Magical hypnotizing footage. Just stunning. Thank you so much to all involved in this.

Cheers, Zep Hed!

Did anyone manage to grab this off YouTube before it was taken down who could share it?

Link sent. Cheers!

Thank you for all this. I'm going to sink my teeth into your article properly this evening with a beer or three! Familiar with the 1st clip but the 2nd? Woah! This guy's talent and dedication is mind-blowing. Moby Dick!!! In answer to your query, my editing software is either Nero or Audacity. Nero is incredible for cross-fading and you can even fade in and out effects so that a change in EQ or reverb, for example, can be gradual and unnoticeable. Audacity is perfect for pretty much everything else, especially with the latest version. And it's free! I even use it for mixing 5.1 using multitracks and stems for projects such as the early Beatles albums that Giles Martin hasn't tackled yet. So nothing fancy! Funny, I zone in on the same moments as you to tell whether the band are on that particular night. I'll PM you a link to my whole project. Cheers!

Looks good and there's so much of it! Remarkable. Great sync too. Thank you to everyone involved.

Yes!

Certainly did. I've always loved how he talks to the audience. Kinda wish Page had put the "...and it's a quiet song, so shut up!" comment back into The Song Remains The Same.

A slight tweak! A friend suggested it was a shame that Plant's first line in the whole show involved a squeak. Challenge accepted. Squeak fixed. Download the update on the Guitars101 post if you care!

Don't worry. That's on my 2020 re-edit of the album. I remastered it too so it's the best quality and matches the rest of the tracks. I'll PM you a link. 🙂

Amazing news! Are we talking fan-shot 8mm or the fabled video footage from the venue's screen? Either way, very happy!

The Alternate Song Remains The Same: Did this just for a bit of holiday fun. Meant to do it ages ago and finally found the time! The link is over at Guitars101 and easy to find but feel free to PM for a link if you fancy a new(ish!) listening experience. 01 Rock And Roll (28-7-73) 02 Celebration Day (28-7-73) 03 Bring It On Home - Black Dog (29-7-73) 04 Over The Hills And Far Away (29-7-73) 05 Misty Mountain Hop (28-7-73) 06 Since I've Been Loving You (28-7-73) 07 No Quarter (29-7-73) 08 The Song Remains The Same (29-7-73) 09 The Rain Song (29-7-73) 10 Dazed And Confused (28-7-73) 11 Stairway To Heaven (28-7-73) 12 Moby Dick (27-7-73) 13 Heartbreaker (29-7-73) 14 Whole Lotta Love (29-7-73) 15 The Ocean (29-7-73) A word of explanation (Apologies if most of it is teaching granny how to suck eggs for you lot!) This compilation serves as a companion volume to the re-edit of The Song Remains The Same I made in 2020. I created that because I find the 2007 reissue an extremely frustrating listen, despite having great love for the original album (probably my favourite ever live album). It unfortunately uses some performances and clumsy edits that were chosen purely to match the visuals of the film rather than using the superior performances chosen for the original album. While I never find myself wanting to listen to the reissue, I often want to listen to a more complete version of the original album, hence my 2020 re-edit. However, this new alternate version recognises that there were many other great performances during the 3 nights at Madison Square Garden that were perhaps used in the film but not the album or that were only used as edits and for fixing mistakes, or that weren't used at all. The fantastic Garden Tapes website goes into mind-bending detail of how each song was constructed for the film, album and 2007 reissue and I have summarised this research in the info below by firstly stating the night that was used as the main source and then any other nights used for major edits. This was so I could ensure the new alternate album presented a complete show made from Madison Square Garden performances that were either completely unused for the official film and album or were only partially used as an edit. The exceptions to this are: 1) Celebration Day which is the same performance that can be found as an extra on the 2007 DVD reissue as it contains a different guitar solo to the one found on the original album and 2) Bring It On Home as I didn't want to split this from the Black Dog performance I chose which is the one from the film but complete and unedited. (Even the CD reissue inexplicably uses the edited version!) Some choices weren't really choices at all as unfortunately the 1st part of the 27th has never been bootlegged and the soundboards are all incomplete. I was determined not to use any audience recordings for this so there were a couple of alternate performances I couldn't use. My only source is Empress Valley's 18CD Garden Tapes Box Set but I have fixed just a few things. I've tidied up a timing issue in Dazed And Confused towards the end, removed the very brief audience source from No Quarter but made the cut as seamless as possible, fixed a couple of bars of wrong notes in The Rain Song, No Quarter and Heartbreaker and replaced the audience source that EVSD used to complete Bonzo's Ocean count-in with his hilarious count-in from the 28th soundboard. There are some absolute treats here for those of you who only know the album and the film. If Jimmy Page had treated us to a proper multi-disc box set back in 2018, this is what I would have loved to have seen as discs 4, 5 and 6 alongside a 3 disc expanded version of the original album similar to my 2020 re-edit. Every now and then you'll recognise a snippet that was used as an edit piece for the official releases (and you can verify that using the info below and The Garden Tapes website) but as a complete listening experience it should be quite unique and almost equal to the versions we know and love. By the way, hats off to anyone who can EQ the 28th and 29th soundboards to sound the same. I know the difference in guitar sound between the end of Celebration Day and Bring It On Home riff is rather obvious. Feedback welcome! Performances used in the original film and reissue Rock And Roll: 27 Celebration Day: 28 (DVD extra) Bring It On Home: 29 Black Dog (version 1): 29 - edited Black Dog (version 2): 28 - complete (2003 DVD) Over The Hills And Far Away: 28 (DVD extra) Misty Mountain Hop: 27 + 28 for middle min (DVD extra) Since I've Been Loving You: 29 main + 27 No Quarter: 28 for solo to end + 27 for 1st 3 mins The Song Remains The Same: 28 The Rain Song: 28 Dazed And Confused: 27 + 28 for 3rd verse + 29 for ending Stairway To Heaven: 27 + 28 for vocal end Moby Dick: 27 - edited + 28 for 1st 2 mins of drum solo Heartbreaker: 27 Whole Lotta Love: 27 The Ocean: 27 + 29 for guitar solo + coda (DVD extra) Performances used on the original album and reissue Rock And Roll: 27 + 28 for 1st min Celebration Day: 28 + 29 for last min Bring It On Home: 27 (reissue) Black Dog: 29 + 28 for 1st min - edited (reissue) Over The Hills And Far Away: 28 (reissue) Misty Mountain Hop: 27 + 28 for middle min (reissue) Since I've Been Loving You: 27 main + 29 (reissue) No Quarter: As film but 27 for solo end The Song Remains The Same: 28 The Rain Song: 28 Dazed And Confused: 27 Stairway To Heaven: As film but 29 for 1st 2 mins Moby Dick: 28 - edited Heartbreaker: 27 (reissue) Whole Lotta Love: 27 The Ocean: 27 + 29 for guitar solo + coda (reissue) All above info included in the download. You'll notice I stayed away from using the 27th apart from the complete killer Moby Dick which was chopped up so much in the film. The 27th was the night that Jimmy used most on the album as perhaps it was the strongest night overall but that 28th Dazed And Confused and 29th Whole Lotta Love show how easy it is to get 2 strong albums out of those Garden performances. Enjoy!

