sweetcharmedlife wrote on Sep 11^th, 2012 at 4:22pm:



A source allegedly told the Sun the project is a done deal, saying, “Jimmy has been in the studio making sure everything is perfect. The band want it to remain true to their exceptionally high standards. It’s coming out on November 22 as part of a simultaneous global release.”

Overdubbed to fuck, in other words, like every Zeppelin live album.

What's the point? 

Gazza wrote on Sep 11^th, 2012 at 5:39pm:

To give Jimmy something to do?....Besides,all live albums are ovedubbed to fuck. Aren't all Stones live albums?

pass

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Sep 11^th, 2012 at 6:30pm:


Dont think Stripped or Shine A Light were. And the archive releases havent been. Only the vocals on Ya Yas had overdubs.

I can think of plenty of live albums that have minimal or no overdubs at all.

However, the amount of dubbing and editing on Zeppelin's live albums renders the whole thing a bit redundant.

See here - http://www.thegardentapes.co.uk/

Bit odd to do this five years after the event - why not back then?

Gazza wrote on Sep 11^th, 2012 at 8:09pm:

This all the Zep I got and it doesn't get played much but when it does it is extremely loud. Disc 2 is serious rock.

" The 02 gig was actually pretty good, based on the audio and video evidence. Plant did pretty well considering he no longer has the high register that he would have had in his 20's.  "


I listen to the two rehearsal Soundboards almost every Saturday Afternoon in the car .

Lovely .


" Hopefully ' No Quarter  ' is no longer ' cut ' , Ronnie "


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JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJACKY Page  

Gazza wrote on Sep 11^th, 2012 at 8:09pm:




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The 02 show was over-all pretty darndable good I agree. Plant, as you said, did what he could and he pulled it off well enough. They did as good as anyone could hope at that show and it I was impressed over-all.  Still showed with some good months of practice and a solid rehearsal schedule in six months or seven months time of getting together and really working at it Led Zeppelin (with a fill in) were once again a top notch band for a night.... As I said to a buddy...sure they are not what they were but it's different now, and they sounded kina different ...but the same, and damn solid. Like I told him...aint not bar-band soundin like that mate. Still top notch for a night.

I have no idear why they waited this long other than I think there was "hope" in the industry they would reunite and tour... When that never happened and Plant said... guess what everyone...I still just aint that into it (...still...).... people kina left it. Still not sure why someone didnt say...well hey....lets put out a live album of that if thats all were gonna get at least a bit sooner.


- Ian

Gazza wrote "and the archives haven't been [overdubbed]". Well, not quite.  A bit of tweaking on Hampton 81, with very obvious vocal overdubs on Time is on My Side, perhaps from Still Life.  Also, a mystery 3rd guitar seems to appear on LA Friday's Sympathy for the Devil.  But it doesn't lessen the enjoyment of these releases and and tweaking by Jimmy Page for the Zeppelin release can be viewed the same.

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Sep 11^th, 2012 at 10:41pm:




You took that badly. What the fuck are you talking about? No need to get personal about it.

I'm not even a musician and my ear isnt good enough to detect stuff like that - nor would I even be anal enough to care to. Point was that I dont think the basic recordings were so bad as to warrant them being mostly re-created in a studio. I've had the original audio and video since they became available and enjoyed them enough for what they are. Personally, as a matter of principle I prefer a live record to be as undoctored as much as possible. Thats not to say I cant enjoy it if it isnt.

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Sep 11^th, 2012 at 10:41pm:




I've no idea who or what the fuck that even is.

Anyway , it's a good idea for them & us  to play again , Page is a great guitar player , last day i saw him was in Toulon 1998 , great gig!

the soundboards tapes from O2 arena were not so good but it'a always a pleasure to hear some music from a Legend instead of others bullshit that try to be one .
So be positive , it's a good thing , i'm bored of all the sarcastics people .

https://vimeo.com/32006059 For Your Life.

In other Zep news. Just been announced they are being selected for the Kennedy Center Honors this year. Along with Buddy Guy.
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/

well now we know what page has been up to for the last five years!!! sad that he feels he needs to do so much work on it. it was only one gig so he couldnt meld it together with other shows. still waiting for a full dvd/cd from the 77 tour. guess that aint happening!!!


Scl?


http://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/Gotye-tickets?c=lnw-120912&et_cid=18924&et_ri...

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/09/12/kennedy-center-honors-2012-david-letterman-...

Led Zeppelin to receive a Kennedy Center Honor 


" The actor and comedian are among seven people who will receive the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors, the performing arts center announced Wednesday. They join Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy, the surviving members of the rock band Led Zeppelin and ballerina Natalia Makarova. "

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Sep 12^th, 2012 at 3:46pm:


Almost makes me glad I didn't make the special trip across the pond to see them.

