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

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Feist: 2007-04-23 Berlin, Germany (FLAC_AUD Master_1 CD)

This is a superb recording of a Feist show on her The Reminder tour of 2007 and 2008. I love this show. The audience recording is a superb one and the show is as well. This show is almost 80 minutes long but it does fit onto 1 CD with a few seconds left for the CD formatting if you burn it to disc.

Feist played Berlin twice in 2007. There was this night and then a night in September if I am remembering correctly. I have the 2007-09-30 show but it does exist. It is reportedly another excellent sounding show and I hope a lossless source resurfaces again some dy soon!

LINEAGE:
DPA 4060 > MPS 6040 > SONY D 100 > MDAT > CD > EAC > Adobe Audition (for EQ'ing) > CD Wave (for tracking) > FLAC Frontend (for FLAC 8, verify, with align on sector boundaries) > 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: Feist
Date: April 23rd, 2007
Location: Berlin, German
Venue: Schillertheater
Title: None
Label: None
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 377 MB
Length:79: 39:24

SETLIST:
01. Honey Honey
02. I Feel It All
03. So Sorry
04. <y Moon My Man
05. The Park
06. The Limit To Your Love
07. When I Was A Young Girl
08. The Water
09. 1234
10. Brandy Alexander
11. Sealion Woman
12. Let It Die
13. Intuition
14. Mushaboom
15. Fighting The Tears Away

LINK:
(1) 2007-04-23 Berlin, Germany (AUD Master)

The waveform is perfect like the show and has no audio clipping. I had thought of doing some "fine tuning" on the audio but realized there was no need to. The mix on it is great with the high end and low end frequencies as well as the quieter and more loud songs coming through brightly and at full range sounding.

I first listened to this show with a new set of headphones I got and it was the perfect show to break the headphones in with. Being a great set of headphones, I could hear everything crystal clear in the instruments and the vocals too. I later listened at a lower volume on my home theater system which is having issues with either my Denon receiver or the Boston Acoustic speakers right now. I don't know what is going on. But this show sounded superb still and I heard it in more of the normal environment I'd be listening to it in (the home setup).

I cannot say enough good things about this artist. You likely either love Feist or you don't. But she has so much talent, with her voice and musical playing talents, and she is so much more enjoyable in my opinion when she's playing a live show. I like her studio work too but the live shows are ever changing and she is really smart and surrounds herself with other talented musicians with a wide variety of instruments. Her songs are really home hitting to me too.

It actually took me a little while back when I first heard of her almost a decade ago to have her music grow on me. But I knew from the first time I saw her on a program on TV I was going to listen to her more and get familiar with her music eventually. I'm really a classic rock kind of guy and this music is not that. But it is spectacular I learned the more I listened to her and I am always looking for the shows I missed back before I ever had heard of her. I've even stooped to getting mp3 copies of a lot of shows because it was all I could find in the time frame before I actually started using torrent sites like Dime to find the quality, lossless shows.

I would highly recommend giving her a listen if you never have heard her voice or music. Some of her music is more quiet and slower and some is the total opposite. She encompasses a wide range of music and her songs are not the same exact thing each show as she tours. She changes the setlist as well as the way she plays a song each night it seems when she plays live. And her style of guitar playing, the actual sound she gets on her electric and acoustic guitars, is a unique style and sound of its own. Having heard her talk in various interviews she loves experimenting and changing things as well as getting raw, unorthodox sounds and beats from herself as well as her band members. I cannot wait until she finally makes a new album because she has become my favorite female artist over the years with the voice of an angel and it moves me honestly.

A very special thanks goes to "fant30" for sharing this show over on Dime recently!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

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

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

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

Led Zeppelin: 1977-06-27 Los Angeles, CA (FLAC_AUD Source 1 + Very Short Other Source(s)_4 CD)

This is the excellent EVSD release of Led Zeppelin's sixth and last night in Los Angeles ever. I was going to upload the Mike Millard unmarked first generation source, another excellent recording this show is sourced from, but EVSD did such a good job on this one and did so with no audio clipping that I decided to share the EVSD set first. Maybe I can get the unmarked Mike Millard first generation tapes uploaded this year on their birthday (or maybe sooner)?

