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Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same Actors: John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant Directors: Peter Clifton, Joe Massot Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Format: Color, Dolby, Widescreen Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Running Time: 136 minutes Studio: Warner Studios Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 1999-12-21 Buy from Amazon |
 "It Could Have Been Better"Granted this is probably the only live performance Zepplin will ever release. I found the performance to be good but the cinamatography to be, at best, poor. Like one reviewer mentioned, the band members are wearing different clothes in the same song, check out "Dazed and Confused" for instance. It looks like the music and the video aren't insinc in places. Regarding the "dream sequences", I think they were added so the viewer would not get bored with the length of some of the songs. I wish this performance would be remastered and re-edited for the fans sake. If you surf Zeppelin web sites you can find what the set list was for a given night. The nights that Zeppelin was in New York filming, "The Ocean", "Over The Hills...", "Going To California", and several others were omitted due to time constraints. These forgotten performances should be added plus give the fans a complete version of "Heartbreaker" minus the Zep hiest business. All in all, this one is for the fan who really likes Zeppelin and wants to see the Gods at work. 3 1/2 stars I give it.  "Weird as hell but..."What an orgasmic experience. This is probably the only semi-decent concert footage of Led Zeppelin out there. Why the hell would any real fan turn it down. Yes, whoever directed this thing was probably on a serious acid trip, but who cares? It's Zeppelin!!!!!!!! So worth it! "all time best band ever,,,bar non!!"this flick speaks volumes about the seventies ,and the rock and drug culture! also exposes these rock gods for what they are,,,the alltime best ever band !!! "Heavenly!!!"Led Zeppelin is the grandest band in the world! I am a Led Zep fanatic and I HAD to buy this DVD when I saw it at Amazon. I have the VHS version as well but nothing beats the DVD version. This DVD is about their concert at Madison Square Garden. Its a great production and the sound and picture quality is high as well. I just hope the studio comes up with other Led Zeppelin concerts as well. You HAVE to buy this DVD if you consider yourself a fan of Led Zep.  "Does Anyone Remember Laughter?"Wow. It really is fantastic to finally see my favorite band in the world performing live. I wasn't even born when they were still together, so when I went to buy this DVD I was extremely excited. I got home, popped it in, and immediately said, "What the hell?!" Then, I fast forwarded past all the scenes of the band members with their family members and other crap and then got to the actual performance. It opens with Rock and Roll, of course, a great opener. I sat there, mesmerized by seeing the musicians who I worship as gods performing. A little while later, I again was forced to say, "What the HELL!!!?" Because they had spliced in weird scenes such as Robert Plant walking some grassy plains or something with a sword and then rescuing this chick from a couple of guards during the song No Quarter. The music is still playing, but it's annoying if you really were in the mood to see them band perform. Some of the scenes were short, inobtrusive, and cool, though. Like the one where an old cloaked guy morphes slowly into Jimmy Page and back again during Dazed and Confused. I was glad that they didn't show this through the whole bow solo, though, because I really wanted to see just how Jimmy did that. You do get to see plenty of it, too. My favorite parts: Stairway to Heaven. All of it. They smartly show it uninterrupted by those stupid short movie clips. It is fantastic, what can I say? Dazed and Confused. This whole song is great to see performed live, but I really like that part near the beginning (around the "If you're going to San Francisco" part) when the camera stays on Jonesy and Bonham. You can see them talking and interacting while Jimmy's playing, and it's just good to see all that ininterrupted Bonham. Whole Lotta Love. For the part with that antenna thing that makes the weird noises (I know what it's called but it just slipped my mind for the moment - I hate when that friggin happens!), and the fireworks and the gong on fire. Now, when are they going to start releasing more concerts?! I know that they must have them in some vault somewhere, or they could take the many, many bootlegs out there and fix them up for official release. The Jimmy Page/Black Crowes concert would be cool, but I'd rather have old concerts with the real band (preferably with some of their blues covers! this had none and I love those songs!). |
