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How is the sound quality?

>>How is the sound quality?

I once posted this question and my observations(that I have never found a good quality recording) to an entire forum of Zep fans(Royal-Orleans) and I got all kinds of pm's offering to send me some HQ stuff.I took a few of them up on their offer and am now convinced that LZ fans have no idea what a good quality concert recording can sound like

The official release, "How the west was won", sounds really nice. From what I've read Peter Grant and his crew were on the lookout for and happy to beat up bootleggers of any style. That would be a good celebrity death match, Peter Grant vs the taper section of a GD show. I should email them. 

>>>"How the west was won", sounds really nice.

Indeed. Jimmy Page is stingy with the live releases, but that one sounds great.   Very heavy.

>>>From what I've read Peter Grant and his crew were on the lookout for and happy to beat up bootleggers of any style. 

Yep.  Peter Grant and his henchman one time kicked the shit of out a dude they saw with a recording device at a show in Vancouver, BC.  Turned out he was from the local government and was checking sound levels.

That dude was a former pro wrestler and someone you didn't want to cross:

Grant was tough and intimidating, but considering how unregulated the music biz was back then, everyone wanted a cut - if you're the biggest band in the world, you can't have a manager who's gonna rollover on you - even though he often overstepped his bounds.

When local promoters balked at his taking of 95% (or more) of the gate, he reminded them that all they had to do was make one announcement on the radio, and the show would automatically sell out.

he lived up to his reputation

He, and the infamous John Bindon, and a certain John Bonham, tried to murder Jim Matzorkis in a trailer backstage in Oakland in 77.

Grant was trying to gouge his eyes out.

Performing in front of what looks like a university math class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhMYUeBlT9o

Some Led Zeppelin fun facts! 

Unlike most Robert Plant lyrics, which have to do with sex or wizards, the song "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" is about Plant's faithful dog named "Strider", whose name Plant would often call out at the end of live versions of the song. So that is who the "blue-eyed MERLE" Plant is singing about! Fun! 

Led Zeppelin used the Dallas, Texas based company "Showco" to handle its live sound reinforcement and also to provide some of the crew. Turns out that both the American crew and the English Led Zeppelin crew were both really into using the drug cocaine, which had become very popular at the time. While their used of cocaine often culminated in fun times for everyone involved, some also say that it contributed to lots of frayed edges and paranoia amongst the crew, especially towards the end of tours.

Robert Plant is a big supporter of the English soccer team Wolverhampton Wolves and Plant was also known on occasion to wear a woman's blouse on stage during concerts. 

>>>Performing in front of what looks like a university math class

Yeah.  I always got a kick out of how subdued and bewildered that particular group of kids looked in that video.

By contrast, here is Communication Breakdown from just a few months later on 1/9/70 at the Royal Albert Hall with a crowd that is getting into the feel of Zeppelin's groundbreaking heavy sound and perhaps the earliest incidents of headbanging caught on camera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqF3J8DpEb4

Here is Led Zeppelin in 1969, on a Danish TV show, rocking out in front of Danish school children, who are politely sitting Indian style, 

https://youtu.be/xsPQ8p32itk

criss cross applesauce is the preferred phrase these days to describe that style of sitting..

Gonna walk around the reservoir and blast some bad '77 tour recordings. 

What reservoir???

Lafayette

you really left dan hanging there  

Bump

Page wasn't happy with most Zeppelin live show recordings, - hence he was "stingy" with releases.

Peter Grant was also an actor in the early 60's - he appeared in the Guns of Navarone as a British soldier- but I'll be damned if I could spot him in the film.

I was a HUGE Zeppelin fan thru the first 5 albums.  N0-0ne else came close.

Then they took the biggest fall in rock history. Could not listen to them after that.  Baffled me how they could lose it that fast.

Still the greatest blues band in history.

I would say their first SIX albums were great (LZ 1-4, Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti) before the drop, being that I’m a big Physical Graffiti fan. 

What don't you like about their last two studio albums?

Presence 

I find presence too uneven. While I enjoy “nobody’s fault but mine” as well as “hots on for nowhere”, the rest of the albums tracks are not as enjoyable. 

As for “in through the out door”, it does have some good songs. The start of the album, “in the evening”, “south bound suarez” and “fool in the rain” (even with its disco whistle and Miami sound machine drum breakdown) are all good songs but are definitely a step down from the highs of the first six albums.