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1975 through 1980

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1-12-75
Belgian Triple (Empress Valley), It's Time To Travel Again (TDOLZ), & Operation Moonbeam (Tarantura)
Tarantura and TDOLZ are mostly similar. Tarantura edited out a few seconds of tape in a couple of places. After the show, Tarantura repeated a half second of tape ten times to extend the amount of "tape" after Robert's final words.
Empress Valley uses an alternative tape to fill in the gaps of the first tape. It seems the alternate tape is from the same show…
Tarantura and Empress Valley have amplified their tapes, making the background noise louder along with the music. There's no difference in tape generations.

1-20-75
Cryin' Won't Help You (Empress Valley), Luftschiffe (Tarantura), & Sweet Home Chicago (Wendy Records)
These titles are very similar in content and sound quality. Tarantura added after a couple of cuts to falsely extend. Wendy and Empress have longer introductions. The peculiar sounding splice in Wendy's introduction is not found on the other titles. Empress Valley is just slightly more complete between songs than Wendy. Empress has sequenced Dying to the later half of the show.

1-20-75
Cryin' Won't Help You (Empress Valley), Luftschiffe (Tarantura), & Sweet Home Chicago (Wendy Records)
These titles are very similar in content and sound quality. Tarantura added after a couple of cuts to falsely extend. Wendy and Empress have longer introductions. The peculiar sounding splice in Wendy's introduction is not found on the other titles. Empress Valley is just slightly more complete between songs than Wendy. Empress has sequenced Dying to the later half of the show.

1-29-75
Footstomping Graffiti (no label) & A Quick Getaway (TDOLZ)
These titles are mostly similar as far as cuts and completeness are concerned. TDOLZ has 2 extra seconds before the show. It's tape runs slower than the other title an increasingly gets slower. There's little difference in the sound between these titles.

1-31-75
Tune Up (Immigrant) & Ultraviolence Attack (Badgeholders)
Badgeholders is missing the introduction. It has some static in the beginning of Rock and Roll and again before it ends. Moby Dick is missing almost 9 seconds at one of the cuts and another half dozen seconds after the song while Robert is speaking. The tape's channel problems are less evident than on Immigrant because they've moved one channel into the other. This title has a few less cuts than Immigrant, but only adds 1 second of new tape (as it cuts into the beginning of Whole Lotta Love).
Immigrant runs a touch faster and hasn't been amplified like Badgeholders.

2-6-75
1975 World Tour (Cobra & Empress Valley)
Empress Valley's title is a little more complete between songs than Cobra. EV repeats 22 seconds of the introduction after Kashmir. The two titles are similar in sound.

2-8-75
Philadelphia Special (no label) & Spectrum (Electric Magic Celebration)
Philadelphia Special is first source. EMC uses a second source to complete the first source, eliminating some of the first source during splices.
EMC's music and background noise have been amplified to be louder than Philly Special.

2-12-75, soundboard
Flying Circus (Eelgrass & Empress Valley) & Madison Square Graffiti (Red Devil)
Empress Valley released this tape first. Eelgrass is a direct copy - there are no differences in equalization or disc times. Red Devil seems to be sourced from EV too, although it is not a direct cd copy with matching times. They've added "blank tape" at the end of the cds. It's cue stops and sound are identical to EV.
EV's "gold disc" reissue and the jewel case reissue in 2007 have identical disc times as the original release.

2-12-75, source 1
Can't Take Your Evil Ways (TDOLZ, both issues), The Jumpleg (Tarantura), Ladies and Gents (Tarantura 2000), MSG 1975 (LSD, both issues), & 10th US Tour (Whole Lotta Live)
Whole Lotta Live is a direct copy of Tarantura.
TDOLZ reissued this title claiming it was the "uncut complete version." That wasn't the truth. No label has managed to do this yet. TDOLZ's first issue is missing 68 seconds of Moby Dick. Their reissue is this section. (Evidently, the master source is cut at the switch to hand percussion during Moby Dick. All cd titles have a cut at that point.) However, both titles are still missing a large chunk of time after Rain Song and several seconds after Moby Dick. The reissue doesn't include a cue stop for Kashmir. Mostly, the titles sound similar.
LSD also issued this title twice. Both issues have precisely identical cuts and content. There may be a little difference in the equalization. Both are also missing about a minute of the introduction. There's a drop in Rock and Roll exclusively to these titles. The tape seems a little unbalanced after Sick Again and there's another small problem during Over the Hills and Far Away. No Quarter has a digital glitch and about 2 dozen seconds of tape are missing after Dazed and Confused. These problems are also only found on LSD. Three minutes of tape are missing between Stairway and Whole Lotta Love.
Tarantura is missing more than a minute of the introduction. There are tape problems during the end of Rain Song and is missing a large amount of time after the song. Moby Dick is missing a large amount of time. There are some balance problems that mostly clear up before Stairway To Heaven. Stairway has a cut but is not missing any time. About five minutes of tape are missing after the song. Another minute is missing after Heartbreaker.
"Ladies and Gents" also is a release claiming to be uncut. It also claims to be straight from the master source. It is not directly from the master. It is cut, missing time found on other releases. The cut after Rain Song misses 44 seconds of tape, like TDOLZ. Additionally, they've "added" tape from elsewhere to extend the audience's applause. Moby Dick is cut, but not any less complete than other titles. New from this title is an extra 90+ seconds of tape between Black Dog and Heartbreaker. (The original pressing of Ladies & Gents first disc had a cut early in Kashmir. A replacement was manufactured before much distribution.)
The reissues are similar in sound to their original counterparts. LSD and Tarantura 2000 seem to be eq'ed for lower frequencies. TDOLZ displays the higher ones. Both of these labels sound better than the original Tarantura.

2-12-75, source 2
That's Allright NewYork (Electric Magic Celebration)
This is primarily a new source but relies on the first source to complete Kashmir. It also uses source one after Dazed. EMC tweaked the sound very hard. There's a terrible metallic sound in the background, not unlike Celebration's May 1973 soundboards and some of the Tara2000.

2-13-75
Fighting Back At the Coliseum (Empress Valley), The New Faces (Jelly Roll) & Trampled Underwood (IQ)
Jelly Roll is a single source. This source didn't capture the full show. IQ used a second source to complete the first tape. For the original source shared between JR and IQ, they are identical.
Empress Valley's release uses the tape by Jelly Roll and completes the show by using the other tape too. Furthermore, it may a third tape for even more completion, but it may not be from the same night. The many changes between the first two sources and the rest of the sound changes make it difficult to determine exactly when actual source changing occurs. For the main tape shared between the three titles, EV's tape is much louder with less background noise. It certainly must be from a better generation of tape. JR and IQ are similar in sound.

2-14-75
Nassau 1975 (TDOLZ) & St. Tangerine's Day (IQ)
These titles are very similar. TDOLZ has smoother edits.

2-16-75
St. Louis Blues (Empress Valley & Eelgrass)
Eelgrass copied EV's title, as usual. However, it's not an exact copy. The sound has been toned down a hair. The last five seconds of blank tape on cd three have been removed and the cues stops don't all match EV either.

2-28-75
Battle of Baton Rouge (Empress Valley), Blaze (Immigrant), Freeze! (Tarantura), DX I ~ X (Mad Dogs), Hang On To Your Heads (TDOLZ), & Led Astray (SIRA)
Immigrant is missing most of the introduction. It is missing a few seconds after Trampled Underfoot and more than 6.5 minutes of Dazed and Confused. The title has good sound but seems to be 1 or 2 generations further from the master.
Mad Dogs is much more complete than Immigrant, but is still missing some tape after Moby and Dazed. It has a little less bass than most of the releases of this show.
Tarantura, SIRA, and TDOLZ are almost completely identical with respect to cuts, completeness, and sound. SIRA is not a direct copy of Tarantura. They may have used the same tape but they made a couple of edits not found on Tarantura.
Empress Valley is similar to the better titles. It's introduction is about 40 seconds short, but it seems to have a few extra split seconds at a couple of the cuts. There is a larger amount of tape after the show, totaling about 75 seconds. Their sound has been amplified a bit.

3-4-75
Chasing the Dragon (Eelgrass, 3cd, & Empress Valley, 3cd & 6cd), Dallas 1975 (Blimp & Last Stand Disc), Solid Guitar (Tarantura), & Trampled Underfoot (Swinging Pig)
Empress Valley is the first release with enough of the soundboard tape to use a third disc. No Quarter and Moby Dick remain incomplete. However, this Moby Dick has an extra 25 seconds before ending. No fades were used, thus allowing every note to be heard clearly. (The original disc number two contains a cut/repeat three minutes into Trampled Underfoot lasting 20 seconds - none of the old 2cd titles have this problem. A "replacement disc" (matrix# "EVSD-189B" time=34:48) was issued 4 months later correcting the original disc (matrix# "EVSD-189" time=35:08).) This title has very excellent sound like the all the others. The 3cd title is a reissue of the cds in the 6cd box.
Eelgrass's title is a perfect copy of original "uncorrected" Empress Valley title.
Blimp's title runs a little slow and has an extra, inexcusable cut in No Quarter with 3 seconds of silence - not found on the other titles.
Last Stand Disc and Swinging Pig have virtually identical content. The latter has a smoother edit on the big cut in No Quarter. Tarantura is also highly similar to these two titles except for one factor. At the cut in No Quarter, there is a 5 second overlap of the two pieces of tape.
(LSD update after comparing EV: LSD has a tape problem throughout the entire title. Between songs (quite sections) a repetitive "bump, bump" sound can be heard. It is evidently the tape. This problem isn't on Empress Valley or Tarantura.)

3-5-75 audience
Chasing the Dragon (Empress Valley, from 6cd box), Days Confused (Empress Valley, from 6cd release), & Live In Dallas (TDOLZ)
TDOLZ was the first label to issue this show on cd. Now years later, it has finally been issued again but by Empress Valley. EV's Chasing the Dragon used the February 28th show to fill in the two musical gaps and of course didn't note the change. Furthermore, there are sound changes after most of the songs that sound like splices. For all but maybe one instance, they're adjusting the tape and not actually switching to a different tape. It creates a completely unnecessary dissonance. On the plus side, EV has a longer introduction, a little more tape after Kashmir, and some extra tape after Moby Dick.
TDOLZ's Rock and Roll has a brief sound fluctuation not found on Chasing the Dragon. Chasing the Dragon has a brief sound fluctuation during Sick Again that's not found on TDOLZ.
EV released this show again with as a bonus 3cd included with the soundboard, Days Confused. They decided not to mix in Baton Rouge again to fill the gaps. The tape has an extra 140 seconds of tape from between songs that's not found on TDOLZ. It does miss 8 seconds found on TDOLZ after Rain Song. The pair of glitches found on TDOLZ's No Quarter are not present here. There's also a slight cut after Dazed that's not found on TDOLZ.
Empress Valley's titles run at the proper speed while TDOLZ is a little slow. The tape generations seem to match but EV has amplified theirs just a touch.

3-5-75 soundboard
Days Confused (Empress Valley, from 6cd/3cd releases and 3cd jewel case reissue, & Eelgrasss)
EV's Days Confused (3cd & 6cd) debuts the soundboard. It mixes in about 2.5 minutes of audience tape to complete some gaps. Eelgrass is a direct copy of EV's soundboard discs.
EV's jewel cased version uses the same discs as the prior version.

3-11-75, sources 1 & 2
Bootleg License: Acme Quaalude (Tarantura2000), California Graffiti (Masterport), California Sunshine (Badgeholders), Long Beach Arena Complete (Confusion), Long Beach 1975 (Flying Disc & LSD), Pussy & Cock (Tarantura), Standing In the Shadow of Midnight (Empress Valley), & Zeppelin L (Akashic)
Musically speaking, Flying Disc is the least complete. The title does not have any cue stops and runs a little slow. Tarantura and LSD have similar speeds (running about 3% fast) and content. The only difference (slight) is Tarantura's cut in Dazed. Confusion is missing some of Robert's commentary after Rain Song and Trampled Underfoot. This title runs a hair fast but isn't as fast as Tarantura and LSD. Flying Disc, Tarantura, Confusion, and LSD are all cut near the 22nd minute of Dazed (preceded by a tape problem too). Each miss at least a dozen seconds.
Akashic is missing 15 seconds of the introduction. Robert's commentary is missing after Rain Song and tape of the audience cheering has been added in to fill the gap. Dazed doe not have the tape problem and cut. Another 45 seconds has been added after Stairway too. This title has half a minute more tape after the show than the other titles, which actually seems to be genuine. The speed is proper.
Masterport has the full introduction, all commentary, Dazed in excellent shape, and adds another dozen seconds of tape after Stairway not previously available, but misses the last 35 seconds of tape after the show. The speed is proper.
Empress Valley is a two source mix. It uses source two to fill two non-musical cuts in source one. In the process, it misses a few seconds of source one. Other than that, this title is just as complete as Masterport. However, for the cut after Rain song, they decided to repeat source one from after Over the Hills.
Badgeholders title uses source two to fill in the gap after Trampled and Dazed. The title ends with as much tape as Akashic.
Tarantura2000's title is another two source mix, using the second source to fill in source one's gaps. The first couple of seconds are missing from the introduction and the two splices displace a few seconds of source one's content/music. The title has all the extra tape after the show (from source one).
Flying Disc, Tarantura, and LSD have similar sound levels. Confusion's title is not quite as loud. Akashic has amplified their tape quite a bit, making the background noise and music too loud. Masterport has excellent sound. Empress and Badgeholder's sounds have been amplified and brightened some.

