Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker (Royal Albert Hall, 01-09-1970)

[LedHead747]

Could you post the full heartbreaker, thank you and since ive been loving you from this concert

[beau96080]

@LedHead747 sure thing! i will just get on the phone to jimmy page and ask him if he has the recordings...

[bamf4k]

@beau96080 I get the feeling you're being sarcastic...

[beau96080]

@bamf4k I totally am... but only because everyone knows that those things do not exist. And if they do, Jimmy Page has them. I'm sure they would have made it on the Led Zeppelin DVD if he did..

[nothingbutrock666]

it's sucks how it's been cut short :(

[ledZep342]

Does it include Thank You because I know there's footage on the Led Zeppelin DVD.

[beau96080]

@ledZep342 Nope. I don't have a recording of Thank You.

[deegs151]

I have listened to a tremendous amount of Zeppelin over the years, and my opinion is up until the tape cuts out on this version, this is hands down the best version I have ever heard of this song. The power of it comes thru like no other version... i really wish the whole song could be found somewhere in Page's archives

[beau96080]

@deegs151 Have you heard Heartbreaker from the October 1969 Paris show at The Olympia? That one was pretty good. I really liked communication breakdown from that show, as well.

[Abe91195]

@deegs151 have you heard the version from where they do it in Montreux 1970, Robert Plant's voice is just so...i dont even how to explain it, its beastly!

[ZiSt1989]

@deegs151

'[...] i really wish the whole song could be found somewhere in Page's archives'

well, you know, Jimmy Page is like this Gollum creature out of Lord Of The Rings story. This version of Heartbreaker is Pagey's one and only treasure and he won't give it to the public till he's about to meet his maker again. Btw, I'm sure I've got an almost entire version of this somewhere on one of my hard drives, gotta have a proper look and post it up here to share it with all of you.

[MsBruce1993]

@ZiSt1989 well if you can find something in page's archives, it wont be anything longer than this, unless it is a bootleg version, but nothing has surface yet. my thought is that there is no longer version , what a shame

[ZiSt1989]

@MsBruce1993

I think so, too! I assumed this record (cut after Pagey's second solo afaIk) not being a soundboard, rather an audience record or something like that. Its audio quality is quite good, though.

[MrRasmus2909]

that guitar just raped me

[gregoryagn]

There's now a full version uploaded, with the second part taken from the audience. The video is titled "Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker (Royal Albert Hall at 1970)" and lasts 6:45.

Enjoy!

[Eatmorecandybars123]

Does the bootleg you have also include SIBLY?

[beau96080]

No, I wish it did though. I read that it was the highlight of the night.

[UberPiroxsFriend]

Highlight... apparently the solo made a guy in the front row's anus fall out =P

[galenyeo]

Great stuff. Love the intro. Crackles to life!

[bonzo]

on the how the west was won heartbreaker he plays the exact same guitar solo and thats in 1972

[beau96080]

it is similar, but it's not exact. I think this one is a little sloppy. the guitar solo on how the west was won is amazing. You can tell his playing improved by 1972.

[bonzo]

yeah but page must have listened to it and thought i want that heard, i think they are almost spot on

[beau96080]

You should play them side by side. You will see what I mean. The guitar tone is completely different, plus the length of the solo on how the west was won is much longer than this one.

[iamtheeggman100]

its not even close. are you daft?

[maplecustom]

this is still a bad ass song!!!

[lordieuan777]

Aww man, its was totally HEARTBREAKING (oh dear...) to have this song cut short like this...

I imagine this whole concert, including video, exists somewhere, as I remember reading somewhere that they were going to use this concert instead of the '73 MSG one for their debut concert-film (they didn't due to the poor lighting, if I remember correctly). It's just a shame that the DVD apparently contains roughly half the full concert (apparently).

