Led Zeppelin - 1975 Live Compilation (Credit: Michael Fry)

This is a compilation put together by Michael Fry, a user on the ledzeppelin.com forum of the band's 1975 American tour and their run at Earls Court. It uses soundboards wherever possible, and employs crossfading to make it sound like one long concert. It is a part of a 50th anniversary box set he put together for Zeppelin using bootlegs as the main starting point. Special and all credit goes to him! Here are his notes on this:

Been working on it since the summer when it started to become apparent that Jimmy Page was not going to deliver the 50th Anniversary Live boxed set that we all hoped for.
Well, if he wasn't going to do it, then I was certainly going to give it my best shot!

My starting point was that for 1969-1973, we have near-complete live shows for each year:
Paris Olympia from 1969
Royal Albert Hall from 1970
BBC Paris Theatre from 1971
How The West Was Won from 1972
Madison Square Garden from 1973

As the years 1975-1980 are only represented by the DVD's highlights from Earls Court '75 and Knebworth '79, I decided to concentrate purely on these years.
Unfortunately, as much as I love Led Zep (they have been my favourite band for years) we all know that during the second half of their career their performances were sometimes inconsistent. Plant had vocal issues, Page had certain other issues and even Bonham could have a dodgy night. I knew that if I was to construct a live album for each of these years that was anywhere near definitive or near the standard required for an official release, it was going to involve a lot of editing.
Plant's vocal squeaks and cracks needed sorting, Page's flubs needed to be addressed and a few band timing issues needed smoothing out.
If I was to make an edit within a song and use a better performance from another night then I also wanted to match the EQ, reverb and stereo separation. Some soundboards varied so much in these areas!

What I've ended up with is a 2cd or 3cd soundboard compilation from 1973, America and Earls Court 1975, America 1977, Knebworth 1979 and Europe 1980 to approximate a complete show from each of these tours/shows.
I've also done the same for L.A. 1977, trying to use only Mike Millard's recordings wherever possible.
I know they are audience recordings but they are so good and so legendary that even Page saw fit to use one for a menu on the official DVD set.
I've sprinkled a few extras here and there just for kicks.
As a bonus I've created an alternative version of The Song Remains The Same soundtrack.
This one comes from my frustration at what we were officially given for the 50th Anniversary.
The flawed 2007 version of The Song Remains The Same was reissued, despite Page having the opportunity to finally give the soundtrack the treatment it deserved - for example, by using the superior 1976 album versions of some of the songs and ditching the film versions with their awkward edits that sometimes even added or took away beats of the bar.
A complete Black Dog would also have been nice!
This is the version I wish had been issued.
Many thanks to The Garden Tapes website which provided invaluable help.
I've included a compilation (entitled 1973-1980) of songs which were some of my favourite performances but which didn't meet the standard I was looking for in terms of a near-perfect performance or sound quality.
This compilation consists of 6 cds of honourable mentions, mostly soundboards but with a few top quality audience recordings that compete in terms of performance.
Oh, and Volume 10 consists of 3 DVDs: the 1st is my version of what an official Earls Court compilation could look like, the 2nd my presentation of the Seattle gig with better sound + some extras and the 3rd is my version of what an official Knebworth compilation could look like.

0:00 Intro - Seattle 3/21
0:10 Rock and Roll - Seattle 3/21
3:52 Sick Again - Seattle 3/21
10:23 Over the Hills and Far Away - Vancouver 3/19 + Seattle 3/21
18:10 In My Time of Dying - Los Angeles 3/24
29:53 Since I've Been Loving You - Seattle 3/21
37:55 The Song Remains the Same - Seattle 3/21
43:15 The Rain Song - Seattle 3/21
51:39 Kashmir - Seattle 3/21
1:01:16 When the Levee Breaks - Chicago 1/20 (bonus track)
1:09:37 The Wanton Song - Chicago 1/22 (bonus track)
1:14:03 No Quarter - Vancouver 3/19
1:37:15 Tangerine - Earls Court 5/24
1:40:49 Going to California - Earls Court 5/25
1:45:39 That's the Way - Earls Court 5/25
1:51:57 Bron-Y-Aur Stomp - Earls Court 5/25
1:57:45 Trampled Underfoot - Vancouver 3/19 + Seattle 3/21
2:07:58 Moby Dick - Baton Rouge 2/28
2:33:54 Dazed and Confused - Vancouver 3/20
3:13:57 Stairway to Heaven - Seattle 3/21
3:26:49 Whole Lotta Love - Vancouver 3/20
3:28:02 The Crunge - Seattle 3/21
3:37:07 Black Dog - Seattle 3/21
3:43:12 Communication Breakdown - Seattle 3/21
3:46:02 Heartbreaker - Seattle 3/21 + Uniondale 2/14

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