6-17-80
Dinosaurs Rule (Flying Disc), Dortmund (Tarantura), Dortmund 1980 Multiband Remaster (Wendy), Return of the Auschwitz (Neptune), & Tour Over Dortmund 1980 (Wendy)
Flying Disc is missing the last few seconds of Trampled and does not include Rock and Roll. The title runs too fast.
Neptune's Trampled is complete but does not include Rock and Roll. The title runs too slow and doesn't sound nearly as clear as Flying Disc.
Tarantura's Dortmund runs at the correct speed, has excellent sound quality the whole way through, and has more tape after the show than Flying Disc and Neptune. However, it has an inexcusable cut in Train, losing 4 seconds.
Wendy's "Tour Over Dortmund 1980" title has all known soundboard tape, does not fade at the cuts during songs, runs at the proper speed, and has excellent sound.
Wendy's "Dortmund 1980 Multiband Remaster" is a JUNK title. Exactly like their "GOAT Destroyer," during the end of Nobody's Fault, someone's voice has been overdubbed to sing along with Robert, and in other places. There are also additional extremely weird, brief voice noises throughout the title. The beginning of Nobody has been tweaked horribly. The title is based on the soundboard and filled with audience tape. This is Wendy's second consecutive release with and extra singer and extremely weird, very bizarre sounds added in. This title and their GOAT Destroyer title are the worst titles ever issued.
6-18-80
Close Shave Parts 1&2 (Flying Disc), Cologne (Tarantura2000), Cologne 1980 (TDOLZ & Flagge), & Pure Nostalgia (Neptune), & Tour Over Cologne 1980 (Wendy)
Flying Disc runs fast.
Neptune has poor sound and may run a hair slow.
TDOLZ is based on the soundboard and uses the audience tape to fill gaps. It runs at the proper speed and has better sound than Neptune and Flying Disc. The audience tape fills in the missing parts from the soundboard on Rain and Stairway. It is also used for half a minute after Stairway, where the soundboard is available.
Flagge's title is evidently from a lower generation tape than the others. It's sound is much clearer and louder.
Tarantura2000's based on the soundboard and uses the audience tape to fill gaps. It unnecessarily overlays the audience tape on top of the soundboard tape between songs. A pointless release.
Wendy's title is based on the soundboard and fills with audience tape. Their familiar metallic sound is present.
Wendy also included three songs from the audience tape at the end of their title.
6-20-80, soundboard
Belgian Triple (Empress Valley), Blitzkrieg Over Brussels (Empress Valley), Brussels Affair (Swinging Pig & Wendy), Brussels 1980 (Tarantura & no label), Chien Noir (Antrabata), Dinosaurs That Rock (Boogie Mama), Lost Horizon (Lobster Records), & Raid Over Brussels (Electric Magic)
Lobster's title is far from being complete. It misses 5.5 minutes of music and 7.5 minutes of non-music. Most of the talk between songs has been removed. The last several seconds of Rain Song are abscent. A large part of the beginning of Hot Dog is missing. White Summer is cut to remove Jimmy addressing the crowd. One minute is missing from Kashmir. WLL is cut early on and misses some time and the song is missing the last three minutes.
Swingin' Pig is also far from being complete, being almost identical to Lobster. It's only real difference is having one extra minute of WLL before cutting out too early.
Antrabata has more tape before Train and has 5 less cuts between songs. Overall, it is about 8.5 minutes longer than Swingin' Pig due to more music and talk between songs.
Tarantura's tape is identical to the Antrabata as far as content and cuts but it's sound is much louder.
Electric Magic's title doesn't have a fade out as Rain is cut short. It allows the final note to be heard easier. This title runs a tiny bit slower than the others. It's sound is a just a tiny bit louder than Tarantura's.
EV's Triple uses audience source tape one to fill in the gaps of the soundboard. It isn't amplified as much as Tarantura's.
Boogie Mama uses the soundboard as it's foundation and fills gaps with an audience source. The splices occur too early and too late, needlessly displacing the soundboard, especially during the end of Stairway.
The no label title is based on the soundboard and filled with an audience tape for the end of Rain and after Stairway. No attempt was made to preserve all of the soundboard and ALS and Kashmir have a few instances of problems not found on any other title. It's not amplified as loud as some of the other titles.
Wendy's title is based on the soundboard and filled with an audience tape. Almost no soundboard is missed at the splices.
EV's Blitz simultaneously combines the soundboard and at least one of the audience tapes.
