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 Down By The River The Crunge Hendrix Jam Mars: The Bringer Of War Stairway To Heaven Moby Dick Whole Lotta Love Everybody Needs Somebody To Love Somethings Got A Hold On Me (I Cant Get No) Satisfaction Leave My Woman Alone Lawdy Miss Clawdy Heartbreak Hotel Wear My Ring Around Your Neck Going Down Slow Stand By Me Immigrant Song Live In Japan 1972 (12CD box set, Last Stand, LSD - 65-76 Discs I & J : Osaka 9/10/72, 143 mins. Slightly clearer than Taranturas release of this show, very good to excellent stereo. (Jules McTrainspotter) Performance: 8-9 SQ: 7-10 Great sound again, excellent show, and once again, a definitive version of Stairway. Black Dog solo is also amazing. DaC is good. Probably the best available version of this concert. (Anton) Live In Japan 1972 (12CD box set, Last Stand, LSD - 65-76) October 9, 1972 - Festival Hall, Osaka Japan - DISC I&J Last Stand Disc - LSD-73/74 - Part of 12CD BOX Audio: Disc I&J - 8/8.5 AUD Track Listing: DISC I: 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 J: Stairway To Heaven, Moby Dick, Whole Lotta Love, Stand By Me, Immigrant Song The tape stats out distant with Plant buried in the mix and is heavily echoed probably due to arena acoustics. Plant addresses this issue with the crowd after Rock And Roll and it does clear up considerably for Black Dog. Black Dog includes the now standard Sweet Jellyroll lyrics. While the guitar is up front on the tape, the bass and drums at times blend together and become a bit muddy. It still sounds good, but its just not as clear as would be preferred (What can you do? It is after all a 20 year old recording). This is probably a notch above the previous few days shows in sound and playing. Plant has had a few days rest and his voice has recovered a lot of what was lost. Jimmy is really on the ball tonight - his playing is simply stated awesome. Plant tells the crowd that they had just returned from Hong Kong and announces the still untitled The Song Remains The Same as The Campaign. Excellent version of The Rain Song - lots of delicate notes and excellent fill from Bonzo. Dazed And Confused is spectacular. Instrumental version of The Crunge is included. Tonights show, at times, takes on a party-like atmosphere. The drunken Japanese audience is game for just about anything. Mody Dick is played tonight, inserted into the set after Stairway To Heaven. Bonzo is introduced as John, aahh, Samurai Bonham - MOBY DICK!. Bonzos bent on making Moby Dick standout tonight and succeeds without a doubt. Its not quite as good of a performance as it was in 71 with the marching patterns and so on, but it is a very good, fast-paced version. The tape is cut right after Moby is finished and you miss some of the audience cheer and Plants John Bonham! praises. Whole Lotta Love has a section in the medley that for some unknown reason speeds up making Plant sound like hes singing on Helium. It does slow back down to normal, but its odd. The medley is also in a one-off arrangement. No Boogie Woogie tonight. Instead we get amini Elvis concert/rockabilly jam including: Every Needs Somebody To Love, We Say Yeah, Leave My Woman Alone, All Shook Up, Miss Clawdy, Heartbreak Hotel, Naturally, Going Down Slow. Its all great fun with Plant doing is Elvis voice and the Japanese crowd going nuts. Sadly, theres a cut at the end of WLL. The gem of the show is the encore Stand By Me. Probably the best show of the tour overall. Great, enthusiastic performance, a drunken Japanese crowd, a uncommon set of medley songs and encore and an overall great sounding recording. (Steve Prendergast) Magical Dreams (3CD, Wyvern Legend, WLG-26561-3), Osaka, 9.10.72, audTwo audience source tapes were used for the previously released boots of this show. One is used in very famous LP called Live(LP), its reissued title called My Brain Hurts (LP), Stand By Me (2CD), Tapes from the Darkside (3CD), and its reissued title from the same bootlegger, called Let Me Get Back To 1972 (3CD). And the other is the one once used for the most part of Live (2CD, Tarantura). Among these boots, Live (LP) is the best in terms of the sound quality, but contains only 7 tracks. Live (2CD) from Tarantura is the second best. But regarding encore tunes (i.e. Stand By Me and Immigrant Song), Tapes from the Darkside and its self-reissue are better than Tarantura. In terms of the completeness, both Tarantura and Tapes from -- are the same and both are almost complete (All songs are complete and uncut except WLL, whose ending a few seconds were missing). Strictly speaking, WLL on Tapes from -- is only one or two seconds longer, but contains some wavering of the pitch in the middle. This newly released boots from Wyvern, partially uses the third source tape. The following table indicates the comparison of the source tapes of the boots.Tapes---(3CD) Live(2CD) Magical--(3CD) R&R A B CBD A B COtHaFA A B CMMH A B CSIBLY A B CDD A B CTSRTS A B CTRS A B CDaC A A CStH A A CMD A B AWLL A A ASbM A B AIS A B A Regarding the portion from R&R to StH, sound quality is excellent and almost equal to Live(2CD). As to the rest, its almost equal to Tapes---(3CD). But Magical--- also contains some wavering of the pitch. In terms of the completeness, this one is also almost complete and all songs except WLL are complete and uncut. Only one or two seconds but the ending of the WLL is still missing. As