1/26/69 Boston 7/21/69 Central Park 7/25/69 Midwest Music Festival 8/18/69 Toronto 10/30/69 Buffalo 11/7/69 Winterland 1/9/70 RAH 2/28/70 Copenhagen 3/21/70 Houston 4/17/70 Memphis 9/19/70 MSG

Has anyone ever notice the technical difficulties during Whole Lotta Love and Heartbreaker? The problems begin right before the theramn solo with the guitar cutting out on the recording. The for 99% of the Theramin solo the theramin is barely audible. It cuts back in with only a few notes left for the theramin part. The same problems can be heard for the first couple minutes of Heartbreaker. Sounds like a defective mic cutting in and out. I’m not sure these issues can be fixed for an Official release. EDIT: It sounds like JPH bass goes out for a while during Heartbreaker too. Before the solo.

6/23/77 LA. I think since it’s famous and Keith Moon was a guest that everyone praises it. Achilles Laat stand it good. I tbink 6/21 and 6/27 have much better No Quarters easily. 6/23 No Quarer is nice the the middle section doesn’t take me where I need to go. Plus to many broken strings and mess ups. If the recording was poor I’d guess not many could praise it as much

Yes his name is known but I’m not sure if the gear was known. He saw two amazing Zeppelin shows.

He also taped one of the Oakland 1970 sources. He did almost nail the tape flips and I think he made a great sounding recording. There is a tape flip during the intro of Going to Calirofnia and also during Going Down Slow during the WLL medley. Check every 40-45mins and you’ll her the cut. Not much was missed at all and he did do a great job.

Agreed with both of these too. I like the 5/18 version of Earls Court the best

Agreed. 3/12 is right up there at the best of the tour with 3/21

Maybe it would be easier to divide it by year since they each had their own identity? 1973 Kezar 1975 Seattle 3/21 1977 LA 6/21 1979

All this talk of a possible new live release from Zeppelin I sure wish they would locate these tapes. I’ll bet they are as exciting at the French broadcast from 1969 which was officially released.

Other than the bands archives ( or "misplaced" tapes from years ago) I don't think many tapes are in the hands of so called hoarders. Most tapes have been liberated or circulated at this point. I sure hope a few more turn up eventually but in the late 80s and 90s new tapes were surfacing on a regular basis. Right now it's been a LONG time since more than one or two new audience tapes circulated.

I believe most of the 1973 shows came from a source in England - 1st gens from the person who lifted them from Page. I think 3 or 4 came from Sean the Bootlegger and acquired from an inside source in the US.

Funny, that's is exactly what I said earlier in this thread ( but for some reason my post was deleted). I posted a guess that one CD set would be the mono mix (bass guitar only in one channel and the other three in the other). It looks like this is exactly what is on these releases

Nice post. These would be some amazing shows. Kind of sad to see such a long list of potentially great shows of which we dont have recordings.

Duckman is correct with his info and around this time is when we first got the Toronto and Hampton 1971 soundboard fragments and the Jennings Farm outakes and the No Quarter studios outtakes.

The story on the recording is that he kept the recorder under his seat. So when he would pull it out to check it or flip the tapes the sound quality improves briefly.

I think it's 6/27/77-LA. A guy says it a few times, "Robert, you have my Elvis T-shirt!" Tampa 73 or 77. A guy shouts out "Robert Plant you have curly hair!"

7/21/69 Central Park. During the HMMT medley plant is getting into the Lemon Song and a guy shouts out "You squeeze too hard..." Both Plant and the audience cracks up. To which Plant responds, "...if you squeeze as hard as that, there ain't gonna be nothing left for tomorrow..." 9/16/70-Boston. During the Let That Boy boogie segment, some guy yells out, "...come on do it, do it..." to which Plant responds "....I do it every night..." and they launch into the song and tear the place apart. 8/15/70 Yale Bowl. Too many funny comments to recount here. During the Dazed bow segment a friend of the taper says "...it sounds like the Twilight Zone..." Montreal 1975 has a ton of funny comments too. The most annoying thing has to be Detroit "73 where the guy sings right into the mic during The Ocean. And Cleveland '77 I think the guy says "Boring" during the middle of Mobt Dick.

Maybe I'm all alone here but would it be so hard to release each session complete and in proper order of when the session/shows were recorded? Rather than having partial sessions and shows divided up into different discs and certain songs lumped into an extra disc. It just seems so amateurish to not put things in proper order and in sequence. I just dont get it...

To continue the off topic stuff, back when Hampton surfaced around 1990-1995, it was unmixed. The bass guitar was on one channel and the vocals, drums and guitar was on the other channel. And for a killer Thank You, check out Boston 1971. The last few minutes are prime Zeppelin.

Great choice. Forgot to mention that one above. Of course for historical reasons their first show and their first USA show.

4/18/69 NY University Jazz Festival 5/11/69 Green Lake Aqua theater, Seattle Royal Albert Hall '69 Bath festival '69 Central Park, NY '69 (the other set not in circulation) Carnegie Hall '69 All of March 1971, UK tour 5/4/71 Odensen, Denmark 5/10/71 Liverpool All of the November and December 1971 UK tour Perth 1972 Denver '72 **pontiac 1977 video

One that should get mentioned is 3/24/75-LA Forum. The sound of Pages guitar and the JPJ Orchestra sounds otherworldly at the moments after Roberts sings "...all will be revealed..." And every other point in the song when Page plays that riff Its like one a wall of whah whah fuzz that just sound amazing. To me that is the difinitive "sound" of the song live. http://youtu.be/2gAjGB__PzM

There is nothing to be skeptical about my friend. There are reported interviews with the Zeppelin sound men during 1970 where the FOH sound engineer was set up behind the amps to run the sound for the shows. So it makes sense the deck would be right there. Especially for shows with a very small stage.

I was able to find Essen pictures and added them to my initial post (the last two). With the deck rolling for two shows you have to hope they also recorded the Cologne and Berlin shows too. That would be four summer 1970 soundboard recordings that could exist (at least two should exist as evidenced in the photos).

About 12 years ago during a search I located a set of Zeppelin photos from the "Stars & Stripes" archive of the Frankfurt July, 1970 concert. While the pictures were great, the exciting thing was seeing the reel-to-reel deck rolling away by the soundman behind the amps on stage. I believe another set of photos from the previous night in Essen were dug up by someone else and again you see the reel to reel deck rolling away during the performance. Without hearing these tapes, one has to think they sound as good as the Paris 1969 recording, or any soundboard really. I sure hope Page has these tapes and we get to hear them one day...