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, September 11, 2015

Journey: 1981-09-11 Clarkston, MI (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

After missing so many chances lately to upload one of my three favorite band's concerts on their anniversaries, I'm not going to miss this chance today! This show was played in Clarkston, Michigan 34 years ago tonight.

I've been a 100% Journey fan ever since I first heard them many moons ago. And while this is not a great sounding recording unfortunately, it still is a historic moment in time where the band had hit their "superstar" status. And this is a rare show too not commonly seen too often.

LINEAGE:
None known or given > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > CD Wave Editor (to split tracks that had two songs in them) > 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 11th, 1981
Location: Clarkston, Michigan
Venue: Pine Knob Amphitheatre
Title: Hopelessly In Love 1981
Label: None
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 454 MB
Length: 89:49:40

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Escape
102. Where Were You
103. Line Of Fire
104. Don't Stop Believin'
105. Stone In Love
106. Keep On Runnin'
107. Lights ~ Stay Awhile
108. Do You Recall
109. Lovin' You Is Easy
110. Steve Smith (drum solo) ~ Too Far Gone

CD 2:
201. Too Late
202. Who's Crying Now (with partial story intro)
203. The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love)
204. Wheel In The Sky
205. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
206. Any Way You Want It
208. Dixie Highway

LIN K:
(1) 1981-09-11 Clarkston, MI (AUD)

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Unfortunately, this is only a good sounding show. In my ratings on my own site that means it ranges from about a 4 to a 6 at best out of 10. This one is really one of those "for true fans" or "to make a collection more complete" type of recordings for most people I'd imagine.

The real problem with this show is the tapers. There's a girl that is screaming a lot and then two guys talking about things like "going to the ballgame" and whatever comes to mind it sounds like. There were a number of incidents of two songs that were tracked as one track or song. But I split those and broke them up to match the artwork more correctly. Since "Lights" and "Stay Awhile" were listed as one track on the artwork I left them as one track. The sound gets better in the show a number of times but the tapers were having a good time it sounded like and they were the real problem with the audio and even being able to work with it.

There are a few nice things about the show too. The tapers left the recorder running and didn't stop it during the show and only seemed to miss the very beginning (story) Steve Perry tells about him and Jonathan Cain writing "Who's Crying Now". But the song itself is complete. The band also plays the rare song "Too Far Gone" which I think we may have in two other recordings. It is also interesting they added "Dixie Highway" as the last encore song to this show. I can't recall any other shows where I've heard them do this. They barely played it after the 1980 Departure tour from what I've heard in shows.

The waveform was looking very nice with very little (not even worth mentioning) audio clipping throughout disc 1. But on disc 2 there is more audio clipping and I guess the tapers turned up the record level a little bit? It doesn't really phase anything in the recording though and you shouldn't even notice it listening either.

Hopefully, and in the near future, someone will have the new Tarantura release of the recently surfaced "Mr. Peach" Journey recording from 1982-04-17 Yokohama, Japan. It is an audience recording titled Escape From Yokohama. I'm sure it'll surface here eventually since it's out there being sold and it has been out since June of this year I just learned. If anyone has come across this show, please share it. This might be the best Escape tour audience recording to have surfaced so far?

If anyone can help with any of these remaining shows (below) we are looking for (in lossless form too), we'd really appreciate it a lot! You can PM me if you want to and I will keep a watch on my inbox here on Dime. Some great shows have been getting shared lately and it would be awesome to uncover any Journey or Steve Perry shows that have yet to surface. Whether they're the pre Perry era shows, the Perry era shows, the post Perry era shows, or just individual solo shows, there are many interested people who'd love to hear them.

I'm a fan of Journey's music from 1973 through today. However; I really like the 1973 - 1987 era the best. I've recorded every Dallas area show since 1999 as they have come to Texas and many shows from Houston, Beaumont, Austin, and San Antonio too. These are all post Steve Perry shows of course. But I still enjoy seeing the band and recording and collecting the shows too. But to me, nothing beats the classic Journey eras of their music!

