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1972 through 1973



2-19-72
Deep Downunder (Empress Valley), Oooh My Ears, Man! (TDOLZ), Live In Adelaide (Equinox), Voo Doo Drive (Tarantura), VooDooDrive Ver.2004 (Tarantura2000)
TDOLZ, Tarantura, and Tarantura2000 all share the same cuts/stretches between songs. Tarantura runs a hair slow.
Equinox has removed almost all of the stretches between songs. Due to the editing, about 4 seconds of music have been lost.
Empress Valley has also removed all the stretches. They also removed the first few seconds of the introduction and inserted micro cut/repeats (Going To California and Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp) where there's never been any tape problems.
These titles are very similar in sound.

2-20-72
Acoustically (TDOLZ), Australian Tour 1972 Part 1 (Black Cat), Count Me Out When It's Hot (Cobra), Down Under Daze (IQ), Kooyong Stadium Gets Rocked (Flamingo), Live In Melbourne (Equinox), Melbourne Masters (Immigrant), Shivers 'N' Shakes (Red Hot), Wet Head is Dead (Empress Valley)
Black Cat was the first release of this show on cd, featuring a single tape source, and is the most common. Flamingo's title is a much less complete version of Black Cat's - more tape is missing at cuts and Whole Lotta Love isn't available. Red Hot's release came the following year, using Black Cat's tape for the first three songs and then the rest were from a new tape source. In addition to missing those first 3 songs, this second source to cd was also lacking Going To California, That's the Way, and Whole Lotta Love.
Immigrant, TDOLZ, and IQ were later issued, using the Black Cat source up until the last part of Whole Lotta Love. From there, they all used an identical alternate tape to finish the medleys. The three titles are virtually identical in respect to cuts. IQ's sound is much quieter since it wasn't amplified like Immigrant and TDOLZ.
Equinox primarily uses the Black Cat tape source. It uses the Red Hot source from just after Black Dog through the end of Stairway To Heaven. It uses it again for Tangerine, the end of Dazed and on through just before the start of Rock and Roll. The introduction sounds like it may be from vinyl. Equinox's Whole Lotta Love is complete. It starts the song with a fourth source tape (first time found on cd), followed by five minutes of the Black Cat source, and is finished by the usual familiar alternate (third) source used by Immigrant, TDOLZ, and IQ. The "fourth" tape in the beginning of WLL could be more of the Red Hot source (not found on Red Hot) or is another later source entirely. On that same note, the usual third tape to finish WLL may be Red Hot, or not...
Equinox's common source (Black Cat) sounds a little better here than on the older releases. The difference is likely due to equalization. The usual source used to complete Whole Lotta Love is much, much better than what can be heard on the other titles.
Cobra's title is a two source mix, but doesn't use the third tape to complete songs. It uses it (assuming third source) to fill in a few passages between songs. For the first time on cd, an extra 2 minutes of the Black Cat tape are found on this title. This time is from about 3 different places, all between songs. Unfortunately, it's missing a dozen seconds of the better tape too. The tape doesn't seem to be amplified at all. The last few minutes of Whole Lotta Love are from the alternate tape.
Empress Valley's title is a thorough mixture of four or more tapes. Close to half of the title isn't from sources previously found on cd. Most of the new tape combination is probably the one new source but the rest could be from another new source or an previously unreleased portion (to cd) of a familiar tape (Red Hot or the third tape). With no fewer than 24 source changes, it is difficult to know which tape is on without referring to your own notes. The overall sound is fine but hearing the tape constantly changing distracts from it's purpose.

2-25-72
Going To Auckland (Tarantura2000 & Akashic, original and 2nd Edition) & Live In New Zealand (Empress Valley)
Tarantura2000 presents this show twice, from the same tape source. The first version is from the "raw master" and the second is a "re-master."
The "master" has a cut and repeat during Whole Lotta Love that obviously isn't possible to be found on the true (any) master. It's probably just an overlooked error. The sound seems to be unadulterated.
The "re-master's" sound has been altered and amplified. Like most of the Tara2000 titles, there's an unnatural sound in the background due to too much tweaking. The quietness between sounds is weird. Other than sound being degenerated, there are three other deviations from the "master." The first is that one of Robert's shouts during Bron-Y-Aur has been completely removed (around the 50 second mark of the track). The second difference is the correction of the cut/repeat during Whole Lotta Love. The final difference is the edited dropout during Whole Lotta Love.
Akashic's title has the exact same content of Tarantura2000's "re-master." There are no differences of any kind other than Akashic's slower speed and different cue stops. Their "2nd Edition" is the same audio.
Empress Valley's title most closely matches Tarantura2000's "master." They cleaned up a few edits and amplified the tape about as much as Tarantura2000's "re-master."
These titles share the longest fade-in ever produced on a Led Zeppelin silver disc - 20 seconds.

2-27-72, source 1
Australian Tour 1972 Part 1 (Black Cat) & Live In Sydney (Equinox)
Black Cat and Equinox are from the same tape source.
Black Cat runs too fast. Equinox runs at the proper speed and has a few extra seconds of tape between songs. It's sound seems to be better in some places.

2-27-72, source 2
Ayers Rock (Tarantura2000), Balloon Goes Up On Led Zeppelin (Empress Valley), Robbers Return (Sharaku Productions), & Rumble In Sydney (Futher Along)
Ayers Rock is from the second tape source. The "mastering" for this release was way, way, way overdone. It has been tweaked so hard that the background noise sounds like a flock of birds, making the sound have a "metallic" sound. It's most noticeable between songs. A raw version of this tape would have been nice listening.
Rumble is a two source mix, utilizing the second source as the primary tape. It relies on tape one to complete Bron-Y-Aur Stomp and Rock and Roll. This title too has extremely poor "mastering" but is a tiny bit better than Ayers.
Robbers Return is strictly source two. It's sound is identical to Rumble.
Empress Valley's title is a two source mix, similar to Further Along, but better sounding. Many of the tape stretches have been removed.

2-29-72
Australian Tour 1972 Part 2 (Black Cat) & Live In Brisbane (Equinox)
These seem to be mostly from the same source. However, Equinox is much more complete since it relies on a second source. For the source these two titles share, Equinox is at least slightly better sounding.

5-27-72
Amsterdam 1972 (MMachine), Amsterdam Warmup (Magnificent Disc), Dancing Bear (Tarantura), & Running Bear (Gold Standard)
MMachine seems to sound a tiny hair better than Gold Standard. It has an extra 4 seconds of music at cuts during songs over the other releases. It also has more tape after Rock and Roll.
Tarantura's introduction was edited, removing 25 seconds. It's sound is also a little louder than Gold Standard.
Mag Disc's title is cuts out 4-5 seconds too early on Stairway and cuts into Bron-Y-Aur Stomp a couple of seconds too late. It has the same cut and repeat after Whole Lotta Love that is found on all releases. A few seconds are missing in the area of the cut after Rock and Roll. It's sound is a tiny hair louder than MMachine but isn't due to a better generation of tape - just amplification. Like Mag Disc's first two releases, this third release also has the all too common metallic sound in the background. The affect isn't anywhere near as horrid as Memphis Underground's but is constantly evident and inexcusable

6-7-72
Montreal Gazette (Wendy) & Red Snapper Deluxe (Balboa)
Balboa is from an incomplete version of the first tape source. Wendy is a more complete version of source one until the cut after Moby Dick. From there, source two is used to finish the show. Source two is used for less than one minute before the big switch after Moby Dick. During Wendy's introduction, a splice to an inferior version of source one is used, all the way through the beginning of Heartbreaker. The inferior tape has a ton of hiss. For the other parts common between the two titles, Wendy sounds a good deal better.

6-9-72
Charlotte 1972 (TDOLZ), Compositions (Tarantura), Don't Do It If You Don't Want To (Holy Grail), & Knees Up Mother Brown (IQ)
IQ's title runs a bit fast, lacks tape before the show - cutting into the first note of Immigrant Song, and has no left channel for 45 seconds during Moby Dick.
Holy Grail is virtually identical to IQ. It's a little better since it contains the short introduction and doesn't cut into Rock and Roll.
TDOLZ's sound is far superior. It is louder, has less background noise, has a broader range of frequencies, and the tape runs closer to proper speed. The introduction is 3 seconds long and does not cut into Immigrant Song. There are no channel problems during Moby Dick. The tape runs a hair slow.
Tarantura's title is very similar to TDOLZ. It has about 18 seconds more tape after Moby Dick but removed the tape stretches after WLL and Rock & Roll. The tape runs closer to the proper speed than the other titles. It's sound is slightly quieter than TDOLZ but is not likely due to a difference in tape generation.