3-12-75
Bootleg License: Standing In the Shadow (Tarantura2000), Long Beach Arena Fragment (Holy), Standing In the Shadows (TDOLZ), Trampled Under Jimmy's Foot (SIRA), & Taking No Prisoners Tonight (Badgeholders)
SIRA and TDOLZ come from the first tape entirely. They are very similar in regards to cuts and completeness. TDOLZ has some digital interference during Stairway but overall seems to be a little clearer sounding. SIRA runs a little slow.
Holy's Fragment is exclusively from a second tape source.
Badgeholder's title uses source one until source two becomes available. Source two is used from there on, as the primary sound source, but tape one is used to fill in between songs. In the process, some of source two is omitted. Moby Dick features an extra 83 seconds of tape not found on TDOLZ or SIRA. The two tapes used for Badgeholders have been cleaned up a bit. Source one has been toned down while source two is brighter than what's found on the Holy title.
Tarantura2000's title uses source one until source two is available. The extra tape of Moby Dick is included. Like Badgeholders, source one had to be toned down and source two was improved too.

3-14-75
Conspiracy Theory (Empress Valley & Eelgrass)
Eelgrass is a direct copy of Empress Valley.

3-17-75
Blow Jobs (Tarantura2000), Dinosaur In Motion (Empress Valley), Gallery of Soldiers (Powerchord), & Seattle Won't You Listen (TDOLZ)
TDOLZ has a few extra cuts over Powerchord and Empress Valley.
Powerchord misses the first two seconds of the show due to their fade. Their extra tape found after Trampled and Dazed is actually from after Stairway. Powerchord has balance problems during the first 2 minutes of Moby Dick. There are slight "tics" or cuts at each track change as if they mastered the tape from a troubled cdr.
Empress Valley has a couple of sound fluctuations during Over the Hills and on Dying that don't seem to be on the other titles. There's a very minor glitch during Dazed around the 23 minute mark. This title has a few extra seconds (not musical) not found on the other titles.
Tarantura2000 is somewhat similar to Empress Valley. It has the same sound fluctuations and cuts. However, the cuts after Trampled and Dazed are followed by tape added from elsewhere. It doesn't have the tiny glitch during Dazed like EV, but it does have a very large before the song.
TDOLZ and Powerchord are similar in sound. Empress Valley and Tarantura2000 didn't amplify the first four songs as much as the other titles and are also similar in sound. The remainder of the title is similar to the other two releases.

3-19&20-75
Interlude Prior to the Crunge (Eelgrass), Ladies and Gentlemen (Sanctuary, 6cd), Physical Vancouver Farewell (Tarantura, 6cd), Pleeease (Silver Rarities, 3cd of 3-20-75), Prisoners of Rock & Roll (TDOLZ, 5cd), & Snow Jobs (Empress Valley, 3cd of 3-19-75 plus "bonus 2cd")

Foreword
Pleeease was the first release from this 1975 venue. It's liner notes list the title as being from the 19th. Robert can be faintly heard mentioning the previous night after Sick Again, so it seemed the show was actually from the 20th. My assumption was SIRA'S entire title (tape is similar quality throughout) was from the 20th and that Tarantura, TDOLZ, and Sanctuary had all gotten their discs/tapes switched around between the two nights (No Quarter, Trampled Underfoot, & Moby Dick). Closer inspection of the good tapes for each of these shows reveals SIRA combined both shows into one title.
Silver Rarities released the first tape source for each show. Tarantura was the first title to release the second tape sources for these shows, aka the "good tapes." Empress Valley is the first appearance of a soundboard for the first night.

3-19-75, both audience sources
Silver Rarities's No Quarter, Trampled Underfoot, and Moby Dick are from the first night.
Tarantura is strictly from the second source. About ten seconds of it's introduction is missing. It uses a ten second section of tape after Sick Again to repeat after Kashmir and Dazed. They also repeat tape taken from after No Quarter and place it after Trampled Underfoot and Dazed.
TDOLZ' release is strictly from source two and has been placed on just two cds. Their tape arrangement any extra cuts or repeated tape.
Sanctuary splices to the first source briefly after No Quarter, to complete Trampled Underfoot and Moby Dick, and then splices out to the next night to complete Dazed and Confused. (Some of the talk before Dazed is also from the 20th.) A ten second section of tape after Sick Again gets repeated after Kashmir. Some tape after No Quarter gets repeated after Dazed too.
Empress Valley's "bonus 2cd" also mixes both audience sources, but relies mostly on the good tape. They actually eliminate pieces of tape to make it match up better with their soundboard title. They've also cut the tape during Sick Again to remove a slight drop.
The tapes are similar in quality.

3-19-75, soundboard
Empress Valley was the first release of this soundboard. Eelgrass followed shortly afterwards and was expected to be copied from EV, as had always been their plan. Eelgrass's cue stops are a little different, has almost no "blank time" at the end of the discs, is missing the last second of tape after the show as Robert puts down the microphone, and the title is slightly louder than EV.

3-20-75
Silver Rarities first and last discs are from the first tape source of this show.
The 3 big titles use the good source for this show but do fall back on the lesser source to fill in some of the gaps. They all share the same introduction from the previous night. Tarantura and TDOLZ only use the lesser source to complete the Rain Song. Sanctuary uses the lesser source to compliment the better source for virtually every gap.
Tarantura's title is in excellent form. Tarantura has about 15 seconds more time after Robert's final word, over the other titles.
TDOLZ uses the prior night's first source to "complete" Moby Dick. Some of the previous night's commentary after Moby is used in the corresponding area for the 20th. It has 8 extra cuts on Dazed plus 1 instance of digital interference. After most of these extra cuts, the several seconds just prior to the cut get repeated. TDOLZ has a cut and repeat near the end of Stairway, repeating 15 seconds. It is missing over 90 seconds of tape after the song. The other titles are not cut. On Whole Lotta Love, another cut and repeat is found, repeating 14 seconds. The other titles are not cut.
Sanctuary uses the first source to complete the many gaps. Some of the previous night's tape is used after Moby Dick.
Strangely, Tarantura, TDOLZ, and Sanctuary have a 36 second splice in Trampled. The spliced tape is not from the previous night and does not seem to come from any other 1975 show. It could be from a different generation of the same tape.
The "good tapes" sound similar between these different titles.

3-21-75

Foreword
There are two sources for this show. The first source captured everything up just past the halfway point of Stairway To Heaven. It's sound is clearer than the next source. The second source has everything but the bulk of Moby Dick's middle. There are many tape glitches - most notably from the tenth minute of Dazed through the end of the show.

3-21-75, non mixed titles
Blow Away (no label, 3cd), Long Drive To Seattle (TCOLZ, 4cd) & Seattle Supersonic (no label, 2cd)
Seattle Supersonic is entirely from the better sounding, first source. It misses most of the introduction, all of Moby Dick, and the last 3:19 of the Stairway. No Quarter has been split between the two discs. The title runs a hair faster than the other releases. It is better sounding than what's been used on most of the earlier mixed source titles.
Blow Away is also entirely from the first source. It contains every second ever released and almost another second and a half of Stairway before it finally cuts out. It has excellent sound like Supersonic and the more recent mixed source releases.
TCOLZ's title is entirely from the second source.

3-21-75, mixed titles, old style
207.19 & 214 (Cobra, 4cd), Good Evening Seattle (Magnificent Disc, 4cd), Hammer of the Gods (LSD, 4cd and Tarantura, 3cd), No Quarter (H-Bomb, 4cd original and reissue)
These "old style" mixes switch to source two before Stairway.
First of all, Tarantura's title only contains the first four songs.
H-Bomb, LSD, and Mag Disc are missing most of the introduction.
H-Bomb's reissue has different artwork, printing on cds, and disc times (1 second diff), but the music content and sound is identical.
LSD is virtually identical in every respect to H-Bomb except that they've simply amplified the title a little.
Cobra's content is the same as the others except for the longer introduction. Like LSD, it's music and background noise are louder than H-Bomb. However, Cobra made other adjustments to the sound, leaving it without as much of the lower frequencies as the other titles.
Mag Disc's title has the shortest introduction found on a quad cd release. It does have the extra commentary after No Quarter and Since, that are only found on Supersonic, Empress Valley, and Tarantura2000. The many tape glitches that start during Stairway and lasting through the rest of the tape, have almost all been edited out. Like Mag's other releases, this title too has the familiar metallic sound in the background. It is constantly evident and inexcusable. The tape is the same generation quality as the other 4cd releases.

3-21-75, mixed titles, new style
Blow Jobs (Tarantura2000, 4cd) & Dinosaur In Motion (Empress Valley, 4cd)
These "new style" mixes use all of source one, switching to source two during Stairway.
Empress Valley has the full introduction, the extra tape after No Quarter and Since, and debuts an extra 3.25 minutes of Stairway To Heaven from source one. The many glitches during source two have been removed. Unfortunately, they chose to modify two of the cuts during Black Dog. Small amounts of tape have been expertly added to disguise the cuts, also displacing some music in the process. The tape generations of source one seems similar to the other quad releases. The tape generation of the second source is certainly better than the "old style" mixes. The title hasn't been amplified any more than the other titles.
Tarantura2000 is almost an exact content clone of EV. They've removed part of the announcer comment before the show and are missing a few seconds after the show. It's sound is slightly louder than EV.

3-24-75, sources 1 & 2
Deep Throat I (Empress Valley), Firecrackers Show (TDOLZ), Get Back To LA (Tarantura), & A Gram Is A Gram Is A Gram (IQ)
Tarantura is entirely from the first source. IQ's title is entirely from the second source.
TDOLZ and EV are mixes of the two sources. They rely on the second tape to complete gaps in the first. TDOLZ's Dazed and Confused has a couple of instances of digital glitches within the first few minutes. EV's mix has better splices, uses more of the better sounding first source, and overall sounds much better than TDOLZ.
Source one of TDOLZ is a higher tape generation than Tarantura and Empress Valley.

3-25-75, sources 1 & 2
Cosmic Crazy (ARMS & LSD), Deep Throat II (Empress Valley), Get Back To LA (Tarantura), & The Sex Machine (Lemon Song)
With exception to EV, these titles are truly similar in respect to music content. The talk between songs differs slightly with Tarantura being a little bit more complete. However, Tarantura's sound is not as good as the others. It hasn't been amplified any like the others, yet it has a touch of background noise not found on the other titles.
Empress Valley's title uses an alternative tape to add an introduction and the first minute of Rock and Roll. It also uses the alternative tape to fill the first source's gaps between songs. It's sound is very similar to ARMS, LSD, and Lemon Song.

