If the five and a half hours long original “Led Zeppelin DVD (1970)” is far too much for you to digest – and trust us, for the layman it is – we’ve got excellent holiday greetings for you.
The fine folk at Rhino Records and the gents of Led Zeppelin are releasing a 3 disc CD/DVD combo called Mothership that is one part greatest hits package and one part nicely trimmed down excerpts of the highlights from their original 1970 concert DVD. We mean majorly trimmed down – it’s a tiny (by comparison) 90 minutes long. That’s four hours of Led Zeppelin you’ll never have to sit though.
Speaking of the Zeppelin – world domination fever has accompanied their reunion concert, but we warn you that the band has been derailed already with guitar god Jimmy Page’s fractured finger delaying the band’s plans to play a November 26 benefit concert for their legendary proponent and label boss Ahmet Ertegun. Paige issues the following statement regarding the new December 10 date that will not cover the cost of switching your travel reservations:
“As you all know by now I was regrettably put in a situation where I had to postpone my performance at the Ahmet Ertegun Benefit show, on November 26th, due to a fractured finger. We have now rescheduled this show to take place, at the same venue, on December 10th. In doing so I was very conscious of the fact that many people are traveling great distances to attend. I do want to let everyone know that this decision was unavoidable. My apologies to anyone who has been inconvenienced by this change.”
Yeah, we’ll stick with the Mothership package as our parental gift of choice this year.
Download: RhinoCast featuring The Lefsetz Letter on Led Zeppelin + clips of his favorite Zeppelin tracks.
Video: “The Ocean” from Mothership
‘Never have to sit through’??? I think you just insulted about a billion Zep fans around the world. That is the number of hits that the web site for tickets received. You must not realize that for a band as massively popular as Zep, they released precious little video material over the last 30 years. This Led Zeppelin DVD, released in 2003, all five hours of it, instantly became the best selling music dvd of all time, and remained the #1 selling music dvd in the U.S. for 3-years, now standing at 20x platinum. On virtually every critic’s list in the world, this looooong awaited Zeppelin dvd, that you made sound like a burden, is the finest performance video ever made.
Awesome Bobby, then you enjoy watching the five and a half hours long original DVD.
It’s not going on this critic’s list. 90 minutes is plenty, but we could get the gist in 20.
The Internet has destroyed my capability to sit still any longer than that.
Thanks Bobby… I’m with you.
A couple of corrections to inaccuracies in this blog: it’s Page, no “I” – not Paige.
Also, one part of the Led Zeppelin DVD is a concert from 1970; there is also footage from concerts in 1975 and 1979, plus a bunch of cool extras.
Astrud, your statement “the Internet has destroyed my capability to sit still any longer than” 90 minutes says more about you than about that amazing DVD, which at five hours is not long enough! Bet you think “Stairway to Heaven” is overly long, too, don’t you?
Finally, for a blog about music and movies, you missed the even better news about the updated release of the Zeppelin concert movie, The Song Remains the Same, to come out shortly after Mothership. That’s the true upcoming prize!
As a matter of fact, yes I do think “Stairway to Heaven” is too long! And old! But that’s just me. Luckily I write the blog.
TY for the correction – and, dear Anon, if you can supply a link to more info on The Song Remains the Same re-issue then we’d all be thrilled to hear it.
I’m more focused on the holiday nugget-sized buying potential for parental units of Mothership.
WOW…I am really surprised you have a job writing about music. If you don’t like Zep, don’t write about them…or tell your boss you’re really more of a Toad the Wet Sprocket fan.