Re: Various sundries

[Jon Hull <jonohull@xxxxxxxxx>]

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03- Maybe I'm the one with the problem here but I've never seen the
fascination some people have with audience recordings. I freely admit
I could be missing something here but I never saw the allure of
listening to a show that sounds like it was recorded through a coffee
can in a wind tunnel. Not all soundboard shows are of perfect audio
quality, I would never argue otherwise, but the average soundboard
blows the doors off the average audience tape. Little things like,
y'know, actually being able to hear Jones count for a lot in my book.
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I would rather listen to a good audience tape than a perfectly clean,
sterile sbd. And I'm not just talking about Millard's stuff. There are
dozens, if not hundreds, of good/great audience recordings throughout
their career. Some off the top of my head: 1969.07.25, 1970.03.07,
1970.09.04, 1971.05.03, 1971.09.14, 1971.09.23&24, the aud tape for
1975.02.12, etc...

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06- I have a tremendous affection for the '69 through '72 tour
shows/period.  Is there an out-and-out bad show anywhere in the bunch?
 If so, I've never heard it.
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Try 1969.11.05, Kansas City. Bonzo is drunk or sick and can't keep a
beat and gives no effort towards fills. Heartbreaker nearly falls
apart it's dragging so badly. That's about the only bad one I can
think of, unless you count Plant getting "exhaustion" and ending the
show early in Phoenix in 70.


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Jon Hull