3-27-75
Deep Throat III (Empress Valley), Electric Orgasm (Jolly Roger), Final Show In the Forum 1975 (Jelly Roll), Get Back To LA (Tarantura), Last Night In the Forum 1975 (Power Archives), Remainz (Akashic, 4cd), & Tour De Force (Rabbit Records)
Jolly Roger's title is mainly from the 27th, but No Quarter and Moby Dick are from the night before. The 27th's sound isn't as loud as some of the other release. It could be due to a higher generation of tape or just a lack of equalization.
Rabbit is missing a few seconds from between songs and has a big sound drop in Stairway for almost 50 seconds. The last 12 seconds of Black Dog and the few seconds available afterwards are actually from the previous show, which in turn eliminates the original closing comments.
Tarantura's introduction is a dozen seconds longer than the other 3cd titles (except EV & Power Archives) and also has 2 extra seconds at the cut during No Quarter. It's not cut after Trampled and has 15 seconds more tape than Jelly Roll and even more than Rabbit. (There's still a cut after Moby. Tarantura has 37 seconds of tape not found on the others but then misses 22 seconds that are available on the others.) This title is missing almost 40 seconds of Dazed at the cut. Black Dog is far from complete, missing the last 90 seconds.
Jelly Roll doesn't have problems during Stairway. It's Black Dog is complete but seems to be spliced from a different generation of the same tape.
Akashic's introduction has the same content as Tarantura but starts out with an extra 18 seconds by repeating a later section of the intro. At each of the familiar cuts, Akashic misses tape consistently. Overall, it is missing 10-13 seconds (plus the time only found on Tarantura's Moby Dick). Black Dog is complete, and is all from one tape. Nineteen seconds of tape are repeated after Robert's final word to extend the close. The contents of the forth cd would have fit on the third disc.
Empress Valley: (The original disc number one (matrix# "EVSD-162" time=69:38) was missing 40 seconds of the introduction and almost 35 seconds of Rock and Roll. A "replacement disc" (matrix# "EVSD-162B" time=70:54) was issued shortly afterwards correcting the two mistakes.) The introduction starts out a dozen seconds early, like Tarantura. Unlike Tarantura, but like the rest of the titles, EV's No Quarter is missing two seconds of tape at the cut. It is shortly followed by another cut and with it the speed slows down a touch. The tape between Moby Dick and Dazed is complete, for the first time on cd. Just before the familiar cut in Dazed, there are a couple of minor (minor) cuts (no tape missing) that seem a little strange. Similar to Rabbit's title, EV's Stairway also drops down in sound quality but later returns. It's Black Dog is completely intact like Akashic's.
Power Archives' title is a two source mix. The alternate tape adds to the introduction and then switches to the longer version of the first tape to complete. Rain Song and Dazed have their gaps filled with the second source, but have digital noise as if taken from a very low quality digital file. The second source sounds mostly normal during the introduction, No Quarter, and Moby Dick. Moby Dick has a slight cut (no tape missing) not found on the other titles. Dazed has a slight digital glitch halfway through that isn't found on the other titles. The right channel drops out almost completely during Stairway for almost a minute. A few seconds of tape are repeated after Stairway at the cut. It's Black Dog is complete but seems to be spliced from a similar generation of the same tape. The tape after the show is as long as Akashic's, but like Akashic, it isn't completely genuine.
Rabbit runs a little faster than the others. Rabbit and Akashic's sound have been amplified a touch more. Jelly Roll's music and background noise is much louder than Tarantura. Tarantura may possibly be from a higher generation tape. Empress Valley and Power Archives' sound quality is similar to Jelly Roll.

5-17-75
Arabesque & Baroque (Antrabata, 3cd), Complete Earl's Court Arena Tapes "I" (Empress Valley, 4cd), Devil's Banquet (Power Chord, 4cd), Join the Blimp (Tarantura, 4cd), & Nice Opening Night (IQ, 3cd)
Devil's Banquet is primarily from a second tape source. However, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Trampled Underfoot, and some of Moby Dick are from the first tape source. A lot of tape between songs is borrowed from the first source to offer a full show. The constant source switching is annoying. The title is unnecessarily spread across an extra disc.
Empress Valley release is almost completely identical to Powerchord's.
Antrabata, Tarantura, and IQ share the same tape source.
IQ has a couple more cuts between songs than the other 2 titles. Tarantura and IQ are both missing a short sentence after Dazed and Confused. Antrabata is missing most of the tape after Stairway, before Whole Lotta Love. Antrabata and IQ sound very much alike. Tarantura's title is a good bit louder, as it was amplified some. This also brings up the background noise some too.

5-18-75, sources 1, 2, & 3
Arabesque & Baroque, The Second Night (Antrabata, 4cd), Argenteum Astrum (Tarantura, 4cd), Complete Earl's Court Arena (Immigrant, 3cd), Complete Earl's Court Arena Tapes "II" and "No Quarter" (Empress Valley, 4cd & 2cd from 22cd box set), No Quarter (Empress Valley, 4cd; Good Believe, 1cd; Tarantura2000, 3cd & 5cd), & Red Devil (TDOLZ, 4cd)
The first source for this show is found on Good Believe, Empress Valley's 2cd "No Quarter," and Tarantura2000's 5cd release. Immigrant released the second source. The third source is on Tarantura, Antrabata, and TDOLZ (these titles use source two's encores). Empress Valley's two 4cd titles and Tarantura2000's 3cd are three source mixes. The performance can easily be placed on three cds but many of these labels stretched it out to four discs.

Source One:
Good Believe's forty minute title was transferred from the old and incomplete vinyl release.
Empress Valley's 2cd "No Quarter" claims it was copied directly from the original acetate used for the vinyl release by the same name from many years back. Albeit, the first third of the show is now included. The title track isn't complete and it's sound is not in good condition. It seems to have some heavy suppression to remove unwanted sounds and has many "micro cut/repeats." Additionally, it seems to be amplified to the point of being overblown. The strangest thing of all is a nearby person's cough at 2:18. This exact cough is in the exact same place on the tape used by TDOLZ. Other identifying sounds, before and after the cough, are all very faint and do not match up to TDOLZ. In some instances, where talk near the taper is found on TDOLZ, there's a convenient sound in the same place on EV that prevents clear interpretation. Combining that with some of the background suppression…it's extremely difficult to be 100% certain about the truth. In all fairness, there are sounds on EV that aren't on the other sources. Again, this is also from a label that release "less than honest" titles. Yet, no cd releases have cuts in this area. It is very possible that EV has spliced in tape during this section but it would also mean they did it perfectly in, and then out. The chances of that happening so seamlessly are super slim. The chances they'd add sounds and remove others to hide something are slim too - hopefully. Ultimately, sometime soon after the cough, the song is certainly from the proper source.
Tarantura2000's 5cd release contains 3 versions of this source, all very incomplete and full of "micro cut/repeats" (probably from software to "clean up" the sound). The first 2cds (TCD-53-1/4) are missing Kashmir. The second 2cds (TCD-54-1/2) only contain 4.5 minutes of No Quarter - the title track that's always been 18 minutes on other releases of this source. It's Bron-Yr-Aur has the "metallic" sound. The last cd (TCD-55) is sourced from the old vinyl release. Like the other four cds from this 5cd box, the sound has been "cleaned up," producing all the digital problems, cut repeats, and so forth. That's the Way starts off with some bad static and there are very serious digital problems after the song. The title is a big downgrade from the vinyl and Good Believe titles. Certainly one of the absolute worst titles by Tarantura2000.

Source Two:
Immigrant's title is exclusively from the second source. The encores run too fast.
Source two is the basis for Tarantura2000's title. When source two has a gap, it is filled with source one. When source one isn't available to fill a gap, source three is used. This release reveals a few more minutes of tape than Immigrant. It has a longer introduction, the ending of Moby Dick, and some extra tape before the encores.

Source Three:
TDOLZ uses source two's introduction and encores. Tarantura and Antrabata also use source two's encores.
Antrabata's cuts are in slightly different places. It has at least one additional cut beyond TDOLZ and Tarantura. It also has a slight instance of digital interference 80 seconds into That's the Way.
TDOLZ's tape seems to be more reliable when comparing the intro's and cuts. The tape after the show on Red Devil and AA may be from a different source than the Antrabata.
Antrabata claims the source used was a "Master or 1st generation tape source," but it's sound is completely inferior to TDOLZ's. Tarantura sounds a small bit better than the TDOLZ but may be due entirely to amplifying.

EV Mixes:
Empress Valley's 4cd "II" and "No Quarter (4cd)" - EV mixes three sources for the music. Roughly speaking, the first third is the same as Immigrant. The middle third is from the original "No Quarter" title/source, and the last is the same as TDOLZ. The tape before and after the show are mixed too. The first part has been amplified a hair more than Immigrant's. Additionally, EV has treated the tape some (usually between songs but during songs occasionally too), making the sound very awkward. The purpose of using the overblown/noisy "No Quarter" source for the middle part is not known. Overall, the title is really pointless. It switches sources too much and doesn't offer good sound quality. Unnecessarily spread across four cds.

5-23-75
Arabesque & Baroque, The Third Night (Antrabata, 4cd), The Awesome Foursome (CG, 3cd), Complete Earl's Court Arena Tapes "III" (Empress Valley, 4cd), Physical Express (Jelly Roll, 4cd), Thunderstorm (Tarantura, 4cd), & Welcome To the Show (TDOLZ, 4cd)
Antrabata, Jelly Roll, and Empress Valley share the same exact multiple source mixture and have highly similar sound quality. Antrabata has at least 6 more cuts between songs, an unnecessary slight cut in Trampled, and is missing approximately 50 seconds of Moby.
CG & TDOLZ both use a single source each, which do not document the complete performance. Both have incomplete Trampled Underfoot's. CG placed Moby across the last 2 cds to fit the show on 3 discs. TDOLZ properly used 4cds to keep the songs together.
Tarantura doesn't have the few tape problems found on TDOLZ from between Over the Hills through Going To California. As with TDOLZ, Trampled is not complete but Tarantura cuts out 11 seconds too soon and then misses 2 dozen seconds of tape after the song. Tarantura's Moby Dick is cut, missing 2 dozen seconds. Regardless of these faults, Thunderstorm is much better sounding than the others. It doesn't have any extra background noise with the improvement of the music.

5-24-75
Arabesque & Baroque, The Fourth Night (Antrabata, 4cd), Complete Earl's Court Arena Tapes "IV" (Empress Valley, 4cd), Earl's Court Arena 2405 Evoluzione (Empress Valley, 4cd), Earl's Court (SIRA, 3cd), Earl's Court Incident (Red Devil, 3cd), Fourthcoming (IQ, 4cd), Graf-Zeppelin-Marsch (Tarantura, 3cd), He Must Be Dazed and Confused (Empress Valley, 4cd), Odysseus (Celebration, 4cd), To Be a Rock and Not To Roll (Watchtower, 4cd), & Your Mother Wouldn't Like It (TDOLZ, 3cd)
Fourthcoming is the only release of the complete audience tape.
SIRA, Tarantura, Antrabata, and TDOLZ are the older titles, released when Moby Dick wasn't available from the video soundtrack.
TDOLZ and Tarantura are virtually identical. The Tarantura has been slightly amplified.
SIRA mixes the soundtrack and audience tape. Excluding the soundtrack of Moby Dick, about 95% of the sb tape was used on this release. The audience tape was used to fill in the difference. However, they did split Moby across the last 2 discs to fit the show on 3 cds.
Antrabata also used the audience tape to fill in the soundtrack gaps.

Celebration was the first title to release Moby Dick. It notes the show as being from the soundboard. They may or may not have meant to mislead, maybe only meaning the recording was from a professional source instead of the audience. Upon their later release of the video, the cuts during the acoustic set were found to match their audio release of the "soundboard." Odysseus does not use the audience tape to fill in gaps. It has a slight cut after Moby Dick and is cut while Dazed is ending, just like it's predecessors. Also like it's predecessors, the soundtrack generation seems to be the same, but only up thru the fifth minute of Dazed. From that point it clears up by a generation. Overall, it's sound is amplified and even almost overblown in places.
Watchtower's version is noted being from the soundboard. It has the most soundtrack tape before and after the show. Instead of using the partial soundtrack tape for Going To California, they spliced to the audience tape before it starts. Moby Dick contains 3 brief spots with severe static that are not found on the other releases. It is not cut after Moby Dick or during the end of Dazed. This title has almost six extra minutes of tape after Stairway.
Empress Valley used the same cds for their first two releases of this show (22cd box & He Must Be…). They make no source indication of any kind. Like Watchtower, they decided to not use the soundboard fragment for Going To California. It switches to the audience recording a few seconds early. Most of the tape after Stairway is not included. It is also missing some tape before and after the show.
Empress Valley's third release is different from their first pair. It's introduction has even less tape than their others, which were already short. The instance of static during the later part of the song has been poorly removed, making the interruption more noticeable than the static. This time, the available sound board fragment is used for Going To California, but misses it's last 4 seconds. All of the tape after Stairway and after the show are present.
Watchtower and the Empress Valley's releases are from lower generation video soundtracks than the earlier titles by other labels. The music is clearer and there is less background noise. Watchtower and Empress Valley's third release have the least amount of background noise and are almost completely identical. EV's first pair of releases have more background noise than the third release. Watchtower and the Empress Valley titles have less low end then Celebration's. However, Celebration's slightly lower frequencies can be attributed entirely to the overloading. Those three titles lack really good low end. They are not left sounding high and tiny. There's plenty of great mid range sound.
Red Devil's release seems to be sourced from Watchtower's release, but isn't a direct copy. The introduction, tape after Stairway, and tape after the show have all been shortened. No Quarter has been moved out of sequence, placing it between two acoustic tracks. (The move was evidently done to use one less cd, just like with "Robert's Last Stand.") The cue stops match Watchtower until the move. The sound quality is identical to Watchtower.

