Led Zeppelin Database

2 Sennheiser mono mics>Uher Recorder>master cassette (recorded from the floor)

2 Sennheiser mono mics>Uher Recorder>master cassette (recorded from the balcony)

1st source, original tapes have been lost

2nd source, runs fast (1st gen cassette was copied in 1979)

4th source, taped by Steve Thacker (recorded from just right of Center ~ 100 yards back)

5th source also known as Dave C. source, 1st gen cassette (runs slow))

6th source, master cassette

7th source, master cassette

8th source, unknown gen cassette 2 x C90

9th source, 1st gen cassette was copied in 1979

10th source, also known as Phil's source (Hitachi GhettoBlaster>master cassette)

11th source, taped by Steve C. (single point stereo mic>ITT Studio720 Rec>master cassette). The taper recalled that he went to the show with his "...new ITT Studio 720 tape recorder and the single point stereo mike ... I ended up sat about 100 metres(?) from the stage and got a reasonable tape considering. I was lucky as there were no cuts and I managed to time my tape changes to correspond with the music. I missed the last encore as I had packed my gear up and was walking back to my tent when they came back on stage. I was simply too tired to be bothered to get everything out again."

only old source tape available as video soundtrack, new transfers only as silver pressed bootlegs

Taped by Andy Banks. Color amateur video without actual sound? (The official DVD used a few snippets of this clip to enhance the edit of its Knebworth section.)

Color professional video with actual sound shot to feed the large screens and possibly for an official release. The seven tracks included in the official DVD feature a different camera edit than the bootlegs.

1st source, original tapes have been lost

2nd source, original tapes have been lost (some minor tape issues throughout)

3rd source, original tapes have been lost

5th source, also known as "Scottish Schoolboy Tapes" (TDK D-C90 cassette x2, runs too fast)

7th source, master cassette (runs a bit slow)

8th source, unknown gen cassette C90 x2

9th source, taped by Paul J. (ITT Mono Cassette Recorder>Sony C-90 master cassette). The taper believes that this is the master instead of another one he copied. He had only one tape so hi did only partial recording.

only old source tape available as video soundtrack, new transfers only as silver pressed bootlegs

color amateur video without actual sound? (the songs aren't in the right order on all circulating tapes probably because the second reel was transfered before the first one)

color professional video with actual sound shot to feed the large screens and possibly for an official release

available as a 1st gen (clocks at 99:13) and as a 1st gen that has almost 2 minutes of more introduction (clocks at 100:55)

black & white amateur video without actual sound

1st source, runs slow (2 "high sensitive" mikes (brand unknown>portable Uher Hi-Fi>2xXL UD2-C90s master cassette) (same taper as Brussels May 28th, 1972 and January 12th, 1975)

2nd source, runs a bit slow

color amateur video without actual sound

the tape is more clear than 3rd gen but lacks fullness

3rd gen cassette (the tape has better bass than 1st gen)

1st gen cassette (strangely sounds not as good as 2nd gen - it is more muted and has tape hiss)

3rd gen cassette (sounds almost the same as 2nd gen but a bit more bassy)

cassette (2x Sony UX 90s) (sounds a tin better than the master)

1st source, runs a bit fast

2nd source, 1st gen (runs too slow)

3rd source, taped by 38f (2 AKG Bulbs Mics>Sony Stereo Rec>Maxwell master cassette), runs a bit fast (incomplete source because security caught a taper, situated on the left side looking the stage, around 75 meters from the stage in
the audience "...actually, since I knew really well the promoter from Zurich, the boss of the "good news" promotion I was saved by him, in the sense, he said disappear fast, when the Led Zeppelin security was approaching me to confiscate the equipment, so I was gone in the crowd before they reached me, and they did not take my little Sony recorder and then when the Zep's security was gone backstage for the encore I came back...")

1st gen cassettes (runs a bit fast)

color amateur video with actual sound

1st source, 4th gen (runs slow)

1st source, Memorex MRX3Oxide 120 cassette

2nd source, Fuji DR 90 Type I cassette & TDK D 90 Type I cassette (runs slow - correct speed is near 128 mins.)

cassette (lineage is suspect), missing The Train Kept A Rollin' and Nobody's Fault But Mine

2nd TDK D C-120 gen cassette, it has The Train Kept A Rollin' and Nobody's Fault But Mine but in the worse quality (taken from higher gen?)

