A previously unheard soundboard recording of Led Zeppelin performing “Since I’ve Been Loving You” while rehearsing in London ahead of the band’s 1980 European tour has been released on a bootleg CD.
A new bootleg release titled Soundboard Scaps from the bootleg label Tarantura Hawks contains a track that lasts almost nine minutes featuring Led Zeppelin performing “Since I’ve Been Loving You”, likely while rehearsing at the Victoria Theatre in London on June 2, 1980.
The bootleg release is the first public emergence of part of a longer 1980 tour rehearsal soundboard tape that has privately circulated since around 2019, LedZepNews has learned.
A 39-minute recording of the European tour rehearsals has been widely bootlegged for years, but it seems that a longer 85-minute tape has now emerged.
The Led Zeppelin Underground website was updated in November 2020 to expand its entry for the 1980 European tour rehearsals to include references to an extended 78-minute soundboard tape for the first time, archived versions of the website show.
The site was again updated to extend the duration of the tape further, listing it as 85 minutes long starting in 2024.
Tatantura Hawks appears to be a new bootleg label that isn’t related to the better-known Tarantura label. The Soundboard Scraps release also included the recording of Led Zeppelin performing “Tangerine” in Tokyo, Japan on September 24, 1971 that Tarantura released in December.
The Soundboard Scraps bootleg release was printed with the code “TH-001”, suggesting this is the first release by the new Tarantura Hawks label.
Soundboard Scraps also included the sample of the soundboard recording of Led Zeppelin performing in Jacksonville, Florida on May 7, 1973 that Empress Valley released last year following LedZepNews’ publication of the sample online.
It’s possible that further parts of the expanded 1980 European tour rehearsal tape will emerge in the future through bootleg releases.
Here’s the tracklist for the 85-minute rehearsal recording, according to the Led Zeppelin Underground website:
- Train Kept A-Rollin’
- Out On The Tiles Introduction / Black Dog
- (Cut)
- In The Evening
- The Rain Song (Cut)
- (Cut)
- Hot Dog
- All My Love
- Trampled Underfoot (Cut)
- (Cut)
- Since I’ve Been Loving You
- (Cut)
- White Summer
- White Summer / Black Mountain Side / Kashmir
- (Cut)
- Achilles Last Stand (Take 1) [Cut]
- (Cut)
- Achilles Last Stand (Take 2) [Cut]
- (Cut)
- Stairway To Heaven
Bonzos “drum solo” at the Misty Moon in Halifax in the summer of 77 won’t be released either.
I have a pretty good bootleg of the show from
June 29, 1980 in Switzerland.
Joey collie you’re one lucky person.
Awesome version, Awesome recording!!
I hear a lil Janis joplin
WOW!!!!!!
OMG THIS IS AWESOME
LOVE LOVE ❤️
Used to listen to Zeppelin all the time, great entertainer..
Fantastic!!
Seen zep 1971 at the spectrum in Philly. Best concert I ever seen. The open group never showed. Zep played the first two albums and three cuts from the third album which came six months later.
Wow wee wee wow!
Zeppelin was undoubtedly the best hard rock band ever the live recordings are phenomenal and I think they rank with the who is the best bands of their time
Led Zeppelin 45 times Capital Center FedEx Field Staples even with John so so many years ago they’re Legend and they’ll always be remembered the best rock and roll Star
Awesome band I still listen to their music.
No Zep show in Philly in 1971, March 31,1970
Includes: We’re Gonna Groove, Dazed and Confused, Heartbreaker, Bring It On Home, White Summer / Black Mountain Side, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Organ solo / Thank You, What Is and What Should Never Be, Moby Dick, How Many More Times (medley incl. Long Distance Call, Boom, Boom, Boom, Tobacco Road,Lemon Song), Whole Lotta Love, C’mon Everybody, Something
Supposedly they played June 13th 1972 at Spectrum , i had a boot of this show that is very raw , incomplete, but killer, in recent years now their saying this is actually Buffalo June 10th. Also Zeppelin had no opening acts after 1969- just saying