave files converted to FLAC level 8 using FLAC Frontend."

Notes (copy & paste):
"Original transfer from analog master reel to CDR was done circa 2001. This conversion to FLAC was done in July 2009.

No equalization or sound manipulation has been done to this recording."

DETAILS:
Artist: Pat Benatar
Date: November 6th, 1979
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Venue: Agora Ballroom
Title: None
Label: Spider-Web (please read ending paragraphs!!!)
Source: SB (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes (from a different source and not this Master)
Size: 235 MB
Length: 43:33:38

SETLIST:
01. intro
02. If You Think You Know How To Love Me
03. So Sincere
04. I Need A Lover
05. My Clone Sleeps Alone
06. In The Heat Of The Night
07. No You Don't
08. Just Like Me
09. Heartbreaker
10. band introductions
11. You Better Run

LINK:
(1) 1979-11-06 Cleveland, OH (SB Master)

The waveform looks fine with no audio clipping or any other noticeable errors.  The mix is very well done with both the high and low frequencies being present and clean & clear.  And there is also good stereo separation in the recording too.

I did notice a few digital clicks in the second or third song that at some point were obviously introduced into the recording.  I imagine it might have been during some of the CD-R burning in the lineage.  But it is short and not really anything to worry about.  It probably only lasts about 5 seconds or so.

I haven't heard this show in a decade or so and I am listening to it as I make this upload tonight.  I like these earlier Pat Benatar shows and may upload a few more soon.  The 1970's through around 1983 seem to be my favorite time frame for Benatar's music.  I've still got a few LP's at my home I grew up in that I had bought as I was starting to listen to the band around 1980 or 1981.  As with a lot of great music back then, we had to back track and see what the band had made and released earlier after we heard something we liked on the radio.  And I did just that with Pat Benatar.  This tour she was on in 1979 was for the In The Heat of The Night LP release and I believe Crimes of Passion was the LP that came after it.  Those were the only two LP's I could find I remember as I searched the record stores back then after buying the Precious Time LP.

I cannot personally confirm the lineage given in this post or whether or not this was an FM broadcast like the artwork I found states.  The artwork did not come in the download and I did a Google search and found it.  This likely was an FM broadcast but this specific upload I am sharing will state what the information provided (the lineage) states.  I am doing this because I just noticed (as I was almost ready to upload the show) this is a "Spider-Web" torrented show originally.  I did not get it from "Spider-Web" or his torrent share myself.  But I do know he is someone who can be trusted and if he claims this is a master from the soundboard reel-to-reel tapes I am sure that it is!

I try to always follow people's requests they make when sharing a show.  I hope others would do the same for me.  But in this case, and after preparing this file set and then realizing it was one "Spider-Web" requested people not change the file set on if they torrented the show, I cannot do this now.  Not only have I already worked on this upload changing files tonight but I had done this back a long time ago too.

So my request is this.  Download and enjoy the show but do not share it elsewhere online since I screwed up.  If you want a copy you can share online, find the "Spider-Web" original torrent and then share his original copy please.

I looked high and low before starting this post as to where I originally got this specific copy and finally found the information.  I almost always save a record of the sites I find shows on in an e-mail to myself.  Or, in earlier days, I'd copy and paste the post I found it in into a Word document.  In this case, I only found the Word document for this specific copy of the show when I got it in August of 2009.  I know I got this from a site no longer around called Quality Boots and the information on the site (and in my Word document) made no mention of this being a "Spider-Web" sourced recording and I was going off of that information I found (the Word document).  However, when I found the original text file the mention of "Spider-Web" was in it.  That is when I saw "Spider-Web" first mentioned.  But the website had all of the same exact information on it as the text file with the exception of any mention of "Spider-Web" removed unfortunately.  Had I seen who originally shared it I would have known better and not changed things (like embedding my own metadata and changing the md5 file).  I am including the original text file in this upload as well as the original Word file I saved.

I know from the many great low generation copies of Led Zeppelin shows "Spider-Web" has shared he is a great guy and resource as well.  I sure didn't expect to see him associated with this Pat Benatar show either.  But he was.  So again. please do not share this anywhere else online (at least this copy).  I am asking for this help to keep from "clouding the waters".  Otherwise, I'll make sure not to upload any shows I change but then find out I shouldn't have if a mistake like this happens again (and with my vision it might).  I appreciate your help and if I find the unaltered (just changing names, text file, and small stuff...no audio changes) copy in the future I will replace it here and leave it untouched as originally requested.

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!!!

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.