This show sounds superb to me really but there is some slight tape hiss. It is not anything terrible and in fact I am glad it is there. Why you ask? Because it tells me EVSD didn't chop out the high frequencies like they do at times.

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

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 27th, 1977
Location: Los Angeles, California
Venue: The Forum
Title: Deep Striker
Label: EVSD
Source: AUD (Source 1 + brief other source(s))
Format: FLAC
CD's: 4
Artwork: Yes
Size: 1.46 GB
Length: 222:30:38

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. The Song Remains The Same
102. Sick Again
103. Nobody's Fault But Mine
104. Over The Hills And Far Away
105. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 2:
201. No Quarter
202. Ten Years Gone
203. The Battle Of Evermore
204. Going To California

CD 3:
301. Going Down South
302. Black Country Woman
303. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
304. Dancing Days
305. White Summer/Black Mountain Side
306. Kashmir
307. Trampled Underfoot
308. Moby Dick

CD 4:
401. Jimmy Page (violin bow solo)
402. Achilles Last Stand
403. Stairway To Heaven
404. Whole Lotta Love
405. Rock And Roll

LINKS:
(1) 1977-06-27 Los Angeles, CA (AUD/EVSD 4 CD)
(2) 1977-06-27 Los Angeles, CA (AUD/EVSD 4 CD)

I really like this "No Quarter" version on the 4 CD set. It has some different John Paul Jones (nearer to the beginning) and Jimmy Page (nearer to the end) played music. It may not be that it was so "different" and may just be more that in this recording you can hear it better making it sound different. I'll leave it at that and let you be the judge and hear it yourself. And in this show, Led Zeppelin added "Dancing Days" to the setlist too. I imagine it was a bonus track since it was their last of six nights playing in Los Angeles.

I did not check like I meant to and see if this show actually fits onto 3 CD's. I seem to recall that it can, but since I have been so far behind in getting any uploads lately, I'm just uploading it this morning before the day gets going.

As I mentioned this recording has no audio clipping, sounds excellent/superb, and the high end as well as the low end frequencies have a nice mix too. The band plays a superb show on this last night in one of their favorite states and cities too.

It's rather ironic that they launched their American career in California and ended their last American shows within a month of this show in 1977 in the same state too. They would have been here again on their 1980 tour of course if it had not been cut short after the European leg when John Bonham sadly died.

One last thing worth mentioning is this is not from the faulty, first release of this box set. Originally, disc three had issues with gaps between the tracks. I guess EVSD didn't do any quality control before shipping them to buyers (who claim this was a very expensive set when released). I guess the complaints came in fast and from the way it sounds people were sent a correct disc 3 or some even received 5 CD sets containing both the bad and good CD 3 copies enclosed I have read. But this is not from the faulty releases and there are no errors in this copy.

Make that two last things. The source for this show is the Mike Millard recording but there are a few very short patches used from other sources (or at least one other source). But in general, this is a very nice Mike Millard recording and the job EVSD did putting it together with and without the other source(s) was a job well done!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1977-06-26 Los Angeles, CA (FLAC_AUD 2nd Gen Source 1 Remaster_3 CD)

Here is another show I've never uploaded any copies of before and one that has been requested recently. I learned some new information over the last few days reading up on posts and comments about this show's recordings and sources available. As far as I can tell, there are two sources that exist at least but we really have one primary source (source 1) and then a filler source (source 2) used on a few mixed recordings. The source 2 material is usually very short and not needed much when filling in source 1 gaps.

But nobody seems to be able to find a copy of the source 2 material on its own and a number of people are looking and hoping to find the full source 2 (or whatever exists from it) recording. If you can help out, please leave a comment here on this blog site and let me know. The best way for you to reach me is to leave a comment or send me a private message on my Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog Facebook Community Group page HERE and then we can talk via PM. Or, if you have another way you'd like to contact me about the source 2 recording, just let me know and we'll work something out.

