Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog

This is the place for free live concerts and rare audio/video recordings. All posts are NOT officially released material. Nothing is for sale and everything is for free downloading & sharing only. My favorites are Led Zeppelin, Journey, and Feist. But you will find so much more too as this blog progresses because I love music! This site will primarily be a FLAC audio and DVD sharing site with a few rare exceptions. Thank you, and enjoy the show... Bootradr

Friday, August 7, 2015

Page & Plant: 1996-02-17 Nagoya, Japan (DVD_AUD Shot With SB LPCM Audio_1 DVD)

This is the 2006 remaster of the 1996-02-17 Nagoya, Japan Jimmy Page and Robert Plant concert. However, this Third Eye Remaster is a little different than most others. The video is audience a handheld shot of the screen in the venue but the audio used is soundboard LPCM audio synchronized to the video. It's a nice sounding production for sure.

I'm uploading this at the request of a fellow collector who asked for some specific 1996 and 1998 Page and Plant DVD's over on the BBBB Facebook page. So there will be more DVD's to follow in the upcoming weeks from this period of Page and Plant performances.

LINEAGE:
DVD-R > PC > me > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Page & Plant
Date: February 17th, 1996
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Venue: Century Hall
Label: Third Eye Remaster (2006)
Title: Nagoya, Japan 2/17/96

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes
DVD's: 2
DVD Size: 4.30 GB

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

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

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
01. intro
02. Heartbreaker
03. Bring It On Home
04. Custard Pie
05. Ramble On
06. Tangerine
07. Thank You
08. hurdy gurdy (instrument solo)
09. Gallows Pole
10. The Rain Song
11. The Song Remains The Same
12. Tea For One
13. Dancing Days
14. Egyptian Pharaohs intro
15. In The Evening
16. Four Sticks
17. Kashmir
18. Celebration Day
19. Black Dog
20. Rock And Roll

LINKS:
(1) 1996-02-17 Nagoya (AUD Shot Master/Third Eye Remaster)
(2) 1996-02-17 Nagoya (AUD Shot Master/Third Eye Remaster)
(3) 1996-02-17 Nagoya (AUD Shot Master/Third Eye Remaster)
(4) 1996-02-17 Nagoya (AUD Shot Master/Third Eye Remaster)
(5) 1996-02-17 Nagoya (AUD Shot Master/Third Eye Remaster)

Since I have had a little difficulty getting back into the swing of daily uploads, and since the actual write up is one of the things in preparing each post that takes some time, I'll likely keep uploading the DVD video uploads "as is" in order to save time. In other words, as long as the file set is already in order and contains a decent information file explaining things, rather than taking the extra time to wait until I do my write up I will just upload the file set the way I have it stored and that way I can let if upload while I'm doing other things preparing the upload or even overnight while I sleep so it will be ready after I get my post made and save some time.

There is something confusing and weird as the DVD starts playing. It says Page and Plant Osaka and not Nagoya like it the show actually is. I don't know if this is a Third Eye oversight or just why this occurs. But it is Nagoya in the video.

The first 3 minutes, 16 seconds played in the video may make you think you're watching a DVD-A because there is no video and the screen just shows the Jimmy Page Zoso emblem with the the Robert Plant leaf under it. But I guess it is this way because there is no video for the very beginning of the show possibly? And the video starts off not too professional looking and the taper is filming both the band on stage and then the projection screen and the video is all over the place for a while. It's shaky and not on target. It is obviously a handheld video and not a tripod shot video like at least one of the other Page and Plant Tokyo 1996 shows earlier in the tour was. The corners of the video screen can be seen and the video is a lighter, faded tone when the screen is what is being used to film from. The whole show from what I can tell is pretty much from the filming of the screen as I look at each song. And many times the heads are cut off in what is being filmed and the bottom or even top of the projection screen's borders are seen. It is not a good video job but the audio is superb and it can still be enjoyed.

It's really too bad it had to be done this way and I'm not 100% sure why it was either. But I'm guessing the taper didn't have a good seat where they could film the stage even though a lot of times you can see the stage in the background as the camerawork moves around filming the video screen. So who really knows? It is very difficult to zoom in and film a screen with a handheld camera in case anyone has never tried it!

