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Is This A Zeppelin Bootleg Album

dnpainting

dnpainting

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Hi All,
This was given to me quite a few years ago, in which I completely forgot I had, and I wanted to see what you thought. Is this a bootleg? It says "Stairway To Heaven" and hand written below Led Zeppelin is "Neil Young". Can anyone verify a year or the opening act, etc. There are no numbers at all on this album.

Thanks for your input!

EDIT* Forgot to mention this is a 2 album set.

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Bootlegs really have no collector status.....the sound is usually horrendous and packaging is quite generic....usually white carboard with the color paper insert "artwork" (being most kind here....should say xerox ). There are some good ones out there. If it sounds ok then enjoy it....most of these are available online already...although not legal of course.

Back in the 70s you could purchase these from record shops who would put classified adds in the back pages of Rolling Stone. I bought one from the Stones 1972 Hawaii concert albeit on blue vinyl....still have it I think but the sound quality is pretty bad. And of course it has been made obsolete by the release of Brussel Affair.
 
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Bootleg.

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"TMQ, TMOQ or Trade Mark Of Quality was a bootleg record label that originated in the Los Angeles, California area during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The label was responsible for many underground records of Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Devo, Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Rolling Stones, The Who and many other popular rock artists of the era. The major record labels were shocked and dismayed that any anonymous person could obtain or make a bootleg recording of one of their artists and press up records and release them for sale.
"Trade Mark of Quality" was established in 1970 by two bootleggers, "Dub" Taylor and Ken Douglas (now an avid sailor and author.) They were quality-conscious perfectionists who pressed all their albums on coloured, virgin vinyl, and perhaps the first bootleggers to start doing real, printed picture covers, and later colour picture covers (printed - not inserts under the shrink-wrap as seen on "head shop" bootlegs). Dub & Ken had released several albums under different names before settling on "TradeMark Of Quality" in 1970, the first being the (in)famous "Great White Wonder" by Bob Dylan. According to Ken, "Dub" recorded several of TMQ's releases himself, including The Rolling Stones' "Liv'r Than You'll Ever Be" and Led Zeppelin's "Live On Blueberry Hill". TMOQ also employed the services of William Stout, whose unique artwork graced many of TMOQ's albums. In fact, the cover of Beck-fast is credited to the very same person."
 
Taylor & Douglas issued what are now a few classics & somewhat collector-worthy, but bear in mind that since the vast majority of the "LPs" they issued were single-disc variety, the "performances" as represented on the albums are for the most part truncated -- sometimes severely so, as in the case of most GD, FZ and LZ offerings. My g-d, a short Zeppelin "show" in the first half of the 70's was @ least 2 hours duration. Hell, the Stones were about the only of the dinosaurs who roamed the earth in those days who liked to keep performances to "about an hour" duration. The few examples that feature Stout's artwork tend to be a bit more collectible for that artwork. Excellent examples are a couple of albums by The Who:

Breathtaking Realism! Experience A New Kind Of Climax. Who, Fillmore East (this material on this one comes from a well-recorded 1968 performance @ the old Village Theatre in lower Manhattan, which had recently been acquired and renamed by one Bill Graham)

Tales From The Who (incredible SQ for the day, complements KBFH, from one or more 1973 performances. Get your Quadrophenia on, man. Many enthusiasts consider Stout's cover art for TFTW to be the best he ever did)
 
Led Zep bootlegs were common prior to 1975. It was the only way you could hear them live as they had no live albums before "The Song Remains the Same" was released.
 
The Trademark Of Quality, a well known bootleg label. One of the better of such. Also, Rubber Dubber was well known. As well as the Swingin' Pig. A treasure.
 
Great information. Thanks Mystic and Kent.

Empress Valley Supreme Disc (EVSD) uses the old TMOQ art on its modern Led Zep boots.

I have some old Turd on the Run (TOTR) Stones boots. I assume TOTR was Stones only.

Some of the best shows came from a cat named Mike Millard. Hid his recording gear in a wheelchair (that he faked having to use).

The recent soundboard legit release of the Stones' "LA Friday" was previously available as an awesome audience boot recorded by Mr. Millard.
 
I've seen a few of these Zeppelin bootlegs recently, and thought about checking one out, but they were priced higher than legit releases, so I said naa. :thumbsdn:
 
The pig logo looks closely like the Swingin' Pig Records logo that I have on The Beatles Ultra Rare Trax bootleg CD's that I have.
 
KeninDC said:
Mike Millard
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The sobriquet that elicits waves of gratitude and awe throughout trading communities worldwide: Mike The Mic

The Legend Of Mike Millard is quite the tale, if it's all to be believed. His Zep captures are superb. He was a tad less successful in his efforts to tame the mighty Who, but then as I recall those (that?) effort took place in the awful setting known as The Long Beach Arena, a swimming pool of a playhouse if ever there was. LB shows, regardless of taper, usually sound about on a par with H.S. gymnasium captures.

While we're (still) on the topic of ROIOs, there is a load of excellent new(ish) material of some of the greats (e.g. Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Queen) that were captured in the wild circa mid-70's in Japan by one "Mr. Peach", presumably a taper of Japanese origin.
 
Addendum re: Mr Peach: There exists out in the ether his superb sounding capture of NY & The Horse from 1976, their first tour of Japan. Short set (esp. for NY&CH) @ around 1 hour 15 minutes, but worth it if only for the smashing, electrifying, and electric rendition of "Southern Man" in the encore slot.
 
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