Thursday, November 27, 2008

Led Zeppelin 7/29/73 Madison Square Garden

Link for Show http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=66E0D650E00BCD40

This is the final and LAST show of 1973. It was a 3 part Concert at Madison Square Garden. YES parts of song were used in the making of The Song Remains The Same DVD/CD. It is very interesting to hear parts of a song you hear in this bootleg and hear them in the DVD/CD. For example the intro to this Since Ive Been Loving you is different than the movie, but most of the rest of the song was included in the Movie. Empress valley used mainly SoundBoards but please read the following for an important explanation:
*note: EV Means Empress Valley which is what we are listening to here. Missing Doll and Tarantura2000 is a different bootleg.

"7-29-73 soundboard and more
A 2 Last Nights (Tarantura), Grand Finale (Empress Valley, 4cd), Missing Doll (Tarantura2000), & MSG 1973 (Firepower)
"A 2 Last Nights" has the most tape before the show. It has 5 dropouts not found on the others and isn't cut after Since I've Been Loving You. This title and Firepower only contain the first two thirds of the show, up through most of Dazed and Confused.
The Empress Valley's release contains a 3cd soundboard plus a 1cd audience. The soundboard portion contains the same first two thirds of the show as the other titles plus Heartbreaker through the end of the show. The soundboard is missing the last part of Dazed, all of Stairway, and the beginning of The Ocean. To no surprise - and just like all of EV titles that feature an incomplete tape - they fill in the missing time by the same music from a different night altogether. This time, for the first time EVER, EV discloses the fact that they've switched shows, using the previous night. Still, they only note the change for Stairway and not the other two tracks. Even stranger, EV wanted us to hear those missing tracks that are found on the audience tape (and only those two songs) so they included a fourth disc featuring only Dazed and Stairway. However, the fact that they didn't use the audience tape of the 29th to complete the soundboard of the 29th and electing to use a different show entirely is not strange. It seems that any excuse to add an extra disc to a premium label release is all too commonplace.
Missing Doll fills in the soundboards gaps with an audience tape of the same night. It's splicing overlaps tapes and sometimes misses a little bit of the board.

All titles are cut after No Quarter and the sound worsens. The music drops down and the background noise increases. The original Tarantura doesn't sound as clear as the other titles. Empress Valley's tape has been amplified slightly. EV and Missing Doll both run a hair faster than the others, bringing them much closer to proper speed. Very surprisingly, Tarantura2000 doesn't have any hints of their horrible tweak jobs."
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And here is the Setlist
Led Zeppelin 1973.07.29 MSG, New York - Grand Finale (Empress Valley)

Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: 1973-07-29
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Location: New York, USA
Source: SBD(disc1-3), AUD(disc4)
Lineage: Silver CD > EAC > WAV > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC(level 7)

Title: Grand Finale (4CD)
Label: Empress Valley

Disc 1
01.Rock And Roll
02.Celebration Day
03.Black Dog
04.Over the Hills And Far Away
05.Misty Mountain Hop
06.Since I've Been Loving You
07.No Quarter

Disc 2
01.The Song Remains The Same
02.The Rain Song
03.Dazed And Confused
04.Stairway To Heaven

Disc 3
01.Moby Dick
02.Heartbreaker
03.Whole Lotta Love
04.The Ocean
05.Organ Solo / Thank You

Disc4(AUD)
01.Dazed And Confused
02.Stairway To Heaven

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So how do you find this set? I would like one, but cant find it. I am a newbie to this and all the sites I find are very cryptic. This is (msg) definitely one of their best shows I have heard
-C