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If you go, let's hope they got a good sound-system :)  Here's to a theatre in your area showing this! 

 

http://www.fathomevents.com/#event/led-zeppelin/more-info/details

 

Date: Monday, March 30

 

Time: 7:30 p.m. (local time)

 

Run Time: 1 hour 45 minutes (approximate)

 

Ticketing: Tickets are available by clicking on the orange “Buy Tickets” button. If online ticketing is not available for your location, you can purchase your tickets by visiting the box office at your local participating movie theater.

 

Special Fathom Features: A one-night event featuring concert footage spanning the band’s legendary career

Fathom Events, Swan Song and Atlantic Records are thrilled to bring the greatest band in rock ‘n roll history back to the big screen for an incredable one-night event on Monday, March 30.

 

The second in the Fathom Events Classic Music Series, Led Zeppelin spans the entire live concert career and captures the band on stage with performances pulled from their Led Zeppelin DVD release. This exclusive cinema event will give fans a larger-than-life concert experience featuring legendary live performances from London’s Royal Albert Hall in January 1970, their historic dates at New York’s Madison Square Garden in July 1973, their triumphant five-night run at London’s Earl’s Court in May 1975, and their record-breaking shows at England’s Knebworth Festival in August 1979.

 

Get your front row seats now to see these remarkable performances on the big screen!

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Maybe I should be clear. I'm a classic rock fan. Thus I enjoy a lot of zeppelin songs that I've heard on the radio. I mean an active fan. Saw shows. Listened to all the albums. Prefer it to the stones and beatles. Maybe there isn't a clear way to word the question. I'm sure the love or irrational Fandom we have for the dead isn't the same love you have for Zeppelin or even in the same ball park.

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Huge Zeppelin fan here. However, I already have the DVD with nice TV and sound system. Will it be that much better in the theater? Reminds my of my teenage years when the local theater would play a music movie at Midnight on Saturday's. Every week was different, but "Song remains the same", "Pink Floyd at Pompeii", "Last Waltz" and "GD movie" tended to be staples. The staff were all friends of ours and would turn a blind eye to a lot that went on. Good times

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Zep was my 1st fav band. It is true that SOOOOO much airplay has sort of burnt me out. In west ky we grew up on zep, Floyd, stones, Steve miller. No exposure to dead in high school unfortunately or Woukd have caught more shows. Psychadelic go to band was always Floyd and zep. Janes addiction became a huge fav in the early 90s then see my 1st dead show in 94 and realize that I know next to no songs they are playing live. By the time I learn 80% of songs they are playing live, Jerry died.

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Zeppelin, like the Dead, needs to be experienced live. Unfortunately, there is not nearly enough live material readily available. The 72' recordings from LA and Long Beach are incredible, lot's of improve and fantastic playing. Seems like a lot of bands were really killing it in 72', probably my favorite Stones year also and of course the Dead were on a roll.

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I like Led Zeppelin on a sunny day driving in the mountains blaring out the speakers.

My Favorite song is Trampled Underfoot. Never heard that one on the radio. I had the extreme pleasure to see John Paul Jones play Going to California, *!When the Levee Breaks * Simple Man <- Artemis Pyle on drums ( ps just the nicest guy)> with Warren Haynes one late night in Asheville in 2008.

Thanks Tea ! This might be fun to take a passal of 7th grade boys to see.

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Been gobbling up the new remasters on vinyl. I know, they're Digital Remasters (hi rez), but they're also clean, flat, and QUIET! B)

 

I too have the DVD, and the closest theater is over an hour away, so I'll be skipping this. Would def go if closer.

 

Thanks for the link Tea!!

 

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No movie theater can deliver the sound you want. Their sound isn't built for music. We do the dead night at the movie thing for a fun escape but not for the quality of the sound. My home setup is made for it but honestly the dead vids distract from the music and I just prefer sound. On that note i love the grateful dead movie and if there were hundreds of dead vids that were produced like that or the DSO yahoo screen setup I'd be watching them all.

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Been gobbling up the new remasters on vinyl. I know, they're Digital Remasters (hi rez), but they're also clean, flat, and QUIET! B)

 

Dancin' - I have the HDTracks remasters and think they're awesome.  It's like hearing Stairway To Heaven for the first time.

 

That said, I also have the 180g Song Remains The Same vinyl set and I love it too. There are liners notes in this set that say the only thing that compares to the extended pieces Zeppelin was doing in concert is The Grateful Dead.  B)

 

One thing I think all would agree on - if you have CD copies from the 80s they sound like shit!

