I like the way they talk about the short drum intro to Moby Dick. Seemingly simple but so effective and on point.

Hall of Fame voting baffles me sometimes. Todd Helton gets in and Andruw Jones still does not. Helton won 3 gold gloves at first base. Jones won 10 gold gloves in centerfield. Where do the best defensive players play? SS/3B and centerfield. Helton's batting stats are inflated by playing in Denver. His home/away splits are very drastic. Jones home/away batting splits are all about even. Jones had more home runs, and hit a few more of them away. Helton hit 62% of his homers at home. Helton slugging was 0.469 away and 0.607 at home. Jones away slugging was 0.496, home about the same. In other words, by any measure, Jones was the better player.

Such a great thread. Fantastic stuff. Thank you.

Really enjoying this alternate compilation. Thanks again.

This sounds great. Thank you for sharing.

Fantastic ! Bass sound greatly improved. Drums, amazing. Thank you.

Prof Stoned version is great. Another good version is the one from JRK. His website is no longer up, but you can find it on Guitars101 and Black Beauty (label listed as "JK")

Looking forward to hearing the new version of the whole show. I can still remember the original How the Time Flies remaster, how much excitement there was among my friends as that version circulated way back when. I am listening to No Quarter right now from the first release of the Stereo Project of this show. Fantastic.

Just for his bass playing alone Jones was irreplaceable, so integral to the Zeppelin sound, especially with only one guitar on stage. His interaction with Page and Bonham was so unique. A lot of people are great bass players but not one of them could replace Jones and have it work as Led Zeppelin. I cannot imagine Page or Bonham wanting to play with anyone else as part of Led Zeppelin.

Looking forward to when you complete the show. The sample sounds great. And yes, No Quarter from 1975 is one of Zeppelin's peak artistic achievements.

I saw Link Wray with Robert Gordon in 1979. Fantastic show. Link was a force of nature !

https://www.pickasobow.com/pages/our-story Full website has some videos on how to use this thing and what it sounds like. Kind of limited because you can play only 2 adjacent strings at once but cool nonetheless. I may try one.

A band I used to be in played this. A bit tricky to get all the timing right. A Bill Monroe classic.

A favorite at the local weekly bluegrass jam.

That is outstanding.

Another stellar effort Steve! Bringing 1977 to life. WOW. This combined with the recent 1977 Pontiac news clip has me in a 1977 zone these days. Going back and revisiting your other 1977 remasters. Superb. Great time to be a Zeppelin fan. Back in the old days I could never have imagined these treasures.

Eight years after Texas Pop Festival and they are still being called "The Led Zeppelin" Great shot of the whole crowd inside. Those clothes and hairstyles really take me back to that time.

Outstanding photos ! Thanks for posting. Are those two people so close to Jimmy with the band? Seems really close for them to be fans?

I knew right away this was terrible. It sounds like a bad parody of a bad parody. So, like most AI stuff, like the crappy AI lyrics I have seen. The singing is horrible. Nothing like Plant. Even worse is the generic metal guitar sound. Page never sounded like that and he never played anything that stilted. The drums? Even worse. You could say this is what AI would give you if you asked it to create a bad parody of Greta van Fleet doing a bad parody of Kingdom Come.

Is this about what we would have wanted for a setlist, or what we think would actually have been the 1980 fall US set list? Zeppelin usually only changed a few songs between tours that were close together, so the starting point for fall 1980 would have been the Europe 80 set list with maybe a few changes. I read somewhere that Carouselambra was being planned or at least considered. Given the shape that Page and Bonham were in, I can't imagine there would have been a lot of change in the three months and 10 days between July 7 and Oct 17.

Steve seeing the video with your remastered audio is over the top. Just those initial bass and drum notes before TSRTS starts. WOW. Takes me back. The bass sounds incredible. I know it is not everyone's favorite bass tone through the years, but it was monstrous. I know at MSG I could feel the bass in my chest, just like the drums. That 1977 bass gets a bad rap due to many of the original soundboard releases. Sure its not 1975 or 1973 or any other prior tour, but it is special in all its glory. Sometimes I wonder if Jones went for that sound because he was thinking maybe he had to cut through more incisively to make up for any "issues" that might crop up with the guitar.