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22-559: The DVD cover features West and East Mitten Buttes , photographed from the visitor centre at the Navajo Tribal Park located at Monument Valley , Arizona . Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer of the DVD, Jimmy Page , commenced work on the project in the early 2000s. While fans had been trading poor quality versions of Led Zeppelin video material for years, this was the first official archival video release to contain any footage of

44-457: A 40-minute cut was prepared but was not officially released at the time because the footage was filmed at the wrong speed. However, at an expert panel held at The Royal Albert Hall on 27 May 2017 featuring the Hall's historian Richard Dacre and Professor Steve Chibnall, of De Montfort University 's Cinema and Television History Research Centre, Chibnall explained, "in the concert Led Zeppelin supplied

66-469: A new [Led Zeppelin] DVD, he started looking for someone familiar with the modern applications necessary for surround sound mixing. If you listen to the Royal Albert Hall [concert] opening in 5.1 , you can see Jimmy had this audio concept really early on of giving people a sense of the band going onstage and the audience swells around you. We had a meeting to discuss the requirements needed for

88-542: A pulse feed off their mixing desk for the editing purposes but were not sufficiently happy with their performance to release the full soundtrack for use in the film." Chibnall stated that it was agreed with Stanley Dorfman that the concert would form part of a larger documentary project including the band's performance at the Bath Festival in June, but that the project was shelved as Peter Whitehead, who had planned to film

110-543: Is 6,176 ft (1,882 m) and East Mitten Butte is 6,226 ft (1,898 m) in elevation. The Mittens form a triangle with Merrick Butte about 2 ⁄ 3  mi (1.1 km) to the south and, with Sentinel Mesa , a more extensive plateau, towards the northwest. At the end of March and mid-September, for a few days only at sunset, the Mitten Shadow occurs, when the West Mitten shadow appears on

132-555: The 1980s after Whitehead loaned it to Peter Clifton who had directed the Zeppelin documentary ' The Song Remains The Same ' a few years prior in 1976. Clifton went on to say that in 1995, Whitehead attempted to get a film released of the Royal Albert Hall and Bath footage and sold it to Mark Hayward of UFO Films, who entered into negotiations with Led Zeppelin. In 2003, virtually all the Royal Albert Hall concert footage

154-607: The Black Crowes, and Jimmy joined them for a run of live dates in 1999. I saw the show in New York, and then I went to California and recorded the shows, took the tapes away, and fixed them up a little and mixed them. I did Live at the Greek without any input from anyone, as it wasn't originally going to be an official release. But I think everyone was impressed with it; certainly Jimmy said he was. Then, when Jimmy decided to do

176-545: The DVD project audio, and afterward, he asked if I would be interested in 'helping' him. Page, with Shirley and the producer and creative director Dick Carruthers , worked for the best part of a year to research, compile, load, mix and present the material. Much of the footage which was included on the DVD was painstakingly restored for several months, before being mixed at Sarm West Studios in London . In all, 132 cans of film and two sets of two-inch video tape were examined for

198-549: The DVD received critical acclaim. Michael Azerrad of Rolling Stone magazine gave the DVD a perfect four stars, describing it as the "Holy Grail of heavy metal" and "one of the best rock documentaries ever made". The RIAA certified Led Zeppelin DVD at 13 times multi-platinum (1,300,000 copies sold in the United States). According to the BBC , the DVD broke all sales records for a music video, nearly three times as many in

220-995: The East Mitten. The buttes are made of three principal rock layers. The lowest layer is Organ Rock Shale , the middle is de Chelly Sandstone , and the top layer is the Moenkopi Formation , capped by Shinarump Conglomerate . Kevin Shirley Kevin Shirley , also known as The Caveman , is a South African music producer , engineer and audio mixer for many artists, including Aerosmith , The Black Crowes , Silverchair , Journey , Iron Maiden , Led Zeppelin , Rush , Joe Bonamassa , Beth Hart , Dream Theater , Jimmy Barnes , Cold Chisel , Joanne Shaw Taylor , The Springbok Nude Girls , All Night Radio , Steve Louw & Big Sky , HIM , Mr. Big , and Europe . Kevin John Shirley

242-626: The Mittens ) are two buttes in the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park in northeast Navajo County, Arizona . When viewed from the south, the buttes appear to be two giant mittens with their thumbs facing inwards. The Mittens are about 0.6 mi (0.97 km) from the Arizona – Utah state line and West Mitten Butte is 1.1 mi (1.8 km) northeast of the park headquarters. The summit of West Mitten Butte

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264-573: The United States. In the US and he produced work for Aerosmith , Dream Theater , Black Country Communion , Journey , The Black Crowes , Iron Maiden , Rush and Slayer . He also worked on the retrospective Led Zeppelin DVD . He has produced several albums for American blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa . Shirley produced the Mr. Big album What If... . In March 2023, Jimmy Barnes announced

286-506: The band arriving to the Bath festival by helicopter, arrived at the venue too late to capture it on film, and only shot 20 or 30 minutes of footage from the festival. Additionally, Whitehead was supposed to do interviews with the band members, which reportedly never happened, and so the entire project was shelved. According to Professor Chinball, the footage ended up as a bootleg video in Japan in

308-514: The band playing live (outside of the cinematic, and later DVD release of The Song Remains the Same film). In an interview he gave after the release of the DVD, Page explained the impetus behind the project: The reason for [the DVD] was that there was no visual material [of the band] that was out there really. The studio albums had been put out in many different shapes and forms, but this was something that

330-494: The end of the day, we managed to do a deal with the chap [in 1997] to get it back, even though one of the reels managed to go missing! But ... you'll understand why it was so important to have this, because there was such precious little Zeppelin [filmed] material." For the DVD, Page collaborated with music producer Kevin Shirley , with whom Page worked when he was performing with The Black Crowes . Shirley recalled: I produced

352-1068: The first week of sales as the previous record holder. It was, for three years, the highest selling music DVD in the United States. Royal Albert Hall, 9 January 1970 Reykjavik Airport, 22 June 1970 Laugardalshöll , 22 June 1970 Sydney Showground, 27 February 1972 Madison Square Garden, 27 July 1973 Madison Square Garden, 28 July 1973 (Knebworth campsite on 4 August 1979, video clip) Seattle Center Coliseum , 21 March 1975 Earls Court, 24 May 1975 (streets of Belfast on 5 March 1971, clip) Earls Court, 25 May 1975 LA Forum, 21 June 1977 (8 mm video clips from various 1977 performances) Sales figures based on certification alone. Shipments figures based on certification alone. Led Zeppelin Technical LPCM stereo (1536 kbit/s), Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound , DTS 5.1 surround sound. Menu: Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, Extras: Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo West and East Mitten Buttes The West and East Mitten Buttes (also known as

374-719: The project. In order to view material on the two-inch Quadruplex videotapes, a suitable playback machine had to be located. A working Quadruplex machine was finally found in Singapore. Some of the video tapes suffered from a common fault called sticky-shed syndrome where the bonding agent holding the magnetic particles to the tape backing decomposes to the point where the oxide is scraped off during playback. The tapes consequently had to be restored by baking them in ovens at 55 °C (131 °F) for three weeks in order for them to be played back. The audio portions were digitally remixed for stereo and 5.1 surround mixes. Upon its release

396-576: The two cameramen he hired, Peter Whitehead and an assistant, used handheld Bolex cameras to capture the concert in 16mm film. In late January, the Record Mirror reported that the "Led Zeppelin TV spectacular" had been sold to American TV and a special album would be issued to coincide with the screening of the show in the States. Much later, the band's manager at the time, Peter Grant , claimed that

418-749: Was born in Johannesburg , South Africa. He spent his early years producing and engineering records for South African artists including Robin Auld , Juluka , Jonathan Butler, Lesley Rae Dowling , Steve Louw and Sweatband as well as performing and recording with his own band The Council, whose singer was Brian Davidson (from Freedoms Children ). He moved to Australia in 1986 where he continued working with Australian artists, such as The Hoodoo Gurus , The Angels , Cold Chisel , Girl Monstar , Tina Arena , The Screaming Jets , Baby Animals . After producing Silverchair 's debut album Frogstomp , he moved to

440-487: Was released as Disk One of the Led Zeppelin DVD . After the DVD release, Jimmy Page explained, "We had recorded and documented via 16mm a performance back in 1970 [at] the Royal Albert Hall. And there was quite a number of disputes over copyright of this material, and in the end it was sold to somebody who acquired it from one of the cameramen. And it was going to be auctioned at Sotheby's and, in actual fact, at

462-526: Was so much concentrated work that was required. So, as we all finished our individual projects, Jimmy Page took the helm along with some technical guys and this is what we've got. In 1970, Led Zeppelin commissioned the British director and Producer of BBC's music television series In Concert , Stanley Dorfman , to film the band's Led Zeppelin Live at the Royal Albert Hall performance on January 9. Dorfman and

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484-403: Was sorely missing because [Led] Zeppelin built its material on live performances. So that had to be done. The idea for a live chronology had, however, dated back some time before this, according to singer Robert Plant in 2003: The idea of creating a Led Zeppelin collage has been in the works for ... fifteen years. We just didn't really have the time to put it together as a project because there

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