Led Zeppelin - The Wet Head Is Dead - Downunder 1972 (1972-02-20) FLAC

GENRE: Hard Rock 
FORMAT: Lossless (Flac) 
SIZE: 636 mb (3% Recovery) 

Audience recording of Led Zeppelin's show at Kooyong Stadium, Melbourne, Australia, on 20 February 1972. The sound is a bit tinny and distant, but clean and undistorted, although there is some tape hiss, and the nearby audience members are quite intrusive. Plant sounds quite hoarse, but the band's playing is excellent.

Label: Empress Valley Supreme Disc - EVSD-230/231
Released: 2003

TRACKLIST:

Disc 1:
01. Immigrant Song
02. Heartbreaker
03. Black Dog
04. Since I've Been Loving You
05. Stairway To Heaven
06. Going To California
07. That's The Way
08. Tangerine
09. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp

Disc 2:
01. Dazed And Confused
02. Rock And Roll
03. Whole Lotta Love


NOTES:

"This new release has been assembled from all the available tape sources, together with a newly surfaced and excellent sounding fragment of another audience recording. Empress Valley have done an excellent job in combining all the sources, and to fill any cuts, and this new release is a couple of minutes longer than previous ones. The sound is generally near excellent throughout, very close to the stage. Being an outdoor event this affects the acoustics, but not very detrimentally. The concert was truncated due to the onset of heavy rain. Dazed And Confused is shortened because the rain started, and Robert Plant ad libs this fact on the final verse. The band come back on stage for Whole Lotta Love, and then finish, thanking the audience and saying that it is too dangerous to play in the rain. For this release Empress Valley used their thick card CD holder, over which a glossy slipcase is fitted. This comes with a mini replica of the "Australian Concert Tour Feb '72" programme. The programme seems to have more adverts than photos and writing about the band. And it is from the Gillette advert at the beginning of the programme that the bizarre title for this release is taken: "The Wet Head Is Dead". I am sure something more intelligent could have been dreamt up for this release. Sadly Empress Valley ripped off the cover of the Lewis/Pallett book "Led Zeppelin : The Concert File" by reproducing that on the front and back of the outer sleeve. Finally, it appears that the redoubtable Aquarius 11 has been superseded by someone rather better versed in the English Language (Mr. Hamish Rock). The liner notes are a model of clarity and useful background information about this concert and the problems experienced because of the rain. On the back of this insert are details of three upcoming and very exciting releases from Empress Valley: Crashing Revelry (Tucson 28 June 1972 [completely new audience tape]), In The Windy City II (Chicago 7 July 1973 [completely new audience tape], and Chasing The Dragon (Dallas 4 March 1975 [complete soundboard tape]. So full marks to Empress Valley for doing this important concert from the Australia 1972 Tour proud." (Jules McTrainspotter Oct 03)

"The band's short 1972 Australian tour is a hidden gem in their live history, free from the scrutiny of the press in the U.S. and the U.K. they were free to let their hair down and get looser than usual giving in the process a series of interesting performances, this being a prime example. A nice opening salvo of Immigrant Song & Heartbreaker, the latter containing a superb solo by Jimmy sets the scene. All the instruments are well defined and Plant's voice is in good shape considering he claims to have the flu! Robert throws in some ad-libs during Black Dog which seem to put Jimmy off as he completely misses his cue to come back in during the verse. There is a source change at the beginning of SIBLY which is a slight improvement in quality (I'd give it 8/10). A nice version of Stairway cuts straight into the beginning of Going To California. What's impressive about the acoustic set is how intimate the atmosphere is for such a big show, there is virtually no crowd noise. There is a source change during Going To California which appears to be a slightly inferior tape. A truncated Dazed & Confused follows and the band are unfortunately rained off but come back on for a short Whole Lotta Love, the crowd urges them to "Carry On" but Robert informs them that "he had a friend who used to play his guitar in the rain and, well he ain't a friend no more". Nice packaging too (as per usual EVSD standards) it comes in a nice slipcase with a reproduction of the Australian tour programme, a Gillette shaving advert inside the programme gives the set its title." (Yage Oct 03)

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