[bababooey2002000]

The DVD contains more like 2/3 of the actual concert. Some things were left because the audio tape was lost or cut off, like this song, or the camera filmed was ruined. They didn't use it for their first film because it was shot wrong (on the wrong film stock, etc.) and the camera work was horrible and the band was unhappy with it.

[LinkBulletBill]

I know it sucks! I would have love to see them play Heartbreaker at early form!

Also you know when you watch the movie, and some parts they stopped the footage and show you pictures, and fast forward clips (that you already saw before), I found that cool, but that was to replace to the extremely damaged footage... Like in Bring It On Home, God there was a lot of damaged footage! LOL! And all at the wrong times!

[crazymanwhois]

@lordieuan777 I'd say it has more than "roughly half" - it's only missing "Heartbreaker," (apparently because the multitrack recording runs out), "Since I've Been Loving You," "Thank You," and a "Long Tall Sally" medley.

[beau96080]

@crazymanwhois I got the "Long Tall Sally" medley in this same quality.

[crazymanwhois]

@beau96080 I meant the DVD itself. I've heard the bootlegged "Long Tall Sally" - I've also heard (although I'm unsure how true it is) that the medley is incomplete/edited.

[gregoryagn]

oh yeah, i was looking for it sooo long! =)

so many versions got removed...

[darkmalleus]

This is soooooooo good!

Love the sound of the guitar in this particular version of the song!

Thanks for posting this.

[tstorm81993]

awesome find!!!

when's the next covers?

[beau96080]

I don't know. I haven't posted a video in months. What covers do you think I should do?

[jakamake]

Do "When Darkness Falls" by Killswitch Engage

[jamesnorthernva]

Yeah, this is a great recording of an awesome performance. They are all in top form this night. Beau, I'd love to hear ya play "Fool In The Rain."

[beau96080]

Have you looked up robert plants vocal range? you just pretty much type that in, and there are 2 videos that play audio of him singing from the lowest notes, to the highest notes he's hit. It's pretty crazy!

[jamesnorthernva]

I just did. His rage was truly amazing. Sometimes a band will have a great vocalist or great guitarist, but Led Zeppelin had 4 equally brilliant musicians. The fact that they all ended up in the same band seems to be one of the most improbable events of musical history.

[beau96080]

That's a true statement there. It's also one of the reasons to argue them being the best rock band in history. There was absolutley no limits to them. Not only do their albums show what they were capable of, but live shows and bootlegs definetly remind us how a band like that will probably never happen again.

[bigdunk9]

Not to mention, even though they were out of this world they could've been even better.

[TDrummer95]

i thought you were playing o well this is great 2

[beau96080]

yeah, this is the only thing I've uploaded that I'm not playing on. But if you knew about this song and how rare it is to find it in this quality, you would know the importance of this post. just read some of the other comments about this song on other pages.

[bababooey2002000]

This is awesome! Where did you find this? I thought no copies of this existed, even in bootleg form. Not to mention this is definitely not a bootleg audio source.

[beau96080]

This happens to be from the master tracks that Kevin Shirley used to mix the DVD in 5.1. I'm sure he had access to the whole concert because this sounds just as good as the DVD. I also have the entire audio track of "Long Tall Sally" from this same show. It sounds just as good as this. I was thinking about uploading that one, too.

[bababooey2002000]

Good stuff man. If you could upload Long Tall Sally, that would be awesome. The only versions people have put up are really bad quality bootlegs from the show. I don't know how you obtained these tracks, but this is awesome!

[stainwalk]

please do!!! or tell us where u got it...

[beau96080]

I did an extensive search to find the Royal Albert Hall tapes, and I eventually found myself on a page with rapidshare files. Luckily I was a rapidshare member at the time. I don't know how many people have this. It's not the entire concert as it was played because the songs are not longer or shorter than the ones on the DVD. Most of the files don't blend from track to track. Communication Breakdown appears as a short version and then one with an extended guitar solo that is not on the DVD.

[neri65]

i like the song