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, Just A Little Bit, Boogie Chillun/The
Ocean/Communication Breakdown
Recording: Good/Very good mono/stereo audience-Excellent stereo soundboard.
Source: The 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, Bag's Groove,
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: 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, Bag's Groove,
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, Bag's Groove,
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: 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: Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England May 23 '75. Comments: Deluxe jewel case.
ELECTRIC MAGIC
SHOW
SMALL FISH SFCDR1191
CD-R1: Immigrant Song/Heartbreaker medley incl. Bouree, Feelin' Groovy/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' 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 (*)Great Hall, 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: The 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/soudnboard. Source: Madison Square
Garden, New York City, 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. Back In The USA
CD-R2: Stairway To Heaven/That's The Way/Going To California/Whole Lotta
Love medley incl. Just A Little Bit, Boogie Chillun, Hello Mary Lou,
My Baby Left Me, Mess O' Blues, You Shook Me, The Lemon Song
Recording: Superb mono/stereo audience. Switched to stereo at the beginning
of Heartbreaker. Copied from vinyl. Source: Berkeley 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 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 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/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/Whole Lotta Love/Rock And Roll
Recording: Excellent stereo soundboard/Good mono audience. Source: Capital 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 Band Announcements/Immigrant Song/Heartbreaker medley incl. Bouree/Dazed
And Confused medley incl. Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay/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, Look On Yonder's Wall, I Believe
I'll Dust My Broom, Bottle It Up And Go, Cumberland Gap, They're Red
Hot, She's A Truckin' Little Baby, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, For What It's
Worth, Cinnamon Girl, Some Other Guy, The Train Kept A Rollin', I'm
A King Bee, El Paso Blues, CC Rider, Baby What 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 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, Gambler's Blues, I'm A Man, Honey Bee, Sugar
Mama Blues, Gee, Baby Ain't I Good To You, Kind Hearted Woman Blues/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, Gambler's Blues, I'm A Man, Honey Bee, Sugar
Mama Blues, Gee, Baby Ain't I Good To You, Kind Hearted Woman Blues/Weekend
(48:14)
Recording: Very good-Excellent mono audience. CD-R1-2 remaster; CD-R3-4
raw tape. Source: Montreux Casino Hall, 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:
The 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 July 27 '73. Comments:
Deluxe jewel case. Eddie Edwards multiple source remaster.