The real saving grace for the whole project is the superb LPCM (instead of the AC3 192 kbps used on some Third Eye remasters) audio. It really is superb sounding, mixed very well, and it just sounds really nice.

With all of the Third Eye Page and Plant DVD productions out there that are really excellent ones, he must have had a good reason to have filmed this one the way he did I am thinking. I'm not complaining at all about it and I appreciate that we have it. But if the video is what you are getting it for, well, you may be disappointed. The video is not horrific but it is not great either due to the fact it is video being filmed off of the video screen at the venue. And by the way, there are times where it looks like the video screen is not being used and the taper is filming directly from the stage. But it does look like there is someone's head blocking the mid section of the video and it does look like the seating may very well have been the issue and why this is mostly filmed off of a video screen. It's been a long time since I've watched this video and I noticed this today as I was sampling through the DVD around the song "Tea For One" and in some other areas too.

There aretwo more thing I wanted to mention. A lot of the Third Eye DVD's have bonus material at the end of the show. But this one does not. It is strictly the concert and that is it. And the second thing I wanted to mention is the download has no artwork in it. It didn't have it when I got it, and since I uploaded it "as is" to save time, it doesn't contain any artwork. But I did look online as I was preparing the show and found the artwork which you'll see below. So if you want any artwork, you'll just need to download it at the bottom of the post of look over on Zepart.com and find it there where I did.

Thanks goes out to "Amduscia" for sharing this DVD set with all of us as he has with so many other shows 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.

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

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Boston: 1978-11-06 Boston, MA (FLAC_AUD 2nd Gen_1 CD)

This is a great sounding Boston show that was transferred from cassette tape and shared back in 2006 and then reseeded recently on Dime. This is a little different than the commonly known Party To Boston CD released by a label I'm not sure of. I think it was released by and unknown label really and of course they messed with the audio and did what labels do. This copy however is a second generation, non bootleg label cassette copy.

The original artwork for Party To Boston was reworked by the recent reseeder to reflect this second generation recording. However, the setlist is still tracked for the 2 CD set the artwork was originally made for (the boot label) and it looks like "Television Politician" was just added at the end of CD 2 (remember, this was the 74 minute CD days). I went ahead and left it in the upload so it's included even though both versions independently will fit on one CD-R nowadays.

And by the way, the bootleg label's copy of the show did not have "Television Politician" on it but this second generation copy does making it a (more) complete show according to the sharing party. My copy of Party To Boston does have "Television Politician" but maybe it was added at a later date?

A friend on the Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog Facebook Secret Group (Facebook's name for the type of group) had asked if I had any RTZ (Return To Zero), a band composed of by a few Boston members during their hiatus including the late Brad Delp. I did not have anything from RTZ. All I could find was an mp3 copy of a RTZ 1991 Cleveland show and y'all know what I think of lossy audio. So in an attempt to honor a request I could not quiet fill yet, I thought I'd share this recently re-shared Boston show.

All thanks and credit goes to the original taper and "zootype" for this August 2015 reseed on Dime!

LINEAGE:
2nd Gen cassette > WAV > re-tracked > normalized > removal of clicks and dropouts > 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:
No EQ work was done on the audio!

DETAILS:
Artist: Boston
Date: November 6th, 1978
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Boston Garden
Title: Party To Boston (original label artwork slightly reworked)
Label: None
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 500 MB
Length: 77:55:74

SETLIST:
01. Rock And Roll Band ~ Shattered Images
02. Peace Of Mind ~ Feeling Satisfied
03. Don't Look Back ~ The Journey
04. More Than A Feeling
05. A Man I'll Never Be
06. Smokin' ~ This Time
07. Foreplay/Long Time
08. Something About You
09. Party
10. Television Politician

LINK:
(1) 1978-11-06 Boston, MA (AUD 2nd Gen)

The recording is not without its flaws. But it is the best copy I've heard of this show out of the two I have heard. The first was the aforementioned Party To Boston bootleg label release.