6-20-80, audience
Brussels Audience (Tarantura2000) & Raid Over Brussels (Electric Magic & TCOLZ)
These titles rely on the first audience source and use the second audience tape to fill two to three gaps. For the most part, they are similar in sound.
EMC and TCOLZ are almost identical, making the same unnecessary splice after Achilles.
Tarantura2000 didn't make an unnecessary splice after Achilles, but spliced twice elsewhere to cover barely noticeable tape problems. At each of the tape glitches these titles have in common, they've cut them out and repeated tape. It's more annoying than the original problem. They also made some strange adjustment to the unbalanced tape during Rock and Roll, making it sound worse.
6-21-80
Live In Rotterdam (Swingin Pig), Not Guaranteed To Wake You (TDOLZ), Rotterdum (Tarantura), & Stronger Through Struggle (Wendy)
Swingin Pig is incomplete, being only one disc long. It mixes in another night to "complete" the unavailable beginning of Rain Song. White Summer is missing entirely.
Tarantura is strictly from the soundboard tape, which is not the complete show. It begins during the early part of Rain Song.
TDOLZ is strictly from the audience tape.
Wendy is based on the soundboard and filled with the audience tape. There is a digital glitch during Nobody's Fault. It misses 19 seconds of the soundboard during the beginning of Rain Song. After Kashmir, they've decided to overlay the soundboard and audience tape simultaneously, even though the soundboard isn't cut in that area.
6-23-80
Bremen (Tarantura & Tarantura2000), Bremen 1980 (Wendy), Chien Noir (Antrabata), Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (Wendy), & Tour Over Bremen (Moonchild)
Antrabata is missing 75 seconds of tape after Rock and Roll, but is otherwise in great form.
Tarantura has more tape after Rock and Roll than Antrabata and sounds just as good.
Wendy's DBS title uses the 7/2/80 soundboard to complete Trampled Under Foot. Since I've Been Loving You has a strange error early in the song that's not found on the other releases. The 6/21/80 soundboard is used to complete Stairway To Heaven. The use of these other shows is not noted on the title.
Tarantura2000's title is the first title to use the audience tape to fill the gaps in the soundboard. It's been amplified a bit.
Moonchild's title has the exact same content as T2K, but has different cue stops and isn't amplified as much.
Wendy's Bremen 1980 is based on the soundboard and fills with the audience tape, instead of filling with soundboard tapes from other nights of the same tour like they did on their previous release. The sound on this title suffers from the "remastering." The drumming seems odd and the higher frequencies screech at times.
6-24-80
Gracias (Antrabata), Hannover (Tarantura & Tarantura2000) Hannover Messe 1980 (Wendy), Last Tour (FSS), Messehalle Echos (Flying Disc), & Tour Over Hannover (Wendy)
Flying Disc has too many cue stops and runs fast. Trampled of course is cut but is missing 19 seconds of tape. Since I've Been Loving You unexplainably has a cut, missing 22 seconds.
Antrabata's runs at the correct speed, has 15-19 seconds more of Trampled in the area of the cut, and Since I've Been Loving you is complete.
Tarantura runs at the proper speed. However, it is missing 15 seconds of tape from Trampled. Since I've Been Loving You is not cut.
FSS is identical to Antrabata.
Tarantura2000 is missing 19 seconds of tape from Trampled. Since I've Been Loving You is not cut.
Wendy's TOH title mixes in the audience for the gap in Trampled, but it displaces about 17 seconds of soundboard.
Wendy's HM title is a similar mix to their prior title. It displaces a little more of the soundboard than before during Trampled, has a small static spot in Since, and has altered the sound, sometimes in a negative fashion in places.
6-26-80
Deutchland Uber Alles (TDOLZ), Goodnight Vienna (Electric Magic), Tour Over Vienna (Moonchild), Unfinished Symphony (Wendy), & Vienna (Tarantura)
Tarantura is in good form.
TDOLZ runs a little too fast and has a few extra cuts between songs.
Electric Magic has extra cuts too and a couple of problems not found on other titles. It is also missing the most tape. It's music is louder than the other releases but the background noise has been suppressed - no gen difference. There are hints of that familiar "metallic sound" that this label uses almost on a regular basis. This is certainly the worst release of this show yet.
Moonchild's title is most similar to TDOLZ as far as cuts. It's missing a bit of inconsequential tape before Stairway.
Wendy's content is pretty similar to others, also not as complete as it could be, but they've messed with the sound, making it sound bad between songs.
