Bonham. On the soundboards, for sure. He's usually yelling something here and there if you listen closely.

Rain Song 3/19, agree, added to my list. Great balance of the instruments, and even thought many Rain Songs are good, Plant really goes above and beyond. 3/21 SIBLY, respectfully disagree, but I base this on the guitar solos only. Moby Dick, good call. Communication Breakdown, everyone says 2/13, but its not a best of Zeppelin 1975 anymore! Gimme Zeppelin! Is a must have, but not for a perfect '75 Zeppelin IMO. BUT... you're right about the full song, so... ok. Glad we share the same Over the Hills favorites. As we've done our listening, we know 3/5 is pretty damn cool an unique. 3/20 is also on my list, and it almost made my number one choice. Theres a part where Jonesy does a funky heavy metal groove and the rest play along. Love him on bass.

Ok here it is. Some I intentionally left blank, because after so much listening I couldn't come to an answer. For Dazed I'd say 3/21, and splice in the beginning of Dazed from 3/19 or 3/20 (since the sound quality and levels are the same) when Pagey's (slightly) out of tune. The Rain Song? Your guess... I'd listen more for the mellotron being in tune, but I didn't hear a bad one. They had that song pretty solid. Seems like 3/19 and 2/28 were good. Moby Dick, I can't tell, lets let a drummer decide on that one. Rock and Roll - 3/21 Sick Again - 3/21 Over the Hills and Far Away - 3/19 (or 3/20, 2/13 is good, not the best sound quality) In My Time of Dying - 3/21 (or 3/20, or 2/28, latter is HOT but feels rushed) Since I’ve Been Loving You - 2/14 (IMO, think this spot works better than after NQ, slows things down) The Song Remains the Same 3/3 The Rain Song - Kashmir - 3/21 (2/14 honorable mention and all instruments are evenly balanced, 2/28 runner up) No Quarter - 2/28 (use a latter ’75 NQ w/ faster solo for a bonus track) Trampled Under Foot - 2/12 (or 2/14. I found 3/5 to be a pretty cool, but sloppy, version FWIW.) Moby Dick - Dazed and Confused - Stairway to Heaven - 3/21 Whole Lotta Love - 3/21 Black Dog - 3/21 Communication Breakdown - 3/21 Heartbreaker - 3/21 *No Quarter (later ’75 version) - (bonus track) ? My list before 3/21's soundboard came out was good too, don't get me wrong. Hope I still have it. Hope you like!

Done a great deal of listening to determine the best 1975 "show" using the best songs from each of the available soundboards, and I think you'll agree that its a pretty good list. I'll post it shortly when I get home!

Only one way to find out! (Fills up pitcher of water)

Its a good effort, but I think this project could use a version 2.0 from the maker of this matrix. IDK who made it, they came close, but I think they should run back through it, sync the audio a tiny bit more, maybe reduce the amount of audience recording 25%, and pan the soundboard slightly right and the audience recording a tiny bit more than that to the left. It does sound flangey, but all the good matrixes only have a touch of audience recording. They're nowhere near 50/50% sbd/aud. Not the good ones. Just hoping this guy gives it a little more time bc honestly it could come out REALLY good. I give it a 7/10 at the moment, only because the flanging sound. Just being honest, if I knew how to do these well I'd do them too... So basically, to whoever made this matrix, give it a couple months of work then release version 2.0. You might be surprised how popular that matrix could become. Just a little less audience tape. IMO.

2/28/75 gets one of my votes, but not my only vote. I get multiple votes.

I know, strange question, but a lot of Zeppelin's videos have them. I lost my booklet but by memory it says something similar to my original post? In the section talking about baking their film at 70-something degrees and all that. Weird stuff for a booklet, but got my curiosity.

Saw Boston when I was 12 or 13 (yes, they were old, but damn they sounded good) and I don't remember anything but having beer spilled on me, and Foreplay/Long Time, and Smokin. Lol. The organ did rise off the stage though. Maybe got some second hand smoke.

I like it all. The Millard recordings from the shows you've seen is why I'm here, and even though I'm a youngin', I've got quite a collection and got started about when the SBD revolution did, so lucky me right? Fuckin' A. Lets hear about the 25th and 27th, those are my most listened to boots probably in my whole collection. Haven't worn them out as much as the Eddie and Badgeholders show. Sights sounds crowd reaction, I like all of the above man. Thx for the posts, feels like you're there for a sec. Especially listening while reading your posts. And holy hell, you caught 3/12/75? I think that might be one of, if not the best, of 1975.

The Plumpton photos are incredible. East Coast of US is very rich and beautiful, but that looks straight out of a fairytale. Or straight out of the Shire. Wikiwikiwiki straight outta Shire, crazy mf named Bilbo. The one with the guy sitting by the water is crazy good. Very beautiful place, have to see it for myself one day.

