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Just grabbed 2 at the Frost. Great venue

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Robert Plant and Allison Krauss will be touring this summer, a 28 city North American tour, including Aug 13 and 14 in Vancouver. Sure are lots of tours being announced lately!

Wow, at the Queen E. That'll be awesome. I saw Plant there, must have been over 10 years ago, was that the Band of Joy tour? I can't recall exactly, only that it was a really good show.

Too young to have seen Zeppelin, although my older brother saw them in 71 at the Coliseum, said it was jam packed, even the aisles were jammed with people crowding them!
Did see Plant/Page when they came to Vancouver in the mid 90s which was a good show. Don't think I want to see this tour, even if they do play a few Zeppelin songs.

Plant's worth it, presuming his vocals are as strong as last time. I also saw him in 88 at GM Place. But in such an intimate venue as Queen E so worth it, but I get it if you don't like the material with Krauss.

They were absolutely awesome last summer. Just an amazing show-- emotional, powerful, all the things. Enjoy!!

Couldnt find the Zep thread so here you have it...John Paul Jones absolutely killing it on the lap steel....far out, JPJ!

Great stuff! He’s had such a long, storied career. Prior to Zeppelin, he was the go-to session bassist. Herman’s Hermits owe him a few bob, probably!

Heart covers "Going To California" - The Howard Stern Show, April 10

Thanks for the link, bye bye johnny!

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "When The Levee Breaks"

‘We took them back to the good times: when it started’ – the inside story of Becoming Led Zeppelin

Stevie Chick talks to the filmmakers who persuaded the hard rock giants to revisit their early days and open their archives

Friday 07 February 2025




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Looking forward to seeing it this weekend. Nothing like Zep on the big screen.

Going to see this tonight

Why are a lot of today's Rock docus ending just when the fun and the best parts of their careers are starting???? This one ends right after LZ II is released, omitting the great IV, Prescence and the extremely underrated In Through The Outdoor. The same with Oasis' Supersonic, ends before the Be Here Now-period.
Hopefully there'll be parts 2 of both

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Why are a lot of today's Rock docus ending just when the fun and the best parts of their careers are starting???? This one ends right after LZ II is released, omitting the great IV, Prescence and the extremely underrated In Through The Outdoor. The same with Oasis' Supersonic, ends before the Be Here Now-period.
Hopefully there'll be parts 2 of both

Oh wow, are you serious? Now that you say it, I guess that makes sense with the "Becoming" Led Zeppelin, but I haven't followed it close enough that I had no idea about that. I think sometimes it works. With the Stones, how much of note is there really left to talk about after 1981? Same with Oasis, the first two albums is really the PEAK. Sure there's more, but I get that's what a lot of people want. With this? I was so sure this was a full career decade doc. No idea nothing from IV was included, that does feel a bit cheap.

The whole point was to focus on the genesis of Led Zeppelin, not to document their whole career. A follow-up would be welcome though. These guys knocked it out of the park. Some great work with synchronizing the unearthed live video with high quality audio.

I'm sure there will be sequels. Probably several of them. They're gonna milk this for all it's worth. Wouldn't be too surprised if In Through the Out Door gets its own movie someday



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Why are a lot of today's Rock docus ending just when the fun and the best parts of their careers are starting???? This one ends right after LZ II is released, omitting the great IV, Prescence and the extremely underrated In Through The Outdoor. The same with Oasis' Supersonic, ends before the Be Here Now-period.
Hopefully there'll be parts 2 of both

SO you're hoping for ENDING LED ZEPPELIN.

It looks great, looking forward to seeing it. The Stones have had so many documentaries it's ridiculous. CROSSFIRE HURRICANE was really good but it was too long. They've got the time span to where they could cover an era with a song lyric multiple times.

What would you do if you saw I'M THE MAN ON THE MOUNTAIN? You'd probably flip - a documentary that deeply dives into EXILE ON MAIN STREET.

That could be a two hour documentary if enough footage blah blah blah.

