1-7-73
Ascension in the Wane: Oxford Blues (Godfatherecords), British Story (Wendy), Made In England (Tarantura), Oxford Midnight (Empress Valley), & Oxford 1973 (TDOLZ)
Tarantura is missing the very last second of the Whole Lotta Love fragment. Other than that, it's similar to TDOLZ and Wendy.
Godfather misses the very first second and the last 56 seconds. It's cut during Rain has an extra split second of tape not found on other titles. This is the least complete version of the show.
Empress Valley's title is an amplified clone of Godfather's title. It even has the same disc times. This is the second EV title either copied from Godfather or sourced from the same audio.
1-14-73
Ascension in the Wane: One For the M6 (Godfatherecords), Days of Heaven (Tattytura), Fabulous Four (Tarantura), Four Lads In Liverpool 1973 (Wendy), Good Evening London (Blizzard), Is One For the M6? (Tarantura2000), Live In Liverpool (TDOLZ), & One For the M6 (Crazy Dream)
Foreword
This show is only available from the soundboard. There are 2 different versions of the recording. The first version has an extra 30-35 seconds of Rain spliced in before it cuts out, while the second version has an extra 75 seconds in the area of "Baby, I Don't Care," during Whole Lotta Love. All versions have similar sound quality.
version 1
Days of Heaven (Tattytura) & The Fabulous Four (Tarantura)
The only difference between these two titles is the speed. Tarantura runs too fast.
version 2
Good Evening London (Blizzard), Is One For the M6? (Tarantura2000), Live In Liverpool (TDOLZ), & One For the M6 (Crazy Dream)
Blizzard repeats a big part of the Rain Song, splits Dazed & Confused across both discs, and runs a little slow.
Crazy Dream's title is better than Blizzard considering the following aspects:
proper speed
Rain Song is not repeated
Dazed & Confused is on 1 disc
TDOLZ does repeat a big part of the Rain Song. Unfortunately it misses just over a second of the beginning of Dazed. However, this title has an extra 3 seconds of music in the area of "Baby, I Don't Care" beyond all of the titles that are strictly from "version" 1 or "version 2."
Tarantura2000's title is strictly version two and is missing too much tape. It comes in five seconds too late for the opening track, Rain cuts out five seconds too early, and it cuts into Dazed four seconds too late. The audio has been amplified considerably. A "bonus" disc is also included which repeats the last 26 minutes of disc two - same version.
version 1 & 2 mix
Ascension in the Wane: One For the M6 (Godfatherecords), Four Lads In Liverpool 1973 (Wendy), & One For the M6 (Empress Valley)
(These titles are either compiled from the previously mentioned two versions, or just simply a more complete tape altogether.)
Godfather uses both soundboard tapes to provide the longer versions of the Rain Song and Whole Lotta Love. The first half second of Over the Hills is new to cd. The sound has been altered and comes with side effects that can be heard between songs and any of the quieter parts of songs.
EV is identical to Godfather. Same cd times, same sound, same mix.
Wendy's title contains all known available tape, and then debuts a little more. Over the Hills begins with an extra second and Rain Song includes an extra second, an extra word, before it's cut. It's sound has been altered/equalized in an attempt to deal with the challenging sound. The first disc's sound seems to be better than the second disc during quieter passages. Like Tarantura2000, Wendy has included the last three tracks as a bonus. Their liner notes claim it's source two, while claiming everything else is source one.
1-15-73
Ascension in the Wane: Groovin' In the Garden (Godfatherecords), Broken Fingers (IQ), Dedicated To Rizzlers (Equinox), Live At Trentham Gardens (Empress Valley, original and reissue), Soul Brothers (Tarantura2000), Stoke 1973 (no label), Stoke On Trent 1973 (Wendy), Stroke In Stoke (no label), Stoker (Tarantura), Vis Unita Fortior (Wendy), & Voodoo In the Gardens (Moonchild)
Stroke doesn't retain the proper running order and is missing some time at those cuts.
IQ is missing over 20 seconds of tape after Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp and then missing the first 10 seconds of The Song Remains the Same. It is also missing half a minute of tape after the Rain Song, has either tape or digital problems for the first 40 seconds of Dazed and Confused, and has some digital interference after Dazed.
Equinox and Tarantura don't have the problems mentioned above but all titles do share many tape glitches (sometimes barely noticeable). These glitches seem to be much more evident on Tarantura.
Stroke in Stoke has the songs out of order and is missing some tape too.
These older titles are relatively similar in sound.
Tarantura2000's title doesn't have the tiny tape glitches.
Empress Valley has a little extra tape before and after the show. Three edits have been made at places where dropouts would be found in the tape. The fashion of edit used creates a semi-microscopic cut/repeat at each dropout. The split second of blank tape (dropout) is removed, throwing off the timing of the song, then a split second of tape before the drop is repeated. It's a highly annoying result.
EV's reissue reuses the same discs as the original release.
Stoke 1973 is most similar to Tarantura2000 in content, but does retain a couple of the original tape glitches. It doesn't have the extra (inaudible) tape found before and after the show like on EV.
Tarantura2000 and Stoke 1973's sound are much improved over the older releases. Their background noise is less while the music is easier to hear. Empress Valley's sound is also an improvement over the old titles. It has been amplified louder than Tarantura2000.
Godfather's title is similar to many of the others but has some of the glitches cleaned up..
Wendy's VUF title is similar to many of the others but has some of the glitches removed. It's been amplified some and runs a tiny touch faster than the others.
Moonchild has the exact same content as Wendy. It is a tiny touch less amplified than the no label title.
Wendy's Stoke On Trent title is virtually identical in content to their prior title, but has been equalized differently.
1-18-73 soundboard
April Fools Day (Pageboys), Ascension in the Wane: Odds and Ends (Godfatherecords), Elvis Presley Has Left the Building (no label), Fallin' In Love With the Fallin' Angel (Led Note), Great Lost Live Album (Nasty Music, 3cd), Summer Colored Nancy (Wendy), & Tight But Loose (SAKA)
April Fools Day and Tight But Loose only contain Immigrant Song from this date. April Fools runs a little fast. Tight But Loose may be slightly poorer quality. Elvis is missing Immigrant Song (and the last second of Whole Lotta Love).
Led Note was the first title to feature all of the few tracks available. The "Deluxe Edition" of Nasty Music's third disc contains all of the few tracks too. It is identical in content to Led Note and it's sound has been amplified slightly louder.
Godfatherecords' title is similar to Nasty Music but runs (slower) at the proper speed.
Wendy is similar to Nasty Music but runs at the proper speed.
1-22-73
Any Port In a Storm (Godfatherecords), Ascension in the Wane: Black Hole of Calcutta (Godfatherecords), Burst On Fire (Moonchild), Full Throttle (Empress Valley), Great Lost Live Album (Nasty Music, 2cd & 3cd), Live At Clive's (Boleskine), Live At Southampton University Working Tapes (Empress Valley), My Struggle (Black Dog Rekords), Southampton University 1973 (no label, olive green discs), Southampton University (Wendy), Swastika (Tarantura2000), University of the Holy (Empress Valley), & Valkyrie's Vigil: In the Old Refectory (Tarantura2000)
Nasty Music, EV's "Live At Southampton," and Swastika are similar in sound and content. The glitch in the right channel during the second minute of Stairway is less evident on EV. Swastika has a tiny glitch in Dazed that's not found on the other two titles. It's sound has been amplified excessively over the others.
Black Dog Rekords has several glitches during songs that are not found elsewhere, and misses a few seconds after Stairway.
Godfatherecords' debut title "Any Port In a Storm" is the least complete. Besides missing the drums in the introduction and removing (chopping out) some tape glitches, they removed six seconds of very good tape at the cut during Whole Lotta Love. The sound has some amplification but isn't excessive.
The "no label" version's speed has been adjusted to run a touch slower than the others. One of the glitches after Dancing Days has been chopped out. It's sound is very similar to Nasty Music's.
Taratura2000's release in Valkyrie is not an improvement over their release from two years ago. This release chops out a few glitches while others seem only suppressed.
Godfatherecords' "Black Hole of Calcutta" reissues the audio from their first version, with the same matrix numbers and disc times.
Wendy's title suppresses the glitches some and has amplified the sound a little.
Moonchild's title is similar to the better titles, with some glitches edited and others not.
Boleskine's title misses the opening drum beats and is highly amplified. It's is otherwise similar to most of the other titles.
EV's "Holy" title has extra glitches in their title, mostly during Dancing Days and Dazed. It's pretty similar to Moonchild's title.
EV's "Full Throttle" title, their second time to release the show in 2022, is an improvement over the prior release. It's probably meant to be a replacement, as the prior title was not up to par. The title is more similar to Moonchild's title than anything else, and begins with the extra guitar note only previously found on Moonchild. It's sound is very similar to their "Holy" title.
1-27-73
Ascension in the Wane: Odds and Ends (Godfatherecords), British Story (Wendy), Dundee 1973 (Graf Zeppelin), From Boleskine To the Alamo (Flying Disc), Soundboard Platter (Scorpio), & Thundering Herd (Wendy)
Flying Disc's has Communication Breakdown moved out of sequence, misses two seconds while cutting into Whole Lotta Love, and runs too fast. The other titles don't have those problems and are fairly similar in sound to each other.
1-30-73
Plant's Influenza (Empress Valley, 2cd), Strange Affinity (Electric Magic, 2cd), & Zep (Tarantura2000, 1cd)
Tarantura2000's single disc title is misdated as 12-17-72. Electric Magic's double disc title is misdated as 12-17-72 and 1-16-73. These two titles are only partial releases. Electric Magic has many glitches during Rain Song and Dazed. They are not found on Tarantura. Tarantura's music and background noise are louder than Electric Magic. It's only due to amplification.
