Page & Plant: 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy + Italy Bonus TV Extras (Video_AUD Shot 1st Gen_1 DL DVD)

This DVD of the 1998 Jimmy Page & Robert Plant performance in Milano, Italy was requested about a month ago and I am finally able to upload it today.  This is an excellent recording and a pretty good job by the taper of getting some good, close up video of the show too.  It is not perfect and at times the camera either is messing up or the generation of the tape may be the issue causing the video to look a little grainy.  But it is still an very enjoyable DL DVD and one of the best performances by Page on "No Quarter" in the 1998 tour I believe.

LINEAGE:
(1) Concert: PAL Hi-8 Master > 1st. Gen PAL VHS Tape (Sony Excellence)
(2) Bonus: PAL Hi-8 Master > 1st. Gen PAL VHS Tape (Sony Excellence)
(3) transfers: 1st. Gen PAL VHS-Tape via Panasonic NV-HS950 Hi-Fi Stereo SVHS VCR > SVHS cable for video / stereo cinch cable for audio > Terratec Grabster AV400 > USB 2.0 cable > PC > TMPG DVD-Author 1.6 for DVD authoring >
(4) me > TLH (to create new md5 checksum file) > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Page & Plant
Date: November 19th, 1998
Location: Milano, Italy
Venue: Filaforum
Label: Lords of Justice Production (for the Armored Saint)
Title: Walking Into Everywhere 1998

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes
DVD's: 1 DL DVD
DVD Size: 6.47 GB
DVD Length:
(a) concert: 114:54
(b) bonuses: 14:19
(c) approximately 130 minutes total time

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: PAL
Color/B&W: Color
Type: AUD Shot & Pro Shot/TV
Resolution: 720 x 576
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 25 fps
Bitrate: 9000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Audio Type: AUD Camera & TV (for bonus material)
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 384 kbps
Codec: AC3
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
01. intro
02. The Wanton Song
03. Heartbreaker
04. Ramble On
05. Walking Into Clarksdale
06. No Quarter
07. When The World Was Young
08. Going To California
09. Tangerine
10. Gallows Pole
11. Heart In Your Hand
12. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
13. Most High
14. How Many More Times (medley)
15. I Can't Quit You Baby
16. Whole Lotta Love
17. Rock And Roll

BONUS:
18. Italian TV TMC2 special including:
(a) Page & Plant backstage meeting with Italian fans and interviews
(b) live snippets of "Wanton Song" and "Heartbreaker"

SAMPLE:
"No Quarter" YouTube Sample

LINKS:
(1) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)
(2) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)
(3) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)
(4) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)
(5) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)
(6) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)
(7) 1998-11-19 Milano, Italy (AUD Shot DL DVD)

The audio is very good and on the great-to-excellent side of things I'd say.  It too isn't without flaws but they are the kind of flaws I can deal with too.  The audience is very excited but the recording seems to be pretty well balanced in not having a lot of audience noise during the music.  The audio is straight from the video recorder's audio track on the master VHS.  There seems to be some distortion in places but it is not bad and that would be almost expected using an older 1980's - 1990's VHS video camera.

As I mentioned already, the video goes between real clean and sharp video to a grainy, pixilated looking video throughout the show.  I'm not sure of the cause but the sharing party I got the show through mentions they think it was due to a camera malfunction.  I don't think this is the case however.  To me, this seems more like a lighting issue as well as the generation of the tape too.  It may even be an interference introduced in the transfer of the video tape when it was done or possibly heads that needed cleaning that could have caused the issue?  The camera's chip set (and it may not have had one) may have been an issue too but the drastic change I believe is due to this tape's transfer and generation most likely.

There are some tracking issues at the bottom of the screen but they take up a small portion of the screen and again do not ruin anything.  A good head cleaning might have fixed that on the video recorder or the SVHS recorder it had been transferred too?  It's all speculation on my part of course and this is not meant to belittle the great quality and job done on this DVD project either.  I've just seen similar issues occur when I had old VHS recorders with heads needing cleaning or even adjustments and alignments in years past.  I have a room right now with about 6 - 10 4-head Hi-Fi VHS recorders in it and even an SVHS recorder that all work great.  They just need head cleaning and alignment of heads to function at 100% full quality and nowadays you have to do this stuff yourself since repair shops have disappeared in today's disposable digital society.

The video is listed as a first generation VHS tape that was transferred correctly and digitally to a digital PC format.  But I think the generation may be a little higher than what the party building the DVD was originally told most likely.  I could be wrong though.  I'll upload a sample of my favorite song in this show and most of it is in the higher quality, cleaner looking moments too.  But you should see the moments where the video changes and looks grainy with no question of where it may be.

The band sounds especially superb on this night and they seem very musically charged!  Jimmy Page especially does and he plays like he is playing in a 1975 Led Zeppelin show more that like in a 1998 Page & Plant show it seems.  He is putting his heart and soul into the music and the solos are longer in many songs as well.  Just when you think he's about to finish up and get back into the chorus of the song, he adds something new and picks it all up again just like he did in the day.  "No Quarter" is one of the best versions of the song played on the tour I believe and what makes it great for me is Page's long and awesome solo and what he puts into it.  "Babe I'm Going To Leave You" is the same and he plays it with a longer version of the 1998 additional part he added in during the tour.  Robert Plant sounds like he is having a great time and feeling a little nostalgic or in the "Zep Daze" too it seems.  The rest of the band is doing an excellent job as well and there is some really great, John Bonham looking almost, video of the late Michael Lee banging away on the drums at full speed and force very powerfully.  I was always amazed by how well he pulled off taking over John Bonham's shoes in the two tours Page & Plant used him on their two tours.  There is no replacing John Bonham of course.  But if you needed someone to try and do an excellent job, well Michael Lee was the guy I think.

I really wish I had been able to have watched this full show again before uploading it overnight.  It has been a few years since I've seen it from start to finish.  But I did watch a good amount of it last night and some as I was sick and trying to recover from a 7 day stomach virus over the last week.  It was hard to pay attention to anything as I slept on the couch and kept running back and forth to the restroom all week.  But I did get to lay back and listen and enjoy it through the home setup off and on.

I'm really grateful to "ZoSo64" for sharing this DL DVD in February of 2010 on Dime and all thanks for sharing it.  He not only shared it but he also built the DVD using high quality methods and he created the artwork for the show too.  He was unable to recall the information on the Italian taper that recorded the show and he got it from.  But a huge thanks goes out to him too!

