"Anyone who's not heard all these should just dive right in and enjoy." Sage advice!

Come on, surely you mean the neighborhood!

Anybody found the links to listen?

JMH, hi. You've got your Led Zeppelin-listening well and truly covered! What's high-rotation in 2023?

In this age of streaming and digital audio portable devices, how do you most often listen to live Led Zeppelin? To kick things off, I'm 'old school', listening to DVD audio played through a loungeroom stereo. No headphones, no earbuds, just two speakers and four walls. Well, I guess as Headley Grange showed, floor and ceiling play roles, too.

1975NQ (which hints at a mighty discourse in itself!), thanks for your take on Zep in '71. I wonder if other bands have quite so much deep-diving into their performance levels and shifting degrees of individual contributions across times and places as Led Zeppelin? Of course, Zep was a constant line-up where Black Sabbath or Deep Purple or a myriad of other bands with determined fans have much more disparate pedigrees to contend over. Michael

1980 saw the last performances by John Bonham's Led Zeppelin. Is it fair enough to characterise the band that way? After all, there have been reunion and special occasion performances by the remaining members of the band plus a drummer or two since that year, but very few argue that even the best of those shows completely captures the essence of Led Zeppelin. The following list is my understanding of the places played and the recordings made at each venue that year. Have I got it right, adding up to nineteen source tapes (and a matrix added here) for variety? Dortmund June 17 sbd Cologne June 18 aud Brussels June 20 aud Brussels June 20 sbd, incomplete Rotterdam June 21 aud Rotterdam June 21 sbd, incomplete Bremen June 23 sbd Hannover June 24 aud Hannover June 24 sbd Vienna June 26 aud Nuremberg June 27 sbd, incomplete, Bonham sick Zurich June 29 aud Zurich June 29 sbd Zurich June 29 Matrix + FM Radio Broadcast Frankfurt June 30 sbd Mannheim first night July 2 sbd Mannheim second night July 3 sbd Munich with Simon Kirke July 5 aud Berlin July 7 aud Berlin July 7 sbd The setlist remained the same across most of this short tour, except for those nights where a ring-in or two was swapped in and out (you'll either know when and where already or have to listen to the shows to find out!!). Train Kept a Rollin’ Nobody’s Fault But Mine Out On the Tiles (introduction)/Black Dog In the Evening The Rain Song Hot Dog All My Love Trampled Underfoot Since I’ve Been Loving You Achilles Last Stand White Summer/Black Mountainside Kashmir Stairway To Heaven Rock and Roll Whole Lotta Love

It's great there are so many great shows. And even better that so many sets of ears here make enough distinction between 'this show and that' that the conversation might never end.

Hi Steve. The February 12 show is reckoned to be one of the best sounding Zep boots from the tour, perhaps even the best ever with all the rumours about official involvement in its sound, but also includes a not fully on top of things vocal performance from Plant. Remarkably clean and balanced sound, a not top-rank performance. The March 27 show is characterised in one review as "Led Zeppelin’s final show of their 1975 tour at the LA Forum is one of the longest, heaviest and self-indulgent on record." With extra-long versions of showpieces 'Dazed and Confused', 'No Quarter', a performance of 'Trampled Underfoot' that Page has reckoned the best ever (including a sidetrip into 'Gallows Pole'), it also allows for including a Mike Millard recording amongst the shows featured in this list. Two shows, same year, completely different sound, performance levels, and with the March 27 show an opportunity to feature the work of a taper who contributed, I would argue, so much to fans' appreciation of live Led Zeppelin that without his tapes many would find collecting audience-taped Zep boots an endlessly frustrating exercise in aural disappointment. Michael

