Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same (Remastered / Expanded) (2CD)
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Free Music Review: It Beats ANY Bootleg Out There!
Hit: 4 Stars
I've read most of the "reviews" on Amazon regarding this CD. Be grateful that this CD has FINALLY been remastered and cleaned up. Plant had surgery on his vocal cords for nodes a few months before this tour began. He was trying to pace himself and work through it. That explains why some songs are sung an octave lower. A year or two after this recording he fully recovered his astounding vocal range. The versions of Black Dog and Rock & Roll are not the best I've heard, but overall, this CD is WELL work your money. How The West Was Won was their ultimate best live CD. To all you b***** would-be critics and rock "experts", considering how much money fans have shelled out on bootleg CD's with DEPLORABLE sound quality over the decades - this CD is a bargain. Who cares if Page cleaned up some of the flaws!?!?! This fan is happy he did!!Free Music Review: Why Edit At All?
Hit: 4 Stars
What I can't understand is why Pagey edited these songs??? The guitar solo in "No Quarter" has been hacked with a butcher knife. What the hell!
The drum & bass rhythms don't even match. As an avid concert tape collector, I for one would like the complete soundboard tape(s) released with all of Plant's back & forth banter with the audience and no edits whatsoever, cleaned up sonicaly in the mastering process of course. That's what should have been done. People want to know what it was like to be at a Zep concert 35 years ago. This release fails to do that.
Free Music Review: Ahh... Zeppelin Live ....Awesome!!
Hit: 5 Stars
As some have stated that..this isn't the same show as the original double live album, well it isn't. I'm glad it isn't number 1 the extra songs are great and number 2 we get a listen to the other days Jimi and the band were jamming/experimenting at this great venue.(Same song played the same way everyday... boring). I know being a musician. Why would you want that? Embelish a little have fun mates. Remember people,they played 3 days there. I think a lot of people are meant to believe that this is simply one night, its not. This was a chance for the band to hear/see themselves really.Remember these are LIVE performances from DIFFERENT NIGHTS I have to give these blistering performances 5 stars What else I say it's ZEPPELIN LIVE!!.
Postscript:
The REMASTERING IS OUTSTANDING
Free Music Review: The Song Remain the Same Remastered
Hit: 2 Stars
I just bought the newly remasteD edition of Song Remain the Same. The sound quailty seems alittle bit better, but I was disappointed that the songs had change from the orginial version also few of the song were actually shorter than the first time. I don't understand why they did not include the complete concert they had plenty of space available on the CD.One song that is missing is THANK YOU. I think the How the West was Won is a better album.Free Music Review: The Song DOES NOT Remain the Same
Hit: 2 Stars
Kudos to Led Zeppelin for finally getting it together to re-visit this, the only live album released by the band during their active years. The sound is good overall...
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This is a grade-F hack job so far as editing is concerned. "No Quarter" is missing HUGE chunks of Jimmy Page's climactic guitar solo, losing a lot of the epic punch. The edit itself is incredibly jarring - even the non-fanatical listener will recognize the bad edit. Secondly, John Bonham's solo track, "Moby Dick", is similarly chopped and edited. To make matters worse, Kevin Shirley decided to add a bunch of swirling flange and phase effects to the solo that were not present at neither the actual concerts, the original movie, nor the original soundtrack album. "Whole Lotta Love" is chopped into oblivion as well, with cuts so noticeable only the deaf would miss them. Moreover, many of Robert Plant's vocal "scats" which were on the original issue are mysteriously absent here. Finally, and I'm getting nerdy here, but "The Ocean" is out of sequence on the CD. It should have been last as this was an encore track in 1973.
This CD set is a HUGE missed opportunity. Zeppelin COULD have released a sprawling 3-cd set with complete versions of all the songs played at Madison Square Garden in sequence without crazy edits. Unfortunately, this didn't happen. Even with the inclusion of "Since I've Been Loving You", "The Ocean" and "Misty Mountain Hop", you could do a LOT better by taking your old cd's and adding the new tracks to them. I'm very sorry to say that my copy of this once-classic was promptly returned.
Stick with the original issues of both "The Song Remains The Same" movie and its soundtrack, if you can find them. They are much better representations of the live behemoth that was Led Zeppelin than this flop.