THE ROVER LED ZEPPELIN CELEBRATION DAY |
11-23-2012 1:27 PM |
Just received it the mail
Two DVD’s
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Two CD’s
As the days pass by will try to give you my thoughts on this December 10, 2007 Concert |
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THE ROVER So I had a bit of time to watch |
11-24-2012 10:43 AM |
So I had a bit of time to watch CELEBRATION DAY
Very well done – slick – they look good and
well I know there music like the back of my hand
I would listen to first 30 seconds or so an skip to next song.
They rocked, I heard Plant was not into it, watching him perform
he was into it and had a voice too.
There will come a time where I may sit an take the 2 plus hours to watch
an the bonus DVD which I did not look at ...............YET !!
There should be no more in my opinion
That was almost 5 years ago . . let it be the CODA !!! |
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THE ROVER just watched some of the bonus features |
11-26-2012 8:23 PM |
just watched some of the bonus features
one part has them in rehearsal
watched about 15 minutes could be cooler the actual show
will keep you posted |
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THE ROVER alright alright alright |
11-30-2012 8:06 PM |
you made me do it
tonight I watched CELEBRATION DAY
not the entire show but from the start.
news clip from 1975 breaking audience attendance in Florida at the time.
1. good times bad time
2. ramble on
3. black dog
4. in my time of dying
5. for your life
6. trampled under foot
HAD TO STOP
6 out of 16
produced very well straight forward LED ZEPPELIN
NO DANCERS
DVD package has some short statements from all 4 about the show
this is just a teaser - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBk-iRihSUg
more to come in time.... |
Led It Zeppalina Led Zeppelin Kashmir nCelebration Day |
12-1-2012 08:20 AM |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir - Celebration Day |
Lostofmusic DVD review Led Zeppelin Celebration Day |
12-3-2012 7:58 PM |
Just in case you haven't made up your mind yet, here's my in-depth take on the O2 Arena show.
I'd be interested to hear what you all think. Here's the link http://bit.ly/RUDWSC
DVD review: Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day
The mind-boggling statistics tell their own story - 20 million applications for 18,000 tickets made Led Zeppelin’s appearance at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert the most hotly-anticipated reunion gig of all time.
The greatest hard rock/folk/world music mash up outfit the world had ever seen still had a pulling power that no one else could even get near.
But for all its charity-related bonhomie, Zep did have a long way to fall. Their hardcore fans haven’t forgotten that notoriously under-rehearsed and fluffed three-song appearance at Live Aid. Regardless of the good cause here, their reputation was somewhat on the line. Could they still cut it more than 30 years after winding up the old firm?
You little tease: Celebration Day’s 60-second trailer
They may be dressed somberly in black for the most part - this was a memorial show after all, but the mood is decidedly joyous from the get-go, hence the self-referencing title, Celebration Day.
They’re a little ring rusty for the opening Good Times Bad Times but that’s wholly understandable. Page hasn’t quite got his digits going at full speed and Plant’s a tad off the pace.
By the second song, Ramble On, though the old magic has returned pretty much undiminished and Plant notably underplays the hippy dippy Lord of the Rings allusions to Gollum and Mordor in the lyrics before exchanging knowing glances to Page, Jones and Bonham.
And there’s no more difficult a way to test whether they’re fully locked into the groove or not than with the still headshrinking rhythmic complexities of Black Dog and its jarring, off-kilter time signature. They nail it.
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Plant’s in full-on mane-tossing form by now - back to the Golden God pomp years in the blink of an eye. He’s quick to involve the audience in a little call-and-response action, as if they weren’t all hanging on his every word anyway, but what the hell. Jason Bonham’s on powerful tubthumping form behind the kit, too. They’re making it look easy. Big smiles all round.
Directors Dick Carruthers keeps things simple on the visual side. This is a film aimed at capturing chemistry, that special alchemy between four musicians who add up to more than the sum of their parts. There are dashes of Super 8 footage filmed from the audience to add a little texture and variety, but in essence this is a no-frills, straight ahead concert movie and all the better for the lack of flim flam.
In My Time Of Dying is a masterpiece of progressive slide blues from Page and worth the price of admission alone. The frockcoat and sunglasses come off and he means business as he replaces his Les Paul Standard with a wide-bodied Gibson ES-350 Electric Archtop (there you go, fact fans and guitar geeks).
