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Movie Reviews of Led Zeppelin
Movie Review: THE BEST LED 5 Stars
As being a classic rock fan in the new year 2004 their are many new CDs and DVDs of classic rock bands for example Jimi Hendrix his family coperation Experience Hendrix has brought his music back to live. Led Zeppelin back in the day signed with Atlantic Records to release Led Zeppelin 1, 2, 3, 4, and etc. Led Zeppelin grew populaur from their live shows not their hits as a matter of a fact Led Zeppelin never had a hit never wanted a hit. Zep wanted to take their music into a differnt direction and they did. I have listened to all the Zep albums out their and when you start to listen from their first album to their last you can see alot of improvement in their music. Zeppelin were one of those bands that had all the best musicians including their legendary singer Robert Plant, their bassman John Paul Jones, their powerful drummer John Henry Bonham, and their guitarist Jimmy Page. When I saw their was a new relase from Atlantic I was very excited. I bought the Led Zeppelin DVD the first day it came out at Fye and the price was around 29$ very expensive (look at the price they have for it at amazon wow go buy it ). It was 5 hours of music that really shook you all night long. The first disc is live at the royal albert hall 1970 Led Zeppelin had just started their career not too long ago. They played an OUTSTANDING performence with I Cant Quit You Baby, Dazed And Confused, What It Is And What Should Never Be, Moby Dick, Communcation Breakdown, Whole Lotta Love, etc. Also the extras include Communication Breakdown Promo, Danmarks Radio, Supershow, and Tous En Scene.Going from the second DVD you can see the band has made it the crowd loves them. It starts off with Immigrant Song then goes to Madison Square Garden. I think the Madison Square Garden is 100% better than the orginal The Song Remains The Same with killer performences like Black Dog, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I've Been Loving You, and The Ocean. Then an interesting Earls Court with alot of acoustic stuff then goes into the rock stuff like In My Time Of Dying ( wow cool performence ), and Trampled Underfoot, and the legendary song StairWay To Heaven. Then their is the most famous concert that Zep ever performed at KNEBWORTH 79 this was one of their last tours before Bonham died. I have seen differnt concert footage from KNEBWORTH that was junk the picture quality was all messed up but when I saw the KNEBWORTH on this DVD I was amazed the picture quality is the best wow. And the tracks from KNEBWORTH are Rock And Roll, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Sick Again, Achillies Last Stand, In The Evening, Kashmir, and Whole Lotta Love. The bonus features on the second disc are NYC Press Conference, Down Under, The Old Grey Whistle Test, and Promos. I have read alot of articles in guitar magazines about this DVD and how page found all the footage and you have to reliaze Jimmy Page did not just throw a collection together he took alot of time to give the fans the best Led Zeppelin performence ever and I thank him for that. This is worth 1,000 Stars it represents the starting point and the turning point of Led Zeppelin. I have never been to one of their concerts but I wish I would have. Without little more to say this is the best Led Zeppelin anyone will ever get > a must have buy this on amazon for a great price and Enjoy!!!
Movie Review: I've actually seen it, and it's fantastic!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you've been waiting for a review by someone who has actually seen this DVD, here it is. After listening to poor-quality bootleg recordings of some of these shows, it's great to finally hear the real deal. Jimmy Page really delivered on the audio, and the video restoration, which reportedly took months of painstaking frame-by-frame work, is breathtaking.The Albert Hall '70 video is especially surprising, since it is so old. It's clear as a bell, and the sound (other than Robert being very slightly distorted) is stunning. The performance is very raw and spontaneous and really sums up what Zeppelin sounded like in the early years.
The Danish TV broadcast from '69 is somewhat legendary, as it's been broadcast so few times. It's black and white, but very clear. Plant's voice is fairly well shot, but the performance is still strong and the band is obviously having a great time. Watch out for a mis-cue near the end of How Many More Times--these guys were close to the edge much of the time, and it shows here!
You get to see more than one version of Communication Breakdown and Dazed and Confused among the different segments, but you also get to see how these songs evolved as time passed.
The New York '73 footage consists of 4 tunes, two of which appeared on the Song Remains movie. However, the soundtrack has been remastered, and the video has been restored with some different angles, so you're not getting a bunch of repeats. The Ocean is a highlight of this segment--I don't see why they left this off the original. Bonzo counts it off like on the album, and sings harmony on the la-la section. By the way, Bonzo's playing throughout this package is jaw-dropping. After eleven years of *that*, how could anyone else replace him?
Earl's Court '75: this is the one everybody talks about, and it's killer. My understanding is that all five nights were filmed, but much of the footage was unusable. This segment consists of some acoustic numbers which still contained a great deal of spontaneity, as well as stunning versions of electric numbers. I'm a little surprised so few tunes from these concerts were used. The footage is very close-up and intimate, and it's not obvious how big the room is.
