The Song Remains the Same is a concert film featuring the English rock band Led Zeppelin. The filming took place during three nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City in the summer of 1973, with additional footage shot at Shepperton Studios due to cameramen's unacceptable work at the concerts.
The movie is a mixture of fantasy sequence depicting the band members and their managers, some documentary footage shot around the venue, and of course the songs. I've never been really satisfied with this movie, as the concert is constantly interrupted by something. My goal here is to try doing one complete uninterrupted concert out of all official footage available.
Be aware that this movie was badly edited at the time. Especially regarding the sound/visual synchro. I couldn't do much regarding to that, but many problems were fixed officially in 2007 by remixing the sound. Something I could do is creating segues between the songs, and restoring the correct playing order. By using every footage available, and careful audio editing, I think I managed to do some acceptable work. The concert now include every song, in the right order, and the music plays without any interruption. Once a song starts, it is the official edit. Between them is my work, trying to cobble together the various sources.
I used many sources for this, some of them were really hard to find:
-The 2007 Blu-Ray,
-The 2007 double DVD release,
-The Led Zeppelin 2003 double DVD,
-8mm footage from the concerts released by the band on Youtube,
-An old VHS called "The First Cuts" from the late 80s I guess.
-The official soundtrack from 1976 (Cd from the nineties)
-The remixed soundtrack from 2007 (double CD)
I must say that this is my very first post, I've been a great admirer of the work of a lot of people here (I remember vividly the Doc Savage with dignity restored, that was magical). Any thoughts, suggestions, criticism is welcome.
The movie is a mixture of fantasy sequence depicting the band members and their managers, some documentary footage shot around the venue, and of course the songs. I've never been really satisfied with this movie, as the concert is constantly interrupted by something. My goal here is to try doing one complete uninterrupted concert out of all official footage available.
Be aware that this movie was badly edited at the time. Especially regarding the sound/visual synchro. I couldn't do much regarding to that, but many problems were fixed officially in 2007 by remixing the sound. Something I could do is creating segues between the songs, and restoring the correct playing order. By using every footage available, and careful audio editing, I think I managed to do some acceptable work. The concert now include every song, in the right order, and the music plays without any interruption. Once a song starts, it is the official edit. Between them is my work, trying to cobble together the various sources.
I used many sources for this, some of them were really hard to find:
-The 2007 Blu-Ray,
-The 2007 double DVD release,
-The Led Zeppelin 2003 double DVD,
-8mm footage from the concerts released by the band on Youtube,
-An old VHS called "The First Cuts" from the late 80s I guess.
-The official soundtrack from 1976 (Cd from the nineties)
-The remixed soundtrack from 2007 (double CD)
I must say that this is my very first post, I've been a great admirer of the work of a lot of people here (I remember vividly the Doc Savage with dignity restored, that was magical). Any thoughts, suggestions, criticism is welcome.