My Mum is over from the UK visiting all her extended family here in Perth and just before she came over she went to watch the Tina Turner musical and was very impressed, so I lent her Tina Turner’s Biography Book which she has just finished reading but she had never seen a Tina Turner Concert so we watched this together this afternoon.
My Mum was very impressed, there will never be anybody coming close to replacing Tina as the Queen of Rock n Roll.
Steven Wilson has just released a 4K UHD of Home Invasion, but I believe the audio is the same as the original Bluray, just the video is now 4K. The Bluray is excellent, so I’m not planning on a second version.
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I agree, if you already have the regular Bluray version then no point in upgrading to the 4K version if the audio is the same, especially as any modern high end Bluray Player will upscale the regular Bluray to 4K anyway.
My Panasonic 9000 is absolutely brilliant at upscaling DVDs and regular Blurays, the picture quality is excellent, obviously not quite as good as full blown 4K from a disc but very close for Bluray discs and a little less picture quality for upscaled DVDs.
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just saw this, was again quite sad to see the consequences of the violent incident (leading to his head hitting the pavement and causing permanent brain damage) which led to Michael Hutchence’s untimely death.
I went ahead and ordered the twin CD pack of the Live baby live album and also the 4K blu ray version, it may not be much better than the 2K blu ray, but I just want see it in Native 4K and see for myself.
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I thought he died from Auto Erotic axphixiation or whatever they call it? Hung himself while pleasuring himself?
No… it was a rumour spread to smear his reputation.
Really, so how did he actually die then? If you google it, it comes up that he committed suicide.
He did commit suicide in despair due to a number of reasons… fear of losing custody of his daughter and the fact that after the brain damage he suffered when his head hit the pavement he was never the same person again and suffered from constant depression.
It was also apparent that due to brain damage he was living in constant anxiety of not being able to be the same cool and charismatic person the world loved and wanted from him.
He never disclosed this while he was alive (he didn’t want even his band to think less of him), and it’s only now much later that we know he had permanent brain damage.
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A friend was over for drinks last night, so we watched a few concert blue rays. These three are in my top 5 go to discs.
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Some classic Leppard songs here… this blu ray is really good. The performances of those classic songs are superb, and so is the audio quality.
One can tell right away the songs that the late Steve Clarke wrote, and those he didn’t write, he is really missed by his fans. It is well known that Steve Clarke was inspired by Jimmy Page, and in my view was a superb and unique guitar player in his own right, some of the classic Leppard songs were written by Steve Clarke…
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Have to say, heard a lot of rock over the years from all kinds of bands, but Led Zeppelin to my ears understood the essence of Rock better than almost every one else.
Can hear elements of their sound in many bands, but to my ears nobody really put it together the way Zeppelin did. Like the song “no quarter” I can hear that maybe Audioslave seems to have elements of this in some of their tracks (if I am wrong, please let me know) , but how it all is put together, even in 2025, I can’t think of any other band who managed to do this as well as captured on this live album.
Absolutely fabulous. I can definitely hear why Led Zeppelin are legendary and a league apart.
(yes I was late to this party, to clarify)
Wish I had bought the blu ray when it came out !
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You are right Analogmusic, there really is no other band that just had soooo much talent. They are Rock Gods IMO. Right out of the gates with their first album, nothing like it ever. How many bands can you play ALL their albums, and not come across a bad song, that you feel the need to skip over?
As far as rock bands go, I would put Black Sabbath into the second spot. They also have entire albums, starting with their first that just ROCK!
If you want to get another great DVD, this one has concert footage from very early days, pretty much a high school gym. Then a few other shows through the years. Only on regular DVD, but the sound is excellent.
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Just landed these via the river. Ordered on US store, sent from the UK oddly.
Have only played the Columbia one so-far. Sound quality is top notch and with a great set-list, including the full Turn of a Friendly Card suite.
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Seen the becoming Led Zeppelin documentary on a flight yesterday.
Strangely though, I thought it could have been quite a bit much better, it doesn’t really tell the full story.
Apparently both Page and Plant weren’t too happy with it either. This movie cannot be the definitive movie on Led Zeppelin (for me)
The concert footage was great, sound quality even in the aircraft was superb, but yet - I thought the movie should have been much better.
There was not enough on Bonham (his legacy in inspiring so many drummers), some of the legendary songs weren’t even mentioned… And the legacy of Jimmy page was not mentioned either… clearly the movie was directed by someone who loves the music, but it needed a lot more.. all my humble opinion, I could be wrong and often am.
In their prime Bon Jovi made a movie “Access all areas” - wow, whatever one thinks of Bon Jovi and their music, this movie was absolutely superb - particulalry the session with Jimmy page, and all the cover songs which Bon Jovi performed superbly well, which showed just how good a band they were in their prime.
I don’t know where you heard this “apparently” but it is extremely unlikely that you or I or anyone else would be watching it if Page wasn’t happy with it. The movie was made with the full co-operation of Jimmy, Percy, JPJ and Pat (Bonzo’s widow). In fact, Page is said to be so pleased with it that he has been discussing the possibility of another documentary with BLZ’s director Bernard MacMahon.
I think you misunderstand what the picture is for. It’s a documentary about the origins, and first couple of years of, Led Zeppelin, as told by the three surviving members (no talking heads, no narration, no-one else). It’s not the “definitive movie on Led Zeppelin” because it’s not intended to be. It may well be the definitive movie on the origins and early years of Zep though. Not the full story certainly, but definitely part of it.
It stops at LZII, so there won’t be anything about the legendary later tours, the Caligulan excess, 'Stairway" etc. And it’s abput origin, not legacy. And that’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned: who needs Dave Grohl or some blogger to tell us why Led Zep were great?
And the reason why there isn’t much Bonzo is that a) He very rarely gave interviews and b) He’s been dead almost 45 years.
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Well that one is a mystery?
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Have you had a chance to watch this yet @MoonDrifter? I was listening to the Qobuz hi-res and thought it sounded really good. I expect that the Bluray will be top stuff.