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I found the tunes they did in their travels somewhat interesting, and good to see how they were influenced, but not stuff I'm enthusiastic about seeing again. But the later tunes, in London with the orchestra, were GREAT - especially Kashmir (the culmination of the influences seen earlier in the video). So my four star rating is five for the London concert and three for the rest.
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May as well be blunt but first my background so you know where I am coming from. I am a HUGE Zeppelin Fan. Huge.. Having said that, I am more than open to anything any of the members did after Led Zeppelin. I had big expectations for this but was sorely disappointed. I got it cheap, under 5 bucks. It now resides in a landfill somewhere in Ohio. I actually threw it out I was so embarrassed for them!! In an effort to separate themselves from Led Zeppelin, one of the two (Plant?) really over did it. With the exception of The Rain Song the songs on this disc bear almost no resemblance to Zeppelins masterpieces. Its full of weird sounds and rants and just is not zeppelinish in any way. So sad, they could have had something here. I heard JPJ was miffed when he wasn't aware of the tour but if this CD is typical of what the tour was like then they actually did him a favor. Want that searing guitar work in Nobody's Fault But Mine? You wont find it here. Want that classic Kashmir riff? Forget it. And the visual stuff? Full of "feel good" touchy feely BS. Told you I'd be blunt. Its just not there. I suffered through the whole thing, it was as painful as watching The Song Remains the Same movie, but at least with TSRTS you get GREAT music to go along with the horrendous "fantasy sequences". If you are thinking of spending money on this I advise you to instead apply it to How The West Was Won. This provides MUCH better music. "Celebration Day" DVD is awesome too....just avoid this one. Listened to and read a lot about the members after Zeppelins disbanding and it seems Plant really wanted to move on from Zeppelin. In a way he did, some of his solo stuff is amazing! Slow Dancer, 29 Palms, Big Log, In the Mood for a Melody to name a few, however I think he tried to move too far away with this DVD. I do wish Plant would just forget trying to 'move on". The die is already cast, he could find the cure for cancer and be the one who actually delivers world peace but he would STILL be firstly known as the vocalist of Led Zeppelin. He needs to realize that and stop fighting it! 20 years from now music listeners will be saying "who is Allison Krauss? What is Band of Joy?" But everyone will still know who and what Led Zeppelin was. C'mon Mr. Plant. You don't owe anybody anything, but could you please do ONE last concert in the States with Jason and JPJ and Jimmy? Please before its too late? The DVD "No Quarter" is NOT what you want to be remembered by.Read full review
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I was fortunate enough to see this disc before I ordered my own copy, but believe me, it is dynamite. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page take the songs of Led Zeppelin and play them acoustically for the most part but also in a different thrust than the original. It's hard to put a word to it really... it's just so different than what you'd expect... and yet so tasty! Much of the playing is set in India and they use Indian musicians and instruments behind them. It creates a very listenable quality to what you are seeing and hearing. When you relax into it a bit, the songs begin to get to you at a different level. I've done quite a bit of foreground listening in my life where I'm really immersed in the music and this one gets to you. Some great art direction and cinematography help create a visual atmosphere that matches the audio one nicely. And then there's those Zeppelin tunes.... If you liked them as originally done, you'll very much enjoy this slightly different take on their original nature. What I particularly liked was that they didn't change the songs so much that you lose what you loved about them in the first place... and as Martha Stewart would say, That's a good thing.Read full review
I'm an old guy who went to one of their first U.S. performances in 1969. Finding this gem is a fresh look at an awesome pair of musicians. I'm a music video addict and it's wonderful to find something I've never seen before. Seeing Robert & Jimmy interact with their supporting artists makes them a little less iconic and a little less intimidating, a little more on the plane of fellow humans, people you'd actually feel comfortable around given the opportunity.
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Robert Plant was drowned-out 3/4 of the DVD. Robert Plant sounded better in the London club. Jimmy Page and the musicians were very good. Didn't care for the Moroccan style. Sound quality and video quality were good.
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