Empress Valley's title is free of glitches, isn't amplified as much as Tarantura2000, and has all known tape to cd.
3-2-73
European Tour 1973 (Graf Zeppelin) & Satisfaction (Graf Zeppelin)
These titles are identical in content. Satisfaction is slightly less amplified than their first release.
3-6-73
Satisfaction (TDOLZ & Graf Zeppelin) & Stockholm Syndrome (Empress Valley)
TDOLZ debuted this show. It's biggest faults are that it misses 34" after Dazed, has a cut/repeat during Whole Lotta Love, and misses 21" after Heartbreaker.
EV also misses 34" after Dazed. It only misses a few seconds of tape after Heartbreaker, but is immediately followed by very strange sounding tape. That sound carries on into the first 30 seconds or so of the Ocean.
Graf is the most complete version and is similar in sound to the others.
3-14-73
Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg (Wendy), Nuremberg 1973 (TDOLZ), & Triumph-Zug (Graf Zeppelin)
TDOLZ is missing over a minute of music at the cuts during Since and Stairway. TDOLZ is also cut during the last part of Whole Lotta Love and misses 25 seconds of the song. The later titles are not cut. The title doesn't sound as good as the later titles and is likely from a higher generation of tape.
Wendy is much more complete than TDOLZ, adding almost another minute and a half of music.
Graf's title is similar in content and sound to Wendy. Graf adds in a bonus track of Stairway from the same source, but the last half is of different quality.
3-16-73 soundboard
Led Poisoning (Flying Disc) & Soundboard Platter (Scorpio)
Flying Disc misses the first six seconds of Dazed. It has a slight cut during Whole Lotta Love and Stairway. These problems are not found on Scorpio. Both titles have excellent sound.
3-16-73 audience tapes and mixes
Happiness is a Warm Gun (Empress Valley), Goodnight Vienna (Moonchild), King - A Night At the Opera (Tarantura2000), Lead Poisoning (Cobra, Graf Zeppelin 5cd, & Empress Valley), Matrix Leded (Tarantura2000), Night At the Opera (Electric Magic), Remains of the Holy (Cashmere), Very Nice Night (Eat A Peach), Vienna 1973 (TDOLZ & no label, 4cd), Vienna Fireworks (Moonchild), Wrench In the Works (Cobra & Wendy), & Zig Zag Zep (Tarantura)
Four different audience sources have surfaced from this show.
Source 1 = Tarantura
Source 2 = Cobra Lead Poisoning
Source 3 = Cobra Wrench In the Works
Source 4 = Graf Zep Lead Poisoning (cds3-4)
The first audience source is used on Tarantura. It's missing the 20 second introduction, the first few seconds of Rock and Roll, and misses most of Whole Lotta Love.
The second source is used in full on Cobra's first release of this show, Lead Poisoning.
TDOLZ is a mix between the first and second audience sources. It has a twenty second introduction and a complete Rock and Roll, which seems to be from the first source. This portion is not found on the Tarantura. TDOLZ uses almost as much tape as possible from the first source. The remainder is from the second.
The third source is found on Cobra's Wrench, EMC's Opera, the no label title Vienna 1973's last two cds, and Eat A Peach. This source isn't complete.
Cobra's Wrench uses source two for the introduction, Rock and Roll, and then uses it again briefly between Whole Lotta Love and Heartbreaker.
Electric Magic's cover reads 3-16-73 but the first 27 seconds (intro & beginning of Rock and Roll) are not even from this show. The remainder of the title is completely from the third source and is the only semi-redeeming characteristic. The tape stretch in the beginning of Stairway has been chopped out. The music is louder than Cobra's but is just due to equalization. AGAIN, the "metallic sound" is noticeable in the background. Also, it runs a little fast.
No label's 4cd title Vienna 1973 has it's last two discs based on the third source. The title begins with source one and splices to Rock and Roll sooner than the other two titles, offering more of the song. The splices in Dazed and Stairway displace several seconds of the main source. And, the splice in Stairway is too long, repeating about fifteen seconds of the song. Whole Lotta Love contains three brief splices to the soundboard to avoid super tiny defects in source three. So instead of barely hearing the minor problems in source three, the listener is subjected to hearing six splices. The sound changes are much more annoying than the defects they're trying to avoid. A couple more seconds of source three are missed during the splice in the beginning of Heartbreaker. This title's sound has been amplified more than Wrench and Opera.
Peach's title is based on source three and is fairly similar to the no label titles last two discs. Source one is used for the intro and beginning of Rock and Roll. It uses source two during Dazed and after WLL (debuting about two minutes of tape here). It misses the little extra tape of Rock and Roll found on the no label title. There are two micro cut/repeats at the beginning of Black Dog.
Tarantura2000 is a mix between sources one, three, and the soundboard.
Cashmere borrows audience tape from sources one and three to compliment the soundboard tape.
Empress Valley's Happiness title is a sloppy mix of all the first three audience sources and the soundboard, lacking any attempt to preserve the completeness of any one tape. The soundboard portion has flaws during Whole Lotta Love that are not found anywhere else.
Wendy's title is another mix using audience tapes and the soundboard. Some of the board is missed at the splices.
No label's 4cd title Vienna 1973 has their first two discs as a mix of sources one, three, and the soundboard. No effort was made to present any of the sources in full.
Moonchild's Goodnight Vienna title is a three source mix base on the soundboard, then source one, then the third source. No effort was made to provide any of the sources in full.
Graf Zeppelin's first two cds are a mix based on source one, although not all of source one was even used. Sources two and three are also used on these discs.
The fourth source is found on Graf Zeppelin's cds 3 and 4. It features 27 splices to bring in the other three sources to complete. The constant splicing detracts too much from the main source. It would have been a more valuable release to collectors to leave the source isolated.
Graf Zeppelin's fifth cd is a mix based on the soundboard. No attempt was made to preserve the soundboard, as it misses several seconds of music and another minute after songs too.
Tarantura2000's Night At the Opera contains the show twice. The first offering is "version 1" and is based on source three, then the soundboard. It debuts Rock and Roll from source three. Instead of allowing the super tiny drop/tape glitch in the beginning of Black Dog to remain, a micro cut/repeat has been inserted. Instead of allowing the almost unnoticeable minor glitch to remain in the beginning of Whole Lotta Love, a seven second splice is made to the soundboard - which is much more noticeable than the minor glitch. Another unnecessary splice is made much later in the song, but source three has no faults in that area. After the show, the soundboard is played simultaneously with source three. When the third source isn't available, the title splices to the soundboard, but always displaces too much of the primary source. The splices to the soundboard throughout the title are a bit strange sounding. The title has been highly amplified.
Tarantura2000's Night At the Opera "version 2" is based on the soundboard, then source one. When it finally splices to the soundboard, it misses the first several seconds of Dazed. It misses another dozen seconds after Stairway and then misses several seconds of Whole Lotta love. Like version 1, version 2 also lacks any attempt at providing all of it's primary source. The title has been highly amplified.
No label's 2cd title Vienna 1973 is based on all sources and is presented as a matrix, mixing sources and overlaying them as well.
EV's Lead Poisoning title is based on all sources and is presented as a matrix, mixing sources and overlaying them as well.
Moonchild's Vienna Fireworks title is a copy of EV, having the same mix and cd times.
3-17-73
Going Down Slow (Tarantura2000), Having A Party (no label), Lunatics In Munich (Holy Grail), Marzfest Munchen 1973 (Wendy), Munich 1973 (no label), Olympiahalle 1973 (Immigrant), Pure Purcy (Flagge), Songs For Europe (Tarantura2000, 3cd), & Sturm und Drang (Led Note)
Immigrant and Holy Grail were the first labels to release this show. They're both missing three minutes of tape from before the show and ten seconds from after Black Dog. Both have complete versions of Dazed, although Holy's first disc ends after getting twenty-one minutes into the song, and then restarts Dazed on the beginning of the next disc. Immigrant misses about forty seconds after Dazed and both titles miss about three minutes after Whole Lotta Love. The last fifty seconds of Heartbreaker are missing from Immigrant. Holy Grail's title is much better sounding than Immigrant's.
Led Note and Flagge are very similar in content, except for Led Note chopping five seconds of tape from Rock and Roll. For some reason, both titles are missing 37 seconds of tape during Dazed and Confused. Both have the three minute introduction and three minutes of tape after Whole Lotta Love that aren't found on the two older titles. Flagge displaced some of the original tape after the show with tape from elsewhere from the show, to "extend" the end of the tape. These two titles have improved sound over Holy Grail. Flagge has amplified theirs quite a bit.
Tarantura2000's GDS is cut about 45 seconds from the introduction, in two places. The usual cuts after Dancing Days and Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp are in place, but they repeat tape too (micro cut/repeats). Those problems aren't found on any of the other titles. Dazed is cut and has spliced in tape from a different show. The cut after Whole Lotta Love is also followed by a small repeat of tape. It's sound is similar to Flagge's.
No Label's Having a Party's title is similar to T2K's GDS, having mixed in a different show for Dazed and also Heartbreaker. The title has some micro cut/repeats too.
Tarantura2000's Songs For Europe has none of the flaws mentioned above (Dazed is complete/unspliced), making it the most complete version available at the time of it's release. It's sound is better than most and may be from a lower generation tape than the other titles. It has been unnecessarily spread out onto three cds though.
Wendy's title splices for forty seconds during the middle of Dazed, but it's still the same show (matching T2K's SFE title). The cut during Heartbreaker has been edited. It's not amplified as much as T2K.