“It still feels pretty good up here,” purrs Plant. He’s not wrong.
On a night where serving up a definitive setlist was the primary objective, there’s room for just one entry from out of left field. For Your Life, from the band’s almost last gasp Presence album, gets a live debut. A brave move, but one that pays dividends as Page and Jones wring all of the musicality out of its wriggling central riff. It’s got me thinking I may have missed a trick by overlooking it on the studio offering.
Plant then tugs at his curly forelock and lays bare the debt that the band owe to Robert Johnson’s Terraplane Blues for Trampled Underfoot. Zep’s take is funked up with Stevie Wonder-style keyboard pads from multi-tasking bassist John Paul Jones and an extended wah wah solo from Page. It’s a blaxploitation soundtrack on steroids.
Page’s effects-laden intro to Nobody’s Fault But Mine is absolutely pristine in this mix and the band sound hugely muscular behind him. Check out Plant’s impressive harmonica playing, too.
And let’s not forget that unlike The Who and The Rolling Stones, who both surround themselves with additional musicians for live shows nowadays, it’s just the four of them up there. There’s no hiding place.
John Paul Jones’s tour de force No Quarter has, over the years, emerged as one of my favourite Zep moments, and it’s a beautiful showcase for the band’s light/shade dynamic, full of suppressed tension. They even crack out the dry ice to celebrate.
The band also stretch out and relax into the open-ended structure of Since I’ve Been Loving You, bending and flexing it into new dynamic shapes. Mightily impressive.
Early Zep shows were often built around extended progressive blues workouts on Dazed and Confused and, as Plant says, “this has to be in the setlist.” Page gets a cheer from the old faithful as he brings the violin bow out of cold storage for his old solo party piece, too. You could often grow a full beard back in the day when Jimmy got going, but this time he reins it in somewhat. It’s not the marathon of yore but still a heaving beast of a song. When Page plays inside an old school pyramid made up of green laser beams, it’s the most unapologetically nostalgic moment of the night.
Notably, there’s no preamble from Plant before Stairway To Heaven, just Page’s gentle fingerpicked arpeggios on the legendary double-necked Gibson SG. That’s really all you need. Plant has a notoriously fractious relationship with the band’s most famous song but he plays it straight here and doesn’t throw his toys out of the pram. No wild vocal excursions or a Dylanesque attempt at reinvention. “Hey Ahmet, we did it!” he says at the end - a very knowing aside at his personal millstone.
They positively rattle their way through a hammering version of The Song Remains The Same which finds Jones on particularly dexterous form with a flurry of fluid bassline runs.
And to emphasise the whole reunited family vibe surrounding this show, Plant gives a nod to the whole Bonham clan before launching into Misty Mountain Hop with Jason harmonising sweetly. It’s a marginal change of pace, but they’re pretty much still going at full throttle.
Misty Mountain’s positively dwarfed by the towering behemoth that is Kashmir though. Forget Stairway, this is where the true greatness of Zep lies. That Arabic string section riff has never been bettered. Bonham plays his arse off although it’s a done deal by now in terms of answering any questions of whether he’s up to the job of filling in for his old man.
Kash in the attic: A monumental version of Kashmir
And just how do you follow that? Well, the one-two punch of Whole Lotta Love and Rock And Roll make a pretty decent fist of it. It’s great to see Page up to his old Theremin tricks again and Plant plays down the orgasmic implications of his moans and ad-libs as one of the few concessions to the advancing years.
Bonham’s sign-off on Rock And Roll is laugh-out-loud astonishing, Page kisses his guitar and we end on a euphoric note. Bonzo Jnr even looks a little teary as they exit, as well he might. It was a lifelong ambition fulfilled, for sure, and he did his family and father’s legacy proud.
So, no room for Communication Breakdown, Heartbreaker, The Ocean or When The Levee Breaks but then this always had to be tied down to a two-hour setlist. A three-hour plus marathon from the Seventies was never on the agenda.
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As a tribute to the man who made Zeppelin the biggest band in the world, they more than did him justice. It also laid to rest the debacle of Live Aid. With those two boxes ticked, they have no need to ramble on.
In Plant’s words, this was “a celebration of the days when Atlantic was the most magnificent record company on the planet.”
