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  1. Football- last game at Wembley was 25 May England v Scotland international. Also stadium concerts on grass pitches hadn't taken off in the UK at that time. Only 1 gig at Wembley Stadium in 1974 CSNY and 1 in 1975 (June) Elton John/Beach Boys/Eagles. The Who put the boot in tour of 1976 had them play single gigs at 3 Football grounds after the football season ended: Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, The Valley, home of Charlton Athletic in London and The Vetch Field, Swansea, Wales. It's the first stadium mini tour I can remember.
  2. Hi Steve please could you send me a link. many thanks
  3. Agreed. Heck of a shock when I put it through my amp and the house felt the bass. Suspect this is more like the concerts sounded and felt like. At knebworth I could feel the bass pedals in my chest at 100 yards.
  4. The only part of that concert I listen to is the acoustic set.
  5. Destroyer on cassette - remember loving the sound but being underwhelmed by much of the performance.
  6. I’m amazed they didn’t walk off after the rocket incident let alone play such a great gig. This was always a show I really liked but the Lirio remaster takes it somewhere else. After years of listening to limited quality cassette tapes I am eternally grateful to all of the talented people who have taken the time to remaster recordings and share their work. i enjoy reading the nitpicking series, it will be interesting to read an impartial critique of the knebworth gigs compared to my own thoughts (based on audience and soundboard recordings and dvd’s) which are always going to be coloured by my experiences.
  7. I think that your last paragraph sums up a lot of 1977 for me. Most of the gigs I’ve listened to are ok up to sibly. If page loses the plot in no quarter that kills the song for me. Ten years gone can be a struggle but the acoustic set through to Kashmir is usually good. over the top is jump to next track. The guitar solo I can live with as long as it doesn’t go on too long. Achilles- can sound as if it is on the verge of falling apart but they normally hold on. Then comes stairway and the solo in that can again kill the song. A few mistakes by page doesn’t wreck the gig for me, but when he’s improvising and struggles it can be painful to listen to.
  8. Different folks and different strokes. To me because Jimmy sounds a bit meh it was a major disappointment when I first got hold of 27 April tapes in the 80’s. I’ve tried several times but can’t get into the concert as a whole. I like the sound quality of the Houston show but Jimmy isn’t great. Jonesy rarely had a bad song let alone a bad gig, Bonzo rarely mucked up. Robert had struggles over the years but if Jimmy was off I have problems. 77 to me Jimmy was inconsistent within a gig let alone from gig to gig. Perhaps I need to change my way of listening to these concerts and create a highlights playlist of the songs I can listen to and enjoy.
  9. I thought that the mellotron tapes were limited by their size so could only be used for short bursts at a time before resetting and that under hot lights I.e. on stage the tapes could stretch and cause the equivalent of tuning and pitch issues. Hence it’s unpredictability on the 75 tour.
  10. As it’s February time to think of St Valentine’s Day. With the 21.3 release i’ve Neglected 14.2.75 for a while. A mistake on my part.
  11. Amazing sound quality on that one, but like the current 1977 soundboards not one of the best performances I’ve heard. Love/hate 1977 I get the feeling that some gigs would have been better experiencing the show than listening to the tape. cutting back some of the bloat in NQ, white summer/black mountainside, over the top and the guitar solo would have tightened the shows no end. But those days were what they were. Maybe there is a killer 1977 soundboard out there somewhere to go with the LA Millard tapes.
  12. The remastered TSRTS has been on for some time and I've been listening to recordings from the 28th and 29th. i understand the Frankenstein job on no quarter a lot better and can see why plantations were omitted. However although the sound is stunning it just doesn't flow like a live gig.
  13. 24 march 1975. Tended to listen to seattle/Vancouver and the other LA shows rather than this one so haven't played for a while.
  14. Falconer theatre Copenhagen 24 July 1979. Haven't listened to this in a long while, I think the rhythmical clapping always put me off what was a good gig
  15. I can't play guitar so can only go by what I hear. Jimmy's playing sounds different after1973, His playing style does not sound as fluid. It sounds as if he has changed his style/technique for some reason but I am not qualified to even speculate why.
  16. zurich 1980. European championships because it's that time.
  17. Seattle 21 March 1975. First time I've started listening to it as a whole concert
  18. 27 June 1977 - Working through concerts I haven't listened to in a while.
  19. Knebworth 11 August. I still remember bricking it that the equipment was going to fail every time I listen to the gig.
  20. Wish jimmy and Robert would read this and act on it. A warts and all Earls Court compilation and 21 June 1977 matrix would make a lot of people very happy and leave a fitting record of live zeppelin post 1973.
  21. 21 June 1977. Never got into the 1977 tour, either had indifferent recordings of good gigs or good recordings of indifferent gigs. Now got a proper recording and I can hear why people would prefer this to any soundboard of the gig.
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