Becoming Led Zeppelin

[thatguy]

Seen at the Svale AMC (nice Thai dinner w/DM before). Per the title, this is the origin story, probably heard in various forms over the years, but this has current interviews with Jones, Page and Plant with lots of archival footage. Some of the interviews are reaction shots by Page or Plant to footage from this or that early performance that they had never seen before. 

They cover up to Zeppelin II which was a year after they played their first big show at the Fillmore in SF.

With all that archival footage, it annoyed me when I noticed them rolling a clip forwards/backwards/forwards to make it look longer, or when they used a clip that was obviously not matching the audio. The part where they cover the recording of the first album is a lot of stills shot from behind. Big heads of hair, but you can't see plant's face, so he could be singing anything...you see Page's headstock peeking over his shoulder, but again, could be any song. Seemed like cheating...

Regardless, I enjoyed it and recommend it if you are into that rockumentary thing. Even though they were all filmed as individuals, they seemed to have very nice things to say about each other and about their achievements together.

--tg

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This was a funny shot from the film:


Apparently, it was a PR stunt: https://americansongwriter.com/a-pre-led...-pr-stunt/

[Drunk Monk]

nice Thai dinner w/DM before

Yes, that was nice. 

How was the sound in this? That makes or breaks concert or music movies in  for me.

I thought about sneaking over to Ne Zha 2 afterwards but hadn't planned ahead to see which theater it was in. Maybe I'll catch it next week if it's still playing there. There's so much buzz on this film over my socials right now.

[thatguy]

Sound was decent, but a lot of the early material, influences, yardbirds and other pre-zep bands were early-mid 60's so the quality is what it is...some of the live clips aren't great quality either, but it all works with the visuals. 

Funny bit: Page wanted to target their album to underground FM radio in the US which were playing entire sides of albums. He didn't want any singles. All of the experimental noise (theremin, dramatic panning, etc) on Whole Lotta Love was to prevent it from becoming a single.