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[Excursions into Led Zep territory can be fun and amusing but also a bit of a long arduous affair, kind of like their live shows.]

A ca. 1978 re-release from TMOQ plates in a b&W printed sleeve.

As a TMOQ release it looked like this:

But the original version was most probably this one on Highway HiFi:

Comments from a confused collector: “07-17-73 Very confusing date. At least *I* am confused! Initially released as “V-1/2 Led Zeppelin Performed Live In Seattle” by (Highway HiFi) [incorrect interpretation of the HH matrix number, this was released by the HH label/Pig’s Eye creator; it is not a Highway Hi Fi release]. Reissued by (TMQ) in various forms, such as “V1/2” and “Live In Seattle 73 Tour” Did TMQ make the HH release? I don’t know. Also reissued as “On Tour” (Berkeley) & (Black Gold), “Seattle 73” (Phoenix), “Seattle Daze” (Box Top), and “Live In Seattle 1973″ (Wind). Regardless, I’ve heard two vinyl versions (Original and TMQ Seattle title), and they sound similar.”

Date & Venue: July 17, 1973 – Seattle Center Coliseum

[Comments below compiled with the help of argenteumastrum.com]
Source 1 breakdown: Rock And Roll [ 3:52 – cut ] >> Celebration Day [ 3:52 ] >> Bring It On Home Intro [ 0:20 ] >> Black Dog [ 5:22 ], Over The Hills And Far Away [ 6:12 ], Misty Mountain Hop [ 5:05 ] >> Since I’ve Been Loving You [ 8:21 ], [ cut ], No Quarter [ 12:44 – cut ], The Song Remains The Same [ 5:30 ] >> The Rain Song [ 8:21 ], [ cut ], Stairway To Heaven [ 10:48 – cut ], [ cut ], Heartbreaker [ 8:21 – cut ] >> Whole Lotta Love (<< The Crunge, Boogie Chillun..) [ 12:02 – cut ], [ cut ], The Ocean [ 4:27 ].
Source: Incomplete excellent 1st audience recording. 103 minutes.
Details: The tape is great balanced and very clear audience recording but some small parts are kinda less bright and there are occasional channel drop-outs. The sound seems to be recorded much close to the stage [compared to source 2, I am guessing]. It could have more bass though.

Bootleg LP Reference(s) audience source 1: Best Of Led Zeppelin Vol. 1 (Rock Solid Records), The Final Option (Rock Solid Records & The Swingin’ Pig Records), V1/2 (Trade Mark Of Quality), V1/2 Led Zeppelin Performed Live In Seattle (Highway HiFi) [incorrect: HH label], Led Zeppelin Film Can (Rock Solid Records), Live In Seattle (The Amazing Kornyfone Record Label, Seat & Trade Mark Of Quality), Live In Seattle 1973 (Wind Records), On Tour (Berkeley & Black Gold Concerts), Seattle 73 (Phoenix), Seattle Daze (Box Top Records), & Trade Mark Of Quality Years (Trade Mark Of Quality)

Source 2 and the 114 minutes long soundboard recording surfaced much later and were released on various CD titles.

Comments: Another of the great 1973 US Tour shows … from the onset the band is ready to play and they take no prisoners! The show, surprisingly, was followed by a very long announcements: “Led Zeppelin has asked if we can get a few things straight tonight. Nobody around here digs any fireworks – please cool the fireworks. Please also, we have an area right here in front of the stage where we have many optic effects that we need to get off tonight, that we can’t have any chance of anybody bumping the stage ‘cos it’ll completely ruin them. Their show usually runs about one hour and forty-five minutes. If you can keep the fireworks down and keep everything off the front, Led Zeppelin would like to thank you and do about three hours tonight! So, sit back and stay cool and we’ll have a long great show this evening!” The improvisations, especially No Quarter and the immensely long Dazed And Confused [never available on vinyl as not on source 1] are fresh and unique and sound very different from anything heard before. The end has very unusual and exciting rhythm structure in Whole Lotta Love and Robert screaming as the band jam on the end of The Ocean.

****

From an internet torrent made available in 2010:

Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: 1973-07-17
Location: Seattle, WA
Venue: Seattle Center Coliseum
Source: Audience
Lineage: Masters>Wav(24/96)>Wav(16/44)>flac
Transfer: Masters>Nakamichi 670>Wavelab 96/24>flac
Taping Gear: unknown directional stereo mics>Sony TC-126
Taped By: Dave Departee
Transferred By: JEMS

D & D Archives Master Series Volume 1

Setlist:
01. Intro
02. Rock And Roll
03. Celebration Day
04. Black Dog
05. Over The Hills And Far Away
06. Misty Mountain Hop
07. Since I’ve Been Loving You
08. No Quarter
09. The Song Remains The Same
10. The Rain Song
11. Heartbreaker/Whole Lotta Love (fades out)
12. The Ocean

Length: 81:05

13. Stairway To Heaven*
14. Whole Lotta Love (full)*

Length: 23:05

*V 1/2 Led Zeppelin Performed Live in Seattle (Highway HiFi Collector’s
Edition Records) Vinyl

Notes:
JEMS is proud to be able to partner with and present some of the choice
recordings in the D & D archives. Some of these recordings have been around
for years but none of the master tapes or safety copies in some cases have
ever been digitized until now. Dave and Donn taped many shows in and around
the Seattle area in the 70’s and also were contemporaries of some of the
JEMS members. Volume 1 consists of Led Zeppelin’s stop in Seattle in 1973.
This recording is the source for the original V 1/2 Led Zeppelin Performed
Live in Seattle on Highway HiFi Collector’s Edition Records (HHCER) [see my comments above] and later variations on the V 1/2 title released on other vinyl bootlegs. This
is the very first time any copies of this recording have been made outside
of the press plates for the original vinyl pressing and/or internal copies
Dave and Donn may have made for each other. Unfortunately one of the masters
was completely erased over to be reused to tape other shows so Stairway To
Heaven and Whole Lotta Love are pieced in from a transfer off of Dave’s
original vinyl. This is an excellent sounding recording and one of the best
audience recordings in general available for any Zeppelin show from the 73
U.S. tour. The recording is missing part of the show(Dazed And Confused,
Moby Dick) but this is the first time Heartbreaker has been made available
from this show. The recording has been mastered for sonic perfection along
with the vinyl portion being cleaned up of surface noise and such.