That's probably part of the problem - where is all the footage. Oh well, Mick can't be bothered.

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Why are a lot of today's Rock docus ending just when the fun and the best parts of their careers are starting???? This one ends right after LZ II is released, omitting the great IV, Prescence and the extremely underrated In Through The Outdoor. The same with Oasis' Supersonic, ends before the Be Here Now-period.
Hopefully there'll be parts 2 of both

Oh wow, are you serious? Now that you say it, I guess that makes sense with the "Becoming" Led Zeppelin, but I haven't followed it close enough that I had no idea about that. I think sometimes it works. With the Stones, how much of note is there really left to talk about after 1981? Same with Oasis, the first two albums is really the PEAK. Sure there's more, but I get that's what a lot of people want. With this? I was so sure this was a full career decade doc. No idea nothing from IV was included, that does feel a bit cheap.

Yeah, it's almost like the directors get notified/ordered/aware that the films should end at a specific point just to make sure there is room for a sequel. The only film that springs to mind rite now is The Kids Are Alright which is somewhat complete cause Moon croaked short after. In Oasis case their version of STP, the Be Here Now tour, fighting with the mob in Munich in 2002 and the 2009 breakup should render enough interest for a sequel.

My dream was to have one for 25 X 5, although now when Charlie is gone it won't happen. Crossfire Hurricane was a miss, nothing we already didn't know and ending too soon. IMHO it should've been 4 hours and it still would've been better than the lacklustre Get Back which I think is overrated.
There is a reason Rock n Roll Circus and the Let It Be film remained in the vaults for all those years and it's not only because of The Who.

Hopefully Led Zep pt II will show, that one I'll run to the theatre for as I think their later career is much more interesting

Thought it was an ok doc. Most of the footage is from the 2003 Live DVD, although there are a few rare unearthed clips as well. The interviews were decent and the lead-up to forming Zeppelin was cohesive enough, but there are too many useless montages recycling footage and songs. It also ends rather abruptly.

Has anyone seen it? I'm going tomorrow.

I saw it this afternoon and enjoyed it. Not much we haven’t already known but that was predictable. Good narrative carries away the viewer for two hours.

I’m afraid this thread will be merged with the Led Zeppelin stuff thread sooner or later.



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It's playing basically 60 miles away from me. Not bothering. I never do with anything. I'll see it eventually.

Saw it today in IMAX. Thought it was great. Jimmy Page was just so amazing.

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Thought it was an ok doc. Most of the footage is from the 2003 Live DVD, although there are a few rare unearthed clips as well. The interviews were decent and the lead-up to forming Zeppelin was cohesive enough, but there are too many useless montages recycling footage and songs. It also ends rather abruptly.

I would agree with this. Overall, I did enjoy it, but it did just make me want to dig out the 2003 DVD. Kinda covers it all.

The good: I thought the interviews were fantastic. They did a great job getting the early information out of the 3 surviving members, and Bonham was incorporated in very smoothly. Also, their showing reactions to some stuff was great. Bonham's love for them and seeing their faces was very moving. I thought the first half up until the first full performance was excellent. Oddly, enough the most boring parts to me of these docs are the lead up to the real thing, and I thought they did a great job with that here. Fascinating to see everything they had done pre-Zeppelin (I knew it all mostly, but they told the story in a very compelling way) so that when you finally get Zeppelin's first performance it feels very earned. You are jonesing for it. People applauded in my theater after the first performance.

The bad: it kinda goes downhill for me after that first performance. It feels good, but it was limiting in two ways. They clearly just don't have much video of early Zeppelin (funny in contrast to pre Zeppelin when they dug up so much stuff. You'd think there'd be nothing THERE), and then by limiting it to the first two albums there just didn't seem like enough to sustain the rest of the doc. The first half that was very story driven then became, as mentioned, montage and just playing songs for the second half. It was cool to hear that stuff in a theater, but the fact that it was mostly recycled footage just being repeated got a bit lazy for me, and if you didn't have the video you didn't HAVE to play full songs IMO. Again, I enjoyed the whole thing, but it just feels like they ran out of stuff in the second half. I also thought the song they chose from Royal Albert was an odd way to end. Kind of anti climatic. I don't want to spoil, but I'd have chosen a different song.

