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"While I was searching through the archives for visual and audio for the Led Zeppelin DVD, I re-discovered these 1972 performances from the 25th June, LA Forum and 27th June, Long Beach Arena. This is Led Zeppelin at its best and an illustration of How The West Was Won."
--Jimmy Page, London, March 2003
*From the linear notes of How The West Was Won. Led Zeppelin's seminal and well received live album that was a happy accident, as Page forgot he had soundboard recordings from the early 1970's that lended themselves well to studio engineering and were mixing by Kevin Shirley of SARM West Studios.
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Van Halen will always be on the second tier of the rock greatness pantheon! A distant second best to the acts which influenced generations, bands such as The Who, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, and of course Led Zeppelin.
Page, Robert Plant, Kieth Richards, Pete Townsend, Angus Young: these musicians go into their past to pull out gems of glory to show what made them great, without fear nor remorse for what might have been.
The subject of this thread is well trodden, but continually, we see the sisters' pettiness, spitefulness illustrating for us why this band has long lost the potential to reach the heights of the greatest of the greats, and is now little more than an 80's retro-retread act in the vein of Journey
(who despite comically changing their lead singer, continue to release past live material with Steve Perry), Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, and Styx. Bands that sold and made money, but are not very influential nor remembered by today's young people. I see kids all the time with Led Zeppelin, Metallica, and AC/DC tee-shirts. I have never, ever seen a teen wearing a Van Halen emblem! A dire consequence of changing lead singers at the pinnacle of success. From David LEE ROTH to the Red Schlocker The Cheese Master General of rock and roll: Sammy HAGAR.
The above acts show they give a shit by releasing their oldest, vintage material from their "archives" while we know Ed continues sit upon reams of quality pro-shot material featuring the mighty Roth as their lead singer. Example:
Clocking in at nearly five and a half hours, LED ZEPPELIN DVD has been taken from the few performances which were ever filmed during the band's lifetime: London's Royal Albert Hall in January 1970, just one year after the release of their debut album; their triumphant five-night run at London's Earl's Court in May 1975; and their record-breaking shows at England's Knebworth Festival in August 1979, just one year before the death of drummer John Bonham. Also included are songs from New York's Madison Square Garden in July 1973.
Visually and sonically stunning, LED ZEPPELIN DVD has been painstakingly restored, remixed, and remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS, and PCM Two-Channel Stereo - under the personal supervision of Jimmy Page and director Dick Carruthers.
The demand for such material is there. I have no doubt that a retrospective of Roth era Van Halen that is reworked and engineered into Dolby DTS 5.1 sound would shoot to the top of the sales charts.
The excuse frequently given, by those "in-the-know" for Eddie's stinginess are that the videos maybe too expensive to update and they may never recoup the costs associated with such a venture! BULLSHIT!
Van Halen merely run from the shadows of their past glory with David LEE ROTH at the helm. Haunted by the spectre that perhaps, if the band had held it together, they would have been masters of the pantheon remembered with the 'Stones and 'Zeppelin instead of just a faint shadow of them, a band that went from innovator to followers of the 80's trends of soupy power-ballads and catchy, empty tunes fraught with nothingness, and mostly stupid lyrics.
A reunion with ROTH is unlikely, and perhaps undesirable, at this point. But a continuance with Sammy is also virtually confirmed to be nowhere in site. Ed finally has time to sift throughout the "archive" and find his soundboard/pro-shot material and release a comprehensive retrospective DVD/CD set of the band and their music live and in all its glory. Music that was designed to blast in hockey halls and stadiums, more so than on your stereo!
Some suggestions for release; the following, or the equivelant in material recorded and archived in "Eddie's vault," into a retrospective or both audio and/or video depending on the orgin:
US Festival, 1983 Audio/Video
Largo, Maryland; October 12, 1982
Oakland June 12th, 1981
"Unchained" Vid'
The Quebec show from April, 1984
Any other good pro-quality boots you can think of out there? Rumors?
