Song Remains the Same

It's been a longly longly longly time...

Since I last saw it at a midnight movie some place.


I clicked play on Netflix and sat back and pretended it was a live show.... wow those guys were hot.


I know about all the editing

re: http://www.thegardentapes.co.uk/

But honestly just watching the movie got me in a rocking mood.... what can I say? Rock on.

I wish bapu and my olpal had been here... a few of you other folks as well. :-)

 
Great movie.

They just remastered the DVD, it sounds 100% better.

mike_mccue



Bapu sounds better than I remember him sounding.

:-)

Or summin'

mike_mccue


Has anyone ever told you that when you snore the popcorn blows all over the place?

And here I thought it snowed in the theater while I "watched" the movie.

Don't blame you Mike.

still prefer the newer dvd LED ZEPPELIN to the old film stock...

especially, the performances from madison and earls court.

you'll dig it.

this is the one:





besides all the years of concert footage, there are some awesome extras:


For the DVD, Page collaborated with music producer Kevin Shirley, with whom Page worked when he was performing with The Black Crowes. Shirley recalled:

I produced the Black Crowes, and Jimmy joined them for a run of live dates in 1999. I saw the show in New York, and then I went to California and recorded the shows, took the tapes away, and fixed them up a little and mixed them. I did Live at the Greek without any input from anyone, as it wasn't originally going to be an official release. But I think everyone was impressed with it; certainly Jimmy said he was. Then, when Jimmy decided to do a new [Led Zeppelin] DVD, he started looking for someone familiar with the modern applications necessary for surround sound mixing. If you listen to the Royal Albert Hall [concert] opening in 5.1, you can see Jimmy had this audio concept really early on of giving people a sense of the band going onstage and the audience swells around you. We had a meeting to discuss the requirements needed for the DVD project audio, and afterward, he asked if I would be interested in ‘helping’ him.[3]

Page, with Shirley and the producer and creative director Dick Carruthers, worked for the best part of a year to research, compile, load, mix and present the material.[2] Much of the footage which was included on the DVD was painstakingly restored for several months, before being mixed at Sarm West Studios in London. In all, 132 cans of film and two sets of two-inch video tape were examined for the project.[4]
Some of the video tapes suffered from a common fault called 'Sticky Shed Syndrome' where the bonding agent holding the magnetic particles to the tape backing decomposes to the point where the oxide is scraped off during playback. The tapes consequently had to be restored by baking them in ovens at 55°C (131°F) for three weeks in order for them to be played back.[4]The audio portions were digitally remixed for stereo and 5.1 surround mixes.

Upon its release the DVD received excellent reviews. Michael Azerrad of Rolling Stone magazine gave the DVD four stars, describing it as the "Holy Grail of heavy metal" and "one of the best rock documentaries ever made."[7] As of November 2007, the DVD has had an overwhelmingly positive number of reviews on website Amazon, with 560 out of 618 reviewers giving it five stars,[8] and on the Internet Movie Database with an average score of 9.4/10.[9]

That DVD pic makes me want to go out and meet women.
And surely Shirley was an excellent selection.

If you play all of The CHB songs backward we have a hidden message:

Am Oh Am, you are the way....

mike_mccue


Yeah, even with all the editing... the sound you hear is still only coming from 3 instruments and a voice at any given time.

Wicked.

Not always. They also sometimes used background/additional material they played back from a open reel tape recorder positioned visibly on the stage.

Kalle Rantaaho

mike_mccue


Yeah, even with all the editing... the sound you hear is still only coming from 3 instruments and a voice at any given time.

Wicked.

Not always. They also sometimes used background/additional material they played back from a open reel tape recorder positioned visibly on the stage.

Tell me more... please!   :-)

Thanks Kalle... I am just curious... not trying to put you on the spot. Thanks for explaining.


@ Batsbrew, I rented the discs you suggested and they were excellent. Thanks.


best regards,
mike

mike_mccue


@ Batsbrew, I rented the discs you suggested and they were excellent. Thanks.

 
Yeah thanks from me too Batsy - I found a second-hand 2DVD set on e-bay for just £7.50.
 
It came the other day, in A1 condition, both booklets included - I'm well -pleased
 
Now to set aside 5 hours to watch it all