1-5-69
Live At the Whisky A Go-Go!!! (Empress Valley original and two reissues, & Eelgrass)
Empress Valley debuted this show in late 2006.
Eelgrass made a direct copy of Empress, and shares the same "micro cut/repeats" found in Babe and Lemon Song.
EV reissued the title in 2009 using the same disc as before.
EV reissued the title in 2024 using the same disc as before.
1-9-69
Dancing Avocado Supreme (Graf Zeppelin, 3cd & 5cd), Fillmore West 1969 (Wendy), Fillmore West 19690111 (Wendy), Fresh Garbage (Scorpio and Graf Zeppelin), How Many More Years (Empress Valley), Live At the Fillmore West 1969 (Live Legend Archives), Whole Lotta For Your Love (Pirate Records), & Twinight (Immigrant)
(This tape, only containing "Train Kept A Rollin," has been attributed to this date. Robert's comment before the song seem to contradict the date.)
Twinight was the first release of the track. It has a lot of hiss in the background.
Pirate's title has louder music and far less background noise, but it's missing the last couple seconds of tape (JP tuning). It is at least one or two tape generations better than Immigrant.
EV's song is not from this show. It is actually a degenerated version of Train from April 25th, 1969.
Wendy's "19690111" title is also excellent.
Scorpio's title is excellent quality and isn't missing any tape.
Graf's Dancing Avocado 2018 title is excellent as well.
Graf's Fresh Garbage is similar to their original.
Wendy's "1969" title is a good title.
Graf's Dancing Avocado 2023 title is identical to their original release of the same name.
Live Legend's title is similar in content and sound to the others.
1-10-69
East West (Digger Productions), Fillmore West 1969 Day 2 (no label), For Your Love (Silver Rarities & Empress Valley's original and reissue), Fresh Garbage (Scorpio and Graf Zeppelin), Live Adventure At the Fillmore West (Wendy, original and reissue), Syonen Zep (Akashic), Unprecedented British Power Blues (Empress Valley), & Whole Lotta For Your Love (Pirate Records)
Digger is incomplete since it misses the last two minutes of For Your Love. It's missing even more tape before and after FYL and has some extra cuts elsewhere.
SIRA has the traditional cuts, unedited. SIRA may run a fraction slow but isn't too noticeable.
Akashic has removed most of the tape stretches at cuts, but missed a little tape in the process. Their title has been amplified a little over SIRA, making the music and background noise louder. There is no tape generation difference.
Pirate has removed most of the tape stretches at cuts. It's sound is similar to Akashic.
Wendy has removed most of the tape stretches at cuts, but missed a little tape in the process. They've added an eight second repeat during HMMT. Wendy's ending of Babe is actually complete, for the very first time, adding about an extra second. They've amplified their title significantly.
EV has also removed most of the tape stretches at cuts. They've added an nine second repeat during HMMT and follows the song with an insert of a micro cut/repeat while to avoid a minor tape problem. There are eight seconds of tape that follows that, which contains some guitar that does not sound like it's from the band. They've amplified their title significantly.
Scorpio sticks to the traditional cuts (not removing tape stretches, etc.) and includes the ending of Babe like Wendy, although it seems edited/spliced in. Their title has been amplified significantly.
EV's FYL reissue is the same audio as the original, on new cds, but with the same disc times.
Wendy's reissue has the same disc times and audio as the original.
Graf's title is similar to Scorpio but doesn't have the small repeat after Shook or any changes in sound for the end of Babe. It's sound for the first disc is similar to Scorpio but the second disc seems slightly louder.
No label's title is in good form and has many of the cuts slightly edited. It too has a complete end to Babe.
EV's Unprecedented title is in good form until the cut just before the last song, where the sound seems to become a little degenerated.
1-11-69
Anybody Got a Les Paul? (Equinox), Birth of the Gods (Balboa), Fillmore East (Mud Dogs), Fillmore West 1969 (Wendy), Fillmore West 19690111 (Wendy), Fresh Garbage (Scorpio and Graf Zeppelin), How Many More Years (Empress Valley), Live At the Fillmore West 1969 (Live Legend Archives), Pb+ (Wild Card), Psycho A Gogo! (Led Note), Streets of San Francisco (no label), Syonen Zep Zokango (Akashic), & Whole Lotta For Your Love (Pirate Records)
Mud Dogs released Shook as a bonus track on their title.
Balboa was the next release of this show when only four songs were available.
Akashic was the first title to release more tape of How Many More Times and also provided Communication Breakdown. The tape has a different band's music underneath Led Zeppelin. It is most noticeable between songs, being faint. (Possibly, the master tape was either recorded directly over a tape that was previously used to record another band performing at the Fillmore.) It's sound has been amplified a bit.
Wild Card is likely either a clone using the Akashic release or even more likely, a cd produced from the exact same tape that Akashic utilized. ("P & C" are named on both releases.) Therefore, the same underlying music can be heard. It's been amplified a touch more than Akashic.
Led Note is missing much of the introduction, misses two seconds of HMMT, and has a few brief minor problems. It's sound has not been amplified much at all.
Equinox is similar in content to Led Note but has been amplified a touch more.
Streets is similar in content to Wild Card and has the faint underlying music. It introduces a glitch in Shook.
Pirate's title only features three songs even though it was released after the fifth song became available.
EV's title also has the faint underlying music. It contains an extra second of HMMT, not found on any earlier title. Their title is amplified more than the others.
Scorpio is most similar to EV's, having the extra second of HMMT and the faint underlying music. It's not amplifed as much as EV.
Wendy's "19690111" title is edited at the cut during How Many More Times and is missing almost two seconds of tape. It is otherwise similar to latter releases of this show.
Graf's title is similar to the better titles.
Wendy's "1969" title is edited at the cut during How Many More Times and is missing almost two seconds of tape. Their remastering seems to make the music/instrumentation brighter, but it comes with a price, as usual. The background noise/hiss known to this tape has become an annoying sound, and small details in the background are altered. Jimmy's guitar check just a few seconds before the opening song are a good example.
Live Legend's title has the same content as the others. It's sound is much louder than most.
1-12-69
California '69 (Lemon Song), Fillmore West 1969 Day 4 (no label), Fresh Garbage (Scorpio and Graf Zeppelin), Fourth Night (Empress Valley)
Lemon Song is missing a little tape after three songs.
Scorpio is missing a small part of the already small introduction, but has more tape after three songs than Lemon Song's titles. It has a brief unexplained problem in the left channel during You Shook Me. Scorpio has much more background noise/hiss than Lemon Song and it's music is quieter. It is probably from a higher generation tape.
Empress is slightly only misses a little tape after one song. Empress Valley's title seems to be the same quality as Lemon Song, although they've chosen to amplify quite a bit.
Graf's title is very similar to Lemon Song, missing tape in three places.
No label's title misses the first one and a half seconds of the beginning on the tape while the band is being introduced and two seconds after Babe, but it debuts nine seconds of How Many More Times before Robert introduces the band. It's sound has not been amplified and the background noise has not been suppressed.
1-23-69
Boston After Dark (Empress Valley), Boston Tea Party 1969 (Empress Valley & Wendy), Boston Tea Party 1969 1st Night (no label), Complete Boston Tea Party (ARMS), Mad Hatter Tea Party (Tarantura2000), Sudden Attack Boston (Grand Lodge), & Wild Tea Party 1969 (Empress Valley)
There seems to be no difference in tape generation between the titles.
ARM debuted this show. It is musically complete and has the tape after Shook but it's missing most of the introduction.
EV's "After Dark" is missing most of the introduction and is missing Robert's final "Thank You." It has pasted a few seconds of tape at the end of the tape, from elsewhere in the show. It's tape has been amplified, making the music and background noise louder.
Grand Lodge's title debuts another thirty seconds of the introduction, but is still missing almost thirty seconds. The last few seconds of Shook are missing and so is the fifteen seconds of tape that's supposed to follow. The metallic sound can be heard on this title too.
Wendy's title has their familiar metallic sound in the background. It's missing about thirty seconds of the introduction and the last few seconds of Shook are missing along with all the tape after the show.
The no label title is missing almost thirty seconds of the introduction and what is there is spliced in from a different copy of tape. It's ever so slightly metallic. The tape that follows is as complete as ARMS. It's sound is louder than ARMS.
Tarantura2000's title features some of their familiar editing where the sound changes at the que stops, effectively making it cut at the track changes. This happens for Quit, As Long, and Shook. Most of the introduction is missing. It's been amplified a lot.
EV's "Boston Tea Party 1969" and "Wild Tea Party 1969" were released simultaneously and use the same cds. It debuts a much longer introduction and otherwise has all known tape. It's sound is fairly similar to the no label title.
1-25-69
Boston Tea Party 1969 (Empress Valley), Complete Boston Tea Party (ARMS), Golden Age of Pirates (Wendy), Legendary Boston Tea Party Tapes Vol,1 (Empress Valley), Masters of Excess (The Symbols), Pat's Delight (Tecumseh), Praise Ye the Lord (Tarantura2000), & Wild Tea Party 1969 (Empress Valley)
Tecumseh runs too fast and has a tape stretch in the beginning of You Shook Me that isn't found on the other titles.
ARMS is balanced properly and has an additional 15-20 seconds of tape after the show.
Symbols is VERY unbalanced for almost the first half of the recording.
EV's "After Dark" is similar to ARMS. It starts off with a split second of extra tape but lacks the last 23 seconds of tape.
