john's Collection
Led Zeppelin 09/19/1970
Madison Square Garden (evening show), New York, NY
| Source | AUD |
| Media | flac 2 discs |
| Tech Notes | Led Zeppelin, Madison Square Garden New York, New York, September 19, 1970 Evening Show Audience Recording Cassette > Open reel > SoundForge > CD > ProTools > FLAC 1. Introduction 2. Immigrant Song 3. Heartbreaker 4. Dazed and Confused 5. Bring It On Home 6. That's The Way 7. Bron-Yr-Aur 8. Since I've Been Loving You 9. Organ Solo 10. Thank You 11. What Is and What Should Never Be 12. Moby Dick 13. Whole Lotta Love 14. Out On The Tiles 15. Communication Breakdown 16. Rock Medley (Girl Can't Help It / Twenty Flight Rock) 17. How Many More Times The taper writes: Darth9neo wrote: I taped this show on a borrowed Bell and Howell cassette recorder, and transferred it the next day to open reel tape. For its time, and the technology used, it is a very good sounding tape. I was in the first 10 rows -- that is, from about the middle of "Immigrant Song." When that song started, I was in the 83rd row. A few technical details in the spirit of full disclosure: 1) When I made the cassette-to-reel transfer, I had the daft idea of trying to simulate the spatial effects I heard at the concert during some of Page's solos, and during the Page/Plant call and response sections. I know -- hey, I was 16, and this wasn't for general consumption. In the intervening years I had tried various times to restore the tape to mono, but those attempts always resulted in a dulling of the highs, and I was never able to find an EQ that I liked. When I transferred the open reel tape to my hard drive, circa 1999, I did what I could to mitigate the panning, or at least see to it that it wasn't as abrupt as it is on the original reel. What you're hearing, believe me, is an improvement. 2) I also made two edits for the sake of flow. The first is during the guitar solo in Heartbreaker. In 1972, some moron at a party erased a few seconds of the solo. I joined what was left. Similarly, there was a cassette side change during the drum solo in Moby Dick. Most of you who have heard this recording at all first heard it about a year ago when it turned up on STG, by way of Badloser. I wasn't exactly hoarding it: I had passed out lots of copies, both on cassette over the years, and on CD once I made the transfer. It just never found its way into Zep trading circles, I guess, until I did a trade with Badloser, who immediately identified it not only as a show that wasn't out there, but as an unusual one as well. He upped it to STG, and the rest is, so to speak, history. At that time, however, Presence noted some audio anomalies -- SBE's, pops, etc. It also had some speed problems, which were corrected in the Eddie Edwards remastered version that has been around for some time. A few weeks ago, Presence suggested that I make a new transfer, and although I'm not able to do that at the moment, I did find a source that was two CD generations earlier than the one used for the original upload. Since one of those generations was a copy made by a third party on a machine that routinely caused pops and other problems, I sent a copy to Presence, who agreed that it was a superior source. He did some subsequent work on the recording, which he'll detail. lf you have a problem with audience recordings -- what can I say. This is a fantastic show, with some killer performances, including a SIBLY that, to me, has something that no soundboard has been able to capture. Enjoy! |
| Microphones | Bell & Howell cassette recorder |
| Trades Allowed | Yes Traded from: dime |
| Reference / Generation | Data 129 |
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· Last Updated May 23, 2023
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