Led Zeppelin
Everybody Feel Alright
The Forum, Inglewood, California
03/27/1970
EVSD Silver > Secure EAC WAV > FLAC
disc one
introduction
We're Gonna Groove
Dazed And Confused
Heartbreaker
bring it on home
white summer/black mountain side
since ive been loving you
organ Solo /
Thank You
disc two
What Is And What Should Never Be
moby dick
How Many More Times (medley)
Whole Lotta Love
communication breakdown / ending announcement
good audience. maybe a 6.5/10 but a great show.
Not the best recording but worth the download and listen.
SEcure EAC log and Flac Fingerprints included.
artwork included not that you need it with zeppelinart, but wtf, backyardT
From bootleg encyclo:
Everybody Feel Alright? is a new release by Empress Valley documenting Led Zeppelin's first of many stellar concerts at
the Forum in Los Angeles. Tapes from later in their career that come from this venue are among the very best in sound
quality and performance but this concert has not been booted too much in the past. Two tape sources exist. The first
one to surface was used on the silver title D'ya Feel Alright? (Mad Dogs-029/30). This recording is distant and dull
but listenable. A second incomplete tape surfaced afterwards and was the basis for the second major release of this
show on LA Jive & Rambling Mind (Holy Grail HGCD 106/107). The second source is much closer to the action and is more
clear and enjoyable. The first tape was edited in for three songs, "Bring It On Home", "White Summer/Black Mountain Side",
and "Since I've Been Loving You". Everybody Feel Alright?, this new release on Empress Valley, is the first release of
this show in a very long time and is similar to the Holy Grail by editing together the two sources for a complete show.
The basis is again the better sounding of the two. It begins with the short introduction and Plant saying he will get
everybody looser than they've ever been loose before including with cod liver oil. The first tape source picks up right
on the final note of "Heartbreaker" and runs through "Bring It On Home", "White Summer/Black Mountain Side", and "Since
I've Been Loving You" just like the Holy Grail. In "Thank You", the first source is used two times, between 6:18 to 6:23
and 7:01 to 7:18.
In "How Many More Times" the lesser source is used between 3:18 to 3:28 and that source comes in again at the very end with
the audiences' comments about the show. The Bootledz website makes the observation that "there are very many micro
cut/repeats in this title, most notably a string of them together after 'White Summer'". It sounds as if the webmaster
received a defective copy since mine, and other collector's, does not have this problem and plays fine. Perhaps if your
copy has this issue you might want to contact your vendor and get an exchange for a fixed copy. The tape begins right at
the end of the band's introduction and Plant asking everybody if they feel alright (a comment he makes throughout the show
and gives the title for this release). He says they will get everybody more loose than than with cod liver oil before the
band begin "We're Gonna Groove". "Heartbreaker", the third song of the set, lacks the theremin introduction that Page used
for this tour but does have a moment of Hendrix-like feedback and distortion. "Bring It On Home" is good enough to make
one wish it were on the better sounding tape. This is such an effective vehicle for improvisation and fun on-stage antics
between Page, Plant and Bonham that it makes me wonder why it was dropped from the set list the following year and played
only on rare occasions. John Paul Jones' organ solo before "Thank You" is the first attempt to introduce an improvisational
keyboard solo in the Zeppelin live repertoire. Many times on this and the following American tour the solo sounds
disjointed with the experiments sounding more stupid than interesting. But on this night it lasts only three minutes
and is melodic and enjoyable.
"What Is And What Should Never Be" is usually one of the more "standard" numbers inthe set, being performed the same every
night with very little difference. But Plant adds many interjections between the verses making this version stand out.
Before "Moby Dick" Plant thanks everybody who saw them in Anaheim the previous year. "How Many More Times" lasts for
twenty-five minutes with Plant promising to get the audience "looser and looser". He introduces the band as "four survivors
of the Graf Zeppelin" and the band get very intense. Page plays Ravel's Bolero in increasing intensity and Plant tries to
calm the police presence down throughout the entire medley. "Whole Lotta Love", their newest single at this time is the
first encore and includes Page's theremin solo in the middle. The show closes with a version of "Communication Breakdown"
that includes a reference to Neil Young's "Down By The River" which was his latest hit that spring. Everybody Feel Alright?
is another budget release by Empress Valley. They use photos from the actual concert on the front and back with several
photos of Page from the Bath festival on the inside. His look for that summer concert, with the beard, short hair and
farmer hat was not the same look he had in the spring which was long hair, clean-shaven and psychedelic pop-star garb.
Regardless it is an effective and clean layout design. This is an overall improvement over the older releases and is
worth having especially because it has not been booted very often. The rumor mill in Japan is saying that Wendy is working
on their own competing version of this show and we will see how it compares.
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