Collectors Music Reviews

Jamming With Mick Ralphs!!! (Empress Valley EVSD-453/454/455) Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX – May 22nd, 1977 Disc 1:  The Song Remains The Same, Sick Again, Nobody’s Fault But Mine, In My Time Of Dying, Since I’ve Been Loving You, No Quarter (includes Nutrocker suite)  Disc 2:  Ten Years Gone, Going To California, Black [...]

Memphis Tennessee 1970 (Empress Valley EVSD-446/7) Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN – April 17th, 1970 Disc 1:  Opening announcements, We’re Gonna Groove, Dazed & Confused, Heartbreaker, Bring It On Home, White Summer / Black Mountain Side, Since I’ve Been Loving You, organ solo, Thank You Disc 2:  What Is And What Should Never Be, Moby Dick, [...]

  A Young Person’s Guide To Led Zeppelin (Empress Valley EVSD 256~9) Earl’s Court, London, England – May 25th, 1975 Disc 1 (63:43):  Intro by Alan Freeman, Rock And Roll, Sick Again, Over The Hills And Far Away, In My Time Of Dying, The Song Remains The Same, The Rain Song, Kashmir Disc 2 (63:38):  [...]

Just The Crowd And… (Empress Valley EVSD-443/4) Just The Crowd And… collects two fragments from two radically different Led Zeppelin tours in 1970.  In the spring 1970 Zeppelin were still touring off of the sucess of Led Zeppelin II and “Whole Lotta Love.”  The setlist still had the feel of the 1969 set with “How Many More Times” as [...]

Kentucky Bourbon (Empress ValleyEVSD-483/484/485) Freedom Hall Kentucky Fair And Exposition Center, Louisville, KY – April 25th, 1977 Disc 1:  The Song Remains The Same, Sick Again, Nobody’s Fault But Mine, In My Time Of Dying, Since I’ve Been Loving You, No Quarter, Ten Years Gone Disc 2:  The Battle Of Evermore, Going To California, Black [...]

Live In Central Park (Empress Valley EVSD-456/457) Schaefer Music Festival, Central Park, New York – July 21st, 1969 Disc 1 : The Train Kept A Rollin’, I Can’t Quit You, Dazed & Confused, You Shook Me, White Summer – Black Mountain Side, How Many More Times (includes Woody Woodpecker Song, For What It’s Worth, The Hunter, The Lemon Song), Communication Breakdown [...]

September VI (Empress Valley EVSD-486) International Center, Honolulu, Hawaii – September 6th, 1970 (early show) Immigrant Song, Dazed & Confused, Heartbreaker, Since I’ve Been Loving You, What Is And What Should Never Be, Moby Dick, Whole Lotta Love (Boogie Chillun’, Messin’ Around, I’m Moving On, Roadhouse, Some Other Guy, Be A Man), Communication Breakdown (incl. [...]

  Orlando Magic (EVSDVD-a 006/1-2) Orlando Sports Stadium, Orlando, FL – August 31st, 1971 DVDA 1:  Introduction, Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Dazed And Confused, Black Dog, Stairway To Heaven, Celebration Day DVDA 2:  That’s The Way, Going To California – Livin’ Alone – You Really Got Me, What Is And What [...]

Balloon Goes Up On Led Zeppelin (Empress Valley EVSD-461/462) Fairgrounds, Sydney, Australia – February 27th, 1972 Disc 1 (64:10):  Black Dog, Stairway To Heaven, Going To California, That’s The Way, Tangerine, Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, Dazed And Confused, What Is And What Should Never Be Disc 2 (64:39):  Moby Dick, Rock And Roll, Whole Lotta Love, Communication [...]

The Lost Sessions Vol. 5 (Empress Valley Supreme Disc 2005 EVSD-179) Sugar Baby, Wanton Song, The Rover, Night Flight, School Days, Nadine, Round & Round, Move On Down The Line, Love Me Like A Hurricane, Move It, Dynamite, Shakin’ All Over, Hungry For Love, I’ll Never Get Over You, Reelin’ & Rockin’, Surrender. “ALL TRACKS [...]