No Label's Munich 1973 title is similar in content to T2K's SFE title. It's been amplified a small amount and is confined to two cds as expected.
3-19-73 audience tapes & aud/sb mix
European Tour 1973 (Graf Zeppelin), Happy Time (Moonchild), Let's Have a Party (Graf Zeppelin), Majestic Holies (Immigrant), & Wings of Desire (Wendy)
Immigrant was the first release of the audience tape. It's missing about a minute of the introduction.
Wendy has spliced in the soundboard during the cut in Whole Lotta Love.
Graf's Party title debuts about forty-five seconds of a second source in their release. However, the splices displace source one each time, so you're listening to two incomplete tapes. The third disc of the title repeats disc two, but elects to use the soundboard. In doing so, the first second of the soundboard is missed. It's the third tape offered incomplete on this title.
Moonchild's title is a three source mix based on source one. The second source is used extremely briefly during the Song Remains the Same, but not at any other cuts. Immediately after the splice, faint digital clicks can be heard for two seconds. The Rain Song is full of many digital clicks/errors. Whole Lotta Love is mostly soundboard, but the audience tape can be heard being played simultaneously.
Graf's European Tour 1973 title is strictly from source two, containing only Rock and Roll through Dancing Days, Song Remains the Same, and the first five seconds of Rain Song.
3-19-73 soundboard
Air Raids Over Germany (Tecumseh), Let's Have a Party (ARMS), Nasty Music (Tarantura), Soundboard Platter (Scorpio), Two Penny Upright (Antrabata), & Wings of Desire (Wendy)
Antrabata, ARMS, Scorpio, and Wendy share the many glitches and excellent sound quality. ARMS has a three second fade in while Antrabata and Scorpio do not.
Tarantura and Tecumseh's sound is not as clear and has a couple extra glitches. Tarantura is missing the first 30 seconds of tape due to combining it with the Whole Lotta Love fragment from January 7th.
Antrabata and Scorpio have almost an extra minute of tape after the show beyond the other titles.
3-21-73 audience & aud/sb mix
European Tour 1973 (Graf Zeppelin), Hamburg 1973 (no label), Mercy On Me (no label), & Suspended Animation (IQ)
IQ is strictly from the audience recording and misses too much of the available tape.
Mercy On Me is based on the audience tape and fills whenever the soundboard is available. From the audience tape, it debuts Rock and Roll, Over the Hills, an extra 35 seconds of the Rain Song, and offers two and a half minutes of Stairway.
Hamburg 1973 is highly similar to Mercy.
Graf's title debuts the audience source's first eight minutes of Stairway, and the thirty seconds preceding it. The title only contains thirty seconds before Stairway, Stairway To Heaven, and fifty seconds afterwards.
3-21-73 soundboard
April Fools Day (Pageboys), Fallin' In Love With the Fallin' Angel (Led Note), Mercy On Me (no label), & Soundboard Platter (Scorpio)
April Fools' first 2 seconds of Dazed are almost inaudible. Both titles are cut before "Let's Have a Party" but Led Note repeats two seconds. April Fools runs a little fast and has a "bump, bump, bump" sound in the background that can be heard between tracks. It's tape has been amplified making the music and background noise louder.
Scorpio's title is just as good as Led Note, plus the cut before "Let's Have a Party" is either not present or has just been edited.
Mercy uses all of the available soundboard in their 2cd mixture with the audience tape.
3-22-73 soundboard
Cold Sweat (Moonchild), Essential Led (Flying Disc & Graf Zeppelin), & Soundboard Platter (Scorpio)
Flying Disc misses the first four seconds of Dazed, misses the first eight seconds of Whole Lotta Love, and runs too fast. Scorpio has the extra tape, but has a small glitch in the beginning of Whole Lotta Love that isn't found elsewhere.
Moonchild's title contains the two soundboard songs, but on different discs. Way too much of the soundboard is missed.
Graf's sixth disc of their title has the soundboard and mixes in the other two audience souces. About five seconds of soundboard are missed.
3-22-73 audience sources 1 & 2
Cold Sweat (Tarantura2000 & Moonchild), Essential Led (Graf Zeppelin), Essentially Led Complete (Live Remains), Essen 1973 (Savege Beast Music), and Gracias! (Empress Valley)
Essen is strictly from the first audience source. It misses almost the entire introduction and runs a little fast.
Graf's cds 4 and 5 from their title are strictly from the first source, but misses the last four seconds of the last song.
A small portion of the second audience source debuted on Empress Valley and shortly later on Live Remains. They both mix all three sources.
EV uses almost all of the available soundboard and a very large portion of the first audience source. It gives priority to the soundboard, then source two, then source one.
Live Remains uses the first audience source until the available soundboard for Dazed (misses the first four seconds of board). (This has a longer source one introduction but it misses almost ten seconds during the cuts in Song Remains the Same.) It switches back to source one briefly afterwards, then switches to source two before Stairway To Heaven. The next tape change is to the Whole Lotta Love soundboard. This board fragment starts out with an extra eight seconds of tape not found on previous titles. The show is finished with source two. Priority is given to the soundboard on this title and none to either of the other two sources.
Tarantura2000's title is another three source mix. It's primary source is the first tape, but misses several seconds of tape at the cut during the Song Remains the Same and doesn't bother to use any of the available Stairway To Heaven. Source two starts with Stairway and lasts through the end of the title, with a brief exception during Whole Lotta Love for about 20 seconds. No effort is made to utilize all available tape from any of the three sources.
Moonchild's title virtually identical to Tarantura2000, offering no source in it's entirety.
Graf's first three discs of their title make source two their foundation, offering much more tape than previous titles. It then fills with source one. The sound quality of source two on Graf is similar to EV's sound.
3-24-73
Cold Sweat (Live Remains), Custard Pie (Cobra, 2cd), Der Rote Baron (Wendy), Not Warm It's Hot (TDOLZ, 3cd), Offenburg 1973 (no label, original and reissue), & Sweet At Night (TDOLZ, 2cd)
Cold Sweat and Custard Pie are both from the first tape. Their content is identical, although their cuts sometimes differ slightly. The sound on Cold Sweat has been amplified a touch much. The tape generations seem to be similar.
TDOLZ's titles are both mixes of two tapes. Sweet At Night was released first. Other than using source two for Stairway and missing half a minute of tape after Whole Lotta Love, it is just like Cobra. The 3cd title used source two for the introduction, gaps between songs, and also for about a minute during the cut in Dazed. It would have fit on 2cds. There does not seem to be any difference in tape generation between these titles.
The no label title is also a mix using source one as it's foundation. Source two is used for the introduction, some time between songs, and for the cut in Dazed.
Wendy's title is virtually identical in content as the no label title, except the sound has been degenerated some. It's a little metallic in many places.
The no label title was reissued in 2019 with the same discs and running times.
3-26-73
Grimoire (Tarantura2000) & Lyon 1973 (Historic Recordings)
These two titles are similar in content except T2K has about five cuts/glitches among the track changes that do not belong. T2K's sound has been greatly amplified but isn't almost makes the sound worse on this poor quality tape. Historic's title has no errors and little to no amplification.
3-27-73
Heavy Machinery/Dirty Trick (Empress Valley, original and reissue)
EV's 2011 reissue of this title uses the same audio and cd times as the original 2002 release.
Wendy is similar to EV except they've filled the cut in Since from a different show.
5-5-73, source 1
56,700 Fans Together and Boogie (Rock Calendar), First Day (ARMS), Pigeon Blood (Flagge, 3cd), Quantient (Cobra), Live At the Tampa Stadium 1973 (Wendy), Tampa 1973 (no label), & Top of the World (Badgeholders)
(Flagge is a mix, relying on the second source only when the first is cut. It's sound has been amplified considerably, making the music and background noise much louder. It would have easily fit on 2 cds.)
ARMS is the only title to have all of the tracks properly sequenced. It is missing 2 seconds at the cut in the beginning of Song Remains the Same. There is a brief speed problem near the end of Rain Song. It is missing almost 2 minutes of tape after The Ocean. The Ocean and Communication Breakdown run too fast, near 6%. All other tracks run at the proper speed.
Cobra is missing a total of about 70 seconds between songs overall but there are no extra cuts because of it. The tape runs at the proper speed.
Rock Calendar is highly edited. No Quarter has been completely butchered to remove audience disturbances. They then had to rearrange the song to contend with the edits. Overall, the song is missing 2.5 minutes. The tape problem in the beginning of Song Remains the Same has also been removed which eliminates almost 5 seconds of tape. Whole Lotta Love is missing the first 92 seconds. The Ocean is missing 5 seconds too many. This title runs very fast too.
Badgeholders is a two source mix, with source one as it's foundation. It misses a little bit of source one at two of the cuts.
Wendy is a two source mix, with source one as it's foundation. It misses way too much of source one at the splices.
The no label title is a two source mix based on the first source. The only place it misses too much of the primary source is during No Quarter, but it's to avoid some of the rowdy crowd noise.
ARMS and Cobra sound similar and are a little bit better sounding than Rock Calendar. Badgeholders has been amplified over the others.
5-5-73, source 2
56,800 In the Ocean (SIRA) & Tampa Stadium (Tarantura)
Tarantura removed the tape stretch in the beginning of Over the Hills. It has almost 2 more seconds of Stairway's introduction but is missing almost 2 seconds too many of Whole Lotta Love and The Ocean. Tarantura is much louder than Silver Rarities. It is at least partially due to simple amplification but could also be due to a lower generation of tape.
