42 years ago, Led Zeppelin played in Osaka Rock And Roll Out On The Tiles Black Dog Over The Hills And Far Away Misty Mountain Hop Since Ive Been Loving You Dancing Days Bron-Y-Aur Stomp The Song Remains The Same The Rain Song Dazed And Confused The Crunge Hendrix Jam Mars: The Bringer Of War Stairway To Heaven Whole Lotta Love Everybody Needs Somebody To Love Boogie Chillen Got A Lot OLivin To Do Lets Have A Party You Shook Me The Lemon Song Heartbreaker Bourrée in E minor Feelin Groovy Immigrant Song Box Set 71-72: Only a minor improvement over Amsterdams Connexion, not as noticeable as some of the other improvements in the box set. (Lord Byron Nov 99) Live In Japan 1972 (12CD box set, Last Stand, LSD - 65-76 Discs E & F : Osaka 4/10/72, 120 mins. The usual combination of the two source tapes, this is an improvement and is really excellent stereo. (Jules McTrainspotter) Performance: 7-8 SQ: 9-10 (!) Good show, SUPERB stereo sound. Again, unbelievable STH solo. Recording just about pro-quality Flawless MMH, good DaC guitar work. (Anton) Live In Japan 1972 (12CD box set, Last Stand, LSD - 65-76) October 4, 1972 - Festival Hall, Osaka Japan - DISC E&F Last Stand Disc - LSD-69/70 - Part of 12CD BOX Audio: Disc E&F - 7.5 AUD Track Listing: DISC E: Rock And Roll, Black Dog, Over The Hills And Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since Ive Been Loving You, Dancing Days, Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, The Song Remains The Same, The Rain Song. DISC F: Dazed And Confused, Stairway To Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker, Immigrant Song Roberts voice is starting to show the strain of performing 3 days in a row - his voice is cracking up almost continuously. Bonzo appears to be in great forum tonight though, so perhaps that offsets Percys bad vocals. Jimmy is also having a great night - no sticky fingers syndrome tonight. The tape is very good, but slightly distant. The audience is distant from the recorder as well, so one has to only guess where the taper was for this show. Great version of Dancing Days - even with Plants damaged voice. Everytime I hear that song I think of the Stargroves photos with the band dancing around the truck during the playback of Dancing Days. Theres a cut in the tape after Dancing Days that leads into A song about a dog. Theres a tape cut right after the Stomp that misses any Plantations that there might have been and the opening bars of The Song Remains The Same. For some unexplainable reason, theres what sounds like a heartbeat during a clip of The Rain Song. It does not sound real, as its quite loud and if that was truly a heartbeat, the guy surely died as it sounded like it was ready to jump out of his chest. Dazed is in good forum tonight led by Bonzos relentless drums. They sound really good - even from a distance. The Crunge includes some monkey business at the end and its still lacking vocals. The next cut comes after Dazed and before Stairway - some Plantations are lost because of this. Whole Lotta Love is more musical and not so much vocal tonight, no doubt due to Roberts poor voice. The medley selections includes a lot of low sung Elvis tracks as well as You Shook Me. The tape cuts out right after Heartbreaker and comes back on in time for Immigrant Song. With Plants voice so bad, Im not sure I know why they didnt do something else besides this. (Steve Prendergast) Wild West Side (Zosos Company) Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, October 4, 1972 CD 1:(67:54) Rock & Roll, Black Dog, Over the Hills and Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since Ive Been Loving You, Dancing Days, Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, Dazed & Confused (includes The Crunge), Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, October 9, 1972: Stand By Me CD 2: (63:31) Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, October 4, 1972 The Song Remains the Same (first couple of seconds cut), The Rain Song, Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love (includes Everybody Needs Somebody to Love, Boogie Woogie, Got a Lot o Livin to Do, Lets Have a Party, You Shook Me), Immigrant Song, The Ocean, Heartbreaker, Immigrant Song (slightly muffled), Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, October 2, 1972: Communication Breakdown A near excellent audience recording. All the instruments are up front and well balanced with the audience in the background. Plants vocals are definitely showing signs of wear from the previous nights performance. Dazed & Confused is taken out of sequence and should have followed The Rain Song. The version of Stand By Me is a few generations better than the one on Let Me Get Back To 1972 (H Bomb). Communication Breakdown is from another tape source than the one used on Eastern Front (Great Dane), No Use Greco (Tarantura) and others. Its closer to the stage and doesnt contain any of the clapping and screaming over the recorder found on those releases. It would be great if the tapes used for the bonus dates were released in