Thanks. I'm glad you like the remasters. I just sent you a link for the 9/4/71 show.

Thanks. I was just listening to Celebration Day from the remaster. What an amazing performance. Also, I'm taking a run at the 9/9/71 show now to see what sort of progress I can make on it. I'm optimistic that I can get it to sound pretty good. I've also been working on the 8/31/71 show, but unfortunately I'm not having much luck with it. I'll keep working on it, but there's something about its basic sound that's not letting me make much progress.

That's a good point about the Seattle video. It's too bad it's the only one a lot of people know about from that tour.

Another observation based on these clips. I mentioned earlier how animated Jimmy was during these shows. I think the typical thought is that he was not in prime shape during the '77 tour because of his offstage indulgences. However, Achilles Last Stand from 6/14/77 is more than two hours into the concert and he's still moving around like the show just began. He's not slouching or standing in one place or any of the typical signs of exhaustion I'd expect from someone who is supposed to be in less than ideal shape. That was also the last in a string of shows in the same venue, so any initial boost he got from the excitement of playing in NYC would likely have worn off by then. None of this is to say he might not have been augmenting his energy levels between songs, but I don't recall any reports of him running off stage between songs to do lines, and repeatedly using that kind of temporary boost each show seemingly would have caught up with him by the final show in NYC, which was two and a half months into the tour.

This is an excellent history of Jimmy's guitars:

The Guitars of Jimmy Page:

They should fly him to Canton today and give him his gold jacket.

Thanks, yet again, for all the stuff you've dug up and shared with the community. And a couple of things struck me after seeing these films. One is just how animated Jimmy was on stage. The other was just how fucking great it must have been to see them live in '77. I know we all compare shows from the '70's and often think that musically they were at their best earlier in the decade, but looking at these clips illustrates just how captivating the band was on stage in '77 and how exciting it must have been to be there in the arena to witness them performing in person.

This is the next installment in The Stereo Project. It is just the soundboard from of the show and does not include any audience tracks. Send me a message for the link:

Thanks again for all your efforts in finding these shows and releasing them to the public.

Louie Anderson passed away of cancer: https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/comedian-louie-anderson-dies-of-cancer-at-68/ar-AAT0IbR?ocid=BingNews

I've never seen a legit Page autograph with a fully closed "O" where the "J" should be in his first name. I've also never seen Robert use that little heart shaped thing after the "R" in his first name.

I'm glad you liked it. I just sent you a message with a link to the Worcester video.

I remastered the soundboard from the Worcester show and used it as the soundtrack for an audience video of the show. If you want a copy of the video with the updated audio, send me a message.

Yes, he was a real doctor who toured with the band. There's more info about him in this thread: Also, you can find all of Robert's between song talks about badgeholders by going to this page and typing "Badgeholder" in the Plantation Search box at the top of the page: http://www.ledzeppelin-database.com/geekbaseweb/speechpage.aspx

There is an audience shot video from the centrum. Who ever shot it did a good job with it. I remastered the audio soundtrack, which came out pretty well. I still need to upload the video with the new audio, so I don't have a link just yet. I'll make a new post about it so everyone who is interested has a chance to download it.

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Thanks. Hopefully the remaster enhanced what was always a really good performance.

I was at that show, too Jimmy definitely played really well. If you're interested, I remastered the soundboard from that show and merged it with an audience video of the show. Send me a message if you want a copy.

They only played Hartford the one time. They dropped the orchestras for the '98 tour but didn't play Hartford. The closest they got was NYC and Albany in NY and Boston and Mansfield Mass.

I was also at the Hartford Page/Plant show. It took place on 10/21/1995 and they had the Egyptian orchestra and members of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra performing with them. You can see some of those extra players in the wide shots in the video of Black Dog below, which is from the show. Regardless, it was a great show and Jimmy was definitely in fine form.

Send me a message if you want a copy of the full show.

One of the things I find interesting about the '75 tour is that it follows the longest layoff from performing live that Jimmy had since 1965. He joined the Yardbirds in 1966 and toured with them in '66, '67, and '68, then toured with Zep basically non-stop until late July, 1973. The break that followed lasted almost exactly 16 months (August 1973 - December 1974) so I wonder how much rust factored into his playing after the long layoff. Given the injury to his hand, it's hard to determine what part it might have played in the early parts of the '75 tour versus an intentional change in style versus rust. And I think it's interesting that he had even longer breaks between the end of the '75 tour and the start of the '77 tour and the end of the '77 tour and the '79 shows, as well as a shorter but still significant break between Knebworth and the 1980 shows, and the dates on those latter tours are known for sticky fingers. They were also relatively short tours (even though they were all meant to go longer), perhaps not giving him enough time to get into peak live form. This idea first occurred to me during the '95 Page/Plant. He was generally felt to be playing as well as he had in ages by the time the Fall shows rolled around, which was roughly half a year into the tour. His playing maintained a high level as the tour continued in early 1996. He then had a long layoff before the start of the 1998 tour, which featured early dates in Europe that gave him time to shake off the cobwebs outside of areas with major press coverage. He then returned to form for the latter parts of the tour, and continued playing well in 1999 and 2000 with The Black Crowes. TLDR; Maybe Jimmy just needed a good amount of time on the road to get into peak form.

Soundboards typically do not have any reverb on them, which is why they're often referred to as "dry". Any artificial reverb on the instruments at the show would be added after the point in the signal chain where the sounds from the instruments are recorded on the soundboard recording. That artificial reverb will be captured by the audience recording, and it will also be enhanced on that recording by the natural reverb of the sound bouncing off the walls of the arena (the absence of that natural reverb is why audience recordings of outdoor concerts typically sound different than audience recordings made at indoor shows.) The artificial and natural reverb captured in an audience recording are essentially "baked into" the recording, just like the sound of distortion on a guitar, and can't be removed (they can be reduced, but not removed completely, at least with any software I'm aware of.) Because of that, an audience recording of a show won't sound like a soundboard from the same show, even after remastering the audience recording.