(Sept. 2010)

2960: LED ZEPPELIN ‘THE 1975 WORLD TOUR’ / ‘LEGERDOMAIN’

October 4, 2012

Led Zeppelin, TAKRL

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Deluxe printed re-issue.

[This title was not mentioned in the TAKRL catalog. The above image looks like an original TAKRL release to me (although the printed cover version with Wizardo labels seems to be a lot more common) but perhaps I am wrong. This could be supported by the fact that this is really a sub par quality recording, ruined by the tapers.]

Montreal Forum, February 6th 1975 – Fair to Good Audience Recording

Side 1
01 – Rock And Roll 3:42
02 – Sick Again 5:36
03 – Over The Hills And Far Away 7:12
04 – In My Time Of Dying 9:47
Running Time: 26’19”

Side 2
05 – The Song Remains The Same 5:18
06 – The Rain Song 8:05
07 – Kashmir 8:40
08 – Trampled Underfoot 7:18
Running Time: 29’22”

Side 3
09 – Dazed And Confused 22:35
Running Time: 22’35”

Side 4
10 – Stairway To Heaven 10:46
11 – Whole Lotta Love 1:21
12 – Black Dog 5:48
13 – Heartbreaker 6:41
Running Time: 24’37”

[Photo from the actual show at the Forum]

An eye witness report: “I was next to the guys who made that recording. We were all part of a junket from Toronto and sat together opposte the stage in the old Forum.
Suddenly as the lights went down a rather large double boom mike was drawn from a duffle bag and the rest became ‘recorded’ history. I recognised the guys from a Yonge Street record store I patronized and was later able to get a cassete copy of the bootlerg. before it was released. I still have one of the two casstetes somewhere. The concert was one I shall never forget.”

From theyearofledzeppelin: “Plant continues to have trouble with his voice, he growls through the opening numbers. Page disappears briefly in the middle of Over the Hills and Far Away, just as the guitar solo is supposed to begin. As the song ends, one of the tapers announces “specially priced two record set on Kornyfone, Led Zeppelin live in Montreal!” [What?! Is this a first in bootleg history – announcing the finished product at the taping?] Shouted requests for Hey Hey What Can I Do, White Summer, and Travelling Riverside Blues can be heard before In My Time of Dying, which Plant introduces as “something that takes us back to the original influences that started Led Zeppelin in the first place.”

Plant’s howls echo through the arena during the mournful San Francisco interlude in Dazed and Confused. Page is on fire during the guitar solo/workout section. The thunderous Mars, the Bringer of War section is led by Bonzo’s intimidating death march. Page solos wildly over the hypnotic, syncopated rhythm during the outro. An outstanding performance, the best of the tour thus far. As the song ends, one of the tapers can be heard exclaiming “I’m so fuckin’ stoned!” Page blazes through an amazing guitar solo during Stairway to Heaven. Black Dog is devastatingly heavy. The band’s return to the stage is met with a deafening cheer. Page holds back during the a cappella solo in Heartbreaker, but makes up for it during the frenzied fast guitar solo. As the band leaves the stage, Plant announces “Montreal, you are the best!” An excellent performance. The tape is very clear and well-balanced. However, the frequent false stereo panning effect can be a bit distracting at times.”

From collectorsmusic.com: “Much has been said about the fake stereo panning effect plaguing this tape since its first incarnation on vinyl and it is here too.

It was produced during the actual recording of the show and there is no way to avoid the annoyance but on the whole the tape is good to very good and clear. Luckily the taper used it sparingly during the more “exciting” moments of the show and during long stretches it is absent to allow us to enjoy the music. The tapers talk throughout the show and are just as annoying and make the same kind of moronic comments as the people who taped the New York shows.

Most of their comments are requests (“White Summer”, etc). During the long mellotron tune up for “Stairway To Heaven” this witty exchange is heard: Guy #1: “Gordon Haskell!” Guy #2: “Who is Gordon Haskell anyway?” Guy #1: “Who knows.” Guy #3: “That faggot on [King Crimson’s] Lizard.“ Guy #2 “[singing the Yes song] ‘To Be Over’…**belch**.” By their comments early on it sounds as if they were recording this specifically for a bootleg release!

But perhaps the biggest concern with this is the show itself is sub par. Plant’s voice is extremely hoarse and the band just sounds sluggish in the opening numbers. During “Over The Hills And Far Away” Page has a malfunction right when he begins his guitar solo. John Paul Jones plays a funky bass under Plant’s “ooo yeahs” until Page can come to complete the solo. “Kashmir” sounds very muted and lacking in excitement. “No Quarter” really works though as does “Trampled Underfoot”.

“Dazed & Confused” is erratic with John Bonham getting lost in the middle, beginning the “Mars” section at the call-and-response part. The show ends strongly with a great “Stairway To Heaven” and encore section complete with explosions and an air raid siren going off after “Black Dog”. ”

Later reissued with a color cover and colored original TAKRL labels. Note the “closing down” notice on the back [which probably only applied to the Legerdomain name]:

—THE AMAZING KORNYFONE LABEL

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