Led Zeppelin - "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
This is a Group/Personal project by "those guys that are sick of hearing about vampires", The 7th Son, Joel, Mike, Grendel, and Acapulco Gold.
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.
This is not meant to be a "definitive" version.
Cheers and thanks go out to:
- The taper for taping this and sharing it with everyone in the community, if you're out there, and happen to pick this up, we hope that you will enjoy what we've done.
- Amduscia for ripping his silvers, and for sharing it with everyone in the community, and to Jameskg, and Gauthier for sharing it with the community as well.
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")
Enjoy!
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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.
Amoung 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.
Cheers!