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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

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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

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Jimi Hendrix 1969-06-20 + All Star Jam 1969-06-22 Northridge, CA (FLAC_SB_3 CD)

This was an upload I had started working on a while back but never got it uploaded.  So I'll rectify that this morning.  This is the 1969-06-20 Jimi Hendrix concert at the multi day concert event held at San Fernando Valley State College (SFVSC).  It is also the following 1969-06-22 All Star Jam at the event with multiple artists including Jimi Hendrix jamming.

The All Star Jam included the following artists and musicians and it encompasses the last two discs in this 3 CD set:
Jimi Hendrix: guitar, vocal
Eric Burdon: vocal
Tracy Nelson: vocal
Buddy Miles: drums
Cornelius "Snooky" Flowers: guitar
Terry Clements: Saxophones
Brad Cambell: bass
Lee Oskar: harmonic

LINEAGE:
Watch Tower silver CD's > 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

NOTES: (copy & paste):
1. Jimmy Hendrix: "SOUNDBOARD RECORDING FROM ROLL 5 AND 6 60MIN 2 TRACK AMPEX-NO DOLBY"

2. All Star Jam: "STEREO SOUNDBOARD RECORDING FROM ROLL 14, 15 AND 16 100MIN 2 TRACK AMPEX NO DOLBY.  RECORDED FROM THE MOBILE RECORDING TRACK" (or Mobile Recording Truck?)

DETAILS:
Artist: Jimmy Hendrix + All Star Jam
Date: June 20th, 1969 & June 22nd, 1969
Location: Northridge, California
Venue: Devonshire Downs - San Fernando Valley State College
Title: Newport 1969 Pop Festival
Label: Watch Tower
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes
Size: 837 MB
Length 1: 63.51.64 Jimi Hendrix Set
Length 2: 85:41:01 All Star Jam
Length 3: 149.39.65 Full 3 Discs TRT

SETLIST:
CD 1 (Jimi Hendrix Set 1969-06-20):
101. Stone Free
102. Are You Experienced
103. Villanova Junction
104. Stone Free (Part II)
105. Sunshine Of Your Love
106. Fire
107. Hear My Train A Comin'
108. Red House
109. Foxy Lady
110. Like A Rolling Stone
111. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
112. Purple Haze

CD 2 (All Star Jam 1969-06-22):
201. Earth vs. Space
202. The Things (That) I Used To Do
203. blues jam ~ We Gotta Live
204. Feel So Good

CD 3 (All Star Jam 1969-06-22):
301. Train Kept A Rollin'
302. Power Of Soul ~ Earth Blues
303. Hear My Train A Comin'
304. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
305. fast jam (medley)

LINK:
(1) 1969-06-20 & 1969-06-22 Northridge, CA (SB/Watch Tower)

The waveform has no clipping but it is brickwalled unfortunately.  That makes it difficult to impossible to remaster.  But thankfully, the sound is excellent in the recordings.

For anyone who isn't sure what a brickwalled recording means, this is a rough description.  The audio has been (likely) clipped and then limited or compressed.  Many times this comes from a taper or label over amplifying a recording and then coming back and removing the clipping by using compression and/or limiting (limiting is used more often I believe in the actual recording) therefore forming a flat top and/or bottom to the waveform.  Instead of having spikes up and down showing the audio peaks and leaving a recording with room to work with the audio there is mostly flat parts in the top and bottom of the waveform with very few (usually quieter moments) peaks that were not clipped.  But this again is an excellent sounding recording thankfully.  Here is a screenshot of a song from the All Stars Jam and you can see, especially in the mid section, where there is no high or low peaks and the waveform is flattened:

I've only heard this recording once since I got it.  And the information given was quiet confusing as well at first.  I was thinking of the Newport Jazz Festival, the same festival Led Zeppelin played at in 1969, and was thinking this was Newport, Connecticut.  But this was the Newport Pop Festival in 1968 and 1969 it was called "Newport '69" and both were in California.  So the information is correct.

I'm very happy with the sound here even though I wish the high frequencies were just a little better.  But the recording doesn't suffer in the big picture and is very enjoyable.  It's excellent, but we cannot work with it to make it any better either.  I imagine the high frequencies were chopped to remove some  tape hiss (not bad at all) after it was over amplified to begin with (causing more hiss when done to tape recordings).  I'd rather have the high frequencies and not a hard limiter or compression done on a recording.  The more I learn about audio the more I appreciate when things are done correctly.

