The one where you can buy anything, where Jimmy Page buys his Zep bootlegs.
Cos what I would like to have is “Going To Auckland’, the recording of their NZ gig in Auckland NZ on 25 Feb 1972.
I know this concert is on the internet, it’s on this crap YouTube link but what I REALLY would like to have is a CD or vinyl copy. I was there on 25 February 1972, I’d just turned 18 and I travelled by train from Wellington and stayed at my Grandma’s place in Auckland NZ.
My daughter will be in Tokyo this week and she’s promised me she’ll seek it out, just need to know where to go!
Thanks all
I think I have told this story before, but after El Zep started the first few bars of “Immigrant Song” the stage lights went out. They came back on after a minute or so.
Turned out they’d blown the entire West Auckland power grid and, in anticipation of this, had their own generators.
It might be Disk Union. There are 3 different branches in Tokyo. I went to the one in the Shibuya district last month. Lots of bootleg vinyl.
Here’s some photos:
And some of the Beatles bootlegs:
Apparently it’s: Back Trip Records, Nishi-Shinjuku Bldg, 4F, 7-10-19, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0023
“If you exit the main Shinjuku metro stop (as opposed to the “nishi Shinjuku” exit), take the A-10 exit and go right. Shinjuku is on many lines but is served most prominently by the Marunouchi Line (the Red Line, on the subway maps.) Cross the big intersection and cross to the left side. of the street (i.e., the side opposite where the A-10 comes out of the subway complex). Continue walking away from the station. The shops will start appearing within the first block or two. Some are upstairs — you have to look at the signboards on the street. Backtrip is as good a place as any to start. It’s one of the first you will see as you come from the station.”
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/recommended-music-stores-in-japan.29907/
http://www.vinylrecordcollector.net/2012/11/tokyo-japan-style-definitions-table.html
Back trip is one. The one I bought the LZ bootleg and got the JP photo is AIRS, on the same street. And there is also Shinjuku records.
Mousey, I have a cassette copy of the Auckland 72 show that was broadcast by Radio Hauraki a few years ago. I don’t have any means of copying it though. Do you?
Thanks SB, I actually have it as a download from one of those blogger sites but I’d just like to have it with a (hopefully) well-designed Japanese cover
Wow. I’ll have to try Back Trip and the others if I get a chance to go back. Thanks.
I get the impression that Auckland gigs are often really good or really bad. Often times the first or last show of a Southern Hemisphere tour the band are either fresh and raring to / under rehearsed and sloppy and at the other end tired and over it / tight on fire going off with a bang
Santana says a 73 show with the widely acknowledged best version of his band played there best ever show in Auckland.
That Zep show was brilliant (as I have said above I do have it as a download but would like a beautifully packaged Japanese CD or vinly).
On the acoustic set especially Plant’s singing is really assured, he’s trying new melodic ideas and generally in excellent form.
I just think bands like coming to NZ, they only come because they’re going to Australia, they have no expectations and us Kiwi folk are pretty welcoming
I saw the Melbourne Kooyong show. Was only 14 so a bit overawed to fully appreciate. Vividly remember the immigrant song opening with Percy’s wail. And loved the acoustic bracket. Zep 3 was not long out.
Kooyong seemed like a stadium but now almost “an intimate gig”.
There is a great photo of them with an approaching storm