Led Zeppelin

chesterbells said:
What’s your best quality 77 tour boot mate? I’ve got Listen To This Eddie on a 3 cd set, but I’m keen get the best quality I can from that tour - it has my favourite set list of any of their tours.
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I have the 4 LP set called Destroyer which is a sound board recording and fantastic. The Mike Millard recordings are that good that they have been used by Zeppelin themselves

Here's a few from my Zeppelin collection:

1977-04-27 Cleveland (The Maximum Destroyer [30th Anniversary Edition]
1977-05-21 Houston-The Dragon Snake-Empress Valley record Label
1977-05-22 Convention Centre Fort Worth-SBD-Lirio Remaster
1977-05-25 Capital Centre Landover (Maryland Moonshine)(SBD)
1977-05-26 Capitol Center Landover-Double Shot II-EVSD-SBD
1977-05-28 Capitol Center Landover-Double Shot I-EVSD-SBD
1977-05-30 Capitol Center Landover-SBD-Double Shot EVSD 580-581-582
1977-06-07 MSG New York-Magical Sound Boogie EVSD Flac
1977-06-11 MSG NY-SBD-1st Gen-Speed Corrected
1977-06-19 Sports Arena San Diego-Taper Mike 'The Mike' Millard-Master Cassette
1977-06-21 LA-Listen To This Eddie-Def Edition-Wendy records
1977-06-23 The Forum LA-Mike 'The Mike' Millard 1st Gen-JEMS
1977-06-25 Inglewood LA (Delirium Treatment)(Mike Millard)
1977-06-27 The Forum Inglewood- Taper Mike Millard-JEMS-1st Gen-dadgad Remaster

 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
I have the 4 LP set called Destroyer which is a sound board recording and fantastic. The Mike Millard recordings are that good that they have been used by Zeppelin themselves

Here's a few from my Zeppelin collection:

1977-04-27 Cleveland (The Maximum Destroyer [30th Anniversary Edition]
1977-05-21 Houston-The Dragon Snake-Empress Valley record Label
1977-05-22 Convention Centre Fort Worth-SBD-Lirio Remaster
1977-05-25 Capital Centre Landover (Maryland Moonshine)(SBD)
1977-05-26 Capitol Center Landover-Double Shot II-EVSD-SBD
1977-05-28 Capitol Center Landover-Double Shot I-EVSD-SBD
1977-05-30 Capitol Center Landover-SBD-Double Shot EVSD 580-581-582
1977-06-07 MSG New York-Magical Sound Boogie EVSD Flac
1977-06-11 MSG NY-SBD-1st Gen-Speed Corrected
1977-06-19 Sports Arena San Diego-Taper Mike 'The Mike' Millard-Master Cassette
1977-06-21 LA-Listen To This Eddie-Def Edition-Wendy records
1977-06-23 The Forum LA-Mike 'The Mike' Millard 1st Gen-JEMS
1977-06-25 Inglewood LA (Delirium Treatment)(Mike Millard)
1977-06-27 The Forum Inglewood- Taper Mike Millard-JEMS-1st Gen-dadgad Remaster

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Cheers for that. Will have a proper listen over next few days. I must admit Destroyer is the other one I’d already heard of (but never heard).
They fascinate my live, because they always refused to have any extra musicians on stage, unlike say Pink Floyd, who had the good sense to draft in Snowy White in the mid 70s. In the modem era bands like Muse and U2 got away with it more with their effects, and infinite delay etc but in the 70s I nearly always think their sound is weedy live. Page never compromised on his studio recordings, Achilles being notorious for the number of guitar tracks and overdubs, but they then struggled imho, to reproduce it effectively live. Ten Years Gone is interesting cos it sounds like 2 guitars plus drums without the bass. Of course Rush used bass pedals so their live sound never seemed compromised, unlike Zeppelin. I do still enjoy their recordings for the ahem spontaneity and jamming though.
 
chesterbells said:
Cheers for that. Will have a proper listen over next few days. I must admit Destroyer is the other one I’d already heard of (but never heard).
They fascinate my live, because they always refused to have any extra musicians on stage, unlike say Pink Floyd, who had the good sense to draft in Snowy White in the mid 70s. In the modem era bands like Muse and U2 got away with it more with their effects, and infinite delay etc but in the 70s I nearly always think their sound is weedy live. Page never compromised on his studio recordings, Achilles being notorious for the number of guitar tracks and overdubs, but they then struggled imho, to reproduce it effectively live. Ten Years Gone is interesting cos it sounds like 2 guitars plus drums without the bass. Of course Rush used bass pedals so their live sound never seemed compromised, unlike Zeppelin. I do still enjoy their recordings for the ahem spontaneity and jamming though.
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I've sent you a PM re Zep Boots
 
What are the thoughts of this forum on Greta Van Fleet?
I like them, they’re young, high energy and have a very Zeppelin sound.
I’ve heard them slagged off as a Led Zeppelin cover band but I’ve not heard them do an actual LED Zeppelin cover and they’re apparently endorsed by Robert Plant?