Knebworth '79: this section was a real revelation for me. I'd heard an audience bootleg and seen some clips, and it was not very impressive-sounding. With a real soundtrack, it stands up with anything else on this DVD. The epic Presence material contains some amazing guitar playing from Page, and is one more highlight of many on this package. In the Evening was a stinker on the bootleg, but it really rocks now--amazing what a professional mix will do! Surprisingly, even though Ten Years Gone was broadcast on MTV in 1990, no performance of this tune was included on this set. Page and Plant are clearly having a blast on this segment.
The extras are also well worth seeing, and most Zep fans would gladly pay the asking price for those alone. Each menu page contains bits of priceless footage and/or audio that, while not quite as stellar as the main feature, is still top-notch.
It may sound petty to complain about 5 hours of amazing material not being enough, but it's too bad this set has to end. This music is as good as it gets. Five stars with room to spare!
Movie Review: Led Zep in their prime...
Summary: 5 Stars
DVD format is a wonderful way to view movies and TV programs, but the new perspective it brings to the music industry is in a class of its own. Gone are the days of 'jumpy' footage of classic bands, with blurred and muffled sound quality. Now it is possible to IMAGINE YOU WERE THERE. The Led Zeppelin boxed DVD set is one such experience.
As someone who was not even alive at the time (b. 1985), and grew to enjoy the music by trying my fathers Cds out for a laugh, this DVD is priceless.
As soon as you view disc one, crisp, clear black and white footage of Jimmy Page meets you, playing with a violin bow to a packed out aircraft hangar in a bygone world, creating sonic shards of sound that are captured perfectly in the Dolby surround format.
What follows are 5 hours of concert footage of quality rock that surely can never be repeated or surpassed by any other band.
Disc 1:
The Royal Albert Hall: Led Zep look young and healthy here, and the music has the same vitality. Such is the quality of the individual skills of each band member that I mistakenly thought this was footage from a later stage in Led Zep's carrer. In fact the band have only been together for a year or so, already with hits 'Whole Lotta love and 'Communication Breakdown'. John Bonham shines with his incredible, pounding, relentless solo work on his song 'Moby Dick'.
The extra footage on this Cd is interesting, more so I suspect to those who were around at the time.
Disc 2:
The better of the two Cds.
"Immigrant Song": Edited to resemble a music video more than a documentary, the long atmospheric ride atop a car into the sun-kissed stadium is likely to evoke strong memories of summer in the 70's. The roar of the crowd and the scintillating opening riff was the highlight of the CD for me, and the song pulsates with energy.
Madison Square Garden: Footage from the same concert as "The Song remains the Same", which almost put me off Led Zep forever because of the shocking treatment of the songs by Plant, who seems to be completely lost. The rest of the band carry it through,with page shining in particular towards the end of "The Ocean".
Earls Court: An extremely interesting journey. Jimmy Page could play sublime acoustic guitar, and his treatment of these songs is peerless. Watch for John Paul Jones showing what a complete musician he was, playing Mandolin, Bass and synths equally well.
Knebworth: The final concert led Zep ever gave, and a reminder of how well they stood up after a decade on top. Plant is in fine fettle, JPJ is as solid as a rock, Bonzo is very much alive and well, particularly on "Kashmir"; his death just one year later creates a poignancy to his entire display.
Extra footage includes several interviews, and promos. It struck me how softly spoken they all were for such a loud band!
Overall, a wonderful DVD. perhaps the only fault I found was that many good songs are notably missing, with several lesser songs being covered more than once. I guess this is due to the lack of footage available to work with, and shows just what an extstensive catalogue they have.
Buy this, whether you like Led Zeppelin or not. This is music.
Movie Review: Thank God, no more having to watch The Song Remains the Same
Summary: 5 Stars
Those of you who "love" the Song Remains the Same are more than likely the same people who were giggling and smoking reefer inn the back row when the film was actually being played in theaters every weekend at the "Midnight Movies". The Song Remains the Same is NOT the "definitive" Led Zeppelin set, as all of the surviving members of the band will quickly tell you. The weird "fantasy scenes", the lack of intensity, and the overall ARROGANCE of the Song Remains the Same is why Jimmy Page decided to break these concert ditties out of the vault for all to see (um, of course for $29.99!).
The fact that Jimmy Page doesn't endorse the audio recording of The Song Remains the Same speaks volumes, and anybody who has heard "How The West Was Won" will easily attest to the fact that Led Zep was at their peak in those magical years between 1969 and 1972. Check out the vintage footage in this new Led Zeppelin DVD, and you will see what I mean.
