Led Zeppelin - Book 'Em, Danno!
Honolulu International Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
September 6, 1970
Audience recording
A Group/Personal Project
All thanks for this version go to TEAM "Acapulco Gold & Co.". Below his original info with all details...
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Led Zeppelin - "Book 'Em, Danno!"
September, 6th, 1970, Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu International Center (HIC)
Remastered Audience Recording + Concert Video Footage, (A Group/Personal Project)
Lineage: (Audio): "The Box Of Tricks", (Red Hot), Trader CD-R > EAC, Secure Mode, Accurate Stream, No Disable Cache > WAV > Remaster > Flac Frontend, Encoding Options, Level.8, Align On Sector Boundaries > Flac
(Video): "Honolulu International Center, Clint's 70's Footage", (No Label), MPEG > HD > Torrent
Label: N/A
Original Taper: N/A
This is a group/personal project by "The Breakfast Club", The 7th Son, Joel, Mark, Clint111, and Acapulco Gold.
We hope you enjoy this recording, and we hope that you'll pass it along to others, or just pass, the choice is yours.
This is not meant to be a definitive recording.
Cheers and thanks go out to:
- The taper for taping and sharing their recording with everyone in the community, if you're out there, and happen to pick this up, we hope that you'll enjoy what we've done, and we hope Robert is taking good care of your tape (if those rumours are true)
- My friend who hooked me up this release, hope you're doing well, wherever you are, and I hope you find your tapes one day.
- My mate Mark for putting together the artwork for this release.
- My mate Clint111 for sharing the concert footage with us.
1) Introduction
2) Immigrant Song
3) Dazed And Confused
4) Heartbreaker
5) Since I've Been Loving You
6) What Is And What Should Never Be ( Includes: "Ramble On" (Tease) )
7) Moby Dick
8) Whole Lotta Love (Medley)
Includes:
- Boogie Chillen
- Stop Messin' Round With My Heart
- I'm Movin' On
- Roadhouse
- Some Other Guy
- Be A Man
9) Announcer
10) Communication Breakdown (Includes: "American Woman" (Tease) )
11) Closing Announcements
Bonus Material:
"Immigrant Song" + "Communication Breakdown" 8mm Colour Concert Footage, with sound.
Enjoy!
Please Do Not Convert To Lossy Formats
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My Personal Notes:
Notes about the concert, and performance:
This is one of my all time favourite Zeppelin shows, and it's my absolute favourite show of the entire 1970 tour.
An excellent performance from the group, this show is equal to their infamous "Blueberry Hill" performance in terms of both performance and sound quality, it's a shame that the recording is incomplete.
The band played 2 shows in Hawaii that night, (the first was held at 7 P.M, and the second was held at 10:30 P.M).
This is taken from a review posted on Boot-Review.com about EVSD's release of this show "September VI":
Led Zeppelin played two shows on September 6th in Honolulu. The early show, and the source of this new release on Empress Valley, was at 7 pm and was followed by a second show at 10:30pm. The early show was shortened to accommodate the schedule and the band play what they must considered to be essential to their show. "Bring It On Home",
"That's The Way", "Bron-Y-Aur", the organ solo and "Thank You" are all omitted and only one encore, "Communication Breakdown", is played. This tape surfaced in the early days of the protection gap cd with Holiday In Waikiki on Gold Standard. The famous Box Of Tricks (Red Hot RH-023) followed several years later. Almost Son Of Blueberry Hill (Shout To The Top STTP 123) was a good, inexpensive way to obtain this show and is one of the better titles produced by that chequered label. Finally Akashic gave it the expensive, limited edition deluxe treatment on In Exotic "Honolulu" (Akashic AKA-24) which they released at the same time as The Rolling Stones In Exotic Honolulu (Akashic AKA-23), a tape of the early show in the same venue on January 1st, 1973. The tape captures the entire show and is very clear. September VI sounds significantly more thick, dynamic, heavy and powerful and makes the others sound very thin and tinny. There is a cut in the tape after "Heartbreaker" and at 4:52 in "Whole Lotta Love". "Moby Dick",
which is cut on the Gold Standard and STTP releases, is complete on Empress Valley.
