High-hopes Hailla
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Listened to it once straight off. Tomorrow I will dig into it deeper. I'd call the instrument/vocal mix pretty solid except is Bonzo WAY too fucking low (my most common complaint). Luckily there's an excellent Moby you can crank. I think it's amazing find, and a must-have for fans of America '70 shows. Intriguingly different from other great shows from this tour---but '70 shows have so much room for "choppin' and changin'," which is why my passion for '70 grows over time. Sound quality is comparable to other "very good" audience recordings from '70, except Bonzo. First couple numbers have heavy bass distortion but I can't tell if this is the PA Plant hilariously complains about (see "Dazed"), or the tape itself. I'm no expert. White Summer, SIBLY, Heartbreaker, Bring It on Home and Moby stand out on first listen. Makes me want to immerse myself in '70 for a while. Would love to read what others think.
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13 hours ago, LZ1 said:
Copy for sale on EBay from a Japanese dealer. Price circa $1700 excl shipping. Any takers?
Yes, I'll take two! You're buying, yes? Thanks.
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One of my favorite live tracks, because it's such an odd and compelling song all around, and they played it short and sweet. I prefer the "heavier" '73 version, though Plant's '71 vocals are amazing and the 12-string sound is distinctly "out there." A nice combo version is Charlotte, June '72, which has the arrangement that'd follow on the '73 tour, but Plant's voice is still at its high, powerful best---in a way it wouldn't quite be even by the end of the month.
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To my ears, this is one of the best '70 AUDs I've ever heard. Kinda..mind blowing!
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Would much appreciate a link, Steve. Thanks a million.
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I think your top choice of 7/27 Is a solid one. I’ve come to appreciate it more and more over the years in its full audience-tape glory. I can see why Page took so much of it for TSRTS. Back in the day (I bought the vinyl the day it came out) I believed Page and Plant’s excuses about it being “end of the tour/we were sooo tired,/not a classic representation of the band,” etc. ‘Course I believed it! I was 14, it was 1976, and I had nothing to compare the soundtrack to! A million years later I’m sure I’ve heard every “Dazed”’ played in ‘73 and I say this one’s a great choice. My go-to ‘73 Dazed, though, is L.A. June 3. Specifically the SIRA silvers I bought when they came out—-‘92 maybe? I haven’t found a better version of 6/3 outside of Winston’s remaster, but I ain’t got that on silvers, obvs. Something special about this version(I notice it didn’t make your list). Once you get past the awful tape glitches, the final 15 minutes are super-powerful, and the last 10 minutes are Page, Jones and Bonzo at their passionate best. THAT’S what I feel here: the emotions. The last three minutes never ever cease to make my jaw drop—after 3O years of the SIRA. And then Plant, at the end? His heartfelt compliment to Pagey? I’ve never heard Percy so sincere from the stage, and after the previous 30 minutes of vital emoting, it just feels so right. Anyway… good list, mate.
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On 7/18/2018 at 4:13 AM, Strider said:
I guess this thread is as good as any to submit the following. As some of you may know, I have been going through my old magazines reading Led Zeppelin stories and interviews from back in the day. I came across this interview Lisa Robinson wrote for Hit Parader on the occasion of the New York Premiere of "The Song Remains the Same". Excerpted from the April 1977 issue of Hit Parader. I have bold-faced the most interesting parts.
Lisa Robinson: Why did it take so long - two years it was mentioned - to complete the soundtrack album?
Jimmy Page: No way did it take two years. It didn't really take very long at all. It was recorded, obviously, at the same time as the gig, and then mixed over a period of three weeks with the film track. Then it took a couple of weeks for the album. In fact, the same tape that was used for the dub for the celluloid was used to make the stereo composite for the record. It's only one generation away.
Lisa: Do you feel the record works as a live album?
Jimmy: Well, it's a soundtrack, and you've got to think of it that way. If we were going to do a live album of our stuff we would do it differently. Mainly because we've got so many things that could capture people's imaginations. We've got live tapes that go back to 1969, things that we get off on, let alone people that are into us. There are many live sets like the one in the film, this just happened to be one of them. There are many of them, but this is the only one that has film to go with it.
Robert Plant: If we'd wanted to do a live album, well, we've got stuff from Japan...from all over, right through time. That would be interesting...
Lisa: When do you think you might release all that...'historic' stuff?
Jimmy: Well, it depends. If nostalgia is still with us in another five years, we'll push it. (Laughs). No, of course I don't think it's nostalgia, it stands up by itself. Even in the old days...there was a real leaning on the blues vein. But blues is still blues, and there you go. That's basically the framework of what some of those early things were; it was good blues, and there's still a place for that - there will be in twenty and thirty years.
This is a great post, thanks! And I probably read it when it came out ("showing' yer age, kids!'), but what's interesting is you can look back to random comments from '76 and see how Plant's talking about Japan '71 recordings, though Page spent many years after denying there was "anything in the vaults." As Chuck B. said: "It just goes to show, you never can tell."
