Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
by Peter Clifton, Joe Massot
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Actor: Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Peter Grant (III), Robert PlantDirector: Joe Massot, Peter Clifton
Brand: Alfred Publishing
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 137 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-12-21
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
Movie Review: Jimmy Page is a Guitar God
Summary: 5 Stars
Can someone say "Jimmy Page is a Guitar God"? Sure, I knew you could. Even now, with both Page and Plant getting on in years, there is still something 'there' when they merge together. Just listen to their No Quarter versions of old Zep material and their own material: "Wonderful One" and "The Truth Explodes", as well as the stuff they wrote with some Moroccan musicians: "City Don't Cry" and the "Wha Wha" song. Tell me there isn't still Page/Plant magick going on within the realm of their music. Some slam "Walking Into Clarksdale" Page/Plant's project from 1998, but even though I think some of those songs could have had a bit more edge to them, I still enjoy many of the finished products like: "Most High" "Shining Light" "When The World Was Young"-a song, which I believe Robert is speaking about him and Jimmy-and "House Of Love", the magick remains the same. (If the two men can just come to some agreement and continue being who they are, I honestly don't think their fans would complain.) I am enjoying my DVD of "The Song Remains The Same" (haven't seen it since I was a teenager and even then I was seeing it at a Midnight show on Friday's and Saturday's before the God machine of church "saved" me from my 'sinning' ways and I let go of the one band that I fell in love with at first sight.) And I do mean fell in love with. It wasn't just Jimmy and Robert's physical appearance, although that was nothing to sneer at, it was their amazing confidence when they fell into their music, their sheer charisma with both voice and guitar. John Bonahm, may he rest in peace, was also something of a marvel I'm discovering now in this second go round. I listen to him play on the recordings and his drumming was as smooth as silk, and in concert, he knew how to listen to the lead men and fall into step. John Paul Jones, the quiet one of the quartet, I look at him now and see how amazing he was on stage, being calm, reserved and simply allowing himself to flow with the energy around him from the music created. (Just ignore the wigs, if you can. The pageboy look just was not him!) Everything about this band was and will continue to be a study in the complexity of confidence and being one with each other as well as one within themselves on an individual level. I noticed right off that all musicians on stage trusted each other to do their part. There was no one out of 'place'; each had their job to do and the others made space for the individual auras to do their thing. Jimmy and Robert may have been the 'front men' and with their flare for charisma they fit that role well. Jonesy and Bonzo were content to stay in the background, offering their strong and smooth backup. Jimmy's guitar playing is the stuff of legend, and Robert was once quoted as saying that he, "Plays a little left of heaven." Perfect analogy. Jimmy is always in a world of his own making, making him a one-of-a-kind guitarist. Jimmy loses himself in his music and its very evident on camera. He knows he's being filmed but doesn't seek the camera out, he lets his music take him where he wills and where he wills to play is to the audience. The members of the band did not think these nights of concerts were their best...not their worst, but not their best. I beg to differ. From a viewer who had never even heard of Zeppelin before seeing this movie (with the exception that they did this song called 'Stairway To Heaven'), I was floored from the first moment I laid eyes (and ears) on what they could do. It's been 30 years since The Song Remains The Same movie was released, and it's still as fresh to me each time I see it as though it were brand new.
~White Ravyn~
Summary of Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
Experience the lightning of Led Zeppelin's 1973 Madison Square Garden concert-and enter the dreams and backstage lives of one of rock's all-time best-selling bands! Year: 1976 Director: Peter Clifton, Joe Massot Starring: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham, John Paul JonesFor Led Zeppelin fanatics, this 1976 feature The Song Remains the Same is a treasure of searing live performances, particularly welcome in light of the sad scarcity of such visual material from the band's great decade. Despite the group's road weariness after a long tour, their final, three-night stand at Madison Square Garden in 1973 was full of the old power. Performances of "No Quarter," "Whole Lotta Love," "Black Dog," "Dazed and Confused," and "Stairway to Heaven" underscore Zep's charisma. Trouble is, you don't get an unbroken performance here. Viewers have to wade through a mishmash of documentary insight into the lives of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, as well as fantasy sequences supposedly inspired by the thoughts and fantasies of the band's individual members. It's mostly garish and silly, but there are some nice elements, especially insights into the late Bonham's life. The DVD doesn't offer much in the way of add-ons (a theatrical trailer is about it), but there is also enhanced viewing for 16 x 9 televisions. --Tom Keogh
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