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From the Zeppelin Forum...(not a member, just googled the two bands together). The thread title: Do Zeppelin Fans like the Grateful Dead?

Some predictable replies, and some respectable ones as well!

http://forums.ledzeppelin.com/index.php?/topic/19149-do-zeppelin-fans-like-the-grateful-dead/

How about this post from a Zep Fan on the GD:

The Grateful Dead may be, in the fullness of time, seen as the greatest American rock band. At this moment, I believe that they are. Shouts of protests immediately leap to mind: “But, but…the three B’s – Beach Boys, Byrds, Buffalo Springfield!” “The Velvets, duh!?”. No......Indeed, to posit the good ol’ Grateful Dead as the greatest of all American rock bands is a claim likely to elicit hoots of derision from the hipsters, the aficionados, the type of people who argue about who the greatest American rock band was. Many of these same snide hipsters learned irony at the feet of David Letterman. So, to assuage their fears and advance my argument, I present my appreciation in the now venerable form of the Top Ten List. In reverse order. A count-up.

Bands like the Velvet Underground or the Shaggs sucked sublimely, and largely because some of them had only a rudimentary grasp of how to operate their instruments. The Grateful Dead, on the other hand, did not have to suck. They proved their technical mettle on albums like Blues for Allah and their deft mid-seventies live shows. No, the Dead chose to be the kind of band that sometimes sucked, because when they weren’t sucking they were sometimes amazing, reaching beyond the rock genre, beyond music itself into the pure stream of human communication. They always, almost up to the end, were capable of lifting off the ground in a spectacular way. The Dead were actually several different bands over the course of their career. The band that I hear on Live/Dead is a world away from the one that I started to hear live in 1982, when I was thirteen. That 1982 Dead was a glittering dance – light, angelic. 1970 Dead is menacing, ferocious, go-for-the-throat. As I write this, I realize that my general descriptions of the band’s 1982 and 1970 styles would be the same if I were to describe how I hear Jerry Garcia’s guitar playing in those two periods. The same adjectives. This makes sense because Jerry Garcia was always the prime mover of the Grateful Dead. As regards his guitar playing, wherever it is, so is the Dead. When he skitters, they skitter. When plods they plod. That’s why the Dead went so badly downhill when Garcia’s health started to fail.

Or this:

What could they have in common? A lot actually! For one thing both bands have a great respect for and encyclopedic knowledge of all kinds of good music, rock, blues, jazz, world, folk, etc. Both bands have some of the most loyal, obsessive fans in the world. But the main thing that makes me a total fan of both bands is that they both are AWESOME to see live. Both of these bands were willing to take great risks when playing live, no two shows were alike and music magic happened because of it.

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This makes sense because Jerry Garcia was always the prime mover of the Grateful Dead. As regards his guitar playing, wherever it is, so is the Dead. When he skitters, they skitter. When plods they plod. That’s why the Dead went so badly downhill when Garcia’s health started to fail.

 

That's good stuff.  And from a Zeppelin freak no less!

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Seems like the deadheads here. I wonder if the reaction be different on the zone.

Was thinking the same thing. There half hate DSO. Maybe it's just DSO fans. We seem to be more accepting as we've accepted the current grateful dead and others refuse to open themselves to new possibilities.

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I'm fine with the Zeppelin. For a long time I had a negative connotation toward it because of the people I was around that were obnoxious about them. And a radio DJ I hated in high school that insisted on almost constantly "gettin the Led out". Also a lot of time when I was younger it was you were in the Floyd camp or camp Zeppelin. I liked them both, but was in camp Floyd. Probably had little to do with the actual bands though.

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I too am a Zep fan, but someone told me recently a sobering fact to consider when comparing them, or any other band to the Grateful Dead. Their entire library was like 68 or 83 songs or some such. I'm sure somebody on here knows for sure. I think the Dead did single shows in the 70s with that many songs, and then again the next night, with no repeats.

Ps: listening to "No Quarter" loud as shit in the dark is cool.

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I too am a Zep fan, but someone told me recently a sobering fact to consider when comparing them, or any other band to the Grateful Dead. Their entire library was like 68 or 83 songs or some such. I'm sure somebody on here knows for sure. I think the Dead did single shows in the 70s with that many songs, and then again the next night, with no repeats.

Ps: listening to "No Quarter" loud as shit in the dark is cool.

What's the dead's 100% original song count. Plus they had no robert hunter. Without hunter I firmly believe the dead would be a Jefferson airplane or another 60s band that never really adapted to the changing music landscape. Zeppelin was to hard rock what the dead was to jam bands.

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