These are really cool. Looks to be one of those crazy WW2 era board games popular in Europe? Genocide the board game... dark humor. Looks like the one above is called Concentration Camp actually

Its a Zeppelin mystery to me, and I'm sure many others, but what is the "horizontal lines" effect that happens with Earls Court, Knebworth, and Seattle '77 screen footage? All shows with screens present showing the video feed seem to have this, others with film cameras don't. Its briefly explained in the official 2003 DVD booklet, but doesn't make much sense to me. Is it along the lines of how a garage band can blow the breaker by playing loud, not always loud, but some notes/deep bass notes pull lots of power from the electric company? Hell if I know. I know I've blown a few breakers in my lifetime. Anyone who can explain this phenomenon would be greatly appreciated. Just gets my curiosity. The lines never have bothered me, or made any Zeppelin video less enjoyable, but I've wondered why...

Even if we're Zeppelin nuts, enough to bring us here to discuss Zeppelin on the regular, of course we disagree on many things, because we're all pretty dead set on what we like and don't like. Think you both make decent points though. One thing that sums up how I feel about the companion discs and the material chosen for them... something that sums up how I feel about them all in one sentence... What was wrong with including Danmarks Radio "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"??? I can't think of anything more worthwhile for a Zeppelin 1 companion disc. And if a live version exists in soundboard form that hasn't circulated in complete form, it could be even better. That just sums up how I feel about the whole project. Missed some great stuff, included some subpar stuff that even us diehards don't care for. Jimmy saying "didn't have much for Zeppelin 1 companion disc" is complete BS. BBC stuff would have been fine. Communication Breakdown from 4/1/71 is another I think easily would have done better.

Little did John Bonham know, may he rest in peace, that buying that kit for Jason at such a young age, and any lessons he may have given him at a young age, would be the #1 reason Led Zeppelin would reunite in 2007 with Jason on drums. Putting on a spectacular performance, even by Zeppelin's high standards. Theres no mystery about that one, folks.

But only 50% of the companion disc material was worthwhile, IMO, for two reasons. 1. Many tracks were hard to tell from originals to an average ear, even though SIBLY, Levee outtakes, and especially Immigrant Song were my favorites. Most sound extremely similar to the album version... most my friends wouldn't be able to tell them apart, who like Zeppelin. Which leads to #2, which 99% of people I know would prefer 2. Live material that sounded better than the disc 1 companion disc mixed in I think absence of live material (No Quarter from original TSRTS soundtrack for example) was the mistake, live material mixed in would have been a much better choice for noobs and the rest of us all. Even if it was stuff from RAH, Earls Court, Knebworth, etc. They had Texas Pop '69 and Fillmore to pull from, idk why they didn't.

Yes think its a small set he bought. Idk but I hurd it. Few more to confirm the Seattle or Pontiac photos, two more I haven't seen until recently. And one conspiracy theory, 8/7/71 , which is most likely an optical allusion and not a video camera, BUT other photos show the guy with what kinda looks like a large camera, and he's in almost every other photo from that show. I bet he has some amazing photographs. Besides theres rumors of 1970 and 1971 Montreux being recorded.

Seattle '77, been years since I've heard and seen the only pro-shot video from my favorite year of live Zeppelin, and its not half as bad as I remember. Besides, the youtube version above seems to have better sound quality than the two dvd's I have of the show. Need to check my versions. Also was messing around with 5/30/77 soundboard trying to sync it to the Seattle video, waste of time, I'll leave that to someone who knows what they're doing. But parts of it sounded and looked pretty cool, when it was in sync. Even the best soundboard from '77 doesn't distract from Jimmy looking super out of it. But again to be fair not half as bad as I remember the performance being.

Thanks! Never seen that one, good stuff man.

Where is the 1977 Opryland Productions video camera photo from? The Seattle '77 camera has a different logo from what I can tell, other photos show no logo on the Seattle cameras, so I'm guessing its one from Pontiac? Surely they weren't all handhelds for a gig of such magnitude. Both of the ones below show a rectangular logo, no curved line or mandolin like Opryland's. Worth noting Jimmy is on his knees in the first shot in question, which is why it looks odd.

Dude you definitely just found one of the best versions of SIBLY. Forgot about that one, sometimes audience recordings are overlooked. Forgot the quality of that recording too. Not far from a soundboard really. Impressive, sounds like 1971 or 1972 Zeppelin. Sounds like they were balls to the wall too, wonder if they were recording?

Now that you mention it, Jimmy is playing very well 6/19/77. I never noticed it out of the 100 times I've listened to it, but you're right. I guess Bonzo is such the distraction. Robert does pretty well too, but I gotta give it to Jimmy.

Just about every Winston is worth having. I have almost all of them that have been shared freely. Even the older ones. And I think he made a matrix or two, which are the only matrixes in my collection. I think its Seattle '73 from the early 2000's that turned out being really good. 9/29/71 Winston Remaster is the SHIT, must have.

I love to speculate but I think Eddie Kramer either said he wasn't there, or was somewhere else the same night. If memory serves me right. Not sure though. Carnegie Hall. Doesn't mean that a soundboard that sounds as good as 4/27/69 doesn't exist though. And regarding 8/28/71, if theres a soundboard from Orlando and Hampton, who's to say there isn't one from New Orleans.

Anybody have info on this photo? Posted by admin, but don't see it on this thread. Is that Bonzo? Hmm. Never seen this one, I've seen all the others on the web from Pontiac but not this one. Thanks Edit: its also on the Zeppelin Photo Mysteries thread. Bonzo goofing off with a bass.