I'm not sure why "zootype" redid the tracking and put multiple songs together? But he did and that's the way the show in this download is tracked. The waveform also shows audio clipping in most songs meaning the audio was a little louder than it should've been in either the recording level, tape transfer, or in the work done on the project. Some songs have no clipping while others are not bad. But a few have heavier clipping points indicated by the waveform looking in Audacity.

While this isn't RTZ, some of the songs (as well as the members) were used in the RTZ show setlists I saw when researching and looking for any shows from RTZ.

If anyone has any RTZ shows, studio outtakes, or just has any information where I might be able to find any lossless RTZ RoIO's, please let me know either in a comment or on the Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog Facebook Community Page (different than the Secret Group one). All of the information on the Facebook sites can be found under the "Contact" HTML link on the right side of my site if you look and/or scroll up or down. And thank you if you can help too!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 1970-08-31 Milwaukee, WI (FLAC_AUD Master_1 CD)

This show, originally scheduled for 1970-08-27, was postponed a few days due to illnesses within the band. The original artwork on flyers, tickets, etc show the August 27th date too.

I've had two master tape transfers of this show for a long, long time but have never gotten around to uploading either. There is the KRW_Co transfer and then the Presence transfer, both being very nice transfers, and I have decided on sharing the Presence transfer this time. I like the higher notes being more present in that transfer. Each has their bonus feature over it's competing transfer as usual. But overall, the Presence transfer seems a little brighter in the high frequencies and is just a tad bit cleaner sounding to me. Maybe I'll share the KRW_Co transfer on its 45th anniversary at the end of this month?

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

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: August 31st, 1970
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Venue: Milwaukee Arena
Title: None
Label: Presence
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 324 MB
Length: 53:51:18

SETLIST:
01. Immigrant Song
02. Heartbreaker
03. Dazed And Confused
04. Bring It On Home
05. That's The Way
06. Bron-Tr-Aur
07. Since I've Been Loving You

LINK:
(1) 1970-08-31 Milwaukee, WI (AUD Master/Presence)

"I don't care what people say, rock and roll is here to stay. I don't care if this is true, I'm gonna leave it up to you" is one of my favorite quotes and versions from Robert Plant as he sings these lyrics (ever changing too by the way) during "Dazed and Confused".

The recording is not without flaws of course and there are even a few cuts in songs like "Bron-Yr-Aur". Maybe they were tape flips or something? But this is actually an excellent recording overall and especially for a 1970 audience recording. Personally, I love the sound. But to other audiophiles this one would be more likely to fit into the "great" category in my ratings possibly? It has its clean moments with very easy to hear musical instruments as well as Robert Plant's vocals too. But there are points of distortion also. They are not where one might expect them either in most cases. You might think that the beginning of "Dazed and Confused" would be distorted due to the heavier bass from John Paul Jones. But you'd be wrong because it isn't the case.

Any die hard Zeppelin collector should be able to enjoy this show with no problems I'd guess. I'm going to burn this copy I'm uploading today to disc since I have never done that yet and give it a listen through the home theater setup as soon as I can get the uploaded started. But through the Bose PC speakers, I'm loving what I hear!

Oh yeah, and on a side note, Jimi Hendrix was playing his gig in Stockholm, Sweden on this same day day as this Milwaukee Led Zeppelin show was being performed too. And a video of part of the Hendrix gig was recently shared (and I got it of course) also. Plus, it was a year ago to the day (1969-08-31) when Led Zeppelin was finishing up their North American gigs but fit in their Lewisville, Texas (Dallas area) show at the Texas International Pop Festival. What a great day historically in rock and roll (which is here to stay) August 31st was in 1969 and 1970!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Page & Plant: 1996-02-09 Tokyo, Japan (DVD_AUD Shot_Master Remaster_2 DVD)

This is the 2006 Third Eye remaster of the video from the Page & Plant 1996-02-09 concert in Tokyo, Japan. I'm uploading it by request today and will be uploading some more Page & Plant DVDs over the next few weeks too.

I uploaded the zipped files two days ago to my file sharing site but I am now now finally able to post the links because I've been a little busy the last two days. In an effort to save time, I uploaded the show "as is" and left the house while I was taking care of responsibilities and I did not change anything at all before uploading the files. I left the original file set and torrent folder exactly as I got it intact. that means the original checksum (md5) file and the original text already in the file set are what I used.