This recording being shared today is source 1 only and it is the dadgad remaster of the 2nd generation source 1 audience tape. A more recent and edited ( but unaltered as far as the sound goes) copy of this same source, and it is one from a 1st generation tape copy, was shared last year. I'm not uploading that copy because it is the raw and unaltered audio which is far less superior sounding than this 2nd generation (same source) remastered copy.

Most of what was edited in the 2015 copy share will be discussed in short detail below. I want to get on to providing the details and getting this copy of the show uploaded now however.

LINEAGE:
2nd Gen tapes > DAT > CD-R > Adobe Audition 2.0 (for remastering) > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

Notes from "dadgad prod." (copy & paste):
"The remaster has revealed a nice sounding tape buried under the original muddy transfer, you can even hear John Bonham's bass drum pedal squeal in SIBLY just like on Led Zeppelin III. Includes also one of the longest STH ever."

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 26th, 1977
Location: Los Angeles, California
Venue: The Forum
Title: Take The High Road
Label: dadgad (Remaster)
Source: AUD 2nd Gen (Source 1)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes
Size: 1.03 GB
Length: 192:58:48

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. The Song Remains The Same
102. Sick Again
103. Nobody's Fault But Mine
104. Over The Hills And Far Away
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. That's Alright Mama
205. Black Country Woman
206. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
207. White Summer/Black Mountain Side
208. Kashmir

CD 3:
301. Moby Dick
302. Jimmy Page (violin bow solo incl. "Take The High Road")
303. Achilles Last Stand
304. Stairway To Heaven
305. It'll Be Me

LINKS:
(1) 1977-06-26 Los Angeles, CA (AUD 2nd Gen Source 1/dadgad Remaster)
(2) 1977-06-26 Los Angeles, CA (AUD 2nd Gen Source 1/dadgad Remaster)

This 2007 dadgad remaster being shared here is most likely the best sounding copy of the show right now (or at least that I know of). It ranges from great to excellent and it is so much better sounding than the 2015 unaltered audio/sound copy shared. There are some faults in this copy however and I'll describe them in a minute. As for the waveform, this copy looks perfect with no audio clipping or issues I could see. This remastered copy being shared was created in March of 2007.

One issue with this copy being shared is it has some repetitious parts in the recording that were not removed. They were fixed and removed in the 2015 edit of the two source mix of the show but not in this remastered copy. Here is a copy and paste of some notes in dadgad's 2015 text file:

"Edit (2015):
Repeated material (WS/BMS and OTT: 14 mins and 22 secs total) and digital silences (24 secs total) edited out with Adobe Audition 3.0.1"

So this recording being shared today, while sounding better, has almost 15 minutes of repeats and some silence in it. And it is not as complete as the 2015 edit because the newer edit uses parts from source 2 to fill in gaps or missing material not in source 1. Here is another copy and paste from dadgad's 2015 post of the edited copy:

"Original comments: On the original transfer there's a small cut at the beginning of Kashmir; I patched in the missing portion of music taking it from ton185's 2nd gen transfer of the same source torrented by pmonk66 at TTD. The remaining of the transfer is unaltered."

You have to remember though that the italicized comments copied and pasted are from the 2015 edited copy's text file that does not sound as good as this (believed to be) 2007 remastered copy being uploaded now. What needs to be done in the future is the same thing that was done to the 2015 edit. We need the 2015 processes done to this 2007 remastered copy.

I could go on talking about this show, source, edits, etc and still not mention everything I want to say. I am tired and I am wrapping up this post so I can upload it.

This 1977-06-26 recording is NOT as good of a sounding show as the last night 1977-06-25 show I uploaded. I was mistaken when I stated everything from 1977-06-25 on was better sounding (and 1977-06-25 sounded excellent too). This show being shared today is what I call great-to-excellent and to me I love that range in quality. I personally rate it higher for my own self. But since I'm trying to keep some sort of scale others can judge by, well, I'll stick to my great-to-excellent rating for the 1977-06-26 upload today.