Gazza wrote on Sep 12^th, 2012 at 6:52am:




Gazza Wrote:
I'm not even a musician and my ear isnt good enough to detect stuff like that - nor would I even be anal enough to care to.


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In school we took 1 hour ear training classes every other cycle. One of them cycles had a particular class to detect over-dubbs used in live recordings. My instructor, John Barry had "perfect pitch" hearing. He could detect things that were really something. I had trouble detecting overdubs in live recordings in class but I could detect it very obviously in Live At The Max. I told him this and he said to bring it in. I did... and he said these over-dubs are not much different than most and I asked..."well how come I know these are over-dubbed so easily"...yet the ones in class I have trouble. ...He said it was experience in listening to my band...not in the recordings themselves. I could detect Live Stones guitar recorded in a stadium from Faking Live Stones guitar in a studio due to the fact that I listened to the Stones all my life seriously and consistently to a degree. (As well he said the particular mix on At The Max had all instruments really separated and individualized versus everything blended together...and I agreed... and it made it that much easier for me).

Same is true with everything... it doesn't take a great ear so to speak...just experience in picking them out. Gazza has a knack for it for one reason only...he LISTENS to ALOT of music!!!

The engineer I first engineered with, Elan Trujillo, said when I first played ABB for him ...after he heard It Wont Take Long ...fouth song in.... I asked how do you like the albums sound in which he replied in a confused manner ..."seems like there is a lot of 'room' tones"... as in non-studio. He said it a bit confused because he wasn't understanding how proper sound reinforcement wasn't already in place and if not why didn't they put some into place in the multi-million dollar studios The Stones recorded in. However he was unaware that much of it was recorded at Jaggers house in which you can only do so much and as well they didn't try hiding it all the way ...in order to make it sound more "garage-like"... He had no idea..but was spot-on. Those guys taught me so much but they insisted the ONLY way to get good was to 1. get to know what your listening for and 2. Experience


Ian

A trailer is included here.


Led Zeppelin's 2007 Reunion Concert to Hit Theaters in October
Check out a trailer for the film 'Celebration Day'

     
Led Zeppelin performs at the O2 Arena in London.
Ross Halfin/Exclusive by Getty Images
By Andy Greene
September 13, 2012 10:15 AM ET

Led Zeppelin fans hoping that the band would announce a new tour this week will have to settle for the next best thing: a theatrical release of their 2007 one-night-only reunion concert. Entitled Celebration Day, the film will be released on 1,500 screens on October 17th. The concert – taped  on December 10th, 2007 at London's 02 Arena – will then be released on "multiple audio and video formats" on November 19th.

Check out a trailer for the movie below, featuring clips from "Good Times Bad Times," "Black Dog," Rock and Roll," "Stairway To Heaven" and "Whole Lotta Love."

During the triumphant concert, Led Zeppelin played "like a band renewed, not merely reunited," wrote David Fricke in 2007. "Any doubts about Robert Plant's ability to still hit the high notes, his willingness to go stratospheric, were obliterated at the right, dramatic points in 'Since I've Been Loving You' and 'Kashmir.' John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham locked in like family. And Jimmy Page was a continual shock on guitar, mostly because he has played so little in public for the past decade."

Afterward, there was intense demand for a tour, but Plant said he had no interest. "It was an amazing evening," he told Rolling Stone in 2011. "The preparations for it were fraught and intense, but the last rehearsal was really, really good, for all that it represented and all that we were trying to capture. But I've gone so far somewhere else that I almost can't relate to it."

When asked again about any possible future reunion in that same interview, Plant made his position abundantly clear. "I see there's some kind of remit about the Tibetan Book of the Dead that we have to keep going back to," Plant said. "It's a bit of a pain in the pisser, to be honest. Who cares? I know people care, but think about it from my angle. Soon I'm going to need help crossing the street."

It was also announced yesterday that Led Zeppelin will be one of the recipients of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. on December 2nd. Honorees do not traditionally perform at the ceremony. President Obama will speak, and another band will play their music. David Letterman, Buddy Guy, Dustin Hoffman and Natalia Makarova will also be honored at the event.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/led-zeppelins-2007-reunion-concert-to-hit...

I'm so glad I saw them live in '73, when they were on top of the game, they sure are some Rock & Roll Band, I remember wanting to play "Rock & Roll" in a band, & the singer couldn't sing that high in the key of A, which is the recorded key on the album, I know they had to go to a lower key on this concert, it must be E.

So it premieres the day before the Stones movie? 

I see where DIME has taken down all the torrents of this show...........

45th anniversary tour!!!!

mojoman wrote on Sep 21^st, 2012 at 5:04pm:

Pagey looks good.

The entire press conference.

http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/player/Led-Zeppelin/10108/Press-Conference.html