Here's a list of some shows my buddy "techtuts" and I are still trying to find lossless copies of if anyone is able to help. And thank you too!

A special thank you goes out to "Tales" for getting me this show from 34 years ago today (about two years ago) and to "tupchurch" for creating the artwork for it!

SHOWS BEING SOUGHT AFTER:
1980-10-10 Osaka Audience
1981-07-27 Osaka, Japan "Little Girl" (or any other title for this date)
1981-08-01 Tokyo, Japan
1982-04-09 Fukuoka, Japan
1982-04-14 Osaka, Japan
1982-04-16 Tokyo, Japan
1983-03-01 Tokyo, Japan
Also; Any of the more rare Raised on Radio (1986) bootlegs (e.g. Milwaukee, WI) 1986-09-26 Steve Perry
94/95: Pittsburgh, New Brunswick

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

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

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

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

Page & Plant: 1995-05-17 Inglewood, CA (DVD_AUD Shot Remaster_LPCM_1 DL DVD)

I am uploading this Jimmy Page & Robert Plant 1995 show tonight because it was requested a few weeks ago by a friend on my Facebook BBBB page. This is the better of the two copies of this show I have too because it has the LPCM audio and it is a DL DVD.

I just realized something else that I believe makes it better and it comes at an ironic moment. This is a Blockbuster Production of the Third Eye Productions video. In other words, "Blockbuster" took the "Third Eye" copy of the show and made his project of it. And "Blockbuster" is someone who does superb work and really makes superb video projects.

The ironic factor to all of this I'll explain the best I can. I just private messaged "Blockbuster" about some videos he had sent me a few months ago and I just wanted to see how he has been doing since I last talked with him. I had been thinking about him over the last week or two since I haven't heard from him lately. As I was sending a PM to "Blockbuster" before I began preparing this upload, I had no idea that "Blockbuster", a friend that has really helped me out a lot with both audio and video items related to Led Zeppelin, was the one that had created this project I had been planning on sharing. At the request of my other great friend, Joe, who has also helped me out with some awesome cassette tapes I'm helping him out with transferring, it all came toghether that one friend is really helping two more.

The relationships and friendships I've been able to build with fellow traders and collectors over the years is one of the things I really enjoy the most about this whole "hobby" (for lack of a better word). I truly enjoy meeting the great friends and the friends helping friends too. And this is a perfect example of how friends helping friends all comes together in our passion and love of great, rare music.

LINEAGE:
Third Eye DVD > PC HD via DVD Shrink > VIDEO_TS folder > > me > found artwork & created new md5 file > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Page & Plant
Date: May 17th, 1995
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: Great Western Forum
Label: Third Eye & Blockbuster
Title: Los Angeles

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes
DVD's: 1 DL DVD
DVD Size: 7.09 GB
DVD Length: 2:12:16

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Color/B&W: Color
Type: AUD Shot
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 9500 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

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

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
01. Tales Of Bron
02. The Wanton Song
03. Bring It On Home
04. Ramble On
05. Thank You
06. Shake My Tree
07. Lullaby
08. No Quarter
09. Gallows Pole
10. hurdy gurdy (instrument solo)
11. When The Levee Breaks
12. Hey Hey What Can I Do
13. The Song Remains The Same
14. Since I've Been Loving You
15. Dancing Days
16. Calling To You
17. Four Sticks
18. In The Evening
19. Black Dog
20. Kashmir (featuring Lili Haydn)

LINKS:
(1) 1995-05-17 Inglewood, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye Remaster)
(2) 1995-05-17 Inglewood, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye Remaster)
(3) 1995-05-17 Inglewood, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye Remaster)
(4) 1995-05-17 Inglewood, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye Remaster)
(5) 1995-05-17 Inglewood, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye Remaster)
(6) 1995-05-17 Inglewood, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye Remaster)
(7) 1995-05-17 Inglewood, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye Remaster)
(8) 1995-05-17 Inglewood, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye Remaster)

Third Eye Productions did a great job of capturing the video and audio of the concert like they did on most of the 1995 through 1998 Page and Plant concerts. The taper recorded other artists too over the years and he (and reportedly his wife helping too) are known for their great audio/video productions.

