Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same (1976)

Love the Band, Hate the Video

By most any measure, this DVD is pathetic. I bought it to get some footage of Jimmy Page playing guitar. And just for that purpose, it was worth the money. However, there are so many utterly dumb decisions taken in the composition of this film, that it stagers the imagination. It's really kind of a monkey-around project. It is not a concert. The producers, directors, or whomever, even splice into the songs footage of New York, and I don't just mean while the band is playing--I mean that the audio is interrupted and the video diverts to the city streets with sounds of automobile engines, as well as other interruptions. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! No, it's dumber than dumb. It's moronic.

And why the producers thought that anybody gave a damn to see Zeppelin's manager argue (like a woman) with a man about kids selling photos in the hall, I'll never understand.

This film is so botched, so segmented, so disjointed, so discombobulated, so bungled, that if given the chance I'd love to slam the producer's head in the door a few times to knock some sense into him. No, that probably wouldn't work. He just needed firing--before the film was made.

If you merely want a copy of the few video records of Zeppelin in existence, then get it, but put away any grand expectations of a concert performance. June 24, 2008

Good but Flawed movie with poor packaging

Let me start off by saying the 2 Stars I've given to this are not for the movie content, but rather the very poor packaging for what is supposed to be deluxe LTD Edition. Similar packages by the Dylan, The Doors, U2 and others all have top quality content in both music & packaging with hard case boxes, this set on the other hand is made of the most flimsy box they could find & is basically not what you'd expect from Zep who supposedly pride themselves on quality. So the Verdict is save money & buy the standard edition which I award 4 stars, the Ltd Edition packaging on the other hand gets 1 star. May 25, 2008

Still Remains the Same...

With out a doubt Zeppelin in their prime was the best band that ever rocked the stage. Zeppelin themselves said that "The Song Reamains the Same" was the worlds most expensive home video and they themselves were not too happy with it. All this new version is really is the same thing that they are selling all over again but with todays advancement features a bit more so than anything new.
Would have been always really cool if they would have made this with just the jams on stage through out the soloing as opposed to their fantasy impressions. Many of us Musicians always wanted to see Bonzo do the whole drum solo rather than Level a pool table or drive a dragster. Or see Jimmy Page do all of the guitar work instead of climbing that rocky hill with his climbing shoes on.
But at least there is more of that within "How the west was won".
For me the real difference within the new version of "The Song remains the same" is really nothing but a few features.
But it is still really cool in that sense and it is nice to go back to the 70's to the midnight movies and rock! April 21, 2008

best film zep experience.....

Where to begin? This is FILM. If you can't tell video from film, you need to do some homework. This film shows peter grant, roy harper, the bands' families, many people whom have passed away, divorced, or just disappeared. If you don't know zep well, this won't help, but if you understand aleister crowley, the arts, the seventies, and magic, this will click unlike the VIDEO TAPE of later shows. Younger fans will probably not understand, but for those of us who were there, nothing like the real thing. May you find the occulted experience and humor in this film rewarding, it's there, IF you have the eyes/ears for it. April 10, 2008

Should be called "The Dong Remains The Same"

I never liked this film. Plainly and simply put, it's terrible. Zep was never much of a live band, their best work was from the studio and Jimmy Page's technical genius. March 25, 2008

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