There are some missing parts in the show.  "Hear My Train A Comin'" is almost complete but incomplete unfortunately.  I believe it was the only song in the Hendrix set cut short.  It sounds like a few parts in between songs may be cut too but it is just brief, non musical parts.  But overall, it sounds like most things and songs are complete.  I'd have to look and see what all got played by Hendrix on both days to know for sure but you can do that if you're interested.  If rolls 5 and 6 were 60 minutes (presumably together) then it only makes sense something had to be cut.  Where is roll 7 though?  Would it have the uncut version of the show then?  Question I have and may never know the answer too :-)

You won't be disappointed in the sound if you are a Hendrix fan (or even if you aren't).  The recording itself was obviously a really good one and the label just had to mess with it but they did not ruin it either.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

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Led Zeppelin: 1980-06-23 Bremen, Germany (FLAC_SB/AUD Both 1st Gen Mix & Remaster_2 CD)

Here is another long requested 1980 Led Zeppelin show I've never uploaded any copies of (yet) from the band's final tour.  This is the Winston Remasters copy of the Bremen, Germany show using first generation sources for both the soundboard and audience recordings mixed to form an almost complete (minus 10 - 15 seconds according to Winston remasters) show.  This is mostly a soundboard recording.  And it sounds excellent too!

LINEAGE:
(1) SB: 1st Gen cassette > DAT (2) > remaster
(2) AUD: 1st Gen cassette > DAT (2) > 2 CD-R (3) > remaster
(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 (copy & paste of Winston Remasters text file):
"Sources Digitally Enhanced with Samplitude."

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 23rd, 1980
Location: Bremen, Germany
Venue: Stadthalle
Title: Live Omega # 5
Label: Winston Remasters
Source: SB/AUD (Remastered 2 Source Mix of 1st Gen Sources)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 637 MB
Length: 113:23:07

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
202. Black Mountain Side
203. Kashmir
204. Stairway To Heaven
205. Rock And Roll
206. Heartbreaker

LINK:
(1) 1980-06-23 Bremen, Germany (SB/AUD 2 Source Mix)

MIRROR:
(1) 1980-06-23 Bremen, Germany (SB/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.

As one might expect, the waveform looks great with no audio clipping.  The waveform shows more amplification in this show than last night's Rotterdam upload.  But there is no audio clipping and there doesn't appear to be any compression or limiting as far as I can tell of the audio either.  Winston Remasters is well known for remastering and making some great sounding upgrades to Led Zeppelin shows and this one is no exception.

As I listen to the show and prepare this post, I did notice the beginning audio from the soundboard section sounds as if the audio is still being managed of messed with a little bit.  At one point, John Bonham's drums get really loud.  But it is quickly adjusted and the rest sounds just fine.  I'm sure this is from the source that recorded the soundboard audio on this night.

The audience source for the show is first generation as well as the soundboard but it is only a good-to-great sounding audio.  You really first hear the patch with the audience recording used during music in "Tramples Underfoot" and it makes you really glad we have the soundboard for the most of the show.  It isn't horrible audience audio  sound wise and you can still hear the mix well enough.  It is just a drastic snap from the soundboard to the lesser sounding audience recording and it makes you glad to have such a great sounding show (and more complete than if there was no audience source) for the most part.

Unlike last night's upload of the Rotterdam 1980 show, this one musically starts out with the soundboard.  The audience portions in the mix are mostly in between songs it sounds like.  The Rotterdam 1980 show had a few songs that were from one of the two audience sources for the first few songs.  This show today seems to be a lot more complete from the soundboard recording perspective.

The mix sounds very nice once the show gets started and all vocals and instruments can be heard cleanly and evenly.  Even the comments from John Bonham and Jimmy Page's talking, something he seldom did on stage prior to 1980, are up front and easily discernible (well, Bonham's always hard to understand but you get the point).  Page's guitar is really clean and the rest of the band can be heard better in the mix than in a lot of the shows on this tour in Europe.

There is a tape glitch where a channel drops in "Hot Dog" for just a second and the balance shifts to the right channel.  But these are expected types of issues with old analog tapes too.  There are some spots where the sound does change slightly also.  I don't know if this is something caused by the soundman adjusting the soundboard or just why it's present but it is really minor stuff and doesn't ruin the show or enjoyment of it at all.  Many will never even notice it most likely.

The band sounds tight but loose on this night.  Plant seems to be on key and the band seems to be playing in synchronization.  There are a few exceptions where a line is forgotten for a split second it sounds like or Page doesn't come in at the right second with his guitar or John Paul Jones on his keyboards.  But this is not sloppy playing and it is how Led Zeppelin always did things.  That is the loose part of the show I guess.  And since the sound is so evenly mixed with the vocals and instruments it is very easy to hear any of the tight and/or loose moments in this show.

It's just too bad this was getting closer and closer to John Bonham's death in just over three more months.  The end was drawing near for Led Zeppelin's live shows.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

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Led Zeppelin: 1980-06-21 Rotterdan, The Netherlands (FLAC_SB/AUD 3 Source Mix_2 CD)

Here is a requested show from just a couple of months short of 36 years ago at the time of this posting.  This is a great-to-excellent sounding recording of a 1980 Led Zeppelin show I have never uploaded anything from before.  This is the complete show minus a little chatter between "Stairway To Heaven" and "Rock and Roll" reportedly.

