For some funny comparison on how quick these things can actually get made....EV just released a new version of their "Sun Vanishes" Cream bootleg, using the Nite Owl remaster that was uploaded to Dime on December 14, 2019. As of January 9, 2020, people were already posting pictures online of the new EV release. So, that means that it took approx 3 weeks total to go from Dime download to pressed cd, with full custom artwork and obi, all assembled and stamped with a "limited edition" number, put into a plastic sleeve, and onto the shelves in the bootleg shops. Talk about a fine-tuned process!

Keep in mind that Bootledz only reviews pressed CDs. As a result, any low gen upgrades or fan remasters will only show up on his site after they’ve been put to a bootleg CD. There are many versions of particular shows out there which sound better than the versions on the bootlegs, or which have improved on the boots via things like editing with other sources to make the show more complete, better EQ, speed correction, etc.

The Japanese fan twitter accounts will have the news first, along with Airraid. Should be soon, I would think.

The symbol is a type of merchant’s mark. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant's_mark

I imagine that it’s simply to build up the Moonchild line, and to take advantage of the profit of having the low-price series going. Jewel cases, simple artwork, cheap. I’m sure if they can get people to buy both the EV and the Moonchild versions, they’d like that even more.

They do it to make easy monnnnney. They have to have something to keep the store in business. Look at all of those Moonchild releases. Same as the majority of the recent EV releases. 9 out of 10 of them are re-releases of earlier titles, or clones of things from RO or Dime. Then they drop an incredible soundboard and boom.

They've been releasing these types of direct-from-dime clones more and more. I guess it's not that surprising, given the success of their Moon Child Records sub-label, which now releases cloned titles from all sorts of bands. EV has also started ramping up the release of non-Zeppelin bands on the main EV label as well. Allman Brothers, Beatles, Prince, Dylan, Queen, U2, Guns N Roses. They are still putting out new Zeppelin soundboards each year, so it looks like these releases of other bands are part of a new approach for the filler in-between.

The first vinyl bootlegs were Pb, and then the Trademark of Quality stuff got going with Live On Blueberry Hill. Then the floodgates opened. Dozens of vinyl bootleg labels, usually with funny names came out during that period. For the CD era, the late 80s saw a lot of the old tapes get put to CD. Neutral Zone put out the Blueberry Hill tapes from tape, and things like that and BBC 69 and 71 got cloned over and over and over. Tarantura came along in the early 90s and released a ton of great releases, lots of unbooted and unheard tapes, with nice artwork and packaging. Labels like Antrabata sprung up and did the same. The next wave was The Diagrams of LED Zeppelin (TDOLZ) in the 90s, which took the mini-lp artwork concept and released a ton of great releases, with era-correct photos and clever titles. The best part was that these were really affordable titles, released with serial numbers so people could track them all. Around the same time, Cobla/Cobra Standard and Last Stand Disc we’re putting out discs. 1998 saw the first Empress Valley release, of a Page/Plant Japan set. They followed up with various releases, in the style of TDOLZ-meets-Tarantura. Upgraded tapes with nice artwork. The Bonzo’s Birthday Party boxset was a winner, and so was Deep Striker - the Millard recording of the final LA Forum show. EV also launched a sister label called Mid-Valley Records, which released Eric Clapton and related titles at first. Fast forward to 2002 and Empress Valley released the first “soundboard revolution” title, the complete soundboard from New York 2/12/75. Soon after, the Eelgrass label began cloning all of the EV soundboard releases, a practice which they've continued today. Around the same time as EV was starting up, a “new” Tarantura label came out, called Tarantura2000. Unfortunately, unlike the original Tarantura - which released clean transfers of tapes, the T2K releases have commonly featured overly-eq’d versions of commonly circulated shows. Even when they have released a rare/unheard source, they rarely release it as a clean transfer. The recent Osaka 9/29/71 Mr Peach audience source is needlessly boosted to the point of distortion. Since the early 2000s, labels like Wendy have put out dozens of titles - most of them inferior to other titles of the same show. The latest wave of titles has come via labels like Lighthouse (No Label), Eat a Peach, and Graf Zeppelin. Meanwhile, Empress Valley is still going strong, along with Tarantura2000. For more year-by-year info for individual titles, check the Labels page on the Bootledz site. Worth pointing out that for the past 20 years, as torrenting and direct downloads have evolved, a good chunk of the bootleg industry has relied on fan remasters and fan-sourced recordings for new material. Tarantura 2000 in particular has copied many of the Winston Remasters fan releases, while many labels have taken advantage of the lowgen/master upgrades circulated over the years via Royal-Orleans, or by people like weedwacker and groups liks JEMS. This trend hit a unique milestone in the past few years with Empress Valley's debut of the label "Moon Child Records", which began releasing Winston Remasters titles at a low cost. Moon Child has since expanded to releasing clones of titles from other bootleg labels, while Empress Valley has also ramped up the use of fan remasters - such as recent releases using the Nite Owl matrices of Texas Pop, Fillmore 69, and Blueberry Hill, as well as the inclusion of both Winston Remasters and Bootrock remasters on their latest 929 boxset.

