Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (studio version + live at Knebworth, 1979)

[highplainsdem]

[ProfessorGAC]

1. That Live Version...

...is one of the best things I've ever heard by Zeppelin on stage.
It's tight, well-balanced, and all the tones are really good!
I do wish the keyboard was a touch louder, but I'm nit-picking.
I don't like much of the live Zeppelin stuff, but this one is excellent.

[highplainsdem]

2. Their shows at Knebworth in '79 and Earls Court in '75 were among their

best. You can find lots of video on YouTube from those concerts.

The reviews weren't as good for Knebworth. It had been four years since they'd done a concert in England, and punk rock had a lot of critics thinking Zeppelin had become passé. Robert Plant said he was too nervous, and even their manager said they were a bit rusty. But that was a brilliant performance of Kashmir.

The concerts at Earls Court in '75 got raves from the rock press.

I've posted some Earls Court video here before, definitely "Going To California." Not sure if I've posted "Stairway To Heaven."

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. There's a buncha good live versions on The Song Remains The Same, man!

I won't say it's uniformly excellent, and there's obviously some later studio overdubs (hello, No Quarter!) but the highlights are pretty great. Esp. in the newest remaster version. Video's pretty good too in this version.

Also the really early live videos circa 1969, where there's just a buncha kids sitting on the floor watching ... are absolutely killer.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Hated It

I know I'm in the minority but I hated nearly everything in that movie.
Page does not play well, his guitar is out of tune on 3 songs, including Stairway, and on the heavier stuff it sounds brittle and pingy.
On Rock & Roll, they're dreadfully sloppy, and almost as bad was Black Dog.
Sorry, but we REALLY disagree on this.

[highplainsdem]

8. I've posted some of the 1973 Madison Square Garden video used for that

film.

Even though they aren't the best performances.

But young Zeppelin had a lot of energy.

And I have to admit I liked the way Jimmy Page looked then. (Not so much at Earls Court, and definitely not at Knebworth.)

[Prairie_Seagull]

3. As I understand it, Plant and maybe the band wished in retrospect that

Kashmir was their biggest song, not stairway. I can't remember where I heard or read that but there it is.

[highplainsdem]

6. Here's video of Plant talking to Dan Rather about those songs in 2018:

Full 50-minute interview here: https://www.axs.tv/video/5f76c1e1b70e4ff33b47b3e0/

[Prairie_Seagull]

7. Thanks highplainsdem,

that was great. I will bookmark for the full 50 min version.

Am i to old to say you ROCK. Well I did say it so apparently not.

[highplainsdem]

9. Thanks for the compliment! And for reminding me of

what Robert Plant said, and that interview.

too!

[Dr. Strange]

10. I certainly consider Kashmir to be their best.

[highplainsdem]

11. I consider it one of their very best. My third-favorite song

of theirs:

https://democraticunderground.com/103472753#post2