2nd gen, it doesn't sounds so good as 3rd gen, also has less introduction before the show

strangely has more introduction before the show

available as a master>1st gen open reel (clocks at 107:32) and as a 1st gen (clocks at 113:42)

2nd source, 3rd gen cassette

Color amateur video without actual sound. As for now all commercial releases do not include the first 15 seconds of this video and hence are missing Black Dog, likely because whoever originated this transfer captioned it as being from Zurich during the beginning of the video. It obviously is not from Zurich, especially once Simon Kirke appears on drums for the encore.

taped by Reiner Zettl (available as a master reel>1st gen cassette back-up>2nd gen cassette (2x Maxell XLII 90s) and as a reel master>1st gen cassette taper´s back-up>2nd gen cassette (2x Maxell XLII 90s))

Date	Venue	Generation	Length	Source	Comments
79/07/23	Copenhagen	master	Almost 134	aud	2 Sennheiser mono mics>Uher Recorder>master cassette (recorded from the floor)
79/07/24	Copenhagen	master	143	aud	2 Sennheiser mono mics>Uher Recorder>master cassette (recorded from the balcony)
79/08/04	Knebworth	vinyl	?	aud	1st source, original tapes have been lost
79/08/04	Knebworth	1st gen	175	aud	2nd source, runs fast (1st gen cassette was copied in 1979)
79/08/04	Knebworth	master	181	aud	3rd source
79/08/04	Knebworth	master	175	aud	4th source, taped by Steve Thacker (recorded from just right of Center ~ 100 yards back)
79/08/04	Knebworth	1st gen	177	aud	5th source also known as Dave C. source, 1st gen cassette (runs slow))
79/08/04	Knebworth	master	177	aud	6th source, master cassette
79/08/04	Knebworth	master	120	aud	7th source, master cassette
79/08/04	Knebworth	unknown gen	169	aud	8th source, unknown gen cassette 2 x C90
79/08/04	Knebworth	1st gen	165	aud	9th source, 1st gen cassette was copied in 1979
79/08/04	Knebworth	master	179	aud	10th source, also known as Phil's source (Hitachi GhettoBlaster>master cassette)
79/08/04	Knebworth	master	177	aud	11th source, taped by Steve C. (single point stereo mic>ITT Studio720 Rec>master cassette). The taper recalled that he went to the show with his "...new ITT Studio 720 tape recorder and the single point stereo mike ... I ended up sat about 100 metres(?) from the stage and got a reasonable tape considering. I was lucky as there were no cuts and I managed to time my tape changes to correspond with the music. I missed the last encore as I had packed my gear up and was walking back to my tent when they came back on stage. I was simply too tired to be bothered to get everything out again."
79/08/04	Knebworth	1st gen?	197	sbd	only old source tape available as video soundtrack, new transfers only as silver pressed bootlegs
79/08/04	Knebworth	unknown gen	6	aud	Taped by Andy Banks. Color amateur video without actual sound? (The official DVD used a few snippets of this clip to enhance the edit of its Knebworth section.)
79/08/04	Knebworth	unknown gen	193	pro	Color professional video with actual sound shot to feed the large screens and possibly for an official release. The seven tracks included in the official DVD feature a different camera edit than the bootlegs.
79/08/11	Knebworth	vinyl	93	aud	1st source, original tapes have been lost
79/08/11	Knebworth	vinyl	Almost 93	aud	2nd source, original tapes have been lost (some minor tape issues throughout)
79/08/11	Knebworth	vinyl	?	aud	3rd source, original tapes have been lost
79/08/11	Knebworth	unknown gen	146	aud	4th source
79/08/11	Knebworth	master	118	aud	5th source, also known as "Scottish Schoolboy Tapes" (TDK D-C90 cassette x2, runs too fast)
79/08/11	Knebworth	unknown gen	?	aud	6th source
79/08/11	Knebworth	master	Almost 153	aud	7th source, master cassette (runs a bit slow)
79/08/11	Knebworth	unknown gen	148	aud	8th source, unknown gen cassette C90 x2
79/08/11	Knebworth	master?	Near 43	aud	9th source, taped by Paul J. (ITT Mono Cassette Recorder>Sony C-90 master cassette). The taper believes that this is the master instead of another one he copied. He had only one tape so hi did only partial recording.
79/08/11	Knebworth	2nd gen	160	sbd	only old source tape available as video soundtrack, new transfers only as silver pressed bootlegs
80/08/11	Knebworth	unknown gen	5	aud	color amateur video without actual sound? (the songs aren't in the right order on all circulating tapes probably because the second reel was transfered before the first one)
80/08/11	Knebworth	unknown gen	161	pro	color professional video with actual sound shot to feed the large screens and possibly for an official release
80/06/17	Dortmund	master	102	aud	master cassette
80/06/17	Dortmund	1st gen	Near 103	aud	-
80/06/17	Dortmund	3rd gen	101	aud	3rd gen cassette
