The Fillmore East album is one of my favorites. When I vacuum the house, that wonderful weekly chore, I put on my earphones to drown out the vacuum and I almost always crank up the Allman Brothers, or REO, or Tom Petty. Its a ritual at this point. But it keeps those old albums in service.
The rip of the How the West was Won ended up an MP4 by format choice. The process uses tools that give a choice of output formats. I just usually choose that because it plays everywhere. And I didn't expect it to be just an audio output. I suppose its similar to the DVD-A stuff: great sound effort with nothing to look at. I can live with it because the sound is pretty stinkin' good. So many of the 1970's live recordings start getting way too bright or brittle when you crank 'em up. Ear fatigue sets in pretty quick. I assume that's an artifact of how they were mixed and put together or the style of the times. This one however stays between the lines even at a pretty high volume. No fatigue so far. Not an easy thing to do. I give Jimmy Page lots of props for figuring out how to do it that way