6-11-72
Axeman of Cometh (Flagge), Baltimore 1972 (Immigrant & Wardour), Baltimore Jack (TDOLZ) & Nutty and Cool (Baby Face)
Immigrant's title is the shortest. Moby Dick is missing a few seconds, Whole Lotta Love has a slight cut, is missing over 2 minutes of tape after Rock and Roll, and has almost no tape after the show.
Flagge splices in a different generation tape of the same show (different speed too) in 3 places to correct for a few very minor tape faults in the main tape. The splices cause more disturbance than the faults of the main tape. This title presents a new cut during Moby Dick, missing 3 seconds from the opening. Little tape is available after the show.
TDOLZ's is missing tape before and after the show. It has some digital glitches, has a cut/drop during Dazed, and is missing a few seconds of Moby Dick.
Baby Face has more tape before and after the show. It has a couple of glitches and is missing a few seconds of Moby Dick.
Wardour's is the most complete, musically and otherwise. It has all known tape before the show, 2 extra seconds of Moby at the cut, has almost 2 minutes of tape after the show, and contains no digital glitches like Baby Face and TDOLZ. It's only fault is minor (missing about 2 seconds of tape after That's The Way).
Immigrant's tape is clearly from a higher generation than the other titles. TDOLZ's equalization is a bit off. Baby Face has been amplified a little. Flagge has been amplified quite a bit over the others. Wardour seems to have not adjusted the sound, so it's a little more natural.

6-14-72
Sometime In New York City (IQ) & Whole Lotta Led (Badgeholders)
These two titles are almost completely identical in content. Badgholders removed a few of the tape stretches. They have amplified their tape quite heavily.

6-15-72
Long Island Line (IQ), Tangerine (Mud Dogs), Welcome Back (Tarantura), & Whole Lotta Led (Badgeholders)
The end of WLL is not available. Tarantura "fixed" this problem by repeating the beginning of the song at the end. Other edits cost Tarantura a couple seconds of music. The title has been amplified a considerable amount.
Mud Dog's introduction is slightly shorter than the other titles. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp has almost 2 more seconds of music before the common cut. It's Whole Lotta Love is missing the last 77 seconds. The tape has been amplified some.
Badgeholder's title is missing some of the introduction, has the extra tape during Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, is missing over half of Tangerine, and is missing the last 90 seconds of Whole Lotta Love. The title has been amplified a considerable amount.
IQ has the most tape available from the show. It's sound hasn't been amplified.

6-18-72
Ahead & After (Empress Valley), Axeman of Cometh (Flagge), & Trouble In Vancouver (Gold Standard)
Flagge's introduction is slightly shorter than the others. It is missing some commentary and notes after Stairway. There's more time after the final song and seems to be genuine. It's music and background are a little louder than Gold's.
Empress Valley's title is identical in content to Gold Standard's. It's music and background are a little louder than Gold's.

6-19-72
Dancing Again (Empress Valley), Evergreen (TDOLZ), Let's Do It Again (Badgeholders), Lightbringer (Cashmere), & Sizzles In Seattle (Lemon Song)
These titles are different in terms of musical content.
Lemon Song misses a few seconds of Immigrant soon after it's start. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp is missing 13 seconds. Dazed contains a 33 second repeat and then misses 22 seconds. What Is and What Should Never Be is cut, missing just 1 second. The comical audience comment during Moby Dick has been extracted, removing 23 seconds. Whole Lotta Love has an extra tape problem during the fifth minute. The first second of Over the Hills is missing. Some tape after the show is missing too.
TDOLZ's Bron-Y-Aur Stomp is missing 100 seconds. Dazed is missing the last 46 seconds. The organ solo is cut twice, missing 1 minute. Money is missing the last 18 seconds. About 45 seconds of commentary is missing after Over the Hills and Far Away. Some tape after the show is missing too.
Badgeholders is missing the first 4 seconds of Immigrant Song. Cashmere has this section, but it is from a poorer generation of tape. Cashmere has two instances of digital static during Hearbreaker. Both of these titles are cut after Black Country Woman (for the first time) and have a very horrible overlapping tape edit. Moby Dick is missing 5.5 minutes on Badgeholders. Cashmere uses a poor generation of tape for this section. (This tape is not missing or degenerated on Lemon Song and TDOLZ.) Cashmere misses the final split second of Money. (The first pressing of Cashmere's disc 2 has two second gaps between tracks. Cashmere's cue stops are poorly positioned, although still between songs.)
Empress Valley's title contains all known tape previously available on silver disc. There's no missing tape, no extra cuts, no splicing, no degenerated tape (as found on Cashmere), and is from a better generation of tape than Lemon Song and TDOLZ.
TDOLZ is from a better tape generation than Lemon Song. Lemon Song's title runs a little too fast. Badgeholders and Cashmere seem to be the same generation of tape and are clearly closer to the master than TDOLZ and Lemon Song. Their sound is similar. Empress Valley is also from the better tape generation and hasn't been amplified much, if any.

6-22-72
Berdu (Cobra), Born To Be Wild (Magnificent Disc & Whole Lotta Live), Latter Day Saint (Tarantura2000), Route 66 (Tarantura), Swinging In San Bernardino (Empress Valley)
Whole Lotta Live is a direct copy of the Tarantura.
Cobra's Dazed is out of sequence.
Tarantura is missing much of the introduction, tape after Whole Lotta Love, and tape after the show. It is also missing a bit of tape after Going To California and Dazed. It has a couple of tape glitches a drop during Dazed that aren't found on the other titles.
Mag Disc is much more complete (music aside) than Tarantura. (Just before the cut in Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, it has about 2 extra seconds of music, but is then followed by a repeat of a brief line from earlier in the song, which displaces about 2 seconds.) For the first time, extra music is provided around the cut in Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp. There's about 2 extra seconds before the usual cut, and then cuts back in about 5 seconds earlier. Like Mag Disc's first release, this title too has the familiar metallic sound in the background. It is much less than their first release but is still constantly evident and inexcusable. Aside from the small cut just before Black Dog and the mistake in Bron-Yr-Aur, this title would have been a great release if they wouldn't have tampered with the sound.
Empress Valley's release is the most complete musically and between songs. It contains the extra tape for Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp previously only found in Mag Disc's title. EV's sound is more similar to Tarantura than the others.
Tarantura2000's release is worse than the original Tarantura release, and is the worst version so far. It's missing too much tape before the show, after Dazed, after WLL, and after the show. (Oddly, it does have all known tape surrounding Bron's cut.) Furthermore, there are many instances of static during Dazed, Moby, Whole Lotta Love, and in other places.

6-25-72
Burn Like a Candle (Empress Valley's 3 editions, Smoking Pig, & Wendy), Burn That Candle (Equinox & Tarantura2000), & Night At the Heartbreak Hotel (Missing Link)
Smoking Pig, Missing Link, and Tarantura2000 include "Weekend" from 6-14-72 as a bonus track, but do not credit the date. Equinox and Tarantura2000 (cd5) include the interview by Wolf Man Jack.
The cuts on Smoking Pig and Equinox are in the same places. Equinox edited some at 3 of the cuts. Two are between songs and each miss about 2 seconds of tape. The other is during the Whole Lotta Love medley, which removes almost 5 seconds of the song. Smoking Pig accidentally includes some blank tape followed by part of Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp at the end of disc one.
Missing Link mostly has the same cuts. It's cuts after Dazed & Confused and What Is and What Should Never be, have several extra seconds over the other titles. However, it's cut after Whole Lotta Love is missing about 25 seconds. Unlike the others, it has a cut and repeat after The Ocean.
Empress Valley employs their trickery again. The introduction has been extended (faked) 20 seconds. A second tape source has been spliced to fill in the big gap in Going To California and Whole Lotta Love. At each splice some of the original tape is lost to the other source. The splice to complete WLL's gap doesn't make it. Time is still missing. Judging by EV's past performance, the second source is probably from a different night altogether.
Mostly, EV's cuts match the other titles. However, after Thank You, another 17 seconds are faked. Some of it is a repeat of tape from the same section. The rest would lead you to believe that Jimmy Page silently made it back on stage, played a few notes, and then disappeared to later come back to the stage with the group. EV runs a touch faster than the other titles.
Wendy's two source mixed title repeats the same mistakes found on titles released over ten years ago. Some of source one's tape is missing. Source two is metallic.
Empress Valley's title is the loudest, followed by Missing Link, Wendy, Smoking Pig, then Equinox. The background noise just increases with the loudness. There is no difference between the clarity of sound.
EV's second and third editions reissue the cds from the first edition.
Tarantura2000 unnecessarily spread the show across four cds. Typical quality and sound, usual tape source, no mixed sources.

