Led Zeppelin - "Lord Of The Strings: One Riff To Rule Them All"
(2-25-72), Auckland, New Zealand, Western Springs Stadium
Remastered Audience Recording, (A Group/Personal Project)
Lineage: Trader CD-R > EAC, Secure Mode, Accurate Stream, No Disable Cache > WAV > Flac Frontend, Encoding Options, Level.6, Align On Sector Boundaries > Flac > TLH, Decode > WAV > Remaster > Flac, Level.8, Align On Sector Boundaries > Flac
Label: N/A
Original Taper: N/A
This is a group/personal project by "The 5th Most Popular Folk Group In New Zealand", The 7th Son, Joel, Porgie, King Mike, Mark, Mike, and Acapulco Gold.
We hope that everyone who chooses to pick this up will enjoy this, and will pass it along, and will share it with others, or just pass, the choice is yours.
This is not meant to be a "definitive" recording.
Dedicated to Leo Ishac, who is apparently responsible for tracking down all the Australian/New Zealand recordings, so a big debt of thanks are owed to him. "
Disc One:
1) Immigrant Song (Fades In, Cut, Incomplete Song)
2) Heartbreaker
3) Black Dog
4) Since I've Been Loving You
5) Stairway To Heaven (Small Tape Cut After Song During Plantations)
6) That's The Way (Has A Small Tape Cut During Song)
7) Tangerine
8) Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
Disc Two:
1) Dazed And Confused (Includes: "The Song Remains The Same" (Instrumental Tease), Cuts Out, Cut, Incomplete Song)
2) Whole Lotta Love (Medley)
Includes:
- Boogie Chillen
- Hello Marylou
- Let's Have A Party ( Has A Minor Tape Flux At The End Of Song)
- Going Down Slow
- The Shape I'm In ( Has A Quick Drop Out At The End Of The Song)
3) Communication Breakdown
Notes:
Notes about the performance, and sound quality:
I stand by the statements I made about how everyone who is collecting Zeppelin bootlegs needs the get the Australian/New Zealand 72 tour.
If you haven't heard anything from this tour before, I think that you'll be pleasantly surprised by not only the groups performances, but also their sound quality.
While a lot of bootlegs are hit and miss in terms of sound quality because of various factors (not using decent equipment, too far from the stage, crowd/taper being too noisy, etc), the recordings from this tour are all so energetic, and powerful, with sound quality that's very warm and clean.
They almost sound like they were professionally recorded.
Everyone who was taping this tour must've had very close seats and had excellent equipment at their disposal to do such great work.
It's just a shame that they're so incomplete.
The majority of them are either missing large portions of music, or are missing Plantations between numbers.
This show for example,is missing most of "Immigrant Song", and "Dazed And Confused".
After playing a few shows in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, and Melbourne), the band made it's way over to New Zealand to play this one and only show in the country.
This show was an outdoor arena performance, and there were close to 25,000 people in attendence.
A lot of them were brought in by train, a "Zeppelin Express" ( hence the title for Genuine Masters "Kiwi Express") but the sound is so tight and warm you wouldn't think this was recorded in such a large venue.
According to press reviews, the sound was apparently so loud that the band could be heard 5 miles away.
Everyone in the group is in fine form, especially Plant, he seems to be on the mend from his bout with the "Australian Bug".
Jimmy is doing some excellent soloing at this concert, and sneaks in an instrumental tease of "The Song Remains The Same" during "Dazed And Confused.
There are quite a few surprises at these Australian/New Zealand concerts.
Here are some examples:
- Jimmy plays an instrumental portion of "Train Kept-A-Rollin'" during "Heartbreaker" at the Adelaide concert.
- Jimmy plays a portion of "The Rover" during the "Whole Lotta Love" medley at the Sydney concert.
The audience seems very receptive to the band, and the group seem to be playing off their energy.
This is so far the only recording known to exist, and is in circulation of the group's performance in Auckland.
Why we chose to work on this recording, and what we've done to make this project:
The raw recording we were working from was quite nice on it's own, there was a nice distribution of the instruments had hardly any tape hiss in the channels, but it did have a few issues that could use a little tweaking:
- There was a bit of bass distortion in the channels.
- The volume of the recording was amplified a touch too much, drowning out a few things in the recording, like crowd comments.
- There were some instruments that were a little more up front then others (bass, and vocals are more present then guitar and drum fills)
- The whole recording was running at the incorrect tape speed, the raw source was running about 3% fast.At first, I thought this recording was running at the correct tape speed, but my mate Mike brought it to my attention that it needed to be slowed down.
So the goal of this project was to correct those issues I've listed, and try to also breathe some new life into the recording.
- We've tried to balance the instruments.
- We've corrected the tape speed issues.
- We've tried to bring out things that were buried in the recording.
- We've tried to give the listener a sense of ambiance.
For those that may not get the title name, we came up with the title "Lord Of The Strings" while we were mulling over possible title choices, and settled on that one because we felt it both referenced the country where the show takes place, and makes reference to the band as well, particularly Jimmy.
We thought we might be able to come up with something clever from a Plantation from the concert, or from a press review quote, but all those leads turned up dry, so we started to do some research about New Zealand to see if we could come up with something clever that we could use/relate to the project.
We dug through the country's history, and also through it's popular culture to try and find something to use.
I really wanted to use something from the t.v show "Flight Of The Conchords".
For those that may not know about the Conchords, they're a comedy musical dup from New Zealand, that also hav their own show on HBO.
It's about themselves, they move to New York from New Zealand, and are trying to make it big in America.
Unfortunately, the show didn't really give us anything really concrete to use, so finally we thought of the "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy, which was filmed in New Zealand.
Hope everyone here will enjoy.
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