Led Zeppelin: 1977-05-22 Fort Worth, TX (FLAC_SB Master_3 CD)

A brand new soundboard of the Fort Worth 1977 show just hit the surface yesterday!  We've had audience recordings of the show and parts of the show for years, but now we have the soundboard put out by EVSD.  A huge thanks gores to "Amduscia" for making this one available and for the permission to share it here on my site.

While there is speculation this may actually be a great sounding monitor feed and not the actual master soundboard tapes that were used, either way, it sounds excellent and we've never had it in any soundboard/monitor form before.

LINEAGE:
EVSD silver CD's > EAC > FLAC 8 > me > WAV > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: May 22nd, 1977
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Venue: Tarrant County Convention Center
Source: SB (Master?)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes
Label: EVSD
Title: Texas Hurricane
Size: 980 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. The Song Remains The Same
102. Sick Again
103. Nobody's Fault But Mine
104. In My Time Of Dying
105. Since I've Been Loving You
106. No Quarter

CD 2:
201. Ten Years Gone
202. The Battle Of Evermore
203. Going To California
204. Black Country Woman
205. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
206. White Summer/Black Mountain Side
207. Kashmir

CD 3:
301. Out On The Tiles/Moby Dick
302. Jimmy Page (guitar & violin bow solo)
303. Achilles Last Stand
304. Stairway To Heaven
305. Whole Lotta Love
306. Rock And Roll
307. It'll Be Me (with Mick Ralphs)

LINK:
(1) 1977-05-22 Fort Worth, TX (EVSD SB just surfaced!!!)
(2) 1977-05-22 Fort Worth, TX (EVSD SB just surfaced!!!)

ARTWORK: (Texas Hurricane artwork scans provided by "fishey"!)
Full Artwork Scans (14.7 MB)

There are a few small cuts in the show.  One of the most noticeable to me is the first three to four minutes of "No Quarter" being gone.  The song sounds as if it plays for at least 15 minutes before Robert Plant sings.  It seem this part of the show doesn't exist.  Another very obvious cut is the one in "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" as it lyrically gets started and then stops with just crowd cheering a little over a minute into the song.  Still, even with a few missing pieces, why in the world would anyone complain?

This is an excellent sounding show and a lot of the well versed audiophiles have commented on how much better of a job EVSD did on this show than they've done on many they've over amplified and/or EQ'ed in past years.  I listened to the whole show yesterday and it has some very nice things you don't hear often enough in it.  For instance, the drums are very up front as are the backing vocals by band members.  John Paul Jones' bass is a little too heavy (for cranking up real loud) at times but that can usually be adjusted.  It still sounds great and I want to have a second listen to it to give a better review of my own.

One thing of interest to us collectors over the years in the audience version of this show is the last track, "It'll Be Me", which has Bad Company's Mick Raplhs come out on stage and play guitar with the band for this song only played this one time.  To me, this track doesn't sound quiet as clean and clear as the rest of the songs.  But it still is better sounding than what has been available.  And again, I need a second listen to see if I still think this is the case.  I was getting tired and starting to nod off as I was trying to finish listening last night and I need to be sure I'm not to blame for the difference in sound (ha ha).

EVSD is releasing the show in one of two different 3 CD sets or a 6 CD set which included the soundboard recording as well as a 3 CD audience recording.  I have to admit, I'm curious which audience recording they're using and how complete it is too?  The photos used on the artwork for the show are from the actual Fort Worth 1977 gig.  However, EVSD has a few typos as they often do on the artwork too including one song added on one set of artwork being completely wrong and Fort Worth being spelled as "FFort Worth" on the cover art.  But I doubt many people are getting the show for its artwork!

It's great to get a new Led Zeppelin soundboard anytime at all.  But I had no idea this one was even on the horizon or that a Fort Worth soundboard existed from 1977.  Kind of makes me wonder what other soundboards are out there awaiting the EVSD decision to put them into circulation?

I hope you enjoy the concert...

Bootradr

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Robert Plant: 1985-09-08 London, England + Bonus Material (FLAC_SB_2 CD)

Here's an excellent sounding Plant show from a period of when I really wasn't listening to his music in the day.  It's a little different today and is has more of a nostalgic flashback effect today.  This 1985 tour showcased music from Plant's Shaken "N" Stirred LP released in 1985.  It was a little too "modern" and "dance like" musically for my taste at the time.  Oh yea!  I still own a cassette tape of it somewhere from those days and likely a CD too from later resell bins.  But they were not listened to a lot and are practically brand new too.