6-27-80
Air Raids Over Germany (Tecumseh), Blitzkrieg Over Europe (Tarantura), Fly Over Nuremburg (TDOLZ), Frankfurt Am Main (Wendy), Sudden Attack (Flagge), Tight But Loose (SAKA), & Triumph des Willens (Wendy)
Tecumseh runs slow and has a deep hiss in the background.
SAKA's sound is also on the poorer side.
Tarantura is an excellent sounding releases.
TDOLZ runs a little fast.
Flagge is an excellent sounding releases.
Wendy's Triumph title is highly similar to Flagge.
Wendy's Frankfurt title isn't amplified much and has no fades.
6-29-80, soundboard and mixes
Blitzkrieg On Zurich (Tarantura2000), Blitzkrieg Over Zurich (Empress Valley), Complete Switzer Show (Black Swan), Conquer Europe (Empress Valley), Good Hot One (TDOLZ), Gracias (Antrabata), Pleasure Zone: Zurich (Empress Valley), Tour Over Europe 1980: Good Hot One (TDOLZ), Tour Over Zurich (Wendy & Moonchild), Zurich (Tarantura), & Zurich 1980 (no label)
Black Swan's title is the earliest complete release and is strictly from the soundboard. It has a loud noise just before Black Dog that is not related to the recording. It misses the last five seconds of Kashmir and another 40 seconds of non-music audio.
Antrabata title is similar to Tarantura but doesn't use a fade on Kashmir.
Tarantura uses a small fade out on Kashmir.
TDOLZ's 4cd box Tour Over Europe 1980 contains a subtitle "A Good Hot One" that is strictly from the soundboard, which was also released as a 2cd non-box version simultaneously. It has 2 minor tape glitches during White Summer/Black Mountain Side. It seems to sound a little bit better than Tarantura and Antrabata.
EV's Conquer uses all of the available soundboard and relies on the audience tape to complete Kashmir. The sound is very excellent. The music is louder and the background noise is still almost non-existent. It's likely that this tape is another gen closer to the master but could possibly be due to a great job of equalization work.
EV's Blitzkrieg reissues the audio from the original release, Conquer.
Tarantura2000's title is strictly from the soundboard. (The third cd of this title offers the Westwood One broadcast of the three songs from the show recorded by the BBC.)
Wendy's title is based on the soundboard and uses the audience tape too. Early on during In the Evening, the sound is overblown briefly. Although the soundboard is not cut during All My Love, Wendy splices to the audience tape before the song is over. The audience tape is used again for Kashmir, cutting away from the soundboard a couple seconds too early.
The no label title is a mix based on the soundboard and filled with the audience tape. The splicing in Kashmir displaces about four seconds of soundboard. It's sound is similar good quality like the others.
Moonchild's title is a mix based on the soundboard and filled with the audience tape. It's splices miss about seven seconds of the soundboard overall. It has some minor static for awhile during Kashmir. It's sound is similar good quality like the others.
EV's Zone is one of their "demix" titles. It is cut at every track and sounds bad between songs. The piano intro to Hot Dog is ruined. EV has introduced cuts before Achilles and Kashmir, both with 10 to 18 second silent gaps before the next track.
6-29-80, audience
Swiss Made (TDOLZ) & Tour Over Europe 1980: Swiss Made (TDOLZ)
TDOLZ's 4cd box "Tour Over Europe 1980" contains a subtitle "Swiss Made" that features just the audience source, which was also released as a 2cd non-box version simultaneously.
6-30-80, soundboard
Blitzkrieg Over Europe (Tarantura), Hotter Than the Hindenburg (LSD), Lost Horizon (Lobster Records), Pleasure Zone: Frankfort (Empress Valley), Sudden Attack (Flagge), & Tour Over Europe 1980 (LSD)
Lobster is probably the worst title ever produced. They've chopped out most of the talk between songs, chopped the pause and Jimmy's speech to the crowd during White Summer, then misses the last 70 seconds of Black Mountain Side. Kashmir cuts out way too early, missing the last minute. Whole Lotta Love is full of added problems. There's unrelated audio lasting several seconds in two places, then a song is played backwards during the song, lasting 5.5 minutes.
Tarantura's title sounds good up through Achilles Last Stand. But after that, the sound is a little muffled and unbalanced in places for the remainder of the show.
