Top of the Pops 1966
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Customer Review: Great Rock Video
This is a MUST HAVE for all real rock fans. David Lee Roth’s first solo project features an amazing line up with Billy Sheehan, Steve Vai and Greg Bisonette. And the videos are amazing - they were ahead for their time…
Customer Review: The one and only
This is a must for the fans of Diamond Dave, although I’m looking forward for some of his new tunes, maybe on DVD. YES ON DVD! All of it!! Give it to me babe! What the h… are you waiting for? ;o), Love from Spiderwoman.
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Legendary and long sought-after, this live Led Zeppelin collection is nothing less than the rock music equivalent of the Holy Grail. Quite simply, this is what all the fuss was about.
Given that they were the biggest band in the world, Zeppelin were notoriously camera-shy in their heyday. Their official filmic legacy until now has been just the fascinating but flawed The Song Remains the Same. While this new set presents some previously unseen footage from the same 1973 Madison Square Garden gigs, its real wonders lie in the earlier (1970) Royal Albert Hall footage and the later Earls Court (1975) and Knebworth (1979) concerts. Everything here looks and sounds new-minted, thanks to painstaking restoration and remastering of both audio and visual sources, a Herculean labour of love on the part of co-producer Dick Carruthers working hand-in-glove with Jimmy Page.
Trawling through thousands of yards of previously unseen film and unheard tape recordings–some with missing visuals, some with missing audio–Page and Carruthers have chosen only the best possible footage available. They were also at pains to make the segments segue seamlessly so that the viewer is treated to what feels like a continuous concert–just sample the transition from a grainy Super 8 “Immigrant Song” (Sydney, 1972) to “Black Dog” at MSG.
Highlights? It’s not hyperbole to say that every powerhouse minute of this collection (some 230 minutes of concert footage plus another hour and a half of extra DVD material) is a rare musical and visual treat. But hearing Page’s violin bow work on “Dazed and Confused” in DTS or Dolby 5.1 is an experience not soon forgotten.
On the DVD: Led Zeppelin two-disc set presents all the footage in pristine 4:3 picture ratio (the Madison Square Garden footage is letterboxed) with Dolby 5.1, DTS or PCM Stereo sound options. Note that the audio is uncompressed for maximum ear-shattering enjoyment. The menu screens do not pop up beforehand, but have to be selected. It’s well worth doing so. Enjoy the music first, then discover that even the menus have been painstakingly designed to provide still more unseen footage and unheard recordings (some screens don’t cycle round, but present another song in its entirety). Extras include rare TV appearances, interviews and bootleg footage. –Mark Walker
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Customer Review: Generously overwhelming
I found this for ?11 at Zaavi a few weeks ago, and bought it for - what I guess you could call - old times’ sake, having been a big fan of the band in my youth (which included seeing them at Earls Court in 1975). It is, by any standards, a generous collection. Clocking in at over five hours, you get the impression that it’s been packed to the rafters with all the material that could be found and restored. The four big shows (Albert Hall, Madison Square Garden, Earls Court, Knebworth) are all impressive, but I found the extras just as appealing. Chief among these is a dynamic, intimate performance of “Communication Breakdown” on Danish TV with the band on a tiny stage and the audience sitting at their feet (the contrast with the big shows is remarkable). As the camera zooms in on Page going into the solo, you realise all over again that, when you strip away the studio overdubbery and the lasers, pomp and enormous scale of their later performances, they could really, really *play*. In spite of that, and their total dominance of the musical scene (an interview in which they’re compared to the Beatles is also included), they weren’t always well-received initially; the other version of “Communication Breakdown” in here comes from a hilarious performance on French TV. For some reason, most of the shots are taken from behind the band, so you can see the stony, unmoved expressions on the faces of the audience (consisting - it seems - of middle-aged couples, small children and - I’m sure my eyes weren’t deceiving me - a Salvation Army brass band) as the band cavort on stage. It provides a refreshing change from the adulation portrayed in their later shows and it’s generous of them to include it here (actually, they said that it shows rather neatly why they refused to do any more TV shows after this point). Lovingly assembled, finely detailed and generously overhwelming, this collection is completely essential for any fan of this band, though it has to be said that even the most rabid enthusiast would be going cross-eyed if they sat through the whole thing in one go.
Customer Review: Fantastic visual history of Led Zep.
I saw the second Knebworth show in 1979,so I had to buy this just for that footage.Brought back some memories,I can tell you. The first DVD is a show in London in 1970,highlighting material from the first two albums.”Whole Lotta Love”,”Dazed and Confused” and Bonzo’s epic drum solo on “Moby Dick” are standouts. The second DVD starts off with bootleg film of LZ at a show in sydney,synchronised with an “Immigrant Song” from Los Angeles.Works well.Then comes material from New York in 1973,some which got onto “Song Remains The Same”,two tracks didn’t. Next up,London 1975,and a great aucoustic set,also “Stairway To Heaven”(complete with cigarette lighters in the audience).Finally Knebworth 1979,their last show in Britain.Last two songs are great versions of “Kashmir” and “Whole Lotta Love”-compare and contrast with the 1970 version on DVD 1.Robert Plant thanks the crowd for the last 11 years,and they respond with a chorus of “You’ll Never Walk Alone”.Were there really that many Scousers in the crowd? Comes with extras too.The sound quality of the shows is fantastic,as you’d expect from a Jimmy Page production.If you were around for Led Zep in the 1970s,it’s a lovely nostalgic watch,if you were too young,you’ll realise what you missed. This and “How The West Was Won” could hopefully be the start of a release programme from Led Zep’s vaults of live shows.I can dream,can’t I?
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Family Flip Quiz: Rock and Pop Music (Family Flip Quiz)