LINEAGE:
DVD-R > DVD Shrink (full disc backup) > me > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Page & Plant
Date: February 9th, 1996
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Budokan Hall
Label: Third Eye Remaster (2006)
Title: Tokyo, Japan 2/9/96

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes
DVD's: 2
DVD Size: 7.79 GB
Bonuses: (1) Japanese 11/11/94 TV interview including "Stairway to Heaven" and press conference from same date.

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Color/B&W: Color
Type: AUD Shot
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 7000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

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

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
DVD 1:
101. The Rain Song
102. No Quarter
103. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
104. The Wanton Song
105. Heartbreaker
106. Ramble On
107. hurdy gurdy solo
108. Gallows Pole
109. Whole Lotta Love (incl. Spoonful/Break On Through/Dazed And Confused)
110. Tea For One
111. Dancing Days
112. Yallah
113. Four Sticks
114. In The Evening
115. Kashmir

DVD 2:
201. Black Dog
202. Rock And Roll

ENCORES :
203. Japanese TV Interview 1994-11-11
204. Stairway To Heaven 1994-11-11
205. Press Conference Tokyo 1994-11-11

LINKS:
(1) 1996-02-09 Tokyo (AUD shot Master/Third Eye Remaster/2 DVD)
(2) 1996-02-09 Tokyo (AUD shot Master/Third Eye Remaster/2 DVD)
(3) 1996-02-09 Tokyo (AUD shot Master/Third Eye Remaster/2 DVD)
(4) 1996-02-09 Tokyo (AUD shot Master/Third Eye Remaster/2 DVD)
(5) 1996-02-09 Tokyo (AUD shot Master/Third Eye Remaster/2 DVD)
(6) 1996-02-09 Tokyo (AUD shot Master/Third Eye Remaster/2 DVD)
(7) 1996-02-09 Tokyo (AUD shot Master/Third Eye Remaster/2 DVD)
(8) 1996-02-09 Tokyo (AUD shot Master/Third Eye Remaster/2 DVD)
(9) 1996-02-09 Tokyo (AUD shot Master/Third Eye Remaster/2 DVD)

I have personally never watched this 2 DVD set before other than to browse through it and watch the bonus videos. I am going to burn it to disc after posting it today and watch it when I get a chance later.

Thanks goes to the Royal Orleans seeder and posting party that helped me get this missing 1996 Page & Plant Japanese tour show I did not yet have in my collection back in February of this year.

I hope you enjoy the show and the bonus material too...

Bootradr

Monday, July 27, 2015

Journey: 1978-09-02 San Mateo, CA (FLAC_SB/FM/Studio_2 Source Mix_Bootradr Remaster_1 CD)

This is a great recording of Journey and one of the rarer ones to circulate too. For many years, I never uploaded this show because all of the earlier copies I had obtained over the years were not that great. But about two years ago, and I believe it was thanks to a Dime member but I can't confirm that at the time, I was able to get this upgrade.

I tagged this post as "Bootradr Remaster" but it is not a real remastering job. I just did this because of the work I did do in adding the second source mix as you'll see below. No audio altering was done to this project.

This was not the complete show though. However, I took the four missing tracks not in this upgraded copy from the Gypsy Eye label's Look Into The Future bootleg, and in a decent quality recording too, and added them to the end of the show where they belonged. Gypsy Eye's bootleg release doesn't have the high notes like this Allied Production copy does. It has a little bit of a "muted" sound in the high frequencies. But I went ahead and merged them and did not alter anything in the audio. But the show could use a remastering or EQ job to make it even better sounding. But it still sounds excellent I think and especially when it is compared to earlier versions circulating.

