Re: BBC Sessions

[danderso@xxxxxxxxxxx (David Anderson)]

somebody wrote:

|>If you're not hearing the bass on the official BBC Sessions, it's your 
|>equipment and not the fault of the CD's.

Dead wrong.  If it was the equipment at fault, you wouldn't be able to hear 
the bass on the bootlegs either.

For the Playhouse Theatre June 27, '69 session, all anyone needs to do is  
compare the official version with one of the better boots/tapes, such as 
White Summer or the recent BBC Transcription series "Rock Hour."  Listen to 
both without making any adjustments in EQ.  The official version doesn't 
have the depth of the boots, and sounds much more compressed.  That 
thunderous, ass-kicking combination of Jones' bass and Bonham's bass drum 
is reduced to a relative whimper.  Why?  This particular session is the 
best recorded live Zeppelin I've ever heard, so why make it sound thinner?  
Obviously John Paul Jones wasn't in the booth with Page & Astley at the 
time.

Quantegy wrote:

>Anyone agree, disagree?  Sure, I can jack up the bass on my EQ at home,
>but I'll be damned if it doesn't suck in the car or on a walkman.

Agreed, at least on that particular Playhouse Theatre session.  All of the 
other sessions sound better (to my ears), but I don't think I'd say it 
"sucks."

- --Dave Anderson