Led Zeppelin: Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 1-9-1970 (FULL CONCERT)

This isn't a Led Zeppelin BBC recording, but it almost is, because it was recorded by the exact same BBC team that recorded the band's BBC concerts around this time period. However, instead of recording for the radio, that team was privately contracted to record the audio and video of this concert with the intention of making a live album and/or movie. But there were problems with recording several songs, as I'll detail below, so that didn't work well for a live album. And by the time the band got serious about making a movie a couple of years later, they decided this footage was too old to be used. However, when the band put out a DVD of film footage in 2003, they included all the full songs from the concert they had, but with some cuts, and none of the banter between songs. Due to that background, this is one of the best sounding Led Zeppelin live recordings, period. In fact, it sounds so good that two songs from the 1982 studio album "Coda," "We're Gonna Groove" and "I Can't Quit You Baby," actually are performances from this concert with some edits and overdubs. Additionally, the band was in peak form, with Robert Plant's lead vocals in particular as good as they ever got. So if you're a fan, you really should give this a listen. However, there have been a number of problems marring this recording, until now. First off, there's the matter of the missing songs mentioned above, when something went wrong with the recording equipment. Those songs are "Since I've Been Loving You," "Organ Solo," and "Thank You." In order to give a listener an appreciation of what the entire concert sounds like, I've used versions of those songs from a concert in Montreux, Switzerland, on March 7, 1970. I had to rely on an audience bootleg for those, but it actually sounds better than many soundboards, and is a very popular Zeppelin bootleg. Another problem was that only the first four minutes or so of "Heartbreaker" survived. So again I relied on a version from Montreux to patch in the last two minutes. I also noticed that the versions of "We're Gonna Groove" and "I Can't Quit You Baby" from the "Coda" album sounded a little bit better than any other versions. But both "Coda" versions had cuts of a minute or more each. Furthermore, I noticed the guitar solo in "We're Gonna Groove" was totally different - no doubt overdubbed in the studio years later. So I used the parts that were identical, which ended up being more than half of both songs. Furthermore, I'm relying on editing work done by others. All the other songs are from a version made by Plumdusty. That person put together the best version possible from all the known sources. Some of the banter between the songs is at lower quality since those bits come from audience bootlegs. But I've done further editing on those to make them sound better. Using the audio editing program UVR5, I found that virtually all the hiss was put on a different track than the talking, so I just deleted that track in each case. Plumdusty also patched in some cuts to "How Many More Times." Another problematic track is the last one, "Long Tall Sally." This was not included in the DVD, because a big chunk in the middle wasn't recorded properly. There was an audience bootleg for that, so Plumdusty used that as a patch. The sound quality there is noticeably worse. However, I used UVR5 again to boost the lead vocals for that section, and I think it sounds a lot better now. 01 talk (Led Zeppelin) 02 We're Gonna Groove [Edit] (Led Zeppelin) 03 I Can't Quit You Baby [Edit] (Led Zeppelin) 04 talk (Led Zeppelin) 05 Dazed and Confused - Cocaine Blues - Judy, Judy, Judy - Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin) 06 talk (Led Zeppelin) 07 Heartbreaker [Edit] (Led Zeppelin) 08 talk (Led Zeppelin) 09 Since I've Been Loving You (Led Zeppelin) 10 talk (Led Zeppelin) 11 White Summer - Black Mountain Side [Instrumental] (Led Zeppelin) 12 Organ Solo [Instrumental] (Led Zeppelin) 13 Thank You (Led Zeppelin) 14 What Is and What Should Never Be (Led Zeppelin) 15 talk (Led Zeppelin) 16 Moby Dick [Instrumental] (Led Zeppelin) 17 talk (Led Zeppelin) 18 How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin) 19 Boogie Chillun - Further on Down the Line - Bottle Up and Go (Led Zeppelin) 20 The Lemon Song (Led Zeppelin) 21 That's Alright Mama (Led Zeppelin) 22 How Many More Times [Reprise] (Led Zeppelin) 23 talk (Led Zeppelin) 24 Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin) 25 Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin) 26 talk (Led Zeppelin) 27 C'mon Everybody (Led Zeppelin) 28 Something Else (Led Zeppelin) 29 talk (Led Zeppelin) 30 Bring It On Home (Led Zeppelin) 31 talk (Led Zeppelin) 32 Long Tall Sally - Move On Down the Line - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Long Tall Sally (Led Zeppelin) 33 talk (Led Zeppelin) For a free mp3 download of all the songs on this album, check out this page at my music blog: https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com... The cover photo comes from this exact concert.