The Lost Mixes EP Vol. 3 (Empress Valley Supreme Disc 2004 EVSD-307) Celebration Day (pre-vocal mix), Hey Hey What Can I Do (pre-vocal mix), Out On The Tiles (pre-vocal mix), Four Sticks (pre-vocal mix), When The Levee Breaks (outtake). This is another interesting release in Empress Valley’s outtake collection.  This surfaced earlier in 2004 and [...]

The Lost Sessions Vol. 2 (Empress Valley EVSD-380) Gimme Shelter, You Got The Silver, Sister Morphine, Loving Cup, Brown Sugar, You Gotta Move, Dead Flowers, Sister Morphine, Brown Sugar, Brown Sugar, Brown Sugar, Brown Sugar, Bitch, Bitch, Brown Sugar, Bitch, Bitch, Angie, unknown, Winter The Lost Sessions Vol. 2 is the second (obviously) Rolling Stones outtakes [...]

  The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (Empress Valley EVSD-332) Loving Cup, Shake Your Hips (early long version), Good Time Woman (early version of Tumbling Dice), Sweet Virginia, Stop Breakin’ Down (early version, no harp), Shine A Light, Sweet Black Angel (instrumental), Let It Loose (instrumental), Dancing In The Light (instrumental), Potted Shrimp (instrumental), Aladdin Story (instrumental), [...]

Good Rockin’ Tonight (Empress Valley EVSD-90) Montreux Jazz Festival 2001, Auditorium Stavinsky, Montreux, Switzerland – July 7th, 2001 (37:46):  Claude Nobs introduction, Ahmet Ertegun introduction, Good Rockin’ Tonight, My Bucket’s Got A Hole In It, Heart In Your Hand, Candy Store Rock, Endless Sleep, How Many More Years, My Baby Left Me, Baby Let’s Play House [...]

The Rovers Return (Empress Valley EVSD 124/125/126) Hard Rock Concert Theatre, Manchester, England – December 8th, 1972 Disc 1 (56:17):  Rock and Roll, Over the Hills and Far Away, Black Dog, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Dancing Days, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song Disc 2 (39:53):  Dazed and [...]

Vive Le Zeppelin (Empress Valley Supreme Disc EVSD 75/76) Centre Sportif, Paris, France – April 2nd, 1973 Disc 1 (53:19):  Rock and Roll, Over the Hills and Far Away, Black Dog, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Dancing Days, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song Disc 2 (49:32):  Dazed and [...]

Eternal Magic (Empress Valley EVSD127/128/129/130) A popular band’s final show can be taken to be their definitive statement.  The final word on what was a brilliant and creative career.  As such, one can look at great final shows by Cream in 1968 and The Band in 1976.  (Although both bands did play again in the subsequent years, [...]

  Deep Throat (Empress Valley EVSD-156 ~ 164 / EVSDVD-001) It was 1975 when Zeppelin arguably attained the greatest height of popularity.  Physical Graffiti had been out for a month by the time they completed their  US tour with three sold out shows at the Forum in Los Angeles.  The new album reached number one on [...]

  Rampaging Cajun 2/28/75 (Empress Valley – EVSD 534, 535, 536) + 3 CD Audience Bonus CD Louisiana State University Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Feb. 28 1975. CD1: Band Announcements/Rock And Roll/Sick Again/Over The Hills And Far Away/In My Time Of Dying/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Kashmir CD2: No Quarter/Trampled Underfoot/Moby Dick CD3: [...]

Les Roues Metallic et Les Jumeaux Demons (Empress Valley EVSDVD-010/011) Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada – December 14th, 1989 DVD 1:  Continental Drift, Start Me Up, Bitch, Sad Sad Sad, Undercover Of The Night, Harlem Shuffle, Tumbling Dice, Miss You, Ruby Tuesday, Play With Fire, Terrifying, Rock And A Hard Place, Mixed Emotions, Honky Tonk Women, [...]