6-27-72 soundboard
Burn Like a Candle (Empress Valley's 2 four cd editions)
EV's third edition reissues the cd from the second edition. These are the only titles to release the 3 available tracks on a single disc or title.

6-27-72 audience
Get Back To Where You Once Belonged (Wendy Records) & Wild Beach Party (Led Note)
Led Note released the first audience tape and Wendy released the short, but excellent, second tape.

6-28-72
Crashing Revelry (Empress Valley), Get Back (Scorpio), & Get Back To Where You Once Belonged (Wendy Records)
Scorpio's Immigrant Song has a dip in sound at the beginning that's not found on the other titles. Wendy's title seems to have no amplification, Scorpio has amplified sufficiently, and EV amplified slightly more than Scorpio.

10-2-72, source 1
Presentation 1972 (Patriot), The Campaign (Tarantura), Dancing Days (Aphrodite Studios & Silver Shadow), Eastern Front (Great Dane), Led Zeppelin is My Brother (Empress Valley), Live In Japan 1972 (LSD), & No Use Greco (Tarantura)
Of these eight titles, only Empress Valley is not entirely from source one. For the other seven, musically speaking, they all are complete and sound very good.
Patriot claims to be the complete tape from the master reels, and it is the most complete release of this tape.
The two Tarantura's are almost completely identical. The later issued version (Campaign) has a different edit after Whole Lotta Love. The LSD is almost completely identical to the Tarantura. These three titles are missing a few seconds between songs. Their sound is mostly similar, being a little muffled and occasionally unbalanced. LSD's sound is a little louder.
Aphrodite, Silver Shadow, and Great Dane have several cuts between songs, eliminating more than 10 minutes of tape.
Empress Valley's title uses source four to complete the small gaps. It's sound has been amplified, making the music and background noise louder than Patriot.

10-2-72, source 2
The Campaign (Tarantura) & Complete Live In Japan (LSD)
Tarantura and LSD's "Bonus" tape are identical sources. They are virtually identical and are the most distant recording for this show.

10-2-72, sources 3, 4, & 5
Far East Side Story (Wendy Records), Live At the Big Hall Budokan Oct 2 1972 (TDOLZ), & The Overture (Sanctuary)
TDOLZ is the third source available from this show.
Sanctuary is primarily the fourth source, but uses about 30 seconds of the first tape source for part of it's introduction and Dazed.
Wendy is primarily the fifth source, but uses about five minutes of tape from source one and four to fill some gaps (Dazed, WLL, and exit).

10-3-72, sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6
The Campaign (Tarantura), Explosion (Flagge), Great Dictator (Wendy), Live At the Big Hall Budokan Oct 3 1972 (TDOLZ), Live In Japan 1972 (LSD), Live In Tokyo (Amsterdam, 3cd), Majestic Rock (Reel Masters), No Use Greco (Tarantura2000, 3cd), & 2nd Night In a Judo Arena (Tarantura)
Sources, numbered relative to chronological release date: Tarantura = source 1, Amsterdam = source 2, TDOLZ = source 3, Flagge = source 4, Reel Masters = source 5, & Tarantura2000 = 6.
The two Tarantura titles are mostly from the first source. The introduction and Dazed come from source two. The Campaign re-issued source one used in it's earlier title. This time, they made a few edits at cuts. One of the edits is after Stairway To Heaven. It replaces 20 seconds of the original tape with 10 seconds of tape from elsewhere.
Amsterdam and TDOLZ titles are exclusively from single, separate sources, numbers two and three. Amsterdam runs a bit fast and could have been easily placed on two cds instead of three.
Flagge's title is from the fourth source, but not entirely. It uses some of the TDOLZ source to complete Dazed and talk between some songs. Some of the tape after the show is borrowed from the Amsterdam source.
Reel Masters is from the fifth source, but not entirely. It uses some of the TDOLZ source to complete Rain Song and Stairway To Heaven.
Tarantura2000 is from the fifth source, but not entirely. It uses some of the TDOLZ source after Rain Song. Brief splicing occurs during Whole Lotta Love too. The title could have been placed on two cds.
LSD is a 2 source mix. It uses the Amsterdam source up to the beginning of Stairway and then uses the Tarantura source for the remainder. The source shared with Amsterdam is much better sounding and runs at the proper speed.
Wendy is a similar mixture as LSD, but they throw in the TDOLZ source briefly after Stairway. The two splices during Dazed are hopefully not mixing in the remaining two tapes.

10-4-72, source 1
Raw Tapes II (Amsterdam) & The Second Daze (Mud Dogs)
These two titles are from the same source.
Second Daze's sound is not as clear, seems overloaded on the lower frequencies, and runs too fast. It has a cut after Stairway and is missing about 15 seconds of tape (no music missing) overall.
Amsterdam's title is much better, lacking the defects found in the Mud Dog title.

10-4-72, source 2
The Campaign (Tarantura), Dancing Geisha (Tarantura), Live In Japan 1972 (LSD), & Raw Tapes I (Amsterdam)
These three titles are strictly from the second source and are very similar.
The two Tarantura's are exactly identical and sound a tiny bit better than the other releases. However, after Dazed and Heartbreaker, they repeated a 2 second section 3 times to "add" time.

10-4-72, 2 source mixes
Connexion (Amsterdam), Live At Festival Hall 1972 (Power Archives), Moral Reader, (Wendy Records), Rock Explosion 72 (Tarantura2000), & Dancing Page (Tarantura2000)
Power Archives is a mix that uses the first source to complete the second source. Connexion is a mix between Raw Tapes I & II. Rock Explosion and Dancing Page use the same exact cds. They use source two only to fill in source's ones gaps and missing encores. Wendy's foundation is source one, but uses source two for the introduction, Rock and Roll, Dazed, and the two encores.

10-5-72, source 1
Live In Nagoya (Smile Record), The Campaign (Tarantura), & Sakura (Ocean Sound Studio)
Live In Nagoya is not complete. It is missing the last several minutes of it's tape and it runs too fast.
Campaign & Sakura would probably be considered better sounding, but there is a tape problem through most of the show. This problem is also on the Live In Nagoya, but for a much smaller portion of the show.
Sakura has about 5 seconds more tape than Tarantura, due to Tarantura's editing.

10-5-72, source 2
DRAGON (Flagge), Geisha Boys (Akashic Records), High Noon (Wendy Records), Live In Japan 1972 (LSD), Rock N' Roll Springtime (IQ), & Sakura, Looking Up (Jelly Roll)
"The Geisha Boys" is the complete release of the second source. The other titles are mixes that rely heavily on this source.
These mixed source titles use the first source for the encores. Jelly Roll and Flagge additionally uses the first source to complete the beginning of Dazed and Confused.
Wendy has a digital glitch after Dancing Days that isn't found on the other titles.
Other than Flagge, all titles are similar in sound. Flagge highly amplified their title, bringing up the music and background noise.

10-9-72, sources 1, 2, & 3
The Campaign (Tarantura), Let Me Get Back To 1972 (H-Bomb, 3cd), Live (Tarantura), Live In Japan 1972 (LSD), My Brain Hurts (Tarantura2000, both issues), Rock Explosion 72 (Tarantura2000), Stand By Me (Wendy Records), & Tapes From the Darkside (H-Bomb, 3cd)
The H-Bomb triples all share the same discs and have the same content. They are unnecessarily spread across three cds. LSD is almost identical in content and similar in sound.
Live is mostly from a separate tape source. For Dazed, Stairway, and Whole Lotta Love, it uses the H-Bomb source. The Campaign's only difference from Live is that it repeats 9 seconds of tape after Rain Song, from earlier in the show.
Rock Explosion and both issues of My Brain Hurts use the same exact cds. The H-Bomb tape is used almost exclusively. About 15 seconds of tape after Moby Dick are used from the Tarantura source, but they didn't bother to borrow the introduction to the show.
Wendy's title debuts the third source. It is used from the beginning of the show through the end of Stairway To Heaven, with the exception of the end of the Rain Song. (Rain song is completed by one of the other two sources, likely H-Bomb.) The remainder of the title uses the H-Bomb source, except when it briefly switches to the Tarantura source after Moby Dick.
The more commonly used tape source (H-Bomb) is virtually identical between the various titles. The H-Bomb titles aren't quite as loud as the others.

10-10-72, source 1
The Campaign (Tarantura), Japanese Warm-Ups Vol. II (Sayonara), & Mirage (Flagge)
Tarantura and Sayonara are exclusively from the first tape source and are identical in sound. Tarantura has a few edits at cuts.
Mirage has been amplified a little too much. It uses the other source to complete Rain Song. Periodically, it uses the other source in random places.

