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Summary: DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER LAUGHTER!?
Review: I absolutly love Led Zeppelin's music. Every single member of the band is extremely talented, and they bring it all together to make a sound that to describe as extroadinary would be an understatement. Its almost depressing that I was born in this time period, and I don't have the chance of seeing them all together in concert. But then i found this DVD. and even though i can't see them live, this DVD is the closest I can get, and i love it. The only thing I don't like about it is when they show these totally weird fantasy shots of the band members, and i mean its cool and how that they have these like dreams and all, but I wish there was more footage of them playing. But honestly, that is the only thing that i don't like about this DVD. If you are a zeppelin fan, and love their music, this DVD is a must-have!...
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Summary: Great way to see zeppelin live
Review: I never got a chance to see zeppelin live, so to me, this was a great chance. The beginning is a little weird, but hey, its zeppelin, thats to be expected. I thought the 30 min. Dazed and Confused was great. I have the shortened version on Zeppelin 1, and I've always wanted to hear the full length song. This is a must have for all zeppelin fans. The music is great, the band is great, and you get to see zeppelin live, you can't get any better than that. If you don't have this DVD, get it!
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Summary: Led Zeppelin-The Song Remains The Same-The Movie
Review: This is What Zeppelin Fan's Expect from Thier concert.True,They do have Such classic's as Black Dog,Played to The Intro of Page's Virtioso of Bring It on Home,The Raunchy,Self Inducing,Implementing Whole Lotta Love.And The Conveyance To A Message,in Stairway to Heaven,This is Probably How Zeppelin was in 1973.With Excerpt's of Peter Grant- Zeppelin's-Zeppelin's Manager, Gang Related Shootout Scene, Money Motivated Grandiose Figure. Robert Plant With wife Probably Maureen and Two Children,Naked Like on The Houses of The Holy Album, Probably the Significance of the Children,Lie's In The Purity,and Innocence,That In The Absolution, Cleances and Purify's us Beneath the Radiance of The Sun.As of John Paul Jones,with His wife Reading to His Children,Some Enchantment,of a Nursery,Rhyme, That Unveil's,the Fantasy of Reverie.Then their's John Bonham with,His Invitabale,fascination with Velocity.And His Gradual Preoccupation with Automobile's. Then at Last,We come to Either Grant or Bonham,and some Bike Rider,as The Path,Lead's into the Abode,Alas,we hear,Dark, Morbidund,Strain's,of Beauty and Wonder,Serenity,Unparalled of The Likeness,to It's Mystery. We see Boleskine,A Place in Loch Ness,Inverness Scotland Once Owned By Infamous,Magickian Aleister Crowley.Then we see The Member's get Into a Stretch Limo.to Wisk Them off from Their Families,to There Second Life,The Romance of Music,Stage,and Fan's,When in The Limo,We Hear of Bron- Yr-Aur,off of Physical Graffitti They Get Out Of The Limo,Maybe a Short space of Rehersal,Then To Suege,into The Boisterous, Then Onto The Show,With Rock And Roll,The Fantasy Sequence's Vary,From Robert as A King, Fighting,A Mutant,For The Love of The Damsel,To Be His Queen John Paul Jone's,Orhestration, of A Masqued,Phantasm,Riding To Save His Princess,and to be her victor,Page's,Accent into the Infhathomable,of the Arduous,Quest,As To Climb The Mountain,Of The Primordial,To Enlightement, The Illuminant,Fullfillment,of Immortality.If Anyone's Familiar with The Tarot.The Light Of One Of Being,or the Hermit.Then we Have Bonzo with His Fascination, The Fuel Of Life,The Octane Of Perpetual Momentum.Of Automobiles The Songs are Great But,It taken Three Years To Make This.And Alot Of Songs Especially,on Physical Graffitti,And There Two Latter Disc,would of Been Great Attribution's,To The Mystique,Beauty,and Power Of Zeppelin.This is Fine too the Fan's in 1976.But Let's Face it a New Generation is Getting into The Great Zeppelin I Hear There Getting out a new 3 D.V.D.in 2003.I Hope they Do, They Deserve some of their Latter Work for the fans.
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Summary: HORRIBLE MOVIE!!! STAY AWAY FROM IT!!!!!!!
