Led Zeppelin, Seattle Center Coliseum March 21, 1975, Seattle, Washington
A PRESENCE PRODUCTION
Audience Recording Master cassettes > 1st gen open reels (Bill B) > 48kHz 24bit Audio DVD
1. Rock and Roll 2. Sick Again 3. Over The Hills and Far Away 4. In My Time of Dying 5. The Song Remains The Same 6. Rain Song 7. Kashmir 8. No Quarter 9. Since I've Been Loving You 10. Trampled Under Foot 11. Moby Dick 12. Dazed and Confused 13. Stairway to Heaven 14. Whole Lotta Love 15. Black Dog 16. Communication Breakdown 17. Heartbreaker
Bill B's notes: Taped by Mike Tate and Mark Gorelick (Kenny "G's" cousin). Sound ranges from excellent to dull, when the mikes are lowered. Quite enjoyable at times. I haven't listened to the whole thing...Moby is almost all cut. This is my 1st gen reel of the master cassettes, which are now lost. It has been in my backroom, unplayed for 25 years.
Presence's notes: It was a delight to work on these reels, which are still in excellent condition. Two reels were used - the first recorded at 3.75ips (9.5cm/sec), the second at 7.5ips (19cm/sec). The transition from reel one to two occurs right at the end of "Dazed and Confused," which results in a noticeable drop in hiss; however, the second reel was recorded a bit hot and therefore the sound can have an overloaded quality at times. All the nuances of the recording are untouched: the occasional dropout, up and down levels, etc. One of Zeppelin's best shows from 1975!
This will play on any DVD player. Enjoy the Zeps!
just received what appears to be additional notes from Bill B that I was not aware of. They came too late to include in the torrent's info file, so I will include them here:
Bill B wrote:
I HAVE FOUND A REEL THAT IS MORE COMPLETE, from true master cassettes.
Tonight I talked to Mike Tate, who originally taped this. I joked at him about how he could cut Dazed down to under four minutes when recording, and thought they were running out of tape. He told me, no, they had plenty of tape. Then he told me that he and Gorelick built an edited version...kind of a "highlight" party version, and kept the masters safe. I went back to my boxes and found the longer version. I won't say it's complete since I haven't actually heard it, but my reel deck has a digital time readout, that roughly puts it at; reel one 80 minutes each side at 3 3/4 ips; and reel two 40 minutes at 7 1/2 ips. About 200 minutes total, whereas the version you have just downloaded clocks in 160 minutes (per TLH "details" tool). So I have found about 40 minutes more...possibly longer.
I have been able to piece this out I think:
When I first met Mike, he brought up his "edit" version. I taped it on my Phillips reel...and I was particularly interested in the encores to fill out Stan G's reel (known as 1st source). It had the encores, so I guess I never really checked out the rest.
Years later, I bought a new AKAI reel, and wanted to re-copy Mike's tapes...this time he brought up the masters, gave them to me, and I made a "safety" copy. That's what I found in the last few hours of deep digging.
So this version would be a true 1st Gen copy of the master cassettes, is longer, and was recorded on a better deck of mine.