5-13-73
IV 1/2+ (LSD), Alabama Getaway (Empress Valley, original and reissue), Definitive Mobile 1973 (no label), Goin' Mobile (Midas Touch), Heritage Strain (Tarantura2000), Is Like a Box of Chocolates (Wendy), Speed Freaks (Empress Valley), & Upwardly Mobile/Mobile Dick (Flying Disc)
Flying Disc's title is missing 30 seconds of tape before R&R, runs too fast, and has Stairway on both discs (interrupting sequence).
Midas, LSD, Empress Valley, and Tarantura2000 all are highly similar.
Empress Valley's title doesn't have the glitch in Dazed (near 20:30~), but it's Stairway has a notably weak left channel for the first half of the song.
EV's reissue reuses the same discs as the original release.
LSD and EV's music and background noise are slightly louder than Midas. Tarantura2000's is much louder than Midas.
EV's Speed Freaks is a reissue of Alabama Getaway.
Wendy's title is very similar to the other titles. It's a little louder than Midas.
The no label title starts out like no other title. It uses a degenerated soundboard for the first five seconds and then splices to the normal board. It is otherwise similar to the other titles in content. It's been amplified some.
5-14-73, soundboard
Bourbon Street Renegades (Empress Valley), Crossroads Form New Orleans (Scorpio), Drag Queen (Tarantura & Moonchild), Drag Queen of New Orleans (Godfatherecords), GOAT New Orleans (Wendy), Johnny Piston & the Dogs (Thin Men), New Orleans 1973 (TDOLZ & no label), & Witch Queen (Tarantura2000's TCD-61)
Thin Men is copied from Tarantura. However, it has slight differences. It is missing the first 2 seconds of Rock and Roll and 7 seconds of tape (audience cheer) after Moby Dick. It's sound is exactly the same as Tarantura. Other than these minor differences, Thin Men, Tarantura, and TDOLZ are identical with respect to cuts and completeness.
Empress Valley's title is a mix that uses the audience tape to fill gaps in the soundboard. Not all of the cuts are filled. A lot of the original soundboard is missing when switching sources due to long overlapping edits. It uses a 21 second section of audience tape in Dazed to cover a 3 second gap in the soundboard. Although there is no effort to use all available soundboard tape, EV does debut an extra 27 seconds of Whole Lotta Love.
Tarantura2000's TCD-61 does a much better job of mixing in the audience tape to fill the soundboard's gaps - they're not constantly displacing the soundboard in the process like on EV. However, they've totally missed the extra 27 seconds of soundboard that debuted on EV's Whole Lotta Love.
Godfather's title has the familiar metallic sound. It uses the audience tape to fill in the introduction and the musical gaps in the soundboard. The splices displace several seconds of soundboard each time.
Scorpio's title uses the soundboard as it's foundation and completes it with the audience tape. The extra soundboard is included.
The no label title also uses the soundboard as it's foundation and completes with the audience tape. It misses the first six seconds of the soundboard available from first song, misses a little at the cut during Moby, and then misses the extra 27 seconds of board during Whole Lotta Love.
Moonchild's title uses the soundboard as it's foundation and completes with the audience tape. However, between the splices displacing the soundboard and the extra tape for WLL not present here, almost 45 seconds of board are missing.
The above titles are all similar in tape generation. Tarantura, Empress Valley, and Tarantura2000 have amplified their titles more than the others.
Wendy's title is simultaneously plays the soundboard and audience tapes. There are a couple of large glitches during Dazed.
5-14-73, audience
Bourbon Street Renegades (Empress Valley), Drag Queen of New Orleans (Wendy), & Witch Queen (Tarantura2000's TCD-60)
EV's title is strictly from the audience tape. It's missing a minute of tape after Whole Lotta Love.
Tarantura2000's title mixes in soundboard to fill the gaps of the audience tape. Because they use long overlapping splices between the two tapes, too much of the audience tape gets displaced. There are also a few instances of unnecessary micro cut/repeats.
Wendy's title uses soundboard tape from this show and a completely different show to fill the gaps in the audience tape during the Rain Song. Of course, they don't mention it being a two show mix. The splicing displaces about ten seconds of the audience tape. It has an extra minute of tape after Whole Lotta Love. It's sound is tuned for the higher frequencies instead of the bass.
5-16-73
Going Down (Watchtower), Houston & Denver 1973 (no label), Quick Diet (Godfatherecords), & Two Nights (Celebration)
These titles are almost identical in content except for Celebration and Godfather. Celebration seems to mix in a different night at the end of Communication Breakdown. Godfather starts their title by needlessly fading into Stairway.
Celebration's sound has been tweaked and amplified with a strange metallic sound in the background, much like some of the Tara2000 titles. The other titles have a much more natural sound and are similar.
5-18-73
Dallas 1973 (no label), Dallas Triumphant Return (Wendy), Discover America (Tarantura), Four For Texas (TDOLZ), Fractured Ribs (Graf Zeppelin), & Plays Oldie But Goodie (Tarantura2000)
Tarantura is missing some tape before and after the first and last songs, and after Dazed.
TDOLZ has a short tape problem in Celebration Day and a 16" silent gap in Dazed but has more tape before and after the first and last songs. Some tape after Dazed is missing. The sound quality drops a little bit more than just slightly after Dazed.
Wendy's Rain Song has unfortunately been filled with soundboard from a different show. It is not noted anywhere and a couple of seconds of the Dallas tape are displaced. The problems found on TDOLZ are not present here. The title has been speed.
Tarantura2000's title is similar in content to Wendy except they've not spliced anything into Rain.
The no label title is most similar to Tarantura2000 in content but has is a little more natural sounding, without too much amplifying.
Graf's title is somewhat similar to the no label title.
Tarantura, TDOLZ, Wendy, the no label title, and Graf are fairly similar in sound.
5-19-73
Butter Queen (Moonchild), Fort Worth 1973 (no label), Fort Worth Express (Empress Valley, original and both reissues), I'm With the Band (Tarantura2000, original and reissue), Thundering Herd (Wendy), Tympani For the Butter Queen (Midas Touch), & Worthwhile Experience/From Boleskine To the Alamo (Flying Disc)
Flying disc is missing almost all of the tape before and after the first and last tracks. Dazed and Confused has been moved out of sequence and 80 seconds of tape after the song is missing. It has too much background noise.
Midas, Tarantura2000, and Empress Valley are virtually identical in content. Tarantura2000 has been amplified a little bit. Empress's title emphasizes the lower frequencies but has a touch too much background noise.
EV's first reissue reuses the same discs as the original release.
EV's second reissue uses new discs but has the same running times.
Tarantura2000's 2015 reissue uses the same discs from 2006.
Moonchild's title on has one minor flaw. The left channel drops out after No Quarter for about 24 seconds.
The no label title has the familiar metallic sound throughout.
Wendy's "multiband remaster" title has the same content as most titles and has been equalized differently.
5-25-73
Dallas Triumphant Return (Wendy), Fractured Ribs (Graf Zeppelin), Going Down (Watchtower), Houston & Denver 1973 (no label), & Two Nights (Celebration)
These titles are similar in content, only varying in the amount of quiet tape before and after this fragment of soundboard.
Celebration's sound has been tweaked and amplified with a strange metallic sound in the background, much like some of the Tara2000 titles. The other titles have a much more natural sound and are similar.
5-26-73, soundboard & audience
For Frenzied Crowd (Wendy), Georgia On My Mind (Empress Valley, original and reissue), Heavy Machinery/Dirty Trick (Empress Valley, 4cd), Salt Lake City 1973 (Watchtower & no label), & Unidentified Live (Celebration, 1cd
Heavy Machinery/Dirty Trick's last two cds are from the audience source. EV's 2011 reissue of this title uses the same audio and cd times.
Celebration's title is very incomplete. It's sound has been tweaked and amplified too much.
Other than EV's "Georgia On My Mind" being amplified a touch more than Watchtower's, there are only two other differences. First, EV's Rock and Roll starts with and extra 1.5 seconds. Second, for about 20-30 seconds after the cut near the end of Rain Song, Empress Valley and Watchtower do not match. The mellotron can be heard on both soundboards of EV & WT right after the cut. This is not present in the audience recording. Neither label makes reference to a different show being used. One of the two may be using a tiny bit more of the right soundboard, but it's very difficult to determine since WT's splice back in is virtually undetectable.
EV's reissue is a clone of the original, down to the disc times.
Wendy's title is based on the soundboard and audience tapes. The audience tape is used up until the soundboard becomes available in the first song, but cuts in 2 seconds too late. The cut in Rain is not filled with the audience tap. Instead, it's filled with a soundboard from a different night, and is the same night used by Watchtower. The audience tape comes back almost four seconds sooner than WLL ends. It's sound is somewhat similar to Watchtower.
The no label title is missing the first 1.5 seconds of Rock and Roll. It does not splice out to a different show during the cut in the Rain Song like the other titles. It has several more seconds of tape than EV and Wendy, and possibly Watchtower too. It's been amplified a tiny bit more than Watchtower, but not as much as EV.
5-28-73
Beautiful Reciprocal Arrangement 1973 (Wendy), Quick Diet (Godfatherecords), San Diego 1973 (Watchtower), & Three Days Before (Empress Valley, original and both reissues)
Watchtower is missing some tape before and after the show. It's cut in No Quarter is missing 3 seconds. Rain Song has at least 23 (twenty-three) cuts, losing 23 seconds of tape. Dazed and Confused is completely absent. Almost 5 minutes of tape after Whole Lotta Love are absent too.
Empress Valley's title is a great improvement. Unfortunately, they spliced in a few seconds from a different recording at the cut during Since I've Been Loving You. There are no cuts in Rain Song and it has the last 50 seconds of Dazed. EV is a little better sounding that Watchtower. (EV and WT have the same amount of background noise, but EV is louder and a little fuller sounding.)