The Great Western Forum in Inglewood is the same venue of so, so many great concerts over the decades of concerts performed there. It is the same venue that has had many names such as LA Forum, The Forum, and even Fabulous Forum over the years. Many associate it with Los Angeles but it really is in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California.

The audio sounds excellent in this show and the camera work is excellent too. I have not watched this concert in years and this January 2015 "Blockbuster" DL project is an upgrade from the VHS copy I had watched last time I saw this concert.

Rather than spend the time to go through it all, and since it is a requested show and the requesting party already knows the details of the show and recording, I'm going ahead and uploading it. It is a show that Page and Plant fans will enjoy and it is an excellent quality (looking and sounding) production.

One thing I am not sure about has to do with the artwork. On the side with the setlist, it has both the 1995-05-16 and 1995-05-17 songs listed. This is only the 1995-05-17 show so why the previous night's setlist is on the artwork I cannot explain.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1980-06-17 Dortmund, Germany (FLAC_SB 1st Gen Remaster_2 CD)

I've had a number of requests this year and late last year too for some 1980 Led Zeppelin shows. So I have picked a couple of shows and put them over in a folder I named "Led Zeppelin 1980 Requests" and I'll upload a couple as I randomly pick some excellent and superb shows I want to upload over the next few days.

I decided to upload Led Zeppelin's very first concert of their 1980 tour. This was their return to the stage for the band's very last tour ever. Since this is the month, September 25th to be exact, that Led Zeppelin would lose John Bonham after they finished their 1980 European tour,, I really wanted to upload some of the great 1980's concerts anyhow. Bonham died just before the band was to begin their 1980 American tour. .

LINEAGE:
1st Gen cassette (44/24) > DAT(1) > CD-R(1) > EAC >WAV > remaster > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > down sampled to 44/16 WAV and aligned 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: June 17th, 1980
Location: Dortmund, Germany
Venue: Westfalenhalle
Title: None
Label: Ezytouch
Source: SB (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Size: 555 MB
Length: 114:29:44

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Train Kept A Rollin' ~ Nobody's Fault But Mine
102. Black Dog
103. In The Evening
104. The Rain Song
105. Hot Dog
106. All Of My Love
107. Trampled Underfoot
108. Since I've Been Loving You
109. Achilles Last Stand.

CD 2:
201. White Summer ~ Black Mountain Side ~ Kashmir
202. Stairway to Heaven
203. Rock And Roll
204. Whole Lotta Love (inc. Heartbreaker)

LIN K:
(1) 1980-06-17 Dortmund, Germany (SB 1st Gen/Ezytouch Remaster)

This is an "Ezytouch" remastered copy of the show. It is a superb sounding recording but it does sound like there are a few audio adjustments made in the recording too. They may have been in the unaltered first generation soundboard recording too but I'm not sure. There are some audio dropouts and rough spots in a few places in the show but not too many. A few songs were not split at their track beginnings or endings or where they should have been. So in some cases, there will be more than one song per track number.

The tracks had sector boundary errors (SBE's) but I fixed them before uploading the show. That could be something as simple as the down sampling from 44/24 to 44/16 was the cause because any audio not 44/16 (or commonly referred to as "CD standard") will not have SBE's as a factor in the audio

"Since I've Been Loving You" is missing the very beginning and begins after the song has already started in this recording. And "Black Mountain Side" has some audio change that occurs during it too and it moves between a lesser sounding audio and back to normal sounding audio as it goes on into "Kashmir". I'm not sure if this was on the original 1st Gen soundboard recording or not. I have that original recording too. But as I compared the two copies prior to picking which to upload, I liked the clean and sharp sound in this copy better and didn't do too much comparing. I'd actually burned this "Ezytouch" copy to disc a while back and I listened to it earlier today on the home theater system.

