Led Zeppelin: 1975-02-12 New York, NY (FLAC_SB_Godfather_3 CD)

This is by far one of the best sounding Led Zeppelin soundboards to ever surface.  This recording is a perfect, studio quality recording of Led Zeppelin's complete concert at Madison Square Gardens on February 12, 1975.

This show originally surfaced in mid-to-late 2010 and was an excellent sounding performance of the start of their 1975 American tour.  It was incredible sounding.  However, this newer copy, remastered by Godfather Records, is has been studio remastered and is cleaner.  It reportedly was remastered in a studio and is a definite upgrade to the earlier (already outstanding) versions other boot labels released.  This one is as good as it gets sound-wise and couldn't sound any better if Led Zeppelin was to have ever released the concert themselves.

As always, this is not in any way an official release or copyrighted production.  It has never been nor will it probably ever be officially released.  But if it ever is, I'll pull it from my site and go buy a copy of the official release!  It surely wouldn't sound any better, but hey, it would be officially released then.

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: February 12th, 1975
Location: New York, New York
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD: 3
Artwork: Yes
Label: Godfather Records
Title: That's Alright New York
Size: 947 MB
Quality: A+

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Rock And Roll
102. Sick Again
103. Over The Hills And Far Away
104. In M y Time Of Dying
105. The Song Remains The Same
106. The Rain Song
107. Kashmir

CD 2:
201. No Quarter
202. Trampled Underfoot
203. Moby Dick

CD 3:
301. Dazed And Confused
302. Stairway To Heaven
303. Whole Lotta Love
304. Black Dog
305. Heartbreaker (including "That's Alright Mama")

NOTE: For some reason, I completely forgot to create an md5 checksum file.  No worries though.  It has absolutely no effect on the download. the audio, or the integrity of the files.  It is only added so those who choose to can check the integrity of the files and be sure nothing has been changed and all files are intact.  It's just a checksum file and plays no part in being able to listen to or burn the show to disc.  If I ever need to re-upload the files again, I'll remember to create an md5 file in the next upload.

2013-03-29 UPDATE:  I also named the zipped files using the wrong date of "...750214..." (1975-02-14).  I'll fix all of these non essential errors once I finish uploading the rest of my files.

LINKS:
(1) 1975-02-12 New York, NY (SB/Godfather)
(2) 1975-02-12 New York, NY (SB/Godfather)

Hopefully, and in the not too distant future, more of these superb sounding Led Zeppelin shows will  find their way to the surface.  That's how it has been all along and I hope the train keeps on rollin'!  While there are plenty of excellent sounding Led Zeppelin shows already out there, as a collector, I'm always looking for a new one to surface.  And since 2010, a number of these 1975 soundboard shows have been surfacing.

I know you'll enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Today in Music History: October 2nd, XXXX

I was just looking at this video I'm posting earlier today.  It is still unedited and on analog transferred DVD-RWs and the master Mini-DV tapes (for a future digital transfer when I can scrounge up what I need to do it).

Earlier today, as I was looking at one of the videos below, I was thinking "how long ago did I film this show"?  The answer was right in front of my eyes.  Tonight, it is two years ago today...and therefore, we have a today in history posting :-)

Since I've been busy with other things lately and haven't been able to do much uploading, I thought it was time for a "Today in Music History" post to show some activity.  It shouldn't be too long before I can start putting more shows up.

Also, from my boot vaults, and of course today in music history, (1) Led Zeppelin performed at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan (1972) and (2) Evanescence played their Rock in Rio show in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on the tour for their new, self titled album "Evanescence" (2011).  And last, but not least, (3) I saw and video taped (and digital audio recorded with two sources) Sara Bareilles two years ago today at the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas, TX (2010).

Even though I haven't begun to create a DVD project yet with my Sara Bareilles video and audio, I did upload two sets of a compilation of a few songs from the show that I made for my YouTube channel (Bootradr).

When the DVD project of Sara's show is complete, it won't have any of these edits (transitional effects between songs and title's at the bottom of the screen).  I don't believe in cluttering up full length productions like that.  It's bad enough crunching the quality down to make them "web friendly" for viewing :-)

So, I hope you enjoy the previews (7 songs) from a future DVD to come (no telling when).  It's late and I'm going to bed now...

