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Favourite Stairway to Heaven's

Posted 2006-06-24 (土) 午後2:39 by terra

It’s been a very miserable 2 days for me: down with a nasty cough which resulted in a horrible tension headache; was feverish too. Today’s Saturday but I’m stuck at home nursing my throat and my irritated nose isn’t making matters easier :-(

Anyway since I’m bored out of my mind I decide to rip and share the 2 Led Zeppelin concert Stairway’s that I blogged about in the Earls Court post. In spite of my being medicated I found a way to increase my site’s php upload limit to something more than 8Mb which means that I can now put stereo versions of my mp3s (the Earls Court is in mono because at 128kbps, that would have meant a file of at least 10Mb; I will reupload the file in the near future — subject to my malfunctioning memory)

Subjects: Music 音楽

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: bootleg, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin

Earls Court 1975-05-24 video

Posted 2006-06-21 (水) 午前2:04 by terra

Just found another 2 interesting Led Zeppelin video clips. These form a complete pro-recorded Earls Court 1975 Stairway to Heaven that didn’t make into the official DVD:

Part I

Subjects: Music 音楽

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: bootleg, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, YouTube

Led Zeppelin train starts a rollin'

Posted 2006-06-12 (月) 午前4:06 by terra

Now that I’m on the Led Zeppelin train, I dig out an old Zep bootleg: “Geisha 芸者/Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” (1971年9月29日, 大阪フェスティバルホール, 日本). At the same time, I completed the semi-touched-up bootleg CD artwork. Boy, it does it brings back memories. I remember the days I used to spend improving/perfecting the artworks before printing them, and the many more hours listening/verifying/selecting CDs to trade. I don’t know if that fervour will ever return but it’s nice to reminiscence every now and then.

Subjects: Music 音楽

Tags: bootleg, Led Zeppelin

Hamburg 1973

Posted 2001-03-18 (日) 午後1:32 by terra

This picture I made for the CD cover of one of my Led Zeppelin concert bootlegs. I used a picture of the Graf Zeppelin (if I recall correctly) and merged it with a photograph of the sky. I altered the colours, and used some difference effects to get the result shown in the right.

Subjects: Music 音楽

Tags: bootleg, CD, Led Zeppelin

Ayers Rock (No Label)

Posted 2000-12-27 (水) 午後9:01 by terra

This Sydney concert was treed in the Led Zeppelin community. I made this insert primarily because there wasn’t any official artwork for it. There were of course, artwork for the bootleg releases which utilised the same tapes for the sources, but they just weren’t the same.

The picture is actually a composite of 5 separate images. I’m not going to name them, though some are quite obvious. I just thought it was a nice idea to put The Object (that’s 1 out of 5) of Led Zeppelin’s album ‘Presence’ into the foreground. The ‘microlith’ vs. the Australian monolith. I was told that the whole thing looked surreal, but that, quite obviously, was my intention.

Front Cover

Subjects: Music 音楽

Tags: bootleg, CD, Led Zeppelin, photoshop, Presence

Complete Finland (1970)

Posted 2000-12-17 (日) 午後12:09 by terra

Front Cover

I made this bootleg CD insert because the ‘official’ artwork wasn’t quite to my liking. So I made this picture using a photograph of a Zeppelin plane against a digitally altered photo of the Aurora Borealis (The Northern Lights). I went to Finland in 1999 and it was the first time I got to see the awesome display of this natural phenomena. Although the artwork isn’t great, I think it brings back memories of surreal 3D-rendered artwork in the early 90s.

Subjects: Music 音楽

Tags: 3D, aurora borealis, bootleg, CD, Finland, Led Zeppelin, photoshop

Bedtime For Bonzo

Posted 2000-12-05 (火) 午後7:31 by terra

Now I must admit that I didn’t contribute much to this CD cover. The seeder of this concert had a little inspiration from an old Reegan movie, whose chimp star shared the same nickname with John Bonham. A fellow trader took the idea and stuck good ole Bonzo’s head on the chimp’s. All I merely did was to do some skin tone colour corrections, as well as to digitally enhance the picture, which was originally of a lower resolution. I just thought I’d put this up because it really is so quirky.