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Автор: Игорь М
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Дата: 13.04.03, @13:41

  You may have caught the news that rapidly circulated the internet a
week ago, when the press release concerning the release of the Led
Zeppelin live double DVD set and the accompanying triple live CD
package was dropped on a (relatively) unsuspecting world.

I was lucky enough to be invited to spend an hour in the company of
Dick Carruthers, who is co-producer/director of the DVD alongside
Jimmy Page, at M Productions studio in West London.

Dick was a voluble and enthusiastic guide to the genesis and
philosophy of what must be one of the most highly anticipated music
DVD-V releases ever.

This project has been in the works for the last year, and the result
of some very intensive research and restoration is intended as a
definitive statement of all that is fit for release, although as Dick
is keen to point out, that quality threshold has been set very high.

While Dick trawled the archives for film and video material, Jimmy
Page and Kevin Shirley were assembling corresponding surround mixes
from the huge archive of live recordings Page was known to be sitting
on. Page is reputedly now a multi-channel convert, which begged the
inevitable question "Does that mean he's ready to start the DVD-A of
Led Zepp IV now?" Dick pleaded the fifth on that one with a knowing
smile...

Not only is the audio presented in pristine and powerful DTS, Dolby
Digital 5.1 and PCM stereo (presumed to be 16 bit - these discs seem
too full to allow space for 24 bit), but the level of attention which
has been paid to preparing, cleaning, colour grading and restoring
the film and video elements is worthy of a feature film remastering
project, and a high budget one at that.

The discs present the material in chronological order as shown below,
and just play when started. Escaping to the menu enables you to
appreciate some brilliantly subtle and tasteful moving menus,
consisting of left over footage from incomplete tracks, and some of
Dick's own footage of the tape archives and negatives being cleaned.

One of the bonuses of selecting out individual concerts, rather than
let them play through end to end, is the insertion of some subtle
extra transitions as the program returns to the menu, such as the
guys getting onto their legendary plane.

There is also supplementary material, consisting of early European TV
appearances on the first disc, and interviews and 1990 vintage promos
on the second, including the only decent interview footage of the
late John Bonham.

It's a shame we didn't have a five and a half hour slot, because that
is what it would have taken to view everything there is to offer
here. Dick took two of us through the concerts in order, explaining
different restoration issues as he went.

The Albert Hall footage is from a two camera 16mm shoot, and in its
restored form looks and sounds simply glorious. Page's punchy guitar
blams out of the right channel, appropriate to his stage left
position, only occasionally circuiting round the room during solos,
and Bonzo's thunderous bass drum is thuddingly rendered by the DTS
soundtrack, noticeably better in comparison to the Dolby Digital,
even to previously non DTS-convert Dick!

On to Disc Two, and a stunning version of The Immigrant Song for
which footage could not be found, and so some Super 8 footage from
Australia has been edited promo-style to accompany it.

Then Madison Square Garden, and I got Dick to hit that audio button
to get the DTS again. Black Dog tears out of the speakers and it is
immediately apparent that although this 35mm footage is familiar
from "The Song Remains The Same", the level of the restoration from
negative, and the new edit, coupled with the incredible remixed
sound, give a whole new perspective. There is also the fact that
Misty Mountain Hop and The Ocean, not in the original film, have been
recovered from the reels and reels of unmarked negative.

As New York changes into Earls Court, film footage changes to video,
and we get the acoustic sit down of Going to California, proving that
not only does DTS do power better, but it also does delicate mandolin
strums in a brilliantly lifelike way.

Cussedly avoiding the chance to sample Stairway, we get a blast of
the crunching riff from Trampled Underfoot, before viewing the
version of Rock n' Roll from Knebworth (video again, although
complemented by drop-ins of crowd-shot Super 8), and a quick bit of
Kashmir before Dick shows us the end credits, which once again
consist of snippets unused elsewhere.

Throughout, modern effects gimmickry is left out and edits to cover
film loading and other transitions are kept to an elegant and
appropriate-to-the-period minimum. Footage is left in the original
4:3 (somebody tell Queen!), except for the Madison Square Gardens
section, which is letterboxed 4:3 at what looks like 1.77:1, for
composition reasons, matting the original open gate 35mm.

All in all a superb looking and sounding package, release details for
the UK cannot be confirmed at the moment, but all Led Zeppelin fans
should save their pennies and then rush out and buy this in a couple
of months. The fact it was done in the UK has also got to mean the R2
PAL version is the one to go for!

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