^ CD from this is a steam roller on speed.

A note. You never block a shot like that making yourself bigger with your arms. Arms behind your back etc. A proper call. Anyway, game was epic but the level was not. France was quite shite all the way. Mbappe scored a hat trick but they lost it still… should we call it a Jimmy White trick 😀 Next time, play it during June/July. The final was the only full game a watched.

I have a long drive ahead tomorrow. Something to look forward to. Cheers.

TSRTS from 15.1.1973 on repeat.

Work of the Lord, mate 😀 (Sorry, I had to have a physical copy and that wasn’t too bad at first listen at least)

I think it got taken out for some reason. The boot is already out there.

Watching/ listening Dazed from In For A Quick Garden. Getting too late but doing a back to back comparison to 24.5.1975 would be nice.

Watching NQ from 4.8.1979 Just listened to the better Copenhagen show recently. Yeah, this is more Jackson Pollock but damn, it is an assault so far. MMH with the uptempo and all. Maybe need to listen the end of the story with Frankfurt and Berlin at some point.

^ Plant is strong on that one in 75 standards and astonishingly better compared to 12th of February. The SBD is quite mellotron heavy but it is a solid 75 version. Plant skips the coda in a way but Bonham brings some thunder to it. It is just that in 77 they executed the song much to better to my ears.

^ Yes, don't understand the dismissive comments about the 73 MSG shows. I've got the 28th and 29th boot and they both rock. 28th especially is a stellar show. Maybe the bad rap is due to the less excellent Dazed but hey, there is another 2+ hours of stellar performance.

Just gave another listen to 28.4. 1977. A strong contender... In general they nailed Kashmir 77 better than 75. Not just Plant's voice but the whole thunder of the thing plus the coda. They nailed NQ better 75 than 73 and Dazed got a slight polish for 75 vs. previous years too (controversial, I know). Despite the "decay" of some of the band members the show kept on evolving and one could argue it even improved although individual inputs, when compared to earlier ones, were sometimes worse. Edit: maybe another go on the ones from 1980 but I am with Strider here about the mellotron. The sound of it really boosted the numbers where it was used.

28.4.1977 The animal is so different vs. 1971. This is the old bull.

This one is a lot easier on the ears.

