SCORPIO LZ-07001 1968 to 1980
Lineage: Original silver CD boxset>EAC test & copy using external compression software>convert to FLAC 8
It is one true piece of music. Some tracks are really worth a listen (and more) others will just be for completist (studio chatters and stuff like that), but all in all it's the second best way to discover Led Zeppelin: during recording sessions (the best way being live in your living room). It's so amazing, I can't help but sharing it.
Comments included when I got it: Japanese bootleg. Deluxe cardboard box with a photo of the burning Hindenberg on the front cover. The discs are packaged in white sleeves with the clear window on the front to allow easy identification. Also included is a four-fold insert with the track listing.
"This box was released in May 2007. It contains everything on ntrabata's "Sessions", Midas Touch's "Brutal Artistry" and "Brutal Artistry II", and Empress Valley's "The Lost Mixes EP Voume 1". Antrabata and the Midas Touch both titles were all three released in 1997, and Empress Valley in 2001. Scorpio doesn't include any of the new material released during the six years prior to it's release. Going back even further, they also excluded the extra 36 minutes of Battle of Evermore outtakes that's only found on TDOLZ's "Sessions" title from 1997. There is some minor material making it's debut. The first disc's track 13 has an extra half minute in the end over prior releases. Disc ten's tracks 7-14 provide an extra 17 minutes of studio room floor edit pieces for Ten Years Gone and Boogie With Stu. Scorpio's material was closely sequenced chronologically. They were careful to not miss the few bits of tape before/after tracks that have commonly been missed by others. The tapes are excellent quality, with the only exception being some static halfway through Stairway To Heaven on the final disc."
Tracklist:
CD1: (63:37)
1-Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (take
2-Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (take 9)
3-You Shook Me (take 1)
4-Babe Come On Home (take 1) (aka Tribute To Bert Berns)
5-Babe Come On Home (take 2) (aka Tribute To Bert Berns)
6-Babe Come On Home (take 3) (aka Tribute To Bert Berns)
7-untitled instrumental (take 1)
8-untitled instrumental (take 2)
9-untitled instrumental (take 3)
10-untitled instrumental
11-untitled instrumental (take 4)
12-untitled instrumental
13-untitled instrumental (take 7)
(Olympic Sound Studios, Barnes, London, England Oct. '68) (*)
14-Moby Dick (intro & outro)
15-Moby Dick (actual drum solo)
(Mirror Sound Studios, Los Angeles, Ca. May '69) (*)
16-Sugar Mama
(Morgan Studios, Willesdon, London, England June '69) (63:37) (*)
CD2: (70:14)
1-12 Jennings Farm Blues (takes 1 thru 12)
(Olympic Sound Studio, Barnes, London, England Nov. '69)
13-That's The Way (first note cut)
14-Feel So Bad medley incl. Fixin' To Die, That's Alright Mama
15-Since I've Been Loving You
16-Since I've Been Loving You
17-Friends
18-Immigrant Song
19-Immigrant Song/Out On The Tiles
20-Bron-Yr-Aur
21-Poor Tom
22-Hey Hey What Can I Do?
23-Friends (contains a partial repeat of previous track version)
(Bron-Yr-Aur Cottage, Machynlleth Gwynedd, Wales Apr.-May '70 not Olympic Sound Studios, London, England May 5 '70) (**)
24-Poor Tom (Olympic Sound Studios, London, England May 5 '70) (*) (70:14)
CD3: (79:19)
1 I Wanna Be Her Man (**)
2-19 untitled instrumental (**)
20 Hey Hey What Can I Do? (**)
21-26 untitled instrumental (**)
27 Down By The Sea Side (**)
28 unknown song (**)
29 untitled instrumental (**)
30-32 unknown song (**)
33-34 untitled instrumental (**)
35 Poor Tom (**)
36-37 untitled instrumental (**)
38-41 That's The Way (**)
42 Bron-Yr-Aur (**)
43-45 untitled instrumental (**)
(all Bron-Yr-Aur Cottage, Machynlleth Gwynedd, Wales May-June '70 & Headley Grange Studios, Hampshire, England May-June '70)
CD4:
1 Stairway To Heaven (**)
2 untitled instrumental (**)
3-9 Black Dog (**)
10 No Quarter (**)
11-14 Stairway To Heaven (**)
15 untitled instrumental (**)
16-17 Stairway To Heaven (**)
18 The Battle Of Evermore (**)
19 When The Levee Breaks (*)
(Headley Grange Studios, Hampshire, England Jan.'71)
20 Four Sticks (*)
21 Black Dog (*)
(Headley Grange Studios, Hampshire, England Jan.-Feb. '71) (*) (65:50)
CD5: (78:16)
1-11 Friends (*)
12 Four Sticks (*)
13-14 Friends (*)
15 Friends (Take 1) (*)
16 Four Sticks (Take 1) (*)
17 Four Sticks (Take 2) (*)
18 Four Sticks (Take 2) (*)
(EMI Studios, Bombay, India Mar. '72)
19 Walter’s Walk (*)
(Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, Stargroves, Newbury, Berkshire, England/Olympic Sound Studios, Barnes, London, England May 15 '72)
20-26 No Quarter (*)
(Electric Lady Studios, New York City, New York, New York June '72)
CD6: (60:30)
1- Drums & Mellotron Tuning/Love Me (*)
2- Frankfurt Special (*)
3- King Creole (*)
4- Love Me (Reprise) (*)
(Gaumont Theatre, Southampton, England Jan. 21 '73)
5-7 Sugar Baby (aka Strawberry Jam) (*)
8- The Wanton Song (*)
9-12 The Rover (*)
13-16 Night Flight (*)
17-School Days (*)
18- Nadine (*)
19- Round & Round (*)
20- Move On Down The Line (*)
21- Please Don't Tease (*)
22-23 Move It (*)
24- Dynamite (*)
25- Shakin' All Over (*)
26-27 Hungry For Love (*)
28- I'll Never Get Over You (*)
29- Reelin' & Rockin' (*)
(soundcheck, unknown venue May 3 '73 - not Chicago Auditorium, Chicago, Ill. July 6 '73)
CD7: (48:42)
1-3 Lucifer Rising (*)
(Boleskine House, Loch Ness, Scotland Oct.-Nov. '73)
4-32 untitled instrumental (**)
(Jimmy Page's home studio, somewhere in U.K. '71 or Headley Grange Studios, Hampshire, England Nov. '73)
CD8: (65:24)
1- untitled instrumental (*) (**)
2-13 Ten Years Gone (*) (**)
14-41 Midnight Moonlight (*) (**)
(Boleskine House, Loch Ness, Scotland Oct.-Nov. '73 and Headley Grange Studios, Hampshire England between Nov. '73 and Jan.-Feb. '74 Jimmy Page solo)
CD9: (72:43)
1-2 The Wanton Song (**)
3-4 Take Me Home (**)
5 In The Morning (**)
6-14 Trampled Under Foot (**)
15 In The Light (**)
16 Sick Again (**)
17 The Rover (**)
18 untitled instrumental (**)
19-25 In My Time Of Dying (**)
26 The Wanton Song (w/count-in) (*)
27 Trampled Underfoot (w/long ending) (*)
(Headley Grange Studios, Hampshire, England Jan.-Feb. '74)
CD10: (73:49)
1 Trampled Under Foot (*)
2 Kashmir (*)
3 Custard Pie (*)
4 In The Light (*)
5-6 Midnight Moonlight (*)
7-10 Ten Years Gone (*)
11-18 Boogie With Stu (*)
19-24 Night Flight (*)
(Headley Grange Studios, Hampshire, England Jan.-Feb. '74)
25 The Wanton Song (*)
(WLIR 92.7 Radio Broadcast, Westbury, New York Jan. 1 '75)
CD11: (74:55)
1 - Royal Orleans (instrumental) (**)
2 - Tea For One (aka Hootchie Kootchie version) (**)
3 - Don't Start Me Talking-Blues Medley-All My Lovin' (**)
(SIR Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles Oct. '75)
4 - Carouselambra (**)
5 - unknown song (**)
6 - Wearing And Tearing (**)
7 - Fool In The Rain (**)
8 - Hot Dog (**)
9 - In The Evening (**)
10 - South Bound Saurez (**)
11 - Darlene (**)
12 - Fool In The Rain (**)
13 - Carouselambra (**)
14 - All My Love (*)
(Polar Studios, Stockholm, Sweden Nov. '78)
CD12: (56:34)
1 - Fire (**)
2 - 4 Carouselambra (**)
(Clearwell Castle, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England May '78)
5 - White Summer (*)
6 - White Summer medley incl. Black Mountain Side (*)
7 - Kashmir (*)
8 - 9 Achilles Last Stand (*)
10 - Stairway To Heaven (*)
(Rainbow Theatre/New Victoria Theatre, London, England Apr.-May '80)
Recording: (*)Excellent to Superb stereo soundboard; (**)Very good stereo cassette demo recordings
Voici le ULTIMATE STUDIO SESSIONS pour commencer :
Outre les 12 cd's , mon édition inclus un DVD qui reprend partiellement les early days (Celebration) et un très beau et détaillé livret