Bootradr

Journey: 2012-09-25 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

Here's a great sounding show from Journey's Ontario show a few nights ago.  I'm leaving this upload intact.  I'm not needing to rename (or name) songs, create and md5 checksum file, etc because it has already been done by the uploader.  Thanks to "pmusic" for this mini disc digital transfer of the show they recorded.

DETAILS:
Band: Journey
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Venue: Copps Coliseum
Date: September 25th, 2012
Label: PM056
Title: Canadian Eclipse 2012
Artwork: No
CDs: 2
Type: AUD
Format: FLAC
Size:  572 MB

LINEAGE:
Core Sounds Binurals w/batter pack (filter off) > Sony MZ-R90 MiniDisc > Sony MDS-JE640-Optical > Sound Blaster Live > Adobe Audition > WAV > dB Amp Conversion >FLAC

SETLIST:  
01. Faith In The Heartland
02. Anyway You Want It
03. Ask The Lonely
04. Only The Young
05. Never Walk Away
06. Anytime
07. Faithfully
08. guitar segway (Oh Canada)
09. Stone In Love
10. Lights
11. Wheel In The Sky
12. Escape
13. La Do Da
14. keyboard segway
15. Open Arms
16. Be Good To Yourself
17. Don't Stop Believin'
18. Separate Ways
19. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

Hotfire Links:
Part 1 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200158421/7050820/
Part 2 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200158661/f47bba8/

FileFactory:
Part 1 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/2ih1ye7q693t/
Part 2 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/164bl9a0uyvj/

Dime Torrent - http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=422098
NOTE: A Dime member created a torrent of this show and posted it.  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 0.025% or higher so as to not get banned.  It's a much faster download almost always!  Now, back to the original blog post.

This is only the fourth Journey show I've seen surface this tour.  I'm sure there are more recordings of other shows out there, but now that I think about it, I haven't even uploaded mine from a month ago earlier :-)  So I'm to blame too!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 2007-12-10 London, England (15+ Source AUD Shot DL DVD)

Here is an excellent audience shot, double layer DVD project from a source I do not know.  I got this about two years ago and it surpasses all other videos of this concert I have ever seen/got.  The DVD builder used Adobe Premiere to build this project too, and he put a lot of time (a few years) into doing it.  It was worth the wait.  This is the full show! It's all audience recorded video of the concert.

Just a quick note here...this is a double layer (DL) DVD project.  This is how I like to do my projects so as to not compress the video/audio in the final, finished production.  I will do this, or sometimes, make the project a 2 DVD production.  In order to burn this to a DVD-R, be sure to use a DL DVD-/+R disc.  It can be compressed with many programs and rendered to fit onto one DVD -R.  But why do this and lose any quality?  I wouldn't.

There is news of this concert being officially released on DVD and CD on November 19, 2012!!! It is a done deal.  Trailers can be seen on YouTube everywhere.  So if you haven't seen this show, here's your chance to see another, great version of it early.  I guarantee you it will make you want to buy the Swan Song label, official version for sure.  The official release looks like it's going to be excellent; but more on that later.

SHOW DETAILS:
Location: London, England
Venue: O2 Arena
Date: December 10th, 2007
Label: ZEPMANIA Productions
Title: A Work In Progress
Artwork: Yes (both DVD & CD case artwork)

NOTE 1: I left the original uploader's text/description file intact
NOTE 2: I'll update some of the DVD attributes on the blog page once I can analyze it on another PC with software I do not have on this one.

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Resolution: 720 X 480
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Video Bitrate: 7500 Mbps Average
Audio Streams: 2 (#1 - AC3 audio) & (#2 - LPCM audio)
Audio Channels: 6
Audio Codec: AC3 Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround & LPCM (48 kHz/16 bit)
Audio Bitrate: 448 kbps (Dolby Digital 5.1 stream)/1536 kbps (LPCM stream)
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Length: 2 hours, 8 minutes, 11 seconds
DVD's: 1 DL DVD (DVD-9)
DVD Size:6.84 GB

