Nice! By the way, 3-19-75 got a bunch of mentions in this thread already. I'm curious, why that one? Out of the four NW dates in '75, I would rank it third behind 3-20 and 3-21. Just curious what you guys and gals are loving about it! (it's a great version no doubt, but still)

I'm not sure what source I have (purchased it on ebay), but it sounds good with the exception of Celebration Day which just sounds like hell with the guitar and the rhythm section all blending together. My highlights (same as ZepHead, plus two more): SIBLY, D&C (it's almost as good as Europe '73), Going to California (phenomenal interplay between JPJ and Jimmy), and one of the best WLL ever.

Do it! The band sounds psyched to be giving the material to a brand new audience. Ironically, it begins with a hiccup - Immigrant Song is botched when Jimmy busts a string, no fast transition to Heartbreaker, but we do get some plantations while the guitar is being restrung.

Do we know where JPJ bought the piano from? Was it acquired during the 10 intermission days? I'll join in for the second leg of the 1975 tour! Meanwhile, playing 9-23-71 today.

Hey, I read elsewhere that Jimmy switched to the strat for this one. Is that true? And if so, was this highly unusual for NQ? (not a guitar player lol)

That's partly why, although those versions wouldn't make my top 10 let alone 5, I do like NQ during the first leg of the '75 tour, broken finger and all. Like, for example, Greensboro 2-29-75 - it totally still has that doomy '73 vibe to it, even if Jimmy's playing is limited. It's the Fender Rhodes!!

Rank them! Here's my current one... this is so terribly, terribly hard 1. 3-21-75 2. 3-27-75 3. 2-13-75 4. 3-20-75 5. TSRTS (not the remaster) I still haven't heard a bunch of them, excited to see the replies!

2-16-75 The first leg of the 75 tour comes to an end with a St Louis show. Wasn't it a rescheduled show too, making up for one of the days when Plant was sick early in the tour? Led Zeppelin would return 10 days later and things would really begin to take off... although I think that the last few dates of the first leg, certainly 2-12, 2-13, 2-14 and 2-16 are actually every bit as good as the end of February-March shows

Wow, not me. The studio track barely has a guitar solo... plus Plant does some really good shrieks before/after the solo and at the finish (that is, when his voice allows him to, like 3-19-75 for example). I certainly prefer the '75 versions though, when Jimmy was a little better overall

I think for me it's a question for time more than anything. If I'm playing a show whle doing work from home and there's enough time for the whole thing before Mrs comes home, then the whole show gets played. If I'm in my car (alone), same. If I know there isn't enough time for the whole thing, Moby is the first to go, then if there still isn't enough time, Stairway goes next. That usually does it. If I play two shows on the same day and both contain TSRTS/RS, I will usually skip that combo in the second show. I love everything though. It's my favorite band!

Some that haven't been mentioned yet... Seattle 3-17-75, during the introductions after Sick Again - "A town of great fishermen, including our drummer" All the Bonzo intros are priceless, really, my favorite being the lengthy one quoted above, from a delay in the show. Then I'd have to go with this one from one of the '75 MD intros - "One of the more gentle men in rock" Either Vancouver 3-19 or 3-20, as JPJ is taking his sweet time switching between the Fender Rhodes and the clavinet for TUF - "Come on Jonesy, I'm running out of lines here!" During the same Vancouver shows, in between songs somewhere, to an audience member (I presume) - "Leave the lady alone, will ya?" During 1975, introducing D&C (honestly don't remember which show) - "This is what you might call an immaculate conception" (or something very close to that) And - those bratty rock stars! - NYC 2-12-75, after Sick Again: "Good evening! I said GOOD EEEEEEEEEVENING! That's better." And then, during the ensuing monologue, "you realize we had to walk four blocks in the snow to get here" (and I'm always thinking, yeah and so did the audience lol) - that whole intro is rock star at its best Just some that came to me immediately, from the shows I've spun recently.

Uh, I haven't heard them all so I currently can't argue for which one is the best. That said, 1975 is my fave year for NQ by far; '73 versions while sweet are too short and '77 loses the plot completely with Nutrocker and the pointless blues jam plus Jimmy is not as good during the main jam as he is in '75 IMO. So, I'm basically choosing from the available '75 versions almost by default. I easily rate 3-21-75 as the best of what I've heard from that tour. JPJ's piano concerto catapults the track into a jazz heaven. The authority with which Bonzo joins in is unlike anything else I heard with 1975 NQs. Pagey is on fire and the conclusion of the main jam with JPJ going completely off the rails and doing his own thing for a while surpasses 2-12-75 which is the only other time on that tour that I heard him do that. Loose does not begin to describe it, they capture the essence of jazz right there. I actually still haven't heard the sbd (should have it shortly) - my opinion is based on the audience tape of 3-21. I love that version. I also dig how if you listen to the previous two or three shows you can see how JPJ slowly warms up to this and then totally peaks on 3-21. His piano jams are okay on 3-17 and 3-19, but on 3-20 he begins to dominate. I love how on 3-20 Pagey (I presume?) has to send out the dogs of doom one extra time when JPJ just won't exit the main jam, soloing away on piano into rock n roll infinity. You can hear JPJ rising right there, and the next night he explodes. It definitely feels like a peak though because he then relaxes and fades into background for the Forum shows, the last two of which are really in many ways the opposite of his nuanced and over-the-top performances from 3-20 and 3-21 (just compare how in the Forum shows he does virtually no piano transition from the main jam back to the NQ theme - which is a shame because Jimmy's endlessly inspired solo from 3-27 is my favorite). So yeah, Jonesy is the star of NQ, and 3-21 is the Jonesiest NQ out there that I have heard so far! Hence it's my No 1

Woohoo, first post. Been lurking on this site forever, finally had to join! Today I felt the urge to dust off 5-22-77 "It'll be Zep". Haven't played it since last summer. The '77 tour is in my top five for Zep, probably in 5th place - I love the vibe and the middle third of the setlist is brilliant. 5-22-77 is hardly a spectacular show but it is the best we currently have for that whole tour sound wise, right? I have the Millard 6-21, 6-23, and 6-25 shows, as well as 4-27 and 5-30 of course, and I prefer the sound of 5-22, although I would love a matrix with the audience properly mixed in!