10-10-72, source 2
Last Night In Japan (TDOLZ), Live In Japan 1972 (LSD), & Old Capital (Wendy Records)
TDOLZ and LSD are mostly identical. However, LSD has a cut in Whole Lotta Love, repeating 66 seconds. LSD's tape may be one generation better than TDOLZ. It is a little bit better sounding.
Wendy uses source two as it's primary tape. It fills in four gaps using source one, then it uses 10/2/72's fifth source to fill in 20 seconds of Stairway. Of course the liner notes do not mention the mixing of different shows.

11-30-72
Newcastle Symphony (IQ), Nice Starter (The Symbols), & Stepmothers Club (Mad Dogs)
Mad Dog's release is far from complete and doesn't retain the proper running order for the tracks featured.
The other two titles are cut after Dazed but Symbols is missing a dozen seconds and the sound quality drops. Both are cut during Whole Lotta Love, but in different places. IQ has a few more seconds of tape after the show. Symbols runs a little slow on the first disc and seems to run even slower on the second disc. Both titles are likely to be from the same generation of tape but IQ has amplified theirs. The amplification has helped this title. It makes it much easier to hear the commentary between songs.

12-8-72
Hardrock! (Sanctuary) & Rovers Return (Empress Valley)
Sanctuary is represents the first tape source. EV features mainly a newer, better sounding source but relies on the first source for completion. The background noise is a little peculiar in places, probably due to some tweaking. Evidently, EV didn't like Bonzo's start to Immigrant Song, so they falsified a new one.

12-22-72, source 1
Alexandra Night (Right Stuff) & Riot House (CHAD & Wendy)
These titles are from the excellent sounding shorter tape, containing the last hour of the show.
Right Stuff and Wendy are identical in content. Both are missing a second at the beginning, 26 seconds after Whole Lotta Love, 26 seconds after Heartbreaker, and a few seconds after the final song. Neither have the tape glitch during Immigrant Song on CHAD.
Right Stuff seems to run a little slow. It's music and background noise are a hair louder than the other two.

12-22-72, source 2
Flawless Performance (IQ, 3cd), Riot House (Wendy), & Riot Show (Cobra, 2cd)
Wendy is the only title solely from the second source. The only fault is the cut/repeat of tape after Dazed and Confused.
IQ and Cobra use the second source (poorer sounding tape) through the end of Heartbreaker. The mellotron solo and Thank You are borrowed from the first source, but it's quality is not near as good as CHAD's.
Cobra moved Dazed out of sequence in order to squeeze the tape onto two cds, missing about 15 seconds of tape in the process. A few more seconds are missing from the beginning and ending of the second source.
IQ seems to run a little slow. It's music and background noise are a little louder than Cobra's due to amplification. Wendy's title has been amplified a bit more than IQ.

12-23-72
Disturbance House (Wendy Records, 2cd), Merry Christmas Mr. Jimmy (Lemon Song, 2cd), & Titanic (IQ, 3cd)
IQ spread the songs over three cds. Lemon Song moved Dazed and Confused to squeeze this show on two cds, but it wasn't necessary. Wendy's title is properly sequenced and fits on two cds. Wendy has one cut fewer than the other titles. Lemon Song and Wendy miss several seconds before the show.
IQ seems a hair slow. Wendy has amplified their sound just a bit over the other releases.

1-7-73
British Story (Wendy Records), Made In England (Tarantura), & Oxford 1973 (TDOLZ)
Tarantura is missing the very last second of the Whole Lotta Love fragment. Other than that, these titles are identical.

1-14-73
Days of Heaven (Tattytura), The Fabulous Four (Tarantura), Good Evening London (Blizzard), Live In Liverpool (TDOLZ), & One For the M6 (Crazy Dream)

1-15-73
Broken Fingers (IQ), Dedicated To Rizzlers (Equinox), Live At Trentham Gardens (Empress Valley), Soul Brothers (Tarantura2000), Stroke In Stoke (no label), & Stoker (Tarantura)
Stroke doesn't retain the proper running order and is missing some time at those cuts.
IQ is missing over 20 seconds of tape after Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp and then missing the first 10 seconds of The Song Remains the Same. It is also missing half a minute of tape after the Rain Song, has either tape or digital problems for the first 40 seconds of Dazed and Confused, and has some digital interference after Dazed.
Equinox and Tarantura don't have the problems mentioned above but all titles do share many tape glitches (sometimes barely noticeable). These glitches seem to be much more evident on Tarantura.
These older titles are relatively similar in sound.
Tarantura2000's title doesn't have the tiny tape glitches.
Empress Valley has a little extra tape before and after the show. Three edits have been made at places where dropouts would be found in the tape. The fashion of edit used creates a semi-microscopic cut/repeat at each dropout. The split second of blank tape (dropout) is removed, throwing off the timing of the song, then a split second of tape before the drop is repeated. It's a highly annoying result.
Tarantura2000's sound is much improved over the older releases. It's background noise is less while the music is easier to hear. Empress Valley's sound is also an improvement over the old titles. It has been amplified louder than Tarantura2000.

1-18-73 soundboard
April Fools Day (Pageboys), Elvis Presley Has Left the Building (no label), Fallin' In Love With the Fallin' Angel (Led Note), Great Lost Live Album (Nasty Music, 3cd), & Tight But Loose (SAKA)
April Fools Day and Tight But Loose only contain Immigrant Song from this date. April Fools runs a little fast. Tight But Loose may be slightly poorer quality. Elvis is missing Immigrant Song (and the last second of Whole Lotta Love).
Led Note was the first title to feature all of the few tracks available. The "Deluxe Edition" of Nasty Music's third disc contains all of the few tracks too. It is identical in content to Led Note and it's sound has been amplified slightly louder.

1-22-73
Any Port In a Storm (Godfatherecords), Great Lost Live Album (Nasty Music, 2cd & 3cd), Live At Southampton University Working Tapes (Empress Valley), My Struggle (Black Dog Rekords), Southampton University 1973 (no label, olive green discs), & Swastika (Tarantura2000)
Nasty Music, EV, and Tarantura2000 are similar in sound and content. The glitch in the right channel during the second minute of Stairway is less evident on EV. Tarantura2000 has a tiny glitch in Dazed that's not found on the other two titles. It's sound has been amplified excessively over the others.
Black Dog Rekords has several glitches during songs that are not found elsewhere, and misses a few seconds after Stairway.
Godfatherecords' title is the least complete. Besides missing the drums in the introduction and removing (chopping out) some tape glitches, they removed six seconds of very good tape at the cut during Whole Lotta Love. The sound has some amplification but isn't excessive.
The "no label" version's speed has been adjusted to run a touch slower than the others. One of the glitches after Dancing Days has been chopped out. It's sound is very similar to Nasty Music's.

1-27-73
British Story (Wendy Records), From Boleskine To the Alamo (Flying Disc), & Soundboard Platter (Scorpio)
Flying Disc's has Communication Breakdown moved out of sequence, misses two seconds while cutting into Whole Lotta Love, and runs too fast. Wendy and Scorpio don't have these problems. Wendy and Scorpio have a slight difference in speed.
These three titles are similar in sound.

1-30-73
Plant's Influenza (Empress Valley), Strange Affinity (Electric Magic, 1cd), & Zep (Tarantura2000, 1cd)
Tarantura2000 and Electric magic are misdated as December 17th, 1972, and are only partial releases. Electric Magic has many glitches during Rain Song and Dazed. They are not found on Tarantura. Tarantura's music and background noise are louder than Electric Magic. It's only due to amplification.
Empress Valley's title is free of glitches and isn't amplified as much as Tarantura2000.

3-6-73
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (TDOLZ) & Stockholm Syndrome (Empress Valley)
A few of the drop outs found on TDOLZ are less noticeable on EV due to some editing. Both titles are cut later in Whole Lotta Love, but EV didn't repeat 8 seconds like TDOLZ. EV includes 18 seconds of tape after Heartbreaker, but is immediately followed by very strange sounding tape. The sound carries on into the first 30 seconds or so of the Ocean. It isn't found on TDOLZ.
EV's title runs a hair faster than TDOLZ.

3-16-73 soundboard
Led Poisoning (Flying Disc) & Soundboard Platter (Scorpio)
Flying Disc misses the first six seconds of Dazed. It has a slight cut during Whole Lotta Love and Stairway. These problems are not found on Scorpio. Both titles have excellent sound.

