"Becoming Led Zeppelin" OFFICIAL documentary coming in 2025

[esimms86]

Really, this cries out for a Blu-Ray or even 4k release- the quality would be much better than Netflix or any streaming service

I’d be shocked if it wasn’t released in 4K.

 

[esimms86]

That’s exactly how I take my Led Zeppelin: “In my Face! “

Too funny. While I like their music in my face, I’m not so sure of how much I want to be staring at the band on screen looking like the 50 Foot Woman.

 

[SeanSKA01]

Too funny. While I like their music in my face, I’m not so sure of how much I want to be staring at the band on screen looking like the 50 Foot Woman.

I saw the Scorsese Stones concert in film in IMAX when it came out- and let’s just say that seeing Keith Richards and Ron Wood in close up on a massive IMAX screen was more frightening than anything Stephen King or Wes Craven could come up with!

 

[Nyad]

I was a huge LZ fan in my youth, but always felt their later albums after HOTH were garbage including PG. It was like they kept trying new stuff but the air just went outta the

About half of Physical Grafitti is out-takes back to LZ III, some of these were left off due to not fitting the vibe of the other assembled tracks... some maybe were not top of the pile, and some of the new stuff was dense and meandering... don't think heroin was a major factor by 1974 when this album was finished (held up due to art-work issues till Feb 75), I like most of it , YMMV

 

[mrcond]

Physical release expected in April.

https://ledzepnews.com/2025/02/19/becoming-led-zeppelin-will-get-a-physical-release-in-april/

 

[GOS]

Physical release expected in April.

https://ledzepnews.com/2025/02/19/becoming-led-zeppelin-will-get-a-physical-release-in-april/

Got dang. Nice.

 

[key_wiz]

My rule: Always GO before the SHOW!

Live and learn, my friend. Live and learn.

 

[key_wiz]

I thought every LZ album was golden up to and including PG. Perhaps PG would have been stronger as a single album instead of a double. After that the albums were weaker but a weak Zeppelin album was still pretty damn awesome.

PG is too long, but at least still has some can't-live-without classic tracks. I simply can't imagine the Led Zeppelin legacy without including "Kashmir" at the very least.

Had they broken up after PG, the musical world would be no worse off for it. There's nothing on those albums that moved the musical world forward as their earlier work did. Yet still, "Presence" and "ITTOD" both have their moments, nonetheless.

I know I'm way in the minority here, but I have a big soft-spot for ITTOD. More a 'cultural' thing for me. That album came out just as I was starting my freshman year of college and therefore was a big part of a big moment in my progression as an adult and a musician. The nostalgia factor whenever I play that album is overwhelming for me.

Plus, as a keyboard player, I'm a big fan of JPJ's work on that album. I think "Carouselambra" is a greatly under-appreciated track. And I think "I'm Gonna Crawl" is a heartwrenching ballad and an, unbeknownst to anyone at the time, almost the perfect track to be the last track on their last album. JPJ's keyboard/string work is beautiful, Bonham's snare is so on the back-beat to almost be in the previous beat, and Plant's gut-wrenching vocals with his then nearly-completely-blown-out voice is perfect. I think "In The Evening" is a stone cold classic, and "Fool In The Rain" and "All My Love" are great for what they are.

Plant has said he was pushing the band to embrace new styles with that album as they needed to do so if they were to remain relevant going forward and Page has called it a "transition" album into what they would have been in the 80s. We never got to see what they would have transitioned into, or whether that would have worked for them or not, but I suppose we did get a taste of it with some of Plant's solo albums.

 

[Bill B]

PG is too long, but at least still has some can't-live-without classic tracks. I simply can't imagine the Led Zeppelin legacy without including "Kashmir" at the very least.

Had they broken up after PG, the musical world would be no worse off for it. There's nothing on those albums that moved the musical world forward as their earlier work did. Yet still, "Presence" and "ITTOD" both have their moments, nonetheless.

I know I'm way in the minority here, but I have a big soft-spot for ITTOD. More a 'cultural' thing for me. That album came out just as I was starting my freshman year of college and therefore was a big part of a big moment in my progression as an adult and a musician. The nostalgia factor whenever I play that album is overwhelming for me.

Plus, as a keyboard player, I'm a big fan of JPJ's work on that album. I think "Carouselambra" is a greatly under-appreciated track. And I think "I'm Gonna Crawl" is a heartwrenching ballad and an, unbeknownst to anyone at the time, almost the perfect track to be the last track on their last album. JPJ's keyboard/string work is beautiful, Bonham's snare is so on the back-beat to almost be in the previous beat, and Plant's gut-wrenching vocals with his then nearly-completely-blown-out voice is perfect. I think "In The Evening" is a stone cold classic, and "Fool In The Rain" and "All My Love" are great for what they are.

Plant has said he was pushing the band to embrace new styles with that album as they needed to do so if they were to remain relevant going forward and Page has called it a "transition" album into what they would have been in the 80s. We never got to see what they would have transitioned into, or whether that would have worked for them or not, but I suppose we did get a taste of it with some of Plant's solo albums.

So we're the same age. I too was starting college in 1979 when ITTOD came out. Even though it wasn't the heavy rock album I was hoping for, it got listened to a lot (especially after John died). Eventually I got into each song on the album.
If I had to pick one album out that resonated the most for me that freshman year it would have to have been "The Wall". Of course that was a huge year for discovering new artists from both the past and present so trying to pick just one album is kind of silly.

 

[GOS]

PG is too long, but at least still has some can't-live-without classic tracks. I simply can't imagine the Led Zeppelin legacy without including "Kashmir" at the very least.