Review: I'd discourage anyone's interest for any of these performances (VHS or DVD are both of bad quality). The sound and picture quality has to be the WORST I've ever heard from any live band. The sound is flat and gets drowned out easily. No matter how far sound quality standards have changed since the 1976 release of this movie, the sound remains as horrible as ever. As far as the picture, I've done better framing with my home camcorder. As a TV and movie viewer in the 21st century, I've been too used to seeing several frames per minute, while this movie often shows the entire stage of the band playing instead of cutting to different frames, and belive me.. you'll go CRAZY. In addition, the DVD is exactly the same as the VHS since it was originally recorded with [bad] analong systems in 1973 and is practically incapable of a good remaster. DO NOT BUY THIS. I was very disappointed as a big fan of Zeppelin to say the least. It is NOT worth the money. To add to the poor sound quality, the band played pretty poorly too. Some renditions were way too long and needlessly draggy. I understand the improvisational culture of blues music, but .... Robert's voice is also very weak and stripped and you almost NEVER see John Paul Jones. (Did Robert and Jimmy eternally hate that guy or what?). The whole movie has been over rated since it's the only official Zeppelin live performance (I'm talking the REAL band with Bonham and all). The Stairway to Heaven performance is very over rated too. I was so disappointed in that. I wouldn't recommend the soundtrack either, since it's the same songs with the same POOR quality. It also lacks the live version of "Black Dog" which was one of the only decent renditions in the whole movie.
For new Zeppelin fans, STAY AWAY FROM THIS. It will only turn you off from the band completely since it does NO justice to their real power and talent. For older fans... DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY.
To sum it up, it's just a HORRIBLE movie and I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy. No wonder it bombed at the box office in 1976.
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Summary: Well done, but a few problems
Review: Overall, I really enjoyed watching this DVD.It perfectly captures Led Zepplin on stage. Jimmy Page's playing is outstanding, and the rhythm section is rock solid. My only complaint is the poor quality of Robert Plant's voice. He seemed to be strained with every note. He is way off in some parts and it takes away from the song. Don't get me wrong, he is an excellent singer. Maybe this was an off-night for him. Or mabe it's the fact that he blew out his voice somtime around 1972. If you can get by the poor vocal performance, this is an excellent DVD. This is Hard Rock's finest band in concert, an excellent choice for a fan or a casual listener of the band.
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Summary: Dazed and Confused...and Disappointed
Review: I have always loved Zep...but give me a studio performance, please! Robert Plant seemed to be singing to and for himself. Stairway To Heaven was OK but even that lacked any semblence of energy. I give the one star for the amusement my teenaged son got from seeing Jimmy Page play guitar with a bow. Even that got boring as it droned on and on. This DVD starts off with a 20's-style mob hit that I never figured out what it had to do with the rest of it. Maybe you gotta be stoned to enjoy this one; I wasn't, and I didn't. I truly do enjoy their music. But this one was truly a stinker all the way around. The sound was terrible. No matter how we tried, we couldn't get it adjusted right. If you can find this one for a buck at a garage sale, that'd be okay...maybe. I'm afraid this one'll sit on our video shelf for a long, long time before it ever sees the inside of the DVD player again.
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Summary: Stairway to Heaven
Review: Zep still pack a punch 30 years on. The best part of this DVD is the live performances, the songs from Houses of the Holy sound better now than they seemed to then, particularly the Rain song and No Quarter. Unfortunately the fantasy sequences now seem pure Spinal Tap, but ok, it was the seventies. The lengthy Dazed and Confused is total excess and Whole Lotta Love sloppy. One poignant moment in the intro to Stairway to Heaven when the camera shows the New York skyline and the Twin Towers... Good reissue even with poor sound.
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Summary: The Song Does Remain The Same
Review: I was seeing this flick at midnight screenings prior to its VHS and now DVD releases. I've loved the group for as long as I can remember. Their live shows were stuff of legends. Unfortunately this release was not given the attentive remixing it deserves from the band especially Jimmy Page. As the late, great Peter Grant summized it, "It is the most expensive home movie ever made!" which I totally agree with his sentiments. The picture quality is very good in widescreen format nonetheless. My complaint is the audio side of it as it comes off tinny. I can only imagine what this would be like remixed in Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS! Never mind that it is sometimes out of sync but it is a mishmash of various shows cobbled together to put out one film. Still a great testament to arguably the greatest rock band of all time!
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Summary: The Inferior Audio of the 70's
Review: I did not care for this DVD although I am a great fan of the group. The audio sucks so badly that I took it off and traded back in. It is not possible for me to be so nostalgic that I can listen to simply anything. If you love Led Zep -- no holds barred -- go ahead. If you want decent audio from your HTS, don't! It'll remind you of buying those egregious ATCO vinyl pressings.
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Summary: The Inferior Audio of the 70's
Review: I did not care for this DVD although I am a great fan of the group. The audio [is so bad] that I took it off and traded back in. It is not possible for me to be so nostalgic that I can listen to simply anything. If you love Led Zep -- no holds barred -- go ahead. If you want decent audio from your HTS, don't! It'll remind you of buying those egregious ATCO vinyl pressings.
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