ROBERT PLANT

Thursday, 1 December 1983

Sheffield City Hall
Barker's Pool
Sheffield S1 2JA
England
UK


FLAC master, 1 December 2017:
Analog audience recording (stereo): unknown mics/recorder > analog audio cassette master (probably a c-90) > analog audio cassette > CDR ("Andy's Birthday Present") > CDR > CDR > two Kodak silver Ultima (w/ Infoguard) 74-minute CDRs > EAC (WAV extraction, secure mode) > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (audio cleanup, convert to 16/44) > SHNtool (fixed SBEs) > CD Wave (track splits) > TLH (WAV > FLAC8).
Created this text file.


Total running time [1:55:23]
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Disc 1 [47:47]
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01 In the Mood [8:22]
02 Pledge Pin [5:09]
03 Messin' with the Mekon [6:22]
04 Worse than Detroit [7:35]
05 Moonlight in Samosa [5:33]
06 Far Post [4:40]
07 Thru' with the Two Step [10:03]

Disc 2 [67:35]
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01 Other Arms [7:57]
02 Horizontal Departure [9:02]
03 Wreckless Love [8:38]
04 band introductions [1:45]
05 Slow Dancer [9:40]
06 Like I've Never Been Gone [8:21]
-- encores --
07 Burning Down One Side [4:46]
08 Big Log [8:48]
09 Stranger Here.... than Over There [8:33]


Band line-up:
Robert Plant - vocals
Robbie Blunt - guitar
Paul Martinez - bass
Jezz Woodroffe - keyboards
Bob Mayo - keyboards, guitar
Ritchie Hayward - drums


Notes:

Here's a first gen that was distributed via the days of trees on the old Zep FBO list. A light rework to bring up the levels and re-tracking so that the tracks now start with the music rather than the plantations.

This took place a few days into the UK tour, after a successful US tour. Ritchie Hayward from Little Feat took over on drums from Phil Collins, who stayed on in the US for Genesis tour dates. This was still early into Percy's solo career, where he was keeping everyone guessing about his next move, where songs like "Other Arms" was as close as anyone was going to get to a Zep song, but any nods to his prior band weren't as cheeky or cheesy as they would be in the years to follow. The only cover you get here is Bob Marley when they break into "Lively Up Yourself" in the middle of "Horizontal Departure."

Plant had a stellar band and a great producer in Pat Moran. Everyone being bummed about Bonzo and the dissolution of Zep were missing out on some great solo work he was putting out, and it seems over the years people are re-evaluating this era. But back then, there would always be plenty of copies of "Pictures at Eleven" and "Principle of Moments" in the used record shops.

"Thru' with the Two Step" fades out, evidently from a cassette tape flip.

Over the years on dime, EZT, the Archival Group, and through all the various and assorted other trading groups online preceding that, and the CDR, DAT, and analog cassette traders which came before, I've gathered a moderate collection of items to share. I've helped with transfers (the Cactus and related uploads from over a decade ago here, and currently a bite out of the massive Stonecutter Archives), contributed setlists and corrections to many a torrent -- all the sort of things that don't raise one's share ratio. I've shared some of my masters back in the old snail mail days, but it's high time to give back more here from where I've received so much. I had meant to do a roll-out with something grand and possibly a series (Elegymart #1, #2, etc.), but that's been done countless times before.

At this point not only have we've all aged along with dime's existence, but our media and the equipment that can play it back has as well. So rather than any fanfare or concern over share ratio, consider this upload another step in a more diligent attempt to beat the time and to circulate the collection.

Enjoy,
elegymart