3-16-73 audience tapes and mixes
Happiness is a Warm Gun (Empress Valley), Lead Poisoning (Cobra), Matrix Leded (Tarantura2000), Night At the Opera (Electric Magic), Remains of the Holy (Cashmere), Vienna 1973 (TDOLZ), Wrench In the Works (Cobra), & Zig Zag Zep (Tarantura)
A total of three different audience sources have surfaced from this show.
The first audience source is used on Tarantura. There is no introduction, the first few seconds of Rock and Roll are missing, and misses most of Whole Lotta Love.
The second source is used in full on Cobra's first release of this show, Lead Poisoning.
The third source is found on Wrench In the Works and Night At the Opera. This source isn't complete. Cobra uses the 2nd source for the introduction, Rock and Roll, and then uses it again briefly between Whole Lotta Love and Heartbreaker. Electric Magic's cover reads 3-16-73 but the first 27 seconds (Intro & beginning of Rock and Roll) are not even from this show. The remainder of the title is completely from the third source and is the only semi-redeeming characteristic. The tape stretch in the beginning of Stairway has been chopped out. The music is louder than Cobra's but is just due to equalization. AGAIN, the "metallic sound" is noticeable in the background. Also, it runs a little fast.
TDOLZ is a mix between the first and second audience sources. It has a twenty second introduction and a complete Rock and Roll, which seems to be from the first source. This portion is not found on the Tarantura. TDOLZ uses almost as much tape possible from the first source. The remainder is from the second.
Tarantura2000 is a mix between sources one, three, and the soundboard.
Cashmere borrows audience tape from sources one and three to compliment the soundboard tape.
Empress Valley's title is a sloppy mix of all four sources, no attempts to preserve the completeness of any one tape. The soundboard portion has flaws during Whole Lotta Love that are not found anywhere else.
For a "view" of the sources used on most of these releases, please refer to this table.

3-17-73
Lunatics In Munich (Holy Grail), Olympiahalle 1973 (Immigrant), Pure Purcy (Flagge), & Sturm und Drang (Led Note)
Musically speaking, Holy Grail has the only title that is complete. Led Note is missing 5 seconds of Rock & Roll. Flagge is missing 37 seconds of Dazed. Immigrant is missing the last 49 seconds of Heartbreaker.
Both Immigrant and Holy Grail lack the 3 minutes of tape before the show. They are both missing about 10 seconds of tape after Black Dog and over 3 minutes of tape after Whole Lotta Love. Led Note and Flagge are not missing these sections of tape.
Immigrant's tape has been amplified, bringing up too much hiss. Lunatic's sound has not been adjusted and does not have hiss. Led Note is a bit of an improvement on Holy Grail. Flagge's title is even better sounding than Led Note's.

3-19-73 soundboard
Air Raids Over Germany (Tecumseh), Let's Have a Party (ARMS), Nasty Music (Tarantura), Soundboard Platter (Scorpio), & Two Penny Upright (Antrabata)
Antrabata, ARMS, and Scorpio share the many glitches and excellent sound quality. ARMS has a three second fade in while Antrabata and Scorpio do not.
Tarantura and Tecumseh's sound is not as clear and has a couple extra glitches. Tarantura is missing the first 30 seconds of tape due to combining it with the Whole Lotta Love fragment from January 7th.
Antrabata and Scorpio have almost an extra minute of tape after the show beyond the other titles.

3-21-73 soundboard
April Fools Day (Pageboys), Fallin' In Love With the Fallin' Angel (Led Note), & Soundboard Platter (Scorpio)
April Fools' first 2 seconds of Dazed are almost inaudible. Both titles are cut before "Let's Have a Party" but Led Note repeats two seconds. April Fools runs a little fast and has a "bump, bump, bump" sound in the background that can be heard between tracks. It's tape has been amplified making the music and background noise louder.
Scorpio's title is just as good as Led Note, plus the cut before "Let's Have a Party" is either not present or has just been edited.

3-22-73 soundboard
Essential Led (Flying Disc) & Soundboard Platter (Scorpio)
Flying Disc misses the first four seconds of Dazed, misses the first eight seconds of Whole Lotta Love, and runs too fast. Scorpio has the extra tape, but has a small glitch in the beginning of Whole Lotta Love that isn't found elsewhere.

3-22-73 audience sources 1 & 2
Cold Sweat (Tarantura2000), Essentially Led Complete (Live Remains), Essen 1973 (Savege Beast Music), and Gracias! (Empress Valley)
Essen is the first audience source, running a little fast.
A small portion of the second audience source debuted on Empress Valley and shortly later on Live Remains. They both mix all three sources.
EV uses almost all of the available soundboard and a very large portion of the first audience source. The first 3 songs, almost the first five minutes of Dazed, Stairway, the beginning 2.5 minutes of Whole Lotta Love, and Heartbreaker are sourced from tape number two.
Live Remains uses the first audience source until the available soundboard for Dazed (misses the first four seconds of board). (This has a longer source one introduction but it misses almost ten seconds during the cuts in Song Remains the Same.) It switches back to source one briefly afterwards, then switches to source two before Stairway To Heaven. The next tape change is to the Whole Lotta Love soundboard. This board fragment starts out with an extra eight seconds of tape not found on previous titles. The show is finished with source two.
Tarantura2000's title is another three source mix. It's primary source is the first tape, but misses several seconds of tape at the cut during the Song Remains the Same and doesn't bother to use any of the available Stairway To Heaven. Source two starts with Stairway and lasts throughout the title, with a brief exception during Whole Lotta Love for about 20 seconds. No effort is made to utilize all available tape from any of the three sources.

3-24-73
Cold Sweat (Live Remains), Custard Pie (Cobra, 2cd), Not Warm It's Hot (TDOLZ, 3cd), & Sweet At Night (TDOLZ, 2cd)
Cold Sweat and Custard Pie are both from the first tape. Their content is identical, although their cuts sometimes differ slightly. The sound on Cold Sweat has been amplified a touch much. The tape generations seem to be similar.
TDOLZ's titles are both mixes of two tapes. Sweet At Night was released first. Other than using source two for Stairway and missing half a minute of tape after Whole Lotta Love, it was just like Cobra. The 3cd title used source two for the introduction, gaps between songs, and also for about a minute during the cut in Dazed. It would have fit on 2cds. There does not seem to be any difference in tape generation between these titles.

5-5-73, source 1
56,700 Fans Together and Boogie (Rock Calendar), First Day (ARMS), Pigeon Blood (Flagge, 3cd), Quantient (Cobra), & Top of the World (Badgeholders)
(Flagge is a mix, relying on the second source only when the first is cut. It's sound has been amplified considerably, making the music and background noise much louder. It would have easily fit on 2 cds.)
ARMS is the only title to have all of the tracks properly sequenced. It is missing 2 seconds at the cut in the beginning of Song Remains the Same. There is a brief speed problem near the end of Rain Song. It is missing almost 2 minutes of tape after The Ocean. The Ocean and Communication Breakdown run too fast, near 6%. All other tracks run at the proper speed.
Cobra is missing a total of about 70 seconds between songs overall but there are no extra cuts because of it. The tape runs at the proper speed.
Rock Calendar is highly edited. No Quarter has been completely butchered to remove audience disturbances. They then had to rearrange the song to contend with the edits. Overall, the song is missing 2.5 minutes. The tape problem in the beginning of Song Remains the Same has also been removed which eliminates almost 5 seconds of tape. Whole Lotta Love is missing the first 92 seconds. The Ocean is missing 5 seconds too many. This title runs very fast too.
Badgeholders is a two source mix, with source one as it's foundation. It misses a little bit of source one at two of the cuts.
ARMS and Cobra sound similar and are a little bit better sounding than Rock Calendar. Badgeholders has been amplified over the others.

5-5-73, source 2
56,800 In the Ocean (SIRA) & Tampa Stadium (Tarantura)
Tarantura removed the tape stretch in the beginning of Over the Hills. It has almost 2 more seconds of Stairway's introduction but is missing almost 2 seconds to many of Whole Lotta Love and The Ocean. Tarantura is much louder than Silver Rarities. It is at least partially due to simple amplification but could also be due to a lower generation of tape.

5-13-73
IV ˝+ (LSD), Alabama Getaway (Empress Valley), Goin' Mobile (Midas Touch), Heritage Strain (Tarantura2000), & Upwardly Mobile/Mobile Dick (Flying Disc)
Flying Disc's title is missing 30 seconds of tape before R&R, runs too fast, and has Stairway on both discs (interrupting sequence).
Midas, LSD, Empress Valley, and Tarantura2000 all are highly similar.
Empress Valley's title doesn't have the glitch in Dazed (near 20:30~), but it's Stairway has a notably weak left channel for the first half of the song.
LSD and EV's music and background noise are slightly louder than Midas. Tarantura2000's is much louder than Midas.