The concert footage from 1979 is very significant to me, because this is an era where we have heard no live recordings, except of course for the coursing underground of bootleg tapes. Robert Plant was not the vocal acrobat he was in the early years, but he handles it quite nicely. The band was tight, and they were trying to tone down the 20 minute long drum solos and the extended "space" of the Dazed and Confused violin solo. This is classic Zep trying to reqain their form, and the concert footage from 1979 on Disc 2 is absolutely stunning.
I could go on-and-on about the technical details of this fine DVD set, but since that has already been done over 480 times, let me focus on this; if you think you know what "good music" is, then you might reconsider what is "good" after viewing this. The sad fact is that almost all of the popular music of today lacks the soul, attitude, and raw power of Led Zeppelin. Korn, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, and all of the other modern "heavy rock" bands succeed in pummeling the listeners ear with pounding noise and gruffly yelled vocals, and my friends , this is not a good thing. The simple fact is that the riff from "Whole Lotta Love" was the angry soundtrack to a whole generation of teenage boys, and this was done with MUSIC! Zeppelin didn't have to resort to cheesy gimmicks like use of the "f-word", smashing their instruments on stage, cutting thier bodies before a live audience, yelling incoherantly as if they were possessed by the spirit of homosexuality ("aw man", cries the ever lovin' singer of Limp Bizkit; [...] No, Led Zeppeling created an aura of sound that both assaulted and delighted the senses. From the incredibly beautiful love of "Thank You", to the raw shimmering lust of "Black Dog", down through the deep awareness of "Stairway To Heaven", the melancholy despair of "When The Levee Break".....I could go on-and-on. Led Zeppelin was the greatest BAND of all time, four masters at what they individually did, and the fact is...NOTHING on the radio or in the "underground" today even comes close to the glory of Zeppelin.
If you want to visually comprehend why this band was the best rock 'n' roll group ever, just slip Disc 1 in, lay back, light up a smoke....and prepare to be blown away!
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Movie Review: Rock Gods
Summary: 5 Stars
It worked. It was divine - they strutted, Rob, John and John Paul, whilst Jimmy more rolled with the punches,
guitar strapped low to let his dislocated fingers dance on the fretwork of his double axe fender acoustic string machine, tickling unheard of combinations of notes, chords, slides, plucks, taps and bent notes whirring and gliding from that mysterious place where his sweat trickled down the length of his hair, smiling whilst his digits found the spaces, like a squirrel playing tag in a winter tree - leaping and diving in almost random directions, yet always finding that perfect branch that would just support the note's weight and allow the spring/twist or glide to the next twig, fret and then off again.
John Bonham shouted at the stretched skin of the mambo goated tub drums, crashed the sticks into the fabric of the bass, his singlet vest drenched with the joy of his exertions, hands rumbling in perfect harmony whilst the roadie behind lit a fag, realising that, other than to tighten the bolt on the bells, John was in the seat, moby dick in the north atlantic, explosive warheads bouncing off his shiny triceps, dragging the audience, the band and the fans along with his syncopated brilliance.
JP is the glue - the mandolin clucking briefly, huge keyboards blasting charm into tracks, understated - the bassist - trundling up the train tracks of the neck of his axe, rumbling thunder underpinning the joy above, the basement, the foundation, the lead lining to the soul of the Zep. No expression, just performance, only support for the frontman.
No mere man, here ie is, the strutting god, shirt open, hair flailing, smooth skin exposed to the world, a transient smile ghosting on the lips of the plant, the aspidistra, the peace, anenome, mesebrianthemum pitcher plant Robert. Cut glass, acid souled high-tenor shrieks of blissful expression, taking in the crowd with his eyes and knowing, just knowing that when he said yeah, they would say YEAH, crotch etched into the front of his jeans like a middle aged mans back wallet pocket - you can all have me - all of you, but you have to come with me first. Then suddenly the shriek is soft, melodic, gentle with a twist of irony, expectation, joy, disappointment... t'was in the deepest depths of mordor, I met a girl, so fair... but Gollum,,, the evil does anyone remember laughter? How many chuckles had he inspired from '70's virgins pony trekking on the saddles of his groin?
And then there was the economy of effort, the surefootedness, the integration, extra sensory understanding of adjustment when to dive in, when to stay out - extend, contract, blend like a fruit smoothy - as if it were invented then - maybe iced coffee of harmony. My god these guys knew each other. They were incredible. Outstanding. Hyperbole is lost on the perfection of some of those moments. Thank god they have been captured for all time. Lost they would have been a travesty of global proportions. Now they have been shipped out, piece by piece to the people of the world to watch in comfort or love.