5-25-75 soundboard
Conquistador (Watchtower & Water Tank, 4cd), Complete Earl's Court Arena Tapes "V" (Empress Valley, 4cd), Earl's Court `75 Final Court (Celebration), A 2 Last Nights (Tarantura), Shake For Me Baby (Missing Link), Welcome To the 1979 Knebworth Festival's bonus disc "Epilogue" (Watchtower, 1cd), When We Were Kings (Empress Valley, 4cd), Young Person's Guide To Led Zeppelin (Empress Valley, 4cd), & Zeppelin Express Physical Rocket (Empress Valley, 4cd)
Missing Link and Tarantura are the older releases and do not contain the extra material (TSRTS & Rain) found on Celebration.
Celebration uses the same tape found on the other titles for the shared songs. All three slow down during Kashmir but Celebration makes an adjustment just before No Quarter. This title also misses the last 3-4 seconds of Tangerine. There doesn't seem tape generation difference. There's no amplification and doesn't have any background noise. The new material comes from a clean but flat sounding professional source.
Missing Link's title is a little louder than Tarantura due to amplification. It is missing the last 3-4 seconds of Tangerine due to a fade out. Tarantura does not fade.
Empress Valley was the first to release the full show from a professional source. They used the same cds for their first two releases of this show (22cd box & Zeppelin Express…). Kashmir, No Quarter, and Tangerine have been available for many years. Their tape seems to be the same quality as the two new tracks found on "Final Court," but it has been amplified significantly. (EV may possibly even be a generation better.) Evidently, Empress Valley wasn't able to get all of No Quarter and Tangerine in the newer and clearer quality. It splices to the old pro source for the final two minutes of the song and continues to use it through the last half minute of Tangerine. From that point, the audience tape is used for thirty seconds to complete the song and a little bit of time afterwards. These two Empress Valley titles are missing most of the extremely long introduction, almost 8 minutes of tape after Stairway, a little more after Black Dog, and a bit more after the show too. The music and background noise are slightly louder than Watchtower's. The difference is just due to amplification.
Empress Valley's third and fourth releases, When We Were Kings and Young Person's Guide, are different from their earlier pair of releases. This time the large amounts of tape before the show, after Stairway and Black Dog, and after the show are available. The big overlap of tape between discs is present again, but about a minute less than before. The loudness of the music and background noise is less this time, making it virtually identical in sound to Watchtower. (Young Person's Guide uses the same disc times and matrix numbers, but they're not the same discs from WWWK.)
Watchtower's Conquistador is musically similar to Empress Valley. Fortunately it lacks the large amounts of tape overlap between discs. It misses a few seconds of Robert's commentary just before switching back to the soundboard before Going To California.
Watchtower's "Epilogue" claims to be from an alternative board source. It starts with a shorter introduction and ends just after Kashmir. The sound is almost completely identical to Conquistador.
Empress Valley's music and background noise are slightly louder than Watchtower's. The difference is just due to amplification. Red Devil's release seems to be sourced from Watchtower's release, but isn't a direct copy. The introduction, tape after Stairway, and tape after the show have all been shortened. No Quarter has been moved out of sequence, placing it between two acoustic tracks. (The move was evidently done to use one less cd, just like with "Robert's Last Stand.") The sound quality is identical to Watchtower.
Water Tank's title has the same matrix numbers, disc times, cuts, and sound as Watchtower. It's either a direct disc copy or is issuing unused discs from Watchtower's production.

5-25-75
Arabesque & Baroque, The Final Night (Antrabata, 4cd), Buck Rogers (Tarantura), Earl's Court 75 (Mud Dogs, 3cd), & Great Taste Last Night, (IQ, 4cd)
All titles seem to be from the same bootlegger's tape and share most cuts.
The IQ has evidently been amplified which usually brings up a little hiss but this contains a lot of hiss. The sound level isn't any better than the others.
Mud Dog's sound is inferior, its' track list is rearranged to fit the show on 3cds, and has an unnecessary cut in Dazed which then repeats a 25" section. It does contain the full introduction.
Antrabata's intro is missing 40 seconds but doesn't have any hiss and sounds very nice. Tarantura is missing the last half note of Rain Song. Overall, it is missing about 15 seconds of tape from between songs. However, it's sound is definitely louder than Antrabata's. It is probably only due to amplification but it makes it more enjoyable to listen.

4-3-77
The Fuckin' P.A. System (Tarantura) & Fucking T.Y. (Tattytura)
Tarantura has 1 small digital glitch during Nobody's Fault But Mine. During No Quarter, there are many channel and digital problems between the 1st and 5th minutes.
Tattytura's title doesn't have those problems but it's sound is not as loud and maybe not as clear. The sound level may possibly be due entirely to amplifying by Tarantura.

4-6-77
Missing Night In Chicago (Missing Link) & Great Chicago Fire (Empress Valley)
Both titles are similar overall, even the backwards playing tape during No Quarter. Empress Valley has a few less cuts and includes an extra 50 seconds of tape after Battle of Evermore. Unfortunately, it is followed by one of the new "micro cut/repeat" errors that is becoming too common. It also has another extra cut/repeat during Moby Dick. Missing Link has a few extra cuts that are either not included in Empress Valley or have been edited carefully.
Empress Valley's sound has been amplified a bit over Missing Link's, but it isn't too heavy.

4-9-77, sources 1 & 2
Early Days, Latter Days (no label), Great Chicago Fire (Empress Valley), & Strange Tales From the Road (no label)
Strange Tales contains the first tape. Early Days contains the more complete second source.
Empress Valley's foundation is the second source, but twice switches to the other to complete No Quarter. Their sound is amplified too much.

4-19-77
Cincinnati Kids (H&Y), Early Days, Latter Days (no label) & Gatecrush Riot (Electric Magic)
Early Days was the first release of this show. It and Kids are about 38 minutes shorter than Electric Magic.
Unfortunately, Electric Magic's No Quarter has a small cut. After the song, it is cut and misses some tape.
All titles are eq'd differently. Early Days has more bottom end. Electric Magic may possibly be a lower generation of tape.

4-20-77
Gatecrush Riot (Electric Magic) & Cincinnati Riot Disaster (Electric Magic)
Gatecrush was the first cd release of the available tape at the time. Disaster was released much later when more tape became available. Disaster is aptly named since EMC decided to mix the extra tape with material from the previous night, instead of making use of all available songs from the 20th.

4-25-77
Kentucky Bourbon (Empress Valley), Louisville Slugger (Wendy Records), & Oxygen Destroyer (Tarantura2000)
EV and Wendy are identical. Tarantura2000 isn't cut just before Black Country Woman, having an extra four seconds of Robert talking. It's sound hasn't been amplified as much as the others.

4-27-77
Destroyer (Cobra, Eelgrass, Empress Valley, Flesh, Last Stand Disc, Shout To the Top, SODD, & the October 2007 issue with dark green discs in jewel case - no label), The Destroyers (Tarantura & Tarantura2000), The Destroyer Gold (Tarantura), Final Statements (Antrabata), Maximum Destroyer (Empress Valley), & Supreme Destroyers I (Empress Valley, 9cd & 3cd)

Foreword
Empress Valley's original Destroyer title was released in 2000. It was more complete with better quality than prior releases and subsequent releases (by other labels and EV's own "Supreme Destroyers" released in 2004) until the "no label" version came out in October of 2007.
The "no label" version wasn't any better - it was pretty close to being an equal. Two months later, Empress Valley released "Maximum Destroyer," which was technically (minor differences) better than their original. Then in May 2008, Eelgrass released the title too, virtually identical to the two titles just mentioned.

Both original Tarantura releases are exactly alike in respect to cuts but are equalized differently. These two titles are missing the first 3.5 seconds of the opening song. They are also missing about 70 seconds of White Summer / Black Mountain Side. A few seconds are also lost at the cut just before Achilles Last Stand. The tape used was highly edited, removing about 5 minutes of tape from between songs.
Antrabata and Shout To the Top are almost completely identical. There are edits between songs too. They both are among the poorest sounding triple cd titles ever released.
Cobra and LSD are both exactly alike in respect to cuts and to good sound. They are missing the first second of the opening song and only have a few edits between songs.
The Tarantura2000 claims to be the longest version and the best sounding. It is missing the first half second of the Song Remains the Same. Like the original Tarantura releases, this one too is missing about 70 seconds of White Summer and it's warm-up. There are distinct changes in sound with each song. The changes are so abrupt, they sound like cuts. The songs are much louder than the time between songs. Additionally, evidence of further tweaking can be heard between songs. (It's the same treatment they've used before, making the audience sound a little like birds. This time it isn't as heavy handed as with earlier titles.) Other less than natural sounds can be hear after Dying and during the cut and repeat after Moby.
Flesh's release is the worst sounding of them all. It is totally overblown - not simply over amplified like Antrabata and STTT, but overblown…ruined. The background is rough and muffled without loosing too much of the higher frequencies. At points during the acoustic set, the "equalization" makes the guitars and Bonham sound completely irritating. It's White Summer isn't incomplete like the three Tara's.
The Empress Valley Destroyer (released in 2000) is by far, the best sounding and most complete release ever issued. (Unfortunately, the last dozen seconds of tape after the show seem to be faked by repeating a section.)
Empress Valley's Supreme Destroyers I is a step down from it's original Destroyer. There's a strange sound problem (brief) about 1.5 minutes into Going To California that's not found on any other titles. After that track, the sound trouble starts again and lasts into the beginning of Black Country Woman. Later during that track, the left channel begins to dominate the right. It continues through the end of the disc. It's music and background are not as loud as their original Destroyer. The 9cd box and 3cd release both use the same discs.
SODD's Destroyer has three minor flaws. No Quarter has a glitch that's not found on any other title, and it misses a split second of tape between the discs, during guitar warm up and commentary. A slight bit of tape overlap between the discs would have cured that issue, but they elected not to repeat even a millisecond. Other than that, all other tape is present. The sound quality is excellent and similar to EV's original release.
The "no label" version issued October 2007 is an excellent title. It doesn't miss any tape, barely has overlapping tape between discs, and doesn't have any rogue cuts or glitches. The title has no amplification. If it had been amplified some, it would have been an alternative to EV's original release.
Empress Valley's Maximum Destroyer is a much improved release over their previous version "Supreme Destroyers" and even has some small differences that makes it even better than their original "Destroyer." The title isn't amplified as loud as the original, has it's cue stops positioned a little better, has a little less overlapping tape and blank tape at the end of the discs, and doesn't have any potentially "faked" tape after the show.
Eelgrass's Destroyer is not a copy of any Empress Valley title. It's an amplified version of the "no label" title, with a few seconds of blank tape added to the end of the discs.

4-28-77
Destroyer (Flesh & TDOLZ), Destroyer II (Last Stand Disc & SIRA), Destroyer - Storongest Edition (TDOLZ), Destroyers (Tarantura & Tarantura2000), Return of the Destroyer (Live Remains), & Supreme Destroyers II (Empress Valley)
The original Tarantura is missing 12 seconds of Dying, almost 2 minutes of No Quarter, and is missing over 6 minutes of tape between songs. Also, it runs too fast.
SIRA is missing "Surrender" entirely. No Quarter is cut and then repeats over 2 minutes. Achilles Last Stand is missing 6 seconds in the beginning. Stairway To Heaven in missing it's first 2 seconds. SIRA is also missing 6 minutes of tape between songs. However, it runs at the proper speed.
LSD and TDOLZ's "Storongest Edition" have closely similar cuts and sound quality.
TDOLZ's latest version "Destroyer," is musically more complete than it's earlier release and the LSD, by 4 half seconds. There are a couple of repeats pasted between songs. It's sound seems to be just a tiny bit better but has serious hints of being manipulated in places.
Tarantura2000's introduction is a couple of seconds shorter than TDOLZ. Like TDOLZ, it has a couple of repeats pasted/inserted in places - therefore defying it's own claim of being from the master reels. No hints of it's "radical cleanup" (metallic sounds) were detected. (It seems that it would be quickly found in the areas where the recorder's mic couldn't handle the sound, but no change.) The sound on this title is certainly at least slightly better than TDOLZ.
Flesh's introduction is 2 seconds longer than TDOLZ's. The sound is heavier than TDOLZ and Tarantura2000. The difference actually may be due to a lack of toying with the sound.
Empress Valley's title is incomplete. Almost 13 minutes of Moby Dick are missing.
Live Remains' title has an annoying cut/repeat immediately at the start of Nobody's Fault. It has the normal cuts, and with edits. Three of the edits overlap audience cheer into the following song, putting them into an even rougher start. It's sound isn't as amplified as much as Flesh.
"Oh, Fuck!" is spoken on at least three different occasions. It is sometimes removed and/or repeated.