This was the band's fourth show as they started out on the European leg of their 1980 touring.  This would be their very last tour ever.

This audio is composed of a three sources mix.  The soundboard first generation, audience source 1 first generation, and audience source 2 master recordings were all used in the mix to make the show as complete as possible.  Musically, it is complete.

LINEAGE:
(1) SB: 1st Gen cassette > DAT (x) > CD-R (2) > FLAC
(2) AUD Source 1: 1st Gen cassette > DAT (1) > CD-R (2) > FLAC
(3) AUD Source 2: Master > CD-R (5) > FLAC
(4) me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

NOTES (copy & paste of "weedwacker" text file):
"Complete show minus some audience cheering between Stairway To Heaven/Rock And Roll. An alternate source audience recording aka source 2(different from the one used for the TDOLZ release) was used for the first four songs, the beginning of The Rain Song and between All Of My Love/Trampled Underfoot. This recording has never been released on any boots and has only circulated among collectors. Source 1 was used to splice in missing audience cheering and Plant talking to the audience between Kashmir/Stairway To Heaven and Stairway To Heaven/Rock And Roll. All sources cut during the cheering between Stairway To Heaven/Rock and Roll.

All tracks sbe and speed corrected.
SBD tracks slowed down -1.26% using audacity.
Speed correction done April 2008."

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 21st, 1980
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Venue: Ahoyhallen
Title: Dedicated To Texas
Label: weedwacker
Source: SB/AUD (3 Sources Mix of 1st Gen & Master Sources)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 616 MB
Length: 117:51:28

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. Heartbreaker

LINK:
(1) 1980-06-21 Rotterdam, The Netherlands (SB/AUD 3 Source Mix)

MIRROR:
(1) 1980-06-21 Rotterdam, The Netherlands (SB/AUD 3 Source Mix)

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 sound ranges from great in the audience portions of the show to excellent in the soundboard portions.  The waveform looks great too with no audio clipping.

The beginning audience source runs through the first part of "The Rain Song" where the soundboard kicks in and the sound improves as you might expect.  In the beginning tracks, or the audience portion, there are a few channel dropouts of the audio on  one side.  It quickly returns and doesn't last for more than a second or three.  I'm guessing the taper was either fooling with his recorder's balance or the tape itself over time may have had issues?  I don't know though.  There is no crackling or popping sounds as if the channel's microphone was unplugged or the tape was having issues.

In the soundboard portion, which is the majority of the recording, there are a few sound changes as well.  But it really isn't often and the soundboard audio sounds really clean and excellent.  I wish there was more bottom end frequencies (bass) in the beginning portion of the soundboard recording.  But even without it the show still sounds really nice.

I personally think the show could be made to sound even better with a knowledgeable remastering job done on it.  However, I am glad I have the unaltered copy because that is what you really want.  You cannot "unmaster" or get a recording back to its unaltered state once the work has been done unless you save the original, unaltered audio.  People try and make efforts at back tracking steps to get recordings to sound more natural.  But it never really sounds like the unaltered copy and that unaltered audio is what you want to do a proper remastering of a show with.  You keep the unaltered copy and make a new, remastered copy when trying to improve a show's sound.

I think on disc 1 the best sounding songs, and from a performance and not sound standpoint, are "Trampled Underfoot" and "Since I've Been Loving You".  Jimmy Page adds a little extra part to the end of his "Trampled Underfoot" solo that you don't normally hear.  It's a cool ending to the solo.  And "Since I've Been Loving You" he also plays a heartfelt guitar in.

While I like all Led Zeppelin years live, at the same time the 1980 tour is my least favorite for the band's live shows.  The best songs, songs I recently called staples in their shows, were no longer played and they were cutting their concerts down to shorter shows.  Still, a short two hour show like this one blows away the modern day 80 - 90 minute concerts most artist perform (musically and time wise).  But the band was not quite as energized either in a lot of the 1980 shows.  They didn't sound bad really.  They just didn't usually sound as good.  But one song always seemed to me to sound as if it was saying goodbye in a really sad, but really superbly played way.  It was "Stairway To Heaven" and as you listen to just about any 1980 live version of it you can hear the band sounding excellent but in a way sounding like they were saying goodbye too.  Just listen to the song and Page's solo too in this show.  And after John Henry Bonham died in September of 1980, it was all over.  But they went out strong and still playing live and proudly as Led Zeppelin!

I've got a number of 1980 shows I have never uploaded of Led Zeppelin that I will be uploading soon.  They have been requested for a long time and by a few different people.  I'm just trying to catch up on requests and add a few of my own in the middle as I do so.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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