I have heard some copies of this show that are horrible sounding and some that are much better. But it does seem no matter what copy we get or hear, they all are likely from source 1 now and just different generations, mixes, etc have been introduced. My two favorites for this show are this copy and the Silver Rarities (SIRA) Sundazed copy. Both are excellent but I think dadgad's low generation copy here has much cleaner high end frequencies he brought out when he remastered the audio. He really did a superb job because I have the unaltered copy of this audio in two different states (source 1 unaltered and source 1 & 2 mix unaltered) of pre-remastering processing and they sound nothing near as good as his final project being uploaded now..

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1977-06-25 Los Angeles, CA (FLAC_AUD Source 1 1st Gen_3 CD)

This is the Winston Remasters 2007 copy of his work on the fourth night's show in Los Angeles in 1977 out of the six nights Led Zeppelin played there. This is an excellent-to-superb sounding copy of another Mike Millard taped show as well.

LINEAGE:
Millard master tapes > Hi-Fi VHS > remaster (2007) > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

Notes from "Winston Remasters" (copy & paste):
"Sources Digitally Enhanced with Samplitude.

Please Note: Millard Marking after Tape flip Between Kashmir - Trampled Underfoot (Left it alone)"

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 25th, 1977
Location: Los Angeles, California
Venue: The Forum
Title: Mike The Mike
Label: Winston Remasters (of a Mike Millard recording)
Source: AUD 1st Gen (Hi-Fi VHS)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes
Size: 1.25 GB
Length: 208:56:17

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
207. Black Mountain Side
208. Kashmir
209. Trampled Underfoot

CD 3:
301. Over The Top
302. Jimmy Page (violin bow solo)
303. Achilles Last Stand
304. Stairway To Heaven
305. Whole Lotta Love
306. Communication Breakdown

LINKS:
(1) 1977-06-25 Los Angeles, CA (AUD 1st Gen/Millard & Winston Remasters)
(2) 1977-06-25 Los Angeles, CA (AUD 1st Gen/Millard & Winston Remasters)

The audio sounds excellent-to-superb in this recording and the waveform looks perfect as well with no issues such as audio clipping. And as always, Winston Remasters does another great job on this 2007 remaster.

On 2013-09-02, Winston Remasters released another project of this same source and show. He noted he "cleaned" it up and included some details (below) of things he did to the recording. I haven't found out yet if he cleaned up the copy I'm sharing here today or if he started from scratch.

Winston Remasters 2013 "Cleaned" Copy Info (copy & paste):
"HiFi VHS machines used for both recording and transferring: Mitsubishi HiFi VCR's
Soundcard: ECHO MIA with Purewave feature
Transferred at 24bit/96kHz

Restoration at 24/96:

1. VHS tracking static cleaned up using a pencil tool
2. Light hiss reduction using a Sound Forge 2.0 Noise Reduction plugin (many very small passes)
3. Hum removal using Waves hum removal plugin

Resampling to 44.100 using Izotope 64-Bit SRC with anti-alaising at the highest quality setting
Dithering to 16 bit using Samplitude 11 with Triangular spread noise (Standard Dithering)"

I think both copies by Winston Remasters are excellent. And to be honest, I may even like the 2007 remaster being uploaded here right now a little better. I think the higher frequencies are heard better even if it does introduce a little more hiss (nothing too bad at all). But both copies are great and I went ahead and uploaded the 2007 copy/project first because I'd started working on getting it ready a week ago. I can upload the 2013 copy too in the future. Maybe I can do it on the shows 39th anniversary this year?