As I was listening to this 2 CD show yesterday, as I was trying get it uploaded on its 29th anniversary but failed to, I have to say that it was enjoyable and entertaining.  And it even had some rockin' guitar in it too.  Plant sounds great vocally.  It's definitely not Led Zeppelin and it really isn't very Robert Plant either.  And that makes it pretty unique musically because he didn't stick with singing this kind of music for long either.

LINEAGE:
Wardour silver CD's > EAC (Secure Mode/Read Offset Corrected) > WAV > xACT FLAC Level 8 (Tested) EAC logs included  > me > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to embed metadata/song info into tracks and re-encode as FLAC) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to check for any SBE's and to create new md5 & ffp files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Robert Plant
Date: September 8th, 1985
Location: Birmingham, England
Venue: NEC
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (full artwork in download)
Label: Wardour
Title: Mood For A Melody
Size: 704 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. In The Mood
102. Pledge Pin
103. Pink And Black
104. Little By Little
105. Burning Down One Side
106. Too Loud
107. Thru With The Two Step

CD 2:
201. Messin' With The Mekon
202. band member introductions
203. Slow Dancer
204. Rockin' At Midnight (OFFICIALLY RELEASED/NOT ADDED TO UPLOAD)
205. Young Boy Blues

Bonus Tracks: (from 1983:12-07 Ipswitch, UK @ Gaumont Show)
206. Burning Down One Side
207. Big Log
208. All Your Love
209. Stranger Here...Than Over There

LINK:
(1) 1985-09-08 Birmingham, UK (SB)
 
As I was looking at the waveform yesterday, I noticed there is some audio clipping especially on CD 2.  I'm not sure it will even be noticeable to most people's hearing and the show still sounds excellent.  I tried making a copy using Audacity's Compressor effect but it didn't really help and it didn't sound right to me.  So I left it as is.  Had I not mentioned it here, chances are nobody would have ever even known this unless they looked at the waveform.

I have to admit that I did enjoy hearing this show yesterday.  Again, partially based on the nostalgic effect I'm sure :-)  But it was a great listen and it's a great recording to grab if for nothing other than making a collection more complete for this point and time in 'the history of Led Zeppelin' (and its members).

I hope you enjoy the concert...

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: 1970-09-06 Honolulu, HI (FLAC_AUD_1 CD)

It was forty-four years ago today that this show happened in Hawaii.  This one has been around on LP, cassette, and CD for a long time and there are (like many other Zeppelin shows) a lot of different mixes, versions, and copies of it floating around.  I narrowed down the top three that sound the best to my ears and I'm uploading one of them now.

I don't have the time today to do the extras like embedding the song titles into the FLAC files.  But the version I have picked here, for the most part anyhow, has a lot of things I like to include already done.  So this is an "as is" upload.  I did add "Bootradr's info" to the files too and that is a copy of this website's information.

LINEAGE:
Red Hot "The Box Of Tricks" > trader CD-R > EAC (Secure Mode, Accurate Stream, No Disable Cache) > WAV > remaster > Flac Frontend  Level.8, Align On Sector Boundaries > FLAC > me > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: September 6th, 1970
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Venue: Honolulu International Center
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes (full high resolution artwork in download)
Label: A Personal/Group Project
Title: Book 'Em Danno!
Size: 404 MB

SETLIST:
01. introduction
02. Immigrant Song
03. Dazed And Confused
04. Heartbreaker
05. Since I've Been Loving You
06. What Is And What Should Never Be
07. Moby Dick
08. Whole Lotta Love
09. announcer
10. Communication Breakdown
11. closing announcements

LINK:
(1) 1970-09-06 Honolulu, HI (A Group Project)
 
I'm in such a big hurry right now that this is all I'm adding.  The video mentioned in the text file was not in the upload, but I do have the video myself.  While I despise lossy video, there was a 51.7 MB MPEG version of the video I'll leave in this upload.  It originally was in another copy of this show I got, but the lossless version is something I can upload at a later date.  And as we all know, there is not a full video of the show that has ever surfaced.  But we're keeping our fingers crossed it will!

I hope you enjoy the concert...