SETLIST:
01. Good Times Bad Times
02. Ramble On
03. Black Dog
04. In My Time Of Dying
05. For Your Life
06. Tramples Underfoot
07. Nobody's Fault But Mine
08. No Quarter
09. Since I've Been Living You
10. Dazed And Confused
11. Stairway To Heaven
12. The Song Remains The Same
13. Misty Mountain Hop
14. Kashmir
15. Whole Lotta Love
16. Rock And Roll

FileFactory Links:
Part 01 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/45q1byld22gl/
Part 02 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/6413yz2hu2jx/
Part 03 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/4ch1b9kui239/
Part 04 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/2eogz1m2ehv3/
Part 05 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/50rb9qrq3a39/
Part 06 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/417yyuvgv82d/
Part 07 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/7le11d8k1pbj/
Part 08 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/1yfw9swy2gzx/
Part 09 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/70bcnzt60h1/
Part 10 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/11vp2ydkw9zd/ - new link
Part 11 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/8sa663407j5/
Part 12 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/15zy81ofy2n9/
Part 13 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/1b14oztzq1wh/
Part 14 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/3zzmtjyesr1t/

Enjoy the show...it's a good one...

Bootradr

Def Leppard: 2012-09-03 Dallas, TX (Bootradr Master AUD_2 CD)

Here's my Zoom H2 recording from the 2012 Dallas Lita Ford, Poison, and Def Leppard concert at the American Airlines Center.

The concerts were all very good shows.  However, the venues security/employees were not bootlegger friendly.  I was also video recording the concerts when, during Lita Ford's "Close My Eyes Forever", I had to close my lens for the rest of the show.  Unfortunately, she was the first act.  So other than my friend's mp4 regular digital camera video (actually looks and sounds darn good) of parts of a few songs and one or two full songs, I have no video of Def Leppard.  I was stopped three times from recording audio/video of the show and was being watched like a hawk by the venue security.  I realize now, we were most likely right next to their command post.

The tickets to this show were sent to me by a fellow bootlegger in Chicago to record Def Leppard.  He spent a lot of money to get really great seats, not just for me, but for my friend who drove me too (I'm legally blind and can no longer drive).  So I was not going to let the AA Center deter me from getting the Def Leppard show for him at least.  I went to the restroom after the Poison show, figured out a way to use the Zoom H2's recorder from the pouch on the side of my camera bag, and did the best I could.  I did some amplifying and EQ work and I am actually very happy with the sounds outcome.  You seldom hear any audience except between songs, and even then, it is not bad at all.

DETAILS:
Artist: Def Leppard
Date: September 3rd, 2012
Location: Dallas, Texas
Venue: American Airlines Center
Source: AUD Master
Format: FLAC
CDs: 2
Artwork: No (some show photos included, please feel free to create and share artwork)
Label: Bootradr Master
Title: Am I Getting It? (in reference to the audio being captured...a play off of "Armageddon It")
Size: 739 MB

LINEAGE:
Hidden Zoom H2 recorder @ 48 kHz/24 bit WAV > 16 GB SD card > PC > AVS Audio Editor to convert to 44.1 kHz/16 bit audio and amplify  > Media Creator Pro 2010 for tracking, for fade in/out, for EQ work and converting to FLAC > Trader's Little Helper for md5, ffp, and torrent creations and verifications > you

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Undefeated
102. Rocket
103. Let It Go
104. Foolin'
105. Make Love Like A Man
106. Animal
107. Love Bites
108. Let's Get Rocked
109. Gods Of War
110. acoustic medley (including a Rolling Stones song and a few Def Leppard songs)
111. Women

CD 2:
201. Bringin' On The Heartbreak
202. Switch 625
203. Hysteria
204. Armageddon It
205. Photograph
206. Pour Some Sugar On Me
207. crowd/encore
208. return to stage/remembering the years talk
209. Rock Of Ages

Hotfile Links:
Part 1 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200238015/239e369/
Part 2 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200238673/c3ce8c0/

FileFactory Mirror Links:
Part 1 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/5lbzyawwje3z/
Part 2 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/77ffsaws0oeb/

Dime Torrent - http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=420351&edited=1
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.