EV's first reissue uses the same cds as the original release.
Godfather's title is highly similar to EV, even the splicing in of a different night.
EV's second reissue uses new cds but with the same running times.
Wendy's title also splices in a different night for Rain Song, and again for a minute during No Quarter. Their eq job is an improvement over the other titles.
5-31-73, source 1
Bonzo's Birthday Party (Mud Dogs & Tarantura) & Bonzo's 25th Birthday (ARMS)
The taper did not record the final encore, Communication Breakdown.
Tarantura's title is much louder than ARMS and only has a tiny increase in background noise. ARMS runs too fast.
These titles share the same cuts but at most of the cuts between songs, Tarantura is either missing a couple of seconds or has added in tape that doesn't belong to extend the space between songs. In some cases, Tarantura has done both - displacing the original tape with tape that doesn't belong. After Stairway, a 25 second section is repeated to extend the tape.
Mud Dogs seems to have a touch more background noise than the other titles (similar to EV's version 1). Stairway To Heaven has been moved ahead of sequence to squeeze the show on two cds.
5-31-73, source 2
Bonzo's Birthday Party (Cobra, Empress Valley's 9cd box - "version 2," & Empress Valley's 11cd box - "version B")
This is the only tape to feature the final encore.
Cobra's introduction is 10 seconds longer. No Quarter has some digital static for a brief second and it's right channel drops out for almost 10 seconds near the end. Dazed and Stairway both have a small tape drag. The Ocean is out of sequence but no tape is lost in the re-arrangement.
Empress Valley "version 2" from their 9cd box does not have any of these problems. It's tape seems to be from the same gen but has been amplified some.
EV's "version B" from the 11cd box reissues the "version 2" from the 9cd box.
5-31-73, source 3
Bonzo's Birthday Party (Flying Disc)
This is the only release of this source without being mixed with another. It doesn't capture the whole show. The tape starts half way into Over the Hills and doesn't include the final encore.
5-31-73, audience mixes
Bonzo's Birthday Party (TDOLZ, Empress Valley's 9cd box - "versions 1 & 3," Empress Valley 3cd release, Empress Valley's 11cd box - "versions A & C," Graf Zeppelin, Neverland, & Sanctuary)
TDOLZ & Sanctuary are 2-3 source mixes.
EV's "version 1" relies on the first tape source and completes it with the second tape source. Here, source 1 seems to be amplified but the background noise is slightly louder than it should be.
EV's "version 3" relies heavily on the third audience tape and then uses the other 2 sources to complete the show. This version was simultaneously released in the 9cd box and the 3cd release. It seems to be a little clearer than Flying Disc but may be due to equalization.
Neverland's first three cds of the five cd set is a three source audience mix that is mainly based on source three.
Graf's title is a three source mix with source 3 as the primary. Source 1 is secondary and source 2 is used to fill any remaining gaps and Communication Breakdown.
EV's "version A" and "version C" from the 11cd box reissue "version 1" and "version 3" from the 9cd box.
5-31-73, soundboard
Bonzo's Birthday Party (Moonchild, Neverland, & Watchtower), Bonzo's Birthday Party (Empress Valley, 2cd & 11cd), Bonzo's Birthday Party Definitive Edition (Empress Valley), & Bonzo's Birthday Presents (Celebration, 1cd)
Celebration was the first label to release material from the soundboard. It's on a single disc and far less complete from the subsequent double cd titles.
Watchtower was the first to release more tape, on two cds. It, and all the multi-disc soundboard titles, has all of the songs on Celebration and includes much of Rock & Roll, all of Celebration Day and Rain Song (cut), Dazed & Confused, and Stairway To Heaven. Since I've Been Loving You is uncut.
Their title is in good form.
Empress Valley's first release of the soundboard is found on the "Definitive Edition." For the missing tape for Rain Song, they filled in 19 seconds of a completely different night. The drop/gap in Stairway has been edited here.
Neverland's title is very similar to Watchtower.
EV reissued their title in December 2012, using the same audio from the original release, with new cds and same disc times. "Definitive Edition" was dropped from the name - perhaps the name downgrade was due to the fact it's a mix of two different shows.
EV issued the soundboard again in 2018's 11cd box. It is not a reissue of the original. This time they've not spliced in another night for Rain Song and removed 17 seconds of quite tape at the end of the title.
Moonchild's title appears to be a clone of EV's two discs from their 11cd box. Even the cd times are identical.
All titles seem to share the same generation of tape. Celebration has the higher frequencies emphasized (sounding a little flat) while Watchtower and EV have emphasis on the lower end. WT has more of the sound playing through the right channel while EV has them switched to the left channel.
5-31-73 soundboard/audience mix
Bonzo's Birthday Party (Wendy, no label, Empress Valley, & Moonchild)
Wendy's foundation is the soundboard recording and is completed by using at least two of the audience tapes. The soundboard and Communication Breakdown have been degenerated with the metallic sound.
The no label title is based on the soundboard and filled with audience tapes. The splice during Stairway was poorly made, displacing more soundboard tape with audience than what was missing in the first place. The soundboard portion of the title is similar quality to Watchtower.
EV's title (released June 2019) is based on the soundboard and is filled with the audience sources. There are no splices during the soundboard portion.
Moonchild's title is similar to EV and shares the same disc time. It uses all of the soundboard and fills with audience tapes.
6-2-73, audience
Acid and Sunshine (Tarantura2000), Best Vibes In Frisco (Jelly Roll), The Grateful Lead (Tarantura2000), Kezar Stadium 1973 (no label 3cd), Mary Kezar (Wendy, 3cd, original and both reissues), Persistence Kezar (Holy, 3cd), Takka Takka (Tarantura), Vibes Are Real (Continental Sounds & Graf Zeppelin), & Who's Next? (TDOLZ)
Holy's title is by far the worst sounding. It is a high generation, copied onto a used tape. A different recording lies underneath. About 2 minutes of tape are missing from between songs. The title was placed onto 3cds to include Heartbreaker and Whole Lotta Love - from a vinyl source of the same show.
Continental Sounds doesn't retain the true song sequence and therefore has many cuts and time missing from between songs.
For the most part, the other releases are virtually identical in regards to cuts. The Tarantura titles have removed the tape stretch after Whole Lotta Love. However, Grateful Lead has a few extra seconds of tape after Moby Dick, only found elsewhere by Holy.
Jelly Roll and TDOLZ are identical in sound and Tarantura's Takka is a hair louder than both. Grateful Lead is just a bit louder than Takka.
Wendy's first two cds is the audience tape. It is highly similar to the others that are audience tape content only. It too misses some tape after Moby. The title runs a little slower than the others. Their 2011 and 2016 reissues uses the same audio as the original and having the same disc times.
Tarantura2000's title has ten additional cuts not found on other releases. These cuts are large changes in sound at most track changes, breaking up the continuity of the tape.
The no label title is identical in content to Jelly Roll, but runs at the proper speed, which is slower than most previous releases.
Graf"s first two discs are strictly from the audience tape and debuts a couple of seconds of Robert talking after Communication Breakdown. It"s sound is similar to Jelly Roll and no label.
6-2-73, soundboard
Imperial Kezar (Electric Magic, 3cd), Kezar Stadium 1973 (no label, 3cd), Led Five (Empress Valley, original and reissue), Mary Kezar (Wendy, 3cd, original and both reissues), & Vibes Are Real (Watchtower & Graf Zeppelin)
Imperial Kezar debuts some of the soundboard. It is used for some of Moby Dick, Heartbreaker, and for part of Whole Lotta Love. Total board time is about 28 minutes.
Led Five features Moby Dick through the end of the show, totaling about 61 minutes. The audience tape is used briefly during the beginning of Whole Lotta Love and after Communication Breakdown. EV's sound is improved over EMC. It is missing some of the soundboard tape after the show.
EV's reissue uses the same cd as the original release.
Watchtower's release does not sound cut during the beginning of Whole Lotta Love, but it actually is cut. WT has spliced in a different soundboard for those 6 seconds. The audience tape is not used anywhere to fill gaps.
Wendy's third disc is from the soundboard. It is similar to Empress Valley, using the audience tape for the brief cut in Whole Lotta Love and then again after Communication Breakdown. Wendy isn't missing tape after the show. Their sound isn't quite as amplified as EV and WT. Their 2011 and 2016 reissues uses the same audio as the original and having the same disc times.
The no label title is strictly from the soundboard. It's not amplified quite as loud as Watchtower.
Graf's third disc features the soundboard filled with the audience tape.
6-2-73, mixes
Celebration For Being Who You Are (Godfatherecords) & Imperial Kezar (Electric Magic, 3cd)
Imperial Kezar mixes in the soundboard recording with the usual excellent audience tape. Moby Dick is completed. Heartbreaker and the first 5.5 minutes of Whole Lotta Love are also from the board.
Godfather's title uses the audience tape as it's foundation and then uses the soundboard for Moby Dick and some tape after the show.
6-3-73
Three Days After (Cobra, Empress Valley, SIRA 2cd, & Wendy)
The tape shared by these titles has many problems. Silver Rarities elected to remove the worst parts and place the title onto two cds. In doing so, most of No Quarter is missing, all of Song Remains the Same, all of Rain Song, and about two minutes of Dazed. Time after Stairway and Whole Lotta Love has also been removed to avoid tape problems. Backing up, the first dozen seconds are missing from when cutting into Over the Hills. Much of the tape after the show is missing too.
Cobra's title is pretty much the full tape. It's missing several seconds from the introduction, missing the last two seconds of Black Dog, the beginning nine seconds of Over the Hills, and a split second during Since I've Been Loving You.