the conclusion, IMHO, Wyvern is fine, but the combination of Live (LP), Live (2CD), and Tapes--- (3CD) is still most preferable to enjoy most complete version of this show in best sound quality. (Susumu Omi, Dec 96) Let Me Get Back to 1972 (HB-95R01/02/03 H-Bomb Music) Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, October 9, 1972 CD 1:(46:41) Rock & Roll (unbalanced in the beginning), 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 CD 2: (55:10) Dazed & Confused (includes Be On My Side, The Crunge), Stairway to Heaven, Moby Dick CD 3: (40:21) Whole Lotta Love (includes Everybody Needs Somebody to Love, We Say Yeah (contains a gradual tape speed up for 50 seconds before), Leave My Woman Alone, All Shook Up, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Heartbreak Hotel, Naturally, Wont You Wear My Ring Around Your Neck, Going Down Slow) (unbalanced in the beginning), Stand By Me, Immigrant Song This is a very good, clear audience recording. Pages guitar is fairly prominent in this recording, but it doesnt overwhelm the other instruments. Plants vocals sound very distant during Rock & Roll (possibly PA problems). They improve before Black Dog, but never match the volume of the guitar throughout this recording. If Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp was part of the original recording, its not on this release. This could have fit on 2 discs. (Brian Ingham Aug 96) My Brain Hurts (Tarantura TCD - 16) 2CD Festival Hall, Osaka, 4 October 1972 Disc 1 (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 2 (68.38): Song Intro/Stairway To Heaven/Moby Dick/Whole Lotta Love/Stand By Me/Immigrant Song Released along with the first night in Osaka, this second concert from the Festival Hall is regarded as the best of the six of the 1972 Japan Tour. There were some changes to the set list on this second night, Bron-yr-Aur Stomp was dropped and Moby Dick was played for the only time. There is only one complete audience recording available for this concert, which has been released numerous times before. An alternate source has been used to fill a couple of cuts on the main source. The sound is near excellent, and easy to listen to. Played at high speed, this is a very good concert and most enjoyable. The packaging is the same as the 4th October release Dancing Jimmy, on picture discs, and also limited to 100 numbered copies. Nice to see the use of the vinyl release for the title of this release. 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) My Brain Hurts (Tarantura TCD - 16) 2CD Festival Hall, Osaka, October 4, 1972 Disc 1 (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 2 (68.38): Song Intro/Stairway To Heaven/Moby Dick/Whole Lotta Love/Stand By Me/Immigrant Song This new release by Tarantura of the Osaka show from the 9th of October 1972 came as a bit of a revelation to me. The concert is well played and the recording is much better sounding than I expected. The title of Taranturas release is My Brain Hurts. The source tape is the same used for prior releases of this show. However, Tarantura has done a nice job with the EQ on this release. The tape starts out a bit distant and distorted during the opening song Rock and Roll. The sound quality improves to very good by the start of Black Dog. The band is in good form and Plants voice sounds much better than on previous nights from the 1972 Japanese tour. The playing is suberb with a unique set list different from any of the other five shows on this tour. Tarantura has done a great job with the packaging. The front cover depicts a Japanese caricature of Plant with one hand on the side of his head (My Brain Hurts) and the other holding a microphone. The CDs are picture discs each with one half of the Plant caricature from the front cover on them. As you open the front cover the discs pop up to form a complete picture of Plant. Overall, a nice production by Tarantura. The release is limited to 100 numbered copies. (Scott Shallcross 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) Osaka 9 October 1972 Stand By Me (Wendy WECD-50/51) 2CDs in a jewel case The Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, 9 October 1972 Disc 1 (77:53): 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 2 (67:32): Stairway To Heaven / Moby Dick / Whole Lotta Love / Stand By Me / Immigrant Song This new title from Wendy features what has long been recognized as the best show of the bands Japanese tour in 72. In my collection, I had H-BOMBs Let Me Get Back To 1972 which featured the same show, using the most famous audience source recording (so-called the Source 2). As many of you know, the Source 2 is clear but is unfortunately a bit thin. This time, Wendy elected to mainly use another audience source (so-called the Source 3) from the beginning of the show up to Stairway To Heaven, while supplementing the rest of the show with the Source 2. The Source 3 is said to be featured only in one title in the past (at an incorrect speed) but be the best sounding one among the 3 audience recordings of the show known to exist. As I can tell from the audience noises close to the microphone, the new title in fact uses a source different from the Source 2. The overall nature of the sound of the Source 3 as I hear in the new title is similar to that of the Source 2 and is not drastically different from it However, it actually is a bit clearer, deeper and better sounding