AT THE TOP OF THEIR
GAME
SMALL FISH SFCDR1179
CD-R1: Rock And Roll/Sick Again/Over The Hills And Far Away/In My Time
Of Dying/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Kashmir
CD-R2: No Quarter/Since I've Been Loving You/Trampled Underfoot medley
incl. Gallows Pole/Moby Dick
CD-R3: Dazed And Confused medley incl. For What It's Worth, Woodstock,
I Shot The Sheriff
CD-R4: Stairway To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love medley incl. The Crunge/Out
On The Tiles Intro/Black Dog/Communication Breakdown/Heartbreaker medley
incl. Bouree
Recording: Very good mono/stereo audience. Source: Seattle Center Coliseum,
Seattle, Washington Mar. 21 '75. Comments: Deluxe jewel case.
BONZO'S BIRTHDAY
PARTY
SMALL FISH SFCDR892
CD-R1: Rock And Roll/Celebration Day/Out On The Tiles Intro/Black Dog/Over
The Hills And Far Away/Misty Mountain Hop/Since I've Been Loving You/No
Quarter
CD-R2: The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Dazed And Confused medley
incl. San Francisco
CD-R3: Stairway To Heaven/Moby Dick/Happy Birthday to Bonham/Heartbreaker/Whole
Lotta Love medley incl. The Crunge, Boogie Chillun/The Ocean/Communication
Breakdown
Recording: Good/Very good mono/stereo audience-Excellent stereo soundboard.
Source: Great Western Forum, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California May
31 '73. Comments: Deluxe jewel case. In association with A Slumpy Matrix
Production. Mainly a combination of two sources at a time but occasionally
supplemented with a third source (Empress Valley Supreme Disc, Cobla/Cobra
Standard Series and The Diagrams Of Led Zeppelin), until the soundboard
tape runs out after Stairway To Heaven. From then on a combination of
two audience recordings at different pitch and tempo.
THE DANCING AVOCADO
SMALL FISH SFCDR179
CD-R: As Long As I Have You medley incl. Fresh Garbage, Shake, Mockingbird,
You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover, Suzie Q/Killing Floor medley incl.
The Lemon Song/White Summer medley incl. Black Mountain Side/Babe I'm
Gonna Leave You/Pat's Delight (57:44)
Recording: Excellent to Superb stereo audience. Source: Fillmore West,
San Francisco, California Apr. 24 '69. Comments: Deluxe jewel case.
Small Fish original releasing notes: DAT transfer by DREWCREW: "I
got this in trade on a tape with Santana from the Avalon Ballroom (Avalon
Ballroom turned into the Fillmore West). Purportedly Neumann u89s on
the front of the stage, and as sceptical as I am I hear nothing to disprove
this...enjoy, and thanks to POPSKULL for the dat many years ago."
THE DANCING AVOCADO
- SUPREME EDITION
SMALL FISH SFCDR179.1
CD-R1: As Long As I Have You medley incl. Fresh Garbage, Shake, Mockingbird,
You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover, Suzie Q/Killing Floor medley incl.
The Lemon Song/White Summer medley incl. Black Mountain Side/Babe I'm
Gonna Leave You/Pat's Delight (58:58)
CD-R2: As Long As I Have You medley incl. Fresh Garbage, Shake, Mockingbird,
You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover, Suzie Q/Killing Floor medley incl.
The Lemon Song/White Summer medley incl. Black Mountain Side/Babe I'm
Gonna Leave You/Pat's Delight (58:56)
Recording: Excellent to Superb stereo audience. CD-R1 Jameskg remaster;
CD-R2 raw tape. Source: Fillmore West, San Francisco, California Apr.
24 '69. Comments: Deluxe jewel case. Small Fish original releasing notes:
This is as close as you'll ever get the high speed reel master source.