And Davy Graham inspired Four Sticks... https://youtu.be/qaamD4-VvUI

It’s a mirror. Oh, the endless debate regarding that simple piece of stage setup...”It’s a mirror” is about as close to a legitimate meme as the Zeppelin community ever got.

Glad that they will be releasing the soundboard and a soundboard/audience mix. They should have done the same thing when they first released the 929 soundboard.

Exactly. And think of how many years that Page and the band’s employees, friends, and families have had these various tapes. There was that quote someone posted from Phil Carson, who played during the encores at Osaka 928. His comment was along the lines of listening to the 928 tape the next day or something like that. That was 48 years ago. It’s not as if these things got forgotten and all of a sudden got dug up in the 90s and thrown onto cassettes. These recordings have probably been archived multiple times over the decades. Just look at Page’s recent photobooks. He kept EVERYTHING from his time in the Yardbirds, Zeppelin, etc. Clothes, memorabilia, documents, photos, receipts. Many things that you’d think he wouldn’t have bothered with given his celebrity status. Yet they’re all perfectly preserved, just like that Tower House he owns. Hard to imagine that he would treat the Zeppelin live tapes any different.

They still have the 10CD Box of the LA 75 Millard tapes for sale, and the samples I heard sound awesome. Can’t imagine them releasing LA 75 content given how recent that box was. Come on everybody. Long Beach 3/12/75. Let’s will this thing into existence.

Would love Long Beach 3/12/75. Philadelphia 2/8/75 would be wonderful as well. Of course, the rest of that 929 show too.....

Not sure, but here’s the breakdown of the 929 box from one of the Dime threads: Disc 01-03: Mr T Tack Master - Newest audience sourceDisc 04-06: BS Master - Previous audience sourceDisc 07-09: Hagure Gumo Edit - Copy of Winston Remaster Kutabare MoonchildDisc 10-12: Sanda You Edit - Copy of BOOTROCK Mix

What do you have?

The source on Blackbeauty is a legit upgrade of one of the alt audience sources. Not a bad start so far.

Mark McFall eh? Shiiiiit. Mad Respect to the OG

Yep. Wendy’s last noteworthy release was one of the Dallas 75 boards, which was one of the only soundboards to not be sourced from an EV title. Since then, it’s been a steady stream of re-hashes, un-credited clones, bad EQ jobs, and wind-chime-metallic-noise-reduced shows, often with other dates spliced in to make them complete. In today’s game, it’s all about Empress Valley, Graf Zeppelin, Lighthouse/No Label, Golden Eggs, and Eat a Peach.

Who can translate all the Japanese on the back?

Belfast 1971. One night only. By the next night in Dublin he was already singing some parts of Black Dog lower.

Jimmy Page wrote at least one tune in a Ventures style too...Called Heartbreaker.

I had no idea this existed. Now that I have listened to a good bit of it, it's hard to not hear this as the audio equivalent to Courtney Love's visit to Wendy's. WTF was Page doing in Tahoe anyway? Meanwhile, some 400 miles away on this exact same night, while "Really special guy Jimbo Page" was doing this blistering set at Crystal Bay with Solid Ground, these bunch of literal nobodies were doing a one-off show fresh out of the recording studio:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_d'Estrées_et_une_de_ses_sœurs