5-14-73, soundboard
Bourbon Street Renegades (Empress Valley), Drag Queen (Tarantura), Johnny Piston & the Dogs (Thin Men), New Orleans 1973 (TDOLZ), & Witch Queen (Tarantura2000's TCD-61)
Thin Men is copied from Tarantura. However, it has slight differences. It is missing the first 2 seconds of Rock and Roll and 7 seconds of tape (audience cheer) after Moby Dick. It's sound is exactly the same as Tarantura. Other than these minor differences, Thin Men, Tarantura, and TDOLZ are identical with respect to cuts and completeness.
Empress Valley's title is a mix that uses the audience tape to fill gaps in the soundboard. Not all of the cuts are filled. A lot of the original soundboard is missing when switching sources due to long overlapping edits. It uses a 21 second section of audience tape in Dazed to cover a 3 second gap in the soundboard. Although there is no effort to use all available soundboard tape, EV does debut an extra 25-30 seconds of Whole Lotta Love.
Tarantura2000's TCD-61 does a much better job of mixing in the audience tape to fill the soundboard's gaps - they're not constantly displacing the soundboard in the process like on EV. However, they've totally missed the extra 30 seconds of soundboard that debuted on EV's Whole Lotta Love.
These titles are all similar in tape generation. Tarantura, Empress Valley, and Tarantura2000 have amplified their titles.

5-14-73, audience
Bourbon Street Renegades (Empress Valley) & Witch Queen (Tarantura2000's TCD-60)
EV's title is strictly from the audience tape. Tarantura2000's title mixes in soundboard to fill the gaps of the audience tape. Because they use long overlapping splices between the two tapes, too much of the audience tape gets displaced. There are also a few instances of unnecessary micro cut/repeats.

5-16-73
Going Down (Watchtower) & Two Nights (Celebration)
Both titles are cut big during Communication Breakdown but Watchtower is missing 4 seconds too many. Celebration also has a few more seconds before the first song and after the last song. Unfortunately, Celebration's sound has been tweaked. Although it is louder than Watchtower, a strange metallic sound has been created in the background, much like some of the Tara2000 titles.

5-18-73
Dallas Triumphant Return (Wendy Records), Discover America (Tarantura) & Four For Texas (TDOLZ)
Tarantura's sound seems to be slightly clearer than TDOLZ. It doesn't have the short tape problem in Celebration Day or the big silent gap in Dazed.
TDOLZ has more tape before and after the first and last songs than Tarantura. It's 16 second gap in Dazed is not missing any audio. The sound quality drops a little bit more than just slightly after Dazed.
Wendy's Rain Song has unfortunately been filled with soundboard from a different show. It is not noted anywhere and a couple of seconds of the Dallas tape are displaced. The two problems found on TDOLZ are not present here. The title has been speed corrected and has similar sound quality to the other titles.

5-19-73
Fort Worth Express (Empress Valley), I'm With the Band (Tarantura2000), Tympani For the Butter Queen (Midas Touch), & Worthwhile Experience/From Boleskine To the Alamo (Flying Disc)
Flying disc is missing almost all of the tape before and after the first and last tracks. Dazed and Confused has been moved out of sequence and 80 seconds of tape after the song is missing. It has too much background noise.
Midas, Tarantura2000, and Empress Valley are virtually identical in content. Tarantura2000 has been amplified a little bit. Empress's title emphasizes the lower frequencies but has a touch too much background noise.

5-25-73
Dallas Triumphant Return (Wendy Records), Going Down (Watchtower), & Two Nights (Celebration)
Celebration has a few more seconds before the first song and after the last song. Unfortunately, Celebration's sound has been tweaked. Although it is louder than Watchtower, a strange metallic sound has been created in the background, much like some of the Tara2000 titles.
Wendy's title is missing almost thirty seconds of tape from before and after these tracks. It's sound is similar to Watchtower.

5-26-73
Georgia On My Mind (Empress Valley), Heavy Machinery/Dirty Trick (Empress Valley, 4cd), Salt Lake City 1973 (Watchtower), & Unidentified Live (Celebration, 1cd)
Heavy Machinery/Dirty Trick's last two cds are from the audience source. The other (previous) releases use the soundboard.
Celebration's title is very incomplete. It's sound has been tweaked and amplified too much.
Other than EV's title being amplified a touch more than Watchtower's, there are only two other differences. First, EV's Rock and Roll starts with and extra 1.5 seconds. Second, for about 20-30 seconds after the cut near the end of Rain Song, Empress Valley and Watchtower do not match. The mellotron can be heard on both soundboards of EV & WT right after the cut. This is not present in the audience recording. Neither label makes reference to a different show being used. One of the two may be using a tiny bit more of the right soundboard, but it's very difficult to determine since WT's splice back in is virtually undetectable.

5-28-73
San Diego 1973 (Watchtower) & Three Days Before (Empress Valley)
Watchtower is missing some tape before and after the show. It's cut in No Quarter is missing 3 seconds. Rain Song has at least 23 (twenty-three) cuts, losing 23 seconds of tape. Dazed and Confused is completely absent. Almost 5 minutes of tape after Whole Lotta Love are absent too.
Empress Valley's title is a great improvement. Unfortunately, they spliced in a few seconds from a different recording at the cut during Since I've Been Loving You. There are no cuts in Rain Song and it has the last 50 seconds of Dazed.
EV is also a little bit better sounding. Both titles have the same amount of background noise, but EV is louder and a little fuller sounding.

5-31-73, source 1
Bonzo's Birthday Party (Mud Dogs & Tarantura) & Bonzo's 25th Birthday (ARMS)
The taper did not record the final encore, Communication Breakdown.
Tarantura's title is much louder than ARMS and only has a tiny increase in background noise. ARMS runs too fast.
These titles share the same cuts but at most of the cuts between songs, Tarantura is either missing a couple of seconds or has added in tape that doesn't belong to extend the space between songs. In some cases, Tarantura has done both - displacing the original tape with tape that doesn't belong. After Stairway, a 25 second section is repeated to extend the tape.
Mud Dogs seems to have a touch more background noise than the other titles (similar to EV's version 1). Stairway To Heaven has been moved ahead of sequence to squeeze the show on two cds.

5-31-73, source 2
Bonzo's Birthday Party (Cobra and Empress Valley's 9cd box - "version 2")
This is the only tape to feature the final encore.
Cobra's introduction is 10 seconds longer. No Quarter has some digital static for a brief second and it's right channel drops out for almost 10 seconds near the end. Dazed and Stairway both have a small tape drag. The Ocean is out of sequence but no tape is lost in the re-arrangement.
Empress Valley does not have any of these problems. It's tape seems to be from the same gen but has been amplified some.

5-31-73, source 3
Bonzo's Birthday Party (Flying Disc)
This is the only release of this source without being mixed with another. It doesn't capture the whole show. The tape starts half way into Over the Hills and doesn't include the final encore.

5-31-73, audience mixes
Bonzo's Birthday Party (TDOLZ, Empress Valley's 9cd box - "versions 1 & 3," Empress Valley 3cd release, & Sanctuary)
TDOLZ & Sanctuary are 2-3 source mixes.
EV's "version 1" relies on the first tape source and completes it with the second tape source. Here, source 1 seems to be amplified but the background noise is slightly louder than it should be.
EV's "version 3" relies heavily on the third audience tape and then uses the other 2 sources to complete the show. This version was simultaneously released in the 9cd box and the 3cd release. It seems to be a little clearer than Flying Disc but may be due to equalization.

5-31-73, soundboard
Bonzo's Birthday Party (Watchtower, 2cd), Bonzo's Birthday Party Definitive Edition (Empress Valley, 2cd), & Bonzo's Birthday Presents (Celebration, 1cd)
Celebration first released this incomplete soundboard on a single disc. Watchtower was the first to release more tape, on 2 cds.
WT and EV have all of the songs on Celebration and includes much of Rock & Roll, all of Celebration Day and Rain Song, Dazed & Confused, and Stairway To Heaven. Since I've Been Loving You is uncut.
Both of the 2cd versions have a cut in Rain Song. EV filled in the missing time (19 seconds), using a soundboard from a different night instead of using one of the audience tapes (already in their catalog) from the original show. Both WT and EV have a cut in the beginning of Stairway but EV made a useful edit.
All titles seem to share the same generation of tape. Celebration has the higher frequencies emphasized (sounding a little flat) while Watchtower and EV have emphasis on the lower end. WT has more of the sound playing through the right channel while EV has them switched to the left channel.

5-31-73 soundboard/audience mix
Bonzo's Birthday Party (Wendy Records)
This title's foundation is the soundboard recording and is completed by using at least two of the audience tapes. The soundboard and Communication Breakdown have been degenerated with the metallic sound.