LSD's Tour Over Europe 1980 has a 15 second fade out on Kashmir. It fades out way too soon, missing 66 seconds of the song. Like the Tarantura, this LSD title has a tape problem within the first few seconds of Stairway To Heaven.
LSD's Hotter Than the Hindenburg is a big improvement from it's other release. Kashmir is more complete and there is not a tape problem on Stairway To Heaven. It's sound is a good bit clearer and louder.
Flagge's title is very similar to LSD's better release. However, the dip in sound on Train Kept A Rollin is a little more noticeable. There does not seem to be a cut after Money, like on all the other releases. It's sound is very good like the newer LSD, but has slightly less bass.
EV's Zone is one of their "demix" titles. It is cut at every track and sounds bad between songs. WLL is really screwed up briefly starting at the 3:18 mark. The instruments can sound a little too separated and the audio between tracks can be odd too.
6-30-80, soundboard & audience mix
Blitzkrieg Over Frankfurt (Empress Valley), Captured Battalion (Tarantura2000), Frankfurt Am Main (Wendy), Frankfurt Special (Empress Valley, original and reissue), & Triumph des Willens (Wendy)
EV's Special mixes in the audience tape for the few gaps in the soundboard. Some of the soundboard introduction was thrown out in lei of the audience tape. The sound as been amplified a touch.
EV's Blitzkrieg reissues the audio from Special.
EV's 2016 reissue of Special reissues audio from the original.
Wendy's Triumph title is a similar mix but doesn't use the audience tape during the introduction.
Tarantura2000's title is based on the soundboard and fills with audience. Kashmir's ending is completely from the soundboard, for the first time ever. Those few seconds are certainly from another night. Like many titles from this label, it has been highly amplified. It's been amplified so much that many parts of the background sound strange at times.
Wendy's Frankfurt title is very similar to their original title.
7-2-80
Dinosaurs Watching (Flying Disc), Eye Thank Yew (Tarantura), Mannheim (Wendy), Mannheim 1980 (Flagge), & Strangers In the Night (TDOLZ)
Flying disc is missing the introduction and is missing most of the tape after the show. It has a cut during Evening and is missing 3 minutes too many during Kashmir.
Tarantura's title ends too soon, missing the last minute of Kashmir and the last three songs of the show. It's sound is somewhat muffled and unbalanced.
TDOLZ has a long introduction. It too has a cut during In the Evening. It includes the additional 3 minutes of soundboard for Kashmir and then uses the audience source for the missing 1 minute.
Flagge's introduction is a few seconds shorter than TDOLZ's but has much more tape after the show. Unlike the other releases, Flagge is not cut during In the Evening and is not cut after Trampled Under Foot. It seems to be from a lower generation tape than the others. It is much better sounding than the prior releases.
Wendy also mixes in the audience source, but it fully displaces 25 seconds of the soundboard.
7-3-80
Eye Thank Yew (Tarantura), Last Day In Mannheim (Whole Lotta Live), Mannheim (Tarantura2000 & Wendy), Mannheim 1980 (Flagge), Song Remains Untamed (Monument Records), Strangers In the Night (TDOLZ), & Tour Over Mannheim (Moonchild)
Tarantura is missing some time after All My Love and almost all of the tape after the show. It's cut during Kashmir comes about 8 seconds too soon.
Whole Lotta Live is a direct copy of Tarantura.
TDOLZ is almost completely identical to Tarantura.
Flagge is much better sounding than the older releases and has 100+ seconds of tape after the show. It's cut during Kashmir comes about 8 seconds later than Tarantura and TDOLZ, but starts back up about 8 seconds too late.
Monument Records is missing tape before the show, after All My Love, and after the show. It's Kashmir content is similar to Tarantura and TDOLZ.
Tarantura2000 is the most complete version. It's missing a dozen seconds from the intro. It has all known content for Kashmir, plus an extra two seconds. Their sound is also much better than the oldest releases. It has been equalized to feature the lower end.
Wendy's soundboard is sourced from two different tapes and the audience tape is used to complete All My Love and some of Kashmir. Evidently their "main" soundboard source was missing more tape than it should, so they borrowed from a longer tape of the show (for Kashmir and after the show).
Moonchild is based on the soundboard and filled with the audience. No effort was made to preserve all time from the soundboard, as it's displaced with audience tape at the splices. About five seconds of board is displaced during Kashmir. The introduction is missing a dozen seconds.