especially in its lower ends than the tape used in Let Me Get Back To 1972. For instance, its a real joy to listen to Stairway To Heaven of this show in such a clean fuller sound quality. Even the Source 2 used as the filler in the new title sounds somewhat better than as we hear in Let Me Get Back To 1972 probably due to the better mastering (or amplification?). Therefore, the new release may be entitled to claim itself as the best ever title featuring the show! For your further information, Wendy printed an English note on the back cover of the title, which may again be a mere reproduction of some authoritys work (especially judging from the abrupt use of the term this in the starting phrase Plant addresses this issue without any explanation what the issue was!), but I havent been able to pin-point which work it is. Can anyone find the source? (Takemi Hiramatsu Sept. 05) Stand By Me (Wendy WECD – 50/51) Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan – October 9th, 1972 Rock and Roll, Black Dog, Over The Hills And Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Dancing Days, The Song Remains The Same, The Rain Song, Dazed & Confused Disc 2: Stairway To Heaven, Moby Dick, Whole Lotta Love (includes Everybody Needs Somebody to Love, We Say Yeah, Leave My Woman Alone, All Shook Up, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Heartbreak Hotel, Naturally, Won’t You Wear My Ring Around Your Neck, Going Down Slow), Stand By Me, Immigrant Song : Stand By Me is the twentieth release on the “legendary” (their words) Wendy label. Their first release of a Zeppelin show from their 1972 tour of Japan is the popular second Osaka concert on October 9th. Wendy utilizes a previously undocumented, very good incomplete third audience source. All of the previous releases of this show used the two older sources. This new source is a very good to excellent mono source taped somewhere in the middle of the Festival Hall. The questionable acoustics of the venue reduce the clarity of the tape. Wendy uses the second tape source to complete the show, picking up after “Stairway To Heaven” with a very smooth edit. This concert is simply one of the best from this tour. The band spent some time in Hong Kong between the Nagoya show and this and Plant sounds very strong and well rested. Page in particular delivers a very fluent and inventive show. “Dazed & Confused” contains a reference to Neil Young’s “Down By The River” before the violin bow section as a sort of prelude to the “San Francisco” interlude in future performances. The “Whole Lotta Love” medley is unique with no boogies, and this is the only recorded reference to “Stand By Me.” Experienced Zeppelin collectors know the power of this show and is worth having. Stand By Me comes in a double slimline jewel case with an obi. Wendy titles stand out for their use of quality thick glossy paper, rare photos, and inventive packaging. The cover has a parody of the poster for the 1986 Rob Reiner film and the back have several photos from the actual show. Since most of the other versions of this show are either way out of print (Magical Dreams on Wyvern Legend and Let Me Get Back To 1972 on H-Bomb) or part of rare and expensive box sets (The Campaign and My Brain Hurts on Tarantura and Live In Japan 1972 on Last Stand Disc), this is a good opportunity to own a good edition of this essential Zeppelin show. In the four days since the show in Nagoya, Plant has had time to rest his injured voice, and it shows. Hes not quite back to his former glory, but there has definitely been an improvement. Page blazes through the guitar solo during Over the Hills and Far Away. Before Misty Mountain Hop, Plant tells the crowd this is a track... all about getting busted... but we wouldnt say that if we were in England or America, would we? Since Ive Been Loving You is drunk and bluesy. The Song Remains the Same is introduced as The Campaign tonight. Plants voice finally allows him to do the song some justice. The lead-in to the bow solo during Dazed and Confused features a hauntingly heavy rendition of Down By the River. Page is on fire during the guitar solo/workout section. He solos wildly during the outro. Plant is in a good mood, joking with the crowd before Stairway to Heaven, which includes a great guitar solo from Page. Before the only appearance of Moby Dick this tour, Plant announces ladies and gentlemen, tonight we have an added pleasure... John Samurai Bonham! The drum solo features extensive use of Bonzos recently acquired tympani. Page plays a great new riff during the Everybody Needs Somebody to Love section in Whole Lotta Love. Plant skips the usual boogie tonight and dives straight into a riotous medley of classics including Cliff Richards We Say Yeah, Ray Charless Leave My Woman Alone, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Heartbreak Hotel, a fantastic Wear My Ring Around Your Neck, and an excellent Goin Down Slow. The tape is cut right at the end of the finale. After asking the crowd you want John Bonham to sing, yes?, Plant leads the band in an amazing rendition of Stand By Me, with Bonzo providing sporadic backing vocals. The show ends with a powerful Immigrant Song. By far the biggest triumph of the bands final visit to Japan. Must Hear. The tape is fairly clear, if a bit hissy, with Bonzo slightly buried under the rest of the band.
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