Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me Oil Well - RSC CD 100

Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me
Oil Well - RSC CD 100

1 Sweet Baby 2:59
2 I Can't Quit You Baby 6:49
3 Dazed And Confused 14:59
4 You Shook Me 10:42
5 How Many More Times 10:45
6 Bye Bye Baby 11:42
7 Communication Breakdown 4:40

Note:
All songs by Page/ Plant/ Bonham/ Jones unless noted
Live in Dallas, TX - August 31, 1969

Lineup:
Jimmy Page (guitars)
Robert Plant (vocals and harmonica)
John Paul Jones (bass and organ)
John Bonham (drums)

This album is a digital clone of: Don't Mess With Texas - OH BOY 1-1969 TEX 1
Please note that track 1 is Train Kept A Rollin'.
On front cover of this Oil Well release: Robert Plant and John Paul Jones performing during a show at from L.A. Forum one June 25.
Please note that this CD is one of the most rare from this italian bootleg label!

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Live in Dallas, TX - August 31, 1969

The earliest releases of this concert were in the early nineties with Don’t Mess With Texas on Oh Boy and Plays Pure Blues (WCP-910121) on Whoopy Cat with a 2004 re-release on the same label and same artwork with the catalogue number WCP-910121R.

“Train Kept A-Rollin'”, “I Can’t Quit You”, and “Dazed & Confused” appear on the compilation Tales From Riverside on Luna Records (LU 9309) and “How Many More Times” and “Communication Breakdown” appear on the famous Cabala box set.  Plays Pure Blues (LSCD 52106) was released on Live Storm in 1994 with some BBC material as filler. In 1995 the Italian Oil Well label released You Shook Me (RSC CD 100). Other releases worth mentioning the copies of the Oh Boy release on both Hawgleg records from Luxembourg and Whole Lotta Love Vol. 4 (BAN-008-D) on the Australian label Bananna.

The Japanese label Last Stand Disc released Texas International Pop Festival (LSD-18) which promised 24-bit remastering.  More recently Dinopower released Electric Magic Over Dallas (DP 674) coupled with some Bombay sessions.  Empress Valley was ambitious by releasing the soundboard on The Only Way To Fly (EVSD-208/209) with the audience recording on the second disc.  Finally the Genuine Masters project were the first to issue this recording on the DVD-A format on Texas Pop (GM-LZ-31.08.1969-DVD-A-12) which was given the highest praise on Hotwacks.

Now Empress Valley released Texas International Pop Festival as their latest title in the DVD-A medium in direct competition to the Genuine Masters release from last year. This title comes with two discs, the first the dvd given the catalogue number EVSDVD-A 004 and the second an audio CD given the number EVSD-439.  The DVD contains the show with the slide show, the six minute piece from the film Got No Shoes, Got No Blues, and the option for either 5.1 surround sound or 2 channel stereo.  Both discs feature the soundboard recording with the audience source being utilized for the introduction and to fill the cuts.

Comparing the audio discs is difficult because this tape is fantastic to begin with.The original Oh Boy issue is still considered by some to be the definitive version and it does have a lot of good points going for it.  The Only Way To Fly was criticized with some justification as having too much residue of their remastering, but the audio for this release does sound extremely good.  It is definitely better than Empress Valley’s older release and more dynamic than the older versions.  To nitpick a bit this has slightly more hiss, but playing it at a loud volume will drown out that concern in a big hurry.

The DVD is presented in “94KHZ/24Bit DVD-Audio:5.1 Surround Sound” and it sounds devastatingly clear and vibrant.

International Speedway, Lewisville, TX – August 31st, 1969
The Texas International Pop Festival held over Labor Day weekend is sometimes referred to as “the second Woodstock”.  Of all the bands that played over the three days it seems that Led Zeppelin’s set on the second day is the most well known.  Pristine soundboards exist for most of the artists but Zeppelin’s is the one which has more permutations than any other. This concert routinely makes collectors’ top five lists for all time best Led Zeppelin concerts. Even though it was very hot there that evening they deliver their standard set (minus “White Summer”) to the 120,000 in attendance.  The discs begin with the audience recording picking up the band getting ready. The soundboard picks up with the announcer introducing the band, “Please welcome, the Led Zeppelin”.   The “Train Kept A-Rollin” and “I Can’t Get You” are employed for the final time as the set opener.

“Dazed & Confused” reaches some intense creepiness and a peculiarity about this version is the
inclusion, between 9:25 and 9:40 of the heavy majestic riff usually found as an introduction to “How Many More Times” (most notably on the Royal Albert Hall version found on the DVD). “How Many More Times” reaches more than twenty minutes and contains some interaction between Plant and the audience after someone throws something at him (what exactly was thrown isn’t clear).  The lyrics to “Eyesight To The Blind” are sung in the “Boogie Chillun'” style. “Communication Breakdown” with a short bass solo closes the event.

Led Zeppelin a biography 
Led Zeppelin, formed by ex-Yardbirds guitarist Jimmy Page and Alexis Korner's protege` Robert Plant, were, first and foremost, children of the blues. Except that the jams of Led Zeppelin I (1969) introduced a hysterical approach to black music that even blacks had never dreamed of (culminating in the epileptic zenith of Communication Breakdown). The melodrama of songs such as Whole Lotta Love (1969) was continuously ruptured by guitar riffs and delirious vocals. Cream had played blues-rock as brain music: Led Zeppelin played blues-rock as body music. From Immigrant Song (1970) to In The Evening (1979), Led Zeppelin were mainly an idea of rock'n'roll for a new kind of audience.

The secondary elements that had been percolating the early albums emerged vigorously on Led Zeppelin IV (1971): When The Levee Breaks was their most original (almost psychedelic) song inspired by the folk tradition, and Stairway To Heaven was the culmination of Page's mystic persona.
Led Zeppelin became a handbook case of how a product finds a market without any need for marketing. The hippy generation had created a demand for free-form radio (as opposed to hit-oriented radio) and for arena-size concerts. Their music was completely different from the music that those radios and those arenas had been playing, but turned out to be the perfect music to maximize the commercial benefit of free-form radio and arena-size concerts.

Led Zeppelin's success had a powerful impact on the recording industry: it defined the long-playing album as rock's medium of choice. Led Zeppelin never had a major "hit" on the Billboard charts, but ruled the airwaves and the arenas. The recording industry followed the hint and became marketing albums rather than singles.

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