Most of the "best bootleg" threads are archived so let me reveal here which ones made Jimi's cut. A couple of things. In the early and mid noughties I had stuff from 1970, 1973, 1975 & 1977 but the recent revelation of the youtube channels has enabled me to listen to the shows and judge if the sound quality and performance justify a physical copy. To make things short I have tried to keep a high standard for the sound quality and the show and I try to have as complete shows as possible. This list can be helpful anyone wanting to give a listen to a particular Zep show on the LedZeppelin Boots youtube channel for instance. The ones that could be left out: 1969 24.4. Conquering California (pretty bad soundwise) 1971 1.4.BBC (I mean the boot has it all and is the one I listen but the official version tells the story pretty much) 1973 14.5. The Draq Queen of New Orleans (either that or Salt Lake City but I find the latter funny as they kept the show shorter to make it to the party in LA) 29.7. As a listening experience the second show is best bootlegged AND it actually has some stellar numbers such as CD and NQ. So what the Dazed from that show was not on the film. So that one is enough. 1975 (has a lot of fat) 14.2. Few Hours With St Valentine. If one of the three ones I have needs to be cut this would be it. Plant is rougher 12.2. but somehow I still like the show. 19. & 20.3. If you have the 21st from Seattle you do not need the other two before that. I of course need them. 24.3. All Is Safe For Rock And Roll. Of the LA run the final show with the stretched versions is the one to have. They work 50% of the time, haha, but still...!!! 1977 27.4. Destroyer (just listen to the second one) 25.5. Mighty Arms of Atlas Vol. 1. The last of the Maryland shows is enough 17.7. Seattle. I have this just becaus I have the DVD There are a couple of ones that are not that great as a show or the sound quality is not that great but they either are very historic shows or the performance is just beyond, those would be: 10.-12.1.1969 19.9.1970 4.5.1971 7.7.1980 What I lef out. I listened to some of the Australian shows, and at least one of them several times but then realized there were some soundwise greater late 71 boots and the one from Charlotte. Sorry down under... Some Millard tapes from 1975 are not on the list and I haven't actually heard all of them. Should check... Also the 77 MSG run is not well presented here. Mainly sound when you have the OK(ish) boards and Millard tapes from 77. What else, this is quite a lot. Listen to this set and the story of Zep as a live band becomes clearer. P.S. I have a very soft spot for 75 & 77 shows. Location Title Label Date Source San Francisco Fresh Garbage – Fillmore West – January 1969 Graf Zeppelin 10-12/09/1969 AUD (11th SBD) San Francisco Conquering California Dinopower 24/04/1969 SBD? San Francisco Sleeping Beauty 1969 Multiband Remaster Wendy 27/04/1969 SBD Dallas Texas International Pop Festival 1969 Non Label 31/08/1969 SBD London Royal Albert Hall Wendy 09/01/1970 Multitrack Montreaux I Left My Heart In Montreux 1970 Wendy 07/03/1970 AUD/SBD LA Forum Blueberry Hill Ultimate Moonchild 04/09/1970 AUD MSG Storming The Big Apple Eat A Peach 19/09/1970 AUD London Led Zeppelin-BBC 1971 Japanese Broadcast Moonchild 01/04/1971 SBD Odense Odense 1971: Master Cassette Non Label 04/05/1971 AUD Orlando Orlando 1971 Non Label 31/08/1971 SBD + AUD Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens Graf Zeppelin 04/09/1971 AUD + SBD Osaka Led Zeppelin - Please Please Me Complete 928 Eelgrass 28/09/1971 SBD + AUD Osaka Kutabare Moonchild Moonchild 29/09/1971 SBD+ AUD Ipswich Over The Twelve Foot End Definitive Ipswich Graf Zeppelin 16/11/1971 AUD Charlotte Charlotte 1972 TDOLZ 09/06/1972 AUD LA Forum Forum, Burn Like a Candle 2n edition Graf Zeppelin 25/06/1972 AUD Tokyo Budokan 1972 1st Night Revisited Non Label 02/10/1972 AUD Kyoto Kyoto 1972 Non Label 10/10/1972 AUD Southampton Southampton University 1973 Non Label 22/01/1973 Multitrack Vienna Led Zeppelin - Vienna Fireworks Moonchild 16/03/1973 SBD + AUD New Orleans Drag Queen Of New Orleans 1973 Wendy 14/05/1973 SBD Salt Lake City For Frenzied Crowd Wendy 26/05/1973 SBD LA Forum Bonzo's Birthday Party Moonchild 31/05/1973 SBD + AUD San Francisco Mary Kezar Wendy 02/06/1973 AUD + SBD Seattle Afterburner Cashmere 17/07/1973 SBD + AUD MSG Madison Square Garden Deux Wendy 28/07/1973 SBD New York Madison Square Garden Trois Wendy 29/07/1973 SBD Bloomington Salvation Through Him Eelgrass 18/01/1975 SBD MSG Good to Be Back in New York City Planet X 12/02/1975 SBD Uniondale NY The Kings Of The Stone Ace Eelgrass 13/02/1975 SBD Uniondale NY Led Zeppelin-Few Hours With St Valentine Moonchild 14/02/1975 SBD Vancouver Rocky Mountain Hop Moonchild 19/03/1975 SBD Vancouver Snowblind Eelgrass 20/03/1975 SBD Seattle Deus Ex Machina Eelgrass 21/03/1975 SBD LA Forum All Is Safe For Rock And Roll Eelgrass 24/03/1975 SBD LA Forum Led Zeppelin - LA Forum 1975 3rd Night Nanker Dog 27/03/1975 AUD, Millard London Earls Court 1975 4th Night Non Label 24/05/1975 SBD London Earls Court 1975 SRS 25/05/1975 SBD Cleveland Destroyer Eelgrass 27/04/1977 SBD Cleveland The Destroyer II Moonchild 28/04/1977 AUD Fort Worth Led Zeppelin's Hideout Holy Grail Moonchild 22/05/1977 SBD Landover Mighty Arms of Atlas Vol. 1 Moonchild 25/05/1977 SBD Landover Double Shot 2 Eelgrass 30/05/1977 SBD MSG Magical Sound Boogie Eelgrass 07/06/1977 SBD LA Forum Listen to This Eddie (Beauty & Beast) Non Label 21/06/1977 AUD, Millard LA Forum For Badgeholders Only Wendy 23/06/1977 AUD, Millard LA Forum Led Zeppelin - LA Forum 1977 4th Night Definitive Non Label 25/06/1977 AUD, Millard LA Forum Los Angeles 1977 Final Night Non Label 27/06/1977 AUD, Millard Seattle Seattle 1977 Non Label 17/07/1977 SBD Copenhagen Dazzling Daze 2 Moonchild 24/07/1979 AUD Knebworth Knebworth Day One Moonchild 04/08/1979 SBD Zurich Zurich 1980 Non Label 29/06/1980 SBD Frankfurt Triumph Des Willens Wendy 30/06/1980 SBD Berlin Berlin 1980 The Last Concert Non Label 07/07/1980 SBD

25.6.77 is a contender for sure. Not long ago listened to the whole show and Kashmir a couple of times. Edit: Out of the 77 recordings 25th is definitely the best.

Who agrees this is the best quality Millard recording?

What about 79 versions? I’ll get me coat (The sheer power of 71 has a slight edge over 73 heaviness in my books but I enjoy them both. 73 has that transition from R&R that works so well. They were good at this, weren’t they? White Summer-Kashmir, Cat Strangle-Achilles, TSRTS-Sick Again)

Only now I realize that letter k in the headline. Haha! Well done, sir.

What bloody eludes me in this one is that it uses a lot of energy in explaining the ins and outs of Page's magick and Crowley things but not a fuckin' word about Plant's vocal decline in the fall/ winter 72/73 prior to their biggest tour so far. How were they dealing with it individually, as a band, from the management side etc.