Overall, solid and I do recommend. My criticisms are only in now that we finally have this, and it feels like a very clear Part 1 (which I'd love Parts 2 and 3), I'd have just tightened it up a bit. They actually did a really good job containing it to the first year or so of the band. They did so much in just a year as Jimmy says at the end. It felt good to focus so heavily on that stuff. But since that was the case, I'd have certainly made it 90 minutes than 2 hours. You could have cut like 30 minutes of just pure songs and recycled footage in that second half IMO. But overall, I do think they did a great job and I'm happy this exists. It was so nice to see them all so complimentary to each other. They really were all experts at their craft, and so young, and I'm glad that's on full display here. As always, I wish Jimmy didn't essentially just disappear post Zeppelin, but I get it. He really did give EVERYTHING to that band and this was his life's calling. After it, he was spent. Oh, it was also a very sanitized doc in terms of groupies and stuff, which I thought was fine but its funny how much they side stepped groupie and drug wise. Its for the best but still haha.

They’ll save all that for Part IV, “Unbecoming Alex Zeppelin”

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Thought it was an ok doc. Most of the footage is from the 2003 Live DVD, although there are a few rare unearthed clips as well. The interviews were decent and the lead-up to forming Zeppelin was cohesive enough, but there are too many useless montages recycling footage and songs. It also ends rather abruptly.

I would agree with this. Overall, I did enjoy it, but it did just make me want to dig out the 2003 DVD. Kinda covers it all.

The good: I thought the interviews were fantastic. They did a great job getting the early information out of the 3 surviving members, and Bonham was incorporated in very smoothly. Also, their showing reactions to some stuff was great. Bonham's love for them and seeing their faces was very moving. I thought the first half up until the first full performance was excellent. Oddly, enough the most boring parts to me of these docs are the lead up to the real thing, and I thought they did a great job with that here. Fascinating to see everything they had done pre-Zeppelin (I knew it all mostly, but they told the story in a very compelling way) so that when you finally get Zeppelin's first performance it feels very earned. You are jonesing for it. People applauded in my theater after the first performance.

The bad: it kinda goes downhill for me after that first performance. It feels good, but it was limiting in two ways. They clearly just don't have much video of early Zeppelin (funny in contrast to pre Zeppelin when they dug up so much stuff. You'd think there'd be nothing THERE), and then by limiting it to the first two albums there just didn't seem like enough to sustain the rest of the doc. The first half that was very story driven then became, as mentioned, montage and just playing songs for the second half. It was cool to hear that stuff in a theater, but the fact that it was mostly recycled footage just being repeated got a bit lazy for me, and if you didn't have the video you didn't HAVE to play full songs IMO. Again, I enjoyed the whole thing, but it just feels like they ran out of stuff in the second half. I also thought the song they chose from Royal Albert was an odd way to end. Kind of anti climatic. I don't want to spoil, but I'd have chosen a different song.

Overall, solid and I do recommend. My criticisms are only in now that we finally have this, and it feels like a very clear Part 1 (which I'd love Parts 2 and 3), I'd have just tightened it up a bit. They actually did a really good job containing it to the first year or so of the band. They did so much in just a year as Jimmy says at the end. It felt good to focus so heavily on that stuff. But since that was the case, I'd have certainly made it 90 minutes than 2 hours. You could have cut like 30 minutes of just pure songs and recycled footage in that second half IMO. But overall, I do think they did a great job and I'm happy this exists. It was so nice to see them all so complimentary to each other. They really were all experts at their craft, and so young, and I'm glad that's on full display here. As always, I wish Jimmy didn't essentially just disappear post Zeppelin, but I get it. He really did give EVERYTHING to that band and this was his life's calling. After it, he was spent. Oh, it was also a very sanitized doc in terms of groupies and stuff, which I thought was fine but its funny how much they side stepped groupie and drug wise. Its for the best but still haha.