Edit; here’s an example for those who haven’t had s listen
 
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OccupiedPalestineBlues said:
What are the thoughts of this forum on Greta Van Fleet?
I like them, they’re young, high energy and have a very Zeppelin sound.
I’ve heard them slagged off as a Led Zeppelin cover band but I’ve not heard them do an actual LED Zeppelin cover and they’re apparently endorsed by Robert Plant?
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Some good songs but their album was a letdown.
 
OccupiedPalestineBlues said:
What are the thoughts of this forum on Greta Van Fleet?
I like them, they’re young, high energy and have a very Zeppelin sound.
I’ve heard them slagged off as a Led Zeppelin cover band but I’ve not heard them do an actual LED Zeppelin cover and they’re apparently endorsed by Robert Plant?

Edit; here’s an example for those who haven’t had s listen
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Their first album is such an obvious imitation of Zep that it made me cringe and inevitably just made me want to listen to the real thing. The singles from the upcoming album are better, they seem to be finding their own sound more.
 
Quite like them.

Saw them live last year and they were OK; not amazing but they could develop into something. I have tipped them to be big in the past so that was probably the kiss of death.
 
The closest I came to seeing them was at Live Aid. I thought it was great at the time but then again I was probably in a similar state to Jimmy Paige on the day.
 
mcfcinprague said:
Saw them at Manchester Uni in '69, twice in a week at the Free Trade Hall and Belle Vue but can't remember which year and at the Hardrock on Greatstone Road.

Re the Hardrock, Bowie opened it (was there) also saw Lou Reed, Focus, ELP, J Geils Band, Quo, Nazareth. McCartney, 10cc, Rod Stewart plus many more there
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Saw Rod Stewart many times in the 70's including with the Faces but always at Belle Vue
 
Saw Zep in the Students Union hall at Manchester Uni in the spring of 1971. Now I like my rock to be good and loud, but it was a low-ceilinged hall, and it really was deafening. We were also packed in like sardines, and it was unbelievably hot. Glad to have been there, though. Historic. True to form, Bonzo picked out some heckler in the crowd with his drumstick and told him to “belt up!”. I think for two shakes he would have like to have gone down there and sorted him out.
Very jealous of anyone who saw the Earls Court gigs. The footage of them playing acoustically on the triple DVD is simply celestial. Plant's voice is a miracle. I was puzzled as to why I didn't go to those, and then I realised — I was far away in Africa at that point, backpacking for a year around the continent.
That was some spring in 1971. About a month later, I saw the Stones, who hadn't toured for about two years I think, at the Free Trade Hall.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Saw Zep in the Students Union hall at Manchester Uni in the spring of 1971. Now I like my rock to be good and loud, but it was a low-ceilinged hall, and it really was deafening. We were also packed in like sardines, and it was unbelievably hot. Glad to have been there, though. Historic. True to form, Bonzo picked out some heckler in the crowd with his drumstick and told him to “belt up!”. I think for two shakes he would have like to have gone down there and sorted him out.
Very jealous of anyone who saw the Earls Court gigs. The footage of them playing acoustically on the triple DVD is simply celestial. Plant's voice is a miracle. I was puzzled as to why I didn't go to those, and then I realised — I was far away in Africa at that point, backpacking for a year around the continent.
That was some spring in 1971. About a month later, I saw the Stones, who hadn't toured for about two years I think, at the Free Trade Hall.
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I wish I'd seen them at Earls Court but I was a little too young for that. A guy at Uni is the year above me had been to one of those gigs and would mention it from time to time.

Eventually saw them at Knebworth.

I finally acquired their debut album on CD yesterday (the deluxe reissue); I've long had all the tracks off it on cd on their box sets.

I always ranked Zep I as my least favourite studio album but hearing all the tracks in sequence for the first time in decades made me what an amazing debut it is. It might even have moved past In Through the Out Door in my ranking but ranking their albums is pointless; albeit Physical Graffiti does stand as my favourite album by anyone, ever.

The Live at Paris Olympia cd that comes with the deluxe Zep I is well worth hearing.
 
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