Overall; it was a great night and the performances were even better than I expected them to be (not that I expected anything bad).  Our location and/or the AA Canter area we were in had superb sound.  My friend, digitaljourney, used his iPhone and measured the decibel levels at 106 db :-)  But it was a clean and clear 106 db, and other than being left alone to film and record everything, everything else went great.

A special THANK YOU to the fellow bootlegger who'll remain anonymous until/unless I get their consent to post their name!!!

For all others, and as always, enjoy the show..

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD_EVSD BD-R > DVD Rip)

This is by far the best version of this show to date (with the exception of the Blu-Ray Recordable, or BD-R, version it was sourced from).  This is one of the two known professionally shot Led Zeppelin 1975 shows.  There are likely others in the Zeppelin vaults, but as to wheter or not they'll ever see the light of day, that is unknown.  The second known professionally shot show is from the night after this one.  The 1975-05-25 show is an excellent show too and was Led Zeppelin's final night, back home in England, on their 1975 tour.show

I've had so many versions of this show since the VHS days that I cannot remember them all.  I started out with VHS videos of this show that were full of issues ranging from tracking, very high generation copies (bad quality), to sound issues.  And I enjoyed watching them still back then because it was what was available in those days,  But with the advent of high speed internet, and its substantial growth in the last 6 - 7 years, better versions of this 1975-05-24 (and the next night) show have been surfacing.  And this is a great one.

2012-10-28 SPECIAL NOTE: I got the "official" (not officially released) EVSD Blu-Ray silver DVD of this show today at the Austin Record Convention!  As happy as I was/am about that, unfortunately; it has some sort of forced formatting to the 4:3 aspect ratio and cannot be stretched even when using that setting on my Blu-Ray player :-(  It has no special audio encoding (like 5.1 Dolby Digital) and is just 2.0 Dolby Digital too.  It is a great picture though, but I'd have been perfectly happy with this Blu-Ray rip I'm uploading too!

SHOW DETAILS:
Location: London, England
Venue: Earl's Court
Date: May 24th, 1975
Label: Empress Valley Supreme Disc (EVSD)
Title: In The Court Of King James
Artwork: Yes
Note: I left the original uploader's text/description file intact

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Resolution: 720 X 480
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Video Bitrate: 3843 kbps average (lower than I like, but great quality nevertheless)
Audio Streams: 1
Audio Codec: LPCM
Audio Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Audio Bitrate: 1536 kbps
Audio Channels: 2 (stereo)
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Length: 3 hours, 40 minutes (approximately)
DVDs: 2
DVD Size: 8.69 GB (both DVDs combined)

SETLIST:
DVD 1:
01. concert introduction By Nicky Horne
02. Rock And Roll
03. Sick Again
04. Over The Hills And Far Away
05. In My Time Of Dying
06. The Song Remains The Same
07. The Rain Song
08. Kashmir
09. No Quarter
10. Tangerine
11. Going To California
12. That's The Way
13. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp

DVD 2:
01. Trampled Underfoot
02 .Moby Dick
03. Dazed And Confused
04. Stairway To Heaven
05. Whole Lotta Love / The Crunge
06. Black Dog

LINKS:
Part 1 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 2 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 3 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 4 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 5 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 6 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 7 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 8 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)
Part 9 - 1975-05-24 London, England (Pro Shot 2 DVD)

This is a great show that portrays Led Zeppelin performing about half way through the band's lifespan (1968 - 1980...excluding their reunion show in 2007 of course).  And this is the last tour during the 1968 - 1980 lifespan, while drummer John Bonham was still alive, where they played the song "Dazed And Confused".  What a shame.  Unlike the officially released video, "The Song Remains The Same", of the compilations of their July 27th, 28th, and 29th 1973 concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden; this concert is 100% complete.  And there are no breaks between songs where they show other things like the NYPD officer refusing to be interviewed, the band backstage talking, etc either like in the officially released "The Song Remains The Same" DVD.  I'm not criticizing the DVD and highly recommend buying "The Song Remains The Same".  I wholeheartedly believe in supporting the artists I like by purchasing their officially released material.  But I also love seeing an uncut concert all the way through like it's meant to be seen too :-)

The next night's show/video, which I'll upload soon, was the last time they played "Dazed And Confused" until their 2007-12-10 London, England reunion show.  And the 2007 reunion show (only one show) was pretty much their farewell show it sounds like.  I'll upload that one too in the future.  Maybe on December 10th if not before then :-)

Anyhow, this show being put up now is a great way to see Led Zeppelin in full force.  Hopefully, one day not too far off, they'll actually release this show officially.  I'd be happy to yank it from my site because it was released!!!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Lita Ford: 2012-09-03 Dallas, TX (FLAC_Bootradr Master AUD 44/16_1 CD)

Here's my Zoom H4n recording from last night's Lita Ford, Poison, and Def Leppard concert at the American Airlines Center.