Had they broken up after PG, the musical world would be no worse off for it. There's nothing on those albums that moved the musical world forward as their earlier work did. Yet still, "Presence" and "ITTOD" both have their moments, nonetheless.

I know I'm way in the minority here, but I have a big soft-spot for ITTOD. More a 'cultural' thing for me. That album came out just as I was starting my freshman year of college and therefore was a big part of a big moment in my progression as an adult and a musician. The nostalgia factor whenever I play that album is overwhelming for me.

Plus, as a keyboard player, I'm a big fan of JPJ's work on that album. I think "Carouselambra" is a greatly under-appreciated track. And I think "I'm Gonna Crawl" is a heartwrenching ballad and an, unbeknownst to anyone at the time, almost the perfect track to be the last track on their last album. JPJ's keyboard/string work is beautiful, Bonham's snare is so on the back-beat to almost be in the previous beat, and Plant's gut-wrenching vocals with his then nearly-completely-blown-out voice is perfect. I think "In The Evening" is a stone cold classic, and "Fool In The Rain" and "All My Love" are great for what they are.

Plant has said he was pushing the band to embrace new styles with that album as they needed to do so if they were to remain relevant going forward and Page has called it a "transition" album into what they would have been in the 80s. We never got to see what they would have transitioned into, or whether that would have worked for them or not, but I suppose we did get a taste of it with some of Plant's solo albums.

I'm with you on ITTOD album. It had a major impact on me personally. I mean, massive. Likely more than any other Zep album.

 

[key_wiz]

So we're the same age. I too was starting college in 1979 when ITTOD came out. Even though it wasn't the heavy rock album I was hoping for, it got listened to a lot (especially after John died). Eventually I got into each song on the album.
If I had to pick one album out that resonated the most for me that freshman year it would have to have been "The Wall". Of course that was a huge year for discovering new artists from both the past and present so trying to pick just one album is kind of silly.

Yep. "The Wall" was huge for me as well. Both of those were late-79 albums I bought after I started college that fall. Also, Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk", Blondie's "Eat To the Beat", Pat Benatar's "In the Heat of the Night" and Elvis Costello's "Armed Forces".

Good memories with all of those.

 

[zabble]

By the way, Physical Graffiti was released in the U.S. exactly 50 years ago today. I think I’ll play it tonight. Stereo only, of course. Some of us here may still be alive when it finally comes out in surround..

 

[key_wiz]

I'm with you on ITTOD album. It had a major impact on me personally. I mean, massive. Likely more than any other Zep album.

you're LITERALLY the first person I've ever heard say this. And I KNOW it's not their best album. Far from it. I don't even disagree with people who tell me they hate it and think it's their worst. I'm an objective-enough listener of music to get what they don't like about it.

But the impact music has on people not only can't be underestimated, but is precisely the reason music is so wonderful and powerful. So I rarely push back whenever anyone tells me how much they love an album I don't like or don't get. I'm happy they love it and don't want to diminish that.

 

[GOS]

you're LITERALLY the first person I've ever heard say this. And I KNOW it's not their best album. Far from it. I don't even disagree with people who tell me they hate it and think it's their worst. I'm an objective-enough listener of music to get what they don't like about it.

But the impact music has on people not only can't be underestimated, but is precisely the reason music is so wonderful and powerful. So I rarely push back whenever anyone tells me how much they love an album I don't like or don't get. I'm happy they love it and don't want to diminish that.

No doubt. At times, an album was heard or played at a very intimate or personal moment in someone's life. For me, that's it exactly. I cannot escape that feeling when I hear the album. It's from another time in my life, that is no longer, but I can't ever erase it.

 

[key_wiz]

No doubt. At times, an album was heard or played at a very intimate or personal moment in someone's life. For me, that's it exactly. I cannot escape that feeling when I hear the album. It's from another time in my life, that is no longer, but I can't ever erase it.

Yep.

And only music can do that. At least for me. I don't get that same experience with movies, or books or paintings are any other art form. Music can IMMEDIATELY take a person back to a particular time and place. It's one of the reasons we ALL love music, IMO.

Another album like that for me, also from 1979 but earlier and so therefore I associate it with my last days of high school and the summer that followed is "Candy O". Is it a better album than The Cars' first album? Of course not. That first album is a stone cold, every track's a winner, one of the greatest albums of all time records. Do I love "Candy O" more? Yes I do.

 

[PK]

Zep cover...

 

[key_wiz]

would I be out of line here to say that I DO push back against people's "favorite music" when it involves Joe Bonamassa?

 

[GOS]

Yep.

And only music can do that. At least for me. I don't get that same experience with movies, or books or paintings are any other art form. Music can IMMEDIATELY take a person back to a particular time and place. It's one of the reasons we ALL love music, IMO.

Another album like that for me, also from 1979 but earlier and so therefore I associate it with my last days of high school and the summer that followed is "Candy O". Is it a better album than The Cars' first album? Of course not. That first album is a stone cold, every track's a winner, one of the greatest albums of all time records. Do I love "Candy O" more? Yes I do.

Same. Candy O felt a little naughty to me back then, and as a result, it seemed like the album to play in my car when I had a couple girls up front. OH boy.....

 

[key_wiz]

Same. Candy O felt a little naughty to me back then, and as a result, it seemed like the album to play in my car when I had a couple girls up front. OH boy.....

EXACTLY!

 

[SeanSKA01]

Yep. "The Wall" was huge for me as well. Both of those were late-79 albums I bought after I started college that fall. Also, Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk", Blondie's "Eat To the Beat", Pat Benatar's "In the Heat of the Night" and Elvis Costello's "Armed Forces".

Good memories with all of those.

Sounds like myself. These were the soundtrack to my freshman college year