LINEAGE:
Guitars and Amps LP > Pioneer PL-260 turntable > Edirol R-09 > 44/16 WAV > ClickRepair (remove pops and crackles) > DeNoise (remove noise) > Adobe Soundbooth (manually remove other ticks, clunks, etc that ClickRepair didn’t detect) > TLH > FLAC 8 > me > added last four tracks from Gypsy Eye recording > 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: Journey
Date: September 2nd, 1978
Location: San Mateo, California
Venue: Monitro Studios
Title: Guitars And Amps (plus Look Into The Future's last four tracks)
Label: Allied Productions (Gypsy Eye on last four tracks)
Source: SB/FM BX (in studio)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 468 MB
Length: 77:17:06

SETLIST:
01. Of A Lifetime
02. I Would Find You
03. Feeling That Way
04. Anytime
05. La Do Da
06. Can Do
07. Winds Of March
08. On A Saturday Night
09. Wheel In The Sky
10. Next
11. You're On Your Own
12. Look Into The Future
13. She Makes Me (Feel Alright)
14. Lights

LINK:
(1) 1973-05-28 San Mateo, CA (SB/FM BX/Studio)

This concert was a benefit concert Journey did for a high school. It was the Burrell Junior High School Benefit show and Journey raised $6,000 for uniforms for the school. Ha! $6,000 back then probably equates to $60,000 nowadays (just kidding...I have no idea).

I created some artwork for the show back in 2000, but this copy already had the LP artwork too that it came with. Since the LP artwork isn't really CD artwork comparable for the rear of a CD case I'll include the back cover artwork I created and it is ready to print and add to the back case of any regular size CD case. The only issue is neither artwork creations are for the full show and the LP artwork is way off on the setlist too.

I have heard that Monitro Studio had studios in San Francisco and San Mateo, California. I even looked it up in the past and confirmed it via the web at some point. This is suppose to be a show that occurred in San Mateo, California from all the research others and myself have done in past years. My back artwork does have San Francisco on it however because in 2000 that's where "we" thought the show was performed.

This show has some really cool and more rare Journey tracks too that you do not usually hear very often live. Songs like "I Would Find You" and "Can Do" are on this copy, and on the full show, which is the Gypsy Eye label's four additional songs, "Look Into The Future" is on it also now.

The date for this show has been in question also for some time. Most have settled on September 2, 1978. The setlist is not in any concert played type of order either.. When Steve Perry was new in Journey (he joined in 1977 and started performing live around March of 1978), they would start their shows off with a few songs without him singing. This show is arranged in that same manner. I believe he comes in on the third song. It is a different order and I'm not sure how the band decided on what was going to be played in this live FM radio show. But it's a great variety of songs and a mix of the new at the time Infinity LP songs as well as songs from the pre Perry era of Journey. Of course Perry, like in the live 1978 concerts, sings with Gregg Rolie on most of the tracks he was never on in the studio released LP's before he was in the band. It really gives them a completely new life too.

As far as information goes, don't be fooled by the song titles on the album (surely a bootleg sold) listed artwork. It lists songs like "Next" as "Midnight Dreamer" and we know that is not the right title. It also shows "Of A Lifetime" as being named "Kohoutek" which is a completely different Journey song altogether. Maybe somebody who isn't blind like me can actually read the text on the back of the artwork. It looks like newspaper clippings added to the album art and they may have some details of help and interest. I just cannot read it myself.

Well, maybe I can read it. The artwork is in a high enough resolution I have been able to zoom in and see the text. Ironically, and four years before "Separate Ways" (1982) was ever created as a song by the band, the back artwork from the LP talks of Aynsley Dunbar leaving the band as Journey and Aynsley "...have gone their separate ways..." it states. In fact, I just recalled this was suppose to be Dunbar's last performance with Journey.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1973-05-28 San Diego, CA (FLAC_SB_2 CD)

Well, it's been a long time since I've made a post. You thought I was going to say rock and rolled didn't you. Either way, you'd just about be right. Things have slowed down enough to finally start posting some shows again thankfully. And I'm going to start off with this Led Zeppelin show from 1973 today.

This soundboard is reportedly a mix of different label's releases put out. I'm not sure personally if this is true or not. I've never listened to it. But I am right now as I prepare this post, and it is sounding excellent so far.

