Now is the Time of Reckoning

[chef free]

Any one familiar with this new version? Such an awesome show, I was just listening to the "Custard Pie" (Colba lable) version Friday night and I noticed how bad it sounded. (I guess I've gotten a little spoiled since the vinyl bootlegs of the seventies!) Today I get an email from my buddy who's downloading this one. I really don't want to get my hopes up, anybody heard it?

"Now Is The Time Of Reckoning"

March, 24th, 1973, Offenburg. Germany, Ortenauhalle

Remastered Audience Recording, (A Group/Personal Project)

Lineage: Original Cassette > CDR > ? > Brad W's CDRs > WAV (EAC) > Roy's

CD-Rs > WAV (EAC) > FLAC (TLH) > TLH, Decode > WAV > Remaster > Flac

(Level.8, Align On SBE'S, All Tracks Tested With TLH, No Errors Occured)

Label: N/A

Original Taper: N/A

- This particular release is a fan made/no label remaster of the first tape

source of the bands performance in Offenburg, Germany, on March, 24th, 1973,

it is different from the versions posted below:

Different from the version of the 1st tape source from the "Beelzebub" label,

THIS VERSION IS NOT SOURCED OR REMASTERED FROM THAT VERSION.

Different from the release that's sourced from a 2nd gen copy of the first tape source and has not been remastered

THIS VERSION'S TAPE SOURCE IS FROM A DIFFERENT TAPE GENERATION AND HAS BEEN REMASTERED.

Different from the bootleg release version that comes from the "Cobla" label and has not been remastered,

THIS VERSION IS NOT SOURCED FROM THAT VERSION, AND OUR VERSION HAS BEEN REMASTERED.

Requested by Pimpachu2001, sorry about the delay, hope you'll enjoy what

we've done.

Dedicated to Pimpachu2001, and Hanwaker (who attended this performance).

This is A Group/Personal Project by "The Always Imitated, But Never

Duplicated", The 7th Son, Joel, Mike, Grendel, and Acapulco Gold.

We hope that who ever picks this up will enjoy this, and will pass it along

and share it with others, or just pass, the choice is yours.

This is not meant to be a "Definitive" edition.

Cheers and thanks go out to:

- The taper for taping and sharing their recording with everyone in the

community, if you're out there, and happen to pick this up, we hope that

you'll enjoy the work we've done.

[chef free]

Review about the performance from Argenteumastrum.com:

As for the interaction between the group and audience, this is undoubtledly

the best show from the European tour and one of the greatest shows ever.

Jimmy is just unbelievable in his solos, especially on Since I've Been

Loving You and Stairway To Heaven.

Dazed And Confused is amazing and the entire set is slick and improvised.

Robert's voice sounds very strong and Bonham and Jones are a rhythm section

possessed.

This project is a straight remaster of the first tape source of the bands

performance.

For this project, we decided to use a version of the first tape source

called "Original Cassette used for Custard Pie boot", which is a phrasing

that's not as clear as what some people might think.

Saying that this version is "the original cassette" used for the bootleg LP

and CD-R releases "Custard Pie" clearly means that this tape was used for

those bootleg releases, but when they say it's the "original cassette", does

that mean that it's the taper's master cassette?, and does it mean that all

versions of the first tape source come from this cassette copy?.

These are the kind of questions a phrasing like "original cassette" raise,

and unfortunately, the textfile wasn't very clear about the recordings

complete history.

"Original Cassette" could also just mean that it's the source that's also

known as the "Custard Pie" source (1st source).

The raw tape source is a very good recording on it's own (it's clear and

well balanced, with a tremendous sense of atmosphere), but it does suffer

from a few slight channel fluctuations.

What we've done to make this recording:

- we've tried to balance the instruments as much as possible.

- we've tried to correct the channel balance issues as best we could.

- we've brought down the volume to a more reasonable level, originally the

raw tape source was running too hot, so we've brought the volume down to a

more reasonable level for everyone.

In regards to the title:

The title comes from a Plantation Plant makes during the course of the

performance.

We liked the sound of it, realized it had never been used before as a title

for this release before, and thought we'd use it.

Hope everyone here will enjoy this.

Cheers

[SuperDave]

A very strong performance and the sound is quite good and clear. To me it's their best from '73, including the US dates.