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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Queen: 1981-09-25 Caracus, Venezuela (Pro Shot DVD_Dolby 2 Ch. & 5.1 Ch.)

This is a DVD  of Queen's performance from 34 years ago.  Well, it was two days ago (when I started getting it ready to upload).  There are also some bonus features on the DVD too.  This is the full concert and the bonus features include a short part of the soundcheck, a slideshow of images with a song, and a Queen interview track too.

There was absolutely no information other than what is on the artwork that came with this file set when I got it about 8years ago.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given > me > created text file & md5 file > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Queen
Date: September 25th, 1981
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Venue: Unknown
Label: Snow Producciones
Title: Live In Venezuela '81

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes
DVD's: 1
DVD Size: 3.30 GB
DVD Length: 1:31:13 (concert) + approximately 16 min (bonuses)

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Color/B&W: Color
Type: Pro Shot
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 6000/8000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 448 kbps
Codec: AC3
Channels: Dolby 2.0 & Dolby 5.1
Streams: 2

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
01. We Will Rock You
02. Let Me Entertain You
03. Play The Game
04. Somebody To Love
05. Killer Queen
06. I'm In Love With My Car
07. Get Down Make Love
08. Need Your Loving Tonight
09. Save Me
10. Now I'm Here
11. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
12. Dragon Attack
13. Now I'm Here (Reprise)
14. Love Of My Life
15. Keep Yourself Alive
16. instrumental (drums and guitar)
17. Flash Gordon (theme)
18. The Hero
19. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
20. Bohemian Rhapsody
21. Tie Your Mother Down
22. Another One Bites The Dust
23. Sheer Heart Attack
24. We Will Rock You
25. We Are The Champions
26. God Save The Queen

LINKS:
(1) 1981-09-25 Caracas, Venezuela (Pro Shot)
(2) 1981-09-25 Caracas, Venezuela (Pro Shot)
(3) 1981-09-25 Caracas, Venezuela (Pro Shot)
(4) 1981-09-25 Caracas, Venezuela (Pro Shot)

SAMPLE:
YouTube Sample

The video is really clean and nice looking in this show and the audio is great but not excellent.  I'm not sure if the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio stream is really necessary.  The build of the DVD does have the two audio streams with one being 2 channel (2.0) and the other being 6 channel (5.1).  But the 2 channel audio sounded better, louder, and it is the stream I watched the most as I was previewing the DVD the other day.

There are some audio issues.  But you get use to them.  There are some crackle and pops at times which I guess come from the VHS tape.  The video looks like it has been rendered and possibly color enhanced/corrected too.  I wish I could have watched more of the video before making this post but I wasn't able too.  The audio changes a few times in the concert but you get adjusted to it and it really is not bad.  I just wish it was a more hi fidelity sounding  audio track and a steady and unchanging track as well.  I really cannot add any more without more research and investigating the DVD more closely when I have time to.

One thing I like is in the bonus features.  It is the two and a half minute picture/slideshow to a Queen song I'm not familiar with.  It's a slideshow with the audio track (like an audio DVD).  The additional bonus features such as the interviews and sound check are all picked from the main menu of the DVD.  The same goes for the audio stream you want to use.  Personally, I always use my remote control and switch between the audio streams on DVD's with more than one.  But you can make the choice from the menu too.

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: 1970-09-19 New York, NY (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen_2nd Show_2 CD)

Tomorrow will be the 45th anniversary of another excellent sounding Led Zeppelin show.  This concert was a hop, skip, and a Starship ride from the West Coast concerts recently shared to the East Coast before the ride home to the United Kingdom..  The last two shows in the 1970 tour were on 1970-09-19 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.  And this upload is of the second, evening show on that day.

The band played two shows at Madison Square Garden (MSG) on the same day.  The first show was an afternoon show and the second show, which is this concert being uploaded now, was the evening show.  I'm still not fully aware of all of the details on how this tape came to surface.  But it sounds like it came close to being lost in time and mistaken for the first show from some of what the taper wrote and I have read.

"Darth9neo". or the taper, forgetting or not knowing there were two shows Led Zeppelin had played on 1969-09-19 at MSG had only attended the second, evening show.  And for decades he had known of the bootleg recording titled American Woman (first, afternoon show) but had not listened to it and thought it was the same show that he had recorded.  So all of these years later, he was listening to the first show but noticing things were different from what he remembered all those years ago.  Long story wrapped up, he'd been sitting on a tape of the second show not knowing it.  He stated a friend helped him realize this and it wasn't too long afterwards the second show, the only source/recording of the show known to exist, was shared by the taper.

A huge "thank you" goes out to "Darth9neo" for sharing this gem and piece of history with all of us!

LINEAGE:
Master > Reel-to-Reel > CD-R > 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

NOTE:
Somewhere is the lineage Eddie Edwards speed corrected the audio and "cleaned" it.  But this information wasn't included in the lineage anywhere so who knows where or when that work fits in the lineage lineup?  I'd imagine it came after the CD-R copy transfer from other information I've read but I do not know for sure.

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: September 19th, 1970
Location: New York, New York
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Title: Born To Please
Label: Darth9neo (Taper) & Eddie Edwards (Remaster)
Source: AUD (1st Gen) (Evening Show)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 805 MB
Length: 144:11:39

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Immigrant Song
102. Heartbreaker
103. Dazed And Confused
104. Bring It On Home
105. That's The Way
106. Bron-Yr-Aur
107. Since I've Been Loving You
108.. Thank You

CD 2:
201. What Is And What Should Never Be
202. Moby Dick
203. Whole Lotta Love
204. Out On The Tiles
205. Communication Breakdown
206. The Girl Can't Help It
207. Talking Bout You
208. Twenty Flight Rock
209. How Many More Times

LIN K:
(1) 1970-09-19 New York, NY (AUD 1st Gen/2nd Show)

There is something special about this concert in the fact that Jimi Hendrix had died the day before this show and Robert Plant mentions him before the band plays "That's The Way".  Plant says to the crowd, "A great loss came about for the whole of the music world.  We'd like to think that you as well as us are very sorry that Jimi Hendrix is dead."  This show was a day after Hendrix's death.  But of course this was a very big topic not only in the music world and news but in the minds of fans all across the world.  Plant mentions Jimi's death in both shows at MSG too on this same day.

