New Led Zeppelin

Thanks for heads up on the Led Zep DVD release. Not that I want to lay a whole lotta "been there done that" hot air on my fellow 'gonsters, but in the travels of my wayward youth, I did manage to make it to both of their Kenbworth shows. They never sounded better, and they played a bunch of songs that hadn't been performed on their 77 US tour. I am surprised that material form the 75 Earl's Court shows was included. By legend and reputation, (and by Robert Plant's own admission), the Earl's Court gig was definitely not up to snuff.

Once I get my hands on a copyof the DVD, I'll share a quickie review.

Tweakgeek-the Earls stuff footage is great as is the Knebworth stuff-I think they've cherry picked performances from the later stuff to ensure there isn't anything substandard-performance wise.
Plant has a habit of being a bit critical-he's not a big fan of Knebworth either..................

Tvad-my understanding is no although sometimes the audio and film were sourced differently from the same performance.
The version of Immigrant Song on the second disc from Australia is the only performance were seperate film (Ausralia) and music (America) have been spliced from completely different sources which would explain the jerky frame effect used as obviously it would be impossible to match them.
Of course it wouldn't be hard to imagine the odd overdub to smooth the thing out.
I think what maybe disproves this to a large extent is how selective they've been on editing the actual gigs.
Earl's Court and Knebworth filming must amount to at least 6 to 7 hours of material-on the disc itself it's edited down to (guessing now) about 2.5 hours.
I think there were probably ropey performances in there which simply didn't make the disc.................