5-18-77
Dixie (Antrabata) & Out of the Way (TDOLZ)
These titles are from separate sources.

5-21-77
Dragon Snake (Empress Valley & Eelgrass)
Eelgrass is a direct copy of Empress Valley.
EV's jewel cased reissue has the same audio and disc times as the original.

5-22-77, sources 1,2, & 3
Polished Performances 1977 (POT), Song of the South (Capricorn), Unbooted (Tarantura), It'll Be Zep (SIRA, 3cd), Complete Tarrant Concert (Wendy Records,3cd), & Jamming With Mick Ralphs (Empress Valley, 3cd)
Tarantura, Capricorn, and POT feature the first source. Tarantura and POT don't include any of Moby Dick. Capricorn seems to be the full tape.
Silver Rarities uses the third tape source through Since I've Been Loving You, then switches to the second source for No Quarter and Ten Years Gone. SIRA switches back to source three for Going To California, Black Country Woman, and Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp. After that, it switches to source two through the end of Moby Dick. The remainder of the show is from source one.
Wendy uses the same mix as SIRA until half way through Moby Dick, where it switches to the first tape source. It briefly switches back to a known source after Achilles Last Stand.
Empress Valley mixture is slightly different. It uses source two for half of Dying, all of Since, most of Black Country Woman, all of Bron-Yr-Aur, and the first half of Moby Dick. After that, source one is the primary tape, with it's small gaps filled by source two.
Wendy and Empress have amplified there tapes some.

5-25-77
Landover: Return of the Crusaders (Electric Magic) & Maryland Deluxe: Your Teenage Dream (TDOLZ)
Electric Magic is much more complete than tdolz. TDOLZ seems to be less clear and runs a hair slow.
TDOLZ faults:
Introduction is a minute short
No Quarter is missing 5 minutes
Missing 10 seconds of tape after Kashmir
Guitar Solo starts 5 seconds late
Missing almost 4 minutes of tape after Stairway To Heaven
Missing 2 minutes of tape after the show

Electric Magic faults:
Battle of Evermore has a brief tape problem
Moby Dick has a digital glitch towards the end

5-26-77, audience
Landover: One Nation Dancing Groove (Electric Magic), Maryland Deluxe: Thunderous Break (TDOLZ), & Whole Lotta Landover (Immigrant)
Electric Magic has more tape before and after the show than the other two titles. It is the only one running at the proper speed and has far fewer cuts between songs.
All titles share the strange tape arrangement between Song Remains the Same and Sick Again.
TDOLZ has a digital glitch in Moby Dick and Immigrant's is missing 19 minutes. Both of these titles are missing one minute of tape after Stairway to Heaven.

5-26-77, soundboard & audience mix
Bringing Down the House (Eelgrass & Empress Valley)
Empress Valley was the first label to release this soundboard. The audience tape has been used to fill in the few gaps.
Eelgrass's title is a perfect copy of Empress Valley.

5-28-77, audience
Landover: Crossfire Hurricane (Electric Magic), Maryland Deluxe: Tightest & Loosest (TDOLZ), & Powhatan Confederacy (Empress Valley)
Empress Valley debuts the soundboard and uses about 11 minutes of audience tape to fill gaps.
Electric Magic and TDOLZ are strictly from the audience tape. EMC is much more complete, better sounding, and has more tape between songs than TDOLZ.
TDOLZ faults:
No Quarter is missing 10 seconds
Ten Years Gone has tape problems
Going To California is missing 6 seconds
Moby Dick is missing almost 25 minutes
Guitar Solo is missing 35 seconds
Missing 2 minutes of tape after the show
Initially, Electric Magic's disc three was issued with a terrible tape problem during Achilles Last Stand, lasting 10 seconds. A corrected disc was quickly pressed and distributed but not everyone received it. (Both discs share the same matrix#. The original disc time is 76:33 and the replacement disc is 76:23.) Also, the title has it's show date and track list switched with the following night's title.

5-28-77, soundboard & audience mix
Powhatan Confederacy (Empress Valley) & Dragon Slayers (Eelgrass)
Empress Valley was the first label to release this soundboard. The audience tape has been used to fill in the few gaps.
Eelgrass's title is copied from Empress Valley. HOWEVER, they didn't do it properly (for the first time). The first two cds are not as loud as Empress, while the third cd is identical to Empress. Also, Eelgrass's Ten Years Gone has a glitch early in the song that isn't found on Empress. UPDATED: Eelgrass issued a replacement disc for cd2. The glitch in Ten Years Gone was fixed but the disc's sound level remained unchanged from the original issues. [The replacement disc's matrix number is "EGL-20216-2" (having two hyphens) and the original bad disc's matrix number is "EGL 20216-2" (having one hyphen).]

5-30-77
Destroyer III (Tarantura), Landover: Dragon Slayer (Electric Magic), Maryland Deluxe: Running On Pure Heart and Soul (TDOLZ), & Supreme Destroyers III (Empress Valley )
TDOLZ is missing most of the introduction. Tarantura and TDOLZ are missing almost 2 minutes of tape after the show. EMC is missing almost 2 seconds at the cut during No Quarter.
Electric Magic has a complete Moby Dick. An extra 5 minutes of tape are used, possibly from an alternate tape. As with all of the titles from this show, the first song may be from an alternate tape. Also, the EMC title has it's show date and track list switched with the previous night's title.
Empress Valley is technically the most complete title. It's sound is slightly louder than EMC's.
Electric Magic and Empress Valley are much more complete and better sounding than the other titles.

6-3-77, sources 1 & 2
Fucking TY (Tattytura), Killer Missile (Flagge), Polished Performances 1977 (POT), Strange Tales From the Road (8cd, no label), & Unbooted (Tarantura)
Strange Tales comes from a different source than the others. The recording is much more distant and Nobody's Fault is not complete.
Flagge and Tattytura have very similar, excellent sound. Tattytura has a less tape before the show but has a little more afterwards. It is cut after Sick Again, missing 12 seconds of tape.
Tarantura and POT don't sound quite as good as Flagge and Tattytura but have much more tape after Nobody's Fault But Mine.

6-7-77, sources 1 & 2
DX I ~ X (Mad Dogs) & Back To the Garden (TDOLZ)
Mad Dogs releases the first source. TDOLZ is primarily from the second source, but relies on the first tape to complete the encore.

6-10-77, sources 1 & 2
Riot In Thunderstorm (Electric Magic) & Rock 'n' Roll Circus (TDOLZ)
TDOLZ is the original source. EMC is predominately the first source too, but uses a second to fill in some gaps and "other" places.
EMC starts out by overlapping the second source over the first one. Although this extends the introduction by about ten seconds, it doesn't add any value since nothing other than the taper and friends can be heard during that time. The second source is next used early in Sick Again, evidently for no other reason than to give a different perspective on hearing the firecracker.
TDOLZ has a cut followed by a 21 second repeat after Since I've Been Loving You. EMC doesn't have this problem.
EMC splices in the second source after No Quarter, overlapping the first source. Both titles are cut after Battle of Evermore, and are followed by an 82 second repeat. EMC uses the second source for all of Black Country Woman, which provides 12 seconds of the beginning not found on TDOLZ. EMC's second source is used to complete the gap in source one between Moby Dick and Heartbreaker. In the process, the sources overlap for awhile.
On source one's Heartbreaker, there's a very minor (very minor) drop before the second minute. EMC splices in the other source to avoid the minor drop, but the transition of tapes makes the segment sound worse. Another firecracker is spliced in during the guitar solo, again evidently for no other reason than to give a different perspective on hearing the explosion. The last few splices by EMC actually improve the show as a whole. It adds some tape after Stairway To Heaven, improves the sound during a firecracker in Rock and Roll, completes that song, and adds almost 40 seconds after the show.
Overall EMC's splices add almost 2.5 minutes of music and a minute of tape between songs, but many are just pointless. The spliced introduction could possibly exist only to mislead.
TDOLZ's tape is just slightly more amplified than EMC's. Surprisingly, EMC didn't issue this title with their common "metallic" sound.

6-11-77 soundboard
Coast To Coast (Celebration), For Badgeholders Only (Balboa), Polished Performances 1977 (POT), Silver Coated Rails (Condor/Toasted), & Unbooted (Tarantura)
Celebration's title seems to be one generation better than the other titles.
Balboa and Tarantura miss the first second or two of No Quarter. Tarantura is also missing the last 49 seconds of the already incomplete Battle of Evermore. It has too much background noise on the tape.
Silver Coated Rails is missing 25 minutes of No Quarter. It's Battle of Evermore is also too short, missing the last 14 seconds. The proper running order is not preserved.
POT's title is just as complete as Coast To Coast.

6-14-77
Over the Hills and Far Away (Tarantura) & Strange Tales From the Road (8cd no label)
Tarantura relied on this tape to complete their incomplete tape for June 22nd 1977. Their intentions were not to offer this date in full and is missing a large amount of time.
Strange Tales was evidently copied from the vinyl set of the same name. It runs a little fast and ends with Kashmir.

6-19-77
California Mystery Train (Blimp), Californian Mystery Train (SIRA), Jimmy PY (Akashic), Mystery Train (Badgeholders), San Diego Mystery Train (Wendy)
Blimp, Akashic, and Wendy miss one of Plant's comments after Kashmir. Blimp and Akashic are missing about 30 seconds of tape after Stairway. Akashic has a few more seconds before and after the show than the other titles.
Wendy has a cut/repeat just before the 20 minute mark during No Quarter and it has a slight cut at the end of Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp - these are not present on any other titles.
SIRA runs a tiny bit faster than the other titles. Akashic and Badgholders sound has been amplified a little bit. Wendy's sound has been amplified too much. Tape generations seem similar - equalization seems to be the only difference in sound.

6-21-77, source 1
Absence/Listen To This Eddie (Tarantura2000), Yuzuki/Listen To This Eddie (Tarantura2000), Listen To This Eddie (Jelly Roll Remaster Version, SIRA Parts 1-3, SIRA Master Series, TDOLZ, & Tarantura2000), & Out On the Tiles (Tarantura 1994 & 1996 issues)
These are completely from the famous "Eddie" tape source only, which doesn't contain a complete Ten Years Gone. TDOLZ's Ten Years Gone is virtually the complete version but of course still cut - it is missing three seconds of the Eddie tape. For some reason, the sound quality drops down noticeably after Kashmir but recovers later before the next disc. Jelly Roll's Remaster version was their first release of this show. It's Ten Years Gone is cut too big like SIRA and the old Taranturas, missing about 77 seconds too much of the famous Eddie tape.
Speed is the real difference between the two SIRA's. The original issue runs faster. The cuts differ slightly. SIRA's sound is perfect all the way through but it's Ten Years Gone is almost 77 seconds shorter than it should be. The music and background noise are a little louder than some of the other titles. It is most likely due to equalization.
Tarantura's Out On the Tiles are both exactly the same discs. Ten Years Gone is missing 77 seconds too much. Fifteen seconds of audience cheer have been pasted between the guitar solo and Achilles Last Stand. The tape after the show was mostly copied from earlier in the show. The sound is very nice, like SIRA. Again, it may be completely due to equalizing and boosting the tape.
Absence has the most tape between songs of all the single source titles. It's Ten Years Gone is cut, missing only three seconds too much. For the first time on cd, Black Country Woman is missing the beginning 6 seconds. Another 3 seconds of music is missing too - this time in the Jimmy's guitar solo. The sound on this title has been way, way over-worked. Simply said, it is just too loud. The background noise is far too much to bear.