Tarantura2000 starts off with the extra split second of tape but ends without any tape after the show. Something has been done to suppress the background noise, most notably between songs, which makes the sound strange. Heavily amplified.
Wendy is similar to Tarantura2000 in content, but has the familiar metallic sound that's so common to Wendy's catalog.
EV's "Boston Tea Party 1969" and "Wild Tea Party 1969" were released simultaneously and use the same cds. There's a two second sound fluctuation during Babe that's no on any other titles. It is missing all the announcements after RP's final. It's sound is somewhat similar to the no label title, but runs a touch faster.
1-26-69
Boston Tea Party 1969 (Empress Valley & Wendy), Fillmore East (Mud Dogs), Killing Floor (Cobra & no label), Sudden Attack Boston (STTT and Grand Lodge), Tight But Loose (Tarantura), & Wild Tea Party 1969 (Empress Valley)
There seems to be no difference in tape generation between the titles.
Mud Dogs' title runs a little fast and is missing the 4 second introduction. It's cuts and sound are similar to Cobra and Tarantura.
Tarantura is missing the first dozen seconds and is missing 72 seconds of tape after Pat's Delight.
Cobra's introduction is a hair longer than almost all of the others. It's sound is very similar to Tarantura.
Shout To the Top's title has been amplified, making the music and background noise louder (a bit too loud).
Grand Lodge's content is almost identical to Cobra, with just a half second of the introduction missing. It's music and background noise are louder than Cobra.
Wendy's has cut out almost 50 seconds of White Summer. None of the other titles are cut there.
No label's title provides all the content of Cobra and debuts a second before White Summer. It's sound has been equalized a little differently from Cobra, being toned down a little.
EV's "Boston Tea Party 1969" and "Wild Tea Party 1969" were released simultaneously and use the same cds. It's content is pretty much identical to the no label title. It's sound is somewhat similar to the no label title, but runs a touch faster.
1-31-69
Drive Me Insane (Scorpio), East West (Digger Productions), New York in the Wind (Empress Valley), & Psychedelic Raw Blues (Immigrant)
Digger does not have an introduction and cuts into Train five seconds too late.
Immigrant has strange background sounds throughout, as if the tape copy was dirty or troubled. These problems are not on other titles. It does not have an introduction.
EV is the first title to offer an introduction, but still cuts into Train. They elected to edit the tape glitch that occurs half way into Dazed. A fairly significant problem introduced only by EV, is a strange sound appearing a couple of times half way through the song.
Scorpio also has an introduction. It even has a few extra seconds after the show that can't be found elsewhere. No problems with this title.
2-1-69
Drive Me Insane (Scorpio), Legendary Fillmore Tapes Vol.1 (Savege Beast Music) & New York in the Wind (Empress Valley)
These titles are very similar.
Savege misses a few seconds after the show and seems to run a touch slow.
EV removed the opening tape stretch. It has been amplified a little over Savege.
Scorpio is similar to EV in content and sound, except for a minor annoying cut at the end.
2-2-69
Absolutely Gems (Sanctuary), Canada 2-2-69 (Totanka), Complete Rock Pile Tapes (TCOLZ), Cycron (Empress Valley), Rockpile February 1969 (Graf Zeppelin), & Rockpile Tapes (Badgeholders)
Totanka is missing Killing Floor but it still has 4 seconds of Quit not usually on other titles. It's been amplified quite a bit.
Sanctuary is missing four seconds of Quit. Although it's Killing Floor has a cut before and after it, it does not seem to be from another known show. It does not seem to be amplified.
Badgeholder's title is missing four seconds of Quit. It has a bad edit in the beginning of Train and a very strange error near the 1:40 mark during I Can't Quit You. It's been amplified a lot.
TCOLZ is missing four seconds of Quit. It is similar in content to Sanctuary.
Graf's title is similar in content to TCOLZ, misses 4 seconds of Quit, and has been amplified a lot.
EV's title has the four seconds of Quit that's only found on Totanka, but it's missing 25 seconds of Killing Floor and runs way too slow. It's been amplified a bit over TCOLZ.
2-14-69
Image Club (Graf Zeppelin & Rag Doll), Miami Image Club (Wendy), Reflections On My Mind (IQ), Roll Over Beethoven (Empress Valley), Thee Image Club (Empress Valley), We're Unknown (Tarantura2000), & Yellow Zeppelin (Tarantura)
These titles are somewhat similar in sound.
Tarantura starts out their title by faking an introduction, taken from tape after You Shook Me. Most of the tape stretches and cuts have been edited on this title. There are a couple of seconds missing from Robert's introduction to HMMT. The last two seconds of HMMT is missing, along with the few seconds of audience cheer. Eight seconds of tape were pasted at the end of the title.
IQ has all the proper content. The brief bit of audience cheer after HMMT is not found elsewhere from the show. Immediately following that, is a brief snippet of Robert that may either be original or take from after Pat's Delight.
Rag Doll is missing a couple of seconds of tape after How Many More Times and runs a touch faster than the other titles.
EV's Beethoven has removed the tape stretches and has amplified their sound a bit.
Tarantura2000 starts out their title by faking an introduction, taken from tape after Babe. It misses the audience cheer after HMMT.
EV's Thee Image Club is a reissue of the audio from their first release of this show.
Wendy's title has removed the stretches and amplified the sound some.
Graf's title has removed most of the stretches and amplified the sound some.
3-3-69
Badge Holders (Double Time Disc), BBC (LSD), BBC Sessions 1969 (no label), BBC/Wavelength: Complete BBC Radio Sessions (Empress Valley), Classics Off the Air Volume One (Neutral Zone), Complete '69 BBC Classics (Immigrant), Complete BBC Sessions (Empress Valley), Complete British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Sessions (Empress Valley, original and reissue), Lost BBC Sessions (Led Note), Radio Appearances (WPOCM), Real Complete BBC Sessions: 1969 (Tarantura2000), Sunday Radio (Merry Melody), Traveling Riverside Blues (Pageboys), & Winterland (Living Legend)
Neutral Zone is from vinyl so it has some of that noise. The very last second of Dazed echoing out is missing.
Living Legend's title is copied from vinyl, has a lot of hiss in the background, and is missing the couple of seconds of tape before the show.
Pageboys is missing the last couple of seconds of Dazed (reverberation). It is from tape.
WPOCM title is missing the short introduction, but it othwise in good form.
Double Time Disc's title uses the exact same disc as WPOCM but with a different label printed on it.
Immigrant is missing the brief intro and the 1st note of the set as it fades in. It has too much background noise. The title is from tape.
LSD's is in good form hand has not been amplified much.
Led Note is similar to LSD and has been amplified a little.
EV's CBBCRS is highly similar to LSD.
EV's 2007 reissue of CBBCRS comes six months after their original and uses the same discs.
Tarantura2000's title is amplified a bit and the beginning of Dazed is really overblown.
EV's 2018 "Complete BBC Sessions" reissues the audio from CBBCRS.
EV's 2019 "BBC/Wavelength: Complete BBC Radio Sessions" reuses the same discs as their previous reissue.
Merry Melody's title is missing a little non musical tape and is very poor sounding.
No label's title has the proper content and excellent sound.
3-14-69, soundboard
20 Years Train Kept A Rollin' Vol. Two (Living Legend), Badge Holders (Double Time Disc), Denmark Deluxe (Moonchild), Final Rendez-Vous (Godfatherecords), First Time I Met the Blues (Tarantura2000), Hampton Kicks (Elrond), Kicks (Tarantura), Many More Early Times (Insect Records), Missing Links (TDOLZ), On Air (Live Legend Archives), Only Way To Fly (Masterpiece Premium), Radio Appearances (WPOCM), Stockholm (Kaleidoscopic), Stockholm 1969 (no label), Super Session At Tivolis Koncertsal (Empress Valley), & Valkyrie's Vigil: Plays Gothic Blues (Tarantura2000)
Kaleidoscopic has also been amplified, bringing up the background noise with the music. It misses the last three seconds of the last track.
Living Legend's title misses the guitar tuning before the first song, has a cut during I Gotta Move that misses ten seconds, and misses the last three seconds of HMMT. The title runs way, way too fast.
WPOCM's title is almost identical to Living Legend, running too fast and missing too much tape.
Double Time Disc's title uses the exact same disc as WPOCM but with a different label printed on it.
Insect's title misses the last few seconds of HMMT. It's been amplified a lot.
Tarantura runs a little fast and has been amplified, bringing up the background noise with the music.
Elrond has a big drop on Dazed and Confused that is not found on the other titles. It's sound is similar to Missing Links.
TDOLZ has a digital glitch in the beginning of I Gotta Move. The glitch is not on the other titles. It's sound is very clear and doesn't have any hiss.
Tarantura2000's title doesn't contain some of the problems found on the others. It's sound has been amplified. (The last half of the title isn't from this show. It is from April 25th 1969, but is not noted.)
Empress Valley uses the soundboard as it's primary source, filling in the gaps with the audience tape. In the mixing process, about fifteen seconds of soundboard is displaced with audience tape. The audience tape is a dirty copy, containing another band's music in the background of the left channel.
Godfather's title (soundboard) includes the DJ before and after the show. It starts out with two extra guitar notes not found on the other titles. The last second of HMMT is missed due to the DJ.
Masterpiece's title is similar in content and sound to most of the soundboard titles.
The no label title is highly similar to the other soundboard releases, and misses those first two guitar notes too.
