42 years ago, Led Zeppelin played in Tokyo 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 Rain Song* - NA The Song Remains The Same Dazed And Confused Stairway To Heaven Whole Lotta Love Immigrant Song The Ocean 03-Oct-72 Tokyo Box Set 71-72 Again, sounds like it was taken from a lower generation tape than either Second Night In Judo Arena or Live In Tokyo. The sound on the LSD is more natural with slightly better mastering, whereas Live In Tokyo especially was a bit piercing on the ears (they seemed to have eqd their tape pretty high and then compressed it). Again, LSDs is an improvement. (Lord Byron Nov 99) Live In Japan 1972 (12CD box set, Last Stand, LSD - 65-76) Discs C & D : Tokyo 3/10/72, 130 mins. An improvement on previous releases, very up front sound. (Jules McTrainspotter) Performance: 5-6 SQ: 5 Average, passable sound and performance (Anton) Live In Japan 1972 (12CD box set, Last Stand, LSD - 65-76) October 3, 1972 - Budokan Hall, Tokyo Japan - DISC C&D Last Stand Disc - LSD-67/68 - Part of 12CD BOX Audio: Disc C&D - 7 AUD Track Listing: DISC C: Announcement, 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 D: Dazed And Confused, Stairway To Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song, The Ocean A step down in quality from the previous nights recording. A bit distant and/or flat sounding - not as balanced and detailed as the tape from the 2nd - the drums and vocals are up front in this recording. Black Dog again has the Sweet Jellyroll lyrics. Dancing Days is introduced as a song that should really have come out in England about 3 months ago to coincide with the vibe to it - its about summertime and all of the good things that have happened. The Song Remains The Same is introduced as The Overture. Plant even says that last night it was called Zep, so Luis Reys book was incorrect after all - see last nights review for an explanation. Dazed has a number of cuts in it. A short instrumental take of The Crunge is tucked inside of Dazed. There a cut at the end of Dazed and right before Stairway - no music is lost. Theres yet another cut in the tape, this time its after Stairway To Heaven. Plant is in good vocals tonight adding some incredibly long high notes at the end of Whole Lotta Love. The taper stops the tape after Plant issues his Goodnight and restarts it once the band come back onstage for the encores. The audio looses some of its punch after Immigrant Song - my guess is our guy taping the show thought that they were done and started to head out of the arena only to be proven wrong - they are not done playing - so the loss of punch is the fact that the microphone has been moved to a section of the arena with worse acoustics. The Ocean suffers a tad due to the relocated taping position, but its still very good sound. (Steve Prendergast) Live At The Big Hall Budokan Oct 3 1972 (The Diagrams Of Led Zeppelin). 2 CDs each concert. These two new releases of the two nights in Tokyo, very nicely packaged reproducing the posters for the concerts, are definite improvements on the previous versions. The first night especially is in superb stereo sound, better than NO USE GRECO (Tarantura), and BUDOKAN 1972 (Patriot). On the inside cover of the slipcases for both releases Diagrams make the following statement :-Pressed on silver disc. Beware of imitations on cheap CD-R. (Jules McTrainspotter Jan 99) Live in Tokyo (AMS 9609-3-1/2/3 Amsterdam) Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, October 3, 1972 CD 1: (41:50) introduction/ Rock & Roll, Black Dog, Over the Hills and Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since Ive Been Loving You, Dancing Days, Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp CD 2: (40:09) The Song Remains the Same, The Rain Song, Dazed & Confused (includes The Crunge) (contains 2 small cuts before bow section) CD 3: (48:48) Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love (includes Everybody Needs Somebody to Love, Boogie Woogie, Lets Have a Party, You Shook Me), Immigrant Song, The Ocean The recording is almost as good as the common recording from the night before; clearer, brighter but slightly more distant. Very good as a whole. There is some high pitched tape hiss in one channel. The real pleasure is Plants singing. It holds up a thousand times better than the night before or the following night. Only a few cracks in his voice. This is the closest he comes to matching his studio vocal efforts on The Song Remains the Same. Immigrant Song is from a different tape source (?) that is not as clear and bright as the one used for the majority of this show. Its still a very good recording. The Ocean comes from another tape source not as clear and more distant. It could be from the night before. This release could have fit on 2 discs. (Brian Ingham Oct 96) Live in Tokyo (Amsterdam) 3 CD Perf *** SQ *** Appeal G 3 CD set on the Amsterdam label (that could have fitted onto 