This recording was recorded by "Darth9neo" and remastered by Eddie Edwards.  The recording is stereo and for the most part an excellent recording.  There is a little rough patch starting off as the sound was getting set but then it quickly improves and becomes a real nice treat to listen to.  The taper says he ran from the 89th row where he had seats up to the very front (something that you could do in those days if you were lucky enough) and started recording just as "Immigrant Song" began.  There are some points where the stereo seems to fade to one side or the other in the taping for short moments.  It sounds more like a tape issue than anything else to me and it doesn't happen a lot.  It may have been done on purpose too by the taper?  There is slight distortion in the heavier bass notes but overall it's an excellent recording and a superb show.

The waveform showed no clipping either and I think one of the really cool things about this recording is the stereo separation in some songs.  For instance, when Jimmy Page is doing the violin bow solo deal where he hits on the guitar with the bow and sticks his arm out and turns as the lights hit him (at least in the official the Song Remains The Same release), you hear the different left and right channel come alive depending on which way he was pointing the bow in the show.  Even the beginning of John Paul Jones' organ solo introduction into "Thank You" has some back and forth stereo movement between the channels and sounds really nice.  The same thing happens in "Whole Lotta Love".  However; I wonder if this is real stereo or possibly some audio trickery maybe?  It also happens in a few places it shouldn't too.

The crowd is not an issue in most of the show but they are rowdy and can be heard a few times.  But they definitely do not seem to interfere with the majority of the recording or be heard during most of the show other than at lower audio levels.

The recording isn't without some faults.  Tell me many that are.  But this one is a very nice and excellent recording and personally I grade it even a little higher (I'm trying to not grade based on personal likability and it's hard).

The recording doesn't sound as good starting out on the second disc.  It's very muddy and almost as if the microphones were being blocked by something or even hidden.  This continues all the way through "What Is And What Should Never Be" and for at least 8 minutes into "Moby Dick" before it clears up.  It doesn't sound stereo either during this beginning of disc 2.  But it clears up and gets back to sounding like it had on disc 1 well before "Whole Lotta Love" starts.

I've uploaded other copies of this show and date in the past too.  So you may want to read up on those posts and compare the information or you may want to just download this copy and listen for yourself!

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!!!

REO Speedwagon: 1971-XX-XX Carbondale, IL (DVD_Pro Shot_LPCM_1 DVD)

If anyone hasn't heard yet, REO Speedwagon's founding member Gary Richrath passed away on 2015-09-13 (Sunday).  I just learned of it this morning and I'm not sure what the details are on his death.  But he was one of the best rock 'n' roll guitarists of his time and a key reason REO Speedwagon made it so big in their later years.

I'm uploading a better copy (audio wise) of this 1971 PBS TV appearance on a program called The Sessions today.  I've built my own DVD with menus and cool junk.  But it was not an LPCM audio copy and this one being shared is.  This copy has automatic 10 minute chapters and looks like it was transferred via a standalone DVD burner too.

I am not sure where I got this copy and it possibly even came from Dime?  The text file I just noticed mentions it had been on Dime so that makes it even more likely.  I'll include the original text file too.  I've tried to determine who shared it but have not had any luck.  But to whoever shared this to begin with, thanks definitely goes to that person!

LINEAGE:
Master station tape > ? > me > created new text file & md5 file > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: REO Speedwagon
Date: Fall 1971
Location: Carbondale, Illinois
Venue: WSIU Studios (PBS)
Program: The Sessions
Label: None
Title: The Sessions

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: No
Chapters: Yes (10 minute auto chapters)
Artwork: Yes (not in download/obtained later)
DVD's: 1
DVD Size: 1.98 GB
DVD Length: 29:44

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Color/B&W: Color
Type: Pro Shot
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 8032 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

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

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
01. Gypsy Woman's Passion
02. London Branch (program's host)
03. 157 Riverside Avenue
04. Lay Me Down
05. Be A Big Man Someday
06. Anti-Establishment Man

LINKS:
(1) 1971-XX-XX Carbondale, IL (Pro Shot)
(2) 1971-XX-XX Carbondale, IL (Pro Shot)
(3) 1971-XX-XX Carbondale, IL (Pro Shot)

SAMPLE:
YouTube - Gypsy Woman's Passion

Dime Torrent - Download Here!
NOTE: I created a torrent and posted it on Dime.  If your a Dime member, you'll know what to do.  If not, sign up for a free account and READ THE RULES.  Go to http://www.dimeadozen.org for their home page.  And remember to keep your sharing ratio at 0.25% or higher so as to not get banned.  It's a much faster download almost always!  Now, back to the original blog post.

REO Speedwagon, formed in 1967, stayed pretty much the same as far as members of the group went throughout the years with a few exceptions.  This video was shot before members Kevin Cronin (vocals) or Bruce Hall (bass) were in the band.  And years later, as they were transitioning from a more classic rock with a lot of guitar type of band to a more ballads type of band, Gary Richrath did not like this.  I personally like both eras of the band's music but I really like the 1981 and earlier REO Speedwagon the best where Richrath played awesome solos in the songs.

In 1989, after the band decided to stop the partying and clean up their act, Gary Richrath did not want to go the direction the rest of the band was going.  He was upset by the music and he had been getting more and more heavily into drug use which the rest of the band had reportedly stopped doing at this point.  So the band fired him and replaced him with Dave Amoto.

Richrath made an attempt at playing his own solo music and tours briefly, but that was short lived.  He just sort of disappeared from the public eye and not much was heard of him or from him after that.  He did appear on stage and plat with REO Speedwagon once more in 2013 at a benefit show to the surprise of the crowd.  But two years later, he's now gone for good sadly.

This is a superb capture of the band when the lineup had Terry Luttrell on vocals and Gregg Philbin on bass.  The other members were future and even present members that stuck with the band for a long time through the years and they include Neal Doughty on keyboards, Alan Gratzer on drums, and of course the now late Gary Richrath.

I'm not 100% sure who is with REO Speedwagon today, but I do know a few of the early and possibly original lineup is still with them.  And most members have been there from the 1970's I believe.  Either Doughty or Gratzer recently retired I believe but I know Kevin Cronin, Bruce Hall, and Dave Amato (joined in 1990 I believe) are definitely with REO Speedwagon today and they are constantly touring and rocking.  I've seen them so many times and recorded so many shows of them over the years I cannot even remember how many times it has been.