Bootradr

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SAMPLE OF SHOW IN LOSSY A VIDEO - THIS IS NOT THE SOURCE OF THIS UPLOADED AUDIO

Led Zeppelin: 1970-09-04 Inglewood, CA (DVD-A_AUD_LPCM_1 DVD)

It can be really difficult deciding which source, label, or flat out sound is the best on shows sometimes.  That is the case with this show here.  In celebration of the 44th anniversary of this show today, I am uploading another superb recording of the concert.  I uploaded one of my favorite (if not my favorite) recording of this show last year and it was titled A Sweeter Blueberry.  But this Genuine Masters DVD-A of the show is right up there with last year's copy I uploaded.  The big difference here is this is a DVD-A.  And of course that means it has a higher and better audio bitrate.  This is an LPCM audio DVD-A and it is excellent sounding and has very nice slide show graphics throughout the concert!

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: September 4th, 1970
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: The Forum
Format: DVD-A
DVD's: 1
Artwork:Yes
Label: Genuine Masters
Title: Live On Blueberry Hill
Size: 4.01 GB

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Source: AUD (will update on website)

VIDEO:
Format: NTSC
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 4000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

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

SETLIST:
01. band introduction
02. Immigrant Song
03. Heartbreaker
04. Dazed And Confused
05. Bring It On Home
06. That's The Way
07. Bron-Yr-Aur
08. Since I've Been Loving You
09. organ solo (Thank You intro)
10. Thank You
11. What Is And What Should Never Be
12. Moby Dick
13. Whole Lotta Love
14. Communication Breakdown
15. Out On The Tiles
16. Blueberry Hill

LINKS:
(1) 1970-09-04 Inglewood, CA (GM DVD-A)
(2) 1970-09-04 Inglewood, CA (GM DVD-A)
(3) 1970-09-04 Inglewood, CA (GM DVD-A)

I'm jamming out on this show as I prepare this upload right now.  It really is amazing that fans in the audience were able to record such and excellent sounding audio and that it has lasted this many years and is still being shared today.  There are a few sources in the show that are used.  And I am including the original text file in this upload too because it has a few reviews and information too from Underground Uprising that have been posted.

Since it's getting late in the day and I want to get this uploaded fast, I'm wrapping up this post.  I'll close by saying this is a must have Led Zeppelin show for any real fans!  Genuine Masters is known for their quality too.  I still think A Sweeter Blueberry is likely the very best sounding release of this show.  But you won't be disappointed one bit if you download either of the two copies (out of many more) I've uploaded here so far.

Enjoy the show and take a stroll down memory lane back to 44 years ago tonight...

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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Ozzy Osbourne: 1981-07-28 Montreal, Quebec, Canada (FLAC_SB_1 CD)

This is an excellent sounding Randy Rhodes era recording of an Ozzy Osbourne show from Montreal in 1981.  I'm not sure, but I do not think this is a complete show.  Unless Ozzy was the opening act, and I doubt he was, this is too short of a concert to be complete.

I also do not know if the low resolution artwork titled "All Aboard" is truly the correct artwork for this specific recording of the show.  The person sharing this show a long time back claims in their lineage they ripped a CD-R of the show, and even though they do not mention the artwork they included, I believe the artwork was an afterthought.  The artwork shows nine tracks and this upload has eleven, it has the song "Mr. Crowley" which is wrong and is actually "Suicide Solution", and it also has the wrong date for the show.  While the artwork shows 1981-07-31 as the date, the real date was 1981-07-28.  And I've got two venues for this show too.  One venue is reported to be St. Denis Theater while the other, and likely correct venue, is listed as the Montreal Forum.

LINEAGE:
CD-R > EAC > WAV > FLAC > me > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to embed metadata/track info into files and re-encode as FLAC) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to check for SBE's and to create and verify md5 & ffp files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Ozzy Osbourne
Date: July 28th, 1981
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Venue: Montreal Forum (also listed as St. Denis Theater which is likely wrong)
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes (low resolution with a lot of bad, incorrect info)
Label: Metal Memory
Title: All Aboard
Size: 312 MB

SETLIST:
01. Flying High Again
02. I Don't Know
03. Crazy Train
04. Believer
05. Suicide Solution
06. Randy Rhodes (guitar solo)
07. Suicide Solution (ending)
08. Revelation (Mother Earth)
09. Steal Away The Night
10. drum solo
11. Paranoid

LINK:
(1) 1981-07-28 Montreal SB

Unfortunately, the final product here is a sloppy package even though the music (the important part) sounds excellent.  The uploader was even very sloppy with their text file, the artwork they used, their lack of explanations in many areas, and just their overall finished project they shared.