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Holy crap! Another 30 minutes from a show I didn't know even existed as a recording until now. Jesus, this last couple years has been a crazy-good time to be a hardcore Zeppelin fan. A deluge of unexpected shows/sound boards/etc. unlike anything I've known--except for that early '90s period that followed the pilfering of Page's own tapes. So, is there like some high-end gang of wealthy Zeppelin Kollector-Kings out there who know everything that's potentially GOING to come out in the future--even if it's now held in private hands? (Fuck, I hate to sound so naive at my age...) Is it possible to compile a list of what MAY still see the light of day as boot-label silver CD's or the like? There HAS to be a reason for all this stuff coming out recently at such a high rate. It CAN'T just be one or two renegade collectives freeing up stuff hidden for 50 years. Can it?? The experts here are the ones I've come to trust on the deep-dive stuff. Thanks a million---for everyone on The Forum, frankly! Y'all rawk!
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Holy hell, this looks exciting!
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There were differences in the news source but, at least on first listening, not improvements. Seems to be more hiss but that may be from original source tape. IMO
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Yeah, I guess I'm piggy-backing here, but could I get a link as well? Every liriodendron I've heard is Incredible, and I've been searching with no luck for this '80 Frankfurt for some time! Man, I would really appreciate a link.
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There ya go! Thanks, man.
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On 7/10/2022 at 12:50 PM, zeplz71 said:
This sample has been making the rounds for a little bit. Seller is asking nutty prices for it.
Do we know for sure this is "8mm" format? Quality is better than so much footage from this era, so I'd suggest it's Super 8, if not actually 16 mm. I used to shoot a lot of 16mm in college; this reminds me of that. Super 8 image quality bested 8mm, which is why it became the go-to for amateur filmmakers in the late '60s. But in '73, Super 8 with sound on the film cartridge was introduced and quickly became the gold standard. This film is obviously silent. But the image quality is quite good given the problem lighting. That's why I think it may well be 16mm and maybe why they're asking so much $. There's not a lot of 16mm Zeppelin footage around as far as I know. Would love to hear anyone's thoughts.
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1 hour ago, luvlz2 said:
Excellent work!
Yeah this is great, LZF. I continue to be impressed by the fine quality of your work.
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Oh, wow! This footage is fantastic. Goddamn revelatory! Thanks for the great work.
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On 3/17/2022 at 3:21 PM, ZepHead315 said:
A little something I put together with a little help from some friends.
Aw wow! I am SO looking forward to this! Thanks for this great undertaking.
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Thanks for your links, SteveZ. So, I realized I'd already DL'd and enjoyed some of your Stereo Project work without knowing it was the stuff I saw more recently on B.B. Your results are truly amazing. Wasn't meaning to "damn you with faint praise" over the TISDU reference, BTW. I got to know that TISDU cat way back in my Badgeholders days---more than a dozen years ago ("Do ya believe that, constable?") and he was so enthusiastic about his work! So I asked for some CDR's, and while I got what he was going for, I thought the technology just wasn't quite there yet. Seems like it is now!
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OK---I got it now. Didn't know it was you, Steve. Back around 2008(?) I got to rapping with the TIDSDU guy, probably via "Badgeholders Only"? And he was so hot on his TISDU process on tapes, and he sent my a bunch of CDRs. My take was that his tech couldn't match his goals. Didn't mean to equate your work and TISDU, but I'm always leery of "projects" until I know who's doing them. As David Crosby sang, "Everybody's been burned before..."
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Hey guys: What's up with these "Stereo Project/Northbridge" posts on "BB" of some classic shows that have been popping up on the site like mushrooms in last week or so? I can't find any info. I've downloaded a couple but haven't had time (I have a sick 8-year-old on my hands!) to run them through my hi-fi, so not sure if they're in the realm of TISDU or something else. They certainly sound like fake stereo, at least initially. I'd appreciate an expert's take? (BTW, I'm one of those Zep fans who doesn't give a shit about being told I'm an idiot--becuz I'm fuckin' OLD and I saw them twice at MSG in 77. So I'm good with my Zep takes, right or wrong.)
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Thanks for your reply. When an expert tells me my instincts are correct, I dig it! But yeah, last couple weeks, this D-o-D Pontiac has dominated my sound system.
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Has anyone else heard the new (Fall 2021) Dogs of Doom release of this show--they call it an "upgrade"? I think it sounds better than my old TDOLZ silvers but can't really remember. In any case, D-of-D sounds pretty good given the source.
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Thanks again Dogs of Doom. Incredible work you're doing. So exciting.
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Man, I probably commented when you first posted these, but 16 months later let me say again: Amazing! Thank you. So nice to see fresh images of a classic show more than 45 years gone.
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Yes, thanks for the update---and your excellent work all around. Got freaked out when I couldn't find BB for a few days. Figured maybe the ghost of Peter Grant came a-knockin'...
What show or live song are you listening to now?
in Led Zeppelin Live
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Or maybe: "On the Whispering Wind"