Thank you, John. Good suggestion. I'll compare the two.

Hi y'all! Anyone able to help me out with the quest for the ultimate version of the 1971 BBC performance? I found a thread which is a fantastic source of info about this but it's over a decade out of date. https://forums.ledzeppelin.com/topic/15063-led-zepplin-master-tape-paris-theatre-1971/ At the moment, the Prof. Stoned version is looking like a potential winner. It sounds great but does anyone know if it is truly complete? If not, what's missing? Also, there are other older versions out there that claim to be complete but the stereo panning is pretty bad, the sound is quite thin and the guitar lacks oomph. Hope some knowledgeable souls can impart their wisdom on this!

Beautifully done. Great job!

Anyone know anything about this? Appreciate an update from anyone out there.... out there... out there... out there... echo... echo... echoooooooo....... 😁

Thank you so much!!

This footage is so good it doesn't really matter it's silent. Suppose it'll remain silent too as no audio has ever emerged from this show but the film is still so enjoyable! Thank you!

What a wonderful find. To have an incomplete source of enjoyable quality completed by ANOTHER incomplete enjoyable source for such a great gig, with the bonus of there being a rare track ! How lucky are we??!! Super hyped about listening to this show from start to finish. Thank you so much to the taper (so sad they passed and didn't see the pleasure this will bring to us all) and his mate who did the transfer.

Cool idea. What an epic release that would be... sigh...

Always a joy to see new footage. Thank you!

Well, I'd forgotten how much I changed the track list to be honest - quite a few original selections got dropped, didn't they! It was a while ago but I do remember selecting songs for a few different reasons: Firstly, if the song was an amazing performance from an otherwise mediocre show (e.g. Stairway To Heaven from Seattle 1977-7-17); Secondly, if I had selected a different night's performance of the song for one of the other compilations but I felt that the performance was so good it still deserved recognition (e.g. Trampled Underfoot from Earls Court 1975-5-24 which is pretty much on a par with the one from the following night that made it onto the Earls Court comp); Thirdly, if there was something significant about the song (e.g. When The Levee Breaks from Bloomington 1975-1-18 which is the only soundboard performance that has turned up so far and therefore was included even though the show is weaker than other 1975 shows). The soundcheck performances were selected because they're so much fun to listen to and are the best of the bunch from the soundcheck but perhaps they should have been placed as bonus tracks on the 1973 compilation, freeing up space for songs I ultimately left out. A few of the dropped songs ended up on other compilations such as Europe 1973 but I can't remember now why I dropped some of the others, I'm afraid! Maybe I should make discs 7 & 8!

Well, it's all down to Plant's voice, I'm afraid. Remember my mission statement for the 50th Anniversary Set was creating something that was near to official release standard. Once Plant's voice had almost recovered in mid-March and May 1975, it was quite easy to drop in a tiny edit from a different night to replace the odd vocal crack here and there for those performances, hence my preference for those in the compilations. However, the Feb 12th show you refer to has so many vocal flubs, I felt it would have been a rather more dishonest job to get them up to releasable standard, not to mention massively time-consuming! I remember playing a few bits of the Feb 12 concert to a more casual fan and he did grimace quite a few times in response to the vocals, which led me to think it wasn't up to standard, as much as I hate to admit it! That soundboard is pretty unforgiving and the well-known sbd/aud matrix doesn't do much to soften the squeaks and hoarseness. True, it is mostly a wonderful show (apart from Page's playing taking a bit of a downturn after the DAC bow solo) but it just wasn't good enough, like many of the February sbd shows, unfortunately. Hope that explains everything.

Links sent. Cheers!