Led Zeppelin - Live at O2 Arena London 2007

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Best picture+sound quality I seen of it so far!!

Led Zeppelin -- Live at 02 Arena London 2007

Led Zeppelin -- Live at 02 Arena London 2007

enjoy

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Jimmy Page - Interview on BBC two weeks before the Led Zeppelin reunion concert in London 2007

Jimmy Page - Interview on BBC two weeks before the Led Zeppelin reunion concert in London 2007

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The Presleys, McCartney, and the Jaggers: The night the rock clans gathered for Led Zeppelin reunion | Mail Online

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Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones -- On the O2 gig - Backstage Interview , MOJO Honours List 2008

Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones -- On the O2 gig - Backstage Interview , MOJO Honours List 2008

[Dino Velvet]

I bought one off ebay years ago. very good picture quality, even on the big tv. It looked like this.

[GuitarJoe]

Wow, that is great sound quality. The band sounds fantastic, Plant's voice is much better than I expected as well.

[Eric Smith]

Looks like Jimmy got himself one of those "The Edge" pedal boards.

Even though it took a bit of getting used to the key changes, it was a great show. Thanks for sharing.

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Originally Posted by GuitarJoe

Wow, that is great sound quality. The band sounds fantastic, Plant's voice is much better than I expected as well.

They are all rocking, really good!

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Originally Posted by Dino Velvet

I bought one off ebay years ago. very good picture quality, even on the big tv. It looked like this.

Wow, very cool!

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A good read about Page's effects

Jimmy Page » Pete Cornish Effects Pedalboard

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[thedonal]

Jimmy needs to stand up a bit more straight.

He's in danger of looking like Bernie Ecclestone there!

[G. Scott]

God damn I love Jimmy Page.
:-)
Scotty.

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Mixing Led Zeppelin then... and now
Mixing Led Zeppelin then... and now

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Conversely, guitar and vocals were straightforward. Hughes placed three Audio-Technica AT2500 dual-capsule microphones in front of Page's rig, whose core was a 30W Orange head atop a 4 x 12 cabinet, and channeled into an Engel amplifier stack and some Marshall stacks. "Literally, all you do with Jimmy's sound is bring up the fader," says Hughes, marvelling at the thought. "His sound is just there. Just open his mic and add a touch of reverb."

[MCAN]

They need to get that concert on Blu-ray, DVD, VOD...whatever. Even VHS. Not just Youtube.

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Originally Posted by MCAN

They need to get that concert on Blu-ray, DVD, VOD...whatever. Even VHS. Not just Youtube.

Indeed. It seems more and more time goes by with no news about it, here's hoping a release date is near!

Latest I seen is this, but is all way back from early 2011 Official Led Zeppelin O2 Concert gearing up for release

Tuesday, 01 February 2011

An official DVD/Blu-Ray release of Led Zeppelin's performance at the O2 Arena in London, England on December 10, 2007 may actually happen here soon.

Backstage at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on January 30, 2011, Robert Plant had mentioned that he had spoken with Jimmy Page on Friday and that a commercial release of the concert is being finalized.

The entire performance's audio was multitracked as well as being captured on video with 17 cameras, for possible future release, according to director Dick Carruthers.

At the Mojo Magazine Awards on June 16, 2008, Jimmy Page was asked if the reunion concert was going to be released. "I hope so one day, yeah," Page told BBC 6Music. Although John Paul Jones echoed Page's sentiment, he said that at the moment "there is no hurry" to release it. "It was a special occasion you know and we really wanted that just to be it really," he added.

It was even thought that Page, Plant and Jones may review the footage and not allow it to be released. In August 2004, as Bob Geldof was preparing a DVD release of 1985's Live Aid, Page, Plant and Jones quickly released a statement, saying that the sound and general reproduction of their performance at Live Aid was sub-standard and they nixed inclusion on the DVD. Page & Plant offered proceeds from their October 26, 2004 re-release of No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded and John Paul Jones offered proceeds from his US Tour with the Mutual Admiration Society to Live Aid Trust.

In November 2007, Page once again blasted the Live Aid performance, calling it "shambolic".

Any specific release date is currently unknown, but a Fall/Christmas 2011 timeframe would be ideal. Led Zeppelin's performance may be part of a larger Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert release.

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[thedonal]

I wonder if it's Robert Plant that's holding up doing something about it.

Though Jimmy always has projects that seem to take forever to bear fruit...

[Backstage]

Great photos - thanks a lot.

[joebonsai]

Planks-----fantastic thread!!!
here's something SPECIAL
the setlist on the MIDAS desk
enjoy!!!

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Originally Posted by joebonsai

Planks-----fantastic thread!!!
here's something SPECIAL
the setlist on the MIDAS desk
enjoy!!!

