(Audience FLAC)
Swing Auditorium
"Swinging in San Bernadino" (Empress Valley Supreme Discs)
Lineage (as given in original torrent): silvers > eac > tlh flac 8
Disc one (62:10):
(1) Drone (1:12) =>
(2) The Immigrant Song (3:30)
(3) Heartbreaker (7:58)
(4) Black Dog (6:18)
(5) Since I've Been Loving You (8:33)
(6) Stairway To Heaven (10:53)
(7) Going To California (6:30)
(8) That's The Way (7:20)
(9) Tangerine (3:36)
(10) Bron-Y-Aur Stomp (6:16)
Disc two (77:00):
(1) Dazed and Confused (28:23)
Incl. The Crunge
Route 66
Born To Be Wild
(2) What Is And What Should Never Be (4:58)
(3) Moby Dick (12:41)
(4) Whole Lotta Love Medley (25:18)
Incl. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
Boogie Chillen'
Let's Have a Party
Hello Mary Lou
Going Down Slow
The Shape I'm In
(5) Rock and Roll (5:39)
FFP signature, EAC logs, artwork, info file, and md5 signature file are included.
Comments:
I have no idea where this file set came from -- it could be a now-defunct torrent tracker, but I grabbed it in January 2011; it doesn't appear to have been on Dime since 2009. This was kind of a special time in Led Zeppelin's live career -- I think their best shows took place in the summer 1972 and perhaps the warm-up shows in March 1973, before they started bloating the set to three hours with extended drum solos, effects, etc. This show took place immediately before the famous L.A. Forum and Long Beach shows (which were immortalized on the brilliant "How The West Was Won" many years later) and the performance is nearly as good. The review from Argenteumastrum.com provides a good summary:
"A short, compact and regular set in front of a dull crowd. Even though there are no previews whatsoever here and only one encore, the standard set still excites. Dazed And Confused is pure genius in 25 minutes and the entire show is delivered with guts and emotion to an audience that is way too undeserving ... the crowd is quiet and responds dully after songs (Plant: "C'mon all you white folks - do The Crunge!") ... a shame as this is a blistering set. The atmosphere on the tape is one of a dull show due to the crowd, but focus on Zeppelin and you will find this show to be short, standard, but breathtakingly exciting and excellently played."
I'm not sure that one can really characterize a 140-minute show as "short," although compared with their 1975 and 1977 shows, it certainly was. This is a really solid show, and the wild Dazed and Confused and Whole Lotta Love medleys are worth the download in their own right. This show captures arguably the best live band ever at their peak.
In terms of sound quality, first keep in mind that this is a 41-year-old audience recording. That said, it's very good (though not quite matching the Forum audience recording from three days later). Vocals are a touch low and the bass and drums are a bit boomy at points, but overall it's a very listenable, balanced recording. I haven't downloaded all of the versions, so I can't comment on whether this is really the "best" source in circulation, but EVSD generally does a good job with their Zeppelin recordings, and this is quite a bit better than I remember the cassette being when I last listened to it in the 1990s.
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