Tarantura2000 has rearranged the tracks to their original show sequence instead of the broadcast sequence. It has been highly amplified.
Moonchild's title offers three versions of the show on their title. The first is called the "pre-fm remaster." It, like most of these titles misses the first two seconds of guitar warm up before the show. The last half second of HMMT gets missed too. It's been amplified a lot. The next version is the "original pre-fm master." It's basically the same as the previous, but there's a cut at the track change for Dazed and the last full second of HMMT is missed. It's not amplified as much as the previous. The final version is the full radio broadcast. It begins and ends with a DJ. It does not miss the first two seconds of the introduction. It has a lot of glitches during Quit, and some more throughout the title. I Gotta Move contains a cut after the first minute, removing a split second. The last two seconds of HMMT are missed. It has also been amplified quite a bit.
LLA's title includes the radio broadcast introduction and closing. It uses ai to make adjustments to the sound. It's otherwise similar in content to the better titles.
3-14-69, audience
Rock of Ages (TDOLZ, original and reissue) & Stockholm 1969 (no label)
TDOLZ's box set debuted the audience tape, but it runs very slow.
TDOLZ's jewel cased reissue uses the same disc as the original.
The no label title has the same content as TDOLZ, but runs at the proper speed. It's been amplified only a touch louder.
3-15-69 Afternoon Show
Copenhagen (Kaleidoscopic), Denmark '69 (Deep), Denmark 15th March 1969 (no label), Denmark 1969 (Wendy), Led Zeppelin is a Gas (Empress Valley), Led Zeppelin is a Gas Revisited (Empress Valley), Many More Early Times (Insect Records), Rock of Ages (TDOLZ, original and reissue), & Short Cuts (IQ)
Kaleidoscopic runs too fast. It is missing the first five seconds of the introduction and has a temporary drop down in sound for about twelve seconds during Quit.
Deep's title is in good form.
Insect's title misses a little tape before the show and all of the eight seconds after the final song.
IQ is missing 9 seconds of the introduction, has a slight cut/repeat after Shook, and has a temporary drop down in sound for about twelve seconds during Quit. IQ's tape seems to be a higher generation than the other titles.
TDOLZ's box set has a temporary drop down in sound for about twelve seconds during Quit and it's Communication Breakdown has an unfortunate cut and repeat just after the first minute.
EV's Gas title has a very brief drop during As Long that isn't found on the other titles but doesn't have the drop in sound during Quit like the older titles. Their music and background noise are both a little louder than TDOLZ.
TDOLZ's jewel cased reissue uses the same disc as the original.
EV's Revisited title reissues the audio from the original release.
The no label title is complete and doesn't have any extra dropouts during the music. There are some minor sound fluctuations after the show. It's sound is most similar to TDOLZ.
Wendy's title is similar to no label.
3-15-69 Evening Show
Denmark 15th March 1969 (no label), Denmark 1969 (Wendy), Jimmy Page Blues Band (Tarantura2000), Led Zeppelin is a Gas (Empress Valley), Led Zeppelin is a Gas Revisited (Empress Valley), & Rock of Ages (TDOLZ, original and reissue)
These titles are virtually identical.
TDOLZ has been amplified a little.
EV's Gas title runs a touch faster than TDOLZ and is amplified slightly more than TDOLZ.
TDOLZ's jewel cased reissue uses the same disc as the original.
EV's Revisited title reissues the audio from the original release.
Tarantura2000's title title has been amplified the most.
No label's title runs about the same speed as EV and has similar sound to EV too.
Wendy's title is similar to no label.
3-17-69 Danish TV
Danish TV (Cobra & Flying Disc), Danish TV & Studio Sessions (Watchtower, original and reissue), Denmark '69 (Deep Records), & On Air (Live Legend Archives)
Flying Disc is in good form.
Deep's title has a few drops and lots of static.
Cobra is similar to Flying Disc with slight differences in speed and equalization.
Watchtower's title is a substantial upgrade from the other titles listed. The vocals and instruments are much clearer and the background noise is much less. It's probably 2 tape generations better than the rest.
Watchtower's reissue uses the same disc but changes the artwork a little.
LLA's title uses ai to make adjustments to the sound. It's otherwise similar in content to the better titles.
3-18-69 Supershow
Complete '69 BBC Classics (Immigrant), On Air (Live Legend Archives), Riverside Blues (Swingin' Pig), & Shenandoah (Aulica & Missing In Action)
This Dazed and Confused track was originally released on the Supershow vhs. There are a total of 8 bass notes before Jimmy starts playing. The audio starts before the video, leaving the first three bass notes without video. The audio on the official dvd release begins with the video and therefore misses the first three bass notes.
Swingin' Pig's title misses the first one and a half bass notes.
Aulica and MIA are identical and have the last half of the first bass note.
Immigrant's title has the same content as Swingin' Pig.
LLA's title misses the first four bass notes. It uses ai to make adjustments to the sound.
3-19-69 BBC
Anybody Got a Les Paul? (Equinox), BBC Sessions 1969 (no label), BBC/Wavelength: Complete BBC Radio Sessions (Empress Valley), Complete BBC Sessions (Empress Valley), Complete British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Sessions (Empress Valley, original and reissue), Motor City Daze (Antrabata), Ottawa Sunshine (Elrond), Real Complete BBC Sessions: 1969 (Tarantura2000), Streets of San Francisco (no label), & Sunshine Woman (Flagge)
Many of these titles include What Is and What Should Never Be from the 6/16/69 show. It's always in poor condition and misses the last few seconds. The audio quality matches the quality of the 3/19/69 show. There are some subtle differences between tape quality in the longer releases, but overall they're about the same quality.
Antrabata only contains Sunshine Woman.
Elrond has all three songs and is missing most of the Alexis Korner's commentary. It's sound isn't very clear.
Flagge has all three songs but mistakenly includes a degenerated What Is and What Should Never Be from 6/16/69 as a part of this show. It's sound is improved over Elrond a little.
Equinox has all three songs but also mistakenly adds in What from 6/16/69. The audio has been amplified considerably.
Streets has all three songs but also mistakenly adds in What from 6/16/69. It's sound is similar to Flagge.
EV has all three songs but also mistakenly adds in What from 6/16/69. It is in good form and hasn't been amplified too much.
EV's 2007 reissue of CBBCRS comes six months after their original and uses the same discs.
Tarantura2000 is the first title to have all three songs and does not attribute What to this show. They've amplified the audio quite a bit.
EV's 2018 "Complete BBC Sessions" reissues the audio from CBBCRS.
EV's 2019 "BBC/Wavelength: Complete BBC Radio Sessions" reuses the same discs as their previous reissue.
No label has all three songs and does not attribute What to this show. It has good sound, being similar to EV.
3-22-69
Blighty (Tarantura2000), Decree of Love (Wendy), Moon Landing (Empress Valley), & Newcastle 1969 Plus (Graf Zeppelin)
These titles are almost identical.
4-24-69
Black Beauty (Wendy), Blues Anytime (Empress Valley), Bunch of Skinny Brits (Tarantura2000), Conquering California (Dinopower Records), Cracker Jack Blues (Jelly Roll), Dancing Avocado (Godfatherecords), Dancing Avocado Supreme (Graf Zeppelin, 3cd & 5cd), Fillmore West (LSD), Fillmore West '69 (Scorpio), Fillmore West 4.24.69 (no label), Go West Young Man! (Scorpio), Killing Floor (Empress Valley), Listen To the Difference (Empress Valley), Live At the Fillmore West 1969 (Live Legend Archives), Live On Blueberry Hill: Live On the Top of Blueberry Hill (Empress Valley), Psychedelic Raw Blues (Immigrant), & Who's Country Joe? (Flying Disc)
There doesn't seem to be any difference in tape generation between the titles. There are differences in amplification.
Flying Disc is missing most of the introduction, has an extra brief problem during As Long, chops out the tape problem during White Summer and maybe another second of the song, misses most of the little tape that's available after Pats, and runs a little fast.
Scorpio's "Fillmore West '69" is missing about half of the introduction, misses eleven seconds of White Summer near the third minute mark, and misses most of the little tape that's available after Pats. It's sound has been amplifed some.
Immigrant is missing about half of the introduction, misses eleven seconds of White Summer near the third minute mark, misses another forty seconds of WS while chopping out the speed fluctuation, and has a dropout in Pats. It's sound has been amplifed quite a bit.
Jelly Roll misses a little bit of the introduction and retains the sped up tape in White Summer. It's sound has been amplifed some.
LSD misses about fifteen seconds of the introduction and retains the sped up tape in White Summer. It's sound is not as loud as Jelly Roll's.
Dinopower is missing the entire introduction, misses eleven seconds of White Summer near the third minute mark, has a dropout in Pats, and misses all of the little tape that's available after Pats. It's sound has been amplifed a lot, being louder than Jelly Roll.
EV's "Blues Anytime" is a mix of shows. It has replaced the tape stretch in White Summer with tape from a different show. The tape gap in the beginning of Babe is completed here using the Danish TV show.
EV's "Listen To the Difference" is entirely from the stated show this time. It's introduction is missing close to twenty seconds. It's sound has been amplifed some, making is slightly louder than Jell Roll.
Wendy is a mix of shows. It's intro is missing twenty seconds and it has replaced the tape stretch in White Summer with tape from a different show. It's sound is similar to EV's LTTD.