"Stairway To Heaven" has a bad static crashing sound right before the solo near then end but clears itself up fast. "Black Dog" abruptly drops off after about 1 - 2 minutes of playing and the last track on CD 2 picks up where it dropped off after it already has started. So the music goes from "Black Dog" playing midstream to "Whole Lotta Love already playing and then "Heartbreaker" is joined to the same track as "Whole Lotta Love". Heartbreaker has some ups and downs with the audio and then it picks up again in the guitar solo part of the song. Again, I'm not sure if this is on the original first generation soundboard recording too or not?

I usually test for lossiness early on, but this time I didn't until near the end of putting this upload together. And it looks lossy with TLH. I did have a friend look closer at the audio and he says it is lossless though, TLH is not reliable for testing audio for lossiness all the time and since this copy had been EQ'ed a lot it likely gives the false TLH results. There was no audio clipping in the waveform to speak of.

Thanks goes to "Ezytouch" for sharing his project with us!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Monday, September 7, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1973-05-13 Mobile, AL (FLAC_SB Source 2 Remastered_2 CD)

This is a superb copy of the Mobile, Alabama Led Zeppelin concert from 1973. There have been many copies of this show shared over the years, and most time, they seem to sound similar to the Midas Touch label's Goin' Mobile which I have a silver CD set of. And there is nothing wrong with that CD set. But this is a much better sounding recording and I'll describe below why.

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

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: May 13th, 1973
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Venue: Municipal Auditorium
Title: US Tour 1973
Label: dadgad
Source: SB (Source 2 Unknown Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 599 MB
Length: 114:29:44

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

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

LIN K:
(1) 1973-05-13 Mobile, AL (SB Remaster/dadgad)

In the vast majority of the excellent sounding copies of this show, all reportedly sourced from "sean_the_bootlegger" and the 2nd generation tapes he was able to obtain many years ago, the sound is very enjoyable but sounds as if the higher frequencies aren't really bright in the recordings. The recordings have a sort of muted sound in the sense the high notes in things like cymbals, guitar, and vocals are not as crisp and clean sounding as we wish they were. But in this copy, a copy shared by "dadgad" a while back, this is not the case. The sound is much brighter and the recording has been remastered too. The low end frequencies are also there for a clean and perfect balance too. There is some slight audio clipping in the waveform but it is not anything to worry about and the sound is still a big upgrade in my opinion. It takes the excellent sounding copies we've all had and gives us a superb sounding copy I feel.

In the original text file provided by "dadgad" he states this tape source did not come from the "sean_the_bootlegger" or "Presence" server source tape(s). I was not really clear whether he meant a different transfer tape was used or he just did not use the copies on the "Presence" server over at R-O. From what "dadgad" states it does look like a completely different unknown generation tape was what was used and as far as I know the "STB" tape is still a semi-verified second generation tape (written on the tape). So it looks like that rules that source tape out if I understand what is being said right. Here is a copy and paste of "dadgad's" exact wording:

"Remastered from an unverified gen analog tape>DAT>CDr transfer. This is not Sean's tape nor Presence's direct download. This flawless concert has one of the most untypical No Quarter ever played and one of the best ever recording of Bonham's drums both in terms of sound and performance. Too bad the final section of the show is still missing."

Whatever the generation or source this tape being shared today came from, this is a very clean and superb sounding recording I have had for a while but finally got around to inspecting closely a week ago. It was just after I finally got the "STB" 96 kHz/24 bit tape transfer over on R-O. I'd had the 44.1 kHz/16 bit copy of the "STB" transfer but I always enjoy the higher sample and bit rate recordings and the possibility of making a DVD-A with those in the future (one day I will if someone doesn't beat me to it). And as I did some comparisons between the various copies I have, I was really blown away by the "dadgad" shared copy.