6-2-73, audience
Best Vibes In Frisco (Jelly Roll), The Grateful Lead (Tarantura2000), Imperial Kezar (Electric Magic, 3cd), Mary Kezar (Wendy Records), Persistence Kezar (Holy, 3cd), Takka Takka (Tarantura), Vibes Are Real (Continental Sounds), & Who's Next? (TDOLZ)
Holy's title is by far the worst sounding. It is a high generation, copied onto a used tape. A different recording lies underneath. About 2 minutes of tape are missing from between songs. The title was placed onto 3cds to include Heartbreaker and Whole Lotta Love - from a vinyl source of the same show.
Continental Sounds doesn't retain the true song sequence and therefore has many cuts and time missing from between songs.
For the most part, the other releases are virtually identical in regards to cuts. The Tarantura titles have removed the tape stretch after Whole Lotta Love. However, Grateful Lead has a few extra seconds of tape after Moby Dick, only found elsewhere by Holy.
Jelly Roll and TDOLZ are identical in sound and Tarantura's Takka is a hair louder than both. Grateful Lead is just a bit louder than Takka.
Imperial Kezar mixes in the soundboard recording with the usual excellent audience tape. Moby Dick is completed. Heartbreaker and the first 5.5 minutes of Whole Lotta Love are also from the board.
Wendy is highly similar to the others that are audience tape content only. It too misses some tape after Moby. The title runs a little slower than the others.

6-2-73, soundboard
Imperial Kezar (Electric Magic, 3cd), Led Five (Empress Valley), Mary Kezar (Wendy Records), & Vibes Are Real (Watchtower)
Imperial Kezar debuts some of the soundboard. It is used for some of Moby Dick, Heartbreaker, and for part of Whole Lotta Love. Total board time is about 28 minutes.
Led Five features Moby Dick through the end of the show, totaling about 61 minutes. The audience tape is used briefly during the beginning of Whole Lotta Love and after Communication Breakdown. EV's sound is improved over EMC. It is missing some of the soundboard tape after the show.
Watchtower's release does not sound cut during the beginning of Whole Lotta Love, but it actually is cut. WT has spliced in a different soundboard for those 6 seconds. The audience tape is not used anywhere to fill gaps.
Wendy is similar to Empress Valley. It uses the audience tape for the brief cut in Whole Lotta Love and then again after Communication Breakdown. Wendy isn't missing tape after the show. Their sound isn't quite as amplified as EV and WT.

6-3-73
Three Days After (Cobra, Empress Valley, & SIRA, 2cd)
The tape shared by these titles has many problems. Silver Rarities elected to remove the worst parts and place the title onto two cds. In doing so, most of No Quarter is missing, all of Song Remains the Same, all of Rain Song, and about two minutes of Dazed. Time after Stairway and Whole Lotta Love has also been removed to avoid tape problems. Backing up, the first dozen seconds are missing from when cutting into Over the Hills. Much of the tape after the show is missing too.
Cobra's title is pretty much the full tape. It's missing several seconds from the introduction, missing the last two seconds of Black Dog, the beginning nine seconds of Over the Hills, and a split second during Since I've Been Loving You.
Empress Valley's release is on six cds. The first three are the tape in stereo and the last three are in monotone to minimize the tape problems. This is the most complete title released yet. It's only fault is a missing split second during Since. That piece is only found on SIRA.
All of these titles seem to be similar quality and vary little in loudness.

7-6-73, soundboard and audience
Grandiloquence (Antrabata), Second City Showdown (Midas Touch), Sweet Dreams Chicago (Empress Valley, 3cd & 6cd), & Windy City Adventure (Wendy Records)
Midas Touch is missing a little bit of tape before the show, is cut after No Quarter, and it's Dazed and Confused is full of glitches.
Antrabata is missing a little bit of tape before the show, is cut after No Quarter, and is missing most of the tape after the show. It's Dazed and Confused doesn't contain any glitches.
Empress Valley's 3cd title (gets repeated for the 6cd title) uses the soundboard except for the beginning of Rain Song. It has more tape before and after the show than the other soundboard releases. It is not cut after No Quarter, has no trouble with Dazed and Confused, but misses two minutes of tape after Whole Lotta Love (just audience cheer).
Wendy's title misses a minor bit of tape before and after the show. There's a change in sound during the beginning of Since and a very strange sound change in the beginning of Whole Lotta Love. These problems aren't found on the other titles. Instead of using all of the audience tape to fill the gap in the beginning of the Rain Song, they decided to only use a small portion, therefore not completing the song. It defeats the purpose of mixing tapes. The large amount of tape after WLL is present.
Empress's 6cd title includes the audience source.
Midas amplified their sound a little, making the music and background noise louder. EV amplified a little more. There doesn't seem to be any tape generation difference between the titles.

7-7-73
In the Windy City II (Empress Valley) & Untouchable (Electric Magic)
Empress Valley was the first to release this show, just a few weeks before Electric Magic. The content is virtually the same, except EMC decided to remove a few seconds of available tape in Stairway and replace it with an earlier verse.
Empress Valley's sound is excellent and seems to be largely untouched by equalization. Electric Magic's has been eq'd, making it louder and adding evidence to the background.

7-10-73
One More For the Road (Red Hot) & Rock and Roll Bonanza (Electric Magic)
The only difference in content between these two titles is that EMC missed a second or two after Dazed and another dozen after Stairway To Heaven.
EMC's title has louder music and background noise since they've equalized it a little heavy. It also runs about 2.5% faster than Red Hot. The speed difference is so small, it's difficult to determine which may be closer to actual speed.

7-12-73
Detroit Rock City (Lemon Song), Motor City Daze (Antrabata), & Rock and Roll Ever (Akashic)
Aside from missing the first 1.5 seconds from the beginning of the tape, Motor City Daze most closely represents the full tape. The sound is good and clear on this title but the sound level is much lower than the other releases.
Lemon Song's title has those first couple of seconds that Antrabata is missing but contains edits at almost every location of tape problem (cuts & drops). Moby Dick has been further reduced, eliminating some taper commentary. The sound is clear and bright.
Akashic's title fills in the missing parts of Rock and Roll and The Song Remains the Same from a different, unmentioned, show of the same tour - 6-2-73. In doing this, 7-8 seconds have been displaced from the Cobo tape. This title also has edits at almost every location of tape problems, removing almost another 3 seconds. The length of tape after No Quarter, Moby Dick, and Communication Breakdown, have all been extended. There is a 4 second section of tape after No Quarter that gets repeated 3 more times. After Moby Dick, approximately 26 seconds of tape is borrowed from after Dazed. For Communication Breakdown, there is a 2.5 second section of tape after the song that gets repeated 8 times. The tape from 6-2-73 and the 60 seconds of repetitions have been added to make listening to this show (which show?) more "enjoyable." The sound is similar to Lemon Song's title but has more of the lower end frequencies as opposed to Lemon's middle to higher frequencies.

7-13-73
Fly Over Nuremburg (TDOLZ), Monsters of Rock (Tarantura), & Song of Detroit (Celebration)
Celebration appears to be much more complete than the other releases - but it is not. The two additional tracks (Dazed & Stairway) are actually from the Salt Lake tape that was released long after this title. (Special thanks to Greg C. & Ben B. for the important catch.) The real Detroit material is much better sounding, being louder and clearer.
Tarantura is missing the last 3 seconds of Dancing Days. TDOLZ and Tarantura are similar in sound quality.

7-15-73
In Concert and Beyond (TDOLZ) & Where the Zeppelin Roam (Midas Touch)
TDOLZ runs too fast, is cut after Since, and is missing about 30 seconds of tape just after the Rain Song.

7-17-73 soundboard
V1/2 (Dynamite Studios original and reissue), V1/2+ (LSD), V1/2 Extravaganza (Badgeholders), Grandiloquence (Antrabata), & Monsters of Rock (Tarantura)
Antrabata has 2 minutes tape before the show. It has an instance of some static noise in the beginning of Rock and Roll. Unlike the other titles, Antrabata does not have a static spot in Rain Song. This soundboard tape seems to be more distant than the other releases of the soundboard. It doesn't seem to be degenerated or equalized differently. The instruments seem to be fed into this board recording a little differently than the other.
LSD is missing 2 seconds of Rain Song at the cut. The tape has been amplified more than the others.
Dynamite's first issue had poorly placed (and missing) cue stops. The reissue has better stops.
Badgeholder's title has the second longest introduction. The audience tape has been spliced in for the static spot in Rain Song.
Disregarding Antrabata, these titles are all from the same generation of tape. Badgeholder's title has the common metallic sound. The rest of the titles' equalization differs some from one to another.

