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IanB
IanB
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Edited Jun 18, 2011, 10:35
Re: Desert Island Discs?
Jun 18, 2011, 10:34
machineryelf wrote:
If you're interest in Zep boots this is a good list, covers the best shows and interesting others
http://www.royal-orleans.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=18827

glad to see the Japan 71 boots getting some love, non of them are soundboards but they still sound great and Zep play their socks off, recommended

edit plus they are all easily findable on the net, and despite certain protestations I'm not going to lose sleep over d/l'ing bootlegs


That's a great list for reference. I don't have any Japanese shows. What do you recommend in particular?

Memorial Auditorium Buffalo 26 07 73, Mobile Municipal Auditorium 13 05 73 and Three Days Later - San Diego Sports Arena 28 05 73 are all big favourites of mine. Then again HOtH is my favourite record of theirs so that skews my feelings about the various shows I have heard before and after the 1975 peak.
smrt
130 posts

Re: Desert Island Discs?
Jun 18, 2011, 12:17
Ah, let's dip in here...

in extremo - villeman og magnhild [the olde viking drinking song]
black widow - come to the sabbat [pagan campfire singalong]
motorhead - ace of spades [a bit of metal]
dropkick murphies - take 'em down [something of a hoedown]
fairport convention - a sailor's life [just is]
jackie Lee - white horses [daydreaming]
hawkwind - brainstorm [here we go]
scriabin - prometheus, poem of fire [to get that (camp)fire started]

luxury item, a big tarp to chill out in the shade.
IanB
IanB
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Re: Desert Island Discs?
Jun 18, 2011, 12:20
Fairports. Ack, another must-have. Damn it.
machineryelf
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Re: Desert Island Discs?
Jun 18, 2011, 13:16
IanB wrote:
machineryelf wrote:
If you're interest in Zep boots this is a good list, covers the best shows and interesting others
http://www.royal-orleans.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=18827

glad to see the Japan 71 boots getting some love, non of them are soundboards but they still sound great and Zep play their socks off, recommended

edit plus they are all easily findable on the net, and despite certain protestations I'm not going to lose sleep over d/l'ing bootlegs


That's a great list for reference. I don't have any Japanese shows. What do you recommend in particular?

Memorial Auditorium Buffalo 26 07 73, Mobile Municipal Auditorium 13 05 73 and Three Days Later - San Diego Sports Arena 28 05 73 are all big favourites of mine. Then again HOtH is my favourite record of theirs so that skews my feelings about the various shows I have heard before and after the 1975 peak.


The San Diego show has a recent version of top quality sound, I like 3 Days After LA Forum 73, the LA Forum 75 run is absolutely fantastic, I'm also very keen on the 77 shows, probably becuase I had The Destroyer on vinyl for many years and so they have a nostalgia value as well
The japanese shows are Tokyo 23 sept 71, probably the best soundwise, Osaka 28th, a better show but sound is A-, and Osaka 29th, again not quite there soundwise, this is the one with Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, the Tokyo 24th show is the other one I have but it's not up to the standard of the other 3, the japan '72 shows are good but in '71 they seem to be rally enjoying themselves
Another fave again not top quality sound but the Zep having a good time more than makes up for it is the Alexandra Palace 22 Dec 1972 show
If you like the 73 shows have you heard the Southampton gig, recently unearthed and brilliant sounding, also Vienna & Munich 73 get the big thumbs up from me
Right I'm off to find the Buffalo 73 show
IanB
IanB
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Edited Jun 18, 2011, 15:34
Re: Desert Island Discs?
Jun 18, 2011, 14:25
Thank you for the tips. Destroyer is old favourite of mine too. That's a really good show. Listening to Southampton on YouTube now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqO151_RxMU

Fantastic so far. Page is storming on this. More together and coherent than the US shows. Though JPJ sounds considerably looser. Clearly need this one on cd / mp3.

Will look for those Japanese boots too. Cheers!

I just missed out on the era of huge bands playing smaller venues. Can you imagine how powerful this was in a room the size of ULU or Leeds Uni? I can remember PG era Genesis doing theatres and Yes were still doing that in 75 around the football ground gigs but after that it was all bloody aircraft hangers and enormo open air shows. Which could be ok but mostly weren't.

EDIT let me know if you can't find Buffalo. The kick drum is very front and centre if you like that sort of thing.
Dog 3000
Dog 3000
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Edited Jun 20, 2011, 18:12
Re: Desert Island Discs?
Jun 20, 2011, 18:09
No, "He Loved Him Madly" is much too sad for me -- seriously one of the bummerest pieces of music I've ever heard.

Whereas "Zimbabwe" is pastoral landscape music to drift off to.

Come to think of it, "Calypso Frelimo" would make another good epic cut (30 minutes of high life funk.)
Fitter Stoke
Fitter Stoke
2601 posts

Re: Desert Island Discs?
Jun 20, 2011, 19:06
Beethoven's 5th (BPO/Furtwangler '43)
Smetana 'Ma Vlast' (Czech PO/Kubelik)
Schubert String Quintet in C (Amadeus Quartet & William Pleeth)
Hatfield and the North 'Fitter Stoke Has A Bath'
Robert Wyatt 'Little Red Riding Hood Hits The Road'
Radiohead 'Paranoid Android'
Steve Winwood 'Spanish Dancer'
Dave Brubeck Quartet 'Tangerine'

Luxury: A decent hifi to play the above!
Book: The NME Book Of Rock (1975)
direwolf
92 posts

Re: Desert Island Discs?
Jun 25, 2011, 01:18
Four Horsemen - Aphrodite's Child
Let There Be Rock - AC/DC
Smell of Incence - West Coast Pop Art and Experimental Band
Supernaut - Black Sabbath
Suite:Judy Blue Eyes - CSN
Walkin' Down the Line - Bob Dylan
Scarlet Begonias - Grateful Dead
New Kind of Kick - the Cramps

Luxury Item -big bag of grass (hopefully with a few seeds in it)
Book - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
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