Led Zeppelin - Reflection From A Dream

Led Zeppelin

Reflection From A Dream

Budokan Hall
Tokyo, Japan
September 23, 1971

discs: 2
recording type: AUD
shn: yes; book/page: 1/12
quality rating: A-

(disc 1 - 80 min disc!) (75:34)
1. Immigrant Song (5:55)
2. Heartbreaker (7:26)
3. Since I've Been Loving You (8:11)
4. Out On The Tiles (intro) / Black Dog (6:32)
5. Dazed And Confused (23:24)
6. Stairway To Heaven (9:55)
7. Celebration Day (5:07)
8. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp / That's The Way (9:01)

[disc 2] (73:42)
1. Going To California (7:44)
2. What Is and What Should Never Be (4:54)
3. Moby Dick (17:51)
4. Whole Lotta Love medley * (39:00)
5. Communication Breakdown (4:11)

* medley includes: Boogie (incomplete), Mary Lou, Mess O' The Blues, Evil Woman, Good Times Bad Times, For What It's Worth (instrumental), How Many More Times, The Hunter, and You Shook Me.

first show of the first Japanese tour

source: Incomplete good audience recording.

CD Reference(s): Complete Tapes 2 (1970/71), Front Row (Memphis), Front Row (Tarantura), Reflection From A Dream, Storm of Fanatics, Tales of Storms (Aphrodite), Tales of Storms (Silver Shadow).

From the first date on the brilliant Japan 1971 tour, the almost complete show on 3CD's at the Tokyo Budokan on September 23. New audience source for this show has better sound to all previous releases, sounding bright, clear and balanced, but the bass is a little indistinct. There are cuts in Stairway (at the very end) and the Whole Lotta Love medley, while What Is has some slight tape disturbance. The audience is very noisy and claps along to a lot of numbers and also joins in the vocals on Whole Lotta Love. Heartbreaker is storming and Black Dog one of the heaviest ever played. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp is cut by the band and continues as That's The Way in a lower key and slower than usual. Whole Lotta Love features a superb medley and is nearly 40 minutes long. Communication Breakdown is stopped by Plant because of the audience getting out of hand and is quickly finished off by Page. Plant is in good voice throughout this excellent release. (Tony Gassett July 97)

Reflection from A Dream (3CD, The Diagrams of Led Zeppelin, TDOLZ 269701/02/03), Tokyo, 23.9.71, aud Set List: IS, HB, SIBLY, BD, DaC, StH, CD, TtW, GtC, WIAWSNB, MD, WLL, CB Unfortunately, I do not own very old and rare "In Concert" (2LP), so I could not compare this new stuff with that vinyl. On other previously released boots, two versions of audience sources were used. The first version is the one that was used in "Tales of Storms" (2CD) from Aphrodite studio". And the second version is used for "Front Row" (2CD) from Tarantura and "Storm of Fanatics". Among these boots, "Front Row" (2CD) and "Storm of Fanatics" are the best in terms of the sound quality. In terms of the completeness, "Front Row" is the best, but there is a cut in Communication Breakdown, while "Tales of Storms" contains uncut version of this song. This newly released stuff from The Diagrams of Led Zeppelin uses the third source, new source, entirely. The sound quality is better than abovementioned 3 boots. Regarding completeness, all songs are uncut except DaC, WIAWSNB and WLL, each of which contains one cut. Since Dac and WIAWSNB are uncut on "Front Row", "Reflection from A Dream" is not the best. WLL is incomplete in all "Front Row", "Tales of Storms", and "Reflection from A Dream", but the location of the cut varies. Frustrating situation, indeed! (Susumu Omi, May 97)

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