Hello! Newby and long-time lurker here, but fan of Zep since 1995-ish, when I received an electric guitar an No Quarter: Unledded! I managed to get my hands on a copy of Destroyer in the early 2000’s, and have been slowly and not-quite-so steadily building my bootleg collection since then.
I avoided 1975 for a while due to Plant’s flu, but I’ve acquired (I think) every soundboard and reasonably decent audience source, and have come to appreciate the tour for what it was.
Anyway, my soundboard wishlist for the ‘75 tour is :
The rest of the 1-18 Minneapolis show
Any of the Chicago shows (1-20/21/22-75) Mostly for The Wanton Song, How Many More Times, and When The Levee Breaks
Greensboro (1-29-1975) Yes, this is supposed to be one of, if not THE worst, but the audience recording I’m listening to right now still sounds pretty good to me!
Philadelphia (2-08-1975) I’ve listened to one of the audience recordings, Jimmy is on fire on this one. Also, it’s the one right before Landover 2-10-1975, so I’m hoping somebody’s just hoarding the tape at this point.
For non 1975 shows, I’d love to hear a Bath 1970 recording that doesn’t sound like mud, the Wembly 11-20-1971 Electric Magic show, and the Pittsburg Three Rivers Stadium show, 7-24-1973. All of these concerts were mentioned in the Dave Lewis book Led Zeppelin: A Celebration (1990) which was my go-to for many years, but I was somewhat underwhelmed by the recording quality of some of these shows which he spoke quite highly of. Perhaps he had access to some tapes that the rest of us haven’t, or the “bootleg ears” required to fully appreciate them.
Oh, and a 9 CD set of all the MSG 1973 shows that spawned The Song Remains The Same soundtrack wouldn’t go amiss. Still really annoyed at that horrid edit of Whole Lotta Love on the remaster.
I’ll also take virtually any 1977 show that isn’t already out. Heck, even Tempe - I get a kick out of the Zurich 1980 show, where they totally lose track of each other during Kashmir - well, Jimmy gets nuked during Achilles’ and only winds up a half-measure behind Jonesy and Bonzo? Ah, why the heck not?! XD
edit: also, 3-5-1971, the first appearance of Black Dog, Rock And Roll, and Stairway to Heaven, I find the existing recording too noisy for my liking, but I plan on giving it another listen soon.
