(Rock)[MC-CD] [16/44100] Led Zeppelin - Flying Circus - 1975, FLAC (tracks)

LED ZEPPELIN - FLYING CIRCUS
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
FEBRUARY 12, 1975

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Label: Empress Valley

DISC 1

1. ROCK AND ROLL
2. SICK AGAIN
3. OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY
4. IN MY TIME OF DYING
5. THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME
6. THE RAIN SONG
7. KASHMIR

DISC 2

1. NO QUARTER
2. TRAMPLED UNDERFOOT
3. MOBY DICK

DISC 3

1. DAZED AND CONFUSED
2. STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
3. WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
4. BLACK DOG
5. HEARTBREAKER

Outstanding quality soundboard recording of Zep from NY introducing their new
album being released that year. (Physical Grafitti)

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Ain't it time for a badass classic show? A tremendous recording of Led Zeppelin
playing their balls off? Something everyone should have by now, and luckily for
our latest new guy the first TimD Show of his young FBO career, ladies and
gentlemen, boys and girls, old grizzled veterans and children of all ages,
welcome to Led Zeppelin's Flying Circus.

Oh, I didn't forget. Well, yeah, I did - I actually smiled when I saw this show
on the schedule (yes, I have one) for this week. And since that was about ten
minutes ago, well, that means that I'm totally off the cuff here, but in a good
way 'cause now I'm thinking about (and listening to) the show.

The setlist is a new one, including tracks from Physical Graffiti and hasn't
settled into the order you're used to hearing - the show closes with WLL, BD and
HB. It's a whole different dimension for the band, and they seem to know
they're stretching out.

Robert is 1975 Robert, taking the low road in Rock and Roll, hoarse at times --
his voice is shot from 1969-70 to this day, so who can blame him for that?
Jimmy is fierce all the way through, his sound gigantic in the arena, locked in
with John Paul Jones, who you can hear remarkably well especially for a
soundboard -- another show that makes you wonder exactly who leaks these
soundboards. Jimmy's solo on Sick Again is clean, soundboard clean, very little
sticky fingers and the band is really going after the riff.

It's always neat how crowds are rowdy between songs in this era, but when Jimmy
starts playing, say OTHAFA, they sit down and listen -- maybe some of that
beatnik hippie feeling carried over. I just can't get over how Jimmy sounds at
MSG. The band sounds twenty feet tall, a towering monument to sound and
Acupulco Gold.

Robert mentions early on that he's in the mood to do a lot of talking, and he
does, even though he says "that's not what it's all about," and then continues
to talk, announcing the upcoming release of PG just before the band blasts
through IMTOD and TSRTS, an epic attack on the senses that's soothed by The Rain
Song, then dried out by the yellow desert sun of Kashmir. And that's just the
first half of the show.

A note about The Rain Song -- I used to skip it on my old copy of the Remasters
when I was a teenager. Now that I'm older and wiser the lyric makes perfect
sense and Robert's performance on this night is just gorgeous, one of my very
favorite moments of any Zeppelin show ever. Get this one for no other reason
than one of the best Rain Songs ever, IMHO.

I haven't mentioned Bonham yet. Kashmir speaks for itself. Stone-age,
space-age, 1975 was the Age of Bonzo. John Bonham was and is a force of nature,
unstoppable, steam-hammer power. Thus is the difference between Black Sabbath
and Led Zeppelin -- Sabbath always tried to drive home the riff, but Zeppelin
drove it home at the point where the powerhouse Bonham met the Swiss-precision
of Jonesy and Page, with John Henry's right boot leading the path.

I need to get some rest - I'm going to see Robert Plant tomorrow night.
TimD