AJD owns the original PCM transfer from those reels and the reels have
since been destroyed by fire. This originally came from Bill Graham's
vault. The original PCM is the now definitive source, but was not widely
circulating until now. This is the most complete tape circulated in
this quality to date. PCM was used before DAT machines were invented
and were the first means of digital recording. An A/D signal converter
was used to to encode analog audio from tape reels to (Sony recommended)
BETAMAX tapes in a standard BETA machine. A PCM encoder, coupled to
a VCR, enables you to record digital audio as if it was an ordinary
video signal. The device also extracts the digital audio message from
the video signal, the other way round, for playback. This PCM was likely
made with either the PCM-1 (1977) or the PCM-F1 (1981). What you are
receiving is a direct digital transfer done by the owner of the PCM
recording, AJD, a professional audio guru. The PCM machine used for
the transfer is a SONY PCM-601ESD, originally sold in 1984-1985. The
PCM-601ESD had the important advantages of S/PDIF digital I/O and adjustable
tracking and VCR head-matching circuits and was the best digital storage
technology available at the time. These units are pretty hard to come
by these days. I took his transfer and mastered it for release, then
encoded to FLAC8. Notice it it not a "remaster" since was
never actually mastered, just transferred from old media to new as the
technology progressed. For those who would ask: This is better quality
than "Blues Anytime" from Empress Valley Supreme Disc. The
tape is more complete and the audio quality is at least a generation
cleaner, if not two. The stereo separation is much better on this transfer
than whatever EVSD used. The first few notes on Babe I'm Gonna Leave
You have obviously been spliced in by EVSD from a distorted source (probably
not even the same date) and do not exist on the master PCM. This is
more complete and better quality than the original "Dancing Avocado".
When I put that one out, the source I was given had been through more
DAT and CDR gens.
THE DESTROYER (SECOND
NIGHT)
SMALL FISH SFCDR983
CD-R1: The Song Remains The Same/The Rover Intro/Sick Again/Nobody's
Fault But Mine/In My Time Of Dying medley incl. You Shook Me/Since I've
Been Loving You/No Quarter medley incl. The Nutcracker Suite
CD-R2: Ten Years Gone/The Battle Of Evermore/Going To California/Black
Country Woman medley incl. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp/White Summer medley incl.
Black Mountain Side/Kashmir
CD-R3: Guitar Solo medley incl. The Star Spangled Banner/Achilles Last
Stand/Stairway To Heaven/Rock And Roll/Trampled Underfoot
Recording: Very good to Excellent mono audience. Source: Richfield Coliseum,
Cleveland, Ohio Apr. 28 '77. Comments: Deluxe jewel case.
THE DESTROYER (SECOND
NIGHT)
SMALL FISH SFDVDA002
DVD-R Audio: The Song Remains The Same/The Rover Intro/Sick Again/Nobody's
Fault But Mine/In My Time Of Dying medley incl. You Shook Me/Since I've
Been Loving You/No Quarter medley incl. The Nutcracker Suite/Ten Years
Gone/The Battle Of Evermore/Going To California/Black Country Woman
medley incl. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp/White Summer medley incl. Black Mountain
Side/Kashmir/Guitar Solo medley incl. The Star Spangled Banner/Achilles
Last Stand/Stairway To Heaven/Rock And Roll/Trampled Underfoot
Recording: Very good stereo audience. Source: Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland,
Ohio Apr. 28 '77. Comments: Deluxe jewel case.
EARL'S COURT 75
SMALL FISH SFCDR927
CD-R1: DJ David Kid Jensen Introduction/Rock And Roll/Sick Again/Over
The Hills And Far Away/In My Time Of Dying medley incl. You Shook Me/The
Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Kashmir
CD-R2: No Quarter/Tangerine/Going To California/That's The Way/Bron-Yr-Aur
Stomp/Trampled Underfoot medley incl. Gallows Pole
CD-R3: Dazed And Confused medley incl. San Francisco/Stairway To Heaven/Whole
Lotta Love medley incl. The Crunge/Out On The Tiles Intro/Black Dog
Recording: Very good/Excellent mono/stereo audience. Source: Earl's
Court Arena, London, England May 23 '75. Comments: Deluxe jewel case.
ELECTRIC MAGIC
SHOW
SMALL FISH SFCDR1191
CD-R1: Immigrant Song/Heartbreaker medley incl. Bouree/Out On The Tiles
Intro/Black Dog/Since I've Been Loving You/Rock And Roll/Stairway To
Heaven/Dancing Days (*)/Going To California/That's The Way/Tangerine
(63:58)
CD-R2: Dazed And Confused/What Is And What Should Never Be/Celebration
Day/Moby Dick/Whole Lotta Love medley incl. Boogie Chillun, Hello Mary
Lou, Mess O' The Blues, Honey Bee, Going Down Slow (79:04)
Recording: Poor to Good mono audience. Source: Electric Magic Show,
Wembley Empire Pool, London Nov. 20 '71 except (*)Alexandra Palace,
London, England Dec. 22 '72. Comments: Deluxe jewel case.
THE FINAL NIGHT
AT THE GARDEN
SMALL FISH SFCDR1082
CD-R1: The Song Remains The Same/The Rover Intro/Sick Again/Nobody's
Fault But Mine/Over The Hills And Far Away/Since I've Been Loving You/No
Quarter/Ten Years Gone
CD-R2: The Battle Of Evermore/Going To California/Black Country Woman
medley incl. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp/White Summer medley incl. Black Mountain
Side/Kashmir/Over The Top medley incl. Out On The Tiles, Moby Dick
Recording: Good to Very good mono audience. Source: Madison Square Garden,
ew York City, New York, New York June 14 '77. Comments: Deluxe jewel
case.