Scorpio's "Go West" is a mix of shows. It begins by debuting fifteen seconds more of the introduction than any of the prior releases. There's a cut/glitch in As Long that's not found on the other titles and White Summer's tape stretch has been displaced with tape from another show. It's sound isn't as loud as EV's LTTD.
Godfather is a mix of shows. It starts with the longer introduction but the tape stretch in White Summer has evidently been displaced with tape from another show. It's sound is similar to EV's LTTD.
No label is a mix of shows. It's White Summer splices in a different show for big tape problem. It's very similar in content and sound to Godfather.
Tarantura2000 is a mix of shows. It's content is very similar to Godfather. It's sound has been amplifed quite a bit, being much louder than EV's LTTD.
Graf's 2018 title is another two show mix for White Summer. It's similar to many of the other titles.
Graf's 2023 title is another two show mix for White Summer. It's similar to many of the other titles.
EV's BBH demix title is another two show mix for White Summer. It has poor sound. The intro is complete, unlike their previous version. Whatever they've done with the sound, it's screwed up badly in a few places between about the thirteenth and fourteenth minute marks during As Long. It has a cut at the track change for White Summer.
Live Legend's title is another two show mix for White Summer. It starts out with a botched first second for the first song, due to ai/demix treatment. It's sound suffers slightly after White Summer again.
EV's Killing Floor demix title is another two show mix for White Summer. It is different from their prior demix. The vocals for Killing Floor have all been adjusted and just don't seem quite right. They're really poor twenty-seven seconds into the song.
4-25-69
California '69 (Lemon Song), Good Old Led Zeppelin: Train Kept A Rollin' (Tarantura2000), Grande Ball (Missing Link), How Many More Years (Empress Valley), Valkyrie's Vigil: Plays Gothic Blues (Tarantura2000), & Winterland Ballroom 1969 Day 1 (no label)
Missing Link is missing the brief introduction and one second at a cut during As Long As I Have You (not found on other titles). Their title is from a higher generation of tape.
Lemon Song is missing a few seconds after Train.
EV doesn't have the deficiencies found on Lemon Song and Missing Link. Their tape has been amplified some over Lemon Song, but has not been overdone.
Tarantura2000's "Good Old LZ" doesn't have the deficiencies found on Lemon Song and Missing Link. It's sound is less amplified than EV.
Tarantura2000's "Plays Gothic Blues" comes just 4 months after their prior release. It is a downgrade, missing the opening second of the introduction and placing a micro cut/repeat in the beginning of Train. This time the sound has been amplified a little more. There are no liner notes on the box identifying this show.
The no label title is highly similar to EV, lacking any problems.
4-26-69
Avocado Club (Empress Valley), Good Old Led Zeppelin: You Shook Me (Tarantura2000), Graham's Superb Vol 1 (IQ), Lead Set: Psychedelic Ballroom (Tarantura), Live At Winterland Ballroom (Empress Valley), Psychedelic Explosion (TDOLZ), Smokestack Lightning (Black Swan), & Winterland Ballroom 1969 Day 2 (no label)
Black Swan's recording is VERY unbalanced.
Tarantura is in good form and has been amplified just a little bit.
TDOLZ is missing most of the tape before the show. It has an extra tape problem in Dazed and Confused, has about 3 seconds of some foreign music before HMMT, misses almost one minute of guitar tune up before White Summer, and has a cut in Babe that eliminates 6 seconds. There are also a couple of extra cuts between songs, missing some of Robert's comments. The title runs a little slow and has too much background noise.
IQ is properly balanced, much more complete than TDOLZ, and far better sounding.
EV has a glitch during the end of Killing Floor that's not found on other titles, but is otherwise very similar to Tarantura.
Tarantura2000's title is similar to EV, except for the unexplained splice during the first minute Pat's Delight. The extra dozen seconds are surely from some other night. The title's background sound seems a little suppressed.
EV's Live At Winterland Ballroom is a reissue Avocado Club's first two discs.
The no label title is missing three minutes of non-music tape. It's been amplified some.
4-27-69, soundboard
American Beauty (Tarantura), Avocado Power (Empress Valley), Fillmore West (LSD), Fillmore West 1969 Final (no label), Fillmore West 1969 Off Reels (Idol Mind Productions), San Francisco 27/04/69 - Vol. 1&2 (Kaleidoscopic), Simplistic Atmosphere (Jelly Roll), 20 Years Train Kept A Rollin' Vol. One & Two (Living Legend), & Zeppelin Express/Zeppelin Ediface (Condor)
Condor doesn't have the correct song sequence. It is missing the last minute of Dazed and misses all of Pat's Delight. Communication Breakdown is included (on the end of the Dazed track) but is not mentioned on the tracklist. It is poorer quality than the rest of the songs. There's a lot of background noise the title, so it's certainly from a higher generation of tape than the other titles here.
Kaleidoscopic doesn't have the correct song sequence. It is missing almost over a minute of Communication Breakdown, over six minutes of Pat's, and some RP talk. There are a few extra cuts and CB has been moved out of sequence. It seems to be sourced from a higher generation tape than the later releases.
Living Legend doesn't have the correct song sequence. It is missing almost 12 minutes of Pat's and another minute of combined tape between songs while moving Dazed and Communication Breakdown out of sequence. It seems to be sourced from a higher generation tape than the later releases.
Tarantura doesn't have the correct song sequence. It is missing Pat's Delight and Communication is out of sequence, but all other music and chatter are present. Tarantura's sound is very, very low in volume and has too much background noise. It also seems to be sourced from a higher generation of tape than the later releases.
LSD doesn't have the correct song sequence. It has moved Communication Breakdown out of sequence and is missing the last several seconds of tape after Dazed. It's title hasn't been amplified much.
Jelly Roll is the first title having it's tracks in the proper sequence that's strictly from the soundboard. It also has all known tape from the soundboard. It is at least slightly more complete between songs than the other "soundboard only" releases. Their tape has been slightly amplified.
IMP's title buries an extra second of the opening in the fade in. It's cut in Lemon Song misses a second. The cut after Babe misses 15 seconds. Ten seconds after the show are missing. IMP's sound has been amplified a lot. Is has the proper song sequence.
The no label title It has moved CB out of sequence. It's first disc ends by leading into Communication Breakdown for a couple dozen seconds, although the doesn't appear again until the end of the second disc, which is the wrong place. It's missing 11 seconds of tape after Dazed. Their sound is similar to Jelly Roll.
EV's title misses the last ten seconds of tape after the show. It's otherwise in good form.
4-27-69, soundboard/audience mixes
Avocado Club (Empress Valley), Avocado Power (Empress Valley), Blue Flame (Bumble Bee), Collage (TDOLZ), Dancing Avocado Supreme (Graf Zeppelin, 3cd & 5cd), Fillmore West 1969 Final (no label), Go West Young Man! (Scorpio), Live At Fillmore West (Empress Valley), Live At the Fillmore West 1969 (Live Legend Archives), Sixty Nine Special (Empress Valley), Sleeping Beauty (Wendy 2007 & 2021), & Twinight (Immigrant)
These titles fill the soundboard gaps with the audience recording.
Immigrant doesn't have the correct song sequence. It has very poor sound with way too much background noise. The second set begins with Train from Jan 9th. The audience tape is only used for White Summer/Black Mountain Side. CB has been moved to the end of the second set.
TDOLZ's title seems to use the audience for each gap. Some tape is missing after Dazed. Is has the proper song sequence.
EV's Club is a regular mix based on the board with the songs in the proper sequence.
Wendy's 2007 title displaces too much of the soundboard, even during the end of one of the songs. The audience used after You Shook Me is full of "clicking" sounds.
Bumble Bee's introduction starts out with the "metallic" sound and when it finally switches the soundboard for Train, they use a super long overlapping edit (35+ seconds) between the two tapes. They continue to displace and miss the soundboard throughout the title. There are a couple of strange spots where the soundboard quality is oddly poor. They may have been tampering with the eq or overlapping the audience tape.
Scorpio's start to the title is much like Bumble Bee's, using a super long overlapping splice, displacing the soundboard. The other splices usually only displace a brief second or three of the soundboard.
EV's Live At Fillmore West is a reissue Avocado Club's mixed version.
The no label title doesn't have the correct song sequence. It is similar to most mixes, not making an effort to preserve all available soundboard and often displacing it with the filler tape. CB has been moved out of sequence. Some of the audience tape sounds a bit metallic.
Graf's 2018 title is a mixed based on the soundboard. Unlike most titles, more effort seems to have been used to preserve the soundboard. It's songs are in the proper sequence.
EV's "Sixty Nine Special" is a stereo matrix, simultaneously playing the soundboard and audience tape.
Wendy's 2021 title has been remastered, but suppresses some of the music and a lot of the background sounds in the soundboard and audience tapes. The drumming at the end of As Long As I Have You is a good example, as it's a very different sound than what was actually played. Some parts of the soundboard are displaced due to splicing.
EV's Power is a billed as a "merge," but it's just a normal mix based on the soundboard. It's misses a little bit of the primary tape, the soundboard, at some of the splices. That tape really shouldn't be missing since the splices are quick/distinct transitions. The last ten seconds of tape after the show are absent.
Graf's 2023 title is similar to their 2018 title.
Live Legend's title is a sb/aud mix/matrix. It's ai/demix treatment ruins a second during HMMT near the fifteen minute mark.