their entirety since they sound better. (Brian Ingham Aug 96) Osaka Tapes (6CD, AMS 9610/11/12), Osaka, 4/10/72 Disc 1 and 2 are labeled as Raw Tapes I. Source tapes of this is identical to the one used onWild West Side (2CD), Dancing Geisha (2CD) and The Champaign (14CD). Sound quality of these boots are almost identical. Disc 3 and 4, which is labelled as Raw Tapes II, is once used for Stand By Me, a little distant and inferior to Raw Tapes I in audio. However, complete TSRTS is only on Raw Tapes II. Disc 5 and 6 seems to be Combo of best stuff from Raw Tapes I and Raw Tapes II, but I havent checked this one yet. Both Raw Tapes I and Raw Tapes II, especially the former is excellent in sound quality, but still inferior to very old vinyl boot called Live (LP), which contains Bron-y-Aur Stomp. (Susumu Omi, July 96). Connexion (Amsterdam) 2 CD Perf **** SQ **** Appeal G 2 CD set on the Amsterdam label of the first night at Osaka 4th Oct 1972. This is an amalgam of the two sources used on Raw Tapes I + II, all three titles making up the ‘Osaka Tapes’ box set. Good audience recording, same source as the Tarantura ‘Dancing Geisha’ but not as clear. Still worth the trouble though. (Paul Sheppard Dec 01). Osaka, 4 October 1972 Live At Festival Hall (Power Archives PA-0310006/7) Disc 1: Rock and Roll, Black Dog, Over The Hills And Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since Ive Been Loving You, Dancing Days, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, The Song Remains The Same, The Rain Song. Disc 2: Dazed and Confused (including The Crunge), Stairway To Heaven, Whole Lotta Love (including Everybody Needs Somebody to Love, Boogie Chillun, Got A Lotta Living To Do, Lets Have A Party, You Shook Me, Lemon Song), Heartbreaker, Immigrant Song. This is the new release from the new Led Zeppelin label Power Archives (not to be confused with Power Chord from some years back). This is the October 4th, 1972 in Osaka, and it is a wonderful recording! Truly nice to listen to, enjoyable, and Power Archives did a great mastering job. This title is worth having. This show is an interesting contrast to their previous shows in Osaka in 1971. Then, confronted by a quite crowd, they did their best to get the Japanese excited. Not so this time. Zeppelin are still breaking in their new stage show and they are entirely concentrated on that. The first half of the show is very professional with the exception of some missed cues in The Song Remains The Same. It really warms up with a great version of Dazed and Confused, and a storming version of Immigrant Song. This title is definitely worth having. Lets hope this label can continue producing titles as nice as this one. (Gerard Sparaco Feb 03) Dancing Jimmy (Tarantura TCD - 15) 2CD Festival Hall, Osaka, 4 October 1972 Disc 1 (75.18): Rock And Roll/Black Dog/Over The Hills And Far Away/Misty Mountain Hop/Since Ive Been Loving You/Dancing Days/Song Intro/Bron-yr-Aur Stomp/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Dazed And Confused Disc 2 (46.35): Song Intro/Stairway To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love/Heartbreaker/Immigrant Song On the front cover of this 2CD gatefold package the title is Dancing Jimmy, but on the lettering on the spine it is Dancing Page. It is the complete excellent sounding stereo audience recording from the first Osaka 1972 Japan Tour concert. There is a second audience tape, but this is incomplete. Many years ago Amsterdam released a pioneering 6 CD box set called Osaka Tapes, the first 2 CDs being a combined two tape source, and the second and third sets of 2 CDs the complete first and second source tapes. However this concert was first released by Zosos Company as Wild West Side on 2 CDs. This new release from Tarantura uses the Zoso source, and is in excellent sound. They do use the alternate source to fill the cuts. The 1972 Japan Tour has often been dismissed as a rather lacklustre one, but this is incorrect. The set list received a complete makeover, and new songs from Houses Of The Holy were previewed. It deserves greater recognition and consideration by fans. Fortunately all six concerts were very well recorded by enterprising fans, so we can enjoy them properly. The packaging on this release is extremely nice, Jimmy Page is depicted as a Samurai warrior on the front. When you open the covers the picture discs pop up. It is limited to 100 numbered copies. Both this and the second Osaka concert are also available as a 4CD package Rock Explosion 72 from the same label (see seperate review). (Jules McTrainspotter Oct 04) Rock Explosion 72 (Tarantura TCD - 15 & 16) 4 CD set Festival Hall, Osaka, 4 & 9 October 1972 Disc 1 (75.18): Rock And Roll/Black Dog/Over The Hills And Far Away/Misty Mountain Hop/Since Ive Been Loving You/Dancing Days/Song Intro/Bron-yr-Aur Stomp/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Dazed And Confused Disc 2 (46.35): Song Intro/Stairway To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love/Heartbreaker/Immigrant Song Disc 3 (74.34): Rock