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

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: May 28th, 1973
Location: San Diego, California
Venue: Sports Arena
Title: Whole Lotta Live
Label: None
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Size: 675 MB
Length: 123:41:59

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Rock And Roll
102. Celebration Day
103. Black Dog
104. Over The Hills And Far Away
105. Misty Mountain Hop
106. Since I've Been Loving You
107. No Quarter
108. The Song Remains The Same
109. The Rain Song
110. Dazed And Confused (cut drastically)

CD 2:
201. Moby Dick
202. Stairway To Heaven
203. Heartbreaker
204. Whole Lotta Love
205. The Ocean

LINK:
(1) 1973-05-28 San Diego, CA (SB)

Just typing the setlist indicates something doesn't look right in the order it is in. "No Quarter" before "The Song Remains The Same" and "The Rain Song" doesn't seem right nor does "Heartbreaker" before "Whole Lotta Love" either. But looking at other setlists, it is correct.

A portion of this show is reportedly taken from the EVSD release Three Days Before which is the first copy of this show I ever got way back in the 2000 time frame. Three Days Before is suppose to represent three days before John Bonham's birthday which is May 31st.

I have never compared the EVSD recording against this recordings other than briefly and they both sound excellent. I'm up to "Since I've Been Loving You" right now and it sounds like an excellent, smooth flowing show. I'm a little curious about getting to the incomplete (approximately 2 1/2 minutes long) "Dazed and Confused" because I do not see it on any other 1973-05-28 recordings I have or on any artwork for other shows either. And looking at the timeline on the official Led Zeppelin website, it shows the same setlist as above too.

The show seems complete and uncut up through "No Quarter", where after the music starts, the song jumps ahead to John Paul Jones' keyboard solo recently started and continues on. I'd guess about 5 minutes of the beginning is missing. Put Jimmy Page sounds superb in his guitar solo in this show! And I like how his guitar is up front in the sound so far too in the show. I've included the Trader's Little Helper audio file details as I always do nowadays, and taking a look right now, it shows "No Quarter" is 9:09 in length and that indicates the portion cut after the song starts is probably around what I "guesstimated" I'd say.

The official Led Zeppelin website says this was a sold out show with a seating capacity of 16,000 people at the Sports Arena in San Diego on this night. In fact, the more I looked I noticed the site states every show on the 1973 tour was a sold out show. I never knew that. This was one of the best Led Zeppelin tours ever no doubt!

This is a really excellent sounding show, the mix is great, there is a little tape his but nothing too bad, and this is a very enjoyable listening experience. It's probably my first time to listen to the show in at least a decade or more and I've had this specific, no label recording for the last 5+ years too.

I'm up to "Dazed and Confused" now and everything other than the cut in "No Quarter" and the fact that "Dazed and Confused" only contains the last few seconds of the song and then Robert Plant talking about something going wrong with a guitar piece as he asks others to bear with them a moment sounds excellent. The recording has really been perfect and sounds equal to me. If this is a mix of various sources, I haven't seen any indication yet.

Rather than listen to the whole show and report every detail, I'm going ahead and closing out now so I can upload the concert. There is definitely enough excellence in this show to merit getting it if you don't have it. And that includes even if the audio changes for the worse. CD 1 has been great and here's hoping CD 2 keeps a rollin' the same way!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Thursday, July 23, 2015

SPECIAL NOTICE: Updating Links & New Shows Coming Soon

As I've mentioned already, I've not had the time to work on my page the last couple of months. But all that is changing and new shows will be uploaded before next week. Wow, come to think of it today and tomorrow are the last two days Led Zeppelin played in the USA 38 years ago (1977).

Anyhow, I've had a lot of PM's on my Facebook page, e-mails, etc, etc over the last few months about dead links. And this morning I am trying to fix a lot of the ones I know are bad. However; there are some I've lost track of too.

If you come across a dead link please leave a reply and I will fix it ASAP! If you want, leave a message in the Facebook Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog Community Page. That group is open to all. And if you're a member of the BBBB Secret Group (Facebook), feel free to leave a message there too. If you aren't a member of the latter group and want to be, let me know and I can tell you how I can add you. See the open Community Page at this link and there are instruction there (and here on this page) too. The open group is at this link:

Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog Community Page (open to all)

Thanks for any help in getting the links all working...

Bootradr