Empress Valley's release is on six cds. The first three are the tape in stereo and the last three are in monotone to minimize the tape problems. This is the most complete title released yet. It's only fault is a missing split second during Since. That piece is only found on SIRA.
Wendy's title starts out by missing much of the introduction and inserts it's first micro cut/repeat at the first second of Black Dog. Almost the first two seconds of Over the Hills (rough tape) is missing. During Hills' tape problem around the 1:24 mark, they've made a really bad edit and repeat some of the song. Misty has a small cut repeat too at a rough spot around 1:52. The cut during Since has been edited or doctored a bit. Another micro cut repeat occurs after Moby, and then gets repeated on the next disc. The sound is a bit more amplified than EV's.
All of these titles seem to be similar quality and vary little in loudness.
7-6-73, soundboard and audience
Atrocity Exhibition (Scorpio), Grandiloquence (Antrabata), Second City Showdown (Midas Touch), Sweet Dreams Chicago (Empress Valley, 3cd & 6cd), & Windy City Adventure (Wendy)
Midas Touch is missing a little bit of tape before the show, is cut after No Quarter, and it's Dazed and Confused is full of glitches.
Antrabata is missing a little bit of tape before the show, is cut after No Quarter, and is missing most of the tape after the show. It's Dazed and Confused doesn't contain any glitches.
Empress Valley's 3cd title (gets repeated for the 6cd title) uses the soundboard except for the beginning of Rain Song. It has more tape before and after the show than the other soundboard releases. It is not cut after No Quarter, has no trouble with Dazed and Confused, but misses two minutes of tape after Whole Lotta Love (just audience cheer).
Wendy's title misses a minor bit of tape before and after the show. There's a change in sound during the beginning of Since and a very strange sound change in the beginning of Whole Lotta Love. These problems aren't found on the other titles. Instead of using all of the audience tape to fill the gap in the beginning of the Rain Song, they decided to only use a small portion, therefore not completing the song. It defeats the purpose of mixing tapes. The large amount of tape after WLL is present.
Scorpio's title is based on the soundboard and completed by the audience tape. It displaces some of the soundboard during splicing. It is otherwise in good form.
Empress's 6cd title includes the audience source.
Midas amplified their sound a little, making the music and background noise louder. EV amplified a little more. Scorpio's title is slightly less amplified than Midas Touch's title. There doesn't seem to be any tape generation difference between the titles.
7-7-73
Chicago 1973 2nd Night (no label), In the Windy City II (Empress Valley), & Untouchable (Electric Magic)
Empress Valley was the first to release this show, just a few weeks before Electric Magic. The content is virtually the same, except EMC decided to remove a few seconds of available tape in Stairway and replace it with an earlier verse.
Empress Valley's sound is excellent and seems to be largely untouched by equalization. Electric Magic's has been eq'd, making it louder and adding evidence to the background.
The no label title is identical in content and sound to EV, but it has a digital glitch in the last minute of the show.
7-9-73
Complete Performance In Minnesota (TDOLZ) & St. Paul 1973 (no label)
These releases are over 20 years apart. TDOLZ removed a taper discussion from the introduction and misses a few split seconds of music at two of it's cuts. The no label title only misses one second of tape at one of the cuts after Whole Lotta Love, likely intentionally to avoid an annoying yell. It's sound seems slightly better than TDOLZ.
7-10-73
Live In Milwaukee (Tarantura2000), Milwaukee 1973 Original Master (Graf Zeppelin), One More For the Road (Red Hot), & Rock and Roll Bonanza (Electric Magic)
Red Hot and EMC both miss the opening one and a half seconds of the introduction, miss ten seconds of Rain Song, and the last five seconds of Moby Dick. EMC further misses a second or two after Dazed and another dozen after Stairway To Heaven. It's audio has been amplified.
Tarantura2000 has other music underlying the show, as if it was recorded on a used tape. The cut in the Rain Song misses some tape and the left channel drops down a big notch. The sound never recovers.
Graf's title has all known tape and has been amplified a little.
7-12-73, source one
Detroit Hard Rock City (Wendy, original and reissue), Detroit Rock City (Lemon Song), Detroit Rock City 1973 (Graf Zeppelin), Motor City Daze (Antrabata), & Rock and Roll Ever (Akashic)
These titles are strictly from source one.
Antrabata's title is misses the first two seconds and then about 7 more seconds of tape throughout the rest of the title. It has good, unamplified sound.
Lemon Song's title isn't missing the opening couple of seconds, but does miss the rest of the tape that Antrabata misses. Furthermore, it contains edits at almost every location of tape problems (cuts & drops). Moby Dick has been further reduced, eliminating some taper commentary. The sound has been amplified.
Akashic's title fills in the missing parts of Rock and Roll and The Song Remains the Same from a different, unmentioned, show of the same tour - 6-2-73. In doing this, 7-8 seconds have been displaced from the Cobo tape. This title also has edits at almost every location of tape problems, removing almost another 3 seconds. The length of tape after No Quarter, Moby Dick, and Communication Breakdown have all been extended. There is a 4 second section of tape after No Quarter that gets repeated 3 more times. After Moby Dick, approximately 26 seconds of tape is borrowed from after Dazed. For Communication Breakdown, there is a 2.5 second section of tape after the song that gets repeated 8 times. The Rain Song has many unnecessary splices to another show. During one minute of Dazed, Rock and Roll can be heard playing in the right channel (dirty tape). The tape from 6-2-73 and the 60 seconds of repetitions have been added to make listening to this show (which show?) more "enjoyable." The sound is similar to Lemon Song's title but has more of the lower end frequencies as opposed to Lemon's middle to higher frequencies.
Wendy's title contains the most amount of tape for this show, adding another several seconds not found on other releases. It's only defects are small instances of static in several spots throughout the title. It's sound has been amplified too.
Graf's title was release right after Wendy's and is almost completely identical.
Wendy reissued their title, reusing the original discs.
7-12-73, mixes
Band That Beat the Beatles (Tarantura2000, 6cd) & Detroit 1973 (no label, 7cd)
Tarantura2000 offers two mixes in their title. The first mix is Version A and is based on source one. There is a bad edit in Communication Breakdown that removes a second of the song. Otherwise, the splices are reasonable. It's sound is somewhat similar to Graf's original title.
Tarantura2000's Version B is a mix based on source two. It has all songs but Communication Breakdown.
No Label offers two mixes in their title. The first mix is based on source one. Too much of source one is missed during the splices. Some of the splices displace several seconds just to avoid a split second blemish in source one. Communication Breakdown contains a digital error about ninety seconds into the song.
No Label's second mix is on cds 4-6, and is based on source two. CD5, is a repeat of cd2, so it misses all of Dazed and Stairway from source two. Since Communication Breakdown isn't available from source two, it has been copied from cd3 of the prior mix. The digital error was copied over too. Source two is slightly less amplified than on Tarantura2000.
7-13-73 soundboard
Detroit 1973 (no label, 7cd), Detroit 1973 2nd Night (no label), Detroit Hard Rock City (Wendy, original and reissue), Detroit Rock City 1973 (Graf Zeppelin), Detroit Rock City 1973 Volume 2 (Graf Zeppelin), Fly Over Nuremburg (TDOLZ), Friday the 13th (Empress Valley), Last Dancing Daze In Electric Form (Tarantura2000), Monsters of Rock (Tarantura), Motor City Daze (Empress Valley), & Song of Detroit (Celebration)
Celebration appears to be much more complete than the other releases - but it is not. The two additional tracks (Dazed & Stairway) are actually from the Salt Lake tape that was released long after this title.
Tarantura is missing the last 3 seconds of Dancing Days. TDOLZ and Tarantura are similar in sound quality.
Wendy's title isn't missing any tape and hasn't been amplified as much as Celebration's.
Graf's title was release right after Wendy's and is almost completely identical in content. It's been amplified a little more.
Wendy reissued their title, reusing the original discs.
No Label's "Extra Disc" from the title Detroit 1973 contains the soundboard in typical good quality.
EV's fourth disc of "Friday the 13th" contains the soundboard. It misses the first second of the tape, then misses most of Robert speaking after Moby, and then misses the final three seconds of the Dancing Days fragment.
EV's fourth disc of "Motor City Daze" reissues "Friday the 13th."
Graf's fourth disc of "Volume 2" adds in the audience tape to complete Dancing Days, but displaces the last few seconds of that soundboard fragment.
No Label's fourth disc from the title Detroit 1973 2nd Night contains the soundboard with the audience tape completing the final song. It is in typical good quality.
Tarantura2000's fourth disc from Last Dancing Daze contains the soundboard filled with the audience tape with two splices.
7-13-73 audience
Amazing Second Detroit Tape (Wisteria), Detroit 1973 2nd Night (no label), Detroit Rock City 1973 Volume 2 (Graf Zeppelin), Friday the 13th (Empress Valley), Last Dancing Daze In Electric Form (Tarantura2000), & Motor City Daze (Empress Valley)
EV's "Friday" seems to have only one minor error, a digital tick about three minutes into Whole Lotta Love.
EV's "Motor City Daze" reissues "Friday the 13th."
Graf's title doesn't have the digital tick found early in WLL and is amplified a little over EV.
No label's title is based on the audience and filled with a little bit of the soundboard for Moby. It's sound is similar to the other titles.
Tarantura2000's title is most similar to Graf's title in content. It's sound has been heavily amplified.
Wisteria's title has cuts at four of the track changes on the first disc and has the digital tick during Whole Lotta Love.