4-27-69, audience
Avocado Club (Empress Valley), Avocado Power (Empress Valley), Dancing Avocado Supreme (Graf Zeppelin, 5cd), Fillmore West 1969 Final (no label), Graham's Superb Vol 2 (IQ), & Lead Set: Sitting & Thinking (Tarantura)
Tarantura's 1995 title was the first release of this show with the songs in the proper order. It is missing 17 seconds of HMMT, near the end of the song. Tarantura has too much background noise.
IQ doesn't have the correct song sequence. It starts out by missing part of Robert's "Good Evening" from before the show. The cut after Shook is missing 25 seconds of Robert's commentary and instrument tune-up. Communication Breakdown and White Summer/Black Mountain Side are out of sequence. It's sound level is similar to Tarantura for music but has less background noise.
EV's Club isn't missing tape like the other two titles. However, the usual cuts are there. EV's music and background noise are louder that IQ - just amplified, probably no gen difference. It has the proper song sequence.
The no label title doesn't have the correct song sequence. It splices out to a different generation of tape for forty seconds after Quit for some unknown reason. There's a really bad brief noise halfway during As Long that's certainly not on the other audience releases of this show. About a dozen seconds are missing after HMMT. It has moved CB out of sequence. It's sound is similar to EV Club.
EV's Power title is missing almost fifty seconds of tape. It's songs are in the proper sequence.
Graf's 5cd title feature the isolated audience tape on it's last two discs. Ten seconds of tape have been removed from after HMMT. It's songs are in the proper sequence. It's otherwise similar to EV's audience title.
5-25-69
Anybody Got a Les Paul? (Equinox), Decree of Love (Wendy), Miami Image Club (Wendy), Newcastle 1969 Plus (Graf Zeppelin), Red Snapper Deluxe (Balboa), Whole Lotta For Your Love (Pirate Records), & Whole Lotta Love (Tarantura)
Balboa starts off with a couple extra seconds of tape but then cuts before going into the song. There is a bumping sound in the beginning that seems to be more prominent on this title than the others. Other than the very minor bumping sound, Balboa has excellent sound.
Tarantura runs fast but is similar in sound to Balboa.
Equinox's title is far louder than the other titles but it seems to be due to some digital "enhancements." A good spot to listen for evidence of tampering is in the area of 3:35.
Pirate is similar in content and sound to Tarantura, running fast.
Wendy's Decree title runs at the proper speed and doesn't have any of the other minor problems.
Graf's title is pretty much identical to Wendy.
Wendy's Miami title runs faster than their prior title.
5-30-69
Drive Me Insane (Scorpio), Early Days Latter Days (no label) & Legendary Fillmore Tapes Volume 2 (Savage Beast)
EDLD runs close to the proper speed but it's Communication Breakdown runs a little fast.
Savage Beast's title runs too fast. Communication Breakdown runs incredibly fast.
Scorpio's title has an unnecessary glitch in How Many More Time. It is otherwise identical to EDLD.
6-16-69 BBC
BBC (LSD), BBC Sessions 1969 (no label), BBC/Wavelength: Complete BBC Radio Sessions (Empress Valley), Complete '69 BBC Classics (Immigrant), Complete BBC Sessions (Empress Valley), Complete British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Sessions (Empress Valley, original and reissue), Lost BBC Sessions (Led Note), Real Complete BBC Sessions: 1969 (Tarantura2000), & Secret History of (Disc Hits)
Most of the titles offering the 3/19/69 show also include (uncredited) 6/16/69's What track, but in poor form and slightly incomplete.
Immigrant is the least complete title. It's missing about 42 seconds before Communication Breakdown, has tape problems at the end of CB, and misses the last three seconds of Something Else. The interview seems to be amplified a little while the songs are not. The songs still have excellent sound.
LSD is missing 39 seconds before CB and misses another second before Something Else.
Disc Hit's title seems like it likely a direct copy of the Scorpio title of the same name (it's back cover art is a copy of a page from Godwin's 1994 book). It's missing 39 seconds before CB.
Led Note is missing 39 seconds before CB.
EV's CBBCRS misses 9 seconds before CB but debuts 30 seconds of tape after that section.
EV's reissue of CBBCRS comes six months after their original and uses the same discs.
Tarantura2000's title has the extra thirty seconds found on EV, plus it debuts another nine seconds after Girl. It's amplified a bit more than EV.
EV's "Complete BBC Sessions" reissues the audio from CBBCRS.
EV's "BBC/Wavelength: Complete BBC Radio Sessions" reuses the same discs as their previous reissue.
No label's title has all known content and excellent sound.
6-19-69
Complete '69 BBC Classics (Immigrant), Hideaway (Nienerwald), & On Air (Live Legend Archives)
Nienerwald's title has all three tracks.
Immigrant only has the non-rehearsal track of Communication Breakdown.
LLA's title has all three tracks. The rehearsal track begins with just over two seconds more of CB than the other titles. It uses ai to make adjustments to the sound, which includes a botched ai creation after the non-rehearsal CB track.
6-20-69
Blighty (Tarantura2000), Decree of Love (Wendy), & Newcastle 1969 Plus (Graf Zeppelin)
These titles are similar in audio content and tape generation, but Tarantura2000's sound is very poor. It has been highly altered to suppress sound. The results are poor.
6-24-69 BBC
Badge Holders (Double Time Disc), BBC (LSD), BBC Sessions 1969 (no label), BBC/Wavelength: Complete BBC Radio Sessions (Empress Valley), Classics Off the Air Volume One (Neutral Zone), Complete '69 BBC Classics (Immigrant), Complete BBC Sessions (Empress Valley), Complete British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Sessions (Empress Valley, original and reissue), Lost BBC Sessions (Led Note), Radio Appearances (WPOCM), Real Complete BBC Sessions: 1969 (Tarantura2000), Sunday Radio (Merry Melody), Traveling Riverside Blues (Pageboys), & Winterland (Living Legend)
Neutral Zone is from vinyl and is missing a combined total of eleven seconds of music from three of the four songs when fading out too fast.
Living Legend is from vinyl, is missing tape before the show, and is missing the last 4 seconds of Traveling Riverside Blues.
Pageboys is missing the tape between songs and is also missing the end of Whole Lotta Love. It is from tape.
WPOCM misses way too much music. It's missing the first two words of What, misses the last five seconds of What, misses the last four seconds of Travelling, and misses the last eight seconds of WLL. These are the same places where NZ misses, but DTD misses even more.
Double Time Disc's title uses the exact same disc as WPOCM but with a different label printed on it.
Immigrant is missing several seconds of tape before the set. There are tape problems during the end of What Is and What Should Never Be. Traveling Riverside Blues has a few glitches. It is from tape and has excellent sound.
LSD is missing Traveling Riverside Blues.
Led Note has proper content and excellent sound.
EV's CBBCRS is highly similar to Led Note.
EV's reissue of CBBCRS comes six months after their original and uses the same discs.
Tarantura2000's title has removed one of the Chris Grant comments for some reason, and has done something very odd with the sound during the end of What, the beginning of Travelling, and the end of Travelling too. Very strange. The show is followed by a one minute interview between Chris and Jimmy.
EV's "Complete BBC Sessions" reissues the audio from CBBCRS.
EV's "BBC/Wavelength: Complete BBC Radio Sessions" reuses the same discs as their previous reissue.
Merry Melody's title is missing the last 9 seconds of Whole Lotta Love, the last 2 seconds of What, and is missing a little non musical tape in two other places. It is very poor sounding.
No label's title has proper content and excellent sound.
6-27-69 BBC Rock Hour
Badge Holders (Double Time Disc), BBC (LSD), BBC Sessions 1969 (no label), BBC/Wavelength: Complete BBC Radio Sessions (Empress Valley), BBC/Wavelength: Best of the Rock Hour (Empress Valley), BBC Rock Hour (Bumble Bee), BBC Sessions (LSD), BBC 1969 (BBC Transcription Service), Best of the Rock Hour (Empress Valley), Classics Off the Air Volume Two (Neutral Zone), Complete '69 BBC Classics (Immigrant), Complete BBC Sessions (Empress Valley), Complete British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Sessions (Empress Valley, original and reissue), Led One-Hour Radio Special (Boleskine), London Broadcast (WPOCM), Mess of Blues (Living Legend Records), Real Complete BBC Sessions: 1969 (Tarantura2000), Rock Hour (Antrabata), & White Summer (Swingin' Pig)
There are two types of releases for this date. The first type is the actual broadcast version that includes interview and commercials/comedy sketch. Those titles are very similar in content and sound. The second tpye is more of a "music only" or "non-broadcast" version, without most of the BBC features. The music on the non-broadcast versions is much louder than the broadcast versions. These releases do not have the three glitches in the early part of Dazed and White Summer is complete. These versions are fairly similar in content and sound.
Neutral Zone's title is a music only version. It is from vinyl, so there's some extra noise from that. NZ didn't want any of Alan Black or even Robert's band introduction during HMMT. So, they cut it and even more tape - missing 74 seconds of the beginning of the song. Shook has been moved out of sequence.
Living Legend's title is virtually identical to Neutral Zone in content, so it's very incomplete. It's sound has been amplified a bit over NZ.
Swingin' Pig's title is a music only version and is not from vinyl.
WPOCM's title is an incomplete two show mix from vinyl. It uses Dazed from 4/1/71 instead of 6/27/69 and has chopped out Robert's band into to HMMT, and then some.
Double Time Disc's Badge Holders title is also an incomplete two show mix from vinyl BECAUSE it uses the exact same disc as WPOCM, but with different labeling.
