
Side note: that Tour Over Europe 80 boot that Steve mentions was also my FIRST CD bootleg. Of course, I got rid of them as soon as the remasters started rolling out.

Steve has confirmed that Zoso was the first cd release, so we now know they weren't issued on CD in chronological order.
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I'm pretty sure by the end of 1986, I had all 10 of them on cd(all the studio records plus TSRTS and Coda). The most popular band to be bootlegged was. In an era before millions of iPhone videos from concerts could be streamed online, bootleg labels like Trade Mark of Quality (TMQ) had profitable businesses selling illegal recordings of entire rock concerts. I didn't buy Zeppelin on cd until 1985, when I returned from Europe and put most of my vinyl collection in storage. 'To paraphrase James Thurber, the 1970s were the days of bootleg love. I understood perfectly that the catalog numbers you listed were referring to the original CD and not the vinyl releases. The numbers I quoted (which are correct) relate to the first CD releases of the original vinyl tracks (not remastered) but on CD not vinyl (my post should have said NOT those remastered by.ĭoes anyone have a stone handy that I can crawl under, whilst providing me with their release dates?Ĭrawl out from under that rock, Laeotaekhun.you have nothing to be ashamed of. I've just realised that my opening post contained a MAJOR error!! The live shot was that famous one of Page in the white dragon suit with his red double-neck and looking like he'd just broken his right ankle. I believe the title was Tour Over Europe 1980.
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I still vividly recall what was billed as the first ever Led Zeppelin bootleg compact disc - a partial soundboard recording of their 1980 Zurich concert in a full color cardboard slipcase with yellow borders and an iconic '77 live shot on the cover - released circa 1987-1988. Jimmy & George Marino initiated and completed the remastering for the Led Zeppelin Box Set in May 1990, so it's highly likely the entire back catalog had been initially released between 1983-1989. As I recall IV was indeed the very first Led Zeppelin compact disc title ever released and the others followed. My personal journal shows the first Led Zeppelin compact disc I ever heard was Led Zeppelin IV in September 1983 (but my journals were transcribed so it could be a typo).


I thought that I'd managed to find the answers until I noticed that LZ (1 - 3) were showing as 1990 releases but IV was showing up as 1986, which, surely, can't be right!!