7-17-73 audience
Complete Seattle (TDOLZ), Zep Hakase (Akashic), V ˝ (Cobra), Grandiloquence (Antrabata), & Seattle Daze (IQ)
TDOLZ uses a second source to complete No Quarter and some time after the song. This title is louder and has less background noise than the others. However, this difference may be entirely due to equalizing as opposed to being from a better generation of tape. It is unbalanced in places.
IQ runs too fast but is the most complete version of the common tape.
Antrabata's sound is similar to IQ, but does run at the proper speed. The introduction is shorter. Rock & Roll has a small tape problem and some digital interference. It has a cut during Over the Hill and Far Away, missing half of a second. Most of the talk after No Quarter is missing and Moby Dick has a small glitch in the beginning.
Akashic has added tape to the introduction and two other places. It is missing 4 seconds too much of No Quarter and is missing all of the talk afterwards. Excluding TDOLZ, the music and the background noise is louder than the other titles.
Cobra's sound is very similar to IQ and Antrabata. It is missing between 1 and 2 minutes of tape from between songs.

7-17-73 soundboard/audience mix
Afterburner (Cashmere), Performed Live In Seattle (Tarantura2000), & V1/2 (Empress Valley)
The soundboard recording is the foundation of these titles and are completed by the audience tape.
Cashmere's introduction is from the audience tape, excluding the soundboard's introduction. It overlaps into the first song, displacing a moment or two of Rock and Roll's board. The rough section of board tape during Rain Song has been replaced with the audience tape.
Empress's introduction starts with the audience and then splices to include almost every second of the soundboard's introduction. Rain splices to the audience tape and displaces several seconds of the board tape.
Tarantura2000's title is similar in content and sound to the other mixes. Instead of splicing to the soundboard just before the first song, the splice is made during the start of the song, overlapping the two sources. This makes for a very unnatural sound, in a very unnecessary place. The splice during Rain Song displaces more soundboard.

7-18-73
Canada Dry (Tarantura), Cut In the 70's (TDOLZ), No Firecrackers (Electric Magic, 2cd), & Twopenny Upright (Antrabata)
The only difference between these 3 single cd titles are the speed and some equalization. Their introduction is not original. Antrabata's runs too slow. TDOLZ runs a little slow. Tarantura runs at the proper speed.
No Firecrackers has the original introduction, a little more tape at cuts, and is much more complete. It does not have the background noise found in the single disc releases.

7-20-73, source 1
Boston Cream Pie (Empress Valley, 4cd) & Zep VS Boston (Image Quality)
IQ first released this title. It has four cuts not found on Empress Valley's third and forth cds of Boston Cream Pie. EV doesn't contain the final minute of tape after the show. It's music and background noise are slightly louder than IQ's.

7-20-73, source 2
Boston Cream Pie (Empress Valley, 4cd), Wild and Relatively Mellow (Badgeholders), & Wreckage In Boston: Wrecks Havoc (Tarantura2000)
Tarantura2000 and Badgeholders are exclusively from source two and are similar in content. Badgeholder's has an unnecessary cut just before Rock and Roll and also has another unnecessary (and strange) cut after Whole Lotta Love.
Empress Valley mixes in source one to complete Rain Song. They miss the available introduction and extra four minutes of tape after the show.
Tarantura2000 and Empress Valley both have normal, natural sound. Badgeholders amplified their title, and way too much.

7-21-73
LZ Rider (Tarantura), LZ Rhoder (Thin Men), On the Rhode Again (Image Quality), & There's So Much More Sound To Hear (Empress Valley)
Thin Men is copied from Tarantura. However, it excludes the last 7 seconds of audience noise found at the end of each of the Tarantura discs.
Tarantura sounds a little clearer than IQ. It's introduction is 11 seconds longer which includes guitar and drum warm up.
IQ has 3 extra cuts. One of them is during No Quarter, which eliminates 67 seconds of the song.
Empress Valley "completed" The Song Remains the Same by splicing in 4.5 minutes from "another tape," displacing several seconds of the original tape. The extra tape has been identified as 7/28/73 (Special thanks to Bob W.) and, of course, it is not noted on the title. No other gaps from the many other cuts are filled. EV's sound isn't amplified as loud as Tarantura and has been slowed down closer to actual speed.

7-24-73, sources 1-3
Early Days, Latter Days (no label), Hello Pittsburgh (Image Quality), Pittsburgh Steelers (Empress Valley), & Resurrection (Electric Magic)
Early Days seems to be a single source. The songs available on the title are from the first and last thirds of the show. It runs too fast.
IQ and Electric Magic use a second source until the last three songs, with the exception that IQ uses what seems to be a 3rd source to finish the last minute of Dazed. The last three are from the same source as Early Days' title.
Electric Magic's Celebration Day has a sudden sound change during the song that isn't found on IQ.
IQ's title was produced from a higher generation of tape than EMC and is also less complete. There's several seconds missing after Since I've Been Loving You. No Quarter is missing 21 seconds from the middle, misses the last 18 seconds, and several more after the song. Dazed has 4 extra cuts. The fourth cut is where a different, possibly third source, is used to complete the song, although it still misses over two minutes. The problems during the remainder of the tape are shared with the other titles - they all rely on the same source for these songs.
Empress Valley's title introduces the third source for this show. It's foundation is source one, then source three. The second source is used briefly one time, during No Quarter. The third source offers more music - Stairway To Heaven and Moby Dick. Unfortunately, it's Song Remains the Same and Rain Song (source three) are full of serious digital errors - completely unacceptable.
Electric Magic's background noise is a tiny bit louder than IQ's. The music is louder too, but far more significant than the difference in the background noise.
IQ has more of the lower end while Electric Magic has higher end frequencies.

7-27-73 soundboard
V1/2 Extravaganza (Badgeholders), Grandiloquence (Antrabata), & Safecracker's Show (Midas Touch)
Midas Touch is the most complete release of this tape. The sound is heavier in the right channel.
Antrabata is missing the Dazed fragment. It is left channel heavy.
Badgeholder's title is missing Dazed and Stairway. The channels are balanced much better, but still not quite perfect.
Badgeholder's music is louder than the others due to amplification. It has the common metallic sound. The other titles are similar in sound.

7-28-73
9th US Tour (Whole Lotta Live), Complete Madison Square Garden (Wendy Records), Effect is Shattering…(Empress Valley), Final Statements (Antrabata), MSG (Cannonball), One More Magic (Immigrant), Out From the Movie (Forever Standard Series), Tour De Force (Tarantura), & Towa No Uta (Tarantura2000)
These titles are from the soundboard and for the most part are similar in sound.
The Whole Lotta Live title was copied directly from Tarantura.
Tarantura and Immigrant are cut after No Quarter, with Tarantura missing 70 seconds of tape.
Both Antrabata and Tarantura are missing the last 14 seconds of No Quarter. Tarantura and Immigrant have a cut in Dazed (no time missing). All titles have similar slight cuts during Moby Dick but Immigrant is missing over 40 seconds after the song.
Tarantura and Immigrant removed the tape problems in the beginning of Whole Lotta Love. FSS and Cannonball keep the tape problems before and after the cut.
Antrabata is missing 54 seconds from The Ocean.
Tarantura has about five extra cuts beyond the other 2 titles and doesn't sound as clear as the other titles.
Cannonball includes an extra second of music during Rain Song that's not found on the other titles. It's sound is the usual very excellent sound, with it's own equalization for Ocean. All titles seem to have different eq for that song, but they all seem to be the same quality.
Wendy's title has too much background noise and has hints of the metallic sound during quieter passages of the tape. Furthermore, it "completes" the show by using tape from the previous night and possibly another night too. It's No Quarter has some very unpleasant super low tones lingering during the third and forth minutes.
Empress Valley splices in tape to complete Rain Song, likely from the official release. In the process, it misses some of the true "unofficial" board. The bad soundboard section in the beginning of Whole Lotta Love uses the audience tape. There is an extra minute of tape spliced in after Whole Lotta Love. Three fourths of the Ocean sounds better than the rest of the tape and the other releases. EV splices back to the normal/usual sounding Ocean twice. The difference in tape quality and reasons for splicing are peculiar. The several seconds of tape after the show are not related to Led Zeppelin and is sloppy. EV's tape seems to be the same generation as most. It's equalization emphasizes the higher frequencies.
Tarantura2000's title has many problems. It unnecessarily splices to the audience tape during No Quarter even though the soundboard isn't cut. The splice during Rain Song displaces 12 seconds of the board. Dazed has a strange sounding cut near the end (approx 28:53). The rough soundboard section in the beginning of Whole Lotta Love has been replaced with the audience tape. The Ocean, like No Quarter, has an unnecessary splice. This time it splices to a poorer generation of the soundboard for fifty seconds. Most of the tape after the show is missing. There are several dropouts within the title that are not found on any prior titles. The sound has been amplified a bit.

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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