It's too bad the whole show isn't here because it is a really nice soundboard.  There are a few crackles and pops (I don't believe this was an LP album however) I noticed.  These may have been caused in the transfer the original sharer shared?  But the audio file's integrity is good and there are no SBE's.  I'd originally thought the audio was going to be clipped because it is loud.  But it wasn't when I looked at the waveform and it really looked nice.  This is definitely one of the best Ozzy and Randy Rhodes era CD's I've heard in regards to audio quality!

I hope you enjoy the concert...

Bootradr

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Whitesnake: 1983-02-22 Tokyo, Japan (FLAC_SB/Monitor Mix_2 CD)

This is an excellent sounding recording of the Whitesnake show in Tokyo on February 22, 1983.  This is a recording of the monitor mix and was recorded for or by a band member.  I've had this for some time and I figured some of you out there might enjoy it.

LINEAGE:
Langley silvers CD's > WAV > FLAC > me > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to embed metadata/track info into files and re-encode as FLAC) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to check for SBE's and to create and verify md5 & ffp files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Whitesnake
Date: February 22nd, 1983
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Budokan Hall
Source: SB (monitor mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Label: Langley
Title: Budokan 1983 Monitor Mix Definitive Edition
Size: 517 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues
102. Rough An' Ready
103. Ready An' Willing
104. Don't Break My Heart Again
105. Here I Go Again
106. Love Hunter
107. Micky Moody (slide guitar solo) & Colin Hodgkinson (bass solo)
108. Love Hunter (Return)
109. Crying In The Rain

CD 2:
201. Jon Lord (keyboard solo)
202. Cozy Powell (drums solo feat. "633 Squadron" & "1812 Overture")
203. Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
204. Fool For Your Loving
205. Wine, Women An' Song
206. We Wish You Well

LINK:
(1) 1983-02-22 Tokyo (Cozy Powell's Monitor Mix)

The recording is reportedly from Cozy Powell's cassette tape of the show.  Cozy, the drummer, must have let his copy be copied or somehow let it get out.  Who knows for sure?  I'm sure there is a story there but I'm not sure what it may be.

This is a clean Whitesnake recording and if you are a fan of their music you'll like this recording.  I did notice the audio has clipping all throughout it.  It was very obvious looking at the waveform.  Still, it doesn't crackle or pop or seem to cause any real distortion I can hear.

I hope you enjoy the concert...

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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Scorpions: 1991-11-14 Rotterdam, Holland, The Netherlands (FLAC_SB_1 CD)

This is an excellent sounding Scorpions show from early 1991 out of The Netherlands.  I've yet to listen to the whole show myself, but I am going to today.  From what I've sampled, it sounds really great and I'm wondering if it might have been an FM broadcast at some point.  All the information I have claims it is a soundboard.  So until I prove differently (if that's even possible) I'll call it a soundboard too.

LINEAGE:
PLR silver CD > unknown > me > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to embed metadata/track info into files and re-encode as FLAC) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to create and verify new md5 & ffp files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Scorpions
Date: January 14th, 1991
Location: Rotterdam, Holland, The Netherlands
Venue: Ahoy Stadium
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Label: PLR
Title: The Zoo
Size: 470 MB

SETLIST:
01. Tease Me, Please Me
02. Lust And Love
03. Bad Boys Running Wild
05. The Zoo
06. Wind Of Change
07. I Can't Explain
08. Rhythm Of Love
09. Crazy World
10. Can't Live Without You
11. Blackout
12. Hit Between The Eyes
13. Big City Nights
14. Still Loving You
15. Rock You Like A Hurricane

LINK:
(1) 1991-01-14 Rotterdam (SB)

Thanks goes to "wolfsbane" for the sharing of this show.  He's obviously a big Scorpions fan with the number of show's he has shared in recent years.

I haven't seen the Scorpions play since 1988 I believe.  But I'd love to see them again.  Hard to believe it has almost been 26 years since I've seen them, but it has.

I hope you enjoy the concert...

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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