Oh no!! I am so disappointed!
I am really shocked. I bought the Remastered CD set and was very pleased with that. But this is a wasted opportunity!!
It is basically a platform for Messrs Plant and Page. All too often Jonesy and Bonzo's performances are lost or ignored by the camera.
The actual finish is not too hot either - what worked so well with the CD does not work here!
Quite frankly, this is a bit of a mess in places. When one consideres that this is supposed to be a "Special Edition", you might understandably expect the presentation to be a bit "special". In my humble opinion - it's not!
In my humble opinion - they needn't have bothered!
Just stay with the CD!

Zep At Their Best !!!
Well, the wait was worth it, I have had the original release (on VHS ) since it was first released and although I was impressed the first time round, this is special!! It was like listening again for the first time and the sound quality is excellent. If like me you had the oppertunity to see Zep in the 1970's you will remember them in all their glory, if you didn't then this is a fine example of Zep live and unharnessed. To be picky, I would have liked the extra tracks on disc 2 to have been in their original concert running order, but apart from that this is as good as you will get. Thanks to Jimmy Page for an exeptional remix, " Its been a long time since I Rock n' Rolled this much !!!!!!!

Great presentation of a dated, disappointing movie
So `The Song Remains The Same', essentially a bad film about a disappointing Led Zeppelin show, gets a makeover by virtuoso audio-visual engineer Kevin Shirley. Nobody should be surprised that the outcome is essentially a bad film about a disappointing Led Zeppelin show presented in terrific technical quality. The old DVD was blighted by Led Zeppelin's below-par performance, pretentious individualised `fantasy sequences', continuity errors, and the clumsy integration of genuine Madison Square Garden footage with segments mimed later in England. Moreover, the audio was metallic, distorted, in mono, and sped-up. Kevin's made a decent fist of repairing the worst audio splices, and the sound is now crystal clear, at the right tempo, and in a gorgeous, wide stereo mix. Sadly, a handful of newly added songs are included on a disc of extras, rather than being blended in to the main feature to make up an entire show. I understand that a legal dispute prevented such a re-edit of the visuals, and this may also explain why the continuity gaffes remain. Of the new material, Kevin's developed a brilliant montage for the interlude in `Over The Hills & Far Away', and parts of the `Celebration Day' visual have also been very skilfully assembled from rough, inconsistent fragments. However, this product has to stand or fall on its artistic, not its technical-, merit. What Kevin couldn't do, of course, is to make disparate visual sources spliced together carelessly have a cohesive feel. Nor could he convert tired musical performances into urgent, inspirational ones, nor ennoble the self-indulgence of rock stars acting out fantasy escapades. The film is made implausible on the eye by its patchwork nature, end-of-tour fatigue permeates the music, and consequently there is a modest ceiling on how good this movie can ever be. It is a good thing this reissue has appeared because the technical quality of the old DVD, and its CD counterpart, was damaging to the good name of Led Zeppelin. Now that TSRTS has been upgraded, I hope future Led Zeppelin releases focus on more inspirational performances from this superb rock band.



the song remains the same many many years later...
first off i want to say that i have always been a led zeppelin fan, but people this routine with jimmy page & co. is getting a little bit annoying now... how many people out there are getting sick to death of jimmy page constantly putting out the same old songs & same old stuff... i know i for one am one of those fans, we are constantly being force fed the same songs with the occasional rare track thrown in just to wet our appetites... the last dvd was excellent no doubt about it, it had rare shows that the average zep fan had never seen before, & the cd how the west was won was also good although he could have left off moby dick & dazed & confused which we already had on song remains the same. my question is how many fans would much rather have a completely different show such as the earls court 75 show on dvd totally restored & remastered with a cd to compliment the dvd, i for one would love nothing better.. it would be a step up from all the usual same old thing. but you see folks your not going to get that because page is more content on giving you what he wants rather then giving the fans what they really want...

awesome
okay, maybe it's not perfect but come on, this is Zep remastered to the same quality as the DVD package and I was blown away by it when I sat down to watch last night. I'd seen the original years ago but this felt so fresh.

You can pick holes in the continuity or laugh at the fantasy segments and maybe it would have been good to have the extra songs in the correct order but this is quite honestly one of the best live DVDs by possibly the best live band ever.

Every home should have one :)

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