I wish there was more detail by "dadgad" on how he remastered this show. He didn't make mention of EQ'ing it but I imagine he likely did some at least. I've uploaded another excellent-to-superb copy that was done as a group project in the past and claimed to have the first (out of five) discs being a remastered copy of the master tape. But in that 5 CD set, there is the disc 1 master source remastered (sounds about like this but not quite as good) and it seems to have audio cut out between the songs when Plant talks. The second two discs were a remaster of the raw, unaltered last two discs in the set. So CD 1 is claiming to be a remastered master copy, CD's 2 and 3 are a remaster of the raw copy claiming to be a first generation transfer, and then CD's 4 and 5 are suppose to be the raw first generation audio. And I am thinking that the STB source tape was used for discs 2 through 5 most likely. However, Sean ("STB") and "pernod" both said (in 2012) that no matter what generation a copy claims to be, they were all sourced from Sean's second generation copy.

Here is what "pernod" wrote in 2012 when he posted the 2008 transferred copy of Sean's 96/24 audio:

"Incomplete but excellent+ sounding recording. This was at the time a brand new transfer done from Sean_the_bootlegger's cassettes which are the root set for every copy and bootleg source of this particular soundboard fragment in general circulation. These are as of July 2010 the lowest gen circulating set of cassettes for this particular sbd fragment. Concerning the generation of the cassettes they have been called everything from 1st gens to 3rd gens, I am calling them as they are stated by the documentation Sean provided me a copy of from the person he originally received the tapes from. Your actual generational lineage mileage may vary but the fact these cassettes are the root tapes are not in question. This is a hi-resolution version in it's raw form with only speed correction applied to the recording, phase correction to recenter the stereo signal and fades added at the beginning and end of the recording."

Here is the link to just the CD's 2 and 3 I uploaded in the past of the 5 CD set if you want to check it out. I posted it in January of 2014 and you can find it in the posting of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down thread here. It is a superb remastering job too I think. But I believe the "dadgad" recording being uploaded now is even better. I just cannot believe I've had this one for a couple of years and I finally realized how much better it sounds.

Whatever the story, the lineage, or your taste in audio, you're bound to love one of these recordings if you like Led Zeppelin's music! I think I need to post the unaltered second generation copy too just for a full comparison by those who are interested in listening for themselves. Leave a comment if you are interested and I'll get it up sooner than later. Otherwise, I'll eventually get it up here.

As with all recordings circulating of this show, there is no "disc 3" so to speak. In other words, the show is not complete and the recording reaches the end after the approximately 15 minutes, 30 seconds of John Bonham's "Moby Dick" drum solo. There is no "Whole Lotta Love" or encores like "Heartbreaker" unfortunately. At least not yet.

I've enjoyed listening to this "dadgad" copy so much that I have listened to it three times in the last week. It really is a big sound upgrade to my ears. And ironically, a few weeks ago I was talking to a fellow Led Zeppelin fan and collector and we were talking about this show too. We talked about the topic of wishing a better sounding copy would surface. And I just happened to be sitting on one and did not even realize it at the time. A huge thank you goes out to "dadgad" for having shared this copy!

I trust the information that comes from "sean_the_bootlegger" and "pernod" (and "dadgad" too) much more than I do copies that have been shared and the information has been posted multiple times (like this post) over and over and sometimes even changed up :-) I try and make sure I state the facts and keep them straight as I make my posts. I don't claim to always get everything 100% right. But I sure try to. And the guys over at R-O usually know the facts and are even responsible for so many of the recordings we have too. If not, they definitely seem to get the lowest generation and best sounding copies and are really the bible of Led Zeppelin related recordings and topics.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1970-09-06 Honolulu, HI (FLAC_AUD_Fan Reworked_1 CD)

Today is the 45th anniversary of this Led Zeppelin Honolulu, Hawaii concert. This is another of the many copies out there of this recording and is a fan edited copy that appears to have no EQ work done to it. The edits mentioned were removals of gaps in audio and removal of fade outs in audio on the 2002 Shout To The Top (STTT) label's release.