80/06/17	Dortmund	1st gen	99	sbd	1st gen (runs fast)
80/06/17	Dortmund	2nd gen	?	sbd	-
80/06/18	Cologne	1st gen	Near 108	aud	1st gen cassette
80/06/18	Cologne	3rd gen	110	aud	-
80/06/18	Cologne	1st gen	Almost 101	sbd	available as a 1st gen (clocks at 99:13) and as a 1st gen that has almost 2 minutes of more introduction (clocks at 100:55)
80/06/18	Cologne	unknown gen	18	aud	black & white amateur video without actual sound
80/06/20	Brussels	master	Near 121	aud	1st source, runs slow (2 "high sensitive" mikes (brand unknown>portable Uher Hi-Fi>2xXL UD2-C90s master cassette) (same taper as Brussels May 28th, 1972 and January 12th, 1975)
80/06/20	Brussels	unknown gen	122	aud	2nd source
80/06/20	Brussels	1st gen	119	sbd	High-Bias 1st gen
80/06/21	Rotterdam	1st gen	108	aud	1st source
80/06/21	Rotterdam	3rd gen	109	aud	1st source
80/06/21	Rotterdam	master	Almost 112	aud	2nd source, runs a bit slow
80/06/21	Rotterdam	1st gen	112	aud	2nd source, runs a bit slow
80/06/21	Rotterdam	1st gen	Near 90	sbd	-
80/06/21	Rotterdam	unknown gen	Near 10	aud	color amateur video without actual sound
80/06/23	Bremen	1st gen	109	aud	the tape is more clear than 3rd gen but lacks fullness
80/06/23	Bremen	3rd gen	108	aud	3rd gen cassette (the tape has better bass than 1st gen)
80/06/23	Bremen	1st gen	103	sbd	-
80/06/24	Hannover	1st gen	107	aud	1st gen cassette (strangely sounds not as good as 2nd gen - it is more muted and has tape hiss)
80/06/24	Hannover	2nd gen	104	aud	1st gen>2nd gen
80/06/24	Hannover	3rd gen	106	aud	3rd gen cassette (sounds almost the same as 2nd gen but a bit more bassy)
80/06/24	Hannover	1st gen	107	sbd	-
80/06/26	Vienna	master	Almost 124	aud	master cassette
80/06/26	Vienna	1st gen	Almost 125	aud	cassette (2x Sony UX 90s) (sounds a tin better than the master)
80/06/27	Nuremburg	1st gen	16	sbd	-
80/06/27	Nuremburg	unknown gen	17	sbd	-
80/06/29	Zurich	master	Near 122	aud	1st source, runs a bit fast
80/06/29	Zurich	2nd gen	122	aud	1st source, runs a bit fast
80/06/29	Zurich	1st gen	116	aud	2nd source, 1st gen (runs too slow)
80/06/29	Zurich	master	83	aud	3rd source, taped by 38f (2 AKG Bulbs Mics>Sony Stereo Rec>Maxwell master cassette), runs a bit fast (incomplete source because security caught a taper, situated on the left side looking the stage, around 75 meters from the stage in the audience "...actually, since I knew really well the promoter from Zurich, the boss of the "good news" promotion I was saved by him, in the sense, he said disappear fast, when the Led Zeppelin security was approaching me to confiscate the equipment, so I was gone in the crowd before they reached me, and they did not take my little Sony recorder and then when the Zep's security was gone backstage for the encore I came back...")
80/06/29	Zurich	1st gen	113	sbd	1st gen cassettes (runs a bit fast)
80/06/29	Zurich	unknown gen	10	aud	color amateur video with actual sound
80/06/30	Frankfurt	4th gen	125	aud	1st source, 4th gen (runs slow)
80/06/30	Frankfurt	unknown gen	124	aud	1st source, Memorex MRX3Oxide 120 cassette
80/06/30	Frankfurt	unknown gen	133	aud	2nd source, Fuji DR 90 Type I cassette & TDK D 90 Type I cassette (runs slow - correct speed is near 128 mins.)
80/06/30	Frankfurt	1st gen	Near 131	sbd	-
80/07/02	Mannheim	1st gen	117	aud	cassette (lineage is suspect), missing The Train Kept A Rollin' and Nobody's Fault But Mine
80/07/02	Mannheim	2nd gen	120	aud	2nd TDK D C-120 gen cassette, it has The Train Kept A Rollin' and Nobody's Fault But Mine but in the worse quality (taken from higher gen?)
80/07/02	Mannheim	1st gen	130	sbd	1st gen
80/07/03	Mannheim	2nd gen	111	aud	2nd gen, it doesn't sounds so good as 3rd gen, also has less introduction before the show
80/07/03	Mannheim	3rd gen	114	aud	strangely has more introduction before the show
80/07/03	Mannheim	1st gen	Near 114	sbd	available as a master>1st gen open reel (clocks at 107:32) and as a 1st gen (clocks at 113:42)
80/07/05	Munich	1st gen	119	aud	1st source
80/07/05	Munich	2nd gen	122	aud	1st source
80/07/05	Munich	3rd gen	116	aud	2nd source, 3rd gen cassette
80/07/05	Munich	unknown gen	10	aud	Color amateur video without actual sound. As for now all commercial releases do not include the first 15 seconds of this video and hence are missing Black Dog, likely because whoever originated this transfer captioned it as being from Zurich during the beginning of the video. It obviously is not from Zurich, especially once Simon Kirke appears on drums for the encore.
80/07/07	Berlin	2nd gen	144	aud	taped by Reiner Zettl (available as a master reel>1st gen cassette back-up>2nd gen cassette (2x Maxell XLII 90s) and as a reel master>1st gen cassette taper´s back-up>2nd gen cassette (2x Maxell XLII 90s))
80/07/07	Berlin	1st gen	136	sbd	-