There's an aspect of anything post-1979 or whenever that was unearthed probably has happened. As with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, only so much can be shown that is "new". In regard to a timeline, a story, ok, obviously whatever footage will be used.

Presentation is the key and that might get lost in regard to what you've stated. But for perhaps a lot of people that don't know? As interesting as it could be.

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There's an aspect of anything post-1979 or whenever that was unearthed probably has happened. As with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, only so much can be shown that is "new". In regard to a timeline, a story, ok, obviously whatever footage will be used.

Presentation is the key and that might get lost in regard to what you've stated. But for perhaps a lot of people that don't know? As interesting as it could be.

I think what was slightly disappointing to me was the first half was actually so good and so well told. Yeah I knew most of the story, but not all of it, and they told it in a very compelling way. They had so many great photos, and they made any lack of video work. Then the second half felt like a crutch with the limited video they had. It felt like they HAD to play the songs people wanted (and so many of them in full), either because they felt like they had to fill the time (only covered the first two albums) or because they thought people would demand it. Whereas I'd have been ok with less full songs and more clips/photos and behind the scenes stories, being told in a similar fashion to the first half. To me it was brilliantly done till it got a little bit more lazy, which was odd. Cause usually the first half is what you'd breeze through. Felt like the second half should have been fleshed out with more stories and pics, or just cut in half if there wasn't enough there. Or, while I understood the ending with Royal Albert Hall cause that was "making it" on their home turf, an arugment could have been made that they included LZIII which could have ended with them being pre-stadium level. Led Zep 4 really seems like when they went to another level and I get that that's for a different movie.

Overall, I do still really recommend though. Its a great look into their early years and its amazing what they banged out in such little time.

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There's an aspect of anything post-1979 or whenever that was unearthed probably has happened. As with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, only so much can be shown that is "new". In regard to a timeline, a story, ok, obviously whatever footage will be used.

Presentation is the key and that might get lost in regard to what you've stated. But for perhaps a lot of people that don't know? As interesting as it could be.

I think what was slightly disappointing to me was the first half was actually so good and so well told. Yeah I knew most of the story, but not all of it, and they told it in a very compelling way. They had so many great photos, and they made any lack of video work. Then the second half felt like a crutch with the limited video they had. It felt like they HAD to play the songs people wanted (and so many of them in full), either because they felt like they had to fill the time (only covered the first two albums) or because they thought people would demand it. Whereas I'd have been ok with less full songs and more clips/photos and behind the scenes stories, being told in a similar fashion to the first half. To me it was brilliantly done till it got a little bit more lazy, which was odd. Cause usually the first half is what you'd breeze through. Felt like the second half should have been fleshed out with more stories and pics, or just cut in half if there wasn't enough there. Or, while I understood the ending with Royal Albert Hall cause that was "making it" on their home turf, an arugment could have been made that they included LZIII which could have ended with them being pre-stadium level. Led Zep 4 really seems like when they went to another level and I get that that's for a different movie.

Overall, I do still really recommend though. Its a great look into their early years and its amazing what they banged out in such little time.

Nice.

That makes sense. They did what they did. As you stated, perhaps because of it being expected. Maybe whatever could've been included, to break it up, was just a repeat so it's boring. Who knows.

I think of FOUR FLICKS and THE BIGGEST BANG and how TBB is an extremely poorly done imitation of FF - and they sounded atrocious in comparison.

FOUR FLICKS is tremendous. It makes LIVE LICKS with it's cheap pictures of the video screen terrible quality for artwork (and some horrendous editing, music wise) seem an afterthought (although disc 2 is worth it). But either one is better than any live release from the BANG tour.

The Led Zeppelin Documentary Attempts to Show the Rock Gods As People

According to the filmmakers behind Becoming Led Zeppelin, "No one knows who they are, personally"

By David Browne
February 11, 2025


Led Zeppelin in 1970. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

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