Are these the shows you'd choose to represent the touring years of Led Zeppelin? 1 San Francisco April 26 1969 2 Montreux Mar 7 1970 3 Leicester Nov 25 1971 4 LA Forum June 25/27 1972 5 Vienna March 16 1973 6 Madison Square Garden July 28 1973 7 New York Feb 12 1975 8 LA Forum March 27 1975 9 Seattle July 17 1977 10 Copenhagen July 24 1979 11 Zurich June 29 1980 April 26 1969 Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California Communication Breakdown I Can't Quit You Baby Dazed And Confused You Shook Me How Many More Times (medley) White Summer Black Mountain Side Killing Floor (medley) Babe I'm Gonna Leave You Pat's Delight As Long As I Have You (medley) Whole Lotta Love March 7 1970 Grand Casino, Montreux We're Gonna Groove/I Can't Quit You Dazed & Confused Heartbreaker White Summer/Black Mountain Side Since I've Been Loving You organ solo/Thank You What Is and What Should Never Be Moby Dick How Many More Times November 25 1971 Leicester University Immigrant Song Heartbreaker Black Dog Since I've Been Loving You Celebration Day Going To California That's The Way Tangerine (stop), Tangerine Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp Dazed And Confused (incl. Theme From Shaft) Stairway To Heaven What Is And What Should Never Be Whole Lotta Love (include. Just A Little Bit, I'm Going Down, Boogie Woogie, Mary Lou, Rave On, Mess O' The Blues, Squeeze My Lemon) Rock And Roll Communication Breakdown 25/27 June 1972 LA Forum Immigrant Song Heartbreaker Over The Hills And Far Away Black Dog Since I've Been Loving You Stairway To heaven Going To California That's The Way Tangerine Bron-yr-Aur Stomp Dazed And Confused What Is And What Should Never Be Dancing Days Moby Dick Whole Lotta Love Rock And Roll The Ocean Louie Louie Thank You Communication Breakdown Bring It On Home March 16 1973 Vienna Rock And Roll Over The Hills And Far Away Black Dog Misty Mountain Hop Since I've Been Loving You Dancing Days Bron-Yr-Aur-Stomp The Song Remains The Same The Rain Song Dazed And Confused Stairway To Heaven Whole Lotta Love Heartbreaker July 28 1973 Madison Square Garden, New York City Rock And Roll Celebration Day Black Dog Over The Hills And Far Away Misty Mountain Hop Since I've Been Loving You No Quarter The Song Remains The Same The Rain Song Dazed And Confused Stairway To Heaven Moby Dick Heartbreaker Whole Lotta Love The Ocean February 12 1975 Madison Square Garden, New York City Rock And Roll Sick Again Over The Hills And Far Away In My Time Of Dying The Song Remains The Same The Rain Song Kashmir No Quarter Trampled Underfoot Moby Dick Dazed And Confused Stairway To Heaven Whole Lotta Love Black Dog Heartbreaker March 27 1975 The Forum, Inglewood CA Rock And Roll Sick Again Over The Hills And Far Away In My Time Of Dying The Song Remains The Same The Rain Song Kashmir No Quarter Trampled Underfoot Moby Dick Dazed And Confused Stairway To Heaven Whole Lotta Love Black Dog July 17 1977 Seattle Kingdome The Song Remains the Same Sick Again Nobody's Fault But Mine Over The Hills and Far Away No Quarter Ten Years Gone The Battle of Evermore Going to California Black Country Woman Bron-Y-Aur Stomp White Summer/Black Mountain Side Kashmir Moby Dick Guitar Solo Achilles Last Stand Stairway To Heaven Whole Lotta Love Rock and Roll July 24 1979 Copenhagen The Song Remains the Same Celebration Day Black Dog Nobody's Fault But Mine Over The Hills and Far Away Misty Mountain Hop Since I've Been Loving You No Quarter Ten Years Gone Hot Dog The Rain Song White Summer/Black Mountain Side Kashmir Trampled Underfoot Sick Again Achilles Last Stand Guitar Solo/Drum Solo In The Evening Stairway To Heaven Whole Lotta Love June 29 1980 Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland Train Kept A' Rollin' Nobody's Fault But Mine Black Dog In The Evening The Rain Song Hot Dog All My Love Trampled Underfoot Since I've Been Loving You Achilles Last Stand White Summer/Black Mountain Side Kashmir Stairway To Heaven Rock And Roll Heartbreaker