This is another show/date of Led Zeppelin's I have never uploaded before. There are still two more from the six The Forum shows, the June 26th and 27th shows in Los Angeles, I have not uploaded before either. While they are not exactly rare in the sense there are many copies, versions, and even a few sources for them available (and they have been for years), I just never realized I had not uploaded these shows before so at the request of "ZOSO1000" I am now. And the great news is all of the six Los Angeles 1977 shows sound excellent to superb also and are great, long recordings to listen to!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Monday, January 25, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1977-06-22 Los Angeles, CA (FLAC_AUD 4 Source Mix_4 CD)

I've had some requests lately for some shows I never have uploaded before. As many know, Led Zeppelin played The Forum in Los Angeles, California for six nights on their return to the United States in 1977. And this is the second night's show and for all practical purposes it is the complete show. There is a small cut missing between "Kashmir" and "Over The Top" (or "Moby Dick"). To date there has been no source available for this short missing cut according to "weedwacker" and it is not available at this time anyhow. But other than that small cut, the full show is here and it takes 4 CD's to get it all on disc.

This is a four sources mix project done by "weedwacker" and it is the revised version too. So all thanks goes to him and the tapers of course.

LINEAGE:
Source 1 (CG source): 1st Gen cassette > 1 CD-R (2)
Source 2 (Barry tape): Unknown Gen cassette > 1 CD-R (x)
Source 3 (EF Source): 1st Gen cassettes > 1 CD-R (2)
Source 4 (TYG Source): 1st Gen > DAT (x) > 3 CD-R (0)
me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 22nd, 1977
Location: Los Angeles, California
Venue: The Forum
Title: None
Label: weedwacker
Source: AUD (4 Sources Mix...See Lineage Above)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 4
Artwork: Yes
Size: 1.04 GB
Length: 207:41:00

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*/**/****

CD 2:
201. No Quarter**/****
202. Ten Years Gone***/****
203. The Battle Of Evermore***
204. Going To California***
205. Black Country Woman***
206. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp***

CD 3:
301. White Summer***
302. Kashmir***
303. Over The Top***
304. Over The Hills And Far Away***
305. Jimmy Page (violin bow solo)***
306. Achilles Last Stand***

CD 4:
401. Stairway To Heaven***
402. Whole Lotta Love***
403. Rock And Roll***

Notes from "weedwacker" (copy & paste):
1. "* = Src 1, ** = Src 2, *** = Src 3, **** = Src 4"
2. "Complete show minus small cut between Kashmir/Over The Top that is not available on any existing sources. Minor cleanup was done to fix overly harsh hiss levels on source 2 and source 4. No remastering was done to the actual music itself.

Rev 0.1 - pops and clicks fixed in original mix. This version supercedes any previous versions."

LINKS:
(1) 1977-06-22 Los Angeles, CA (AUD 4 Source Mix/weedwacker R1)
(2) 1977-06-22 Los Angeles, CA (AUD 4 Source Mix/weedwacker R1)

The sound ranges from good-to-excellent depending on which source is being used. But even the good sound sounds clean. There was some light "cleaning" done to compensate for the high amounts of hiss on tape sources 2 and 4 according to "weedwacker" too.

I started listening to this recording again tonight as I started preparing it for uploading. Led Zeppelin was excited on their return to Los Angeles (being a state and city they loved) and in this second night's show they put on a flawless and stellar performance. I'm up to "White Summer" right now and refreshing my memory on this show since it has been so long ago I last listened.

The sound ranges and changes with the use of different sources as you would expect. So if you're just after a perfect sounding show, this one may not be for you? Unfortunately Mike Millard does not appear to have been at this show otherwise we'd likely have a perfect recording of the whole show (or most of it).

I tried a number of ways of making this show fit onto three discs but could not. Disc times were running over 80 minutes (the maximum CD time limit without using over-burn) with the traditional breaks we see on most 1977 Led Zeppelin show recordings. Having a more complete copy of a show can easily cause this to occur. Many may or may not realize that a lot of times small parts, usually chatter in between songs, get cut sometimes to make a four disc show into a three (or whatever the scenario might be) CD set. I prefer having the full show or at least everything that is available to make it the most complete. And that is what "weedwacker" has done here thankfully!

