Agreed about an official Earls Court release. It seems obvious, even if it was just a compilation to create the illusion of a single show, ala HTWWW. Regarding the low end and the drums, a real multi-track recording would have the kick drum recorded separately from the rest of the kit so it could be mixed in at the appropriate level. What the software I use does is put the whole kit together, so I cannot easily adjust different parts of it. What it also did on this show was put all of the low end in with the drums. I have the bass guitar on a separate track, but it's just the upper end of its sound. The low end is on the drum track. That's not a huge issue, except that it makes it harder to keep the low end impact I'm shooting for while also getting the rest of Bonzo's kit to be more prominent. I think I figured it out, but it took a little bit of experimentation to make sure I didn't mess things up.

I''ve been working on it for the past week. The good news is that the majority of the remaster was done years ago as part of a different project, so now the work that's left is mainly just to mix it into stereo, which is easy. I haven't even started to think about synching it, or which version of the video to use. Any suggestions? Also, was there too much bass on that sample? Currently, this remaster has the deepest, hardest hitting bass of anything I've ever done. I'm concerned that although it sounds good on my stereo, it will be too much for other people.

This version of OTHAFA has one of my favorite Zep moments ever starting around the 1:28 mark in the video below where Jimmy plays a series of descending notes and Bonzo echos him. When We Were Kings, indeed.

I've been busy recently and haven't had much time to work on shows, but I played around with Jan 5, 1969 a bit. It still needs a lot of work and I'm not sure it will ever be good enough to release, but it's interesting to hear it in stereo. And man, Bonzo is on fire. If I keep working on this, I'm going to move Jimmy down in the mix and feature Bonzo. It's also surprising to hear a lot more of the crowd noise. It didn't come through until I changed one setting and then it came through a lot more prominently.

Agreed about the toxic part, but there are likely lots of people who taped shows forty or fifty years ago who've forgotten they even made the recordings, or if they remembered them, don't think anyone else would be interested in them. Dan Lampinski is the most famous example, but I'm sure there are other people who have stuff the rest of us would like to hear or see, but we need to jog their memories and let them know we'd like to hear/see the shows they captured.

I ask basically everyone I meet who is old enough to have seen Zep if they saw them, and if they did, did they or their friends make a recording of the show. Only a few people I've talked to saw them and none of them made or knew about any recordings, although in a couple of cases there were boots in general circulation of the shows they went to so I gave them copies. And even if the people I talk to never saw Zep, it starts a general music discussion and most of them went to shows by other bands that I enjoy hearing about.

Pete Townsend and people in other bands that were around for five or more years before Zep started seem jealous of their meteoric rise. Zep formed in September of 1968 and by March of 1970 were big enough to sell out the LA Forum. Here's a review from that show that describes how hot the band were at that time (emphasis mine.) "Zeppelin created more frenzy at the Forum than any group I’ve seen since the Stones’ appearance last year. At the end of the evening, hundreds had pushed their way into the aisles near the stage and thousands of others were standing in rhythm to the music. The concert, which had been sold out for weeks, showed that Led Zeppelin is largely trying to recreate the sounds that have dominated English blues-rock in recent years."

Two versions were just released: "Jesus" for US$368: http://www002.upp.so-net.ne.jp/airraid/sale/DSC02820.jpg "The Awesome Foursome" for US$178: http://www002.upp.so-net.ne.jp/airraid/sale/DSC02821.jpg

It's item 4.50 in the Art of Rock series. You can purchase them from Wolfgang's Vault, although the price for that one seems very high, especially given its condition: https://www.wolfgangs.com/posters/led-zeppelin/poster/OCS770723-A.html It's also been heavily bootlegged. This article shows how to tell an original from a reproduction. https://www.classicposters.com/poster/450 Also, the dates on the poster are specific to the final two shows, so it's unlikely it would have been sold at other concerts on the tour.

Sorry, I haven't finished it. My wife and I are looking for a new house and it's taking way more time than I expected.

Jimmy recently did an interview with Total Guitar magazine. There's a small except from it below where he talks about the amps he used on Whole Lotta Love: https://www.guitarworld.com/news/jimmy-page-reveals-the-amp-he-really-used-to-record-whole-lotta-love

From page 152 of "Jimmy Page: The Anthology": "Mastering engineer Robert Ludwig cut the second album. He as known as Bob, but he always put 'RL' as his signature on the albums that he had cut. The test pressings came out and they sounded extraordinary. But rumor has it that a relation of somebody at Atlantic had been given one and it had jumped on their record player on side two. Then there was a panic internally that the album had been cut too hot when there was actually nothing wrong with it. Bod Ludwig was an expert and the cut and test pressings were technically brilliant. Atlantic got him to recut side two, which he duly did but he didn't put his 'RL' on it. By looking for the signature, you can see which version was the original cut, known as 'the hot one', and which had been recut. They both sound ridiculously good."

Very cool. Thanks for posting that Sam.

It's not related to the albums. It's from a tshirt that came out around the same time:

There's an eBay auction going on now for what's claimed to be Showco's equipment from back in the day According to the letter shown in the auction, this equipment was used for outdoor shows by Zep in '71, '73, and 75 and The Who in '73 and '74. Link to the auction: https://www.ebay.com/itm/SHOWCO-Led-Zeppelin-3DOG-NIGHT-THE-WHO-SPEAKER-ENCLOSURES/193732012265 (note: I'm not affiliated with the seller, I just thought people here might like to see the images.)

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I received this as a gift recently. Although I have a lot of Zep-related books, I don't spend much time reading them. And from what I heard about this when it was first announced, I figured this one would end up gathering dust after I looked through it once. I'm not a musician, so pictures of guitars don't do much for me, and while I'd be interested to see details of some of his stage outfits, I got a close up view of them when the Zep exhibit opened at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. However, I really like this book. Although there are tons of pictures in it, for me the best part is the details he's provided about key events in his life. I know a lot of people want him to write an autobiography that provides lurid details of what it was like to be a rock star in the '70's, but I think the things he's written in this book and the other Genesis Publications taken together comprise his autobiography. It's just that the story he wants to tell about his life is that he's someone who became a musician because of his love for music, and it's the music and the things that go into making it that are the real story of his life. The fact he became famous seems very much secondary to him. Whether you agree with that or not, I'd definitely recommend picking up this book, especially now that it's available for such reasonable price (currently US$36 on Amazon.)

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Nice to get a recent confirmation that the documentary is still in the works,

The Immigrant Song, sung in Old Norse:

You'll have better luck getting replies in the Musician's Corner section of this site: https://forums.ledzeppelin.com/forum/17-musician39s-corner/

That sounds really good. Nice job.

Most of the rock music I listen to these days is live, including Zep's. And as much as their studio albums are burned into my soul, I prefer to hear their live shows. When I do revisit the studio albums, I'm always surprised at how different those arrangements are to the live versions. And as a bonus, I get to hear a bunch of songs they never played live, so it's kind of like discovering new Zep songs, which is ironic because I first got into live bootlegs because it was like discovering new Zep songs.