A roughly 'chronological' concert (linked to album release dates except where performance/taping quality trumps the calendar) of Zep live - one personal variation for a career-spanning show. If you want to hear a copy, I'll provide a link. "Since Jimmy Didn't..." 1969-1980 Train Kept A Rollin' & I Can't Quit You August 31 1969 Dallas We're Gonna Groove March 7 1970 - The Casino, Montreux, Switzerland Communication Breakdown April 27 1969 San Francisco You Shook Me March 3 1969 London Dazed and Confused January 11 1969 Fillmore West What Is and What Should Never Be & (band introductions) How Many More Times April 27 1969 San Francisco Thank You September 29 1971 Osaka Whole Lotta Love March 21 1970 Vancouver Immigrant Song September 4 1970 Inglewood Celebration Day September 4 1971 Toronto Going to California November 25 1971 Leicester Stairway to Heaven September 4 1971 Toronto Georgia on My Mind, Misty Mountain Hop May 26 1973 Salt Lake City The Song Remains the Same July 6 1973 Chicago Since I've Been Loving You July 17 1973 Seattle No Quarter February 12 1975 New York Wanton Song January 1975 Sick Again February 16 1975 St. Louis Tangerine May 24 1975 Earls Court Heartbreaker March 4 1975 Dallas The Ocean June 2 1973 Kezar Stadium, San Francisco Trampled Underfoot April 27 1977 Cleveland Out On The Tiles/Moby Dick June 23 1977 Los Angeles In My Time of Dying March 19 1975 Vancouver Dancing Days - Black Country Woman - Bron Y Aur Stomp May 26 1977 Landover Over the Hills and Far Away June 23 1977 Los Angeles Kashmir June 21 1977 Los Angeles In the Evening August 4 1979 Knebworth Park Hot Dog July 24 1979 Copenhagen The Rain Song July 23 1979 Copenhagen Achilles Last Stand August 11 1979 Knebworth Park Ten Years Gone August 4 1979 Knebworth Money June 30 1980 Frankfurt Nobody's Fault But Mine July 29 1980 Zurich All My Love July 3 1980 Mannheim Black Dog June 20 1980 Brussels Rock and Roll June 21 1980 Rotterdam Whole Lotta Love July 7 Berlin 1980 Coda - Bring It On Home September 4 1970 Los Angeles guitarsample.mov keyboardsample.mov voicesample.mov drums_sample.mov

Hi Steve. May I have a link, please, and also to the Earls Court set? Thanks, Michael

Hi Michael. Discs 7 & 8 sounds like a very good idea! And still, from your text above, there'd be tough choices to make. Thanks again for the remarkable treasure trove you've compiled, and especially because diving into it sponsors the urge to listen to whole shows that might have slipped beneath any individual's (that's me) horizons. Michael

Hi Michael. Thanks for your response. As it happens I put together a compilation a few years back myself (not quite ten years gone), and when I checked it over I found I'd only used one track from February 12 1975 too, "No Quarter". I don't recall that Plant's voice was the primary criterion for choices I made across the compilation, but clearly something was nagging at me about that show. My guiding principle, apart from the 'bonus' last track of "Bring It On Home", was to put together a chronological 'concert', not the way artists do structure their shows in the real world, but in my case, an umbrella concept for choosing performances across the years of releasing material and subsequently performing it. I've discovered that the track listing for Volume 9 (six cds of honourable mentions) on the '50th Anniversary Box Set' text file is different from the songs/shows downloadable from the cloud site. I've also discovered that the quality of each version across the two sets of 6 cds is so high that you could quite straightforwardly have made both line-ups available, an embarrassment of Zep riches! What decisions led you to settle on the tracks that make up the downloadable cloud site compilation? Plant's voice? I wonder how often Peter Grant spins in his grave when after so much effort to stop Zep being bootlegged at all there exist so many shows that can be drawn on to make the remarkable collection you have put together? And subsequently I have to be sure send fans off to seek out entire shows. Thanks again, Michael.

Hi Michael. Can I ask why you have passed on February 12 1975 as a 'go to' amongst the best of 1975? "In My Time Of Dying" picks up an honourable mention, but tracks from a set that once had fans gushing are otherwise not featured. Best regards, Michael McGennan

Received and VERY much appreciated!

Hi Michael. I'd very much appreciate the link, too, please.

Hmmm, seems there are mp4s and there are mp4s. I'll have another go with the same footage as an flv. If it's a no show/no sound, looks like I'm on a learning curve. sample.flv

Hi Steve. "[tisdu] lives" was not a post to indicate that your methodology is in any way '[tisdu] revisited'. They are quite distinct processes. I know, because I'm the guy who reinvented [tisdu], well aware of its channel-splitting and micro-second shifting origins in record companies' transforming mono sets in the 1960's. My post was simply to indicate that... [tisdu] lives. zepec052475nq.mp4

[tisdu] lives.