In case anyone is wondering which sources sound the very best, it is my opinion that source 1 and source 3 beat source 2 and source 4 by a long shot. Sources 1 and 3 are excellent sounding. But then again, I like them all too. Also, in case anyone sees the ad below showing just four dates and wonders about that; the band added more shows due to the selling out of tickets to the originally planned show dates very fast.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1975-03-17 Seattle, WA (FLAC_SB_3 CD)

This is the superb sounding EVSD copy of Led Zeppelin's first night in Seattle on their 1975 Physical Graffiti tour. I've uploaded the source 2 audience copy and a remaster (by me) copy here in the past. But there are some errors I made on the copy I messed with and this unaltered (by me) copy is a much better sounding copy.

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

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: March 17th, 1975
Location: Seattle, Washington
Venue: Seattle Center Coliseum
Title: Haven't We Met Somewhere Before
Label: EVSD
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes (full scans in download)
Size: 1.06 GB
Length: 182:11:35

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Rock And Roll
102. Sick Again
103. Over The Hills And Far Away
104. How Many More Times
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

LINKS:
(1) 1975-03-17 Seattle, WA (SBEVSD)
(2) 1975-03-17 Seattle, WA (SBEVSD)

There is some audio clipping done by EVSD but fortunately it is not brickwalled by them. The audio sounds superb however and the clipping is not horrendous. I like EVSD's EQ job on this show too. While many may or may not agree, they did a decent job and the mix sounds nice I think. This is a show you can crank up too if you want to without fear of distortion from things like the bass being too heavy.

In the version of this show I had worked on in the past I really messed up and caused more audio clipping I now see. I'm not sure how I did it, but I did. I believe it was done in part by a software program I use to use that did not accurately show the waveform and audio clipping could occur without it being seen. It happened on a few (not many) other shows this way in past years before I realized what was going on and stopped using the software. I really like the sound of this show and copy.

All instruments and vocals can be heard clearly and evenly in the show. The performance is a great one also. The band really played a great gig this night and we're fortunate to have a great sounding copy of this show. I've got a few fan remasters of this show as well as another label or two that released it too. But this copy sounds the best to me.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Monday, January 18, 2016

Led Zeppelin: 1973-07-17 Seattle, WA (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen & SB Low Gen Matrix & AUD 4th Gen_3 CD)

It's been a month since I've been able to make any posts. Due some medical issues and a Christmas time stay at the hospital, I had to take a break from making any posts or even keeping up with new material being shared or circulating. While things are still ongoing, and hopefully nothing more than a doctor visit and catching up will be involved, I hope to be back uploading new old material again now. The uploads may be a little sporadic at first but should fall into a regular pattern soon.

This is an excellent show I never have uploaded anything from yet and it's another great job by Winston Remasters. This show has been one that a good friend requested a while back so I decided to start back my uploading with this requested show first.

I have compared this copy I am uploading with a few other mixes of other soundboard and audience recordings of this show and I truly believe this is by far the best sounding copy of this show. It is also the second longest copy with the EVSD label copy coming in at two minutes longer. However, this blows the EVSD mix out of the water and this is a matrix too.

From the way Winston Remasters wrote about this project, and I could be wrong, it sounds like he used the first generation audience recording as the primary audio file and used the soundboard as the secondary source in the matrix of the first two discs. I may be wrong too (see Winston Remasters Notes below) since he indicates "80/20" and then "SB/AUD" too. The third and final disc is the second audio source used on its own (no matrix). Winston Remasters did note this was his first matrix project too.