Two consecutive "Eddie" tape releases to cd were made by Tarantura2000. Their first version "Absence" was billed to be the newest, latest and greatest, best sounding most complete…It was proved to be wrong, and was actually the least musically complete version of Eddie since the two SIRA's and the original Tarantura issue (later reissued).
Now, with Tarantura2000's latest "Listen To This, Eddie" ("Yuzuki series), they specifically state in the liner notes: "Tarantura and Cool MixMan present to you the Original Master Recording in its most complete and unedited state. The recording has been faithfully mastered to display…" (Before getting to those statements, the author of the liner notes considered the SIRA Master Series to be best, "until now." What about their "Absence?")
To no surprise, this "Yuzuki" version is not from the master. It is not the most complete version (from the famous "Eddie" tape). It is not unedited. It has not been faithfully mastered. IT IS IN FACT, THE MOST HIGHLY CUT/EDITED VERSION EVER.
There are multiple cut and repeats of tape before and after the show, and more between songs. This effort of "faking tape" is for you to believe that there's "more tape," so it must be more complete. The title is missing Robert's "I've started to cook" sentence, which can be found on their previous release. Three seconds of tape are missing from Ten Years Gone (section is present on Absence) and more is missing after the song. Black Country Woman is complete this time after failing on Absence. The guitar solo wasn't corrected this time from Absence's failure, so again, 3 seconds of music is missing. There's a cut in the beginning of Achilles Last Stand, when Jimmy starts in. This marks an enormous change in sound, and is very loud and unnatural.
Considering Tarantura2000's history of over-tweaking (sabotaging) the sound, they were light handed this time. You must pay close attention to hear the hints of their equalizing. The music is louder than other titles and the background has been suppressed/tweaked. No improvement in sound.
It would be completely unprofessional for bootledz not to inform readers that Tarantura2000 is almost always JUNK. Yuzuki Eddie is completely fraudulent (intent to deceive and other elements) in their claims and of course isn't the only one. Please, please do not rush to buy the latest Tara2000 title until you get a review from a trusted source. Don't rely on reviews and comments issued before the title is released - those are usually biased and misinformed to generate sales.

6-21-77, sources 1 & 2
Listen To This Eddie (Akashic, Empress Valley's three different individual issues and FBO Box set issue, Jelly Roll Definitive Complete Version, Scorpio, & Wendy Record's three different issues)
Musically speaking, these mixes represent the complete show. They rely on the famous Eddie tape and fill Ten Years Gone's gap with an alternate tape.
Jelly Roll's Definitive Complete Version is different from their first release. JR is further missing the "I've started to cook" sentence and uses all but three seconds of the famous Eddie tape for Ten Years Gone. It and Empress Valley's first Eddie (jewel cased) make edits at some cuts, adding in extra audience noise and sometimes repeating sections.
Wendy contains all previously known tape between songs. Additionally, it introduces almost 30 seconds of the famous tape never found on any previous cd releases, but does use one cut/repeat (after Since). Wendy's sleeved issue reissues the cds used in their first edition (jewel cased).
Wendy's third issue of this title is different from the prior issues. It's still missing too much of Ten Years Gone from the famous tape. They've spliced in extra tape after Since, Kashmir, and after the show that does not belong.
Akashic's Eddie is missing four seconds too much of Ten Years Gone. All commentary between songs is present.
Scorpio's title is missing some of the original tape after Since, having other tape inserted. The tape that follows the cut immediately after Kashmir is different from other titles. This section could be the original tape/sequence, but it's still a bit of a mystery. Five seconds of the Eddie tape are displaced by source two during Ten Years Gone.
Anyway, these five titles are all missing 3-4 seconds too much of Ten Years Gone from the famous Eddie tape.

Empress Valley's second and third issues of Eddie (both labeled "New Improved") are the longest versions of the famous tape. They contain three more seconds of Ten Years Gone (when splicing back to famous tape) that's never been available to silver disc. They also contain the 30 seconds of tape that had just recently only been found on the Wendy title. (They did use a six second cut/repeat after Stairway.)
Empress Valley's fourth issue is found in the "For Badge Holders Only" box set, with the usual title. Although there are four very minor improvements during the last hour of the show, the splice in Ten Years Gone is happens too early, missing almost three seconds of the famous tape. It's sound is identical to the second and third issues by this label.
Akashic's title has been amplified louder than any of these other mixed source titles. Empress Valley's three releases are not quite as loud as Akashic. Wendy's title is the least loud of the five. The differences in sound are most likely due to different eq's and nothing else.
Overall, EV's second Eddie does a better job with the Eddie tape and mixing in the other tape.
(EV's second Eddie was issued in a sleeve with an obi. A promotional "Christmas" version was released simultaneously, using the same discs. The difference with the promo version is the exclusion of the obi and a different front picture, adorned with holly and Christmas lights. EV's third version is sleeved, without an obi, and uses a different front picture. The discs are different. They have different matrix numbers, disc times, and some different cue stops. However, it is the same exact audio used in the prior release.)

6-22-77, sources 1 & 2
One Day After Eddie (Immigrant), Over the Hills and Far Away (Tarantura), Thirty Years Gone (Empress Valley from FBO Box set), & Time Traveler (TDOLZ, 4cd)
Tarantura's title only features the last 2/3's of the show.
Immigrant's Ten Years Gone is noted as being from the 25th. The title is missing several seconds of the introduction and No Quarter is missing five minutes.
TDOLZ's Ten Years Gone is from the 21st (different source than the famous eddie tape), but makes no mention of mixing nights. Their title was spread across an extra disc.
Empress Valley's title mixes in a second source in three spots. The end of Since I've Been Loving You contains the first splice, the second comes after the song (lasting into the third minute of No Quarter), and finally for Ten Years Gone (previously not available). The final track of the original third disc is full of serious digital errors. Replacement disc "EVSD-470B" corrects the problem. They've chosen to amplify the tape considerably.

6-23-77
Brothers In Pinball (Tarantura2000), For Badgeholders Only (ARMS, Balboa, Cobra, Continental Sounds, Empress Valley from FBO Box set, RockWrok, Scorpio, Tarantura2000, TDOLZ, & Wendy Records), & Good Night Moon Light (Tarantura)
A total of three different sources have surfaced from this legendary performance.
The first source is found on Continental Sounds, copied from worn vinyl.
The second is found on Cobra and TDOLZ. It is also found on Balboa, but is missing the first four songs.
The third source is so far only available from No Quarter through Moby Dick. It can be found on ARMS and Tarantura.
For the second source, there are many drops. They are easily identifiable on Balboa. TDOLZ and Cobra both edited the drops. Cobra did not make careful edits, removing 19 seconds of music. TDOLZ is a little louder than Cobra and much louder than Balboa. It may possibly be from a better generation of tape. Cobra seems to have slightly better sound than Balboa in most places, but is mostly likely due to amplifying. Trampled Underfoot is not from the same generation of tape as the rest of the show (Cobra).
For the third source, the only difference in sound is that Tarantura seems to be slightly better balanced.
Rockwrok is a mix between the 6-21-77 show and the second source for Badgeholders. The cover claims to be the full performance for June 23rd 1977.
Tarantura2000 has released a two source mix (possibly three - "Since's" splice isn't source one and source three's Since isn't out on cd yet). It's foundation is the second source and relies on source one to complete the missing pieces and to avoid the few choppy sections. It's splices are extremely smooth. The sound isn't the typical type from this label. Of course it's been tampered, but is nearly without complaint. During cymbals and higher guitar notes is when the sound seems to be a touch strange, but still minor. The volume does fluctuate slightly during songs occasionally and more frequently between songs. Brothers In Pinball is the fifth packaging option for the same discs. The discs have a different appearance than the other T2K's, but they are from the same production run.
Wendy's title is also a mix of sources, using the second tape as it's foundation.
Scorpio's title is another mix, using source two as the primary tape. Many of the splices are so brief that it's not easy to determine (or worthwhile) the other sources used. The splice during Moby uses source one, which is probably used for all prior splicing. The splice after Achilles and Stairway could possibly be source one or three, but these sections have not been made available on cd, so there's no control for comparison.
Empress Valley's title is also a mix of sources, using the second tape as it's foundation. The first few notes of Since I've Been Loving You are a bit bizarre and unnatural sounding. (This particular type of sound is occurring with some regularity in the past couple of years.) The right channel drops down significantly after Kashmir and stays down during the first third of Trampled Underfoot. This problem isn't found on other releases.
For a "view" of the sources used on most of these releases, please refer to this table. To keep the table simple, Tarantura2000 and Wendy's title has been excluded to avoid detailing the many brief deviations from source two.

6-25-77
Annual Meeting (Tarantura), Badge Holders Annual Meeting! (Empress Valley from FBO Box set), Badgeholders Weekend (Badgeholders), Bursting Night (TDOLZ), Delirium Treatment (Tarantura2000), Rip It Up (SIRA), Saturday Night's Alright (Wendy Records), Saturday Night Special (Led Note), & Thank God It's Saturday Night (Scorpio)
Rip It Up plays way too fast. The encores play ever faster. It has less tape before and after the show than the other titles.
TDOLZ's sound seems flat and lacks bottom end frequencies. It is likely from an at least slightly higher generation of tape than the other titles.
Tarantura has a couple less cuts than the others. At the cuts they share, Tarantura usually adds in some extra tape. It's Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp and Kashmir has a total of 3 tape speed fluctuations not found on the other titles. It sounds very good, featuring more of the lower frequencies than the other releases.
Tarantura2000 has the usual cuts, but has edited them all. Almost all feature tape added in and removal of original tape at the same time. Two cuts/problems are improved here, but are more likely due to editing. Two problems typically found on other titles are not present here, such as the little glitch/drop in Song Remains the Same, and the brief tape static during White Summer. (Doesn't mean it's from a lower generation, just a different generation of a different run.) The sound has been amplified, increasing the loudness of the music and the background noise.
Led Note and Wendy Records have virtually identical content - both missing about 16 seconds of tape between songs. Wendy doesn't have the drop in Song Remains the same. Both sound excellent.
Badgeholder's title has most of the usual cuts but they are sometimes slightly different in tape content. It doesn't have the problem in Song Remains the Same or in White Summer. It does have a tiny digital glitch in the middle of Moby Dick that isn't found on the other titles. Overall it is pretty much identical to Led Note and Wendy in content. Badgeholder's sound has been amplified quite a bit.
Scorpio repeats a section of tape from after Nobody's Fault in FOUR subsequent places. These four repeats are placed in areas of cuts to "fake tape" or extend the length of time between the end of a song and when Robert speaks. There are two very brief instances of some unnatural sounds too. If they would have left the tape alone, it would have likely been the best version. Sound isn't amplified excessively.
Empress Valley's title has a significantly longer introduction and seems to have the most available tape following Stairway. However, this title too has instances of the strange/unnatural sounds in spots (after Since and the first few notes of the guitar solo). The section of audio following Moby and Achilles are full of what sounds like tiny dropouts that are not found on any other releases. It's sound hasn't been amplified excessively.

6-26-77
It'll Be Me (TDOLZ), Sundazed (SIRA), That's All Right Mama (Empress Valley from FBO Box set), & That's Alright (Tarantura)
Tarantura and SIRA use a single source. Tarantura has a few seconds more of the original source over TDOLZ for SRTS. However, it misses a few seconds at other cuts. SIRA runs a little faster than TDOLZ. Tarantura and SIRA are a little louder than TDOLZ, due to equalization.
TDOLZ uses a second source to complete the beginning of the other tape. The opening part of the tape is very rough and then clears up during Sick Again.
Empress Valley uses the same second source as TDOLZ to complete the show. It is used several times, most notably for the Song Remains the Same and Moby Dick. During the splices, it often displaces much too much of source one. It's sound has been amplified some.