Immigrant is a music only version and is very similar to Swingin' Pig.
Antrabata is the first broadcast version and is in good form.
BBC Transcription Service's title seems to be a direct copy of Antrabata.
LSD's 4cd title contains a music only version.
LSD's 5cd title contains a broadcast version.
EV's CBBCRS contains a broadcast version and has been amplified a little over Antrabata.
Bumble Bee's title contains the broadcast version but does not have the three tape glitches in Dazed and has an extra 16 seconds of White Summer since it is not cut. Bumble Bee is the first broadcast version not to have these flaws.
EV's reissue of CBBCRS comes six months after their original and uses the same discs.
Boleskine's title is a relatively recent rebroadcast of the original, minus the sketch, with an extra introduction and exit by another DJ. It's highly amplified.
Tarantura2000's title is the broadcast version and it is horrible. They tweaked the sound in bad ways. The efforts to suppress the background noise have made it so unnatural that it stands out much worse in comparison to the original sound. It's not just the background being damaged, as it affects the music as well to varying degrees. It's really bad just twenty-five seconds into Quit, essentially creating glitches. It's at it's worst during the entirety of White Summer. And if that's not bad enough, there's a distinct "ping" sound in the right channel near 1:07 in Communication Breakdown, and another one during Dazed near 9:17. There are likely others too. Don't expect a replacement disc. These are not unintentional flaws, it's the way T2K wanted collectors to hear it. This isn't uncommon for this label.
EV's "Complete BBC Sessions" reissues the audio from CBBCRS.
EV's "BBC/Wavelength: Complete BBC Radio Sessions" reuses the same discs as their previous reissue.
EV's simultaneous release of "BBC/Wavelength: Best of the Rock Hour" and "Best of the Rock Hour" use the same discs for this show, which is the American broadcast. It removes most of Alan Black, the long interview, and the commercials. All of Robert's talk after the show has been removed. It's sound is similar to other releases.
No label's title is a music only version and is highly similar to Swingin' Pig.
7-5-69
Atlanta International Pop Festival 1969 (Graf Zeppelin), Atlanta Pop Festival 1969 (no label), Fuckin' Spirit (Melvin Records), & Rocks In Atlanta (Empress Valley)
EV includes the opening tape stretch and the others too. It runs a tiny bit slower than the other titles and hasn't been amplified.
Graf removed the opening stretch but kept the others. It's been amplified over EV.
No label's title is highly similar to Graf's.
Melvin has removed the stretches and edited the cut after White Summer. It's been amplified quite a bit.
7-6-69, source 1
Battle of LZ & JBG (Empress Valley) & New Port '69 (Black Swan)
The first source doesn't capture all of Communication Breakdown or any of Long Tall Sally.
Black Swan runs fast but doesn't sound too bad because of it. It's missing a few seconds of the introduction and after Shook.
EV does run the proper speed and contains the few missing non-musical seconds but it sounds horrible. EV has done something to the sound that's hard to explain, but the issue is easy to hear upon listening to the entire show. It's particularly bad and noticeable after the first and fifteenth minutes of HMMT.
7-6-69, source 2
Jazz (no label), Live At the Newport Jazz Festival (Empress Valley), Newport Jazz Festival 1969 (Graf Zeppelin), & Tales From '69 (Tarantura)
This source has the full show.
Tarantura runs too fast, has less tape after the show, is missing 29 seconds after Shook of tape & Robert talking, and doesn't seem to be quite as clear as the other two titles.
Jazz has a digital glitch in the introduction, a drop in Dazed, and a digital glitch in You Shook Me - none of those problems are present on the other titles. It is cut after Shook and also misses a little tape after the show.
EV has a slight cut/repeat as Robert introduces himself during How Many More Times. It is not cut after Shook like the older titles and has more tape after the show. It has similar sound in music and background noise to Jazz.
Graf's 2016 title has this source isolated on their second disc. It is in excellent condition with no errors.
7-6-69, source 3
Newport Jazz Festival (Masterport)
Masterport debuts the third tape and has been degenerated some with the "metallic" sound. It only has the first three songs but Dazed isn't complete.
7-6-69, mixes
Jazz But Rock (Tarantura2000) and Newport Jazz Festival 1969 (Graf Zeppelin 2009 & 2016)
Tarantura2000 is based on the first source and uses source two for the introduction, the completion of Communication Breakdown, and Long Tall Sally. Sound suppression starts during the introduction and it becomes very heavy during source one and continues throughout the remainder of the source tape. The tampering is constantly evident and is most noticeable between tracks during clapping and quite moments (sounding metallic).
Graf's 2009 title is based on the first source and fills with the second. It's sound is typical good quality.
Graf's 2016 title reissues the audio from their 2009 title (on the first disc of the title).
7-20-69
Cleveland 1969 (TDOLZ), Destroyer 1969 (Tarantura & Wendy), Moon Landing (Empress Valley), Musicarnival (Graf Zeppelin), & Musicarnival 1969 (no label)
Tarantura has edited the drops/cuts but still has the disappearing right channel during White Summer for three minutes.
TDOLZ has the dropouts during White Summer, the right channel missing for three minutes, and some more drops during Shook. TDOLZ has been amplified a little more than the others.
Wendy edited out the drops, corrected the right channel during White Summer, and even has an extra half second of music before Shook's first cut.
Graf's title is very similar to Wendy, but is missing a half second at the cut during Shook.
EV's title misses the half second of Shook at the first cut. It's sound is similar to Wendy.
No label's title misses the half second of Shook at the first cut. It's sound is similar to Wendy.
7-21-69
Complete Central Park (Sanctuary), Live At Central Park (Empress Valley), Schaefer Music Festival (Rock Calender & Graf Zeppelin), Twist (no label), & Woody Woodrocker Show (Tarantura2000)
Rock Calender is missing eleven seconds too much of Train and most of the tape after the show.
Twist doesn't miss the tape for Train but does miss most of the tape after the show. It sounds better than Rock Calendar.
Sanctuary has a brief sound change during the beginning of How Many More Times that's a little unpleasant. It has all of the expected tape for Train and has all of the tape after the show. It's been amplified a bit and sounds better than prior titles.
Tarantura2000 doesn't have the sound change during How Many More Times, but is preceded by a cut/repeat instead. They've censored the tape after the show, removing the taper's comments. It's sound hasn't been equalized as high as Sanctuary.
EV's title seems to be sourced from the same tape copy as Tarantura2000. They both have a couple extra split seconds of tape not found on older titles. They both have a new tape problem just before Sanctuary's problem during HMMT, but don't have the sound change experienced on Sanctuary. (It's less annoying than the problem found on Sanctuary's title.) EV didn't edit the tape trouble with a cut/repeat like Tarantura2000, but they do cut out the taper's comments after the show. EV's tape isn't amplified as high as Sanctuary.
Graf Zeppelin's title is the most complete version yet. It has the extra tape found on EV and T2K, yet it is not censored after the show. It has all known tape. The sound is similar to Sanctuary.
7-25-69
I've Got You Under My Skin (Tarantura2000, original and reissue), Love Letter From Canada 1969 (Wendy), Midwest Rock Festival (Graf Zeppelin 2009 & 2021 issues), Midwest Rock Festival 1969 (no label), State Fair (Digger Productions), & Stroll On (TDOLZ)
Digger is missing most of the introduction, a dozen seconds after Dazed, and five seconds after How Many More Times. The title runs just a hair faster than it should.
TDOLZ misses Robert saying "say good night" at the beginning of How Many More Times. Their tape has been amplified a fair bit.
Graf's 2009 title is similar in content to TDOLZ, but still misses "say" from the beginning of How Many More Times. It's sound is similar to TDOLZ.
Tarantura2000 has all of the known tape and has similar sound to Graf and TDOLZ.
Tarantuar2000's reissue uses the same disc as the original.
Graf's 2021 2cd title offers a new version on the first disc. It contains all known tape and has similar to their 2009 original.
Graf's 2021 2cd title reissues the 2009 version on it's second cd.
No label's title contains all known tape and is extremely similar to Graf's 2021 new version.
Wendy's title is fairly similar in content and sound as no label.
8-8-69
Get High Be Free (Tarantura2000, original and reissue), Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes (Graf Zeppelin), Live At Central Park (Empress Valley), Summer of '69 (Rubber Dubber), & Wrath of the Gods (Wendy)
Rubber Dubber is missing several seconds of tape and is over amplified.
EV is complete and not amplified too much.
Tarantura2000 is complete but has been amplified a lot.
Tarantuar2000's reissue uses the same disc as the original.
Wendy's release is the least complete version available. It misses a little of the introduction, misses six seconds of the excited audience and Robert talking after Dazed, removes seven seconds of Shook at the cut, inserts a cut after Shook and then repeats four seconds, and then cuts out four seconds early while Robert is speaking after the show.
Graf's title has the same content as EV and Tarantura2000. It's not as heavily equalized as T2k.
8-17-69
Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes (Graf Zeppelin), Miami Image Club (Wendy), Red Snapper Deluxe (Balboa), & Tales From '69 (Tarantura)
Balboa is missing the last ten seconds after Quit.
Tarantura created a false introduction and amplified their tape a bit.
Wendy has ten extra seconds more tape after Quit than the older titles and runs a touch faster.
Graf's title similar in content to Wendy, but is equalized a little differently.