LINEAGE:
CD-R trade > EAC > WAV > Nero > Edits > WAV > FLAC 8 > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align sectors on 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: September 9th, 1970
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Venue: International Centre Arena
Title: Bastard Son Of Blueberry Hill
Label: Shout To The Top (Howling Leg 2009 Reworked)
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 423 MB
Length: 73:14:41

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

LIN K:
(1) 1970-09-06 Honolulu, HI (AUD/STTT & Howling Leg Reworked)

This is an excellent sounding show and the waveform shows no clipping in the audio either. I've uploaded at least one or two more copies of this concert here in the past. And since I am trying to get a lot done right now, your best bet for a review of the show can be found in a previous upload of the show. The sound is likely very close too in audio characteristics but each copy does sound different. And just because a copy I uploaded in the past might state I think it's the best copy, that applies to when that post was made. I am constantly getting new copies of the same shows and it's always possible I've gotten upgrades to any show between now and then. I'm not saying this has happened here. But it could have and I do not know?

There was no mention of any EQ work being done on this copy and the sharing party just mentioned they had:
1. Edited out a transition gap between tracks 3 and 4.
2. Cuts in "Moby Dick" have been repaired.
3. The fade outs and ins between the encore track (tracks 7 and 8) have been removed.

These were the only edits mentioned by the sharing party. They did however create and include some artwork and include it too.

I did have to align the sector boundaries (fix SBE's) on the recording since that had not been done before I got this copy.

There have always been rumors there is more of this show recorded as well as the extra recording not included had been passed on to (Robert Plant I think). I don't know and if the rest of the show ever does surface, you can be guaranteed I'll be sharing it once I get a copy. But meanwhile, this is an excellent capture of the night to preview and listen to until then.

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!!!

Friday, September 4, 2015

Jimi Hendrix: 1970-09-04 Berlin, Germany (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen_1 CD)

Today was a great day in rock 'n' roll history. With Led Zeppelin playing the "Blueberry Hill" show in the Los Angeles area, over on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Jimi Hendrix played this excellent show on this day 45 years ago too.

This is an superb audience recording of the Jimi Hendrix show and one I really love. I have never had the chance to really listen in the sense of trying to review this show though. And I am listening to the Led Zeppelin Winston Remasters copy of their 1970-09-04 show I just uploaded before this one right now. But I may make this a night of music and take these FLAC files of the Hendrix show and finally put them to disc tonight. And of course, that means I will be listening to it really soon too. I'll make any updates if need be in this post once I listen to the show.

LINEAGE:
Analog 1st Gen cassette > CD-R > EAC > WAV > TLH > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Date: September 4th, 1970
Location: Berlin, Germany
Venue: Deutschlandhalle
Title: Super Concert 70
Label: Electric (from the collection of "Electric")
Source: AUD (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 360 MB
Length: 61:19:61

SETLIST:
01. Straight Ahead
02. Spanish Castle Magic
03. Sunshine Of Your Love
04. Hey Baby (Land Of The New Rising Sun)
05. Message To Love
06. Machine Gun
07. Purple Haze
08. Red House
09. Foxy Lady
10. Ezy Rider
11. Hey Joe
12. Power Of Soul
13. Lover Man

LIN K:
(1) 1970-09-04 Berlin, Germany (AUD 1st Gen)

One thing I like in this show is the fact the track "Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)" is in this show. There is something about the music in this song that reaches deep inside and takes me back to the days of being a teenager. I can't explain it, I just feel it!

From listening to this show via the PC Bose speakers and from looking at the waveform, this is really an superb recording I can tell. The waveform shows no audio clipping and the sound is very well balanced in the tracks I listened to a little while ago.

I feel bad since I've had this show for some time now but I have never given it the real test and cranked it up. There are a lot of great shows I have still not heard yet and this is the case with too. Sometimes, you just don't have or make the time to listen because of everything from responsibilities to keeping up with other shows you are downloading (or uploading) can cause you to put a great show off to the side and eventually forget about it for a while. There are a million reasons we all do this at times. But most of us also always come around and finally enjoy the music we got too.