I added a few screen shots from the video at the bottom of this post.  So as a tribute to Gary Richrath, here is an early look into REO Speedwagon.

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: 1971-08-23 Fort Worth, TX (FLAC_AUD Unverified Master_2 CD)

Tonight is the 44th anniversary of this excellent Led Zeppelin concert we will likely never have a full copy of.  I have always loved this show and the sound in it too.  It's just too bad we don't have the complete show to enjoy like we enjoy the 2 CD's of it we do have thankfully.  This is really more of a superb recording than an excellent one and I recommend getting this one for completeness (in a collection) and comparisons (between it and the TDOLZ revised copy) as well as quality.  But if you want the more complete show first, grab it HERE!

Over on Royal Orleans, "pernod" posted an interview out of the Led Zeppelin publication named Proximity of an interview done years ago by the magazine with the taper of this show.  I'll post this interview closer to the end.

LINEAGE: 
(Unverified) Master > CD-R > EAC > WAV > FLAC 8 > align on sector boundaries > 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: August 23rd, 1971
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Venue: Tarrant County Convention Center
Source: AUD (Unverified Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Label: None
Title: Tarrant County Convention Center Master
Size: 353 MB
Length: 60.11.21

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Dazed And Confused (cuts in)
102. Stairway To Heaven
103. Celebration Day
104. That's The Way
105. What Is And What Should Never Be
106. Moby Dick

These last two tracks were not included in this unverified master copy but can be found here by searching for 1970-08-23 in the upper right hand corner of the top of any page on this site or clicking on the link I posted at the beginning of this post.  I uploaded the TDOLZ Hot August Night copy "pernod" revised (no EQ) as I already mentioned and the following CD with the two tracks are in that download.

CD 2 (not in this version):
201. Whole Lotta Love
203. Communication Breakdown

LINKS:
(1) 1971-08-23 Fort Worth, TX (AUD/Unverified Master)

Note that this is an "unverified" copy of the master.  And in fact, I believe it could just be an EQ'ed copy of the recording from TDOLZ's Hot August Night release.  It definitely sounds great and cleaned up and the waveform looks perfect in this unverified copy with no audio clipping at all (and room to spare).

As for the interview with the taper, here is a copy & paste of it "pernod" posted on R-O.

One of the most exciting Zeppelin tapes to surface recently is a superb audience recording from the Tarrant County Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, from August 23, 1971. How was this gem created? Why did it take 26 years to circulate? And what happened when the taper (who we'll call "Nick") actually got backstage following the show?
These and other questions are addressed in this exclusive interview with the man behind the tape, conducted by noted Proximity correspondent ERIC VON SCHLIPPEN

PROXIMITY: You were living in Texas in the late 60's and early 70's. Were you seeing a lot of concerts at the time?
Nick: Yeah, it seemed like a concert every couple of weeks and it was always somebody. Hendrix, Zeppelin, The Doors, Spirit. . . it seemed like a constant parade of people, you know? It was a really good time for concerts.

P: The Zeppelin gig is definitely from Fort Worth August 23, 1971, and not Dallas on the 24th?

N: No, no. It's Fort Worth

P: When did you start taking a tape recorder to gigs and recording shows?

N: Early 70's. Maybe 1970 through '74, and it wasn't every concert, just from time to time. I'm sure a lot of the shows I did tape wound up being recorded over later on, out of ignorance (laughter).

P: What type of tape machine were you using?

N: It was a Sony TC-110. At the time it was sort of the workhorse for radio journalists. I had a friend who was a disc jockey and from time to time he would have me go out and do interviews for him. I don't know if it was really intended to record music, it was pretty much the standard for radio journalists. It wasn't really a stealth recorder, it was similar to the mid-size you'd find at Radio Shack. It was about 8 inches long by 5 or 6 inches wide.

P: What kind of microphone did you use?

N: I used the Sony mic that came with it. It was an external microphone, which seemed to work fine especially if you were seated in the first ten rows. I guess it was pretty directional-if you aimed it towards the stage you didn't get a lot of crowd noise, so it was good in that way.

P: Were you usually located close to the stage for the shows you taped?

N: I was spoiled back then. The concert ticket buying scene was so much different than it is today. You didn't have Ticketmaster with dozens of outlets. It was a situation where on the day tickets went on sale you had one outlet in Fort Worth and one in Dallas, and whichever town the show was in got the best tickets. The workers would physically bring in the tickets, they weren't spit out of a machine, out of a computer. So you knew where to go to get the best seats. Depending on who the act was, you either had to go spend the night, or else go down at 6 in the morning. As long as you had a good spot in line you were pretty much guaranteed to get good seats. For the Zeppelin gig I think we went out to a bar until about 2 in the morning and went down to line up for tickets at about 3:00 or 4:00 a.m.

P: So you decided to take the machine to the August 23 Zeppelin show, but you only took one cassette to record on?

N: Yeah, I only took one blank Sony 120 minute cassette.

P: Or else the bootleg would have been a 4-CD set. . .

N: Yeah (laughter).

P: How did you get the tape recorder into the Fort Worth Tarrant Convention Center?

N: I don't remember taking extraordinary measures to sneak it in. I probably just slung it over my shoulder and had it nonchalantly hidden under my arm, or else I put a little shirt on and had it between the shirt and my T-shirt. If they'd said anything about it I would have just said, "fine," you know?

P: At what point did you start the tape rolling when Led Zeppelin came on?

N: I think I began at the start of the show, and once I had taped 60 minutes on both sides, I flipped the tape over and began recording over the stuff on the beginning of side A!

[Editor's note: The tape as it exists begins halfway through "Dazed & Confused," in the bowing section. This means that what has survived is really "side 3" and "side 4" if it had been a complete tape, as the first part of the concert was taped over by the last part.]

P: There seem to be gaps where you turn the tape recorder off between songs. Were you trying to save time on the tape?

N: No, I think what I was doing was shutting the tape machine off and checking the tape to see if it was time to flip it over or not. It was dark in there, and you couldn't really see through the little window to see how much time was left on each side. After a few minutes I would turn it off between songs to see where it was on the tape, and whether I should flip it over or not.

P: After the group completes "Whole Lotta Love medley" they leave the stage. What did you do then, before they came back for an encore?

N: I was always on the lookout for the opportunity to go backstage at these various places. It was easier back then, and there was always a "window of opportunity" to get backstage, which I took whenever I could. They didn't have regular concert security guys back then, they would hire off-duty police officers whom, if they were contracted to stay until say, 12:00 a.m., would at the stroke of midnight look at their watches and say, "hey, I'm off duty," and away they would go! After the last song I take a look around and I say, "hey, nobody's guarding backstage, I'm going back." So I wandered back there, and of course the trick is, "act like you know what you're doing."

P: Did anyone try and stop you as you entered the backstage area?

N: No, the stage didn't extend right to the edge of the arena, so they just had barricades, like sawhorses, from the edge of the stage over to the railing. So it was just a matter of walking back there.

P: Were there many people going backstage at that point?

N: No, I guess I was just a little more savvy in that way, and I was always looking for those opportunities. There wasn't a lot of activity back there, I guess everyone involved with the concert was on the stage area, rather than in the 'dressing room' area. So I get back there, and lo and behold, there's Robert Plant leaning against a door frame, just kinda catching his breath, you know, breathing kind of hard, covered with sweat. I'm thinking, "well, here's Robert Plant but what do I say to him?" If I walk up to him, what am I going to say right after a show like that, when he's getting ready to go back on for an encore? I don't really want to start talking to him about his music like you would in a restaurant or something because it just didn't seem right. Basically, I just said, "nice show." He kind of nodded and grunted something (laughter). He looked a little perplexed about what I was doing back there (laughter).

P: Did you see any other members of Led Zeppelin back there?

N: I don't remember seeing anyone else. When I heard the music starting up I was headed back towards the front when this guy confronted me, I had no idea who he was, and said, "what are you doing with that?" referring to the tape recorder! He was an English guy, long hair, mustache, not really a big guy. I think he was part of Zeppelin's touring company.

P: At that point you immediately shut the tape machine off. What did you say to him?

N: I just made an excuse about planning to interview the band afterwards to ask them what they thought of the show. And I just kinda kept walking, I didn't hang around to give him any long explanation or to be questioned any further.

P: Was he making an attempt to follow you?

N: No, I don't remember that, 'cause I made it back out OK.

P: You went back out front and resumed taping the encore "Communication Breakdown," which you cut after a couple of minutes. Why was that?

N: I think I realized at that point that I was taping over a lot of good stuff from the beginning of the concert, and that I would rather have that than the end of the show. Then I just went home. We would just replay and re-live the concert for the next week or, until the next concert came to town, then the tape would go in the drawer!

P: So where were these tapes stored for the last 26 years?

N: They were in a storage shed for a while, or else they'd move with me, or they'd be in a closet, or a cabinet. Many of them were not even marked, but there were always in their cases, never exposed to sunlight or anything, always at room temperature, which I think is one thing that helped preserve them.

P: How long had it been since you'd brought that particular Led Zeppelin tape out and listened to it?

N: Probably 15 years!

P: In all these years since you recorded the show, did you ever think you had such a rare and important piece of Led Zeppelin's history in your possession?

N: I knew I had the tape, but I never participated in any forum or talked to serious Led Zeppelin fans to know that anyone was even interested. I figured it was just a recording of Zeppelin on a night that they had replicated all over the world at similar concerts. I thought everyone would be satisfied with what was already available!

Here is a sample I quickly put together tonight with some photos I shot of the moon overnight and "Stairway To Heaven" from this recording put to a slideshow with all kinds of transitions.  The photos were not even looked at by me before I made the project and I just added them all including the good, the bad, and the blurry.  It has of coursed been "dumbed down" (both video and audio) by YouTube's conversion processing and the audio, even though I built the project using PCM audio, will have been converted to a lossy audio by YouTube.  And that's why they call it a sample.

Lossy YouTube Sample

I hope you enjoy this superb sounding 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: 1977-06-21 Inglewood, CA (DVD-A_AUD_LPCM)

After the Winston Remasters FLAC upload of this show two days ago, the copy mistakenly added without "The Song Remains The Same", I did some research and learned something I had not been aware of before.  And as a temporary replacement until I can re-upload the full remastered copy of the Winston Remasters remastered show, I'm uploading what is either better than or equal to (in my opinion) the Winston Remasters copy and this is the Genuine Masters DVD-A of Listen To This Eddie - Collector's Edition.  Both the WR and GM copies of the show use the Mike Millard source audio.

While trying to find the missing song from the other day's upload, "The Song Remains The Same", I realized there are a number of Winston Remasters copies associated with this 1977-06-21 show and the title Mike The Mike.  There is a 2004 Mike The Mike sourced from the Millard AUD first generation cassette and remastered as well as a 2007 copy too sourced from a first generation Hi-Fi VHS copy that was remastered.  But as well as the remastered copies, there are also unaltered copies that Winston Remasters also shared.  And that doesn't even include the two sources copy I uploaded the other day (I don't think).

I've downloaded four copies of this show since two days ago with one copy still not completely obtained yet.  I already had a couple of unaltered copies, and I believe I have them all now (the WR ones) with the exception of the primary one I want.  It is stuck at 89.2% complete on some unknown torrent site and with no seeders now.  It is the 1.25 GB 2007 Winston Remasters remastered copy.  But I am confident I will get it eventually.

I could continue on with details that would scramble your brain like it has been doing to mine as I try obtaining information on (a) what is the difference in each copy and (b) what is considered to be the best copy of the Winston Remasters versions out there.  But there is no need to get bogged down in all of those details, and especially in this post.

So without further ado, here is the Genuine Masters, superb sounding, audio DVD of the show and I know you will enjoy it.  It is complete with "The Song Remains The Same" and is complete with a psychedelic art and pictures kind of slideshow of images from the concert as  the concert plays.  The slideshow displays on your TV or PC screen as the music plays.  Plus, the images are formatted to fit the 16:9 aspect ratio widescreen TV sets or PC monitors too.  In other words, they fill the screen!