FLOATING ON A SEA
OF SCREAMS
SMALL FISH SFCDR3731
CD-R1: The Song Remains The Same/The Rover Intro/Sick Again/Nobody's
Fault But Mine/Over The Hills And Far Away/Since I've Been Loving You/No
Quarter
CD-R2: Ten Years Gone/The Battle Of Evermore/Going To California/Black
Country Woman medley incl. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp/White Summer medley incl.
Black Mountain Side/Kashmir
CD-R3: Over The Top medley incl. Out On The Tiles, Moby Dick/Guitar
Solo/Achilles Last Stand/Stairway To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love/Rock And
Roll
Recording: Good/Very good mono audience. Source: Kingdome, Seattle,
Washington July 17 '77. Comments: Deluxe jewel case. There are many
many jumps and skips on "Since I've Been Loving You" which
were on the original CD-Rs sent to the guy, who produced this album,
so he had to cut those out sadly, as they are digital errors, there
was no way he could get another one, the first CD-R was not packaged
properly, but the other two were, so you should find no clicks or jumps
of any kind on the other CD-Rs.
FOUR BLOCKS IN
THE SNOW
SMALL FISH SFCDR232
CD-R1: Rock And Roll/Sick Again/Over The Hills And Far Away/In My Time
Of Dying/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Kashmir (55:04)
CD-R2: No Quarter/Trampled Underfoot/Moby Dick (48:14)
CD-R3: Dazed And Confused medley incl. San Francisco, Walter's Walk/Stairway
To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love/Out On The Tiles Intro/Black Dog/Heartbreaker
medley incl. That's Alright Mama (58:29)
Recording: Excellent stereo audience. Source: Madison Square Garden,
New York City, New York, New York Feb. 12 '75. Comments: Deluxe jewel
case. The 1st edition has some minor faults (ie. omiting some short
parts while mixing both tapes) but the 2nd edition is corrected.
GOING TO CALIFORNIA
SMALL FISH SFCDR708
CD-R1: Immigrant Song/Heartbreaker medley incl. Bouree/Since I've Been
Loving You/Out On The Tiles Intro/Black Dog/Dazed And Confused medley
incl. Livin'In The U.S.A.
CD-R2: Stairway To Heaven/That's The Way/Going To California/Whole Lotta
Love medley incl. Just A Little Bit, Feel So Bad, Boogie Chillun, Hello
Mary Lou, My Baby Left Me, That's Alright Mama, Mess O' The Blues, You
Shook Me, The Lemon Song
Recording: Superb mono/stereo audience. Switched to stereo at the beginning
of Heartbreaker medley incl. Bouree. Copied from vinyl. Source: Community
Theatre, Berkeley, California Sept. 14 '71. Comments: Deluxe jewel case.
IT DOESN'T GET
ANY COOLER - THE GARDEN TAPES VOLUME 2
SMALL FISH SFCDR843
CD-R1: Rock And Roll/Celebration Day/Out On The Tiles Intro/Black Dog/Over
The Hills And Far Away/Misty Mountain Hop/Since I've Been Loving You/No
Quarter/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song
CD-R2: Dazed And Confused medley incl. San Francisco/Stairway To Heaven/Moby
Dick
CD-R3: Heartbreaker/Whole Lotta Love medley incl. The Crunge, Boogie
Chillun/The Ocean
Recording: Excellent stereo soundboard/Good mono audience. Source: Madison
Square Garden, New York City, New York, New York July 28 '73. Comments:
Deluxe jewel case. Eddie Edwards multiple source remaster.
LONG LONG WAY FROM
HOME - THE GARDEN TAPES VOLUME 3
SMALL FISH SFCDR529
CD-R1: Rock And Roll/Celebration Day/Out On The Tiles Intro/Black Dog/Over
The Hills And Far Away/Misty Mountain Hop/Since I've Been Loving You/No
Quarter/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song
CD-R2: Dazed And Confused medley incl. San Francisco/Stairway To Heaven/Moby
Dick
CD-R3: Heartbreaker/Whole Lotta Love medley incl. The Crunge, Boogie
Chillun/The Ocean/Organ Solo/Thank You
Recording: Excellent stereo soundboard/Good mono audience. Source: Madison
Square Garden, New York City, New York, New York July 29 '73. Comments:
Deluxe jewel case. Eddie Edwards multiple source remaster.