2 discs) from Tokyo 3rd Oct 1972. Could be a copy of the Tarantura ‘2nd Night in a Judo Arena’. Certainly well recorded, though not as bright as the Tarantura equivalent. Good show, but being on 3 discs makes it expensive for what it is. (Paul Sheppard Dec 01). Live At The Big Hall Budokan Oct 3 1972 (The Diagrams Of Led Zeppelin TDOLZ Vol. 73) Budokan, Tokyo, Japan – October 3rd, 1972 Disc 1 (55:10): Rock And Roll, Black Dog, Over The Hills And Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Dancing Days, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, The Song Remains The Same, The Rain Song Disc 2 (72:40): Dazed And Confused, Stairway To Heaven, Blue Suede Shoes, Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song, The Ocean Led Zeppelin’s second night in the Big Hall Budokan has six separate audience recordings in circulation. The earliest was released twice on Tarantura in the mid-nineties, in The Campaign boxset and separately on 2nd Night In a Judo Arena(Tarantura). The second tape was pressed on Live In Tokyo (Amsterdam AMS 9609-3-1/2/3). Live At The Big Hall Budokan Oct 3 1972 was released in 1998 and is the third source to surface. In the subsequent years it’s been used by other labels to fill in gaps in the three newer tapes, namely Explosion(Flagge), Majestic Rock(Reel Masters) and No Use Gneco (Tarantura TCD-65-1,2,3). The sound quality is similar to the third source for the previous evening (and also pressed by TDOLZ). It is clear but slightly distant. This tape also has slight distortion in louder passages. This tour of Japan is notable for being the start of an overhaul of the set list. For two years their shows began with “Immigrant Song” and “Heartbreaker,” but starting here and lasting for three years “Rock And Roll” is installed into the opening slot. The number isn’t segued with the second number as was Zeppelin’s custom and Plant has time to greet the audience before Bonham counts in “Black Dog.” The versions of this song were incredibly heavy. “Arigato. That’s all I know of Japanese” Plant says before introducing “Over The Hills And Far Away” as something from their fifth LP. The band recorded Houses Of The Holy the previous summer and the initial plan was for it to be released before this tour. It would have to wait another six months before its publication but the entire album, except for “No Quarter” and “D’yer M’ker,” would make an appearance in this show. “Misty Mountain Hop” was also added to the set list for the first time and is segued directly with “Since I’ve Been Loving You” which contains the blues histrionics of a band who truly loved playing the piece. After “Dancing Days,” another new song, the band sit to play “Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp.” The acoustic set reached four songs and about twenty minutes on their previous tour, but this one song set is the only remnant. Having the full slate of acoustic numbers would have pushed the length of the show to a routine three hours, but it does eliminate one of the more fun parts of the stage act. Following this are the two opening numbers from the new album. “Last night it was called ‘Zep’ and tonight we’ll call it ‘The Overture’” is how Plant introduces “The Song Remains The Same.” They both made their stage debuts the previous night and are both played close to their studio counterparts. “Dazed & Confused” reaches twenty-six minutes in this show. Plant punctuates Page’s ascending riffs after the second verse and Page uses some “The Song Remains The Same” style chimes on the guitar before launching into the fast riffs that lead into the violin bow section. They play an instrumental version of “The Crunge” sixteen minutes into the piece before the call-and-response section. The coda is very intense and Plant sounds out of breath as he says, “well…good evening!” He introduces “Stairway To Heaven” by saying, “here’s a song about time. And ah, and ah, some of the flashes that govern our passage through it. Heavy trip, man.” There is a short delay as Jones tunes his keyboards before they play the piece. Plant sings “Blue Suede Shoes” before the band play the final song of the set, a twenty-five minute “Whole Lotta Love” medley. The inclusions are common for this era with “Everybody Need Somebody To Love” before Plant doing an Elvis impersonation during “Boogie Chillun’.” Page plays great boogie on the guitar before “Let’s Have A Party.” The final song in the medley is a long, drawn out and heavier than granite version of “You Shook Me” augmented considerably from its studio counterpart. The show closes with two encores, their biggest hit in Japan “Immigrant Song” and “The Ocean.” Live At The Big Hall Budokan Oct 3 1972 is another solid release on The Digrams Of Led Zeppelin. It is packaged in a gatefold cardboard sleeve with good use of the cover of the tour program on the artwork.
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