Led Zeppelin - 1977-06-23 - Inglewood, CA (AUD/FLAC) Winston Remasters

(Audience FLAC)

This is the Winston Remasters work on the 1st Gen. Mike Millard and another sources mix being uploaded.

LINEAGE:
*(1) Main - Millard master > HiFi VHS > remaster > **(2) first 4 songs and patching - "EE Trampled Underfoot" 1st Gen cassette of vinyl transfer > FLAC > remaster (sources digitally enhanced with various audio programs) > R-O > me > TLH (to decode as WAV and test for lossiness) > Audacity (to embed metadata/song titles and info into files and re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to reconfirm project is error free and to create and verify md5, ffp & torrent files) > you

* Primary audio source (Millard)
** Secondary/patch audio source (trying to confirm source's info)

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 23rd, 1977
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: LA Forum
Source: AUD 1st Gen. (2 source mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes
Label: Winston Remasters
Title: Mike The Mike - Tribute Series - LA Forum 6/23/77
Size: 1.17 GB

CD1
01. The Song Remains The Same
02. Sick Again
03. Nobody's Fault But Mine
04. Over The Hills And Far Away
05. Since Ive Been Loving You
06. No Quarter

CD2
01. Ten Years Gone
02. Battle Of Evermore
03. Going To California
04. Black Country Woman
05. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
06. White Summer
07. Black Mountain Side
08. Kashmir
09. Trampled Underfoot

CD3
01. Over The Top
02. Jimmy Page (guitar/violin bow solo)
03. Achilles Last Stand
04. Stairway To Heaven
05. Whole Lotta Love
06. Rock And Roll

The one thing I really like about this specific upload is the high end frequencies and clarity in the recording that can be heard. On the acoustic set, starting on CD 2, you can really hear the guitar picking and Plant's voice too much more sharply and clearly than on the other 10 or so versions I was comparing it to. There is a noticeably cleaner sound on the high end of the recording.

Over all, this is a superb audience recording too. Both the unknown patch source and Millard did great jobs of recording live shows (Millard is best known for Zeppelin shows). Their dedication to perfection is the primary reason these shows are so popular and sought after.

There are tons of Led Zeppelin shows out there. There are a lot of bad sounding recordings, good sounding recordings, and fewer excellent-to-superb sounding recordings. But the Millard recordings that have resurfaced over the last few years in their altered and unaltered (by Millard) forms are by far some of the best recordings to date. And many of these shows that have surfaced in years gone by were put out by labels that tend to remaster/rework the audio in ways that degrade the sound quality too. Over amplifying and clipping audio is not how it's done. But a lot of labels have done just that and then did a bad EQ job to top it off. So if you're still listening to you 1990's CD of a show like this, put it in the case and give the better sounding copy (these CD's) a try. I bet you will start gathering dust on the case of your old copy when it comes to revisiting the LA Forum shows in the future.