THE LOUISVILLE
SLUGGER
SMALL FISH SFDVDA001
DVD-R Audio: The Song Remains The Same/The Rover Intro/Sick Again/Nobody's
Fault But Mine/In My Time Of Dying medley incl. You Shook Me/Since I've
Been Loving You/No Quarter medley incl. The Nutcracker Suite/Ten Years
Gone/The Battle Of Evermore/Going To California/Black Country Woman
medley incl. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp/White Summer medley incl. Black Mountain
Side/Kashmir/Over The Top medley incl. Out On The Tiles, Moby Dick/Guitar
Solo medley incl. The Star Spangled Banner/Achilles Last Stand/Stairway
To Heaven/Rock And Roll
Recording: Good stereo audience. Source: Freedom Hall Kentucky Fairgrounds
And Exposition Center, Louisville, Kentucky Apr. 25 '77. Comments: Deluxe
standard DVD case.
MATRIXING MARYLAND
2005: SOMEWHERE IN THE 20TH ROW
SMALL FISH SFCDR504
CD-R1: The Song Remains The Same/The Rover Intro/Sick Again/Nobody's
Fault But Mine/In My Time Of Dying medley incl. You Shook Me/Since I've
Been Loving You/No Quarter
CD-R2: Ten Years Gone/The Battle Of Evermore/Going To California/Dancing
Days Intro/Black Country Woman medley incl. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
CD-R3: White Summer medley incl. Black Mountain Side/Kashmir/Over The
Top medley incl. Out On The Tiles, Moby Dick
CD-R4: Guitar Solo medley incl. The Star Spangled Banner/Achilles Last
Stand/Communication Breakdown Intro/Whole Lotta Love/Rock And Roll
Recording: Excellent stereo soundboard/Good mono audience. Source: Capitol
Centre, Landover, Maryland May 26 '77. Comments: Deluxe jewel case.
In association with A Slumpy Matrix Production. There were numerous
cuts, snips and dropouts between and during songs on both sources but
the producer of this release tried to maintain the full length of the
show by using the longest parts as a guide in each case. There are a
few missing parts in the soundboard source (taken from "Bringing
The House Down" by Empress Valley Supreme Disc) which had been
filled with another audience source( taken from "Landover"
by Electric Magic), which the producer left as untouched as possible,
just trying to make those parts listenable. The audience source had
a bad case of fluttering a lot of the way through, making it sound like
the chopper squad were dropping in a lot of the time - the producer
tried to eliminate this but had to settle on a compromise in some cases,
or the ambience of the audience source would have been lost. As producer
wrote, the audience source was also very loud in the crowd, and rather
than lose everything by trying to reduce it, it made more sense to my
ears to leave it loud, putting you somewhere around row 20th so this
caused the album's title.
ONE MORE FOR THE
ROAD: 2005 EDITION
SMALL FISH SFCDR605
CD-R1: Band Announcements/Immigrant Song/Heartbreaker medley incl. Bouree/Dazed
And Confused/Bring It On Home/That's The Way/Bron-Yr-Aur/Since I've
Been Loving You/Organ Solo/Thank You
CD-R2: What Is And What Should Never Be/Moby Dick/Rice Pudding Intro/Whole
Lotta Love medley incl. Boogie Chillun, Dust My Broom, Truckin' Little
Mama, Bottle Up And Go, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, For What It's Worth, Cinnamon
Girl, Some Other Guy, The Train Kept A Rollin', I'm A King Bee, CC Rider,
Baby What Do You Want Me To Do, Honey Bee, The Lemon Song/Out On The
Tiles/Communication Breakdown medley incl. Gallows Pole, It's Your Thing/Announcer
Speech/Rock 'N' Roll Medley incl. Girl Can't Help It, Talking 'Bout
You, Twenty Flight Rock/How Many More Times medley incl. The Hunter,
Cadillac No Money Down, Blueberry Hill
Recording: Very good mono audience. Source: Madison Square Garden, New
York City, New York, New York Sept. 19 '70 evening show. Comments: Deluxe
jewel case. A Presence Production in association with DarthDisc. Presence
writes: As Darth9neo (the original taper) stated, earlier this year
we discussed doing a new transfer of his open reel source. While that
did not come to pass, we subsequently learned that the discs used for
the initial release were at least two CD generations away from the shelf
masters and that during these generations is when the index boundary
errors and other clicks were introduced. While I managed to do a pretty
good job cleaning those up for my initial "Presence version"
it was difficult to do and left several repair artifacts that could
just not be cleaned up. After that release Eddie Edwards pointed out
that the pitch needed correction, thus "Born To Please" came
about. The shelf master discs are largely free and clear from the clicks
and pops found before. There were about three sector boundary errors,
but these were generated by splitting tracks in SoundForge and thus
are easily restored. For this release I also used parametric equalizing
to lower the 250Hz frequency, the hollow reverb of the auditorium, ever
so slightly, just enough to allow the other instruments to come through.