6-27-77
Coherence (Watchtower, 1st & 2nd issues), Deep Striker (Empress Valley, 4cd), Farewell To L.A. (Rabbit Records), Full Imperial Collapse (Wendy Records), Just Can't Be Satisfied (Empress Valley from FBO Box set), The Legendary End (SIRA), The Legend of the End (Tarantura, 4cd), & Sunset (TDOLZ, 4cd)
Tarantura, TDOLZ, and Empress Valley have all unnecessarily spread their titles across four cds.
TDOLZ's tape quality drops briefly after Since I've Been Loving You and then drops down to stay after Achilles Last Stand.
Watchtower's original issue of Coherence only has two problems. The first is a digital glitch about 16 minutes into the guitar solo and the other is a tiny drop/cut in the first minute of Whole Lotta Love. The second issue uses the same artwork and first two discs. However, the third disc has been corrected and no longer has the two glitches found on the original issue. (The new third disc is 72:44 in length while the original disc is 72:46.)
EV isn't with out some minor problems. The other older titles also have some minor problem, not limited to missing tape between songs.
Wendy has the usual cuts and minor edits (differ from contents of edits on other titles). The gap during Achilles Last Stand is filled with the Badgeholder's show. In the process, they cut out six seconds of tape from the 27th. The use of the other shows is not noted on the title.
Empress Valley and Watchtower are highly identical, possessing fewer cuts and more consistent tape quality than the others. Their music and background noise are slightly louder than Tarantura, SIRA, TDOLZ, and Rabbit. EV has pushed the higher frequencies a touch too much, while Watchtower has them toned down a little.
Empress Valley's second release of this show is "Just Can't Be Satisfied." They kindly decided not to spread it across a fourth disc this time. It seems to contain a splice to an new source just after Bron for several seconds. It also offers an extra few seconds of the first source, not available elsewhere. The last few notes of Trampled are strange and unnatural sounding. (This theme of strange sounds is evident throughout the FBO Box set.) Achilles has degraded sound starting from about thirty seconds before the cut, ending with the cut. This has never been a problem on other titles. Shortly after the cut, another unusual sound appears. It's sound is quite similar to most releases.

7-17-77 full soundboard/soundtrack
Jupiter and Saturn (Tarantura2000), Kingdom Come (Watchtower), Return of the Dragon (Apple), & Year of the Dragon (Empress Valley, 4cd)
EV is the most complete and natural sounding release. They unnecessarily spread the tape over an extra disc. There are balance problems before and during the start of the show. EV features the eight minutes of tape between Stairway and Whole Lotta Love.
Apple is extremely poor sounding. It has a terrible echo as if it was recorded inside a metal can and is just overloaded. There are balance problems before and during the start of the show. There are more than 16 unnecessary cuts, eliminating almost 15 minutes of tape. Battle of Evermore has big tape problem and 1:14 is missing from the end of Achilles, where an audience tape is used. Most of the queue stops are at the end of the songs, which is very annoying - similar to some old Tarantura titles.
Watchtower's release is the shortest of these 4 titles. There are balance problems before and during the start of the show. It is missing over 40 minutes of tape - almost half of No Quarter and all of the guitar solo. The sound is good and seems to not be tampered. This leaves is a little flat compared to EV.
Tarantura2000 made some very heavy sound modifications (not necessarily 100%) including a fair bit of echo. The partial processing of sound has left some distinct changes in sound that make it seem to be cut in a dozen places. These points are usually at the beginning and/or end of songs. No balance problems in the beginning of the show on this title.

7-17-77 old soundboard/soundtrack fragment
Coast To Coast (Celebration), Delirious Daze (Equinox), Shake For Me Baby (Missing Link), & Unbooted (Tarantura)
Celebration is the latest and most complete release of this soundboard fragment. It includes Achilles Last Stand and all of Stairway to Heaven. It even has about 3.5 minutes more tape after Stair.
Equinox was released using a combination of an audience tape and some of the soundboard. The more complete sb was not available to them at the time of pressing. Furthermore, they elected to use 20 seconds less of the available sb for Stairway To Heaven.
Missing Link and Equinox have more tape after the show than the other two titles.
Tarantura has more bass while the others sound a little flat.

7-17-77 audience sources
Delirious Daze (Equinox) & Kingdom of Zep (SIRA)
SIRA uses the first tape source.
Equinox uses a combination of a new audience tape and some of the soundboard.

7-23-77 sources 1 & 2
Confusion (no label) & It's Been Great (IQ)
IQ uses the first tape source.

7-24-77 sources 1 & 2
Fighting Finish (SIRA), Final Ever In the States (Missing Link), Push! Push! (IQ), & Seventh Heaven (Immigrant)
Missing Link's title is the only one from a different tape. It is much more complete and almost as good sounding as the other tape.
Immigrant moves Trampled Underfoot to play after Kashmir, but lists it as playing before White Summer.
SIRA is missing the short introduction and the "Hi Bob" comment. Immigrant is missing close to 20 seconds of tape. The absence is at the familiar cuts and only about 5 seconds of music is missing overall.
The sound is very similar between all titles with the common source, but the speed is not. IQ runs much closer to actual time while SIRA and Immigrant run about 3.5% faster.

7-23-79
79 (Antrabata), Copenhagen Warm-Ups (TDOLZ, Empress Valley, LSD-both issues, Tarantura, and the issue with green/white artwork - no label), & Melancholy Danish Pageboys Get It On (Cobra)
The tapes used for these titles are all from the same bootleg tape. However, they all differ slightly from each other.
TDOLZ and EV have the most complete introduction. Antrabata's is the least complete.
The no-label title has digital interference during the last half of Hot Dog, lasting through the first minute of Rain Song.
Cobra, TDOLZ, and EV are the only titles to feature a complete Kashmir. The rest are missing the last 2 seconds.
79, both LSD, and the no-label title share the distinction of being pissed on by "Rock Studios, ACS" after the performance.
LSD's two releases are very similar but not identical. The re-release has a cut during Rain Song but it's sound seems to be equalized a little better, being a little more balanced in places too.
Empress Valley's and TDOLZ are similar in completeness and having louder sound levels. (EV's tape has been amplified the most.)
With the exception of varying sound levels and Tarantura being a little bass heavy and unbalanced, these titles are similar in sound quality.

7-24-79
79 (Antrabata) & Copenhagen Warm-Ups (TDOLZ, Empress Valley, LSD-both issues, Tarantura, and the issue with green/white artwork - no label)
The tapes used for these titles are all from the same bootleg tape. However, they all differ slightly from each other.
TDOLZ and Antrabata are the only titles that don't have a strange reverb affect, lasting 20 seconds during the first half of the introduction. However, the Antrabata is missing the first half of the introduction anyway.
All of the titles are cut differently before No Quarter. Only Tarantura seems to have all of Robert's commentary. All titles are cut after Rain Song, but for some unknown reason, TDOLZ repeats a 1 second section 5 times.
TDOLZ is the only title that doesn't have a slight cut just before Kashmir. TDOLZ and Antrabata are the only titles to offer a complete Kashmir. The others are missing the last 2 seconds. Additionally, TDOLZ has an extra 35 seconds of tape after Achilles Last Stand and 25 seconds more tape after Stairway To Heaven.
LSD's two releases are very similar but not identical. The original has a digital glitch during Over the Hills and Far Away. The re-release seems to be equalized a little better, being a little more balanced in places too.
Empress Valley's title is most similar to TDOLZ in song completeness and sound. However, it is missing 20 seconds of tape after Achilles Last Stand and 14 seconds after Stairway To Heaven. EV has about a dozen seconds of tape more after the show than the other titles. EV's tape has been amplified a touch more than the others.
TDOLZ is the only title not to have the strange reverb to return for the tape remaining after the performance.
These titles are mostly similar in sound.

8-4-79 soundboard
Blind Date (Empress Valley), Lost Masters Knebworth `79 (Celebration 1cd - original issue and remaster), You'll Never Walk Alone (Tarantura 2000, 3cd), & Welcome To the 1979 Knebworth Festival (Watchtower box & jewel editions)
On Celebration's original issue, there is an awful sound in the background similar to the Tara2000 release of the 11th. It is on the remaster too. The frequencies on the remaster are not quite as high. That difference is only minor. Both titles sound equally terrible.
Tarantura 2000 has released this show, unbelievably without their weird trademark sounds in the background. A very bizarre choice for them since Celebration already paved the way for this date.
Tarantura's sound is better than Celebration and as mentioned (it is lacking the weird sound found on Celebration) BUT is still a very poor quality soundboard. This release is far more complete. The que stops are poorly placed, similar to old Tarantura titles.
Empress Valley and Watchtower are very similar. They both rely on the familiar audience tape to complete gaps after Rain Song and during Whole Lotta Love. The first half of the introduction is also from an audience tape, but may or may not be from familiar one. EV's intro is just a few seconds shorter than WT's. EV used a less complete soundboard tape for WLL. It uses 49 seconds of audience tape where WT uses soundboard tape. After WLL, WT has more time that EV and more of that time is soundboard. EV and WT have four to four and a half more minutes of WLL soundboard.
Overall, Watchtower has the most soundboard tape. It uses a little more than four minutes of audience tape to complete the whole show. It's sound is very similar to Empress Valley. They are both much better sounding than Tarantura 2000, but they still lack a dynamic range of sonics. Watchtower has a couple of instances of very minor (faint) static spots.
Watchtower's jewel cased edition re-releases the cds found in the box set.

8-4-79 audience
79 (Antrabata), Knebworth (Flying Disc), Knebworth (Tarantura), & Knebworth First Day (Led Note)
Much time between songs has been removed on the FD title. Overall, 3.5 minutes are missing.
Led Note has more tape before and after the show than the other titles. It has 3 tape drags, 2 of which are during songs. Overall, it is missing 2.25 minutes of tape from between songs.
79's Hot Dog as a tape problem not found on the other titles.
Antrabata, Flying Disc, and Led Note's titles are similar in sound quality. The Tarantura is a good bit louder than the others and is likely one generation closer to the master.

8-11-79 soundboard/video soundtrack
Blind Date (Empress Valley), Dinosaurs In the Park (TDOLZ, 3cd), Final Cut (Celebration, 3cd), Knebworth Festival (Tarantura 2000, 2cd), Knebworth Festival 1979 (Jelly Roll), Robert's Last Stand (no label, 2cd), & Welcome To the 1979 Knebworth Festival (Watchtower box & jewel editions)
TDOLZ is sourced from a poor generation of the video.
Celebration uses all of the soundboard available and then uses the audience to complete White Summer and Robert's commentary closing the show. There are a small handful of "clicks" throughout the title. The clicks are not too noticeable and do not really compromise the title.
Robert's Last Stand is similar to CDM . It uses the same amount of soundboard and audience. There are also "clicks" on this title too. No Quarter has been moved out of sequence to place the show on 2 cds. Sound is almost identical to Celebration.
The Tarantura 2000 title is strictly from the soundboard. The music does sound great and is much louder than Celebration's title. HOWEVER, just like their "Ayers Rock," they tweaked the sound way, way too much. Again, the audience now sounds like a bunch of birds. It is easily heard between songs and can be heard during brief quite spots in songs. Furthermore, the PA problems that plague this show and mark it's well known signature in the recordings, have been almost entirely removed. A few were equalized out while others were totally chopped from the tape, even during music.
Jelly Roll's release is almost identical to Tarantura 2000. Like Tarantura, the PA problems have been removed after Black Dog and No Quarter entirely. The ones during and just after Over the Hills and Far Away have been modified, but a little differently than Tartantura's. Jelly Roll is even louder than Tarantura. The sound seems overblown in a few places, like as the first song ends and in other places.
Tarantura and Jelly Roll don't have the minor handful of clicks like Celebration but they do both have a small static problem during Whole Lotta Love.
Empress Valley and Watchtower are very similar. Neither use any audience sources since the soundboard/video tape used is complete. EV suppresses the first big PA problem during Over the Hills and Far Away. Both titles have a tiny drop during Trampled Underfoot. EV may be missing a few seconds of taped shortly after Rock and Roll.
Watchtower's title seems to be a little louder and may have a touch more bass than Empress Valley, but probably wouldn't be due to a tape generation difference. Watchtower has a few instances of very minor (faint) static spots. Neither WT or EV have near the amount of bass found on Celebration's Final Cut and Robert's Last Stand.
Watchtower's jewel cased edition re-releases the cds found in the box set.

8-11-79 audience, sources 1 & 2
79 (Antrabata, 2cd), In the Field (Reel Masters), Knebworth (Tarantura, 3cd), Knebworth - November 11, 1979 (TNT Studios)
The Reel Masters title is from the second tape source. The other titles are from the first.
Tarantura and TNT are missing most of the introduction and are missing a short sentence after Since I've Been Loving You.
All titles have a sound change a few minutes into White Summer. Tarantura's Black Mountain Side has a cut. This title is also missing tape after Achilles Last Stand, Stairway To Heaven, and after Communication Breakdown cuts out while Robert is still talking.
Antrabata has a cut between Black Mountain Side and Kashmir. After Kashmir, the guitar solo has a digital glitch and here is a cut with repeat after In the Evening. This title has the most tape after the show.
TNT's White Summer is split across both discs to keep from making a third disc. It is missing tape after Achilles Last Stand and Stairway To Heaven.
The Tarantura is a good bit louder than Antrabata and may likely be one generation closer to the master. TNT is also louder than Antrabata but so is it's background noise.
The differences between these titles are quite minor.