8-18-69 First Show
Absolutely Gems (Sanctuary), Complete Rock Pile Tapes (TCOLZ), Complete Rockpile Shows (The Symbols), Cycron (Empress Valley), & Rockpile Tapes (Badgeholders)
These titles are similar in content. The Symbols has an instance of digital interference during Dazed. Badgeholders has the familiar metallic sound, ranging from little to very heavy at times.
8-18-69 Second Show, sources 1 & 2
Absolutely Gems (Sanctuary), Complete Rock Pile Tapes (TCOLZ), Complete Rockpile Shows (The Symbols), Cycron (Empress Valley), Hideaway (Nienerwald), Long Tall Sally (Tarantura), & Rockpile Tapes (Badgeholders)
Nienerwald's title is in good form.
Tarantura's title has the whole show, but interupts it by placing two tracks from a different show in the middle.
TCOLZ's third and fourth discs and the other titles are from the first source and are almost completely identical. Nienerwald, Sanctuary, Badgeholders, and EV have amplified their sound quite a bit.
TCOLZ's fifth disc debuts the second source.
8-31-69, soundboard only
Don't Mess With Texas (Oh Boy), Plays Pure Blues (Whoopy Cat reissue), & Texas International Pop Festival (LSD, Oh Boy, TCOLZ, & no label)
These titles are strictly from the soundboard.
Oh Boy's titles have the same audio.
LSD's title has slightly amplified sound over the Oh Boy titles, which seems to be the only difference.
The Whoppy Cat reissue has the same quality and content as the others.
TCOLZ's fourth disc is strictly from the soundboard. It's virtually identical to Oh Boy and LSD.
The 2017 no label title releases the soundboard. Unlike the others, it has a minor cut after HMMT and misses a second. It's otherwise pretty similar to the other sb only releases.
8-31-69, soundboard mixes
Ladies and Gentlemen (Empress Valley), Live On Blueberry Hill: Live On the Top of Blueberry Hill (Empress Valley), Only Way To Fly (Empress Valley, 2cd), Plays Pure Blues (Graf Zeppelin), Plays Pure Bob (Tarantura2000), Sixty Nine Special (Empress Valley), Texas Blues (Godfatherecords), & Texas International Pop Festival (EV original and reissue, no label two issues, & Wendy)
These titles are based on the soundboard and use the audience tapes to fill gaps.
EV's "Only Way To Fly" liner notes refer to disc two being from "the original mixing desk recording." It is not the original recording, because it includes another "original recording" as well, making it a two source mixture. Almost the entire first minute is not from the board (never been available from board), but from the first audience tape. The disc is mostly from the "board," but it also includes more of the audience recording to fill actual/true/real gaps. EV's sound is slightly better than previous titles from the board. It may or may not be due to a better generation of tape.
EV's "Texas International Pop Festival" is a two source mix, using the first audience tape to fill gaps in the board.
Godfather's title is another mix, using the soundboard as the primary tape and the first audience tape as the filler. How Many More Times and Communication Breakdown have sections of digital clicks.
EV's second disc of "Ladies and Gentlemen" reissues the audio from their dvd-a release.
No label3s 2018 release identifies itself as a "matrix," simultaneously mixing the soundboard and an audience tape. When the soundboard is unavailable, just the audience tape is heard.
Tarantura2000's second disc of the title features the soundboard with audience mixed in to complete the introduction, Dazed, and How Many More Times. Too much of the soundboard tape is lost at the long overlapping splices. It's been amplified a bit.
The 2019 no label release is a reissue from their 2018 title.
EV's "Sixty Nine Special" appears to be a direct copy of the 2018 no label release. It's a stereo matrix simultaneously mixing the soundboard and an audience tape.
EV's 2021 release titled "Texas International Pop Festival" is a reissue, using the same discs from 2006.
Wendy's title is based on the soundboard and filled with audience tapes. It's equalized differently and is one of their "multiband remasters."
Graf's first disc is based on the soundboard and mixes in audience tape to fill gaps. It's sound is very similar to the other soundboard titles.
Graf's fifth disc is a matrix using the soundboard and audience tapes simultaneously.
EV's BBH title contains a matrix of this show with cuts at every track change.
8-31-69, audience source 1
Ladies and Gentlemen (Empress Valley), Only Way To Fly (Empress Valley), Plays Pure Blues (Graf Zeppelin), Plays Pure Bob (Tarantura & Tarantura2000), & Texas International Pop Festival (TCOLZ, 4cd)
Tarantura is strictly from the first source and is in good form.
EV's "Only Way To Fly" liner notes refer to disc one being from "the original reel to reel recording from the photographer's pit (audience)." It is not the original recording of the first audience source, because it includes another "original recording" as well, making it a two source mixture. The soundboard is used to fill in a musical gap in How Many More Times. EV's music and background noise are slightly louder than Tarantura's. It isn't likely due to a difference in tape generation.
TCOLZ's first disc is strictly from the first source. It misses four seconds after the show but is otherwise very similar to Tarantura.
EV's first disc of "Ladies and Gentlemen" reissues the audio from their original release.
Tarantura2000's first disc is strictly from the first audience source and is highly similar to Tarantura.
Graf's second disc is based on source one and uses the third source to fill the cut in HMMT. It's sound is somewhat similar to TCOLZ.
8-31-69, audience source 2
Led Zeppelin Eyes Big Crowd (Tarantura2000), Plays Pure Blues (Graf Zeppelin), & Texas International Pop Festival (TCOLZ, 4cd)
These title are all strictly from the second source.
Tarantura2000's title debuts the second audience source. It unfortunately has several micro cut/repeats throughout.
TCOLZ's disc two is from the second audience source. It does not have the micro cut/repeats found in Tarantura2000. However, TCOLZ has a different situation around three of them. There's a little squeak that can be heard from one channel to the next. It's very silent, but it can't be denied. Still, it's much better than the annoying micro cut/repeats. TCOLZ's sound is similar to Tarantura2000's, but not as amplified.
TCOLZ's disc three is also source two, although the liner notes state it's the third source. It's missing eighteen minutes and it's sound is very degenerated.
Graf's third disc is in great form. It does not have the flaws found on Tara2000 or TCOLZ. It's sound is similar to TCOLZ.
8-31-69, audience source 3
Plays Pure Blues (Graf Zeppelin)
Graf's fourth disc debuts the third source.
10-10-69, emcee/deejay chopped out
Ain't No Fool (Black Dog Rekords, BDR-002), Good Times Bad Times (Scorpio), & L'Olympia (Godfatherecords)
Black Dog Rekords's first release (BDR-002) removed (chopped out) the French emcee and the underlying music. They have significantly amplified the tape.
Godfatherecord removed (chopped out) the French emcee and the underlying music too. In the process, a few extra seconds were removed too.
Scorpio replaced the emcee with music from a different show.
10-10-69, emcee/deejay included
Ain't No Fool (Black Dog Rekords, BDR-003), Olympia 1969 (no label), One Night Stand In Paris (TCOLZ), Paris Olympia 1969 (Wendy), & Paris Par Excellence (Empress Valley)
Wendy, EV, and the no label titles were released almost simultaneously and are almost identical in content.
Wendy has evidence of a slight cut after Quit. It doesn't sound like they've amplified their title.
EV also has evidence of a slight cut after Quit. They have significantly amplified their title.
Black Dog Rekords also has evidence of a slight cut after Quit and have greatly amplified the recording.
No label is not cut after Quit and have only amplifed the recording slightly.
TCOLZ's second disc has the slight cut after Quit. It's not over-amplified.
10-10-69, emcee/deejay excluded (pre-broadcast)
Heavy Blues (Empress Valley), Olympia 1969 Pre-FM Master (no label original and reissue), One Night Stand In Paris (TCOLZ), & Valkyrie's Vigil: In the Act of Invoking the Spirit (Tarantura2000)
These titles do not contain any overlaid emcee commentary.
TCOLZ's first disc is in good form.
No label is similar to TCOLZ.
Tarantura2000 is similar to TCOLZ in content but has been amplified a little more.
No label's reissue has the same content as their original release from twenty months earlier.
EV contains all the usual material but adds in Moby Dick from the official release. It's amplified quite a bit over TCOLZ.
10-12-69
At the Lyceum Theatre London 1969 (Wendy), Ballroom Blitz (WPOCM), Good Times Bad Times (Scorpio), Live At the Lyceum In London (Graf Zeppelin), Lyceum (Cobra), Lyceum 1969 (no label), Lyceum Preview (Immigrant), Triumphant UK Return (Empress Valley), & UK 10-12-69 (Totanka)
WPOCM has removed four tape stretches and completely removed the unique background noises near the taper. Audience cheering has been pasted in a couple of places, including after the end of How Many More Times. It's speed is a little fast and it's sound has been amplifed too much.
Immigrant's title has the same cut up content as WPOCM but it's sound is much worse. It sounds if it's copied from vinyl, but may just be a horrible copy of tape.
Totanka is in good form but may run a little slow.
Cobra's version does not remove the stretches, has a small fade out at the end of the show, and has excellent sound.
EV's tape is almost identical to Cobra, but has some exceptions. It has two cut/repeats during What. (The second one is barely noticeable.) There's no fade out at the end of the tape. It's music and background noise are a tiny hair louder than Cobra (no tape gen difference).
Scorpio's title does not remove the stretches, does not fade out at the end of the show, and has excellent sound similar to Cobra.
Graf's title is highly similar to Scorpio in content and sound.
Wendy removes most of the stretches and has similar sound to Cobra.
No label's title highly similar to the better titles in content and sound.