All of the members of the band are in fine form, but Robert is the real star of the show, his voice is just incredible, with excellent range and power.
Some collectors would even argue that this performance is better then "Blueberry Hill", (myself being one of them, but please keep in mind that is just my opinion on the issue).
There are even 2 bootlegs of this show that have compared this show to "Blueberry Hill", ("Almost Son Of Blueberry Hill from the Shout To The Top Label, and "Bastard Son Of Blueberry Hill", which is a fan made remaster.edited version of the STTT bootleg release)
I don't know if people would feel the way they do about this show if a complete recording existed, if a complete tape existed, and we heard the rest of what the band performed that night, we might have a completely different opinion about it, (i.e: their acoustic set might have paled in comparsion to "Blueberry Hill" , there were a lot of technical problems throughout the show, someone had a seizure during the bands acoustic set, and a fight broke out in the audience, which probably extended the delays of the concert).
So having only a fragment of this concert is indeed a sad thing, but it could also be a blessing in disguise.
An interesting moment happens during the performance, someone from the audience yells out a request for "Whole Lotta Love", and Robert assures him that it will be played later, so he then yells out for "White Summer", that person in the audience must've seen the band perform once before in either 69 or early 1970, because how else would he have known that the band played that song?
It's known that the Yardbirds played that song, but how would he know that Zeppelin played that song unless he saw them in concert previously?
Legend has it that the taper of this show gave Robert Plant his master(s) when the band returned to Hawaii in 71.
If the rumour is true, it's unclear how they met Plant, and on what day he gave them away since the band played 2 shows in Hawaii, the final stops of their U.S 71 tour, and the last time the band would ever play there.
One of my very dear, and close friends attended one of those concerts in 71.
Besides the audience recording,the only other document of this concert is a brief fragment of silent, colour film 8mm footage of their performance which captures the band playing "Immigrant Song", and "Communication Breakdown".
The film has been used in several Zeppelin bootleg DVD's such as "Early Visions", and "Assemblage", the footage is actually quite clear, and striking for it's age.
In the film you can see a Hawaiian "Lei" placed around the neck of John Paul Jones' bass, and Robert carries it off stage with him.
Notes about the sound quality, and why we wanted to work on this recording:
This show is one of the rare Zeppelin recordings that actually benefits from having some distortion in the channels.
Usually distortion of any kind will usually bring the quality of the recording down significantly,but it actually sort of enhances the power of the recording and performance, it gives it a little more "omph", but it is still an issue with the tape, and we wanted to try and bring it down a little, yet try not to eliminate that punch it brings to the recording.
The recording is very heavy on treble, Jimmy, and Robert are the most dominant in the mix, while Jones and Bonham are very low in the mix, so we wanted to try and balance the instruments.
The volume of the recording was another issue that needed to be resolved, it was unnescessarily amplified way too much, causing a lot of clipping.
Listening to the raw recording on headphones is extremely grating on the ears, almost impossible to do.
The recording also lacks some of the presence of the venue.
So the goal of the project was to make a balanced, yet still punchy recording, that didn't have over amplified volume, and gave the listener a sense of acoustics/the venue.
We decided to add on the concert footage to the project because we wanted to give collectors a little something extra, (give collectors not only an audio document of their performance, but a visual one as well).
This show has been released several times throughout the years, (the latest version being EVSD'S "September VI"), and none of the labels have released the audio and the video together in the same package, which I think would be a nice thing to do for collectors, (having both sources together in one package instead of having to track them both down).
We have left the concert footage untouched, the way it's in the torrent is the way we've recieved it.
We would've liked to synch our project audio over the footage, and would like to try and see if it's possible to clean up the footage, but we unfortunately don't have any video editing software....yet!
The title comes from a line from the television series "Hawaii-Five O", we thought it would be a clever name for a title, that makes a reference to the part of the world where the concert took place.
We hope you all enjoy the work we've done.
Cheers.
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Additional lineage: tracker > HD > DVD-R > HD > Dime
Original posted artwork included
Have a fun...M