"From Paris, With Love"
October, 10th, 1969, Paris, France, The L'Olympia
Remastered Pre-FM Soundboard Recording, (A Group/Personal Project)
Lineage: "One Night Stand In Paris: Disc One, Pre-FM Master", (TCOLZ), Silvers > EAC > Flac > TLH, Decode > WAV > Remaster > Flac (Level.8, Align On SBE's, Test With TLH, No Errors Occured)
Label: N/A
Original Taper: N/A
OU: This is not meant to be a "definitive" version. We hope that everyone who decides to pick this up will enjoy it, and will pass it along and share it with others, or just pass, the choice is yours.
Other notes: An excellent recording and performance that was originally broadcasted on "Musicrama" on November, 1st, 1969, and rebroadcasted in December of 2007, to commemorate the O2 Reunion performance.
This concert is the 1st show to debut tracks from "Led Zeppelin II", the first live performances of "Heartbreaker", "What Is And What Should Never Be", and "Moby Dick", although, the last two tracks have not surfaced, making this show incomplete.
As I previously stated, this concert was broadcasted on the radio back in 1969, but apparently no one bothered to record it back then, leaving it sort of forgotten, that is, until the show was rebroadcasted, but apparently, the FM broadcast is not the only recording of this show said to exist.
According to Mojo Magazine's "Led Zeppelin: Classic, Rare, And Unseen", the band had also recorded this show, possibly to use for either their own personal use, or possibly a future live album.
To quote from the magazine: "One of 2 shows (the other being the famous London Lyceum gig 2 days later) at which the band previewed a new setlist based around material from Led Zeppelin II.
Among the songs played live for the first time that night were "Heartbreaker", "Moby Dick", and "What Is And What should Never Be". The band recorded the gig but neither official, nor bootleg versions have ever surfaced." - Jean-Pierre Leloir
The show starts out kind of rough, but finds it's groove by the time the band get into "I Can't Quit You Baby".
What we've done to make this project:
- We've tried to balance the instruments as much as possible, originally the guitar, (some of) the vocals, and cymbals were the most dominant in the mix, drowning out the bass, so we've tried to make each instrument as present as we can.
- We've tried to create a feeling of ambiance, and a sense of the venue as much as we can.
- We've tried to bring out things that were originally buried in the recording (cheers, clapping, commentary), one thing I noticed after remastering the recording is the faint squeak of Bonham's bass pedal, I couldn't hear that until we started working on this project.
- We've tried to reduce as much tape hiss as possible.
- We've given the recording a gentle volume boost, the volume of the raw recording was not too low, but it could've been a little louder because there are moments where the sound drops off (i.e: Plant's distant vocals), we hope it isn't too loud for everyone here.
Highlights of this show are:
- I Can't Quit You Baby
- Heartbreaker (the very first performance is definitely a highlight to this concert).
- Dazed And Confused
- White Summer/Black Mountain Side
- You Shook Me
- How Many More Times
Hope everyone here will enjoy this.
1) Introduction
2) Good Times,Bad Times/Communication Breakdown (Includes: "It's Your Thing")
3) I Can't Quit You Baby
4) Heartbreaker
5) Dazed And Confused
6) White Summer/Black Mountain Side
7) You Shook Me
8) How Many More Times (Includes: "Over Under Sideways Down", "The Hunter", "The Lemon Song", and "Boogie Chillen")
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6 comments:
Amazing. I found this site searching mainly for Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin and you all continue to amaze me. Thank you Dave and everyone else involved - this is what it must feel like to go diving and find treasure in a shipwreck. Can't wait to listen.
Thomas in SC
Love early Zep and this is a great addition. Nice work by the OU, only annoying thing is the fluctuating recording level inherent to the source recording. Worth your while, a solid A for the sound (even with the issue noted above). The show is outstanding, years before Page couldn't handle his liquor and Plant would babble nonsense between songs and sound like an imbecile.
Nothing I like more(On the net that is) than firing up your blog and seeing another Zep boot. Thanks again.
Was wondering though, do you (or anyone) know of any good quality DVD of The Firm out there? Including any official stuff I might be able to buy.
The Firm Live at Hammersmith 1984 (limited release video)
Five From the Firm (1986)
both official
Then there's the Tom Cruise film from 1994 and the body toning stuff...other than that I have neither heard nor seen
enter the full name in google and torrents pop up everywhere
Thanks much! This is a fantastic show - one of my all-time favorites. Looking forward to hearing this new version.
FYI, my favorite version (at least up to now) is Tarantura's "In the Act of Invoking the Spirit."
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