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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
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Led
Zeppelin
For The
Benefit Of Anyone Making A Bootleg [No label 3CD]
Live at Long Beach Arena, California, USA, March 11, 1975.
The fan recording
of a concert is really an extension of taking snapshots of your heroes.
Back in the ‘60s and ‘70s recordable media was just making its
way into households as a consumer electronic device, either an expensive
reel-to-reel deck or a convenient cassette recording deck. Just imagine
sneaking one of those into a concert these days. More likely, the stealth
recorder of choice today would be a mini-disc recorder or your handphone.
Small enough to fit your pocket.
But Michael Millard
was different. He arrived early at concerts near his home, pulled out
a wheelchair from the boot of his car and proceeded to wheel himself into
the arena as an invalid. He managed to secure front row "seats",
almost always front and centre. Hidden underneath his wheelchair was a
Nakamichi stereo cassette deck hooked up to two high-quality AKG mics.
Security guards in those days were probably unaware of such goings on.
His recordings were
much sought after for their quality - capturing the expanse of the stage
plus the great ambience of the halls. His close proximity eliminated any
echo from his recordings. All the instruments recorded right off the front
speakers. Plant’s voice is crystal clear. But Millard had a habit
of marking his tapes when he copied them for another collector or fan.
He would, for instance, lower the levels when transferring the audio to
a VHS tape or lower the volume in mid-song when making a cassette copy.
It has been said he detested bootleggers who pressed up his recordings
onto vinyls or CDs to sell. To that end, he kept a log of all the trades
he made with clear indications of what markings he did to the tapes. That
way, he knew which of his trades were sent to bootleggers.
The best and probably
only public account of Michael Millard can be found at http://www.undergroundweb.org.uk/tapers.htm
He worked as a custodian
in a public school. In a fit of depression, he committed suicide in 1990.
His friends say he destroyed all copies of his Led Zeppelin recordings.
What has survived are the first generation copies he made and shared freely
with other Zep fans. These are what are now being traded back and forth.
Millard was active
from 1974 to the ‘80s and was said to have taped shows by Led Zeppelin,
Pink Floyd, Yes, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Jethro Tull and even Kansas.
To date, we have never found a copy of his Who or Tull recordings. The
non-Zeppelin masters are known to be in possession of Millard’s family.
Hopefully, someday they will be shared again.
This particular March
11 show has appeared many times before on the following bootlegs:
California
Graffiti (Masterport),
California
Sunshine (Badgeholders),
Long Beach
Arena Complete (Confusion),
Long Beach
1975 (Flying Disc & LSD),
Pussy &
Cock (Tarantura),
Standing In
the Shadow of Midnight (Empress Valley), &
Zeppelin L
(Akashic)
Of all the boots,
probably the best and most complete is Masterport’s California Graffiti
which is at the proper speed with the complete introduction and all onstage
banter by Robert Plant. Millard also recorded the shows on March 12 and
March 14. But that’s another story.
Thanks go out to
zeptrade who shared his first generation copy of this show.
- Professor
Red 
Click
on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality,
stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain,
these tracks have never been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
singbigo@singnet.com.sg if
you want to download these tracks at a later time.
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Disc
1
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| Track
1 |
Announcement
(1.9MB) |
| Track
2 |
Rock
'n' Roll (5.1MB) |
| Track
3 |
Sick
Again (8.2MB) |
| Track
4 |
Over The
Hills & Far Away (11.0MB)
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| Track
5 |
In
My Time Of Dying (15.6MB) |
| Track
6 |
The
Song Remains The Same (8.4MB) |
| Track
7 |
The
Rain Song (10.6MB)
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Disc
2
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| Track
1 |
Kashmir
(16.1MB) |
| Track
2 |
No
Quarter (29.4MB) |
| Track
3 |
Trampled
Underfoot (10.3MB) |
| Track
4 |
Moby Dick
(32.4MB)
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Disc
3
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| Track
1 |
Dazed
And Confused (40.0MB) |
| Track
2 |
Stairway
To Heaven (16.8MB) |
| Track
3 |
Whole
Lotta Love (10.0MB) |
| Track
4 |
Black
Dog (8.3MB) |
Led Zeppelin have two official live recordings - The Song
Remains The Same [1973] and How The West Was Won [1972]. Click
here to to visit AllofMp3.com to order the albums.
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