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Led Zeppelin (DVD)
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Led Zeppelin
Video by Led Zeppelin
Released 26 May 2003
Recorded 19691979
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal, blues-rock, folk rock,
Length 320:00
Language English
Label Atlantic
Director Dick Carruthers
Producer Jimmy Page
Compiler Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin is a double DVD set by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in the United Kingdom on May 26, 2003 and the United States on May 27, 2003. It contains live concert footage of the band spanning the years 1969 to 1979. The recording of the DVD includes performances from the Royal Albert Hall in 1970, Madison Square Garden in 1973, Earls Court in 1975, and Knebworth in 1979, plus other footage. Bootleg footage from some of the concerts is interspersed with the professionally shot material.
The DVD cover features West and East Mitten Buttes, photographed from the visitor centre at the Navajo Tribal Park located at Monument Valley, Arizona.
Contents
Background and production
Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer of the DVD, Jimmy Page, commenced work on the project in the early 2000s. While fans had been trading poor quality versions of Led Zeppelin video material for years, this was the first official archival video release to contain any footage of the band playing live.[1] In an interview he gave after the release of the DVD, Page explained the impetus behind the project:
The reason for [the DVD] was that there was no visual material [of the band] that was out there really. The studio albums had been put out in many different shapes and forms, but this was something that was sorely missing because [Led] Zeppelin built its material on live performances. So that had to be done.[2]
The idea for a live chronology had, however, dated back some time before this. As was explained by Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant in 2003:
The idea of creating a Led Zeppelin collage has been in the works for ... fifteen years. We just didn't really have the time to put it together as a project because there was so much concentrated work that was required. So, as we all finished our individual projects, Jimmy Page took the helm along with some technical guys and this is what we've got.[2]
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 Shirely 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.
As part of the production of the DVD, Page also put out an open request for bootleg footage for specific concert dates to bootleg traders, many of whom complied.[citation needed]
Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars [5]
Uncut 5/5 stars [6]
Rolling Stone 4/4 stars[7]
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]
Disc two
Sydney Showground, 27 February 1972 (Splodge edit)
1. "Immigrant Song" (Page, Plant) 4:03
Madison Square Garden, 2729 July 1973
1. "Black Dog" (Jones, Page, Plant) 5:30
2. "Misty Mountain Hop" (Jones, Page, Plant) 4:50
3. "Since I've Been Loving You" (Jones, Page, Plant) 8:03
4. "The Ocean" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant) 4:16
Earls Court, 2425 May 1975 (see Earl's Court 1975)
1. "Going to California" (Page, Plant) 4:41
2. "That's the Way" (Page, Plant) 6:04
3. "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp" (Jones, Page, Plant) 5:31
4. "In My Time of Dying" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant) 11:14
5. "Trampled Under Foot" (Jones, Page, Plant) 8:14
6. "Stairway to Heaven" (Page, Plant) 10:32
Knebworth, 4 August 1979 (see Knebworth Festival 1979)
1. "Rock and Roll" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant) 3:47
2. "Nobody's Fault but Mine" (Page, Plant) 5:45
3. "Sick Again" (Page, Plant) 5:08
4. "Achilles Last Stand" (Page, Plant) 9:03
5. "In the Evening" (Jones, Page, Plant) 7:56
6. "Kashmir" (Bonham, Page, Plant) 8:50
7. "Whole Lotta Love" (Bonham, Dixon, Jones, Page, Plant) 7:06
8. "You'll Never Walk Alone" 1:21
New York NBC Studio, 19 September 1970
1. Press Conference 3:26 (mono)
Sydney Showground, 27 February 1972
1. "Rock and Roll" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant) 3:06
2. "Travelling Riverside Blues" (Johnson, Page, Plant) 4:09
Menu clips
Royal Albert Hall, 9 January 1970
* Dressing room (pre-concert) 0:27
* "Thank You" (Page/Plant) (pre-concert keyboard rehearsal outro) 0:34
* "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Page/Plant) 2:23
Seattle Center Coliseum, 21 March 1975
LA Forum, 21 June 1977 (8 mm video clips from various 1977 performances)
* "The Song Remains the Same" (Page/Plant) 5:37
I put together my own edit of white summer / black mountain (RAH) into kashmir (Knebworth) like they did at the actual knebworth show. (That is chapter 23) I think it came out pretty good.