Rather than ramble on here about stuff not even related to this show, I've paused "Blueberry Hill" and I'm examining this recording now. The mix sounds great and there is little to no distortion either. Jimi's guitar is right up front and his voice is too. A lot of the time it sounds like a soundboard recording rather than an audience recording.

I was reading a little on this show and it was stated the people in the crowd weren't really getting into Jimi's music at this show. And it kind of sounds this way between songs where you don't hear the screaming and hollering like you do in many of his recordings. The crowd is clapping but it really seems quiet for a Hendrix show too. But that's to our advantage today I'd have to say.

In the recording it sounds as if there may be a few points between songs the taper stopped taping. I'm not sure and won't truly be until I listen to this show in the living room in a little while. Jimi also seems to be going from one song to another with no talking in between on a lot of the songs. Maybe the crowd wasn't keeping him interested and he just decided to do this rather than make comments and statements? Keep in mind though that I am basing this on checking out certain tracks and the transitions between songs and not from having heard the whole show yet (or recently). I may be wrongly stating this?

Thanks to "susep73" over on Crosstown Torrents for posting the links to the two photos (below) from this concert being shared here. And thanks to my buddy Dave for telling me about them!

I'm going to get this one uploaded so I can do it before the 5th of September hits and it's no longer this show's birthday anymore. I can say this with confidence in closing. If you are a Jimi Hendrix fan, you'll enjoy this recording. I can't wait to hear it myself in about 45 minutes!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 1970-09-04 Inglewood, CA (FLAC_AUD Source 5 2nd Gen + 2 Other Sources Mix & Remaster_2 CD)

Today, 45 years ago, the infamous Blueberry Hill concert and recording was played and made as Led Zeppelin performed in Inglewood, California. This is the Winston Remasters copy which uses the source 5 recording (believed to be the best stereo source) and it patches missing parts of the show with (1) Tarantura's Live On Blueberry Hill and (2) the Trade Mark of Quality source. The mass majority of the audio is of course the source 5 superb recording.

LINEAGE:
(1) AUD Main - stereo source 5 2nd Gen cassette > CD-R(3) > SHN > Remaster
(2) AUD Patching #1 - alternate mono source - Tarantura Live on Blueberry Hill (introductions, "Moby Dick", and Whole Lotta Love" patching)
(3) AUD Patching #2 - TMOQ source of unknown Gen cassette : ("Bron-Yr-Aur" patch)
(4) 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: September 4th, 1970
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: The Forum
Title: The Great Love Affair
Label: Winston Remasters
Source: AUD (Source 5 2nd Gen + 2 Patch Sources Mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 707 MB
Length: 133:16:38

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

CD 2:
201. JPJ (organ solo)
202. Thank You
203. What Is And What Should Never Be
204. Moby Dick
205. Whole Lotta Love
206. Communication Breakdown
207. Out On The Tiles
208. Blueberry Hill

LIN K:
(1) 1970-09-04 Inglewood, CA (AUD 3 Source Mix/Winston Remasters)

This is a superb show and so is the sound. I still prefer the sound in A Sweeter Blueberry (dadgad) and I've got that one cranked up now in the living room. But this Winston Remasters is really just as good of a recording for the most part and it is more complete I would have to think since it uses 3 sources to form a (more) complete show. I almost always like the Winston Remasters the best in the shows he remasters (not always EQ'ed either). I really think he has the magic touch on Led Zeppelin shows. And to be honest, I've not listened to the Winston Remasters copy in a while and I might should give it another spin and see if I still fell the same way! I've been known to change my mind on a few occasions about which recording I thought sounded better.

Here are Winston's notes:
Please Note before you download: The Hiss on the main source had a high pitch sound to it that I found off putting. Using a new tool for noise reduction I was able to remove that. But the after effect of doing that gave the quieter parts the wind tunnel effect. I prefer that over having the high pitched hiss sound throughout the whole show. The Patches using the Alternate Mono - parts of those had better audio from other sources, but I used those because they were complete patches, instead of using 3 different sources for 1 patch.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr