LED ZEPPELIN - Live At The Fillmore West 24th April 1969 - SPA Top Gear Limited Edition - VERY RARE

Released in a run of 500 copies, a limited CD containing 80 minutes of excellent material with perfect sound quality! First of all, the disc contains an excellent show by the band from the Fillmore West on 24 April 1969, taken from the mixing desk (soundboard) (not to be confused with the two-hour, different recording from 27 April)! It is a complete recording - there is no more material from this show. The sound quality is stunningly good, only Plant's vocal has been moved slightly to the back, but since most of the material is rather instrumental, the problem is barely noticeable. The track 'Pat's Delight' is an instrumental piece serving as the starting point for a drum solo - soon afterwards the band began playing 'Moby Dick'. The 20-minute 'As Long As I Have You' is a dynamic and fiery compilation of several 'covers', including 'Fresh Garbage' by Spirit - a band that Jimmy Page supposedly never heard at the time - at least that is what the guitarist claimed during the recent trial over the rights to 'Stairway To Heaven' and... he won! As a bonus, 2 tracks recorded 3 days later in the same venue are included: the 7-minute Sittin' and Thinkin' (an almost unknown but excellent blues from the repertoire of Buddy Guy in the style of You Shook Me) and the superb 20-minute, very extended version of How Many More Times - full of unexpected twists and dynamic improvisations. A must! (JL)