Led Zeppelin - "Heavy Vibraphones"
September, 4th, 1970, Inglewood, California, The Great Western Forum (L.A. Forum)
Raw + Remastered Audience Recordings, (A Group/Personal Project)
Lineage:
Raw:
Source 1: "Blueberry Hill,1st Tape Source", (No Label),Trader CD-R > EAC > WAV > Flac Frontend, Encoding Options, Level.8, Align On Sector Boundaries > Flac (All Tracks Tested With TLH, No Errors Occured)
Source 2: "Live At The Los Angeles Forum, Original Vinyl Rip", (Rubber Dubber), LP > CD rip using TASCAM CD-RW 700 burner > WAV > CDR (1) > EAC > WAV > Flac Frontend, Encoding Options, Level.8, Align On Sector Boundaries > Flac
Remastered:
Source 1: "Blueberry Hill,1st Tape Source", (No Label), Trader CD-R > EAC > WAV > Remaster > Flac Frontend, Encoding Options, Level.8, Align On Sector Boundaries > Flac (All Tracks Tested With TLH, No Errors Occured)
Source 2: "Live At The Los Angeles Forum, Original Vinyl Rip", (Rubber Dubber), LP > CD rip using TASCAM CD-RW 700 burner > WAV > CDR (1) > EAC > WAV > Remaster > Flac Frontend, Encoding Options, Level.8, Align On Sector Boundaries > Flac
Label: N/A
Original Tapers: Source 1: Dub Taylor (?)
Source 2: Scott ("The Rubber Dubber")
This is A Group/Personal Project by "Those guys who're up to no good in Inglewood", The 7th Son, Joel, Porgie, Mark, and Acapulco Gold.
We hope that everyone who picks 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" recording, especially for this recording.
Cheers and thanks go out to:
- All 6 tapers of this infamous show, thank you so much for sharing your recordings with everyone in the community. If the tapers of these 2 particular sources are out there, and happen to pick this up, we hope that you'll enjoy what we've done.
- My dear friend who shared this version of the 1st tape source with me, wherever you are, I hope you're doing well.
- My mate Porgie for transferring his LP, sharing it, allowing me to remaster it, helping proof the final drafts, and for basically getting the ball rolling on this project.
- My mate Mark for helping me out by putting together the artwork for this release, I enjoy working with you, and appreciate all your help.
Discs 1 to 3,(Raw Tape Sources):
"Blueberry Hill, 1st Tape Source":
Disc One:
1) Introduction/Immigrant Song
2) Heartbreaker
3) Dazed And Confused
4) Bring It On Home
5) That's The Way
6) Bron-Yr-Aur
7) Since I've Been Loving You
Disc Two:
1) Organ Solo/Thank You
2) What Is And What should Never Be
3) Moby Dick
4) Whole Lotta Love (Medley)
Includes:
- Boogie Chillen
- Some Other Guy
- I've Got A Girl
- I'm Movin' On
- Think It Over
- Honey Bee
- The Lemon Song
5) Communication Breakdown (Includes: "Good Times,Bad Times", "For What It's Worth", and "I Saw Her Standing There")
6) Out On The Tiles
7) Blueberry Hill
"Live At The Los Angeles Forum, Original Vinyl Rip":
Disc Three:
1) Bring It On Home
2) That's The Way
3) Bron-Yr-Aur (Cuts In Slightly)
4) Since I've Been Loving You
5) Organ Solo/Thank You
6) What Is And What Should Never Be
7) Whole Lotta Love (Medley, Cut, Incomplete Song)
Includes:
- Boogie Chillen
- I'm Movin' On
- Honey Bee
- The Lemon Song
8) Communication Breakdown (Includes: "Good Times,Bad Times", Cuts Out, Cut, Incomplete Song)
Discs 4 to 6, (Remastered Tape Sources):
"Blueberry Hill, 1st Tape Source":
Disc Four:
1) Introduction
2) Immigrant Song
3) Heartbreaker
4) Dazed And Confused
5) Bring It On Home
6) That's The Way
7) Bron-Yr-Aur
8) Since I've Been Loving You
Disc Five:
1) Organ Solo
2) Thank You
3) What Is And What Should Never Be
4) Moby Dick
5) Whole Lotta Love (Medley)
Includes:
- Boogie Chillen
- Some Other Guy
- I've Got A Girl
- I'm Movin' On
- Think It Over
- Honey Bee
- The Lemon Song
6) Communication Breakdown (Includes: "Good Times,Bad Times", "For What It's Worth", and "I Saw Her Standing There")
7) Out On The Tiles
8) Blueberry Hill
"Live At The Los Angeles Forum, Original Vinyl Rip":
Disc Six:
1) Bring It On Home
2) That's The Way
3) Bron-Yr-Aur (Cuts In Slightly)
4) Since I've Been Loving You
5) Organ Solo
6) Thank You
7) What Is And What Should Never Be
8) Whole Lotta Love (Medley, Cut, Incomplete Song)
Includes:
- Boogie Chillen
- I'm Movin' On
- Honey Bee
- The Lemon Song)
9) Communication Breakdown (Includes: "Good Times,Bad Times", Cuts Out, Cut, Incomplete Song)
Enjoy!
