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^I was talking about the audio boot set...
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The Garden Tapes boot (all 3 nights complete or as complete as possible) is all I listen to from these shows...
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I'm going to see a favorite band of mine, ...And You Will Knows Us By the Trail Of Dead on March 1 in Boston...can't wait. They're newest album, which came out this past Tuesday, is fucking EPIC!
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I beg to differ.
Wow, really? You're the first person I know who's said that! Have you heard the VFABP tracks?
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The real shame is that except for SF 12/13/71 and Young Vic in April '71, it's a year that was AMAZING for The Who but has loads of rubbish recordings, sound-wise. Same with 1972 and 1973 (which is a crime...Quad is my favorite Who album!)
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I've never claimed to be a Who completist, but I have the above shows. Right now I'm listening to the Amsterdam 9-29-69 show.
Sounds superb! Keith Moon is perfect for The Who. He's busy and brings a jazz feel, like Mitch Mitchell brought to the Experience.
That Amsterdam show is a killer...there a few goofs during Tommy but overall it's awesome.
Little bit of trivia...when running up the stairs to go onstage at the beginning of the show, Moon tripped and fell and bloodied himself pretty badly...still played the entire show. This is a guy who played some gigs in 1969 with a BROKEN FOOT...just downed a LOAD of pills and played. The guy was a nut, but one of the best drummers ever!
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The San Francisco show is available in higher fidelity on bootleg.
I knew you were a Who fan, I meant others!
I have the SF bootleg on silver CD...it's a SBD but is a rough sounding one...still great, but trust me the sound quality on VFABP blows it away!
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Are there any other hardcore Who fans (Moon-era) like me here??
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Haha.
I think from 2007 onwards, he's looked better than he has done since 1996!
Agreed...and I can see the resemblance...Robert rules though (love that quote about Communication Breakdown and his pants!)
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Yeah The Who, Beatles, and Led Zeppelin are my 3 top bands of all time...just fantastic...
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Tanglewood is in the highest echelon of Who performances.
Yep...just about as good (and different from) as Leeds...
Have you heard the tracks from San Francisco 12/13/71 on View From a Backstage Pass? Holy crap, the sound is phenomenal...best live version of Bargain EVER!
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I forgot 7/7/70 Tanglewood...another fabulous show
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The Beatles are one of the all-time greats...I love 'em!
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Wow...so many amazing Who gigs, but the top shows in terms of sound *AND* performance:
Fillmore East 4/6/68
Amsterdam 9/29/69
Live at Leeds Complete 2/14/70
Dayton, OH 8/13/71
San Francisco 12/13/71
Young Vic 4/26/71
Philly 12/4/73
Landover 12/6/73
Charlton 5/18/74
Houston 11/20/75
Springfield 12/1/75
Toronto 12/11/75
Kansas City 12/1/75
New York 3/11/76
Boston 4/1/76
Charlton 5/31/76
Swansea 6/12/76
Toronto 10/21/76 (last ever gig in North America with Moon)
12/15/77 Kilburn (not the best show but still damn good...2nd to last show ever with Moon)
There are many more but these are the ones that are at the top of the list...
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Rush rules! Seen them 3 times and hopefully will see them some more. Awesome band...
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Achilles was one of the first non-mainstream-played-on-the-radio Zeppelin songs I discovered as a child...I was like "WHOA" back then and still am now when I hear it!
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I find it ironic that with all the trouble that when on during the 77' tour, probably the best selling & most famous Led Zep shirt is from this tour.
Good point!
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^^I wasn't necessarily implying that Bonzo *played* like shite...he actually was really excellent. But he was going nuts with the booze and drugs as much as Jimmy...it just didn't affect his performances...
Jimmy could alternate, as you said, between phenomenal and phenomenally awful...and that super-thin guitar tone he had on this tour...awful! He looked lousy, too...gaunt and frail...and Bonzo looked fat and bloated...
Sad, really...
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I'm a huge fan of both The Who and Zeppelin! Glad to see others around here as well!!
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Well Achilles has long been one of my favorite Zeppelin songs...and I *did* discover it when I was 10 yrs old (that's almost 12!
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The 1977 tour was just so negative and dark, overall...it just has that vibe. Some of my favorite Zeppelin concerts and setlists are from this tour, but overall there was so much more behind it than the previous tours. It seems like 1975 was the last time a Zep tour was "fun"...1977 just doesn't seem "fun" even when you listen to the best shows.
The crowds were there for the event more than the music (riots, constantly tossing firecrackers at the stage, etc) and Page and Bonham were so far up their own arses with drugs/booze it affected the performances (Page, mostly...either brilliant or shite)...
Still it's a tour that fascinates me and continues to to this day...
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Just got this boot...when I thought Led Zep SBDs couldn't get any better (the Landover '77 gigs, San Diego '75, Southampton '73, to name a few) this comes along and blows me mind!
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No, unfortunately there is not...