I then applied a pitch correction of +1.5%, but not to the entire source.
Some sections of the tape were at the correct pitch, but most was not.
I also cleaned up the source a bit by trying to remove some of the crackle.
All in all, it turned out very nice and I hope everyone enjoys it as
it is arguably one of the best shows Led Zeppelin ever turned out. Earlier
this year the taper and I discussed doing a new transfer of his open
reel source. While that did not come to pass, we subsequently learned
that the discs used for the initial release were at least two CD generations
away from the shelf masters and that during these generations is when
the index boundary errors and other clicks were introduced. While I
managed to do a pretty good job cleaning those up for my initial "Presence
version" it was difficult to do and left several repair artifacts
that could just not be cleaned up. After that release Eddie Edwards
pointed out that the pitch needed correction, thus "Born To Please"
came about. The shelf master discs are largely free and clear from the
clicks and pops found before. There were about three sector boundary
errors, but these were generated by splitting tracks in SoundForge and
thus are easily restored. For this release I also used parametric equalizing
to lower the 250Hz frequency, the hollow reverb of the auditorium, ever
so slightly, just enough to allow the other instruments to come through.
I then applied a pitch correction of +1.5%, but not to the entire source.
Some sections of the tape were at the correct pitch, but most was not.
I also cleaned up the source a bit by trying to remove some of the crackle.
All in all, it turned out very nice and I hope everyone enjoys it as
it is arguably one of the best shows Led Zeppelin ever turned out.
PETER'S PA
SMALL FISH SFCDR1250
CD-R1: Immigrant Song/Heartbreaker medley incl. Bouree/Since I've Been
Loving You/Out On The Tiles Intro/Black Dog/Dazed And Confused/Stairway
To Heaven (54:33)
CD-R2: Going To California/That's The Way/Celebration Day/What Is And
What Should Never Be/Whole Lotta Love medley incl. Boogie Chillun',
That's Alright Mama, Ramble On, I'm A Man, Honey Bee/Weekend (47:12)
CD-R3: Immigrant Song/Heartbreaker medley incl. Bouree/Since I've Been
Loving You/Out On The Tiles Intro/Black Dog/Dazed And Confused/Stairway
To Heaven (53:55)
CD-R4: Going To California/That's The Way/Celebration Day/What Is And
What Should Never Be/Whole Lotta Love medley incl. Boogie Chillun',
That's Alright Mama, Ramble On, I'm A Man, Honey Bee/Weekend (48:14)
Recording: Very good-Excellent mono audience. CD-R1-2 remaster; CD-R3-4
raw tape. Source: Montreux Casino, Montreux, Switzerland Aug. 7 '71.
Comments: Deluxe jewel case. Two types of cover available - blue is
remaster while green means raw tape.
SLEEPING SICKNESS
IN SEATTLE
SMALL FISH SFCDR373
CD-R1: The Song Remains The Same/The Rover Intro/Sick Again/Nobody's
Fault But Mine/Over The Hills And Far Away/Since I've Been Loving You/No
Quarter
CD-R2: Ten Years Gone/The Battle Of Evermore/Going To California/Black
Country Woman medley incl. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp/White Summer medley incl.
Black Mountain Side/Kashmir
CD-R3: Over The Top medley incl. Out On The Tiles, Moby Dick/Guitar
Solo/Achilles Last Stand/Stairway To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love/Rock And
Roll
Recording: Excellent stereo soundboard/Very good mono audience. Source:
Kingdome, Seattle, Washington July 17 '77. Comments: Deluxe jewel case.
In association with A Slumpy Matrix Production.
SOMETHING COMPLETELY
DIFFERENT - THE GARDEN TAPES VOLUME 1
SMALL FISH SFCDR1192
CD-R1: The Rain Song/Dazed And Confused medley incl. San Francisco
CD-R2: Stairway To Heaven/Moby Dick/Heartbreaker/Whole Lotta Love medley
incl. The Crunge, Boogie Chillun/The Ocean
Recording: Excellent stereo soundboard/Good mono audience. Source: Madison
Square Garden, New York City, New York, New York July 27 '73. Comments:
Deluxe jewel case. Eddie Edwards multiple source remaster.