Hey, that's a great find, and a killer pic!

I notice that 'Whole Lotta Love' + 'Rock and Roll' is not listed... , thinking maybe it was not decided in advance that those would be played as the last two songs, well who knows..

[joebonsai]

spontaneus encore??
.....but they rehearsed it!!

Led Zeppelin- O2 Arena Studio Rehearsal- Whole Lotta Love - YouTube

Led Zeppelin- O2 Arena Studio Rehearsal- Whole Lotta Love - YouTube

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Originally Posted by joebonsai

spontaneus encore??

Yes, that was what I was thinking, like maybe they had f.ex. 4-5 songs to choose from for the encores, but still it would seem a bit strange if 'Whole Lotta Love' and/or 'Rock&Roll' would not be played at some point in that show.

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.....but they rehearsed it!!

Led Zeppelin- O2 Arena Studio Rehearsal- Whole Lotta Love - YouTube

Damn, that is a fvkin great version!


I stumbled on another pic of that desk btw, and WLL+Rock&Roll is there, in this different kind of list

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Midas Press Release LED ZEPPELIN REUNION CONCERT
Midas Press Release LED ZEPPELIN REUNION CONCERT


MIDAS XL8 TAKES PRIDE OF PLACE AT LED ZEPPELIN REUNION CONCERT

Nineteen years after their last appearance, the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin, together with John Bonham’s son Jason, took to the stage at the 02 Arena to perform a tribute concert for their late record label boss Ahmet Ertegun, who signed them to Atlantic Records in 1968.

Technology has clearly moved on since the trio of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones played at a concert to celebrate Atlantic’s 40th anniversary in 1988, and only the best would do to recreate the band’s legendary sound, which appeared undiminished by the years. For this reason, at front of house was a Midas XL8 Live Performance System provided by Britannia Row, with two engineers at the controls. Big Mick Hughes mixed the band - Jimmy Page on guitar, John Paul Jones on bass and drummer Jason Bonham, while Robert Plant’s front of house engineer Roy Williams handled the singer’s soaring vocal range.

The decision to use the XL8 came after Page heard it at Metallica’s Wembley gig this summer. Plant subsequently visited the Midas factory to see and hear the XL8, which guaranteed the XL8’s place on the rider. Williams has worked as front of house engineer for Robert Plant for almost a decade. “I'll always have a preference for Midas, and the transition from analogue wasn’t as hard as I had expected; I found the XL8 user-friendly, especially when obtaining any EQ that I might be looking for.
“I had known from before the start of rehearsals that two engineers would be doing the show, one to look after the band and one to concentrate on Robert’s vocals and effects. Not the easiest thing to do: two engineer, two pairs of ears and two egos! Mick and I have known one another for over 30 years and are both from the Black Country so that helped a lot.

“The XL8 let me have my own world to work in with just the vocal mic and eight effects – leaving Mick to create his world without either of us getting in one another's way. No blood was drawn, we had a blast and more importantly are still friends.”

Big Mick, who put the XL8 through its paces on Metallica’s European tour earlier this summer, was mixing the band.
“We felt that using the XL8 gave us an unlimited amount of options,” he says. “It was a good job we did as the input list grew to over 70 channels, and if we’d gone analogue we would have been into two desks.
“The operation of the console made it really easy for Roy and myself to divide the work surface. Being able to set the last bay of the console to the B zone and then recall a POP (population) group containing Robert's vocal and effects into the B zone meant that Roy had his own section. This in turn allowed me the remaining two bays and the VCA (Variable Control Association) section to mix the band. The ‘a/b’ headphone solo busses were invaluable as I could be using one while Roy used the other. And as before, when I first used the XL8 for Metallica, the pure sound and stereo image quality is undeniable.”

A preproduction Klark Teknik DN9696 high resolution live hard disk recorder was on hand during rehearsals, allowing the engineers to ‘virtual soundcheck’, working on the sound and effects from the live recordings and using the settings to create automation scenes for each song.

During full production rehearsals the band ran through the entire show twice, and this was also recorded on the DN9696 to further develop the mix and provide a time reference for the lighting and video crews. The band were then able to watch the whole show from an audience perspective, and also use the recordings to assess their live performances. This extra capacity provided by the DN9696 proved invaluable for a live event on this scale.
Onstage, a Midas Heritage 3000 handled the band’s monitor duties under sound engineer Dee Miller.

The original members of Led Zeppelin last played in Berlin in July 1980 - two months before John Bonham died. Page, Plant and Jones performed at Live Aid five years later in addition to the Atlantic Records appearance in 1988, and Page and Plant played together live during the 1990s. Profits from the show will go towards scholarships in Ertegun's name in UK, the USA and Turkey, the country of his birth.