The concerts were all very good shows.  However, the venues security/employees were not bootlegger friendly.  I was also video recording this show when, during "Close My Eyes Forever", I had to close my lens for the rest of the show.

The story goes on, but I'm tired of thinking about it.  I had three attempts by the venue to stop me.  The first one I just mentioned.  But they didn't see the two digital recorders; one attached to the bottom of the camcorder.  And then I had a second visit before the Poison show startted.  That guy told me I couldn't record with my Zoom H4n digital recorder, but he didn't notice the Zoom H2 recorder hanging around my neck.  And as if that wasn't enough, then came the "you can't record with that" (the Zoom H2) about 5 minutes later.  So I never got to record the second act.  The ironic thing is this.  I downloaded the Poison show I couldn't record (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=419172 if you want it) another bootlegger recorded and uploaded to Dime this morning :-)

The tickets to this show were sent to me by a fellow bootlegger in Chicago to record Def Leppard.  He spent a lot of money to get really great seats, not just for me, but for my friend who drove me too (I'm legally blind and can no longer drive).  So I was not going to let the AA Center deter me from getting the Def Leppard show for him at least.  I went to the restroom after the Poison show, figured out a way to use the Zoom H2's recorder from the pouch on the side of my camera bag, and did the best I could.  Overall, and with a little EQ work, I think the recording will come out nice.  It was due to the great seats that this was even a possibility too.

I didn't have a chance at filming the rest of the concert because the staff was watching me like vultures.  I've recorded a lot of shows through the years and have had only one other time I had this much of an issue doing so.  I've been told to "stop recording", "you can't do this or that", etc. a number of times.  But give them 30 seconds and they fade away and never come back.  But this definitely wasn't the case last night.

DETAILS:
Artist: Lita Ford
Date: September 3rd, 2012
Location: Dallas, Texas
Venue: American Airlines Center
Source: AUD Master
Format: FLAC
CDs: 1
Artwork: No
Label: Bootradr Master
Title: Close Your Lens Forever
Size: 184 MB

LINEAGE:
Zoom H4n recorder @ 96 kHz/24 bit WAV > 16 GB SD card > PC > AVS Audio Editor to convert to 44.1 kHz/16 bit audio and switch audio channels (recorder was upside down attached to camera) > Media Creator Pro 2010 for tracking, for fade in/out, and converting to FLAC > Trader's Little Helper for md5, ffp, and torrent creations and verifications > you

SETLIST:
01. The Bitch Is Back
02. Hungry
03. Relentless
04. Living Like A Runaway
05. Close My Eyes Forever
06. Kiss Me Deadly

Hotfile Link:
https://hotfile.com/dl/200412181/1f8bf0a/

FileFactory Mirror Link:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/7elsymnf77kn/

Dime Torrent - http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=419209&viewcomm=5561771#comm5561771
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.

Overall; it was a great night and the performances were even better than I expected them to be (not that I expected anything bad).  Our location and/or the venue had superb sound.  My friend who also went used his iPhone and measure the decibel levels at 106 db :-)  But it was a clean and clear 106 db, and other than being left alone to film and record everything, everything went great.

A special THANK YOU to the fellow bootlegger who'll remain anonymous until/unless I get their consent to post their name!!!  I'm sorry I couldn't get the Def Leppard show video recorded (actually there are a few songs that are great my friend got with his iPhone...surprised me how clear and clean it is) for you, but there will be other Def Leppard shows and I will get one for you.  And I did get the whole concert audio recorded too :-)  Just let me work on getting the best sound out of it and I'll get it to you.

For all others, and as always, enjoy the show..

Bootradr