7-15-73 soundboard
Barrage of Riffs (Graf Zeppelin), Buffalo 1973 (no label, 3cd), In Concert and Beyond (TDOLZ), Melancholy Sunday (Empress Valley), Silly Putty (Wendy, 3cd), Slowing Down In Buffalo (Moonchild & TCOLZ, 5cd), & Where the Zeppelin Roam (Midas Touch)
TDOLZ runs too fast, is cut after Since, and is missing about 30 seconds of tape just after the Rain Song. Midas and TCOLZ don't have these problems. (TCOLZ's fourth and fifth discs contain the soundboard tape.)
Wendy's first two cds contain the soundboard in typical fashion. (The third disc is from the audience tape.) It's sound has been amplified some over the other titles.
Moonchild's title uses the soundboard on the first two discs and the audience tape for the third disc. Both No Quarter and Dazed start with a brief, but serious, sound problem that's not found on any of the other titles. The Rain song splices to the audience at the cut, but displaces a bit of the soundboard. The soundboard has been amplified a bit on this title.
No label's title uses the soundboard for the first two discs and uses the audience tape for the final third of the show. It's sound has been amplified a fair amount.
EV's title is almost identical to the no label title, but runs a hair slower.
Graf's title contains the soundboard on their first two discs. It splices to the audience tape during Rain Song, and displaces a few seconds of the board.
7-15-73 audience
Barrage of Riffs (Graf Zeppelin), Silly Putty (Wendy, 3cd) & Slowing Down In Buffalo (TCOLZ, 5cd)
Wendy's third disc debuts the audience source after the soundboard ends, starting with Moby Dick. The audience tape has the metallic sound.
TCOLZ's first three cds contain the audience tape in full. It has cut repeats during No Quarter and Rain Song, repeating almost two minutes of music. It's also missing about 45 seconds of tape from two cuts between songs. It's sound has not been degenerated with the metallic sound.
Graf's title contains the full audience tape on it's last three discs.
7-17-73 soundboard
V 1/2 (Dynamite Studios original and reissue & Graf Zeppelin), V1/2+ (LSD), V1/2 Extravaganza (Badgeholders), Grandiloquence (Antrabata), & Monsters of Rock (Tarantura)
Antrabata has 100 seconds before the show. It has the static spot in Rain, followed by a cut that misses two seconds of the song.
Tarantura is missing almost all of the introduction. It otherwise has the same content as Antrabata.
Dynamite's first issue missed almost all of the introduction and had poorly placed (and missing) cue stops. The reissue the same audio content but has better stops. Otherwise, these have the same audio content as Antrabata.
LSD is missing almost all of the introduction. The tape has been amplified more than the others.
Badgeholders and Graf Zeppelin present the soundboard section of the show, but splice in a little bit of audience tape.
Badgeholder's introduction is as long as Antrabata's. The audience tape has been spliced in for the static spot in Rain Song. This title has the annoying metallic sound.
Graf's introduction is the longest of all, being 113 seconds long. The first audience tape is used for the earliest part of the introduction, the spot during Rain Song, and again after Stairway (pointless).
These titles are all from the same generation of tape. Badgeholder's title has the common metallic sound. The rest of the titles' equalization differs some from one to another.
7-17-73 audience
V 1/2 (Cobra & Graf Zeppelin), Complete Seattle (TDOLZ), Grandiloquence (Antrabata), Performed Live In Seattle (Eat A Peach), Seattle 1973 Master Reels (no label), Seattle Daze (IQ), & Zep Hakase (Akashic)
Graf Zeppelin's first three cds of this five cd title is an audience mix. It's the only title to feature the second source as the primary tape.
TDOLZ uses source two to complete No Quarter and some time after the song. This title is louder and has less background noise than the others. However, this difference may be entirely due to equalizing as opposed to being from a better generation of tape. It is unbalanced in places.
Eat A Peach is a similar mix to TDOLZ. It doesn't have the tape problem on the end of Moby like the others. The background noise seems to be a little louder on this title but is likely just due to a bit of amplification.
IQ runs too fast but is the most complete version of the common tape.
Antrabata's sound is similar to IQ, but does run at the proper speed. The introduction is shorter. Rock & Roll has a small tape problem and some digital interference. It has a cut during Over the Hill and Far Away, missing half of a second. Most of the talk after No Quarter is missing and Moby Dick has a small glitch in the beginning.
Akashic has added tape to the introduction and two other places. It is missing 4 seconds too much of No Quarter and is missing all of the talk afterwards. Excluding TDOLZ, the music and the background noise is louder than the other titles.
Cobra's sound is very similar to IQ and Antrabata. It is missing between 1 and 2 minutes of tape from between songs.
The no label title is a two source mix, based on the first source.
7-17-73 soundboard/audience mix
Afterburner (Cashmere), Performed Live In Seattle (Tarantura2000 and Wendy), Seattle Supersonic (Moonchild), & V1/2 (Empress Valley, original and reissue)
The soundboard recording is the foundation of these titles and are completed by the audience tape.
Cashmere's introduction is from the audience tape, excluding the soundboard's introduction. It overlaps into the first song, displacing a moment or two of Rock and Roll's board. The rough section of board tape during Rain Song has been replaced with the audience tape.
Empress's introduction starts with the audience and then splices to include almost every second of the soundboard's introduction. Rain splices to the audience tape and displaces several seconds of the board tape.
Tarantura2000's title is similar in content and sound to the other mixes. Instead of splicing to the soundboard just before the first song, the splice is made during the start of the song, overlapping the two sources. This makes for a very unnatural sound, in a very unnecessary place. The splice during Rain Song displaces more soundboard.
Empress Valley's reissue uses the exact same cds as the original release.
Wendy is a similar mix.
Moonchild's title misses way too much of the soundboard. The opening second of Rock and Roll, almost twenty seconds of the Rain Song, and some tape between songs are displaced with the audience tape. No effort was made to preserve the main source used here.
7-18-73
Canada Dry (Tarantura), Cut In the 70's (TDOLZ), No Firecrackers (Electric Magic, 2cd), Taking a Spiked Drink (Tarantura2000, 2cd), Twopenny Upright (Antrabata), & Vancouver 1973 (no label)
The only differences between the three single cd titles are the speed and some equalization. Their introductions are not original. Antrabata's runs too slow. TDOLZ runs a little slow. Tarantura runs at the proper speed.
No Firecrackers has the original introduction, a little more tape at cuts, and is much more complete. It does not have the background noise found in the single disc releases.
Tarantura2000's title is similar to EMC's, but it's missing the first few seconds of Black Dog before the big cut.
The no label title is missing the same tape as Tarantura2000. It's been amplified a bit louder than EMC.
7-20-73, source 1
Boston Cream Pie (Empress Valley, 4cd) & Zep VS Boston (Image Quality)
IQ first released this title. It has four cuts not found on Empress Valley's third and fourth cds of Boston Cream Pie. EV doesn't contain the final minute of tape after the show. It's music and background noise are slightly louder than IQ's.
7-20-73, source 2
Boston 1973 (no label), Boston Cream Pie (Empress Valley, 4cd), Take It Easy (Tarantura2000, original and reissue), Wild and Relatively Mellow (Badgeholders), & Wreckage In Boston: Wrecks Havoc (Tarantura2000)
Tarantura2000's Havoc and Badgeholders are exclusively from source two and are similar in content. Badgeholder's has an unnecessary cut just before Rock and Roll and also has another unnecessary (and strange) cut after Whole Lotta Love.
Empress Valley mixes in source one to complete Rain Song. They miss the available introduction and extra four minutes of tape after the show.
Tarantura2000's Take It Easy is based on source two and uses source one to fill the Rain Song. In doing so, they displace about five seconds of source two.
The no label title is a mix based on source two, and almost has all available tape from this source.
Tarantura2000's reissued Take It Easy using the same discs.
Tarantura2000's Havoc, Empress Valley, and the no label titles all have normal, natural sound. Badgeholders and Tarantura2000's Take It Easy have been amplified way too much.
7-21-73
In Providence (Wendy), LZ Rider (Tarantura), LZ Rhoder (Thin Men), On the Rhode Again (Image Quality), Providence 1973 (no label 2015 & 2022), & There's So Much More Sound To Hear (Empress Valley)
Thin Men is copied from Tarantura. However, it excludes the last 7 seconds of audience noise found at the end of each of the Tarantura discs.
Tarantura sounds a little clearer than IQ. It's introduction is 11 seconds longer which includes guitar and drum warm up.
IQ has 3 extra cuts. One of them is during No Quarter, which eliminates 67 seconds of the song.
Empress Valley "completed" The Song Remains the Same by splicing in 4.5 minutes from "another tape," displacing several seconds of the original tape. The extra tape has been identified as 7/28/73 (Special thanks to Bob W.) and, of course, it is not noted on the title. No other gaps from the many other cuts are filled. EV's sound isn't amplified as loud as Tarantura and has been slowed down closer to actual speed.
The 2015 no label title has an extra 30 seconds over of tape between songs than the above titles, and has a split second extra of the Song Remains the Same. The only flaw seems to be a minor cut and repeat of two seconds after the Rain Song.
Wendy's title is highly similar in content to no label's title, but the sound is a little different and there are faint signs of metallic sounds during the quieter parts of the tape.
The 2022 no label title is different from their original. The sound is not centered, being more in the left channel. The cuts are not faded.
7-24-73, sources 1-3
Early Days, Latter Days (no label), Hello Pittsburgh (Image Quality), Pittsburgh Steelers (Empress Valley), & Resurrection (Electric Magic)
Early Days seems to be a single source. The songs available on the title are from the first and last thirds of the show. It runs too fast.
IQ and Electric Magic use a second source until the last three songs, with the exception that IQ uses what seems to be a 3rd source to finish the last minute of Dazed. The last three are from the same source as Early Days' title.
