The second night is generally regarded as the better performance of the two, but it is only available as an audience recording so the sound quality is noticeably different than the soundboard from the 27th.

Thanks. The piano wanders from left to right channel and back early on in that sample. It's easy to fix, but I left it in as an example of the kinds of things that need to be handled manually. There's other stuff like that that needs to be cleaned up by hand in a lot of the songs because the AI is really good, but it's not (yet) perfect. The ones where it does the best are straight forward rock songs like Sick Again and The Song Remains The Same. Interestingly, the AI doesn't know what a guitar sounds like. Instead, it puts the guitar and anything else it doesn't recognize in an "Other" track. The reason those songs work so well is that there's nothing else aside from the guitar in that track.

That was quite an informative post. It's already possible to do much of what you described. Turning one of Zep's mono BBC recordings into a stereo recording is easy using AI, or rather the AI can easily split the songs into individual tracks (bass, drums, and vocals become individual instruments, and whatever remains is all put together in a single track) and those can then be manually mixed like you would a four track recording, and then mastered as desired. There is AI that will automate mixing. It does a great job on studio songs, but isn't as useful on live recordings where the goal is to present all of the instruments on an equal footing. And there is also AI that will try to apply the best EQ and other effects to to make music sound as good as possible. The downside, from what I've seen/heard, is that all AI works best on music that was well recorded to begin with, which most bootlegs are not. The two main types of bootlegs, audience recordings and soundboards, each present different challenges and opportunities. I've been able to convert a number of soundboards to stereo and remaster them to varying degrees of listenability, but they are fairly easy to work with because most of them are at least decent sounding and consistent (i.e. no unexpected volume changes, etc.) before they're remastered. I think what a lot of people are hoping is that AI can take something like the awful Bath 1970 audience recording and turn it into an end product that sounds as good as How The West Was Won. I'm not sure if that will ever be possible. I can see a time when it is, but there would need to be considerable effort put into training the AI and I don't know who will do that. If bands like Zep think they can use AI to do that and are willing to pursue it because there's money to be made, it may happen. If it's just left up to fans, I'm not sure how many people have the technical knowledge and time train AI. Additionally, there are a few things AI currently struggles with when trying to parse some Zep songs that may remain challenging. In particular, the vocal and guitar duets that Robert and Jimmy engaged in during 1969 are difficult for AI to separate adequately. It generally just puts both those sounds in the vocal track. Also, most AI has been trained on acoustic pianos, so they struggle at times when JPJ uses an electric piano or other type of keyboard. It should be technically easy to resolve that by training the AI on the type of keyboard he's using during a given show, but that training takes time and a lot of samples of the individual instruments and the complete songs to be done correctly. The other issue is when JPJ and Jimmy are both playing guitars/mandolins/three neck acoustical things. AI cannot currently separate those instruments. It's possible to create a pseudo-stereo spread of them based on AI putting them all in one stem, but it's not the same as having each instrument in its own track. After all that, hearing is worth a thousand words. Here's an example from something I'm currently working on. Having AI parse the songs into individual tracks took a couple of hours, and in this case it did a particularly good job separating the piano from the rest of the music.. Mixing the tracks by hand took another couple of hours. Making the resulting stereo songs sound as good as possible will take a couple of months, if not more, although I work very slowly so someone else might be able to finish a remaster like this much more quickly.

It mentions that no audio or video had surfaced as of that time. Perhaps I should have phrased it differently, or just not posted it.

Thanks for posting this. Must have been a lot of disappointed fans in Frankfurt. Given that Hamburg is a four to five hour train ride away, I'm guessing a lot of them didn't make the journey because of the travel time.

Thread about the recording with pictures from the show.

Amazing that stuff is still coming out so long after the concerts took place. Thanks for your work to make these available for the rest of us to see.

Thanks. I'm glad you like it.

Looks like the second, third, and fourth songs got corrupted when I created the original ZIP file. I fixed those songs and created a new ZIP file. I sent the new link to everyone to whom I sent the original link. If you want a copy of the show, please send me a message and I'll make sure you get the link to the new ZIP.

Here's another installment in The Stereo Project. This one is for my buddy Mike, who was there that first night at MSG. Send me a PM for the link.

Love that last one, with the lighter and the hands raised. Thanks for posting them.

It was first released as Rampaging Cajun on EV.

Agreed. It's great to have you back.

Very cool to see but also bittersweet, knowing it was their last public performance with Bonzo.

There's also a slightly smaller one of Robert available, and both it and the one of Jimmy mentioned here can be found on ebay by searching for "Led Zeppelin cardboard cutout". Obligatory note that I am not affiliated with the seller, just passing along the info.

The site is now gone for good. StarShip posted a message on it recently saying something had happened. He didn't give any details, but he did say he was taking the site down and the URL is now returning a "site not found" error. Sad to hear. He obviously loves the band and put tons of effort into the site, and it was a great resource for the community. StarShip, if you read this, thanks for keeping the site going as long as you did.

Thanks. He and John Entwistle, bass players for two of the heaviest live acts of the 1970s, both chose to use the same kind of bass in concert, so it must have been badass live. I'm not sure why it sometimes sounds so lightweight on recordings.

I wasn't familiar with the grading system for buildings, so I checked and only 2.5% of the ones that are graded are listed as grade 1. That makes this house one of the finest old buildings in the country. More info about the grading system: https://www.comparemymove.com/advice/surveying/listed-buildings-explained#:~:text=Grade I listed buildings are,making it the rarest option. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_building

I merged the remastered soundtrack to the video. Here's a sample. Send me a message if you want a link to the full version.

Thanks for making this available. The 1971 tour is a highlight of the band's career for a lot of people, so anything new we can hear from it is very welcome.