7-5-80
Jamming With Simon Kirke! (Empress Valley), Munchen mag Dich (Wendy), & Munich 1980 (Tarantura)
Tarantura is exclusively from the first tape source but is missing some of the introduction and tape after the show. Their equalization emphasizes the higher frequencies.
Empress Valley uses relies on a second source to fill in the gaps of the first source. In doing so, they've forgone a little bit of source one. Their sound is natural feeling with middle and lower frequencies.
Wendy is a mix based on source one that displaces a bit more of source one than EV. It's sound is a little flatter/dryer than EV.
7-7-80, soundboard
Beautiful Concert (Wendy, original and reissue), Berlin 1980 (Tarantura), Berlin: The Complete Last Show (Babyface), Berlin 1980 The Last Concert (no label), Bonzo's Last Stand (Empress Valley, 3cd), Complete Berlin (SIRA), Eternal Magic (Empress Valley, 5cd original, 3cd, & 5cd reissue), Forever Bonzo (Empress Valley), Heineken (Tarantura), Memory Frozen Forever (Godfatherecords), Mid Summers Night In Berlin (Magic Pyramid), Pleasure Zone: Berlin (Empress Valley), & The Last (Immigrant)
Immigrant is based on the soundboard and uses the audience tape after R&R and WLL, but not to complete Kashmir. The title misses too much of the soundboard. The first five seconds of Train are missing, 30 seconds of Kashmir are missing, and 83 seconds after Stairway are missing too. It copies some tape from after WLL and plays it after R&R. It also has some tape problems during the first part of the show. Whole Lotta Love runs too fast while the other tracks are at a normal speed. It's background noise is terrible.
Silver Rarities is strictly from the soundboard, being very complete and having excellent sound. It does miss eight seconds at the cut in Kashmir.
Tarantura's Heineken is strictly from the soundboard. It has a brief intro but is likely not genuine. It's Kashmir "fills" the cut by repeating 43 seconds of an early part of the song. In then misses 14 seconds of the proper soundboard near the usual cut. It has good sound like SIRA.
Tarantura's Berlin 1980 is strictly from the soundboard and is not a reissue of Heineken. This time, there is no intro but repeats the same bad choice for Kashmir. A couple other cuts are different from Heineken too. It has louder music and background noise than Heineken and SIRA.
Baby Face is strictly from the soundboard, but misses way too much of it. The first seven seconds of Train are missing, 10 seconds are missing after AML, 31 seconds of Kashmir are missing, 71 seconds after Stairway are missing, and it is missing the last half of Whole Lotta Love too. It also has some tape problems during the first part of the show. It's background noise is terrible.
EV's 2002 Eternal Magic features the soundboard filled with the audience tape. The cut in Kashmir is first filled by repeating 11 seconds from an early part of the song, then it splices to the audience tape. It ends up missing 12 seconds of the proper soundboard. The background noise has evidence that the tape has be eq'd - but obviously done very well.
Godfather's title mixes in the audience source to fill the soundboard's gaps. Their method of overlapping the audience tape and soundboard at the cuts, effectively displaces the soundboard in those spots. It misses a few seconds at the cut in Kashmir and the first second of Whole Lotta Love is missing (WLL has never been cut there before). The background noise sounds a bit unusual - it's minor, but undeniable during quite moments. The title has been highly amplified.
EV's two 2011 3cd titles "Bonzo's Last Stand" and "Eternal Magic" were released simultaneously and reissue the audio found on the first two cds of the original 5cd issue.
Wendy has all known soundboard tape and then debuts a little more of it. There's a few extra seconds at the cut after All My Love and a few extra just before the cut in Kashmir. Wendy's splices are clean on this title, unlike some of their long overlapping splices on other titles. It's sound is the typical good sound expected.
The no label title is based on the soundboard and mixes in an audience tape to fill. Unfortunately, just too much of the soundboard is missed at the splices.
Wendy's 2017 reissue uses the same discs as the original.
EV's 2019 5cd "Eternal Magic" reissues the audio from the prior releases.
Magic Pyramid's title contains all known soundboard and nothing else. It's sound is similar to the better titles.
EV's Forever Bonzo is a matrix and sounds a bit weird in places, especially during the soundboard's gap in Kashmir.
EV's Zone is one of their "demix" titles. It is cut at every track and sounds bad between songs. The sound is really bad throughout the title. The title is based on the soundboard and fills with an audience tape.
7-7-80, audience
Eternal Magic (Empress Valley, original and reissue)
EV's 2002 box set offers the audience tape on cds three and four. Their 2019 title reissues the same audio.