LINEAGE:
Trade DVD-R > PC > me > TLH (to create a new md5 file) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 21st, 1977
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: The Forum
Source: AUD
Format: DVD-A
DVD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Label: Genuine Masters
Title: Listen To This Eddie - Collector's Edition
Length: 3:15:00

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Slideshow: Yes
Size: 4.33 GB

VIDEO:
Format: NTSC
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 16:9
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 3000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

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

SETLIST/CHAPTERS:
01. Intro
02. The Song Remains The Same
03. The Rover
04. Sick Again
05. Nobody's Fault But Mine
06. Over The Hills And Far Away
07. Since I've Been Loving You
08. No Quarter
09. Ten Years Gone
10. The Battle Of Evermore
11. Going To California
12. Black Country Woman
13. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
14. White Summer/Black Mountain Side
15. Kashmir
16. Moby Dick
17. Heartbreaker
18. Jimmy Page (violin bow guitar solo)
19. Achilles Last Stand
20. Stairway To Heaven
21. Whole Lotta Love
22. Rock And Roll

LINKS:
(1) 1977-06-21 Inglewood, CA (AUD DVD-A/GM)
(2) 1977-06-21 Inglewood, CA (AUD DVD-A/GM)
(3) 1977-06-21 Inglewood, CA (AUD DVD-A/GM)

SAMPLE:
YouTube Sample ("Since I've Been Loving You")

As I have started doing lately, the sample video clip above is on YouTube where I uploaded it and I am not embedding it into this post where it displays here.  Something has gone wrong with doing it that way on Blogspot's site, and besides, it will sound and look better on the YouTube site anyhow.

Always remember, a smaple is a lossy format example of something off of the lossless quality download.  It is near impossible to find a site that will stream or display a lossless format piece of video or audio on the internet.  There are a few sites you can pay for and listen to lossless quality audio on, but I still have never seen one where you can upload and stream your own lossless product on.  They may or may not be out there?  But I'm not going to pay for anything I don't have to and especially just to post a sample on anyhow.

I will get the Winston Remasters remastered and unaltered best copies (in my opinion) up here on my site sooner or later.  But until then, you won't be disappointed by this Genuine Masters DVD-A of the show either.  Genuine Masters does great work.  And even though I don't know what generation this source they used here on their DVD-A is, I imagine it is the first generation Millard recording.  This is Genuine Masters second DVD-A of this show and it is an upgrade too!  Thier first, 2004, 2 DVD-A copy used photos from the Seattle 1977 show and it did not sound as good either.  This copy and their second attempt was done right and with the widescreen images and LPCM audio to make it a masterpiece and very enjoyable three hours, fifteen minutes of Led Zeppelin music and images.

I am not sure at this point if a true remastering (Winston Remasters or otherwise) has even been done on the unmarked Millard first generation tapes for this show that surfaced recently.  I am trying to determine this even now.

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 & MERCHANDISE TOO.

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Led Zeppelin: 1972-02-19 Adelaide, Australia (DVD-A_AUD_LPCM)

Today is the 43rd anniversary of this Led Zeppelin concert in Adelaide, Australia.  And I really like this DVD-A copy made by Genuine Masters and with the high quality LPCM audio too.

This DVD-A has a great psychedelic artwork mixed with shots of the band as they performed in Australia slideshow as the music plays.

I've not listened to this show in a year or so, but I know the taper stopped the recorder between songs sometimes and even chopped at least two songs short.  Unfortunately, "Tangerine" was on the chopping block and we only have a small part of it.  I went ahead and checked the disc and "Mony Dick" is fairly long but also cut short too.  And last, but not least, sadly enough "Whole Lotta Love" seems to run out of tape nearing the end of the song but before it finishes.  And with that song, they may have gone on for another hour too :-)

Also, while I'm not sure if Led Zeppelin did this or not in this show, they probably played "Communication Breakdown" and maybe even had the John Paul Jones organ solo leading into "Thank You" too.  I'm guessing the taper just didn't bring enough tape with him, but again, I don't know for sure.

This is really an excellent recording and all the instruments ans well as Robert Plant can be heard easily and cleanly.  It's too bad the taper had a little problem with the bass end on his equipment, but it is not horrible or show ruining at all.  And not all bass is distorted either.  I don't want to give that impression at all.  It's just at some points in the show it is distorted a little in the real heavy (musically) parts of some songs.  Page's guitar sounds so good too in this recording and he is on fire in this show.

LINEAGE:
Genuine Masters silver DVD > HD > DVD-R > me > TLH (to create a new md5 file) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: February 19, 1972
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Venue: Memorial Drive Park
Source: AUD
Format: DVD-A
DVD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Label: Genuine Masters
Title: Memorial Adelaide
Length: 1:36:07

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Slideshow: Yes
Size: 4.18 GB

VIDEO:
Format: NTSC
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 4500 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

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

SETLIST/CHAPTERS:
01. intro
02. Immigrant Song
03. Heartbreaker
04. Black Dog
05. Since I've Been Loving You
06. Stairway To Heaven
07. Going To California
08. That's The Way
09. Tangerine (cut short)
10. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
11. Dazed And Confused
12. Moby Dick
13. Whole Lotta Love

LINKS:
(1) 1972-02-19 Adelaide, Australia (AUD DVD-A/GM)
(2) 1972-02-19 Adelaide, Australia (AUD DVD-A/GM)

SAMPLE:
YouTube Sample ("Going to California" and "That's The Way")

I was going to upload a FLAC copy of this show since so many people ask for those when DVD-A uploads happen, but this is the better sounding version.  And with all the free and easy to use DVD burning programs available, it is not hard to learn to burn a disc like this at all.  In most programs you just pick the "VIDEO_TS folder as the source and the program does the rest.

Also, for some reason I have not determined yet, the DVD-A discs zip up much smaller than their full size.  These two zipped files are a 900 MB part 1 and 271 MB part 2 zipped file set uploaded.  That's not really much larger that a 3 CD shows and smaller than some.  I think what WinRAR does on non moving video (or slideshows) is compress the video part or the images.  The audio doesn't change and is the same.

I've tried zipping the DVD-A's up like we do FLAC files or actual DVD video files where they come out the same size zipped up as they do unzipped.  But it just can't be done.  But my point is this.  It really isn't much larger of a file than you'd get downloading a 2 CD copy of the show.

The previous information only seems to apply to what is more correctly termed Audio DVD's and not the real DVD-A discs that have audio files in the AUDIO_TS folder too.  There is a way to build a better DVD-A but few people or labels do that.  They just build these Audio DVD's with the audio inside of the video files (or VOB files).  Don't worry if this makes no sense to you because it's just information and not necessarily anything you need to know in order to burn or use the DVD.