Electric Magic's Celebration Day has a sudden sound change during the song that isn't found on IQ.
IQ's title was produced from a higher generation of tape than EMC and is also less complete. There's several seconds missing after Since I've Been Loving You. No Quarter is missing 21 seconds from the middle, misses the last 18 seconds, and several more after the song. Dazed has 4 extra cuts. The fourth cut is where a different, possibly third source, is used to complete the song, although it still misses over two minutes. The problems during the remainder of the tape are shared with the other titles - they all rely on the same source for these songs.
Empress Valley's title introduces the third source for this show. It's foundation is source one, then source three. The second source is used briefly one time, during No Quarter. The third source offers more music - Stairway To Heaven and Moby Dick. Unfortunately, it's Song Remains the Same and Rain Song (source three) are full of serious digital errors - completely unacceptable.
Electric Magic's background noise is a tiny bit louder than IQ's. The music is louder too, but far more significant than the difference in the background noise.
IQ has more of the lower end while Electric Magic has higher end frequencies.
7-27-73 audience
Garden Tapes: Rocking the Big Apple (Empress Valley) & Out of Song Remains (Holy)
For many years Holy was the only title available for the audience tape. It has a few glitches and cuts that shouldn't exist and includes little tape after the show.
EV's "version A" uses the audience tape as it's basis but fills in with some soundboard during Moby Dick. It does not have the problems found on Holy and has an extra two minutes of tape after the show.
7-27-73 soundboard
V1/2 Extravaganza (Badgeholders), Garden Tapes: Rocking the Big Apple (Empress Valley), Grandiloquence (Antrabata), Is Like a Box of Chocolates (Wendy), & Safecracker's Show (Midas Touch)
Midas Touch begins with the fragment of Dazed and runs through the end of the show. It's sound is heavier in the right channel.
Antrabata is missing the Dazed fragment but has the subsequent available songs. It is left channel heavy.
Badgeholder's title is missing Dazed and Stairway. The channels are balanced much better, but still not quite perfect. It's music is louder than the others due to amplification. It has the common metallic sound.
Empress Valley's "version B" presents the soundboard and fills in with audience tape (before, during, and after the available soundboard). Oddly, some of the soundboard after the show is displaced with audience tape, but only some of the audience tape.
Empress Valley's "bonus disc" is an incomplete mix of part of the soundboard and audience tapes.
The titles are similar in sound, although the channels may vary some among them.
Wendy's title only features three of the six available songs.
7-28-73
9th US Tour (Whole Lotta Live), Complete Madison Square Garden (Wendy), Effect is Shattering…(Empress Valley, both versions), Final Statements (Antrabata), Garden Tapes: Taking the Building Into Stratosphere (Empress Valley), Madison Square Garden deux (Wendy), MSG (Cannonball), One More Magic (Immigrant), Out From the Movie (Forever Standard Series), Tour De Force (Tarantura), & Towa No Uta (Tarantura2000)
These titles are from the soundboard and for the most part are similar in sound.
The Whole Lotta Live title was copied directly from Tarantura.
Tarantura and Immigrant are cut after No Quarter, with Tarantura missing 70 seconds of tape.
Both Antrabata and Tarantura are missing the last 14 seconds of No Quarter. Tarantura and Immigrant have a cut in Dazed (no time missing). All titles have similar slight cuts during Moby Dick but Immigrant is missing over 40 seconds after the song.
Tarantura and Immigrant removed the tape problems in the beginning of Whole Lotta Love. FSS and Cannonball keep the tape problems before and after the cut.
Antrabata is missing 54 seconds from The Ocean.
Tarantura has about five extra cuts beyond the other 2 titles and doesn't sound as clear as the other titles.
Cannonball includes an extra second of music during Rain Song that's not found on the other titles. It's sound is the usual very excellent sound, with it's own equalization for Ocean. All titles seem to have different eq for that song, but they all seem to be the same quality.
Wendy's "Complete MSG" title has too much background noise and has hints of the metallic sound during quieter passages of the tape. Furthermore, it "completes" the show by using tape from the previous night and possibly another night too. It's No Quarter has some very unpleasant super low tones lingering during the third and forth minutes.
Empress Valley (original issue) splices in tape to complete Rain Song, likely from the official release. In the process, it misses some of the true "unofficial" board. The bad soundboard section in the beginning of Whole Lotta Love uses the audience tape. There is an extra minute of tape spliced in after Whole Lotta Love. Three fourths of the Ocean sounds better than the rest of the tape and the other releases. EV splices back to the normal/usual sounding Ocean twice. The difference in tape quality and reasons for splicing are peculiar. The several seconds of tape after the show are not related to Led Zeppelin and is sloppy. EV's tape seems to be the same generation as most. It's equalization emphasizes the higher frequencies.
Tarantura2000's title has many problems. It unnecessarily splices to the audience tape during No Quarter even though the soundboard isn't cut. The splice during Rain Song displaces 12 seconds of the board. Dazed has a strange sounding cut near the end (approx 28:53). The rough soundboard section in the beginning of Whole Lotta Love has been replaced with the audience tape. The Ocean, like No Quarter, has an unnecessary splice. This time it splices to a poorer generation of the soundboard for fifty seconds. Most of the tape after the show is missing. There are several dropouts within the title that are not found on any prior titles. The sound has been amplified a bit.
Wendy's "MSG deux" title comes seven years after the first time the released the show. Like T2K, there's a splice during No Quarter, even though none of the earlier titles have cuts there. The splice is to a professionally sourced recording. The usual cut in Rain Song is filled with a pro source too. Chances are they're using tape from the previous night, like they did in their previous release. The cut in Whole Lotta Love is filled with the audience tape. After the show, an "alternative edit" is offered. It's No Quarter isn't cut and is followed by Song Remains the Same, which seems just like the one from the first disc. Rain Song is repeated, but the cut is filled with the audience tape. Whole Lotta Love follows and splices to the audience tape, again. The Ocean is included too, but has fewer problems than before.
Empress Valley's 2012 version is supposed to be a reissue of the original, but they decided to make an edit or two. Instead of removing the signs of the dirty tape after the show, they've doubled up on the introduction and Rock and Roll, before the show. Only cd2 bears any resemblance to the original issue. All other characteristics are the same as the original release. Don't expect a replacement disc for cd1 unless you're still expecting a replacement disc for cd3 of the original release.
EV's discs 1-3 of Stratosphere ("Version A") feature the first release of the audience tape and has it's gaps filled with the soundboard.
EV's discs 4-6 of Stratosphere ("Version B") feature the soundboard and has it's gaps filled with the audience tape. A few seconds of soundboard are displaced by the audience tape. When switching back to the soundboard during the Ocean, the audio is clean and not rough like other releases. It's sound is similar to Cannonball.
EV's disc 7 of Stratosphere ("Bonus Disc") is the last part of the show (Moby through Ocean) from the soundboard, with gaps filled with audience tape. The liner notes claim this is a new soundboard where a slight difference in channel balance exists.
7-29-73 audience and soundboard
A 2 Last Nights (Tarantura), Garden Tapes: Third Night At the Garden (Empress Valley), Grand Finale (Empress Valley, 4cd), Last of the Last (Tarantura2000), Madison Square Garden Trois (Wendy), Missing Doll (Tarantura2000), & MSG 1973 (Firepower)
"A 2 Last Nights" has the most tape before the show. It has 5 dropouts not found on the others and isn't cut after Since I've Been Loving You. This title and Firepower only contain the first two thirds of the show, up through most of Dazed and Confused.
Empress Valley's Grand Finale release contains a 3cd soundboard plus a 1cd audience. The soundboard portion contains the same first two thirds of the show as the other titles plus Heartbreaker through the end of the show. The soundboard is missing the last part of Dazed, all of Stairway, and the beginning of The Ocean. To no surprise - and just like all of EV titles that feature an incomplete tape - they fill in the missing time by the same music from a different night altogether. This time, for the first time EVER, EV discloses the fact that they've switched shows, using the previous night. Still, they only note the change for Stairway and not the other two tracks. Even stranger, EV wanted us to hear those missing tracks that are found on the audience tape (and only those two songs) so they included a fourth disc featuring only Dazed and Stairway. However, the fact that they didn't use the audience tape of the 29th to complete the soundboard of the 29th and electing to use a different show entirely…is not strange…for them. It seems that any excuse to add an extra disc to a premium label release is all too commonplace.
Missing Doll fills in the soundboards gaps with an audience tape of the same night. It's splicing overlaps tapes and sometimes misses a little bit of the board.
Tarantura2000's "Last of the Last" uses the audience tape as it's foundation. The soundboard is used to fill gaps. Most of the splices are long and overlapping.
Wendy's title is the same type of mix as Missing Doll, but does a better job.
EV's discs 1-3 of Third Night ("Version A") uses the audience tape as it's foundation and then uses the soundboard tape to fill in the gaps. The first splice away from the audience lasts less than a second, and is to displace the tape stretch before the show - a bit absurd. The other splices have purpose, and are made fairly quickly, unlike the lengthy overlapping ones found on Tarantura2000's "Last of the Last." The splice during Moby, while using less soundboard tape than T2k, misses 23 seconds of the audience tape. The last few seconds of tape after the show are missing too. It's sound is slightly less amplified than T2k's.
EV's discs 4-6 of Third Night ("Version B") uses the soundboard as it's foundation and then uses the audience tape to file in the gaps. Oddly, Rock and Roll does not seem to be cut and a splice is not readily heard. All other titles are cut here, so either EV found the complete song or they've spliced in two seconds from an entirely different show. They're missing about 30 seconds of soundboard tape after Stairway. The sound is typical good sound for the board tape.