LINEAGE:
(1a) Disc 1 & 2 Matrix Sources: AUD - external microphone >Tandberg mono reel-to-reel @ 7 1/2 jps-reel master > VHS (1) > matrix remaster & (1b) SB - unconfirmed low gen very clean analog >DAT1> matrix remaster
(2) CD 3 AUD Source: cassette (4) > DAT (2) > PCM > remaster
(3) me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness & align sector boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

Winston Remasters Notes (copy & paste):
"First Zep Matrix I attempted. Thanks to Gungywump for the idea ;)
Matrix - 80/20 SBD/AUD mixed with Samplitude.
Best way to describe the sound - AUD source gave the SBD natural reverb and added Harmonics.
Only cut that remains is between Moby Dick - Heartbreaker. no plantations.. ALL SONGS ARE COMPLETE.
Dynamics & EQ applied for balance."

Bootradr Notes:
I mention above I fixed SBE's (aligned sector boundaries) in this recording. This was not an error or oversight on Winston Remasters part either. The last track of each disc had an SBE which really does no damage since it is the last track on each disc. However, I like to remove the SBE's anyhow. If someone was to burn the show not following the setlist order below and make another track the final track on any disc then the SBE "could" cause a digital error. It's not likely this would happen and the tracks might not even fit on discs any other way (I didn't check because I wanted to fix the SBE's anyhow). This is a real common practice among many people (not worrying about the final track with an SBE) since it doesn't create issues when burned to disc in the same setlist order. I'm just a stickler for getting rid of the SBE's anyhow. Again, the way Winston Remasters did it was NOT an oversight or error!

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: July 17th, 1973
Location: Seattle, Washington
Venue: Seattle Center Coliseum
Title: Seattle July 17 1973 Matrix
Label: Winston Remasters
Source: AUD 1st Gen/SB Unconfirmed Low Gen (Matrix) &AUD 4th Gen (CD 3)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes
Size: 1.09 GB
Length: 180:03:72

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

CD 2:
201. Dazed And Confused
202. Stairway To Heaven

CD 3:
301. Moby Dick
302. Heartbreaker
303. Whole Lotta Love
304. The Ocean

LINKS:
(1) 1973-07-17 Seattle, WA (SB/AUD Matrix/Winston Remasters)
(2) 1973-07-17 Seattle, WA (SB/AUD Matrix/Winston Remasters)

I really like the sound Winston Remasters got out of this show when he finished his work on it. It is so much cleaner sounding, likely a lower generation copy than the label sources, and it is smooth and clean on both the soundboard and audience sources used.

I'm a little surprised I haven't uploaded this one in the past. But the good news is there are a lot more like this one, ones that are really awesome sounding and I just haven't gotten to them yet. So this means there are still plenty of shows/dates I just haven't made it to yet that are left to keep uploading new (old) Led Zeppelin concerts of to this site for a very long time!

The waveform looks perfect in this recording with no audio clipping. The final CD, disc 3, is all excellent audience audio also. Like many of the 1973 Led Zeppelin soundboard shows, there is no soundboard audio currently circulating or available for the last disc of the show. I've often wondered why this is the case on so many 1973 shows. Were the tapes for the shows not all available, did the label(s) keep them in hope of future releases, who really knows? But we are fortunate to have an excellent first generation copy to make this a complete show and finish out the concert with a disc three.

I've only sampled parts of the show tonight and it has been at least two years since I have sat down and listened to the whole concert. But memory and sampling tells me this is an excellent-to-superb sounding recording and it is one any Led Zeppelin fan will likely enjoy.

I'm skipping a more detailed review of the show other than what I've noted already since I want to get this concert uploaded before I go to bed and I remember how great this one sounds. You be the judge. And please leave a comment and let me know what you think of the show and recording once you listen. Feel free to post your review if you'd like in the comments area.

NOTE: I recommend unzipping the WinRAR zipped files into a short named folder/path name. Otherwise, if you encounter an error when unzipping the zipped files (and I'm not saying you will), just rename the two zipped files (or the folder you put them in) with a shorter name if you encounter a message or error mentioning anything regarding the path containing more than 260 characters. I'm not saying this will happen! But it if it does rename your folder or the zipped files (even just until you unzip them) and you will have no issues. Every so often a longer name is needed when I describe the contents like I do. It is a very simple issue to fix if this ever does occur.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr