Led Zeppelin DVD!!!
 

I got it!!

:D

Haven't listened to it yet...

but I got it!! :D

Are you a Zeppelin fan too? I thought I was a loner on that one. Do you like the Eagles too?


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Rock on dude.... hehe

I had to say it.

Yeah...I have that on my mental list of disks to buy.

As a way of revisiting their history, one I've followed since "before they wuz Led", this package looks to be a great one. Not that I listen much to them, but the critics have given it high marks all round.

my gf is a hardcore eagles fan... i dont mind either of them but i cant really consider myself a big fan

You guys are followers of satan, except for Mara and ant's girlfriend.

wooh

Anyway, yeah, I love led zeppelin, and I can't wait to watch it >: D

Edit. Yeah, I love the Eagles too :D
In fact, I love so many bands from the 70s, simply because every musician that came out in the 70s was either incredibly talented or brilliant at music or at singing. Unfortunately the quality of music since then has generally dropped drastically :/

utopian: Yeah, this was supposed to be a really good turnout. It was a pain in the ass for them to make, because as a band, they wanted people who came to their concerts to really have a unique experience and thus shunned cameras, recordings, and the media from their performances.

The idea for the DVD was to relive the concert experiences, both for those who are nostalgic fans and those who weren't around the first time to experience it (me included :D )

there was very few leftover footage from their concerts. The footage that they could find, was so old that they had to do a lot to restore all of the old tapes and stuff - for example, one of the old two inch tapes that they found, they had to bake in an oven at 55 degrees for several weeks. also, they had to find a two inch tape player (which is very rare) and ended up finding one ... in singapore.

then they remastered it and everything. it took a year to make, so it must have been a huge job, but i think it was worth it and i hope to see a great DVD.



hey, mara, new pickup line.
"So, you like Led Zeppelin? Wow, me too!
... let's f*ck!"

Would it work on you? :D

Being a sound engineer in my past, just to be anal cause I can! 2" tape is not rare. 2" tape is still widely used. =) 1' mastering decks are still the prefered choice of most major mastering houses. Until 24 bit 96k + resolution came out, majority of the engineers still prefered tape over 16 bit 44.1k....

Now as far as the baking goes, if you want the whole story, during the 50-early 60's analog tape (the big stuff.) was used with a glue coming from whale blubber. Well that was outlawed as you can see why, then a quick substitution had to be made. Until this time it was only 3m making the tape. Now I think Quantegy is the only maker (not 100% sure as I digress, but...) For about a decade maybe the tape that held the backing was made with this quick fix glue that didnt have a very long life span and also absorbed moisture. What happens is you pull out your old tape and then reel it up, play and watch as the backing peels from the magnetic oxide. Crappola.... no more recording. So what they do with all these great recordings is they use something like a fruit dehydrator and over a period of a couple days they 'bake' it and dehydrate any moisture bound to the backing glue. It isnt a 100% fix, but gives you just enough time to take those recordings and back them up to a newer medium, like DVD audio, that is good enough for the analog purists. Now for 2" tape machines, I think there is only one manufacturer left, and that is Otari. Studer was their only competition and they quit making them a few years back, if I am correct. I can see them taking a year to create new masters, esp when they have to collect so much.

This is probably going to be real cool though =) Live footage of Zeppelin. I had the chance to work next to Eddie Kramer very briefly (he's a pompous dick =) a few years back. He did several of the sessions of Zeppelin and most of Hendrix's recordings. He showed lots of pictures and was going to put photo journal book out. He might be part of the Zeppelin re mastering as well.

w00t... Zeppelin is the $hit :)

Yeah Marble..who the Eff cares about the rebirth of Atari...gimme Otari, and I'll be a happy guy.

Lol! I like things with big knobs. ( =\) hehe.

woah lol marble

I just read from the DVD booket :)

Hey man, marble. I wanna ask your advice.

I've wanted to go itno computers, engineering/programming or something of the like, as a job.

I've always been talented with music, thoguh. I've played the piano since the 1st grade and my teacher says that if I wanted to, I could become a professional at it.

the problem is, that concert pianists are low in demand these days (no one listens to classical music anymore! :( ) and basically, if you become a concert pianist, all you do is go all over competing.

I also am good at playing guitar though that's only been for a year and a half now.

The reason I don't like the idea of being a musician soley as my job is because i always envision music as being like a shaky career, one in which if you don't hit it big then you're screwed.

I've been considering an alternative, though. Sound engineering. I figure it's a bit of a combination between computers and music.

One of my teachers at my school is also a sound engineer and all, he loves his job and has worked with a ton of famous people.
I guess that's what happens when you become a sound engineer. :D

Anyway, if I want to become a sound engineer, he is my man. He will train me and all that. But, I want to know if I want to do it first.

so, any advice? after all that (phew) would you recommend sound engineering to me?

Posted by supahsekzy:

LOL...as for the would it work on me? I might talk to you, but if you said let's f... Ummm... no worky

I have always been a huge fan of 70's music. Actually, I am a huge fan of music period. I really am eclectic. And hey, I listen to classical music, when I am in the mood for it.

Mara,

1. Damn. About the pickup line. PErhaps I'll redo it or something :D

2. I have always had a belief, or rather a rule or whatever whenever listneing to music. "If it sounds good, then I listen to it!"

I also believe that there is no genre that is "bad", and that any genre can be done properly.

These two rules seem simple enough but they allow me to not just stick to one music genre as my favorite.

I love all sorts of music - rock, jazz, funk, classical, reggae, grunge, ska, metal, technical rock, alternative, progressive, fusion, etc etc... even rap if it's done properly!

Punk musicians (notice how i didn't say punk Music) for the most part are terrible; they're talentless and it's just a bunch of adolescents singing about how their girlfriend left them, and then they got drunk and ate brownie drugs. :P
Though bands like greenday and pennywise are good :)


Here's a list I made a while back of all my favorite artists.

Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Cream/Eric Clapton, Santana, The Eagles, Rage Against the Machine, Weezer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Allan Holdsworth, anything from Cowboy Bebop (Yoko Kanno and the Seat Belts) or Trigun, Metallica, Sublime, Colonel Les Claypool and the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, The Beatles, The Kinks, James Brown, Bob Marley, Presidents of the United States of America, Primus, Foo Fighters, Spastic Ink, Galactic/Stanton Moore, Creed, P.O.D., Offspring, Green Day, Less Than Jake, System of a Down, Tenacious D, Tool, Korn (old stuff only), Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, Sonny Stitt and Red Holloway, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Eminem, Fitty Cent (haha), MC Hammer (sarcasm, people.)

Hey Supahsexy, sound engineering is a blast, but its not like everything you record is what I would call 'good music' hehe....

It would be nice to be well known and have some credentials to go anywhere and record anybody, but its kind of like trying to be a musician for a living. You will find a lot of engineers are part time because of that. A lot of big studios are run by people who have enough money to build one and not stress about their rent.
What I have noticed is since computer audio is so cheap now and there are a lot of manufacturers out there, like Behringer or Alesis, that crank out cheap gear, a lot of it emulates the real stuff. You see a lot of home recording going on. So your average joe studio that like sprung up in the late 90's, exponentially, is really having a hard time staying open.

What you might want to do is talk to your teacher and get his opinion. Also I would maybe see if he would be willing to let you work with him or another person he knows. That is the best way to learn, really. Take a class or two at some community college and learn about the basic stuff. I wouldnt recommend going to one of those expensive schools, unless its not a big deal to pay for it, or if you really want to get a lot of contacts. You may not be learning on an SSL board, but even a little Mackie uses the same logic. A bus is a bus, an Aux is an Aux. Pre fader, post fader, etc.... The main difference is you might not be using some of the 'standard' outboard gear and mics you will see in a nice studio. Cause that stuff is expensive. My favorite all time piece of gear is the Radar24... mmmm its a hard disk recorder, its so fast and easy to use, but very complex if you want it to be. So get into a studio that has one!

I dont know. You might want to move to LA or something =) or Nashville. Someplace where the studios are working day and night. The northwest is kind of a sucky market for studios because there are too many.

Thanks for the insight, marble.

Unfortunately i won't have a chance to talk with my teacher until next september rolls around, so... :D