Led Zeppelin - Jimmy's Birthday Party (Empress Valley Multitracks) - Live at Royal Albert Hall, London, UK January 9, 1970

Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: 1970-01-09
Venue: Royal Albert Hall
Location: London, England
Source: Multitrack Reels
Title: Live At The Royal Albert Hall - Jimmy's Birthday Party (Empress Valley)
Lineage: Slivers>cdr(2)>Eac(secure mode/read offsets corrected)>wav>flac (level 7)

Tracklist:
Disc 3
01. We're Gonna Groove (3:31)
02. I Can't Quit You Baby (6:57)
03. Dazed and Confused (16:05)
04. Heartbreaker (3:55) (cut)
05. White Summer/Black Mountain Side (12:19)
06. What Is And What Should Never Be (5:03)
07. Moby Dick (15:30)

Disc 4
01. How Many More Times (20:48)
02. Bring it On Home (7:54)
03. Whole Lotta Love (6:22)
04. Communication Breakdown (4:31)
05. C'mon Everybody (2:38)
06. Something Else (2:14)
07. Long Tall Sally (3:53) (cut)

Notes: Disc 1 and 2 are a mix of the SBD and Kevin Shirley multitrack mixes. Discs 3 and 4 are strictly from the multitrack mixes

My Comments:
Yet another amazing show courtesy of Led Zeppelin, played at a time when they were just about a year old. Even then, they were well on their way to super stardom, as they had received a lot of face time during 1969's many music festivals (Woodstock not being one of them unfortunately), and by the end of the year's touring they would be playing sold out shows to tens of thousands in venues like NY's Madison Square Garden and the LA Forum. To start out 1970 Zeppelin decided to embark on a short UK tour to promote their second album, which had come out the year before. Expanding on their late 1969 setlist, they decided to drop the opening number Good Times Bad Times/Communication Breakdown in favor of a Ben E. King cover We're Gonna Grove, which the band had actually recorded for the third album but had passed it over in favor of Immigrant Song later in the year. In addition to that, they also debuted Since I've Been Loving You and Thank You in this tour, but unfortunately both tracks did not survive the test of time on this recording and thus only a snippet of the organ solo appears in the official DVD (Heartbreaker is unfortunately incomplete). But what did manage to survive are incredibly fiery versions of Dazed and Confused and How Many More Times, Dazed in particular featuring a fantastic reference to Cocaine Blues, sung quite masterfully by plant. Tonight's How Many More Times has all the elements to make it a definitive version of this song, featuring unparalleled intensity, dramatics and flat-out excellent playing from all four members that leaves one hanging at the edge of their seat. On a more slightly serious mood is White Summer/Black Mountainside, which really showcases jimmy's incredible improvisational skills, including his exotic middle-eastern riffing which always leaves me hoping for Kashmir seguing in at the end of the song. This excellent show closes off with a generous share of encores including Communication Breakdown, Bring It On Home (played on the "Black Beauty" custom Les Paul which was a rarity), Eddie Cochran's Something Else and C'mon Everybody, and finally finishing off with Little Richard's Long Tall Sally; which is unfortunately cut on the multitracks (not on the SBD though). In a nutshell, along with Live On Blueberry Hill, this is a must have bootleg to have for 1970. Enjoy!

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Led Zeppelin - Live on Blueberry Hill (The Great Love Affair - Winston Remaster) LA Forum September 4, 1970

The famous Live on Blueberry Hill Bootleg by Winston Remasters as requested....enjoy

Led Zeppelin
LA Forum , Inglewood California
September 9th 1970
AUD

AUD Main - (5th) Stereo source - 2ndGenCass>CDR3>SHN>Remaster
AUD Patching #1 - Alternate Mono - LOBH Tarantura : Introductions & MD-WLL Patch
AUD Patching #2 - TMOQ Source UnknownGenCass : Bron-Yr-Aur patch

CD 1

1. Introductions
2. Immigrant Song
3. HeartBreaker
4. Dazed and Confused
5. Bring it On Home
6. Thats the Way
7. Bron-Yr-Aur
8. Since Ive Been Loving You

CD 2

1. Organ Solo
2. Thank You
3. What is and What Should Never Be
4. Moby Dick
5. Whole Lotta Love (Medley)
6. Communication Breakdown (Medley)
7. Out on the Tiles
8. Blueberry Hill


Please Note before you download: The Hiss on the main source had a high pitch sound to it that I found off putting. Using a new tool for noise reduction I was able to remove that. But the after effect of doing that gave the quieter parts the wind tunnel effect. I prefer that over having the high pitched hiss sound throughout the whole show. The Patches using the Alternate Mono - parts of those had better audio from other sources, but I used those because they were complete patches, instead of using 3 different sources for 1 patch.

*Artwork is included

ALL credit goes to the Band and the tapers.
And to Javit who liberated the (5th) Stereo source and for allowing me to use it.
Also to blackmikito for his valuble feedback.
Remastering is just a hobby. This release is never meant to be definitive

Please do not sell
Please do not sell
Please do not sell

WR

My Comments:
This is the famous Blueberry Hill show and one of my favorite versions of all the countless bootlegs out there of this show. This show uses a mix of the three different audience sources, which correspond to source 1, 4, and 5 out of the available 6 sources known for this show. The main source used is source 5, which is the recent very good stereo tape, which may not be as clear as source 1 but is perfect at picking up the show's ambient sound and has much depth to it. Source 1 (TMoQ source) is a excellent mono audience tape, that is very clear and the basis for most of the bootlegs of this show, it is used to patch the intro and Bron-Yr-Aur. Source 4 (alternate mono source) is a okay mono audience but it has a much less clear and muddy sound to it, it is only used to fill in gaps in Moby Dick and the intro to Whole Lotta Love. As for the show itself, im not gonna say much about it, as no description i give can give the show justice. In fact, it is regarded as probably best show Zep ever played, all songs were played excellently if not perfectly. However, i will mention some of my favorites and highlights of the show, being Immigrant Song (features my favorite solo for this song), Dazed and Confused (incredibly intense and excellent performance by all band members), Bring It On Home (very fun and inspired jam, particularly plant on harmonica), Thank You (an intense and my favorite solo for this song), Whole Lotta Love and all the encores (particularly Communication breakdown jam and the rare Out on the tiles). Enjoy! :)


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