ONE NIGHT STAND IN PARIS

Introduction, Good Times Bad Times Intro/Communication Breakdown, I Can't Quit You Baby, Heartbreaker, Dazed And Confused, White Summer/Black Mountain Side, You Shook Me, How Many More Times

Disc 1: Pre-FM Transfer

Disc 2: FM Broadcast Version inc. DJ Comments

Led Zeppelin's appearance in Paris on October 10, 1969 was recorded for French radio and was originally broadcast on Musicorama in 1969. The recording was known to exist for many years but amazingly never surfaced on any bootleg until it was rebroadcast in December 2007. This created a huge buzz in the Zeppelin community and quickly became a favorite among collectors. The rebroadcast contained a French radio announcer speaking over the performance in six different spots unfortunately marking the recording.

Within about a month or so of the 2007 airing, there were no less than six releases issued. Olympia 1969 (no label), Paris Olympia 1969 (Wendy), Paris Par Excellence ( Empress Valley), and N'est Aucun Imbecile (Black Dog Rekords) all issued the complete broadcast including the DJ comments. Ain't No Fool (Black Dog Rekords) and L'Olympia (Godfatherecords) both edited the comments out along with the underlying music. Good Times Bad Times (Scorpio) was released in July 2007 and paired this tape with the show at the Lyceum from two days later and reportedly replaced the DJ with music from another night (a practice I could personally do without). While most of these titles sounded great, Godfather and Empress Valley were considered two of the best versions with Godfather praised for some really nice editing work.

This performance comes right before the release of Led Zeppelin II and we get the first documented version of "Heartbreaker" here, a true highlight. It is rumored that perhaps "Moby Dick" was played but unfortunately not broadcast. The rest of the set was a pretty standard show for the time starting with the "Good Times Bad Times" intro into "Communication Breakdown", which worked very well as the opener, and finishing with the long stretched out "How Many More Times". The performance here is both powerful and stunning and falls under the "must have" category for both avid and casual Zeppelin collectors.

TCOLZ claims to present a pre-FM transfer on disc one of One Night Stand In Paris and I must say, this appears to be the real deal. There is no DJ chatter and no apparent evidence of edits or cuts. Also, the overall level seems quieter and doesn't have that amplified characteristic that would be associated with an FM broadcast. The sound quality is excellent and is the best this has sounded so far.