That’s awesome!! A new uncirculated 1973 show in GREAT quality!! And given away for free. Basically complete too!! The new generation of fans of Led Zeppelin gets it!!

Just a guess but either too many copyright issues or maybe Page thought the performance sounded a little chaotic. He tends to want to only release things that a polished more than a new penny (except for TSRTS movie which is an edited nightmare). He needs to hire “ledzepfilm” to take all the known footage and edit each night separately first to see what footage actually exists from each night and then compile it all into one complete show.

Here are some...

Sure there are a few audience tapes which combined throughout the entire span of Zeppelin’s career might add up to a dozen decent audience tapes and they will always be nice to have. As you mentioned Chicago 1975, I’ll bet if we ever get soundboards of these shows 99.9% of collectors will never visit the audience tapes again. I’ll take even a rough soundboard over a craptastic audience tape recorded from 3 miles away under a seat covered with a shirt on a radio shack deck with built in mic

The soundboards from 1975 are so amazing any audience tapes from this tour are kind of worthless now and aren’t worth much unless you’re a stamp collector type.

I wonder how many 1975 soundboards are left from this source? 2/27/75-Houston 3/12/75- Long Beach 3/25/75 & 3/27/75-LA

Where?

Yes

They were done on C120 tapes. If the sound guy started the tape several minutes early it was just bad luck Side A ran out during The Wanton Song.

They should have had about 15/20 songs that they used in a varied rotation for openers and closers and the acoustic set. Then had a somewhat structured main body of their set lists. They could have swapped out those 15/20 songs and at least had different openers and closes and encores from night to night especially for the later tours when the did 2, 3, 4, 6 shows in the same cities. 6 nights of the same set list would get old after a while for the bands and crowds

Yes.

I agree about the jam. His voice isn’t too much different to my ears. And all of us have had a flu when we’re fine when we wake up and by mid day we are feeling bad and by night terrible. Same thing. It is odd why Plant says “are you recording tonight, we’ll leave that at the beginning of the tape...” after they do that 1st jam.

Interesting. Wonder why it’s partial

Did the site shut down? I’m not a member but I get this when I go there to browse.

I hope you find that photo one day!!

Yeah and to get good light at a concert you need fast film (400 or 800), and a lens that has a really wide aperture like F2. But most telephoto lenses dont open that wide. So you have to have it set to 1/60 or 1/125 like you did.

Slide film is usually pretty low, like 64 or 100 which is why I commented earlier that he did a great job considering is slide film.

Hoarder! Just kidding, you’re awesome! I love photography. Hard to get good lighting with slide film but you did really well!

Can anyone chop out the audience patches? There is one around the 23 min mark in the first few minutes of Dazed. The next one is right where Celebration Days starts and goes to the beginning of WIAWSNB.

Does anyone have Orlando 1971 without any audience source patched in? I’m looking for the soundboard portion only. Thank you so much in advance. Maybe Duckman?

Yes the Orlando 1971 soundboard recording is sort of odd for the tape flips. First side is 23 min 2nd side is 37 min 3rd side is 37 min 4th side is about 12/15 My only guess is it was accidentally started at the end of the tape from the night before and when the first tape ran out after 23 min a fresh tape was put in and why the sides match perfectly and then a 3rd tape was used for the final part of the show

Agreed but I did love 110 min metal tapes from the 1990s. Helped do things right many times. Its possible at the time the technology was still new and high bias 120 min tapes were thought of as high quality and professional and a good way to only use a tape or two per show. Just a thought. It is what it is... I listened to a bunch of shows today and it seems the Japan 1971, Europe 1973, USA 1973 and USA 1975 are all 120 min tapes. UK 1973, USA 1977 and Europe ‘80 were 90 min tapes

Plant is probably referring to earlier tapes they made with a simple set up with Pages Revox and a couple mics onstage like the Germany tour of 1970:

By chance the 1975 soundboards ran perfectly for tapes with 60 mins each side. The USA 1971 soundboard tapes have tape flips around the 45/50 min mark (Orlando seems different tho). The UK 1973 soundboard tapes have flips around the 45 min mark. The USA 1973 soundboard tapes have flips about the 60 min (if I’m remembering this tour correctly). The USA 1977 soundboard tapes have flips around the 45 min mark. The Europe ‘80 shows have flips about the 60 min mark (if I’m remembering correctly).