The FLAC copies I have for this show, one being a master source copy, all had to much bass distortion when compared to this Genuine Masters copy.  They sounded good, and one day I'll upload some of them too.  But the recordings were heavier on the bass and I wanted to upload a cleaner sounding copy and one that can be burned to one disc and watched too.  Ripping a DVD's audio is also easy if you want to do that and make a FLAC version.  I might even do that some day myself.

Since I've been having problems uploading the link via Blogspot where it shows here in my post, I just added the sample link above and you can look over on the lossy YouTube site and see the sample if you want to.

I hope you enjoy this 43 year old 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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Page & Plant: 1996-02-15 Osaka, Japan (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

Today is the 19th anniversary of the first of two Osaka Page and Plant concerts near the end of their No Quarter tour in 1996.  This is also the seventh Japan concert out of the ten they played closing out the tour and it is discs 13 and 14 out of the 20 CD Hoochie Coochie label box set.

Thank goes to "Amduscia" for the EAC ripping and sharing of his silver CD's of all ten days of shows with us!

LINEAGE:
Hoochie Coochie silvers > EAC > FLAC 8 > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Page & Plant
Date: February 15th, 1996
Location: Osaka, Japan
Venue: Castle Hall
Title: 10 Days
Label: Hoochie Coochie
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 703 MB
Length: 132:00:51

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. opening
102. Custard Pie
103. Bring It On Home
104. Heartbreaker
105. What Is And What Should Never Be
106. hurdy gurdy instrument solo
107. Gallows Pole
108. Wonderful One
109. Going To California
110. Ten Years Gone
111. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
112. Whole Lotta Love

CD 2:
201. Tea For One
202. Friends
203. Yallah
204. Four Sticks
205. Kashmir
206. Black Dog
207. Rock And Roll

LINK:
(1) 1996-02-15 Osaka, Japan (AUD/Hoochie Coochie CD's 13-14)

This is another superb sounding show and a more heavy rocking one I think too.  Jimmy Page is doing a lot of ad-lib guitar playing on the fly, just like in the old days, in the specific concert.  And Robert Plant is singing a lot more Led Zeppelin sounding this night too.

For those who have been collecting the live shows and recordings of Led Zeppelin over the years, you'll hear what I am talking about in reference to it sounding more Led Zeppelin like on this night.  You know how the songs were played through the years in Led Zeppelin and this night has a lot of the "old Zeppelin" styles of playing as well as some specific playing from years in the past.  Even a song Page and Plant played a lot, like "Heartbreaker" or "What Is And What Should Never Be", sounds much more 1970's oriented in this show than like a normal night of Page and Plant playing it.

The previous show in Tokyo, the 1996-02-13 show, Page and Plant played a lot more mellow songs and in a more mellow style.  But this first night in Osaka, they're rocking out a lot more and they still have the great mellow songs like "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" too.  This is a superb sounding show as well as a superb performance from everyone involved in the concert.

The new song for this night is "Wonderful One" and I don't think it had been played in any of the Japan shows in the previous six days.  Robert Plant introduces "Wonderful One" by simply saying "Here's a new song."  And I'm really glad "Ten Years Gone" was put back in too.  I've always loved that song.  After all, in years past we were told that is was a song about "the first love, the one you never forget."  And it really is even though it seems like it has been ten decades gone today!

The sample video below is from the 2 DVD LPCM audio Third Eye Productions remastered release a few years ago.  It is NOT the audio from this Hoochie Coochie 2 disc recording being shared here.  I'm just using it as a sample of the music I'm talking about as well as a glimpse into this night's show nineteen years ago.

Since nobody responded to my post when I mentioned I'd upload the DVD's for a show or two if anyone wanted them or asked for any of them, well, I'm not going through the work and time it takes to upload them then.  You can still let me know and I'll be happy to upload whatever when I have time later on.

I'm having troubles embedding the same video I posted on YouTube into this post for some reason.  So I'll just post the link to it on YouTube instead of wasting any more time.  I added the extra text at the beginning of the video and it's not on the original video.  Here's the YouTube link:.

YouTube Sample (not this audio source!!!)

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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!!!

Page & Plant: 19996-02-08 Tokyo, Japan (AUD Shot 2 DVD)

This is an excellently shot Third Eye Productions 2 DVD set of the third night of Page & Plant playing Tokyo on their 1996 Japanese leg of the No Quarter tour.  This show was 19 years ago tomorrow.

This an an interesting night too for Page and Plant both as they seem a little relaxed and even make some mistakes and have to start "The Rain Song" as well as "Tea For One" a second time after mess ups.  This is also the "very first time we've played this song" Plant tells the crowd before they restart "Tea For One" again.  It is kind of cool seeing mistakes sometimes from two guys that were masters of making a mistake look like it was just meant to be and part of the song in their Led Zeppelin years.

The Page and Plant song "Yallah" is another song that they start, it isn't going right, so they just end it and never play it.  It's a little difficult to tell if it is the Egyptian Pharaohs fault, the Japanese orchestra's fault, or Page and Plants fault though?  The big Egyptian Pharaohs (leader) guy you see in all of the Page and Plant videos, officially released or unofficially shared, kind of shrugs his shoulders and looks over at the player to his right as if motioning "what was the problem?"  Robert Plant says jokingly at least twice that this is their rehearsals.  So it leaves you to wonder really what is going on this night.

This is also the "Digitally Remastered" copy of the original recording.  I'm not sure what was done, but the video starts off with this text.  Since the video originally was put on VHS in 1996 and we were not burning our own DVD's at home, I imagine it just refers to a digital transfer to a digital media that was made.