Percy may be the hold-out when it comes to further shows but you can totally understand why he wants this reunion to stand alone on its own merits. Forget about any more live shows. It aint gonna happen. This is enough. Just dim the lights in your front room and TURN IT UP LOUD….
STEVE HARNELL
9/10
END CREDITS:
SETLIST
1. Good Times Bad Times
2. Ramble On
3. Black Dog
4. In My Time Of Dying
5. For Your Life
6. Trampled Under Foot
7. Nobody’s Fault But Mine
8. No Quarter
9. Since I’ve Been Loving You
10. Dazed And Confused
11. Stairway To Heaven
12. The Song Remains The Same
13. Misty Mountain Hop
14. Kashmir
15. Whole Lotta Love
16. Rock And Roll
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Land Of Lakes 6 years ago today |
12-10-2013 10:27 AM |
December 10, 2007
http://www.ledzeppelin.com/reunion
6 years ago today
http://www.ledzeppelin.com/celebrationday/o2_splash.html
Celebration Day is a concert film by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, recorded at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert on 10 December 2007, in London's O2 Arena. The film was given a limited theatrical run starting on 17 October 2012, and was released on several home audio and video formats on 19 November 2012. The performance, the film, and album releases have been widely praised.
In 2007, a benefit concert to commemorate the life of music executive Ahmet Ertegun was staged with a reunited Led Zeppelin as the main act. They played several of their most famous songs to an enthusiastic crowd and coordinated a professional recording of the show[2] with 16 cameras,[3] with the prospect of a home video release. Rumours immediately circulated that the recording would become available, but the following year, band member Jimmy Page said that release wasn't certain and that it required mixing and would be a "massive job to embark on."[4] Bassist John Paul Jones agreed that he would like to see it released commercially, but that there was no timeline.[5] Even through 2010, Page was uncertain of the status of the album.[6] On 9 September 2012, the band updated their Facebook page, which led to widespread speculation that the release was finally ready.[7] Details leaked over the following days, with a source telling The Sun on 11 September that the album was due for release later that year[8] and theatre web sites announcing airings of the film slated for the following month.[9]
On 13 September, the band revealed that the film would hit theatres on 17 October, with premieres in Berlin, London, Los Angeles, New York City, and Tokyo[10] and that the home video was scheduled for 19 November.[11] The surviving members of the band appeared at a press event on 21 September to promote the release.[12] They debuted the film at the Odeon West End and answered questions afterward; when queried about more reunion performances, the trio were coy.[13]
Like the 2007 greatest hits album Mothership, the cover and promotional art were designed by Shepard Fairey. Alan Moulder worked with Jimmy Page on mixing the album but used only a minimal amount of overdubs and corrections, as both the performance itself and the recording were of high quality.[14]
Release and reception[edit]
The album was released in a standard edition consisting of one DVD or Blu-ray bundled with two soundtrack CDs. A triple vinyl LP was initially announced to be released on 10 December 2012 but distribution started in the middle of February 2013. The deluxe edition includes bonus video from the Shepperton rehearsals and news footage from the BBC. Additionally, there is an audio-only Blu-ray with DTS-HD MA 48 kHz/24-bit sound and no video.
Concert[edit]
The tribute concert performance was well received. New Musical Express published that the show "prove[d] that they can still perform to the level that originally earned them their legendary reputation."[15] Writing for The New Yorker, Sasha Frere-Jones opined, "the failed gigs of the nineteen-eighties and nineties have been supplanted by a triumph, and the band should be pleased to have done Ertegun proud with such a spirited performance."[16]
Film[edit]
The film has also received acclaim from critics. Marc Lee of The Daily Telegraph gave it five out of five stars and concluded that "Celebration Day is a celebration of rock 'n' roll at its most moving, magical and magnificent."[17] The initial screening opened to over 1,500 screens in 40 countries and grossed over USD$2 million,[1] leading to further showings worldwide.[18]
Album[edit]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 85% (ten reviews)[19]
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Source Rating
The album has received generally positive reviews from critics; it holds an 85% normalized score review aggregator Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim".[19]
In terms of sales, it debuted on the Billboard 200 at ninth place.[20]
The album has been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, and the rendition of "Kashmir" featured on the album has been nominated for the award for Best Rock Performance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration_Day_%28film%29
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