6-17-80
Dinosaurs Rule (Flying Disc), Dortmund (Tarantura), Return of the Auschwitz (Neptune), & Tour Over Dortmund 1980 (Wendy Records)
Flying Disc is missing the last few seconds of Trampled and the title runs too fast.
Neptune's Trampled is complete. The title runs slow and doesn't sound nearly as clear as Flying Disc.
Tarantura's Dortmund runs at the correct speed, has excellent sound quality the whole way through, and has more tape after the show than Flying Disc and Neptune. However, it has an inexcusable cut in Train, losing 4 seconds.
Wendy's title has all known soundboard tape, does not fade at the cuts during songs, runs at the proper speed, and has excellent sound.

6-18-80
Close Shave Parts 1&2 (Flying Disc), Cologne (Tarantura2000), Cologne 1980 (TDOLZ & Flagge), & Pure Nostalgia (Neptune)
Flying Disc runs fast. Neptune has poor sound and may run a hair slow.
TDOLZ runs at the proper speed, has better sound than Neptune and Flying Disc, but uses the audience tape to fill in the missing parts from the soundboard on Rain and Stairway. The audience tape is also used for half a minute after Stairway, where the soundboard is available.
Flagge's title is evidently from a lower generation tape than the others. It's sound is much clearer and louder.
Tarantura2000's primary tape is the soundboard. It unnecessarily overlays the audience tape on top of the soundboard tape between songs. A pointless release.
Flying Disc, Neptune, and Flagge contain only the soundboard, which isn't the complete show.

6-20-80, soundboard
Belgian Triple (Empress Valley), Brussels Affair (Swinging Pig, 1cd), Brussels 1980 (Tarantura, 2cd), Chien Noir (Antrabata), Raid Over Brussels (Electric Magic)
Swingin' Pig is far from being complete. It has many cuts between songs to edit out talk. It is also missing the beginning of Hot Dog and the last 2.5 minutes of Whole Lotta Love.
Antrabata has more tape before Train and has 5 less cuts between songs. Overall, it is about 8.5 minutes longer due to more music and talk between songs.
Tarantura's tape is identical to the Antrabata as far as content and cuts but it's sound is much louder.
Electric Magic's title doesn't have a fade out as Rain is cut short. It allows the final note to be heard easier. This title runs a tiny bit slower than the others. It's sound is a just a tiny bit louder than Tarantura's.
Empress Valley's title uses audience source tape one to fill in the gaps of the soundboard. It isn't amplified as much as Tarantura's.

6-20-80, audience
Brussels Audience (Tarantura2000) & Raid Over Brussels (TCOLZ)
Tarantura2000 elected to splice in the second audience source to cover two barely noticeable tape problems. TCOLZ elected to splice out once in a similar fashion, but in a different spot. Tarantura2000 made some strange adjustment to the unbalanced tape during Rock and Roll, making it sound worse. These titles are otherwise very similar in content and sound.

6-21-80
Live In Rotterdam (Swinging Pig) & Rotterdum (Tarantura)
Swinging Pig isn't complete since it's missing White Summer. Here, Rain Song is complete and sounds like it may possibly be from a different night altogether.
Tarantura contains the complete soundboard tape, which of course is not the complete show. The beginning of Rain, evidently, is not available from the board.

6-23-80
Bremen (Tarantura & Tarantura2000), Chein Noir (Antrabata), & Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (Wendy Records)
Antrabata is missing 75 seconds of tape after Rock and Roll, but is otherwise virtually identical to Tarantura.
Wendy uses the 7/2/80 soundboard to complete Trampled Underfoot. Since I've Been Loving You has a strange error early in the song that's not found on the other releases. The 6/21/80 soundboard is used to complete Stairway To Heaven. The use of these other shows is not noted on the title.
Tarantura2000's title is the first title to use the audience tape to fill the gaps in the soundboard.

6-24-80
Gracias (Antrabata), Hannover (Tarantura & Tarantura2000), Messehalle Echos (Flying Disc), & Last Tour (FSS)
Flying Disc has too many cue stops and runs fast. Trampled of course is cut but is missing 19 seconds of tape. Since I've Been Loving You unexplainably has a cut, missing 22 seconds.
The Tarantura title runs at the proper speed. However, it is missing 15 seconds of tape from Trampled. Since I've Been Loving You is not cut.
Tarantura2000 is missing 19 seconds of tape from Trampled. Since I've Been Loving You is not cut.
FSS runs at the correct speed, has 15-19 seconds more of Trampled in the area of the cut, and Since I've Been Loving you is complete.
Antrabata's tape is identical to FSS.
All titles are highly similar in sound.

6-26-80
Deutchland Uber Alles (TDOLZ), Goodnight Vienna (Electric Magic), &Vienna (Tarantura)
TDOLZ runs a little too fast, has some digital interference during the announcement, and has a few extra cuts between songs. TDOLZ and Tarantura have similar sound.
Electric Magic has extra cuts too and a couple of problems not found on other titles. It is also missing the most tape. It's music is louder than the other releases but the background noise has been suppressed - no gen difference. There are hints of that familiar "metallic sound" that this label uses almost on a regular basis. This is certainly the worst release of this show yet.

6-27-80
Air Raids Over Germany (Tecumseh), Blitzkrieg Over Europe (Tarantura), Fly Over Nuremburg (TDOLZ), Sudden Attack (Flagge), & Tight But Loose (SAKA)
Flagge and Tarantura are the best sounding releases.
TDOLZ is better sounding than the remaining 2 releases, but it runs a little fast.
Tecumseh runs slow and has a deep hiss in the background.
SAKA's sound is also on the poorer side.

6-29-80
Conquer Europe (Empress Valley), A Good Hot One (TDOLZ), Gracias (Antrabata), Swiss Made (TDOLZ), & Zurich (Tarantura)
TDOLZ's Swiss Made features the audience tape.
"A Good Hot One" has 2 minor tape glitches during White Summer/Black Mountain Side.
Tarantura uses a small fade out on Kashmir.
TDOLZ and Tarantura both have similar sound quality. The Antrabata is not as clear.
Empress Valley's title uses all of the available soundboard and relies on the audience tape to complete Kashmir. The sound is very excellent. The music is louder and the background noise is still almost non-existent. It's likely that this tape is another gen closer to the master but could possibly be due to a great job of equalization work.

6-30-80
Blitzkrieg Over Europe (Tarantura), Frankfurt Special (Empress Valley), Hotter Than the Hindenburg (LSD), Sudden Attack (Flagge), & Tour Over Europe 1980 (LSD)
Up through Achilles Last Stand, Tarantura's title sounds a little better than LSD's Tour Over Europe 1980. But, after that song, the sound is a little muffled and unbalanced in places for the remainder of the show.
LSD's Tour Over Europe 1980 has a 15 second fade out on Kashmir. It fades out way too soon, missing 66 seconds of the song. Like the Tarantura, this LSD title has a tape problem within the first few seconds of Stairway To Heaven.
LSD's Hotter Than the Hindenburg is a big improvement from it's other release. Kashmir is more complete and there is not a tape problem on Stairway To Heaven. It's sound is a good bit clearer and louder.
Flagge's title is very similar to LSD's better release. However, the dip in sound on Train Kept A Rollin is a little more noticeable. There does not seem to be a cut after Money, like on all the other releases. It's sound is very good like the newer LSD, but has slightly less bass.
Empress Valley's title mixes in the audience tape for the few gaps in the soundboard. Some of the soundboard introduction was thrown out in lei of the audience tape. The sound as been amplified a touch.

7-2-80
Dinosaurs Watching (Flying Disc), Eye Thank Yew (Tarantura), Mannheim 1980 (Flagge), & Strangers In the Night (TDOLZ)
Flying disc is missing the introduction and is missing most of the tape after the show. It has a cut during In the Evening and is missing 3 minutes many at the cut during Kashmir.
Tarantura's title ends too soon, missing the last minute of Kashmir and the remainder of the show. It's sound is somewhat muffled and unbalanced.
TDOLZ has a long introduction. It too has a cut during In the Evening. It includes the additional 3 minutes of soundboard for Kashmir but then uses the audience source for the missing 1 minute.
Flagge's introduction is a few seconds shorter than TDOLZ's but has much more tape after the show. Unlike the other releases, Flagge is not cut during In the Evening and is not cut after Trampled Underfoot. Evidently, it is from a lower generation tape than the others. It is much better sounding than the other releases.
TDOLZ is the only release that mixes sources for this show.

7-3-80
Eye Thank Yew (Tarantura), Last Day In Mannheim (Whole Lotta Live), Mannheim (Tarantura2000), Mannheim 1980 (Flagge), Song Remains Untamed (Monument Records), & Strangers In the Night (TDOLZ)
Tarantura is missing some time after All My Love.
Whole Lotta Live is a direct copy of Tarantura.
TDOLZ is almost completely identical to Tarantura.
Monument Records is missing tape before the show, after All My Love, and after the show.
All titles seem to have varying degrees of sound quality during the second minute of Since I've Been Loving You. Flagge's is the least noticeable while the Tarantura's are undeniable.
All titles are cut during Kashmir. Tarantura, TDOLZ, and Monument cut out 8 seconds too early but then cut back in 8 seconds sooner than Flagge's. Those three releases have the same amount of tape for Kashmir, but don't share the exact same content. Tarantura2000's title is still cut but has all the tape found between the previous releases and then has another 2 seconds.
Flagge and Tara2000's titles are much better sounding than the other releases and have much more tape after the show. Tara2000's tape has been equalized to pronounce the lower end.

7-5-80
Jamming With Simon Kirke! (Empress Valley) & Munich 1980 (Tarantura)
Tarantura is exclusively from the first tape source but is missing some of the introduction and tape after the show. Empress Valley uses relies on a second source to fill in the gaps of the first source. In doing so, they've forgone a little bit of source one.
Tarantura's equalization emphasizes the higher frequencies while EV's is more natural with mids' and lower frequencies. Both titles seem to use the same or close generation of tape.

7-7-80
Berlin 1980 (Tarantura), Complete Berlin (Baby Face & SIRA), Eternal Magic (Empress Valley, 5cd), Heineken (Tarantura), Memory Frozen Forever (Godfatherecords), & The Last (Immigrant)
EV and Immigrant are the only labels to use the audience tape. EV issued the complete tape while Immigrant only used it briefly (read below).
The audience tape reveals that Kashmir on the Taranturas is not actually complete and uncut, or even proper. EV's own soundboard (with audience splice) is not correct either. Tarantura repeats 43 seconds from earlier in the song to make it sound complete. The beginning of the edit is seamless but the end is noticed at 6:18. EV splices back to the same section as Tarantura. It only uses/repeats 10 seconds of the earlier soundboard then splices to the audience tape. (This time they supply the evidence against themselves. At least they didn't use a different night again without footnoting it on the back of the title.)
Heineken is the only title to feature any tape before the show but it isn't likely genuine. Berlin 1980 and EV are the only titles that doesn't have the tiny glitch near the 30 second mark on Train Kept A Rollin.
Baby Face and Immigrant are missing the first several seconds of the opening track. Both have some tape problems during the first part of the show. They are also missing 23 seconds of Kashmir.
Baby Face has a cut during Stairway To Heaven and is missing the last half of Whole Lotta Love.
Immigrant's Whole Lotta Love runs too fast. It uses the audience tape some after Rock & Roll and Whole Lotta Love.
Tarantura's Berlin 1980 has louder music and background noise than Heineken and SIRA. There is no difference between their clarity. EV's soundboard has louder music and less background noise than any other release. However, it may not be due to a better generation of tape at all. The background noise has evidence that the tape has be eq'd - but obviously done very well. Baby Face and Immigrant have terrible background noise and are much less complete.
(The main differences between Heineken and Berlin 1980 are mentioned above. The less obvious differences are also minor. Heineken is missing 2 seconds of Plant talking and is missing a couple of seconds after Stairway To Heaven. There are several extra seconds of tape after Rock and Roll.)
Godfather's title mixes in the audience source to fill the soundboard's gaps. Their method of overlapping the audience tape and soundboard at the cuts, effectively displaces the soundboard in those spots. The first second of Whole Lotta Love is missing - this has never been cut before. The background noise sounds a bit unusual - it's minor, but undeniable during quite moments. The title has been highly amplified.

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