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Page & Plant
Date: February 8th, 1996
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Budokan Hall
Label: Third Eye Productions
Title: Tokyo, Japan 2/8/96
Total Running Time: 105 minutes

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Lineage: Unknown
Artwork: Yes
DVD's: 2
DVD Size: 8.66 GB

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

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 192 kbps
Codec: AC3
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
DVD 1:
101. intro video
102. Celebration Day
103. Bring It On Home
104. Heartbreaker
105. What Is And What Should Never Be
106. The Rain Song
107. hurdy gurdy instrument solo
108. When The Levee Breaks
109. Gallows Pole
110. Tea For One
111. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
112. Whole Lotta Love
113. Yallah (attempted but stopped)
114. Four Sticks

DVD2:
201. Egyptian Pharaohs intro
202. In The Evening
203. Kashmir
204. Black Dog
205. Rock And Roll

BONUS MATERIAL :
206. Turning Japanese
207. The Egyptians
208. Japanese TV news spots 2/5/96
209. Live Footage: Tokyo 2/5/96

LINKS:
(1) 1996-02-08 Tokyo, Japan (AUD 2 DVD/Third Eye)
(2) 1996-02-08 Tokyo, Japan (AUD 2 DVD/Third Eye)
(3) 1996-02-08 Tokyo, Japan (AUD 2 DVD/Third Eye)
(4) 1996-02-08 Tokyo, Japan (AUD 2 DVD/Third Eye)
(5) 1996-02-08 Tokyo, Japan (AUD 2 DVD/Third Eye)
(6) 1996-02-08 Tokyo, Japan (AUD 2 DVD/Third Eye)
(7) 1996-02-08 Tokyo, Japan (AUD 2 DVD/Third Eye)
(8) 1996-02-08 Tokyo, Japan (AUD 2 DVD/Third Eye)
(9) 1996-02-08 Tokyo, Japan (AUD 2 DVD/Third Eye)

The band is actually a little sloppy in this show, but not in a bad way.  They do a great job but kind of play with a little less enthusiasm, quieter, with a lot of mistakes, and almost tired looking too.  It is a rare glimpse into these type of actions seldom seem from performers.  The show is not bad and this is not one of those DVD's you would not enjoy.  Not at all.  It's just a flip side to what we normally see and it makes it very interesting I think.

I did not make a single change to the original file set I got this show through.  I checked the md5 checksum file and everything was fine.  Don't be alarmed if you test it and it shows an error and a file tilted "thumbs.db" is not there.  First, you don't want that file in a torrent upload.  And secondly, it's a hidden file anyhow created by Windows that has absolutely no purpose or function in how anything works.  Do a Google search if you want to know more about it.

Since DVD's seldom need much (if any) changes made to them because the file sets stay the same and nothing really gets changed (no embedding track titles, renaming them, etc) unless a DVD set is just poorly organized within a folder, there is no need to make any changes.  And the text file supplied, the original one, is a basic one that tells you what you want to know too.

I got the show uploading last night "as is" and created my own text file today as I was preparing the upload.  So if I ever have to rebuild or re-upload this DVD set, I'll add it to that new upload.  Or, you can just copy and paste the information in my posting into a text file if there is anything additional in it you want.  And then just save it in the folder with the rest of the basic files.

I'll upload a sample video in a little while so you can get a "YouTube quality" idea of how the show looks.  Give me a hour or two so I can get some things I have to do done and then can come back and make a clip of a song and upload it to YouTube.  I'll add it to the bottom of this post under the artwork real soon.  I don't know what YouTube did to the video, its preview aspect ratio, and overall quality?  But it ruined it.  I'm leaving it because I have things to do.  Use it for the music if the video doesn't somehow fix itself is all I can say right now.  Besides this; always view it on YouTube where the video quality is ALWAYS better than the blog site's sample or a site like Facebook's sample would look too.

I hope you enjoy the concert from nineteen years ago tomorrow...

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!!!

Sara BAreilles: 2013-05-09 Vancouver, BC, Canada (FLAC_AUD Master_2 CD)

This is a slightly different kind of Sara Bareilles show than most.  She's playing without a band and she's doing a lot of talking between songs.  Plus, this is a longer show than most of her normal 74 - 78 minute ones too.

This is an excellent recording.  The taper tracked the recording (made splits) at each songs as well as each time she was talking for a little bit.

I'm not really sure what Bareilles was doing in Canada on this tour or even if each show was like this one and without a band.  I know when I saw her on September 27th, 2013, she was wrapping up some other mini tour too with other artists opening before her.  I believe Dallas was the very last show on that leg of the tour and then she took a break and a month or two later started her full tour (which I wish was what I could have seen but I'm happy I saw anything).

LINEAGE:
(1) Lineage: Sony TCD-D100 DAT recorder with Core Sound Binaural microphones > Sony PCM-R300 > Tascam CD-RW700 > CDR >
(2) Mastering: Asus ST Soundcard 24/192 > Soundforge Pro 11 incl. Waves plug ins> TLH FLAC with SBA > shared
(3) Additional: 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

SEATING:
Recorded from the front row balcony on left hand side.

DETAILS:
Artist: Sara Bareilles
Date: May 9th, 2013
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Venue: Rio Theatre
Title: None
Label: DGB (taper)
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Size: 451 MB
Length: 96:14:22

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. introduction
102. Uncharted
103. Bareilles banter
104. Love On The Rocks
105. Benny And The Jets (Elton.John cover)
106. Bareilles banter
107. Love Song
108. Bareilles banter
109. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) (Beyonce cover)
110. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding cover)
111. Bareilles banter
112. Bright Lights And Cityscapes
113. Bareilles banter
114. Let The Rain

CD 2:
201. Bareilles banter
202. I Just Want You
203. Bareilles banter
204. Come Round Soon
205. Bareilles banter
206. Once Upon Another Time
207. Bareilles banter
208. Brave
209. King Of Anything
210. Gravity
211. crowd
212. Part Of That World (Little Mermaid/Disney cover)
213. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John cover)

LINK:
(1) 2013-05-09 Vancouver, B.C. (AUD Master)

I looked up and saw a lot of YouTube videos on this Vancouver performance.  Sara Bareilles was sitting behind a half wall looking like the album release, a landscape of New York City in a large way, and she seemed to be playing the piano most of the time.  I think she played her guitar too on some songs.  But I need to listen to the full show to say for sure because I wasn't thinking about it as I listened earlier.

I'll post a YouTube video as a sample at the end of this post to give you an idea of what this 2 CD set resembles.  It seems very enjoyable and her voice is in fine shape as it always seems to be.  I'd still like to hear her get back to more of her 2007 roots musically.  But I'm not complaining either about most of where she's at now musically neither.  And as I said before, Sara Bareilles in one of my "guilty pleasures" since I am rock ad blues to the bone.  Well, and melody and musical talent loving too I guess :-)

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!!!


SAMPLE: "Gravity"