LedZeppellinFan Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 could i get a link? I would like to hear your compilation!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fry Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 6 hours ago, LedZeppellinFan said: could i get a link? I would like to hear your compilation!! Link sent, mate. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamAaron Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Could I have a link, please? I'm very excited to listen to this compilation! Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fry Posted April 30, 2023 Author Share Posted April 30, 2023 4 hours ago, CamAaron said: Could I have a link, please? I'm very excited to listen to this compilation! Thanks in advance. Links sent. Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hf21 Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 This sounds amazing. Can I also have a link please? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fry Posted May 4, 2023 Author Share Posted May 4, 2023 6 hours ago, hf21 said: This sounds amazing. Can I also have a link please? Thank you! Message sent. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reids Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 😎👍🎶 R😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
right-there Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 Hi Michael. I'd very much appreciate the link, too, please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fry Posted May 5, 2023 Author Share Posted May 5, 2023 13 hours ago, right-there said: Hi Michael. I'd very much appreciate the link, too, please. Links sent. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
right-there Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 Received and VERY much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
right-there Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fry Posted May 11, 2023 Author Share Posted May 11, 2023 On 5/10/2023 at 8:46 AM, right-there said: 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 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candalua11 Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Nice job! Can I also have the link please? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
right-there Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fry Posted May 12, 2023 Author Share Posted May 12, 2023 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
right-there Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkopacz Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 could i get a link? I would like to hear your compilation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fry Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 4 hours ago, dkopacz said: could i get a link? I would like to hear your compilation. Link sent. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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