Previous threads on the topic:
DAVE'S PA RENTAL's online petition:
--Jimmy Page, London, March 2003
*From the linear notes of How The West Was Won. Led Zeppelin's seminal and well received live album that was a happy accident, as Page forgot he had soundboard recordings from the early 1970's that lended themselves well to studio engineering and were mixing by Kevin Shirley of SARM West Studios.
__________________________
Van Halen will always be on the second tier of the rock greatness pantheon! A distant second best to the acts which influenced generations, bands such as The Who, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, and of course Led Zeppelin.
Page, Robert Plant, Kieth Richards, Pete Townsend, Angus Young: these musicians go into their past to pull out gems of glory to show what made them great, without fear nor remorse for what might have been.
The subject of this thread is well trodden, but continually, we see the sisters' pettiness, spitefulness illustrating for us why this band has long lost the potential to reach the heights of the greatest of the greats, and is now little more than an 80's retro-retread act in the vein of Journey
(who despite comically changing their lead singer, continue to release past live material with Steve Perry), Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, and Styx. Bands that sold and made money, but are not very influential nor remembered by today's young people. I see kids all the time with Led Zeppelin, Metallica, and AC/DC tee-shirts. I have never, ever seen a teen wearing a Van Halen emblem! A dire consequence of changing lead singers at the pinnacle of success. From David LEE ROTH to the Red Schlocker The Cheese Master General of rock and roll: Sammy HAGAR.
The above acts show they give a shit by releasing their oldest, vintage material from their "archives" while we know Ed continues sit upon reams of quality pro-shot material featuring the mighty Roth as their lead singer. Example:
Clocking in at nearly five and a half hours, LED ZEPPELIN DVD has been taken from the few performances which were ever filmed during the band's lifetime: London's Royal Albert Hall in January 1970, just one year after the release of their debut album; their triumphant five-night run at London's Earl's Court in May 1975; and their record-breaking shows at England's Knebworth Festival in August 1979, just one year before the death of drummer John Bonham. Also included are songs from New York's Madison Square Garden in July 1973.
Visually and sonically stunning, LED ZEPPELIN DVD has been painstakingly restored, remixed, and remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS, and PCM Two-Channel Stereo - under the personal supervision of Jimmy Page and director Dick Carruthers.
The demand for such material is there. I have no doubt that a retrospective of Roth era Van Halen that is reworked and engineered into Dolby DTS 5.1 sound would shoot to the top of the sales charts.
The excuse frequently given, by those "in-the-know" for Eddie's stinginess are that the videos maybe too expensive to update and they may never recoup the costs associated with such a venture! BULLSHIT!
Van Halen merely run from the shadows of their past glory with David LEE ROTH at the helm. Haunted by the spectre that perhaps, if the band had held it together, they would have been masters of the pantheon remembered with the 'Stones and 'Zeppelin instead of just a faint shadow of them, a band that went from innovator to followers of the 80's trends of soupy power-ballads and catchy, empty tunes fraught with nothingness, and mostly stupid lyrics.
A reunion with ROTH is unlikely, and perhaps undesirable, at this point. But a continuance with Sammy is also virtually confirmed to be nowhere in site. Ed finally has time to sift throughout the "archive" and find his soundboard/pro-shot material and release a comprehensive retrospective DVD/CD set of the band and their music live and in all its glory. Music that was designed to blast in hockey halls and stadiums, more so than on your stereo!
Some suggestions for release; the following, or the equivelant in material recorded and archived in "Eddie's vault," into a retrospective or both audio and/or video depending on the orgin:
US Festival, 1983 Audio/Video
Largo, Maryland; October 12, 1982
Oakland June 12th, 1981
"Unchained" Vid'
The Quebec show from April, 1984
Any other good pro-quality boots you can think of out there? Rumors?
Previous threads on the topic:
DAVE'S PA RENTAL's online petition:
From a lame tour, even by SHEEP standards!
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