Nice remaster. Takes the edge off the original Magical Sound Boogie release. Biggest improvement is in the bass sound.

When this first came out I thought they wrote it. When I then heard the original I could not believe how different they were, but both are fantastic.

If you like this type of stuff, the whole album is called Horizontal, by Moodswings. It is the third Moodswings album, out in 2002. Much spacier than their first 2 - Moodfood and Psychedelicatessen . Anyway, I can only find a few tracks from this double CD on YouTube to post. The real title of this one is Opium at 45 Degrees, a second version of the track Opium on the first disc. The other tracks on YouTube are the more conventional ones with vocals - the best ones are not on YouTube as far as I can find.

It is interesting to think back to those times in 1975-77. None of my close friends saw Zep until 1977. We knew some older friends who saw them in 1975. They just said they were blown away and it was the greatest concert ever - no comments about Plant's voice. I do recall wondering about the vocals on some of HOTH in 1973 thinking what is that? NQ - I get the atmospherics. But TSRTS vocals? Did not seem right to me. Still don't. But I digress. When PG came out it was just so overwhelming. I never really thought about the vocal change. Every Zep album was different so I just thought he is singing this way to fit the mood of the song. I loved the dark vibe to his voice in things like Kashmir, Trampled, Dying Time, Sick again, Custard Pie, Wanton Song. So much of that album had a dark and mysterious vibe to it. Same thing for Presence. Loved every bit of it and thought Plant was perfect for the songs. I was not thinking his voice changed or was shot - I was thinking these songs and lyrics and delivery are so great and so different. Then the movie and soundtrack came out in fall 1976 and again, none of us thought "oh his voice is shot". We just loved the music. One thing I really noticed was how much better I liked the vocals in TSRTS track compared to the album version. And the Rain Song - so much better vocals live on that soundtrack than on HOTH. Then I finally saw them in 1977 and was blown away by Plant's vocals, and of course all the rest of it. I did not hear my first bootleg til around 1979 - the BBC 1971 session. I guess I was so involved in digging the music and the newness of PG and Presence, I never really thought his voice changed. I thought he just changed his approach to fit the songs and lyrics. Looking back now and hearing so many live shows over the years it is all so obvious, but back in 75-76 I was not thinking about his voice may have changed, and none of my friends ever said anything about that - we just all loved every bit of Zeppelin. Maybe because I was 16 and it was all so overwhelming to get a double album like PG after waiting 2 years from HOTH. Or maybe because his voice could sound so different from album to album and track to track anyway across all the albums.

Yes indeed. Thanks for the reminder. Great stuff. "Listen carefully to Jones" is always excellent advice.

Such a cool transition from WLL to Black Dog at the end of the show. I can still remember the day I first saw the Chicago 75 footage. Oh the days of trading VHS tapes through snail mail.

I can see that, as others have commented in other threads, the blues/boogie jams did not fit well with the overall feel of NQ. I like those jams though because they are so different, unexpected, and fun. NQ is always special, and so different from tour to tour. In 75 there was typically a long piano/drums jam in a jazzy, funky mode before the guitar came in. For 1977 the piano only section was one that evolved from late 19th century Romantic style to early 20th century then to jazz, then boogie-woogie when Bonham and Page entered together. It did change the mood entirely, but when it was done well it was very cool. I even like when they play Nutrocker even that was over the top crazy, but again, a nice fun bit of levity.

I first heard this song about a year after the single was released. In early 1970 my older brother brought home the US album release called "Hey Jude". Back then we had no idea it was a mashed up fake album. We marvelled at this track, Rain, Paperback Writer, Hey Jude, Lady Madonna, Don't Let Me Down, Old Brown Shoe. We didn't wonder why it had two really old songs on it either. I was 10 and I was just digging the Beatles. Of course we had no idea that this track was just John and Paul. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Jude_(Beatles_album)#Track_listing

If the soundboard CD has No Quarter I will be happy. Any LA 75 NQ is great but 3/27/75 is my favorite. And if the CD has NQ it may likely have Trampled which would also be amazing. That one-two punch of the second disc of most 75 shows is fantastic. NQ and Trampled.

Too bad they stopped touring. As Jagger told them, they stopped just as concert sound was getting better so that they could be heard above the crowd. That, and if they had toured in 1968-70 the fans were getting older and would not have been constantly screaming like in 1963-66. It would have been unreal to hear stuff like this in a place like Madison Square Garden with a huge sound system. This would have made quite a show opener in 1968-69.

I really like the way Page joins in with Bonham for the opening in this version. Too bad he did not play the opening that way more often.

How I wish that this were on the recent new soundboard release. Celebration Day in 1971 was something extra special, and this one is really out of this world.

Did not get to listen to this yesterday so I missed it by a day. 46 years and 1 day ago. I always liked the closing solo on Celebration Day here. Thank you. Good evening. It seems so early really to do a concert, you know? Cause we only got out of bed about two thirty. So you see, I just finished me bacon and egg, and here we are. Well this might, what's the name of this place?

Another superb performance! I saw this the other day through my Subscription. You guys are hitting on all cylinders.

Just about every song she sang with Fairport was special. This one she wrote while in the Strawbs was much better with Fairport and is perhaps her finest moment.

In the late 70s a friend bought big Advent speakers with their own powered amp built in for extra power. We set them up outside and decided to use this track to break them in and try them out.

I am confident the result will be great given the John Paul Jones quote in the Guardian article: Announcing the project, bassist John Paul Jones said: “The time was right for us to tell our own story for the first time in our own words, and I think that this film will really bring that story to life.” I am also happy to hear "no outside voices or conjecture". Many music documentaries are ruined by critics or hangers on saying stupid things. Sometimes in these documentaries the outsider commentary is good and insightful but many times it is insipid, even in the great episodes like Rush or Deep Purple Classic Albums series on AXS TV. The Machine Head episode had a minimum of stupidity from critics, but the Rush episode was ruined by the worst imaginable on air commentary by non band members.

I have been listening to the White Album recently and started thinking about what a single album version might look like. Then I did a search and found this thread. Interesting to see everyone's ideas. Here is my take. 1. "Back in the U.S.S.R." 2. "Dear Prudence" 3. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" 4. "I'm So Tired" 5. "Blackbird" 6. "I Will" I came to appreciate this song more when my band learned it for a wedding gig. about 18 minutes Side two 1. "Birthday" 2. "Yer Blues" 3. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" 5. "Sexy Sadie" 6. "Helter Skelter" 7. "Revolution 1" about 21 minutes

"unseen archival footage" I like the sound of that.

Kutabare Moonchild:Osaka Sept 29, 1971. Love the little hint of Living Loving Maid at the end of Heartbreaker.

I have not done a close comparison - they are both great. You can hear mp3s for both on the Japan Starship site.

If I recall my timeline correctly this came out in mid 1971. I did not really hear Zep until fall 1971 when I got introduced to LZ 2. My older brother and his friends were jamming to this album in summer 1971. I think it was the first live rock album I ever heard and it blew me away, especially the electric set. A year later I wanted a copy for myself. The closest real record store was 20 miles away. (The local "strip mall" had some type of cheapo version of K Mart - I am not sure K Mart was even in existence then - but they only stocked the latest Top 20 type releases and singles). I got a ride to the "real" mall with my mom and had to order the album, since it was now 1 year old and out of stock. Well it took forever to come in, and when it did I could not wait to get it home. Of course it was warped and had skips in it so it had to be reordered - what agony waiting for that second order to come in. I had older friends tell me the harmonies on the acoustic set were not great, but at age 13 in 1972 I did not care. I wanted to crank out the electric set.