Please Do Not Convert To Lossy Formats
Please Do Not Sell
Please Share With Others
Notes:
This project is a combination of both raw and remastered versions of 2 of our favourite, and what we personally think are the best sounding versions of the 1st (TMOQ) and 2nd (Rubber Dubber) tape sources of the infamous "Blueberry Hill" Show.
The recordings have just been remastered, they have not been merged together with other tape sources to make a complete show.
We chose to do just straight remasters of these tape sources for this reason:
There are 6 tape sources of this show in circulation, each source is very good, and brings something to the table, (i.e: some have more tape in between songs, some are more complete than others, some sound better than others, etc).
Zeppelin collectors have very strong feelings about this show, and what they feel is the best tape source of the 6 in circulation, and what sources would make for a "perfect mix".
They also have very strong opinions about which version of the tape is the best, so trying to put together a merge of this show that will please collectors is a very tricky thing to do.
We decided to spare ourselves that headache and just focus on improving the sound quality of these tape sources.
This project was just done in fun, we had no intentions of releasing a definitive version of this show.
The 1st tape source came to me in a trade I made with a very close friend of mine many years ago.
I've only traded it out to other people a handfull of times, I really didn't think it was anymore special then the other versions of the 1st tape source until I started hearing other versions/releases of the 1st tape source.
This version I'm sharing with everyone has a much fuller, and brighter sound to it then previous releases.
The biggest advantage this version has over the others though is that it's running at the correct tape speed, older versions ( like GM's "Blueberry Hill") run too slow.
The 2nd tape source (known as the "Rubber Dubber" source) comes straight from an original Rubber Dubber LP.
Porgie's transfer sounds much better than the boot releases I've heard.
Whether the change in sound quality is due to the transfer, or if they transferred it from something like a cassette copy of the LP (like some of the "PB" releases) I don't know, but I personally find the silver releases to be a little duller than Porgie's transfer (nothing beats the sound of vinyl).
As for the remasters, this is what we've done:
- We've tried to balance the instruments and the acoustics as much as possible.
- We've reduced as much tape hiss as possible.
- We've tried to bring out things that were buried in the recording (crowd cheers,clapping,commentary).
The title comes from a Plantation Robert makes before the band play "Since I've Been Loving You".
We wanted to come up with a different title idea for this project instead of just recycling the "Blueberry Hill" title because we felt it's been done to death.
We had come up with several different title ideas, we had thought about calling the project "Up To No Good In Inglewood", "Floor 'Em At The Forum", and "Manifest Destiny".
They sounded good, but really didn't stick, and pack the kind of punch we wanted.
One day, while listening to the work we'd done on the recording..it hits us.
We came to the part where the band is about to play "Since I've Been Loving You", and he says to the crowd "Heavy Vibraphones!", and we thought that sounded pretty cool, and decided to use it.
We hope everyone here will enjoy this.
Cheers!