Led Zeppelin - " Dorten Arena, 1st Generation Tape" April, 7th, 1970, Raliegh, North Carolina, Dorten Arena Audience Recording ( A Group Project) Lineage: 1st Gen > Panasonic SW Cassette Deck, Evolution Patch Chord > Goldwave > 24 Bit, 48 KHZ WAV > Goldwave, Batch Processing > 16 Bit, 44.1 HZ > Flac Frontend, Encoding Options, Level.6, Align On Sector Boundaries > Flac Label: N/A Original Taper: N/A
Cheers and thanks to my friend who has given the honour and opportunity of transferring this recording, and giving me the permission to share it with everyone here.
It's indeed a thrill to have personally transferred a Zeppelin cassette.
Cheers and thanks also to my mate The7thSon for all his help with the scans and transferring the tapes.
Dedicated to my mate in the Windy City Porgie who was looking for a stellar version of this tape.
Cheers to you!
Disc One:
1) We're Gonna Groove/Groove ( Cuts In Slightly, Has A Quick Drop Out At The End) 2) Dazed And Confused 3) Heartbreaker 4) Bring It On Home 5) White Summer/Black Mountain Side ( Has A Small Tape Cut)
Disc Two:
1) Since I've Been Loving You 2) Organ Solo 3) Thank You 4) What Is And What Should Never Be 5) Moby Dick ( Cuts Out, Cut, Incomplete Song)
Enjoy!
Notes From My friend about the history of this show:
This tape came into my possession about 15 years ago,back when this show was still uncirculated. The taper of the show contacted my friend,( how they knew one another is beyond me) and told him about the show he taped, then handed him his master. Copies of the master were made for a select few people, my copy was one of the last ones made from the master.
I hope you enjoy!
My own personal notes:
This is one of the groups finest shows of the 1970 tour, one of their finest performances ever caught on tape, it's a spectacular show, full of incredible energy, everyone in the band is in excellent form.
The recording captures that feeling, and has an even distribution of all the instruments, the only problem the tape has is that there is some tape hiss in the left channel.
It's a terrible shame that the tape is incomplete.
Besides splitting the audio into tracks, this tape has been totally uncomprimised.
No equalization, noise reduction, or tape hiss removal has been applied to it, this is strictly the tape in all it's raw glory.
The debate rages on if this show is indeed dates April, 7th, 1970 or if it's from April, 8th, 1970, and if the show is actually from Raleigh, and not Charlotte, North Carolina.
Every tape lists it coming from Raleigh, the only thing that's always in question is the date of the performance. On Zeppelinart.com, the show is listed as Charlotte, and he's posted this blurb about where he gets this information:
Venue Correction? Don Hill in Charleston, SC sent me the ticket stub you see above. He attended the show and attests to the stub's authenticity. Robert Godwin's "The Press Reports" verifies that LZ was in Charlotte on 1970-04-07, moving Raleigh to (possibly) April 8. Other sources say Raleigh was April 6. Another question: Which show is the bootleg from? Charlotte or Raleigh? Plant does not mention a city during his "plantations" between songs. We may never know. In the meantime, until further verification, ZeppelinArt will list April 7 as Charlotte and include all "Raleigh" artwork. Thanks Don
Because the tape says " Raleigh, 4-7-70", the best thing to do is to call it by the name on the cassette.
I've included a scan of the tape for everyone to use instead of artwork.
Thanks again for sharing. I just want to know that people listen to the best possible source, when possible. Of course, this is just my opinion, your ears may be better than mine.
This is a fine show, B+ or B++ sound quality, amazing for a vintage audience recording.
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Led Zeppelin - " Dorten Arena, 1st Generation Tape"
April, 7th, 1970, Raliegh, North Carolina, Dorten Arena
Audience Recording ( A Group Project)
Lineage: 1st Gen > Panasonic SW Cassette Deck, Evolution Patch Chord > Goldwave > 24 Bit, 48 KHZ WAV > Goldwave, Batch Processing > 16 Bit, 44.1 HZ > Flac Frontend, Encoding Options, Level.6, Align On Sector Boundaries > Flac
Label: N/A
Original Taper: N/A
Cheers and thanks to my friend who has given the honour and opportunity of transferring this recording, and giving me the permission to share it with everyone here.
It's indeed a thrill to have personally transferred a Zeppelin cassette.
Cheers and thanks also to my mate The7thSon for all his help with the scans and transferring the tapes.
Dedicated to my mate in the Windy City Porgie who was looking for a stellar version of this tape.
Cheers to you!
Disc One:
1) We're Gonna Groove/Groove ( Cuts In Slightly, Has A Quick Drop Out At The End)
2) Dazed And Confused
3) Heartbreaker
4) Bring It On Home
5) White Summer/Black Mountain Side ( Has A Small Tape Cut)
Disc Two:
1) Since I've Been Loving You
2) Organ Solo
3) Thank You
4) What Is And What Should Never Be
5) Moby Dick ( Cuts Out, Cut, Incomplete Song)
Enjoy!
Notes From My friend about the history of this show:
This tape came into my possession about 15 years ago,back when this show was still uncirculated.
The taper of the show contacted my friend,( how they knew one another is beyond me) and told him about the show he taped, then handed him his master.
Copies of the master were made for a select few people, my copy was one of the last ones made from the master.
I hope you enjoy!
My own personal notes:
This is one of the groups finest shows of the 1970 tour, one of their finest performances ever caught on tape, it's a spectacular show, full of incredible energy, everyone in the band is in excellent form.
The recording captures that feeling, and has an even distribution of all the instruments, the only problem the tape has is that there is some tape hiss in the left channel.
It's a terrible shame that the tape is incomplete.
Besides splitting the audio into tracks, this tape has been totally uncomprimised.
No equalization, noise reduction, or tape hiss removal has been applied to it, this is strictly the tape in all it's raw glory.
The debate rages on if this show is indeed dates April, 7th, 1970 or if it's from April, 8th, 1970, and if the show is actually from Raleigh, and not Charlotte, North Carolina.
Every tape lists it coming from Raleigh, the only thing that's always in question is the date of the performance.
On Zeppelinart.com, the show is listed as Charlotte, and he's posted this blurb about where he gets this information:
Venue Correction?
Don Hill in Charleston, SC sent me the ticket stub you see above. He attended the show and attests to the stub's authenticity. Robert Godwin's "The Press Reports" verifies that LZ was in Charlotte on 1970-04-07, moving Raleigh to (possibly) April 8. Other sources say Raleigh was April 6. Another question: Which show is the bootleg from? Charlotte or Raleigh? Plant does not mention a city during his "plantations" between songs. We may never know. In the meantime, until further verification, ZeppelinArt will list April 7 as Charlotte and include all "Raleigh" artwork. Thanks Don
Because the tape says " Raleigh, 4-7-70", the best thing to do is to call it by the name on the cassette.
I've included a scan of the tape for everyone to use instead of artwork.
Cheers!
Thank you for posting so many great Zep, many of which are the best I've ever heard.
In the case of this Raleigh show, there is a better sounding 1st gen source here:
http://nickzeppsboots.blogspot.com/2010/03/04-08-raleigh-nc.html
And there is another version (Empress Valley) that also sounds better than the 1st gen version you posted.
http://qualitybootz.blogspot.com/2010/11/led-zeppelin-raleigh-1970-vg-aud-flac.html
Thanks again for sharing. I just want to know that people listen to the best possible source, when possible. Of course, this is just my opinion, your ears may be better than mine.
This is a fine show, B+ or B++ sound quality, amazing for a vintage audience recording.
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