And Roll/Black Dog/Over The Hills And Far Away/Misty Mountain Hop/Since Ive Been Loving You/Dancing Days/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Dazed And Confused Disc 4 (68.38): Song Intro/Stairway To Heaven/Moby Dick/Whole Lotta Love/Stand By Me/Immigrant Song This release is a combination of Dancing Jimmy and My Brain Hurts into a 4 CD package. Housed in a card slipcase, the same CDs are in a four way thick card gatefold package. The CDs are identical to the two seperate issues in both sound and look. The card slipcase pays tribute to an early Underground vinyl boot shop in Osaka called Hogg. This release is also limited to 100 numbered copies. (Jules McTrainspotter Oct 04) Rock Explosion 72 (Tarantura TCD - 15 & 16) 4 CD set Festival Hall, Osaka, 4 & 9 October 1972 Disc 1 (75.18): Rock And Roll/Black Dog/Over The Hills And Far Away/Misty Mountain Hop/Since Ive Been Loving You/Dancing Days/Song Intro/Bron-yr-Aur Stomp/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Dazed And Confused Disc 2 (46.35): Song Intro/Stairway To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love/Heartbreaker/Immigrant Song Disc 3 (74.34): Rock And Roll/Black Dog/Over The Hills And Far Away/Misty Mountain Hop/Since Ive Been Loving You/Dancing Days/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Dazed And Confused Disc 4 (68.38): Song Intro/Stairway To Heaven/Moby Dick/Whole Lotta Love/Stand By Me/Immigrant Song They are excellent audience sources. They are better than Last Stand released. 10/04 I also have Dancing Geisha, I am not sure that the new version are better, but If You don`t have Geisha, This released is very interesting. I think It is the best show of Japan tour 1972. 10/09, I don`t have Live (old Tarantura version), but I have Last Stand (box set), and the New Tarantura is better. The sound quality is slower & clearer. The package is similiar to Have You Ever Experienced? (Chris form Argentina Oct 04) Rock Explosion 72 (Tarantura TCD - 15 & 16) 4 CD set Festival Hall, Osaka, 4 & 9 October 1972 Disc 1 (75.18): Rock And Roll/Black Dog/Over The Hills And Far Away/Misty Mountain Hop/Since Ive Been Loving You/Dancing Days/Song Intro/Bron-yr-Aur Stomp/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Dazed And Confused Disc 2 (46.35): Song Intro/Stairway To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love/Heartbreaker/Immigrant Song Disc 3 (74.34): Rock And Roll/Black Dog/Over The Hills And Far Away/Misty Mountain Hop/Since Ive Been Loving You/Dancing Days/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Dazed And Confused Disc 4 (68.38): Song Intro/Stairway To Heaven/Moby Dick/Whole Lotta Love/Stand By Me/Immigrant Song The Rock Explosion, Hogg Box, is the same packaging type used for Have You Ever Experienced. The picture disc pressed silvers are the same as those for the 2 single show releases of Dancing Jimmy and My Brain Hurts. I have not been a particular fan of the 1972 Japan tour so hearing these were probably the best versions so far, I invested accordingly. The 4th is a wonderful sounding concert played loud with lots of great crowd atmosphere! It also does not suffer from the numerous cuts as on the Last Stand Disc version. In all a cracking concert with another full blown Dazed & Confused clocking over 23 minutes - Page is just awesome. I read somewhere that Plants voice was blown this night. Considering the high pitch he usually sings at it is nothing near as dire as some of those 75 shows!. Great WLL medley including: Everybody Needs Somebody to Love, Boogie Chillun, Got A Lotta Living To Do, Lets Have A Party, You Shook Me, Lemon Song. The 9th is also excellent quality and a show played at a frenetic pace with a wild crowd in attendance. Another blistering Dazed clocking 27 minutes. There is no cut after Moby Dick, as on the Last Stand Disc version but there does appear to be a source change straight after the Plantations which then reverts back to the main tape source for WLL? There is however still a small cut present on the very last sustain of the last chord played of Whole Lotta Love which is a real pity as it just takes the edge of what is a great show. The medley section does feature the brilliant Page playing at breakneck speed - just a shame that Plant s voice seems completely lost and overpowered in the mix. Nice Rolling Stones tease of I Cant Get No Satisfaction early on in the medley in which I couldnt hear any tape speed up as someone commented that appeared on the LSD version - unless it was just the speed of Pages fingers! Best part of the medley to me is Heartbreak Hotel and Going Down Slow. My only nag on this concert is that Heartbreaker is left out and Stand By Me is inserted. I hate that song! I also dont think that Immigrant Song goes well played as a show finale, imho, probably because Im too used to hearing it as a concert starter! Both shows are excellent quality recordings though and exceptionally well presented, as usual, by Tarantura. (Phil Bushe Nov 04)
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