10-17-69
At Carnegie Hall 1969 (Wendy), Black Beauty (Graf Zeppelin), Carnegie Hall 1969 (Empress Valley & no label), Empire State of Mind (Empress Valley), Plays Black Beauty (Tarantura2000), & Starting Show of North American Tour Autumn 1969 (Wisteria)
Graf debuted this show. It has a number of tape stretches and some clicking during the end of Quit. Their title includes two versions of the show that barely differ.
EV's "Carnegie Hall 1969" is similar in content to Graf except for a very tiny digital click just before the second track. It's sound is slightly less amplified than Graf's first version.
No label is very similar in content to Graf's first version and is maybe a touch louder.
Wendy's title is very similar to no label in content and sound.
Wisteria has removed 14" of the introduction, removed the tape stretches, and has placed a tick/glitch at three track changes, similar to most of their titles.
EV's "Empire" title contains a "flat transfer version" and a "mastered version." Their flat version is likely a reissue of the audio from their original issue. Their mastered version removes the tape stretches and amplifies the audio a lot.
Tarantura2000's title contains a "remastered version" and a "raw un-remastered version." The remastered version removes all of the tape stretches and amplifies the sound some. The "raw un-remastered" version ALSO removes the stretches like their remastered version but is not amplified as much.
10-30-69
Buffalo Sixtynine (New Plastic Records), Headliner (Magnificent Disc), Soars On Buffalo 1969 (Graf Zeppelin), & When a Glass was Thrown (Tarantura2000, original & reissue)
New Plastic Records is a single disc title, so it's incomplete (What and Moby are missed). The title has issues with it's channels in a couple of songs and runs too fast.
Mag Disc is a single disc title, so it's incomplete (What and Moby are missed). It title runs at the proper speed, but has a metallic sound throughout the title. It is especially noticeable during How Many More Times. This title could have been copied from NPR and then edited.
Tarantura2000's title debuts What, Moby, and has a few extra seconds in the introduction. It's Dazed is cut (missing almost two seconds) and later has a brief spot of static - these problems are not found on the two prior releases of this show. It's White Summer has a micro cut/repeat that isn't found on the earlier titles. It's HMMT has a ridiculously long fade out. Tarantura2000's title runs at the proper speed, doesn't have any metallic sounds within it, and doesn't have channel problems.
Tarantura2000's reissue uses original discs left over from the first release.
Graf's title is the most complete version of this show. It doesn't have the problems introduced by Tarantura2000. It has a half second more of White Summer and a dozen seconds more of HMMT, without a fade. It's been amplified a tiny amount over Tarantura2000's.
11-2-69
Back In Toronto (Graf Zeppelin), Beast of Toronto (Immigrant), Draw Like Heavy Magnet (Graf Zeppelin), Good Time Jimmy's Got the Blues (Tarantura2000), Listen To My Bluebird (IQ), Love Letter From Canada 1969 (Wendy), O'Keefe Centre 1969 Late Show (no label), & Tront Cowgirls (Empress Valley)
Immigrant, IQ, and Graf's Magnet are all based on the original shorter tape. They mostly share the same cuts and sound. IQ has a little more content after Moby than the others.
A longer version of this source was released in January 2022. It offers about seventeen minutes more tape. It's musical contributions are another eighty seconds of Dazed, seven minutes of Moby Dick, C'Mon Everybody, and Something Else.
Graf's "Back In Toronto," EV, no label, Wendy, and Tarantura2000 are all from the longer version of this source. They are similar in content and sound, but have minor differences in equalization. The sound seems at least a little cleaner than the shorter tape.
11-5-69
Birth of the Gods (Elrond), Centralien (Wendy), Good Time Jimmy's Got the Blues (Tarantura2000), Kansas City 1969 (no label), Miami Image Club (Wendy), Soars On Buffalo 1969 (Graf Zeppelin), & Tales From '69 (Tarantura)
Elrond runs slow and is a little muffled in places.
Tarantura runs at the proper speed, has much clearer sound, but has a major tape problem during Heartbreaker. The tape problem shouldn't be there and seems to be a mistake by the person mastering the copy. They've pasted in an extra second after HMMT, from after Dazed.
Wendy's Centralian runs at the proper speed and clearer than Balboa too. It has a little tape before the show unlike the older titles, debuts a few extra seconds after Heartbreaker, and debuts a half second of the first note of Dazed.
Wendy's Miami is almost identical to their Centralien.
Graf's title is almost identical to Wendy.
Tarantura2000's title is mostly similar in content to Wendy and Graf, but they've resequenced Heartbreaker (without mentioning in liner notes) and have amplified the sound quite a bit. T2k later issued a replacement disc to correct the sequencing mistake (TCD-227RE / TCE-8987).
No label's title begins with almost two seconds of tape before the show that's not found elsewhere. It seems to have a cut and small repeat at the beginning of Heartbreaker. It's slightly less amplified than Graf and Wendy.
11-6-69, source 1
Blow Up (Immigrant), End of '69 (Whole Lotta Live), Final Winterland (TCOLZ), Punk (Tarantura), Room 2/3 (IQ), & Winterland 1969 1st Night (no label)
Blow Up's sound is really inferior and it's How Many More Times may not completely be from this show. End of '69 is a copy of Tarantura's "Punk" and both are very unbalanced and seem to run a little slow. IQ is better sounding than these others. These four titles all have a tape problem that starts after Dazed and lasts for most of the remainder of the show, and are all missing about three minutes of Moby Dick.
TCOLZ doesn't have the long tape problem, has all of Moby, and is better sounding than the other titles. It may be one generation closer to the master.
No label's 4cd title features the first source on cds3&4, although the liner notes state it's source two. It is the first mix to cd based on source one. Good effort was made to preserve the main source at splices.
11-6-69, source 2
Final Winterland (TCOLZ), Good Old Led Zeppelin: Something Else (Tarantura2000), Stand Up Sit Down Up There Settle Down: Winter of Our Content Day 1 (Tarantura2000), Winterland 1969 1st Night (no label), & Winterland Party (Wendy)
Wendy debuts source two on silver disc. The second source is the foundation of this title, but no effort was made to use as much of it as possible. "What Is..." comes from source one. Some extra source one is mixed in between songs. No metallic sound on this release. (Please see Wendy under the label list for further comments about this title and their other releases.)
TCOLZ is strictly source two.
Tarantura2000's "Good Old" title is also a two source mix, relying on source two as the primary tape. Source one is used in a few spots between songs and also for "What Is..." Not all of source two was used.
Tarantura2000's "Stand Up" title is a mix based on source two, and this time they make full use of that tape. It's sound level is similar to TCOLZ.
No label's 4cd title features the second source on cds1&2, although the liner notes state it's source two. Good effort was made to preserve the main source at splices.
11-7-69, source 1
Final Winterland (TCOLZ), Good Old Led Zeppelin: Heartbreaker (Tarantura2000), Return To San Francisco (Graf Zeppelin), Room 2/3 (IQ), Winter of Our Content (Missing Link)
These titles are very similar, with the exception being IQ's beginning of White Summer. It contains some digital problems.
TCOLZ isn't as amplified as much as the others and is slightly more complete.
Graf's title is highly similar to TCOLZ and has been amplified some.
11-7-69, source 2
Final Winterland 1969 2nd Night (no label), Rare Magic (Empress Valley), Return To San Francisco (Graf Zeppelin), Stand Up Sit Down Up There Settle Down: Winter of Our Content Day 2 (Tarantura2000), & Winter In Winterland 1969 (Wisteria)
These five titles are based on source two, at least use source one to fill Moby Dick, and they all have similar sound.
No label's title is a very seems to be complete offering of what's available from source two.
EV's title is pretty much identical in content and sound to no label.
Wisteria is missing a bit of the introduction and has cuts at most of the track changes on the first disc and one on the second disc.
Graf's title fills White Summer, but misses about five seconds of source two.
Tarantura200's title fills White Summer's gap with source one, displacing about five seconds of source two. They decide to fake some of the tape before Babe, patching in tape from after the song and presumably from elsewhere of the tape, while cutting out a drum beat from the natural tape in the process.
12-6-69
Centralian (Wendy, 2cd), Chatenay-Malabry 1969 (no label, 4cd), Final Rendez-Vous (Godfatherecords), Les Rendez-vous de Paris (Empress Valley, 2cd), LZ Au Gala De L'Ecole (Graf Zeppelin, 4cd original and reissue), No Cancellation! (Akashic), Seconds After Catching Fire (Tarantura2000), & This is Jimmy (Boleskine)
All of these titles are highly similar in content. Some adjust for the brief dip in Communication Breakdown. Almost all amplify the sound and share some degrees of the "metallic" sound in the background.
EV and Wendy are pretty similar in sound, with EV's being amplified a little more. Neither of these sound as good as the two four cd titles.
Chatenay-Malabry calls their discs 3 and 4 the "original master," but there's little difference between it and their first two cds. The first two discs are the "remaster" and are amplified a little louder than the "original master." The "original master" is the least loud set of all the releases. It has the same sounds in the background as the rest.
Graf's title labels their discs as remasters one and two. The second remaster is amplified a little more than the first.
Godfather's title isn't amplified as much as the others. The louder clapping after songs has been suppressed.
Akashic, Boleskine, and Taratura2000 are all highly amplified, have the same background sound as the other, and don't offer anything not previously found on the other titles.
Graf's 2021 title is a reissue, using the same discs from 2013.